translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “he”; the referent (the officiating priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity. This priest was responsible for any actions involving direct contact with the altar (e.g., the splashing of the blood).


text: See the note on Lev 1:5 .


text: Heb “then he.” This pronoun refers to the offerer, who was responsible for slaughtering the animal. Contrast v. 2 above and v. 5 below.


text: See the notes on Lev 3:3-4 .


text: See the note on Lev 1:9 above.


text: Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; NAB “most sacred”; TEV “very holy.”


text: Heb “like the sin offering like the guilt offering, one law to them.”


text: Heb “and” rather than “or” (cf. also the next “or”).


text: Heb “and all made in the pan”; cf. KJV “fryingpan”; NAB “deep-fried in a pot.”


text: Heb “a man like his brother.”


text: This “he” pronoun refers to the offerer. Smr and LXX have plural “they.”


text: Or “for a thank offering.”


text: See the notes on Lev 2:4 .


text: See the note on Lev 6:21 [ 6:14 HT].


text: Heb “choice wheat flour well soaked ring-shaped loaves.” See the note on Lev 2:1 .


text: The rendering “this [grain] offering” is more literally “his offering,” but it refers to the series of grain offerings listed just previously in v. 12 .


text: The words “which regularly accompany” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarity. sn The translation “[which regularly accompany]…” is based on the practice of bringing bread (and wine) to eat with the portions of the peace offering meat eaten by the priests and worshipers (see v. 14 and Num 15:1-13 ). This was in addition to the memorial portion of the unleavened bread that was offered to the Lord on the altar (cf. Lev 2:2, 9 , and the note on 7:12 ).


text: Here the Hebrew text reads “offering” ( קָרְבָּן , qorbban ), not “grain offering” ( מִנְחָה , minkhah ), but in this context the term refers once again to the list in 7:12 .


text: The term rendered “contribution offering” is תְּרוּמָה ( tÿrumah ), which generally refers to that which is set aside from the offerings to the Lord as prebends for the officiating priests (cf. esp. Lev 7:28-34 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:335-37). Cf. TEV “as a special contribution.”


text: In the verse “his” refers to the offerer.


text: For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there.


text: Heb “and on the next day and the left over from it shall be eaten.”


text: Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely” (likewise in v. 19 ).


text: Or “desecrated,” or “defiled,” or “forbidden.” For this difficult term see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:422. Cf. NIV “it is impure”; NCV “it will become unclean”; NLT “will be contaminated.”


text: Heb “his iniquity he shall bear” (cf. Lev 5:1 ); NIV “will be held responsible”; NRSV “shall incur guilt”; TEV “will suffer the consequences.”


text: The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.


text: The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.


text: Heb “and his unclean condition is on him.”


text: Heb “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, TEV “that has died a natural death.”


text: Heb “shall be used for any work”; cf. NIV, NLT “may be used for any other purpose.”


text: Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”


text: Heb “on the breast.”


label: NET textual note

text: Many Hebrew mss and some versions (esp. the LXX) limit the offerings in the last part of this verse to the fat portions, specifically, the fat and the fat lobe of the liver (see the BHS footnote). The verse is somewhat awkward in Hebrew but nevertheless correct. tn Heb “the breast to wave it, a wave offering before the Lord .” Other possible translations are “to elevate the breast [as] an elevation offering before the Lord ” (cf. NRSV) or “to present the breast [as] a presentation offering before the Lord .” See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 91, J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:430-31, 461-72, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:63-67.


text: Older English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV) translate this Hebrew term ( תְּרוּמָה , tÿrumah ) “heave offering,” derived from the idea of “to raise, to lift” found in the verbal root (cf. NAB “a raised offering”). “Contribution offering” is a better English rendering because it refers to something “taken out from” (i.e., “lifted up from”; cf. the Hebrew term הֵרִים ( herim ) in, e.g., Lev 2:9; 4:8 , etc.) the offering as a special contribution to the specific priest who presided over the offering procedures in any particular instance (see the next verse and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 4:335-37). Cf. TEV “as a special contribution”; NCV, NLT “as a gift.”


text: Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “as their due forever”; NRSV “as a perpetual due”; NLT “their regular share.”


text: Heb “the day he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “in the day of he presented them to serve as priests to the Lord .” The grammar here is relatively unusual. First, the verb “presented” appears to be in the perfect rather than the infinitive (but see GKC 531), the latter being normal in such temporal expressions. Second, the active verb form appears to be used as a passive plural (“they were presented”). However, if it is translated active and singular then Moses would be the subject: “on the day he [Moses] offered them [Aaron and his sons].”


text: Heb “which the Lord commanded to give to them in the day he anointed them from the children of Israel.” Thus v. 36 is tied syntactically to v. 35 (see the note there).


text: Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come”; TEV “for all time to come.”


text: In the MT only “the grain offering” lacks a connecting ו ( vav ). However, many Hebrew , Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some mss of Tg. Onq. have the ו ( vav ) on “the grain offering” as well.