translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “if a male if a female, perfect he shall present it before the Lord .” The “or” in the present translation (and most other English versions) is not present in the Hebrew text here, but see v. 6 below.


text: See the remarks on Lev 1:3-5 above for some of the details of translation here.


text: Heb “Then he”; the referent (the person presenting the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. the note on Lev 1:5 ).


text: Heb “and all the fat on the entrails.” The fat layer that covers the entrails as a whole (i.e., “that covers the entrails”) is different from the fat that surrounds and adheres to the various organs (“on the entrails,” i.e., surrounding them; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:205-7).


text: Heb “and the protruding lobe on the liver on the kidneys he shall remove it.” Cf. NRSV “the appendage of the liver”; NIV “the covering of the liver” (KJV “the caul above the liver”).


text: Or “on the fire – [it is] a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord ” (see Lev 1:13 b, 17b, and the note on 1:9 b).


text: Heb “a male or female without defect he shall present it”; cf. NLT “must have no physical defects.”


text: See the note on this term at 1:5 .


text: Heb “and the protruding lobe on the liver on the kidneys he shall remove it.”


text: Heb “food, a gift to the Lord .”


text: The words “This is” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied due to requirements of English style.


text: Heb “for your generations”; NAB “for your descendants”; NLT “for you and all your descendants.”


text: Heb “all fat and all blood you must not eat.”