Leviticus 11:21

11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs ¹  to hop with on the land.

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ²  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ³  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 11:44

11:44 for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

Leviticus 19:23

The Produce of Fruit Trees

19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, ⁴  you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. ⁵  Three years it will be forbidden to you; ⁶  it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 20:2

20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel ⁷  who gives any of his children ⁸  to Molech ⁹  must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ¹¹  so that ¹²  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20:24

20:24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples. ¹³ 

Leviticus 23:10

23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, ¹⁴  then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest ¹⁵  to the priest,

Leviticus 23:22

23:22 When you gather in the harvest ¹⁶  of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, ¹⁷  and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’” ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 23:39

23:39 “‘On ¹⁹  the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ²⁰  and you must proclaim a release ²¹  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ²²  each one of you must return ²³  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

Leviticus 26:1

Exhortation to Obedience

26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, ²⁴  so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before ²⁵  it, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:43

26:43 The land will be abandoned by them ²⁶  in order that it may make up for ²⁷  its Sabbaths while it is made desolate ²⁸  without them, ²⁹  and they will make up for their iniquity because ³⁰  they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred ³¹  my statutes.

[11:21]  ¹ tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).

[11:42]  ² tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

[11:42]  ³ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

[19:23]  ³ tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”

[19:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “you shall circumcise its fruit [as] its foreskin,” taking the fruit to be that which is to be removed and, therefore, forbidden. Since the fruit is uncircumcised it is forbidden (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 306, and esp. B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 131-32).

[19:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”

[20:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”

[20:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.

[20:2]  ⁶ tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.

[20:2]  ⁷ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).

[20:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[20:24]  ⁶ tc Here and with the same phrase in v. 26, the LXX adds “all,” resulting in the reading “all the peoples.”

[23:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”

[23:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”

[23:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”

[23:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”

[23:22]  ¹⁰ sn Compare Lev 19:9-10.

[23:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “Surely on the fifteenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; however, cf. NASB “On exactly the fifteenth day.”

[25:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ¹¹ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

[25:10]  ¹² tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

[25:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[26:1]  ¹¹ sn For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on Lev 19:4. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god, God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless, weak, powerless, nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”

[26:1]  ¹² tn Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 181, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 449).

[26:43]  ¹² tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).

[26:43]  ¹³ tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.

[26:43]  ¹⁴ tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).

[26:43]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from them.”

[26:43]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “because and in because,” a double expression, which is used only here and in Ezek 13:10 (without the vav) for emphasis (GKC 492 §158.b).

[26:43]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”