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Leviticus

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:1

And a person, when he presents an offering of a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be flour. And he shall pour oil on it and he shall put frankincense on it.

Now if you want to offer a grain offering to me, Yahweh, you should offer wheat flour. Pour out some olive oil on it and place incense on top of it.

What kind of grain offering should be brought as an offering to Yahweh?

The grain offering that a person presents as an offering to Yahweh should be an offering of flour.

What must be done to prepare the flour before it is offered to Yahweh?

Oil should be poured on the flour, and frankincense should be put on the flour.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:2

And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall grab from there, {with} the fullness of his handful, some of its flour and some of its oil, in addition to all its incense. And the priest shall cause its memorial portion to become smoke on the altar, a gift, a scent of pleasing to Yahweh.

You should bring the offering of wheat flour to Aaron’s sons, the priests. A priest should scoop out of your offering a handful of the flour and olive oil, as well as all the incense—as large a handful as he is able to scoop. Then, the priest should burn the portion of your offering that he scooped out with his hand, doing it in a way that causes smoke to go up on the altar. When this happens, I, Yahweh, will consider it to be a gift, and I will enjoy the smell of the smoke of the offering.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:3

And the remainder from the grain offering {shall be} for Aaron and for his sons, a holy thing of holy things from the gifts of Yahweh.

The rest of the wheat flour that you offer, as a sacrifice to me, you should preserve for Aaron and his sons. You should consider this portion of the offering as especially set apart for the priests among all the gifts that you offer to me, Yahweh, and that are set apart for me.

To whom should the remainder of the grain offering belong?

The remainder of the grain offering left after the burnt offering should be for Aaron and his sons.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:4

And when you present an offering of a grain offering, a baked item of the oven, flour of loaves of unleavened bread {shall be} mixed with oil or wafers of unleavened bread {shall be} anointed with oil.

But if you want to offer grain offering that consists of something that you baked in an oven, you should offer wheat flour that you mixed with olive oil into unleavened cakes. Or you could offer wheat flour that you shaped into unleavened crackers and coated with olive oil.

If the grain offering is baked in an oven, of what must it be made?

If the grain offering is baked in an oven, it must be an offering of a loaf of flour that is mixed with oil and is without yeast.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:5

And if your offering {is} a grain offering on the griddle, flour shall be mixed with oil {into} unleavened bread.

But if your grain offering consists of something that you pan-fried on a griddle, you should offer wheat flour that you mixed with olive oil into unleavened bread.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:6

Piece it {into} pieces, and you shall pour oil on it. It {is} a grain offering.

You should break the offering into pieces and pour out some olive oil onto it. These actions qualify the offering as a grain offering.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:7

And if your offering is a grain offering of a pan, flour shall be made with oil.

If your grain offering consists of something that you deep-fried in a pan, you should offer wheat flour that you mixed with olive oil.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:8

And you shall bring the grain offering that is made from these to Yahweh. And he shall present it to the priest and he shall bring it near to the altar.

In any case, you should bring to me, Yahweh, the grain offering that you have made in this way with these ingredients. You should present the offering to the priest. He will bring it to the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:9

And the priest shall take up from the grain offering its memorial portion, and he shall cause {it} to become smoke on the altar, a gift, a scent of pleasing to Yahweh.

There he should lift out from the grain offering the portion that he will burn. Then he should burn that handful on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. When this happens, I, Yahweh will consider the offering to be a gift, and I will enjoy the smell of the smoke.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:10

And the remainder from the grain offering {shall be} for Aaron and for his sons, a holy thing of holy things from the gifts of Yahweh.

The rest of the grain offering you should preserve for Aaron and his sons. You should consider this portion of the sacrifice as especially set apart for the priests among all the gifts that you offer to me, Yahweh, and that are set apart for me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:11

Any grain offering that you present to Yahweh shall not be made {with} leaven; for any leaven culture or any honey you shall not cause to become smoke from it, a gift to Yahweh.

You should not burn any gift to me that contains any yeast or any honey on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. Make sure that whenever you offer a grain offering to me, Yahweh, you have prepared it without using yeast.

What substances must not to be in the grain offering?

You should not burn on the altar a grain offering that contains any yeast or any honey.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:12

You shall present them to Yahweh {as} an offering of first {things}, but on the altar, they shall not go up as a scent of pleasing.

Any offerings to me that contain yeast or honey you should offer as a presentation of the produce of the field that has been harvested first. But do not burn these kinds of grain offerings on the altar so that they go up to me, Yahweh, as pleasant-smelling smoke.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of your grain offerings you shall salt with salt. And you shall not omit the salt of the covenant of your God from on your grain offering. On all your offerings you shall present salt.

Likewise, you should season every grain offering with salt. You should never present a grain offering without the salt, which reminds you of my promises to you. Every grain offering should contain salt that you have also presented to me, Yahweh.

What substance must always be on the grain offering?

You should season every grain offering with salt.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:14

And if you present a grain offering of first ripe grains to Yahweh, a tender ear roasted with fire, crushed grain of a ripe ear, you shall present a grain offering of your first ripe grains.

