Leviticus 22:8

22:8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes ¹  or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 15:32

15:32 This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission ²  and becomes unclean by it, ³ 

Leviticus 18:20

18:20 You must not have sexual intercourse ⁴  with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

Leviticus 26:32

26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

Leviticus 4:23

4:23 or his sin that he committed ⁵  is made known to him, ⁶  he must bring a flawless male goat as his offering. ⁷ 

Leviticus 5:3

5:3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, ⁸  even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

Leviticus 6:3

6:3 or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely ⁹  concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin ¹⁰  –

Leviticus 6:7

6:7 So the priest will make atonement ¹¹  on his behalf before the Lord and he will be forgiven ¹²  for whatever he has done to become guilty.” ¹³ 

Leviticus 13:21

13:21 If, however, ¹⁴  the priest examines it, and ¹⁵  there is no white hair in it, it is not deeper than the skin, and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days. ¹⁶ 

Leviticus 15:19

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge ¹⁷  and her discharge is blood from her body, ¹⁸  she is to be in her menstruation ¹⁹  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:23

18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse ²⁰  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ²¹  it is a perversion. ²² 

Leviticus 18:3

18:3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, ²³  and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; ²⁴  you must not ²⁵  walk in their statutes.

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ²⁶  so that ²⁷  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Heb “a carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that has died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

[15:32]  ² tn Heb “and who a lying of seed goes out from him.”

[15:32]  ³ tn Heb “to become unclean in it.”

[18:20]  ³ tn Heb “And to the wife of your fellow citizen you shall not give your layer for seed.” The meaning of “your layer” (שְׁכָבְתְּךָ, shÿkhavtÿkha) is uncertain (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 122, “you shall not place your layer of semen”; but cf. also J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 283, and the literature cited there for the rendering, “you shall not give your penis for seed”).

[4:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “or his sin which he sinned in it is made known to him”; NAB “if he learns of the sin he committed.”

[4:23]  ⁵ tn Lev 4:22b-23a is difficult. The present translation suggests that there are two possible legal situations envisioned, separated by the Hebrew אוֹ (’o, “or”) at the beginning of v. 23. Lev 4:22b refers to any case in which the leader readily admits his guilt (i.e., “pleads guilty”), whereas v. 23a refers to cases where the leader is convicted of his guilt by legal action (“his sin…is made known to him”). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:95-96; Lev 4:27-28; and esp. the notes on Lev 5:1 below.

[4:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “a he-goat of goats, a male without defect”; cf. NLT “with no physical defects.”

[5:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “or if he touches uncleanness of mankind to any of his uncleanness which he becomes unclean in it.”

[6:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and swears on falsehood”; cf. CEV “deny something while under oath.”

[6:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “on one from all which the man shall do to sin in them.”

[6:7]  ⁷ sn Regarding “make atonement” see the note on Lev 1:4.

[6:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

[6:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “on one from all which he does to become guilty in it”; NAB “whatever guilt he may have incurred.”

[13:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and if.”

[13:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[13:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the priest will shut him up seven days.”

[15:19]  ⁹ tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

[15:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

[18:23]  ¹⁰ tn See the note on v. 20 above.

[18:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[18:23]  ¹² tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.

[18:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “As the work [or “deed”] of the land of Egypt, which you were dwelling in it, you must not do.”

[18:3]  ¹² 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 Lord is “about to” bring them into the land of Canaan, as opposed to their having dwelt previously in the land of Egypt (see the first part of the verse).

[18:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “and you shall not walk.”

[20:22]  ¹² tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).

[20:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.