Imamat 17:8

17:8 “You are to say to them: ‘Any man ¹  from the house of Israel or ²  from the foreigners who reside ³  in their ⁴  midst, who offers ⁵  a burnt offering or a sacrifice

Imamat 17:12

17:12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, ⁶  and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. ⁷ 

Imamat 18:26

18:26 You yourselves must obey ⁸  my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, ⁹ 

Imamat 20:5-6

20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, ¹⁰  to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech. ¹¹ 

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ¹² 

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits ¹³  to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face ¹⁴  against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Imamat 22:32

22:32 You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

[17:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Man, man.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c; cf. Lev 15:2).

[17:8]  ² tn Heb “and.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has an alternative sense (“or”).

[17:8]  ³ tn Heb “from the sojourner who sojourns.”

[17:8]  ⁴ tc The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate have “your” (plural) rather than “their.”

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “causes to go up.”

[17:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “all/any person from you shall not eat blood.”

[17:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the sojourner, the one sojourning in your midst, shall not eat blood.”

[18:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate.

[18:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

[20:5]  ¹⁰ tn The adjective “spiritual” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that this is not a reference to literal prostitution, but figuratively compares idolatry to prostitution.

[20:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[20:6]  ¹² sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

[20:6]  ¹³ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”