Discovery BoxLeviticus 17:8-9
Context17:8 “You are to say to them: ‘Any man 1 from the house of Israel or 2 from the foreigners who reside 3 in their 4 midst, who offers 5 a burnt offering or a sacrifice 17:9 but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it 6 to the Lord – that person will be cut off from his people. 7
Deuteronomy 12:4-6
Context12:4 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship. 12:5 But you must seek only the place he 8 chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, 9 and you must go there. 12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 10 your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deuteronomy 12:13-14
Context12:13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 12:14 for you may do so 11 only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you. 12
Deuteronomy 12:1
Context12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 13 has given you to possess. 14
Deuteronomy 15:23
Context15:23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
Psalms 78:8
Context78:8 Then they will not be like their ancestors,
who were a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that was not committed
and faithful to God. 15
Isaiah 63:10
Context63:10 But they rebelled and offended 16 his holy Spirit, 17
so he turned into an enemy
and fought against them.
[17:8] 1 tn Heb “Man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).
[17:8] 2 tn Heb “and.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has an alternative sense (“or”).
[17:8] 3 tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”
[17:8] 4 tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”
[17:8] 5 tn Heb “causes to go up.”
[17:9] 6 tn Heb “to make it,” meaning “to make the sacrifice.”
[17:9] 7 tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.
[12:5] 11 tn Heb “the
[12:5] 12 tc Some scholars, on the basis of v. 11, emend the MT reading שִׁכְנוֹ (shikhno, “his residence”) to the infinitive construct לְשָׁכֵן (lÿshakhen, “to make [his name] to dwell”), perhaps with the 3rd person masculine singular sf לְשַׁכְּנוֹ (lÿshakÿno, “to cause it to dwell”). Though the presupposed nounשֵׁכֶן (shekhen) is nowhere else attested, the parallel here with שַׁמָּה (shammah, “there”) favors retaining the MT as it stands.
[12:6] 16 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
[12:14] 21 tn Heb “offer burnt offerings.” The expression “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
[12:14] 22 sn This injunction to worship in a single and central sanctuary – one limited and appropriate to the thrice-annual festival celebrations (see Exod 23:14-17; 34:22-24; Lev 23:4-36; Deut 16:16-17) – marks a departure from previous times when worship was carried out at local shrines (cf. Gen 8:20; 12:7; 13:18; 22:9; 26:25; 35:1, 3, 7; Exod 17:15). Apart from the corporate worship of the whole theocratic community, however, worship at local altars would still be permitted as in the past (Deut 16:21; Judg 6:24-27; 13:19-20; 1 Sam 7:17; 10:5, 13; 2 Sam 24:18-25; 1 Kgs 18:30).
[12:1] 27 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the
[78:8] 31 tn Heb “a generation that did not make firm its heart and whose spirit was not faithful with God.” The expression “make firm the heart” means “to be committed, devoted” (see 1 Sam 7:3).
[63:10] 36 tn Or “grieved, hurt the feelings of.”
[63:10] 37 sn The phrase “holy Spirit” occurs in the OT only here (in v. 11 as well) and in Ps 51:11 (51:13 HT), where it is associated with the divine presence.
