Leviticus 19:5-8

Eating the Peace Offering

19:5 “‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you. ¹  19:6 It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and on the following day, ²  but what is left over until the third day must be burned up. ³  19:7 If, however, it is eaten ⁴  on the third day, it is spoiled, ⁵  it will not be accepted, 19:8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity ⁶  because he has profaned ⁷  what is holy to the Lord. ⁸  That person will be cut off from his people. ⁹ 

[19:5]  ¹ tn Heb “for your acceptance”; cf. NIV, NLT “it will be accepted on your behalf.”

[19:6]  ² tn Heb “from the following day” (HALOT 572 s.v. מָחֳרָת 2.b).

[19:6]  ³ tn Heb “shall be burned with fire”; KJV “shall be burnt in the fire.” Because “to burn with fire” is redundant in contemporary English the present translation simply has “must be burned up.”

[19:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “And if being eaten [infinitive absolute] it is eaten [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[19:7]  ⁵ tn Or “desecrated,” or “defiled,” or “forbidden.” For this difficult term see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:422, on Lev 7:18.

[19:8]  ⁶ tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

[19:8]  ⁷ sn Regarding “profaned,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

[19:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “the holiness of the Lord.”

[19:8]  ⁹ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.