But if you want to offer to me a grain offering that consists of the first harvest of ripened grains, do this. Offer the first ripe grains that you harvest, ears of grain in the early stage of ripening that you have roasted over a fire, that is, grains from your first ripened ears of grain that you have crushed.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:15

And you shall put oil on it, and you shall place frankincense on it. It {is} a grain offering.

You should pour out some olive oil on these kinds of offerings and you should place incense on them. These kinds of offerings also qualify as grain offerings.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 2:16

And the priest shall cause its memorial portion, from its crushed grains and from its oil with all its incense, to become smoke, a gift to Yahweh.

The priest should burn the portion of the offering that he scooped out with his handful—the crushed grains and the olive oil, as well as all of the incense—in a way that causes smoke to go up. When this happens, I, Yahweh will consider the offering to be a gift.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:1

And if his offering {is} a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he is presenting from the cattle, whether male or female, perfect, he shall present it to the face of Yahweh.

But if you want to offer a fellowship sacrifice, do this. If you want to offer a bovine, whether the animal is male or female, you should offer a totally healthy animal in the place where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelites.

What peace offering should be offered from the herd?

A peace offering should be either a male or a female, without blemish, offered from the cattle.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:2

And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and he shall slaughter it {at} the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash the blood on the altar all around.

You should place your hands on the head of the bovine that you are offering. You should kill that animal in the entrance to the sacred tent. Then the priests, Aaron’s sons, should take the blood from the bovine and splatter it onto every side of the altar.

Where must the offering be killed?

The offering must be killed in front of the tent of meeting.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:3

And from the sacrifice of the peace offerings he shall present a gift to Yahweh: the fat covering the innards and all the fat that {is} on the innards

And from your fellowship sacrifice, you should offer a gift to me, Yahweh. This gift should consist of the caul fat that covers all the internal organs and all the visceral fat that is attached to the internal organs.

What parts of the peace offering must be presented to Yahweh? (3:3-4)

The lobe of the liver, the two kidneys, and fat that is on them that is near the loins must be removed and presented to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:4

and the two kidneys and the fat that {is} on them that {is} near the loins and the lobe on the liver (he shall remove it with the kidneys).

This gift should include both kidneys and the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts. It should also include the lobes of the bovine’s liver and the kidneys (which you should also remove).

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:5

And the sons of Aaron shall cause it to become smoke on the altar with the burnt offering that {is} on the wood that {is} on the fire, a gift, a scent of pleasing to Yahweh.

Then {one of the priests} descended from Aaron should burn these fat portions and internal organs on the altar in such a way that it causes smoke to go up alongside the wholly burned sacrifices that the priest is burning on the wood fire {that he has built on the altar}. I, Yahweh, will consider this sacrifice a gift, and I will enjoy the smell of the smoke.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:6

And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh {is} from the flock, male or female, perfect, he shall present it.

But if you want to offer an animal from your flocks of sheep or goats to me, Yahweh, as a fellowship sacrifice, whether the animal is male or female, you should offer a totally healthy animal.

Where should the person making the peace offering slaughter an animal from the flock? (3:6-8)

He should slaughter it before the tent of meeting.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:7

If he is presenting his offering, a lamb, then he shall present it to the face of Yahweh.

If you want to offer a lamb, you should offer it in the place where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelites.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:8

And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and he shall slaughter it to the face of the tent of meeting. And the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood on the altar all around.

You should place your hands on the head of the lamb that you are offering. You should kill it before the sacred tent. Then {one of the priests} descended from Aaron should take the blood from the lamb and splatter it onto every side of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:9

And from the sacrifice of the peace offerings he shall present a gift to Yahweh: its fat, the entire fatty tail (he shall remove it near the backbone) and the fat covering the innards and all the fat that {is} on the innards

And from your fellowship sacrifice, you should offer a gift to me, Yahweh. This gift should consist of all the sheep’s intestinal fat, the entire portion of the tail fat (which you should cut off near the backbone), the caul fat that covers all the internal organs, and all the visceral fat that is attached to the internal organs.

What different thing must be removed from the peace offering that comes from the flock?

The entire fatty tail, cut away close to the backbone, must be removed and presented to Yahweh if the peace offering comes from the flock.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:10

and the two kidneys and the fat that {is} on them that {is} by the loins and the lobe on the liver (he shall remove it with the kidneys).

Your gift should also include both kidneys, the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts, the lobes of the lamb’s liver, and the kidneys (which you should also remove).

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:11

And the priest shall cause it to become smoke on the altar, a food gift to Yahweh.

Then the priest should burn all the fat and the internal organs on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. You should consider this sacrifice as a gift of food for my holy purposes.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:12

And if his offering {is} a goat, then he shall present it to the face of Yahweh.

Likewise, if you want to offer a goat to me, you should offer it in the place where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelites.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:13

And he shall lay his hand on its head and he shall slaughter it to the face of the tent of meeting. And the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood on the altar all around.

