Exodus 29:31

29:31 “You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ¹  its meat in a holy place. ² 

Leviticus 6:14-16

The Grain Offering of the Common Person

6:14 “‘This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron are to present it ³  before the Lord in front of the altar, 6:15 and the priest ⁴  must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering ⁵  and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion ⁶  up in smoke on the altar ⁷  as a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁸  6:16 Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 6:26

6:26 The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

Leviticus 7:6

7:6 Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. ⁹ 

Leviticus 10:13-14

10:13 You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion ¹⁰  and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts ¹¹  of the Lord, for this is what I have been commanded. ¹²  10:14 Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially ¹³  clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 10:17

10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, ¹⁵  to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:9

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 ¹⁶  from the gifts of the Lord.”

Numbers 18:9

18:9 Of all the most holy offerings reserved ¹⁷  from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

[29:31]  ¹ tn Or “boil” (see Lev 8:31).

[29:31]  ² sn The “holy place” must be in the courtyard of the sanctuary. Lev 8:31 says it is to be cooked at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Here it says it will be eaten there as well. This, then, becomes a communion sacrifice, a peace offering which was a shared meal. Eating a communal meal in a holy place was meant to signify that the worshipers and the priests were at peace with God.

[6:14]  ³ tn Heb “offering it, the sons of Aaron.” The verb is a Hiphil infinitive absolute, which is used here in place of the finite verb as either a jussive (GKC 346 §113.cc, “let the sons of Aaron offer”) or more likely an injunctive in light of the verbs that follow (Joüon 2:430 §123.v, “the sons of Aaron shall/must offer”).

[6:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. The “he” refers to the officiating priest. A similar shift between singular and plural occurs in Lev 1:7-9, but see the note on Lev 1:7 and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 89 for the possibility of textual corruption.

[6:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “shall take up from it with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering.”

[6:15]  ⁶ sn See the note on Lev 2:2.

[6:15]  ⁷ tc Smr reading, which includes the locative ה (hey, translated “on” the altar), is preferred here. This is the normal construction with the verb “offer up in smoke” in Lev 1-7 (see the note on Lev 1:9).

[6:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he shall offer up in smoke [on] the altar a soothing aroma, its memorial portion, to the Lord.”

[7:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; NAB “most sacred”; TEV “very holy.”

[10:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “statute” (cf. 10:9, 11); cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “due”; NIV “share”; NLT “regular share.”

[10:13]  ¹¹ tn For the rendering of the Hebrew אִשֶׁה (’isheh) as “gift” rather than “offering [made] by fire,” see the note on Lev 1:9.

[10:13]  ¹² sn Cf. Lev 2:3 and 6:14-18 [6:7-11 HT] for these regulations.

[10:14]  ¹³ tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that the cleanness of the place specified is ritual or ceremonial in nature.

[10:14]  ¹⁴ sn Cf. Lev 7:14, 28-34 for these regulations.

[10:17]  ¹⁵ sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).

[24:9]  ¹⁶ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; NRSV “a perpetual due.”

[18:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from the fire.” It probably refers to those parts that were not burned.