15:22 5 “‘If you 6 sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –
28:26 “‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.
29:1 “‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.
29:7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; 7 you must not do any work on it.
1 tn The word גּוּר (gur) was traditionally translated “to sojourn,” i.e., to live temporarily in a land. Here the two words are from the root: “if a sojourner sojourns.”
2 tn Heb “in your midst.”
3 tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.
4 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.
5 sn These regulations supplement what was already ruled on in the Levitical code for the purification and reparation offerings. See those rulings in Lev 4-7 for all the details. Some biblical scholars view the rules in Leviticus as more elaborate and therefore later. However, this probably represents a misunderstanding of the purpose of each collection.
6 tn The verb is the plural imperfect; the sin discussed here is a sin committed by the community, or the larger part of the community.
9 tn Heb “afflict yourselves”; NAB “mortify yourselves”; NIV, NRSV “deny yourselves.”