You should place your hands on the head of the goat that you are offering. You should kill the animal in the entrance to the sacred tent. Then {one of the priests} descended from Aaron should take the blood from the goat and splatter it onto every side of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:14

And from it, he shall present his offering, a gift to Yahweh: the fat covering the innards and all the fat that {is} on the innards,

And from your sacrifice, you should offer a gift to me, Yahweh. This gift should consist of the caul fat that covers all the internal organs and all the visceral fat that is attached to the internal organs.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:15

and the two kidneys and the fat that {is} on them that {is} by the loins and the lobe on the liver (he shall remove it with the kidneys).

Your gift should also include both kidneys, the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts, the lobes of the lamb’s liver, and the kidneys (which you should also remove).

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:16

And the priest shall cause them to become smoke on the altar, a food gift as a scent of pleasing. All the fat {is} for Yahweh.

Then the priest should burn all the fat and the internal organs on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. You should consider this sacrifice as a gift of food for my holy purposes, and I, Yahweh, will enjoy the smell of the smoke of the sacrifice. {You should not eat any of this fat,} because all of the fat of any animal that you sacrifice belongs exclusively to me.

To whom does the fat belong?

All the fat belongs exclusively to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 3:17

A statute of eternity for your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

This is an enduring and permanent command that must be observed by you and all your descendants, wherever you happen to live: {Because they belong exclusively to me,} you must not consume the fat or the blood of any animal that you sacrifice to me.”

What did Yahweh tell the people not to eat in any place they would ever live?

Yahweh told the people not to eat any fat or any blood wherever they would live.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh told Moses

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘A person, when he sins by mistake from any of the commands of Yahweh that shall not be done, and he does from one from them,

to tell the Israelite people, “It may happen that someone does wrong against me unintentionally and does something that I, Yahweh, specifically commanded my people not to do.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:3

if the anointed priest sins to the guilt of the people, then he shall present for his sin that he sinned a bull, a perfect son of the cattle, to Yahweh as a sin offering.

It may happen that the high priest himself does wrong against me in a way that brings guilt on the whole people. If this happens, to address the wrongdoing that he has done, the high priest should offer a totally healthy bull to me, Yahweh, as a purifying sacrifice.

About what kind of offering does the fourth chapter of Leviticus tell?

The fourth chapter of Leviticus tells about the sin offering.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:4

And he shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting to the face of Yahweh. And he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and he shall slaughter the bull to the face of Yahweh.

That priest should bring the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent, to my presence. He should place his hand on the head of the bull that he wants to offer and kill it in the place where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelites.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:5

And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and he shall bring it to the tent of meeting.

{After catching the draining blood of the bull in a bowl,} the high priest should take some of that blood and bring it into the sacred tent.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:6

And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and he shall sprinkle some of the blood seven times to the face of Yahweh, toward the face of the curtain of the Holy {Place}.

The priest should dip one of his fingers into the blood, and he should flick some of the bull’s blood seven times in the direction of the front of the curtain that separates the rest of the sacred tent from the Most Holy Place, where I, Yahweh, live among the people of Israel.

How many times must the priest sprinkle blood from the sin offering before Yahweh, in the direction of the curtain of the Holy Place?

The priest must sprinkle some blood from the sin offering seven times in the presence of Yahweh, before the curtain of the most holy place.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:7

And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of incense of the spices to the face of Yahweh, which {is} in the tent of meeting. And all the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which {is at} the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Then, in my presence—I, Yahweh, who resides behind the sacred curtain—the priest should drip some of that blood onto the four projected corners of the altar where the priests burn fragrant incense, which is located inside the sacred tent. Next, the priest should pour the rest of the bull’s blood onto the base of the altar where the priests offer the wholly burned sacrifices, which is located at the entrance of the sacred tent.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:8

And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall lift up from it: the fat covering over the innards and all the fat that {is} on the innards

The priest should then carefully remove all the fat of the bull that he is offering as a purifying sacrifice. He should remove the caul fat that covers all the internal organs, all the visceral fat that is attached to the internal organs,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:9

and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them that is near the loins and the lobe on the liver (he shall remove it with the kidneys)

both kidneys, and the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts. He should also remove the lobes of the bull’s liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:10

just as it is lifted up from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offering. And the priest shall cause them to become smoke on the altar of the burnt offering.

in the same way that you might remove the fat portions and the internal organs from the bovines that you offer as fellowship sacrifices. Then, on the altar where the priests offer the wholly burned sacrifices, the high priest should burn all these pieces of fat and the internal organs in a way that causes smoke to go up.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:11

And the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs and its innards and its dung

But all the other parts of the animal, its skin and all its other meat, including the meat on the bull’s head and its legs below the knee, its other internal organs, and any excrement—

What parts of the bull should be carried outside the camp to the ceremonially clean place where priests dispose of the fatty ashes? (4:11-12)

The skin of the bull and any remaining meat, with its head, legs, inner parts, and its dung should be carried outside the camp and burned at the place where the priests dispose of fatty ashes.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:12

