Leviticus 11:31

11:31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:43

11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. ¹  You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

Leviticus 18:4

18:4 You must observe my regulations ²  and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. ³  I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 6:18

6:18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion ⁴  throughout your generations ⁵  from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts ⁶  must be holy.’” ⁷ 

Leviticus 18:5

18:5 So you must keep ⁸  my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. ⁹  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:30

18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes ¹⁰  that have been done before you, so that you do not ¹¹  defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

Leviticus 19:31

19:31 Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits ¹²  to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ¹³  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ¹⁴  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ¹⁵  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

Leviticus 22:25

22:25 Even from a foreigner ¹⁶  you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; ¹⁷  they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

Leviticus 25:46

25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ¹⁹  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ²⁰  and do not chew the cud ²¹  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ²² 

Leviticus 11:32

11:32 Also, anything they fall on ²³  when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water ²⁴  and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

[11:43]  ¹ tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”

[18:4]  ¹ tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”

[18:4]  ² tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”

[6:18]  ¹ tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “a permanent ordinance”; NRSV “as their perpetual due.”

[6:18]  ² tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come.”

[6:18]  ³ tn Heb “touches them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In this context “them” must refer to the “gifts” of the Lord.

[6:18]  ⁴ tn Or “anyone/anything that touches them shall become holy” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:443-56). The question is whether this refers to the contagious nature of holy objects (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or whether it simply sets forth a demand that anyone who touches the holy gifts of the Lord must be a holy person (cf. CEV). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:900-902.

[18:5]  ¹ tn Heb “And you shall keep.”

[18:5]  ² tn Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2) in this case refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female. The expression וָחַי (vakhay, “and shall live”) looks like the adjective “living” so it is written וְחָיָה (vÿkhayah) in Smr, but the MT form is simply the same verb written as a double ayin verb (see HALOT 309 s.v. חיה qal and GKC 218 §76.i; cf. Lev 25:35).

[18:30]  ¹ tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”

[18:30]  ² tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[19:31]  ¹ sn The prohibition here concerns those who would seek special knowledge through the spirits of the dead, whether the dead in general or dead relatives in particular (i.e., familiar spirits; see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 321, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 134). Cf. Lev 20:6 below.

[20:27]  ¹ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).

[20:27]  ² tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:27]  ³ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”

[22:25]  ¹ tn Heb “And from the hand of a son of a foreigner.”

[22:25]  ² tn Heb “for their being ruined [is] in them, flaw is in them”; NRSV “are mutilated, with a blemish in them”; NIV “are deformed and have defects.” The MT term מָשְׁחָתָם (moshkhatam, “their being ruined”) is a Muqtal form (= Hophal participle) from שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to ruin”). Smr has plural בהם משׁחתים (“deformities in them”; cf. the LXX translation). The Qumran Leviticus scroll (11QpaleoLev) has תימ הם[…], in which case the restored participle would appear to be the same as Smr, but there is no בְּ (bet) preposition before the pronoun, yielding “they are deformed” (see D. N. Freedman and K. A. Mathews, The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, 41 and the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).

[25:46]  ¹ tn Heb “and your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man in his brother you shall not rule in him in violence.”

[11:26]  ¹ tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

[11:26]  ² tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

[11:26]  ³ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

[11:26]  ⁴ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

[11:32]  ¹ tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”

[11:32]  ² tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”