Leviticus 23:18

23:18 Along with the loaves of bread, ¹  you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, ²  one young bull, ³  and two rams. ⁴  They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering ⁵  and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁶ 

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ⁷  and you must proclaim a release ⁸  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ⁹  each one of you must return ¹⁰  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

Leviticus 25:30

25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, ¹¹  the house in the walled city ¹²  will belong without reclaim ¹³  to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

[23:18]  ¹ tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”

[23:18]  ² tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”

[23:18]  ³ tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”

[23:18]  ⁴ tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”

[23:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “and their grain offering.”

[23:18]  ⁶ sn See the note on Lev 1:9.

[25:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ⁸ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

[25:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

[25:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[25:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’

[25:30]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn See the note on v. 23 above.