— and he shall bring out all of the bull to {a place} on the outside of the camp, to a clean place, to the pouring out place of the fatty ash. And he shall burn it on wood on the fire; on the pouring out place of the fatty ash, it shall be burned.

someone else should take all of these remaining parts of the bull outside of the camp. That person should dispose of them in a place that is ceremonially clean, in the place where the priests also dispose of ashes from the fat of other sacrifices {so that the impurities of these pieces do not cause the people to become impure accidentally}. The person who does this should also burn all these remaining parts of the bull in a wood fire that he builds on the place where the priests also dispose of ashes from the fat of other sacrifices.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:13

And if the whole congregation of Israel mistakenly errs, and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do one {thing} from all the commands of Yahweh which shall not be done, and they become guilty,

Or it may happen that the whole community of Israel does wrong against me unintentionally and does something that I, Yahweh, specifically commanded my people not to do. Even if the community is unaware of the fact that they did wrong, nevertheless, they will be guilty.

If the whole assembly of Israel unintentionally does wrong against Yahweh, who should lay their hands on the sin offering? (4:13-15)

The elders should lay their hands on the sin offering if the whole assembly of Israel errs by mistake.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:14

and the sin that they sinned concerning it becomes known, then the assembly shall present a bull, a son of the cattle, for a sin offering. And they shall bring it to the face of the tent of meeting.

When they become aware of the wrongdoing that they have done against my commandments, the whole community should offer a bull as a purifying sacrifice. They should bring the bull to the front of the sacred tent.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:15

And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull to the face of Yahweh. And he shall slaughter the bull to the face of Yahweh.

Then the oldest and most respected members of the community should lay their hands on the head of the bull in my presence. One of them should kill the bull in the sacred precincts of the sacred tent where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelite people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:16

And the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting.

{After catching the draining blood of the bull in a bowl,} the high priest should take some of that blood and bring it into the sacred tent.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:17

And the priest shall dip his finger from the blood, and he shall sprinkle {it} seven times to the face of Yahweh, toward the face of the curtain.

The priest should dip one of his fingers into the blood and, while standing in the precincts of the sacred tent where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelite people, he should flick some of the bull’s blood seven times in the direction of the front of the curtain that separates the rest of the sacred tent from the Most Holy Place.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:18

And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that {is} to the face of Yahweh, which {is} in the tent of meeting. And all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which {is at} the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Then the priest should drip some of that blood onto the four projected corners of the altar that is directly in front of the curtain behind which I, Yahweh, live in the Most Holy Place. That is the altar which is located inside the sacred tent. Next, the priest should pour the rest of the bull’s blood onto the base of the altar where the priests offer sacrifices that they burn completely. That altar is located at the entrance of the sacred tent.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:19

And all of its fat he shall lift up from it and he shall cause {it} to become smoke on the altar.

The priest should then carefully remove all the fat of the bull, and he should burn it on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:20

And he shall do with the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; thus he shall do with it. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and it will be forgiven to them.

The high priest should prepare this bull in the same way that he would prepare the bull that he would offer as a purifying sacrifice. When this happens, the priest will be able to offer a sacrifice that I, Yahweh, will accept for the sake of the people. I will remove the people’s sins from them and forgive them for their unintentional wrongdoing.

What would happen to the assembly of Israel if they followed the directions for the sin offering?

If the assembly of Israel follows the directions for offering the sin offering, their unintentional wrongdoing will be forgiven to them.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:21

And he shall bring out the bull to {a place} on the outside of the camp and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull. It {is} the sin offering of the assembly.

Then someone should take the remaining parts of the bull outside of the camp and burn them. He should burn them in the same way that a person would burn the remaining parts of the bull that the high priest offered as a purifying sacrifice. This is the way that the community should offer a purifying sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:22

When a leader sins and does by mistake one {thing} from all the commands of Yahweh his God that shall not be done, and he becomes guilty,

Or it may happen that a leading member of the community does wrong against me unintentionally and does something that I, Yahweh the God of the people of Israel, specifically commanded my people not to do. If this happens, he will become guilty.

What animal should be offered if a leader unintentionally does wrong against Yahweh? (4:22-23)

If a ruler sins by mistake, he must offer a perfect male goat as an offering.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:23

or his sin that he sinned with it is made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a buck of the goats, a perfect male.

When the leader becomes aware of the wrongdoing that he did against my commandments, he should bring a totally healthy male goat {to the sacred precincts where I, Yahweh, live among the Israelite people.}

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:24

And he shall lay his hand on the head of the buck and he shall slaughter it in the place where one slaughters the burnt offering to the face of Yahweh. It {is} a sin offering.

The leader should place his hand on the head of the goat that he wants to offer, and he should kill it in my presence. He should do this in the same place where people would kill the animals that they offer as wholly burned sacrifices. This is the way to offer a purifying sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:25

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and he shall put {it} on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. And its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering.

