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 18:23

18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse ⁶  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ⁷  it is a perversion. ⁸ 

Imamat 19:29

19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, ⁹  so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. ¹⁰ 

Imamat 25:22

25:22 and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year’s produce ¹¹  – old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year’s produce, ¹²  you may eat old produce.

Imamat 26:13

26:13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ¹³  and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ¹⁴ 

Imamat 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ¹⁵  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ¹⁶  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Imamat 26:41

26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ¹⁷  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ¹⁸  their iniquity,

[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.).

[18:23]  ⁶ tn See the note on v. 20 above.

[18:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[18:23]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.

[19:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).

[19:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the land become full of lewdness.” Regarding the term “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.

[25:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the produce,” referring to “the produce” of the sixth year of v. 21. The words “sixth year” are supplied for clarity.

[25:22]  ¹² tn Heb “until the ninth year, until bringing [in] its produce.”

[26:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “from being to them slaves.”

[26:13]  ¹⁴ tn In other words, to walk as free people and not as slaves. Cf. NIV “with (+ your CEV, NLT) heads held high”; NCV “proudly.”

[26:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

[26:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

[26:41]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”

[26:41]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.