Leviticus 6:18

6:18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion ¹  throughout your generations ²  from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts ³  must be holy.’” ⁴ 

Leviticus 7:36

7:36 This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses ⁵  anointed them ⁶  – a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations. ⁷ 

Leviticus 10:9

10:9 “Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, ⁸ 

Leviticus 17:7

17:7 So they must no longer offer ⁹  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ¹⁰  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ¹¹  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ¹² 

Leviticus 23:21

23:21 “‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. ¹³  You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 23:41

23:41 You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; ¹⁵  you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 24:3

24:3 Outside the veil-canopy ¹⁶  of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron ¹⁷  must arrange it from evening until morning before the Lord continually. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 24:8-9

24:8 Each Sabbath day ¹⁹  Aaron ²⁰  must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion ²¹  is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 24:9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion ²²  from the gifts of the Lord.”

Leviticus 25:46

25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. ²³ 

¹ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “a permanent ordinance”; NRSV “as their perpetual due.”

² tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come.”

³ tn Heb “touches them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In this context “them” must refer to the “gifts” of the Lord.

⁴ tn Or “anyone/anything that touches them shall become holy” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:443-56). The question is whether this refers to the contagious nature of holy objects (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or whether it simply sets forth a demand that anyone who touches the holy gifts of the Lord must be a holy person (cf. CEV). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:900-902.

⁵ tn Heb “the day he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “which the Lord commanded to give to them in the day he anointed them from the children of Israel.” Thus v. 36 is tied syntactically to v. 35 (see the note there).

⁷ tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come”; TEV “for all time to come.”

⁹ tn Heb “a perpetual statute for your generations”; NAB “a perpetual ordinance”; NRSV “a statute forever”; NLT “a permanent law.” The Hebrew grammar here suggests that the last portion of v. 9 functions as both a conclusion to v. 9 and an introduction to vv. 10-11. It is a pivot clause, as it were. Thus, it was a “perpetual statute” to not drink alcoholic beverages when ministering in the tabernacle, but it was also a “perpetual statue” to distinguish between holy and profane and unclean and clean (v. 10) as well as to teach the children of Israel all such statutes (v. 11).

¹³ tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

¹⁴ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

¹⁵ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “for your generations.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “And you shall proclaim [an assembly] in the bone of this day; a holy assembly it shall be to you” (see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 160, and the remarks on the LXX rendering in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 367).

¹⁸ tn Heb “for your generations.”

²¹ tn Heb “for your generations.”

²⁵ tn The Hebrew term פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) is usually translated “veil” or “curtain,” but it seems to have stretched not only in front of but also over the top of the ark of the covenant which stood behind and under it inside the most holy place (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:687-89).

²⁶ tc Several medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, and the LXX add “and his sons.”

²⁷ tn Heb “for your generations.”

²⁹ tn Heb “In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath.” The repetition is distributive. A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac delete the second occurrence of the expression.

³⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³¹ tn The word “portion” is supplied in the translation here for clarity, to specify what “this” refers to.

³³ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”

³⁷ tn Heb “and your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man in his brother you shall not rule in him in violence.”