Imamat 7:21

7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) ¹  and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’” ² 

Imamat 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ³  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Imamat 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ⁴  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ⁵  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ⁶ 

Imamat 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ⁷  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ⁸  to the Lord while he is impure, ⁹  that person must be cut off from before me. ¹⁰  I am the Lord.

Imamat 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ¹¹  Although ¹²  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ¹³ 

[7:21]  ¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

[7:21]  ² sn For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20.

[11:13]  ³ tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

[20:3]  ⁵ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

[20:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

[22:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “To your generations.”

[22:3]  ⁸ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

[22:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

[22:3]  ¹⁰ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”

[26:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

[26:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

[26:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).