Imamat 5:1

Additional Sin Offering Regulations

5:1 “‘When a person sins ¹  in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify ²  and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened ³ ) and he does not make it known, ⁴  then he will bear his punishment for iniquity. ⁵ 

Imamat 13:5

13:5 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if, ⁶  as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same ⁷  and has not spread on the skin, ⁸  then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days. ⁹ 

Imamat 14:48

14:48 “If, however, the priest enters ¹⁰  and examines it, and the ¹¹  infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.

Imamat 26:15

26:15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep ¹²  all my commandments and you break my covenant –

Imamat 27:10

27:10 He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal ¹³  and its substitute will be holy.

Imamat 27:27

27:27 If, however, ¹⁴  it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to ¹⁵  its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.

[5:1]  ¹ tn Heb “And a person when he sins.” Most English versions translate this as the protasis of a conditional clause: “if a person sins” (NASB, NIV).

[5:1]  sn The same expression occurs in Lev 4:2 where it introduces sins done “by straying unintentionally from any of the commandments of the Lord which must not be done” (see the notes there). Lev 5:1-13 is an additional section of sin offering regulations directed at violations other than those referred to by this expression in Lev 4:2 (see esp. 5:1-6), and expanding on the offering regulations for the common person in Lev 4:27-35 with concessions to the poor common person (5:7-13).

[5:1]  ² tn The words “against one who fails to testify” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to make sense of the remark about the “curse” (“imprecation” or “oath”; cf. ASV “adjuration”; NIV “public charge”) for the modern reader. For the interpretation of this verse reflected in the present translation see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:292-97.

[5:1]  ³ tn The words “what had happened” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[5:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “and hears a voice of curse, and he is a witness or he saw or he knew, if he does not declare.”

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he shall bear his iniquity.” The rendering “bear the punishment (for the iniquity)” reflects the use of the word “iniquity” to refer to the punishment for iniquity (cf. NRSV, NLT “subject to punishment”). It is sometimes referred to as the consequential use of the term (cf. Lev 5:17; 7:18; 10:17; etc.).

[13:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the infection has stood in his eyes”; ASV “if in his eyes the plague be at a stay.”

[13:5]  ⁸ tn Although there is no expressed “and” at the beginning of this clause, there is in the corresponding clause of v. 6, so it should be assumed here as well.

[13:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “a second seven days.”

[14:48]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And if the priest entering [infinitive absolute] enters [finite verb]” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[14:48]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and the mark has not indeed spread.”

[26:15]  ¹² tn Heb “to not do.”

[27:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “it and its substitute.” The referent (the original animal offered) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “And if.”

[27:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in” or “by.”