Imamat 7:5

7:5 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar ¹  as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.

Imamat 7:7

7:7 The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; ²  it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

Imamat 7:37

Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36

7:37 This is the law ³  for the burnt offering, the grain offering, ⁴  the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, ⁵  and the peace offering sacrifice,

[7:5]  ¹ tn See the note on Lev 1:9 above.

[7:7]  ² tn Heb “like the sin offering like the guilt offering, one law to them.”

[7:37]  ³ sn 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.

[7:37]  ⁴ tc 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.

[7:37]  ⁵ sn 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 Lev 8. 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.