Leviticus 10:19

10:19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, “See here! ¹  Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the Lord have been pleased?” ² 

Leviticus 26:16

26:16 I for my part ³  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. ⁴  You will sow your seed in vain because ⁵  your enemies will eat it. ⁶ 

¹ tn Or “Behold!” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “See.”

² tn Heb “today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and like these things have happened to me, and (if) I had eaten sin offering today would it be good in the eyes of the Lord?” The idiom “would it be good in the eyes of [the Lord]” has been translated “would [the Lord] have been pleased.” Cf. NRSV “would it have been agreeable to the Lord?”; CEV, NLT “Would the Lord have approved?”

³ tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

⁴ tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

⁵ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

⁶ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.