Leviticus 15:28

Purity Regulations from Female Bodily Discharges

15:28 “‘If ¹  she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

Leviticus 21:3

21:3 and his virgin sister who is near to him, ²  who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

Leviticus 15:29

15:29 Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons ³  and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

Leviticus 15:26

15:26 Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,

Leviticus 19:20

Lying with a Slave Woman

19:20 “‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, ⁴  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. ⁵  They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

Leviticus 22:13

22:13 but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in ⁶  her father’s house as in her youth, ⁷  she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.

[15:28]  ¹ tn Heb “And if…” Although this clause is parallel to v. 13 above, it begins with וְאִם (vÿ’im, “and if”) here rather than וְכִי (vÿkhi, “and when/if”) there.

[21:3]  ² tn Cf. v. 2a.

[15:29]  ³ tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168 with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).

[19:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “And a man when he lies with a woman the lying of seed.”

[19:20]  ⁵ 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).

[22:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “to”; the words “live in” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[22:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “and seed there is not to her and she returns to the house of her father as her youth.” The mention of having “no children” appears to imply that her children, if she had any, should support her; this is made explicit by NLT’s “and has no children to support her.”