translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET study note

text: See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”


text: For the “burnt offering” see the note on Lev 1:3 .


text: The term “tunic” refers to a shirt-like garment worn next to the skin and, therefore, put on first (cf. Exod 28:4, 39-40; 29:5, 8; 39:27 ). It covered the upper body only. For detailed remarks on the terminology for the priestly clothing in this verse (except the “linen leggings”) see the notes on Lev 8:7-9 and the literature cited there.


text: The sash fastened the tunic around the waist ( Exod 28:4, 39; 29:9; 39:29 ).


text: Presumably in this case the blood was sprinkled seven times on the ground in front of the ark on which the atonement plate was mounted.