{After catching the draining blood of the bull in a bowl,} the priest should take some of the blood of the animal that the leader sacrificed as an offering to purify him from the impurities of his sin, {dip} one of his fingers into it, and drip some of the blood onto the four projected corners of the altar where the priests offer the wholly burned sacrifices. Next, the priest should pour the rest of the goat’s blood onto the base of the same altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:26

And all of its fat he shall cause to become smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him from his sin, and it will be forgiven to him.

{After the leader carefully removes the appropriate portions of fat and internal organs,} the priest should burn all the fat of the goat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. He should do this just as he would burn the fat of a fellowship sacrifice. When this happens, the priest will have offered a sacrifice that I, Yahweh, will accept for the sake of the leader. I will remove the leader’s sins from him and forgive him for his unintentional wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:27

And if one person from the people of the land sins by mistake by doing it, one {thing} from the commands of Yahweh that shall not be done, and he becomes guilty,

Or it may happen that an Israelite {who is not a priest} unintentionally does wrong against me. He may do something that I, Yahweh, specifically commanded my people not to do. That person then will become guilty.

What must the people who are not priests bring as a sacrifice if they unintentionally do wrong? (4:27-28)

Such people should bring a perfect female goat to be an offering for the sin that they sin.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:28

or his sin that he sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a doe of the goats, a perfect female, for his sin that he sinned.

When the Israelite becomes aware of the wrongdoing that he did, he should bring a totally healthy female goat as an offering to me to address the wrongdoing that he did.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:29

And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and he shall slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

The Israelite should place his hand on the head of the goat that he wants to offer as a purifying sacrifice and kill it in the same place where people would kill the animals that they offer as wholly burned sacrifices.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:30

And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and he shall put {it} on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. And all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

{After catching the draining blood of the bull in a bowl,} the priest should take some of the blood of the goat and dip one of his fingers into it. He should drip some of the blood onto the four projected corners of the altar where the priests offer the wholly burned sacrifices. Next, the priest should pour the rest of the goat’s blood onto the base of the same altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:31

And all its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from on the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall cause {it} to become smoke on the altar as a scent of pleasing to Yahweh. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and it will be forgiven to him.

Then the individual offering the sacrifice should remove all the goat’s fat just as he would remove the fat from a goat the he would offer as a fellowship sacrifice. Next, the priest should burn the goat’s fat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. I, Yahweh, will enjoy the smell of the smoke. When this happens, the priest will have offered a sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual. I will remove the individual’s sins from him and will forgive him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:32

And if he brings a lamb {as} his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a perfect female.

But if that person wants to bring a lamb as his purifying sacrifice, he should bring a totally healthy female lamb.

Could a man bring a female lamb without blemish as a sacrifice for a sin offering?

Yes, a man could bring a perfect female lamb for a purifying sacrifice.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:33

And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and he shall slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where he slaughters the burnt offering.

The person should place his hand on the head of the lamb that he wants to offer as a purifying sacrifice. Once he has done this, he should kill it in the same place where people would kill the animals that they offer as wholly burned sacrifices.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:34

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and he shall put {it} on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. And all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

{After catching the draining blood of the lamb in a bowl,} the priest should take some of the blood of the animal that the individual wants to offer as a purifying sacrifice. He should {dip} one of his fingers into it and drip some of the blood onto the four projected corners of the altar where the priests offer the wholly burned sacrifices. The priest should pour the rest of the lamb’s blood onto the base of the same altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 4:35

And all of its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall cause them to become smoke on the altar above the gifts of Yahweh. And the priest will make atonement for him for his sin that he sinned, and it will be forgiven to him.

Then the individual who offers the sacrifice should remove all the lamb’s fat just as he would remove the fat of a lamb that he would offer as a fellowship sacrifice. Next, the priest should burn the lamb’s fat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up on top of the other gifts that people have offered to me, Yahweh. When this happens, the priest will have offered a sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual. I remove from him the person’s sins that he has done and will forgive him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:1

And a person, when he sins {in that} he hears the sound of a {judge’s} curse and he is a witness (whether he saw or he knew), if he does not declare {it}, then he shall bear his iniquity.

It may happen that the community leaders are investigating a crime and have cursed anyone who has information but does not provide it. Perhaps a person saw the crime. Or perhaps the person only learned about it afterward. Either way, if he hears the curse but does not testify about what he knows, then he has become guilty of sinning

What is one sin of omission for which one would be held responsible?

If anyone sinned by not testifying about something he saw or heard, when he was required to testify, he becomes guilty of sinning.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:2

Or a person, when he touches any unclean thing, whether the unclean carcass of an animal or the unclean carcass of livestock or the carcass of an unclean creeping animal, and it is hidden from him, then he {is} unclean and he will be guilty.

Or it may happen that someone touches something impure, whether the impure dead body of a wild animal, the impure dead body of a domesticated animal, or the impure dead body of a swarming, winged insect. Even if the individual was unaware of touching the impure thing, when the person realizes that he has done so, he becomes impure and legally guilty.

