Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:3
Context18:3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, 1 and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; 2 you must not 3 walk in their statutes.
Leviticus 25:30
Context25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, 4 the house in the walled city 5 will belong without reclaim 6 to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.
Leviticus 26:1
Context26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, 7 so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before 8 it, for I am the Lord your God.
[18:3] 1 tn Heb “As the work [or “deed”] of the land of Egypt, which you were dwelling in it, you must not do.”
[18:3] 2 tn Heb “and as the work [or “deed”] of the land of Canaan which I am bringing you to there, you must not do.” The participle “I am bringing” is inceptive; the
[18:3] 3 tn Heb “and you shall not walk.”
[25:30] 4 tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’
[25:30] 5 tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (lo’, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.
[25:30] 6 tn See the note on v. 23 above.
[26:1] 7 sn For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on Lev 19:4. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god, God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless, weak, powerless, nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”
[26:1] 8 tn Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 181, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 449).
