Leviticus 16:7

16:7 He must then take the two goats ¹  and stand them before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 17:4

17:4 but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent ²  to present it as ³  an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people. ⁴ 

Exodus 29:4

29:4 “You are to present ⁵  Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the tent of meeting. You are to wash ⁶  them with water

Deuteronomy 12:5-6

12:5 But you must seek only the place he ⁷  chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, ⁸  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, ⁹  your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deuteronomy 12:13-14

12:13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 12:14 for you may do so ¹⁰  only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you. ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 12:27

12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices ¹²  you must pour out on his ¹³  altar while you eat the meat.

Ezekiel 20:40

20:40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them ¹⁴  in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

John 10:7

10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁵  I am the door for the sheep. ¹⁶ 

John 10:9

10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, ¹⁷  and find pasture. ¹⁸ 

Ephesians 2:18

2:18 so that ¹⁹  through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

[16:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the two he-goats,” referred to as “two he-goats of goats” in v. 5.

[17:4]  ² tn Smr and LXX add after “tent of meeting” the following: “to make it a burnt offering or a peace offering to the Lord for your acceptance as a soothing aroma, and slaughters it outside, and at the doorway of the tent of meeting has not brought it.”

[17:4]  ³ tc Smr includes the suffix “it,” which is needed in any case in the translation to conform to English style.

[17:4]  ⁴ sn The exact meaning of this penalty clause is not certain. It could mean (1) that he will be executed, whether by God or by man, (2) that he will be excommunicated from sanctuary worship and/or community benefits, or (3) that his line will be terminated by God (i.e., extirpation). See also the note on Lev 7:20.

[29:4]  ⁵ tn Here too the verb is Hiphil (now imperfect) meaning “bring near” the altar. The choice of this verb indicates that they were not merely being brought near, but that they were being formally presented to Yahweh as the offerings were.

[29:4]  ⁶ sn This is the washing referred to in Lev 8:6. This is a complete washing, not just of the hands and feet that would follow in the course of service. It had to serve as a symbolic ritual cleansing or purifying as the initial stage in the consecration. The imagery of washing will be used in the NT for regeneration (Titus 3:5).

[12:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:5]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “offer burnt offerings.” The expression “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:14]  ¹¹ 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).

[12:27]  ¹² sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).

[12:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “on the altar of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[20:40]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “all of it.”

[10:7]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[10:7]  ¹⁶ tn Or “I am the sheep’s door.”

[10:9]  ¹⁷ tn Since the Greek phrase εἰσέρχομαι καὶ ἐξέρχομαι (eisercomai kai exercomai, “come in and go out”) is in some places an idiom for living or conducting oneself in relationship to some community (“to live with, to live among” [cf. Acts 1:21; see also Num 27:17; 2 Chr 1:10]), it may well be that Jesus’ words here look forward to the new covenant community of believers. Another significant NT text is Luke 9:4, where both these verbs occur in the context of the safety and security provided by a given household for the disciples. See also BDAG 294 s.v. εἰσέρχομαι 1.b.β.

[10:9]  ¹⁸ sn That is, pasture land in contrast to cultivated land.

[2:18]  ¹⁹ tn Or “for.” BDAG gives the consecutive ὅτι (Joti) as a possible category of NT usage (BDAG 732 s.v. 5.c).