What would one become who touched anything unclean?

If anyone touched any unclean thing, that person is unclean, and he will be guilty.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:3

Or when he touches the uncleanness of a man with regard to all of his uncleanness that he becomes unclean with it, and it is hidden from him, when he knows, then he will be guilty.

Or that person might touch something unclean that comes from a human source or any other unclean thing that might cause a person to become unclean. Even if the individual was unaware of touching the unclean thing, when the person realizes that he has done so, he becomes legally guilty.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:4

Or a person, when he swears {an oath} by speaking thoughtlessly with two lips to do evil or to do good, with regard to everything that the man thoughtlessly speaks in an oath, and it is hidden from him, but when he knows, then he will be guilty with regard to one from these {things}.

Or it may happen that a person makes a solemn promise carelessly and rashly. It does not matter whether the person made the promise with ill intention or with good intention. This instruction concerns any way in which a person might make a solemn promise carelessly or rashly. Even if the individual was unaware of speaking carelessly or rashly when he made the solemn promise, when he realizes that he has done so, he becomes legally guilty.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:5

And it shall be, when he becomes guilty with regard to one from these {things}, then he shall confess that he sinned regarding it.

Whenever anyone becomes guilty in any of these situations, the individual should confess that he has done wrong.

What must the one do who is guilty of sin? (5:5-6)

The one who is guilty of sin must bring the required penalty for his guilt to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:6

And he shall bring his guilt to Yahweh for his sin that he sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him from his sin.

Then the individual should bring the required penalty for his guilt to me, Yahweh, to address the wrongdoing that he has committed. {He should bring} a female flock animal, whether a lamb or a kid, as a purifying sacrifice. When this happens, the priest will be able to offer a sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual. I will remove the guilt of the person’s wrongdoing from him and will forgive him.

What animal should he bring to Yahweh for a sin offering?

He should bring to Yahweh a female goat or lamb.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:7

But if his hand does not reach the sufficiency of a sheep, then he shall bring his guilt offering because he sinned— two doves or two sons of a pigeon to Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

But if the individual cannot afford a sheep or a goat, then he should bring two doves or two pigeons to me, Yahweh, as the required penalty for the guilt that he acquired through the wrongdoing that he committed. The priest will offer one of the birds as a purifying sacrifice and the other bird as a wholly burned sacrifice.

If the individual cannot afford to buy a lamb or goat, what should he bring to Yahweh for the guilt offering?

If he cannot afford a lamb or goat, for the guilt offering he should bring two doves or two pigeons.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:8

And he shall bring them to the priest and he shall present that which {is} for the sin offering first. And he shall twist off its head from the back of its neck, but he shall not divide {it}.

The individual should bring these two birds to the priest. The priest should first present the bird that will offer as a purifying sacrifice. He should break its neck and twist its head by pinching the bird behind its neck. However, the priest should not remove the head completely.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:9

And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar. And the remainder in the blood he shall squeeze out toward the base of the altar. It {is} a sin offering.

Then the priest should splatter some of the blood of this first bird on the side of the altar. Next, the priest should wring out any remaining blood of the bird on the base of the altar. This is the way to offer a bird as a purifying sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:10

And the second one he shall make a burnt offering, according to the regulation. And the priest shall make atonement for him from his sin that he sinned, and it will be forgiven to him.

Then the priest should prepare the second bird as a wholly burned sacrifice, according to the instructions that I have commanded. When this happens, the priest will have offered a sacrifice that I, Yahweh, will accept for the sake of the individual. I will remove from him the guilt that the individual acquired through the wrongdoing that he has done, and I will forgive that individual for his wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:11

But if his hand does not reach two doves or two sons of a pigeon, then he shall bring his offering that he sinned, a tenth of an ephah of flour for a sin offering. He shall not place oil on it, and he shall not place incense on it, for it {is} a sin offering.

But if the individual cannot afford the two doves or the two pigeons, then he should bring about two liters of wheat flour as his offering for the wrongdoing that he committed. This offering of wheat flour will serve as a restoring sacrifice. The individual should not pour any oil onto it, nor should he put a lump of incense on it, because it is intended to be a purifying sacrifice.

If he could not afford two doves or two pigeons, what could he bring for his sin offering?

If he could not afford two doves or two young pigeons for his restoring sacrifice, he could bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour without any oil or incense on it.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:12

And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall grab from it, {with} the fullness of his handful, its memorial portion. And he shall cause {it} to become smoke on the altar, above the gifts of Yahweh. It {is} a sin offering.

The individual should bring the wheat flour to the priest. Then, taking as large a handful as he is able, the priest should scoop out of the offering the portion that he will burn. The priest should then burn that portion on the altar, on top of the other gifts that individuals have offered to me, Yahweh, doing it in a way that causes smoke to go up. This is the way to offer wheat flour as a purifying sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:13

And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he sinned from one of these, and it will be forgiven to him. And it shall be for the priest, like the grain offering.’”

