translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET study note

text: The exact meaning of this penalty clause is not certain. It could mean that he will be executed, whether by God or by man, he will be excommunicated from sanctuary worship and/or community benefits (cf. TEV, CEV), or his line will be terminated by God (i.e., extirpation), etc. See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 100; J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:457-60; and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 241-42 for further discussion.


text: For these categories of unclean animals see .


text: For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20 .


text: See the note on Lev 6:8 [ 6:1 HT] above.


text: See the note on Lev 7:20 .


text: See the note on Lev 6:8 [ 6:1 HT].


text: The Hebrew term translated “law” ( תוֹרָה [ torah ]) occurs up to this point in the book only in Lev 6:9 [ 6:2 HT], 14 [7 HT], 25 [18 HT], 7:1, 7, 11, and here in 7:37 . This suggests that Lev 7:37-38 is a summary of only this section of the book (i.e., Lev 6:8 [ 6:1 HT]- 7:36 ), not all of Lev 1-7 .


text: The inclusion of the “ordination offering” ( מִלּוּאִים , milu ’ im ; the term apparently comes from the notion of “filling [of the hand],” cf. Lev 8:33 ) here anticipates . It is a kind of peace offering, as the regulations in Lev 8:22-32 will show (cf. Exod 29:19-34 ). In the context of the ordination ritual for the priests it fits into the sequence of offerings as a peace offering would: sin offering ( Lev 8:14-17 ), burnt and grain offering ( Lev 8:18-21 ), and finally peace (i.e., ordination) offering ( Lev 8:22-32 ). Moreover, in this case, Moses received the breast of the ordination offering as his due since he was the presiding priest over the sacrificial procedures ( Lev 8:29 ; cf. Lev 7:30-31 ), while Aaron and his sons ate the portions that would have been consumed by the common worshipers in a regular peace offering procedure ( Exod 29:31-34 ; cf. Lev 7:15-18 ). For a general introduction to the peace offering see the note on Lev 3:1 .