Leviticus 17:5-9

17:5 This is so that ¹  the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field ²  to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord. 17:6 The priest is to splash ³  the blood on the altar ⁴  of the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and offer the fat up in smoke for a soothing aroma to the Lord. 17:7 So they must no longer offer ⁵  their sacrifices to the goat demons, ⁶  acting like prostitutes by going after them. ⁷  This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations. ⁸ 

17:8 “You are to say to them: ‘Any man ⁹  from the house of Israel or ¹⁰  from the foreigners who reside ¹¹  in their ¹²  midst, who offers ¹³  a burnt offering or a sacrifice 17:9 but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it ¹⁴  to the Lord – that person will be cut off from his people. ¹⁵ 

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “So that which.”

[17:5]  ² tn Heb “on the faces of the field.”

[17:6]  ³ tn For the translation “splash” see the note on Lev 1:5.

[17:6]  ⁴ tn The LXX adds “all around” (i.e., Hebrew סָבִיב [saviv, “all around”]), which is normal for this overall construction (see, e.g., Lev 1:5; 3:8, etc.).

[17:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “sacrifice.” This has been translated as “offer” for stylistic reasons to avoid the redundancy of “sacrifice their sacrifices.”

[17:7]  ⁶ tn On “goat demons” of the desert regions see the note on Lev 16:8.

[17:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “which they are committing harlotry after them.”

[17:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “for your generations.”

[17:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “Man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

[17:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “and.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has an alternative sense (“or”).

[17:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:8]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”

[17:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “causes to go up.”

[17:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “to make it,” meaning “to make the sacrifice.”

[17:9]  ¹⁰ tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.