Leviticus 18:29

18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. ¹ 

Leviticus 20:5-6

20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, ²  to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech. ³ 

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ⁴ 

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits ⁵  to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face ⁶  against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 23:30

23:30 As for any person ⁷  who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate ⁸  that person from the midst of his people! ⁹ 

Leviticus 17:4

17:4 but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent ¹⁰  to present it as ¹¹  an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people. ¹² 

Leviticus 17:10

Prohibition against Eating Blood

17:10 “‘Any man ¹³  from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside ¹⁴  in their ¹⁵  midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, ¹⁶ 

Leviticus 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ¹⁷  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ¹⁸  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 20:18

20:18 If a man has sexual intercourse with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them ²⁰  must be cut off from the midst of their people.

[18:29]  ¹ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[20:5]  ² tn The adjective “spiritual” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that this is not a reference to literal prostitution, but figuratively compares idolatry to prostitution.

[20:5]  ³ tn Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[20:6]  ³ sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

[20:6]  ⁴ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

[23:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “And any person.”

[23:30]  ⁵ tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”

[23:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).

[17:4]  ⁵ tn Smr and LXX add after “tent of meeting” the following: “to make it a burnt offering or a peace offering to the Lord for your acceptance as a soothing aroma, and slaughters it outside, and at the doorway of the tent of meeting has not brought it.”

[17:4]  ⁶ tc Smr includes the suffix “it,” which is needed in any case in the translation to conform to English style.

[17:4]  ⁷ sn The exact meaning of this penalty clause is not certain. It could mean (1) that he will be executed, whether by God or by man, (2) that he will be excommunicated from sanctuary worship and/or community benefits, or (3) that his line will be terminated by God (i.e., extirpation). See also the note on Lev 7:20.

[17:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “And man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any (or every) man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

[17:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

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

[17:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will give my faces against [literally “in”] the soul/person/life [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh, feminine] who eats the blood and I will cut it [i.e., that נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] off from the midst of its people.” The uses of נֶפֶשׁ in this and the following verse are most significant for the use of animal blood in Israel’s sacrificial system. Unfortunately, it is a most difficult word to translate accurately and consistently, and this presents a major problem for the rendering of these verses (see, e.g., G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 244-45). No matter which translation of נֶפֶשׁ one uses here, it is important to see that both man and animal have נֶפֶשׁ and that this נֶפֶשׁ is identified with the blood. See the further remarks on v. 11 below. On the “cutting off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above. In this instance, God takes it on himself to “cut off” the person (i.e., extirpation).

[20:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

[20:3]  ⁸ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

[20:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the two of them.”