Leviticus 16:1

The Day of Atonement

16:1 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord ¹  and died,

Leviticus 20:9-11

Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions ² 

20:9 “‘If anyone ³  curses his father and mother ⁴  he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself. ⁵  20:10 If a man ⁶  commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, ⁷  both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. ⁸  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ⁹ 

Leviticus 20:13

20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, ¹⁰  the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:16

20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, ¹¹  you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ¹²  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ¹³  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ¹⁴  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

Leviticus 24:16

24:16 and one who misuses ¹⁵  the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

[16:1]  ¹ tn Heb “in their drawing near to the faces of the Lord.” The rendering here relies on the use of this expression for the very “presence” of God in Exod 33:14-15 and in the Lev 9:24-10:2 passage, where the Nadab and Abihu catastrophe referred to here is narrated.

[20:9]  ² sn Compare the regulations in Lev 18:6-23.

[20:9]  ³ tn Heb “If a man a man who.”

[20:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “makes light of his father and his mother.” Almost all English versions render this as some variation of “curses his father or mother.”

[20:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “his blood [plural] is in him.” Cf. NAB “he has forfeited his life”; TEV “is responsible for his own death.”

[20:10]  ³ tn Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.

[20:10]  ⁴ tc The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 328). The duplication found in the MT is reflected in some English versions, e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV.

[20:11]  ⁴ sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

[20:11]  ⁵ tn See the note on v. 9 above.

[20:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

[20:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[20:27]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:27]  ⁹ 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.”

[24:16]  ⁸ sn See the note on v. 11 above.