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 15:25

15:25 “‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows ¹  many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, ²  all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation – she is unclean.

Leviticus 17:14

17:14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. ³  So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing ⁴  because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off. ⁵ 

Leviticus 19:20

Lying with a Slave Woman

19:20 “‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, ⁶  although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. ⁷  They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

Leviticus 21:23

21:23 but he must not go into the veil-canopy ⁸  or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus ⁹  he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

[15:25]  ¹ tn Heb “And a woman when the flow of her blood flows.”

[15:25]  ² tn Heb “in not the time of her menstruation or when it flows on her menstruation.”

[17:14]  ¹ tn Heb “for the life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) of all flesh, its blood in its life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ) it is.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate leave out “in its life/soul,” which would naturally yield “for the life of all flesh, its blood it is” (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 261, 263). The present translation is something of an oversimplification, but the meaning is basically the same in any case. Cf. NRSV “For the life of every creature – its blood is its life.”

[17:14]  ² tn Heb “of all flesh” (also later in this verse). See the note on “every living thing” in v. 11.

[17:14]  ³ tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.

[19:20]  ¹ tn Heb “And a man when he lies with a woman the lying of seed.”

[19:20]  ² sn That is, the woman had previously been assigned for marriage to another man but the marriage deal had not yet been consummated. In the meantime, the woman has lost her virginity and has, therefore, lost part of her value to the master in the sale to the man for whom she had been designated. Compensation was, therefore, required (see the explanation in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 130-31).

[21:23]  ¹ sn See the note on Lev 16:2 for the rendering “veil-canopy.”

[21:23]  ² tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.