Leviticus
Chapter 6
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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.
A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.
1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2When a person does an offense and commits a breach against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and deceives his fellow about a deposit, or about something set in the hand, or about a robbery, or he has squeezed his fellow,
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Kichesh is to deceive, to deny. Piqadon is a deposit. Tesumet yad is something set in the hand. Gazal is robbery. Ashaq is to squeeze, to press what is not his.
3or he finds a lost thing and deceives about it, and swears falsely, about any one of all the things a person does and offends by them,
4when he does the offense and becomes guilty, he shall return the robbery that he robbed, or the thing he squeezed, or the deposit that was deposited with him, or the lost thing that he found,
5or anything about which he swore falsely. He shall pay it in its principal, and he shall add its fifths to it. He shall give it to the one it belongs to, on the day of his guilt.
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Leningrad writes chamishitav, “its fifths,” plural. The plural is printed. It is not reduced to one fifth.
6He shall bring his guilt offering to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.: a ram that is whole, from the flock, by your assessment, as a guilt offering, to the priest.
7The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and he shall be forgiven, for any one of all the things he does to become guilty by it.
8God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
9Command Aaron and his sons: This is the instruction for the whole offering. It is the whole offering on its hearth, on the altar, all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
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Torah here is the instruction for this offering, not a second name for the book. Moqedah is its hearth. Tuqad is to be kept burning.
10The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put linen undergarments on his body, and he shall lift up the fat ashes to which the fire has consumed the whole offering on the altar, and he shall set them beside the altar.
11He shall take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he shall take the fat ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
12The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it morning by morning, and arrange the whole offering on it, and turn the fats of the sacrifices of well-being into smoke on it.
13A continual fire shall be kept burning on the altar. It shall not go out.
14This is the instruction for the grain gift. The sons of Aaron shall bring it near before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to the front of the altar.
15He shall lift from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain gift and of its oil, and all the A sweet-smelling tree sap burned as a gift. that is on the grain gift, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar, a soothing scent, its memorial portion, to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
16What is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the tent of meeting.
17It shall not be baked leavened. I have given it as their share from my food gifts. It is a most holy thing, like the offense offering and like the guilt offering.
18Every male among the sons of Aaron shall eat it. It is a lasting due through your generations, from the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Whatever touches them shall become holy.
19God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
20This is the A gift brought close to God. of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall bring to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. on the day he is Set apart for God by having oil poured on.: a tenth of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour as a regular grain gift, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
21It shall be made on a griddle with oil. You shall bring it well soaked. You shall bring broken pieces of a grain gift, broken bits, a soothing scent to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Murbechet is well soaked. Tufinei is an uncertain word. The line beside it is pittim, broken bits. “Broken pieces” is printed, and the uncertain word is not given a second invented meaning.
22The priest, the Here, the priest who was anointed with oil for his work., from his sons in his place, shall make it. It is a lasting due to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It shall be turned entirely into smoke.
23Every grain gift of a priest shall be entire. It shall not be eaten.
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Kalil is entire, the whole of it. Nothing is left to eat.
24God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
25Speak to Aaron and to his sons: This is the instruction for the offense offering. In the place where the whole offering is slaughtered, the offense offering shall be slaughtered, before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is a most holy thing.
26The priest who makes the offense offering shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.
27Whatever touches its meat shall become holy. When some of its blood is sprinkled on a garment, what was sprinkled on shall be washed in a holy place.
28A clay pot in which it is boiled shall be broken. If it was boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.
29Every male among the priests shall eat it. It is a most holy thing.
30Every offense offering from which some of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting, to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. in the holy place, shall not be eaten. It shall be burned in fire.