Leviticus 7:21

7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) ¹  and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’” ² 

Leviticus 10:6

10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, “Do not ³  dishevel the hair of your heads ⁴  and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the Lord has caused, ⁵ 

Leviticus 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ⁶  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ⁷  and do not chew the cud ⁸  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ⁹ 

Leviticus 14:9

14:9 When the seventh day comes ¹⁰  he must shave all his hair – his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair – and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 16:17

16:17 Nobody is to be in the Meeting Tent ¹²  when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he goes out, and he has made atonement on his behalf, on behalf of his household, and on behalf of the whole assembly of Israel.

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ¹³  so that ¹⁴  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

Leviticus 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ¹⁵  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ¹⁶  to the Lord while he is impure, ¹⁷  that person must be cut off from before me. ¹⁸  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 23:3

The Weekly Sabbath

23:3 “‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, ¹⁹  a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

² sn For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20.

³ tc Smr has “you must not” (לֹא, lo’) rather than the MT’s “do not” (אַל, ’al; cf. the following negative לֹא, lo’, in the MT).

⁴ tn Heb “do not let free your heads.” Some have taken this to mean, “do not take off your headgear” (cf. NAB, NASB), but it probably also involves leaving one’s hair unkempt as a sign of mourning (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:608-9; cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “shall weep [for] the burning which the Lord has burned”; NIV “may mourn for those the Lord has destroyed by fire.”

⁵ tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

⁶ tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

⁷ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

⁸ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

⁷ tn Heb “And it shall be on the seventh day.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he shall be clean” (see the note on v. 8).

⁹ tn Heb “And all man shall not be in the tent of meeting.” The term for “a man, human being” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2) refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female.

¹¹ tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).

¹² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

¹³ tn Heb “To your generations.”

¹⁴ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

¹⁵ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

¹⁶ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”

¹⁵ tn This is a superlative expression, emphasizing the full and all inclusive rest of the Sabbath and certain festival times throughout the chapter (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 155). Cf. ASV “a sabbath of solemn rest.”