Leviticus
Chapter 19
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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Elilim are empty gods, things of nothing. Massekhah is a cast metal image.
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Pe’ah is the edge of the field. Leqet is what falls and is left for gleaning.
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Te’olel is to strip the vineyard bare. Peret is the single grapes that fall.
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Nasa panim is to lift a face, to favor someone in court. Hadar panim is to honor a face. Tzedeq is rightness in the judgment.
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Rakhil is talk carried about. Amad al dam is to stand over a fellow’s blood, to take a stand that costs his life.
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Kil’ayim is two kinds mixed. Sha’atnez is kept as the name of the mixed cloth. The fibers are not listed, because the Hebrew does not list them here.
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Necherefet is designated, assigned to a man. Biqqoret is an inquiry. The exact penalty the word names is not secure, and the line says they are not to be put to death, because she had not been given her freedom.
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Orlah is a foreskin. The fruit of the first three years is treated as uncircumcised and is not eaten.
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Hillulim are praises, a festal praise of the fruit set apart for Yahweh.
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Akhal al ha-dam is eating over the blood. Nichash is divination. Onen is soothsaying. The methods are not filled in beyond the Hebrew.
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Seret la-nefesh is a cut made for a person, for the dead. Ketovet qa’aqa is a written mark cut into the skin.
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Ovot are ghosts, the ones consulted for the dead. Yidde’onim are knowing spirits. Both names are left in that working English, and no later spirit-system is added.
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The ephah and the hin are not converted. Tzedeq on the measures is honesty, the same rightness as in the court.