Leviticus 10:10

10:10 as well as ¹  to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, ² 

Leviticus 16:3

Day of Atonement Offerings

16:3 “In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary – with a young bull ³  for a sin offering ⁴  and a ram for a burnt offering. ⁵ 

Leviticus 19:8

19:8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity ⁶  because he has profaned ⁷  what is holy to the Lord. ⁸  That person will be cut off from his people. ⁹ 

Leviticus 22:7

22:7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

Leviticus 22:12

22:12 If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, ¹⁰  she may not eat the holy contribution offerings, ¹¹ 

Leviticus 22:15-16

22:15 They ¹²  must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute ¹³  to the Lord, ¹⁴  22:16 and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt ¹⁵  when they eat their holy offerings, ¹⁶  for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 22:32

22:32 You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

Leviticus 23:4

The Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread

23:4 “‘These are the Lord’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.

Leviticus 23:7

23:7 On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work. ¹⁷ 

Leviticus 23:35

23:35 On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 25:12

25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ¹⁹  from the field.

Leviticus 27:21

27:21 When it reverts ²⁰  in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; ²¹  it will become the priest’s property. ²² 

Leviticus 27:25

27:25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; ²³  twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Leviticus 27:30

Redemption of the Tithe

27:30 “‘Any tithe ²⁴  of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

[10:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and,” but regarding the translation “as well as,” see the note at the end of v. 9.

[10:10]  ² sn The two pairs of categories in this verse refer to: (1) the status of a person, place, thing, or time – “holy” (קֹדֶשׁ, qodesh) versus “common” (חֹל, khol); as opposed to (2) the condition of a person, place, or thing – “unclean” (טָמֵא, tame’) versus “clean” (טָהוֹר, tahor). Someone or something could gain “holy” status by being “consecrated” (i.e., made holy; e.g., the Hebrew Piel קִדֵּשׁ (qiddesh) in Lev 8:15, 30), and to treat someone or something that was holy as if it were “common” would be to “profane” that person or thing (the Hebrew Piel הִלֵּל [hillel], e.g., in Lev 19:29 and 22:15). Similarly, on another level, someone or something could be in a “clean” condition, but one could “defile” (the Hebrew Piel טִמֵּא [timme’], e.g., in Gen 34:5 and Num 6:9) that person or thing and thereby make it “unclean.” To “purify” (the Hebrew Piel טִהֵר [tiher], e.g., in Lev 16:19 and Num 8:6, 15) that unclean person or thing would be to make it “clean” once again. With regard to the animals (Lev 11), some were by nature “unclean,” so they could never be eaten, but others were by nature “clean” and, therefore, edible (Lev 11:2, 46-47). The meat of clean animals could become inedible by too long of a delay in eating it, in which case the Hebrew term פִּגּוּל (pigul) “foul, spoiled” is used to describe it (Lev 7:18; 19:7; cf. also Ezek 4:14 and Isa 65:4), not the term for “unclean” (טָהוֹר, tahor). Strictly speaking, therefore, unclean meat never becomes clean, and clean meat never becomes unclean.

[16:3]  ³ tn Heb “with a bull, a son of the herd.”

[16:3]  ⁴ sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

[16:3]  ⁵ sn For the “burnt offering” see the note on Lev 1:3.

[19:8]  ⁵ tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

[19:8]  ⁶ sn Regarding “profaned,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

[19:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “the holiness of the Lord.”

[19:8]  ⁸ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[22:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “And a daughter of a priest, if she is to a man, a stranger” (cf. the note on v. 10 above).

[22:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “she in the contribution of the holy offerings shall not eat.” For “contribution [offering]” see the note on Lev 7:14 and the literature cited there. Cf. NCV “the holy offerings”; TEV, NLT “the sacred offerings.”

[22:15]  ⁹ tn Contextually, “They” could refer either to the people (v. 14a; cf. NRSV “No one”) or the priests (v. 14b; cf. NIV “The priests”), but the latter seems more likely (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 356, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 150). The priests were responsible to see that the portions of the offerings that were to be consumed by the priests as prebends did not become accessible to the people. Mistakes in this matter (cf. v. 14) would bring “guilt” on the people, requiring punishment (v. 16).

[22:15]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew verb הֵרִים (herim, rendered “contribute” here) is commonly used for setting aside portions of an offering (see, e.g., Lev 4:8-10 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:335-36).

[22:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the holy offerings of the sons of Israel which they contribute to the Lord.” The subject “they” here refers to the Israelites (“the sons of Israel”) which is the most immediate antecedent. To make this clear, the present translation has “the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord.”

[22:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “iniquity of guilt”; NASB “cause them to bear punishment for guilt.” The Hebrew word עָוֹן (’avon, “iniquity”) can designate either acts of iniquity or the penalty (i.e., punishment) for such acts.

[22:16]  ¹² sn That is, when the lay people eat portions of offerings that should have been eaten only by priests and those who belonged to priestly households.

[23:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “work of service”; KJV “servile work”; NASB “laborious work”; TEV “daily work.”

[23:35]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “work of service”; KJV “servile work”; NASB “laborious work”; TEV “daily work.”

[25:12]  ¹⁷ tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).

[27:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25-34).

[27:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the Lord and therefore cannot be redeemed (cf. v. 20b). See J. A. Naudé, NIDOTTE 2:276-77; N. Lohfink, TDOT 5:180-99, esp. pp. 184, 188, and 198-99; and the numerous explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 483-85.

[27:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”

[27:25]  ²¹ tn See the note on Lev 5:15.

[27:30]  ²³ tn On the “tithe” system in Israel, see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:1035-55 and esp. pp. 1041-42 on Lev 27:30-33.