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
1 tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.
2 tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.
3 tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.
5 tn Heb “which water comes on it.”
6 tn Heb “any drink which may be drunk”; NASB “any liquid which may be drunk”; NLT “any beverage that is in such an unclean container.”
7 tn This half of the verse assumes that the unclean carcass has fallen into the food or drink (cf. v. 33 and also vv. 35-38).
7 tn Heb “And if the priest sees and behold”; NASB “and indeed.”
9 tn Heb “which shall be under him.” The verb is perhaps a future perfect, “which shall have been.”
10 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the previously mentioned items which were under the unclean person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”
12 tn The Hebrew term for “person” here is אָדָם (adam, “human being”), which could either a male or a female person.
13 tn Heb “to all his impurity.” The phrase refers to the impurity of the person whom the man touches to become unclean (see the previous clause). To clarify this, the translation uses “that person’s” rather than “his.”
13 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).
14 tn Heb “for your generations.”
15 sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).