Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ¹ 

Leviticus 18:8

18:8 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness. ² 

Leviticus 18:12

18:12 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh. ³ 

Leviticus 18:16

18:16 You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness. ⁴ 

Leviticus 18:19

18:19 “‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity ⁵  to have sexual intercourse with her.

Leviticus 18:22

18:22 You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; ⁶  it is a detestable act. ⁷ 

Leviticus 19:11

Dealing Honestly

19:11 “‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen. ⁸ 

Leviticus 19:33

19:33 When a foreigner resides ⁹  with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

Leviticus 19:35

19:35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 22:8

22:8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes ¹¹  or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 23:25

23:25 You must not do any regular work, but ¹²  you must present a gift to the Lord.’”

Leviticus 26:23

26:23 “‘If in spite of these things ¹³  you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 26:27

26:27 “‘If in spite of this ¹⁵  you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, ¹⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

² tn Heb “the nakedness of your father she is.” See the note on v. 7 above. This law refers to another wife of the man’s father, who is not that man’s mother. The laws in the Pentateuch sometimes assume the possibility that a man may have more than one wife (cf., e.g., Deut 21:15-17).

³ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate all read “because she is the flesh of your father,” like the MT of v. 13.

⁴ sn Regarding the last clause, see the notes on vv. 7 and 10 above.

⁵ tn Heb “in the menstruation of her impurity”; NIV “during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”

⁶ tn Heb “And with a male you shall not lay [as the] lyings of a woman” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 123). The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

⁷ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, rendered “detestable act”) refers to the repugnant practices of foreigners, whether from the viewpoint of other peoples toward the Hebrews (e.g., Gen 43:32; 46:34; Exod 8:26) or of the Lord toward other peoples (see esp. Lev 18:26-27, 29-30). It can also designate, as here, detestable acts that might be perpetrated by the native peoples (it is used again in reference to homosexuality in Lev 20:13; cf. also its use for unclean food, Deut 14:3; idol worship, Isa 41:24; remarriage to a former wife who has been married to someone else in between, Deut 24:4).

⁷ tn Heb “you shall not deal falsely a man with his fellow citizen.”

⁸ tn Heb “And when a sojourner sojourns.”

⁹ tn That is, liquid capacity (HALOT 640 s.v. מְשׂוּרָה). Cf. ASV, NIV, NRSV, TEV “quantity”; NAB, NASB “capacity.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “a carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that has died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV).

¹² tn Heb “And if in these.”

¹³ tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.

¹³ tn Heb “And if in this.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “with me.”