1 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
2 tn Heb “from one from these,” referring to the four kinds of violations of the law delineated in Lev 5:1-4 (see the note on Lev 5:5 above and cf. Lev 4:27).
3 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).
4 tn Heb “and it”; the referent (the remaining portion of the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “and it shall be to the priest like the grain offering,” referring to the rest of the grain that was not offered on the altar (cf. the regulations in Lev 2:3, 10).
6 tn The words “into silver shekels” are supplied here. See the full expression in Lev 5:15, and compare 5:18. Cf. NRSV “or its equivalent”; NLT “or the animal’s equivalent value in silver.”
7 sn A tenth of an ephah is about 2.3 liters, one day’s ration for a single person (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:306).
8 tn For the rendering “choice wheat flour” see the note on Lev 2:1.
9 tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
10 tn Heb “the silver.”