When this happens, the priest will have offered a sacrifice that I, Yahweh, will accept for the sake of the individual. I will remove the guilt of the individual’s wrongdoing from him that he acquired through the wrongdoing that he committed regarding these specific situations. Then, I will forgive the individual for his wrongdoing. The portion of the wheat flour that is not burned completely on the altar belongs to the priest {for food} just like the remaining portions of grain offerings.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:14

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh told Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:15

“A person, when he trespasses a trespass and he sins by mistake from the holy {things} of Yahweh, then he shall bring his guilt to Yahweh, a perfect ram from the flock, in your valuation, silver shekels, in the shekel of the Holy {Place}, for a guilt offering.

“It may happen that someone breaks one of the commandments that I have given to the people of Israel and unintentionally desecrates the sacred space where I live or the sacred items that are devoted to me, Yahweh. If that happens, that individual should bring the required penalty for his guilt to me, Yahweh. {He should bring} a totally healthy goat as a restoring sacrifice. The individual should determine the worth of the goat in silver according to the official standard for the weight of silver that priests dedicate to me in the sacred tent.

What offering must be brought if anyone breaks a commandment and unintentionally desecrates the sacred space where Yahweh lives or the sacred items that are devoted to Yahweh?

This guilt offering must be a perfect ram from the flock.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:16

And that which he sinned from the holy {thing} he shall restore, and a fifth of it he shall add to it, and he shall give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven to him.

The individual should also repay the value of the sacred item that he desecrated. He should add one-fifth of the value of that sacred object to his sacrifice and give the full amount of silver to the priest. When this happens, the priest will be able to offer the ram that the individual is offering as a restoring sacrifice. The priest will offer this sacrifice in a way that I will accept for the sake of the individual. And I will remove the guilt of the individual’s wrongdoing from him. I will also forgive the individual for his unintentional wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:17

And if a person, when he sins and he does one {thing} from all the commands of Yahweh which shall not be done, but he does not know, then he becomes guilty, and he shall bear his iniquity.

Or it may happen that someone does wrong against me and does something that I, Yahweh, specifically commanded that my people not to do. Even if the individual did not know that he had done wrong, nonetheless, he has become legally guilty. He is responsible for his guilt.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:18

And he shall bring a perfect ram from the flock, in your valuation, to the priest for a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his mistake that he mistook (but he himself did not know), and it will be forgiven to him.

The individual should bring a totally healthy male goat to the priest in order to offer a restoring sacrifice. He should also determine its value in silver. When this happens, the priest will be able to offer a sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual. I will remove the guilt of the individual’s unintentional wrongdoing that he committed (even though he himself did not know that he had done wrong). Then, I will forgive the individual for his wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 5:19

It {is} a guilt offering; being guilty, he is guilty to Yahweh.”

This is how an individual should offer a restoring sacrifice. That person is certainly legally guilty in my eyes.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:1

And this {is} the law of the guilt offering. It {is} a holy thing of holy things.

This is the way a person should offer the restoring sacrifice. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart among all the sacred offerings that people offer to me that are set apart for me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:2

In the place where they will slaughter the burnt offering, they shall slaughter the guilt offering. And its blood he shall splash on the altar all around.

The people who offer this kind of sacrifice should kill the animal they are presenting in the same place where people might kill the animals people offer as wholly burned sacrifices. Then {after catching the animal’s blood in a bowl, the priest} should splatter the blood onto every side of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:3

And all its fat he shall present from it: the fatty tail and the fat covering the innards

The individual should present all of the fat that he removed from the animal: the entire portion of the tail fat, the caul fat that covers all the internal organs,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:4

and the two kidneys and the fat that {is} on them that {is} by the loins and the lobe on the liver (he shall remove it with the kidneys).

both kidneys, and the suet fat that is attached to them near the loin cuts. He should also present the lobes of the lamb’s liver, and the kidneys (which the individual should also remove).

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:5

And the priest shall cause them to become smoke on the altar, a gift to Yahweh. It {is} a guilt offering.

Then the priest should burn all these portions of fat and internal organs on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. Once burned, the fat and the internal organs will become gifts to me, to Yahweh. This is how an individual should offer a restoring sacrifice

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:6

Every male among the priests shall eat it. In a holy place, it shall be eaten. It {is} a holy thing of holy things.

Any male descendant of Aaron may eat the meat that comes from this sacrifice. However, he should eat it in a place set apart for such purposes. The people of Israel should consider this kind of sacrifice as especially set apart for the priests among all the sacred offerings that people offer to me that are set apart for me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:7

As the sin offering, so the guilt offering. The law is one for them. The priest who makes atonement with it, it shall be for him.

The instructions for the restoring sacrifice are just the same as the instructions for the purifying sacrifice. There is one set of instructions for both of them. The meat of the sacrifice belongs to the priest who offers the sacrifice that I will accept for the sake of the individual so that I will remove the individual’s sins from him and forgive him for his wrongdoing.

What offering was like the sin offering?

