Imamat 27:8
Konteks27:8 If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; 1 according to what the man who made the vow can afford, 2 the priest will establish his conversion value.
Imamat 12:8
Konteks12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep, 3 then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 4 one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’” 5
[27:8] 1 tn Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”
[27:8] 2 tn Heb “on the mouth which the hand of the one who vowed reaches.”
[12:8] 3 tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”
[12:8] 4 tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168, with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).