Discovery BoxLeviticus 14:38
Context14:38 then the priest is to go out of the house to the doorway of the house and quarantine the house for seven days. 1
Leviticus 25:41
Context25:41 but then 2 he may go free, 3 he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. 4
Leviticus 25:54
Context25:54 If, however, 5 he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free 6 in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
Leviticus 14:3
Context14:3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. 7 If the infection of the diseased person has been healed, 8
Leviticus 16:18
Context16:18 “Then 9 he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take 10 some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar.
Leviticus 24:10
Context24:10 Now 11 an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man 12 had a fight in the camp.
Leviticus 16:24
Context16:24 Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering. So he is to make atonement 13 on behalf of himself and the people. 14
Leviticus 25:28
Context25:28 If he has not prospered enough to refund 15 a balance to him, then what he sold 16 will belong to 17 the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert 18 in the jubilee and the original owner 19 may return to his property.
Leviticus 25:33
Context25:33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, 20 because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.
[14:38] 1 tn Heb “and he shall shut up the house seven days.”
[25:41] 2 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
[25:41] 3 tn Heb “may go out from you.”
[14:3] 4 tn Heb “and he shall be brought to the priest and the priest shall go out to from outside to the camp and the priest shall see [it].” The understood “it” refers to the skin infection itself (see the note on 13:3 above). The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[14:3] 5 tn Heb “And behold, the diseased infection has been healed from the diseased person.” The expression “diseased infection” has been translated as simply “infection” to avoid redundancy here in terms of English style.
[16:18] 5 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.
[16:18] 6 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
[24:10] 7 tn Heb “the Israelite man,” but Smr has no article, and the point is that there was a conflict between the man of mixed background and a man of full Israelite descent.
[16:24] 7 tn Heb “And he shall make atonement.”
[16:24] 8 tn Heb “on behalf of himself and on behalf of the people.” After “on behalf of himself” the LXX adds the expected “and on behalf of his household” (cf. vv. 6, 11, and 17).
[25:28] 8 tn Heb “And if his hand has not found sufficiency of returning.” Although some versions take this to mean that he has not made enough to regain the land (e.g., NASB, NRSV; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176), the combination of terms in Hebrew corresponds to the portion of v. 27 that refers specifically to refunding the money (cf. v. 27; see NIV and G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 315).
[25:28] 10 tn Heb “will be in the hand of.” This refers to the temporary control of the one who purchased its produce until the next year of jubilee, at which time it would revert to the original owner.
[25:28] 11 tn Heb “it shall go out” (so KJV, ASV; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).
[25:28] 12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the original owner of the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[25:33] 9 tn Heb “And which he shall redeem from the Levites shall go out, sale of house and city, his property in the jubilee.” Although the end of this verse is clear, the first part is notoriously difficult. There are five main views. (1) The first clause of the verse actually attaches to the previous verse, and refers to the fact that their houses retain a perpetual right of redemption (v. 32b), “which any of the Levites may exercise” (v. 33a; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 418, 421). (2) It refers to property that one Levite sells to another Levite, which is then redeemed by still another Levite (v. 33a). In such cases, the property reverts to the original Levite owner in the jubilee year (v. 33b; G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 321). (3) It refers to houses in a city that had come to be declared as a Levitical city but had original non-Levitical owners. Once the city was declared to belong to the Levites, however, an owner could only sell his house to a Levite, and he could only redeem it back from a Levite up until the time of the first jubilee after the city was declared to be a Levitical city. In this case the first part of the verse would be translated, “Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites” (NRSV, NJPS). At the first jubilee, however, all such houses became the property of the Levites (v. 33b; P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 353). (4) It refers to property “which is appropriated from the Levites” (not “redeemed from the Levites,” v. 33a) by those who have bought it or taken it as security for debts owed to them by Levites who had fallen on bad times. Again, such property reverts back to the original Levite owners at the jubilee (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177). (5) It simply refers to the fact that a Levite has the option of redeeming his house (i.e., the prefix form of the verb is taken to be subjunctive, “may or might redeem”), which he had to sell because he had fallen into debt or perhaps even become destitute. Even if he never gained the resources to do so, however, it would still revert to him in the jubilee year. The present translation is intended to reflect this latter view.