The guilt offering was like the sin offering.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:8

And the priest, the one who presents a burnt offering of a man, the skin of the burnt offering that he presents {is} for the priest. It shall be for him.

As for the priest who offers a wholly burned sacrifice for someone, the skin of the animal that the individual offered belongs to the priest.

What belongs to the priest from anyone’s burnt offering?

The skin of the burnt offering that anyone presents belongs to the priest who offers the offering.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:9

And every grain offering that is baked in an oven and everything made in a pan or on a griddle {is} for the priest who presents it. It shall be for him.

Every grain offering that someone bakes in an oven, and every sacrifice that someone prepares by deep-frying in a pan or by pan-frying on a griddle also belongs to the priest who offered it for food. It will be his food.

Which offering belonged to the priests? (7:9-10)

Every grain offering belonged to all the sons of Aaron.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:10

And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, each one as his brother.

Likewise, both the grain offering with olive oil and those without any olive oil belong to every male descendant of Aaron. Every priest is alike in this regard.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:11

And this {is} the law of the sacrifice of the peace offerings that he will present to Yahweh.

This is how someone should offer any fellowship sacrifice that he wants to offer to me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:12

If he will present it for thanksgiving, then he shall present with the sacrifice of thanksgiving loaves of unleavened bread mixed with oil, and biscuits of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and mixed flour loaves mixed with oil.

Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice to express gratitude to me. If so, he should present unleavened loaves of bread that someone made from flour that he mixed with olive oil or unleavened loaves of bread that someone made from fine wheat flour that he mixed with olive oil and coated with oil, a cake soaked with oil. He should present those loaves in addition to the animal sacrifices that accompany the fellowship sacrifices that express gratitude to me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:13

With loaves of bread {with} leaven, he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

Along with those leavened loaves of bread and the animal sacrifices that regularly accompany any fellowship sacrifice for the purpose of expressing gratitude to me, the individual should offer this grain offering.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:14

And he shall present from it one from each offering as a contribution to Yahweh. For the priest, the one splashing the blood of the peace offerings, it shall be for him.

And from those portions of the sacrifice, the individual should offer a portion of the whole sacrifice as a special contribution to me, to Yahweh. These portions will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship sacrifice. It will be his food.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:15

And the meat of the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave some of it until morning.

As for the meat of the fellowship sacrifice that someone offers for the purpose of expressing gratitude to me, the priests should eat the meat on the same day that the individual offers it. The priests must not allow any of the meat to remain until the next morning.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:16

And if the sacrifice of his offering {is} a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day of his presenting his sacrifice. Also from tomorrow, the remainder of it may be eaten.

Someone might want to offer a fellowship sacrifice because of a vow that he made to me. Or someone might also want to bring a fellowship sacrifice freely and unprompted. In either case, the priests should eat the meat of the sacrifice on the day that the individual offers the sacrifice. The priests may also eat the remaining meat of the sacrifice throughout the next day.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:17

But the remainder from the flesh of the sacrifice shall be burned with fire on the third day.

However, the priests must completely burn any remaining meat from the sacrifice on the third day.

By the third day, what must be done with the remaining meat of the sacrifice?

The meat of the sacrifice that remains uneaten must be burned on the third day.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:18

And if some of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten, being eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to him. It will be defiled. And the person, the one eating from it, he will bear his iniquity.

If, for whatever reason, anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, I will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. As for the person who offered the sacrifice, I will not forgive him, because the meat is now considered desecrated. Whoever eats that meat must now be held responsible for addressing his wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:19

And the meat that touches any unclean {thing} shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. But the meat—any clean {person} will eat meat.

No one should ever eat any meat that comes into contact with anything unclean. The people of Israel should always completely burn contaminated meat. However, anyone who is able to remain clean can eat clean meat.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:20

And the person who eats meat from the sacrifice of the peace offerings that {are} for Yahweh, and his uncleanness {is} on him, then that person shall be cut off from his people.

Anyone who has not been able to remain ceremonially clean and still, nonetheless, eats the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, that meat that belongs to me, to Yahweh, alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:21

And a person, when he touches any unclean {thing}, the uncleanness of a man or an unclean livestock or any unclean detestable thing, and he eats some of the meat of a sacrifice of the peace offerings that {are} for Yahweh, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

Likewise, anyone who comes into contact with anything impure, whether an impure person or an impure domesticated animal or anything impure that I consider to be disgusting and, nonetheless, eats some of the meat of a fellowship sacrifice, the meat that belongs to me, to Yahweh, alone, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:22

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh told Moses

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:23

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any of the fat of an ox or a sheep or a goat.

to say to the Israelite people, “The people of Israel should never eat any of the fat of bovines or sheep or goats.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:24

And the fat of a carcass or the fat of a torn animal shall be made for any work, but you shall certainly not eat it.

As for the fat from an animal’s corpse or the fat from an animal that wild animals killed and someone later found it dead, anyone may use these portions of fat for various purposes. However, no one should ever eat this fat.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:25

When anyone is eating fat from the livestock that he presents from it {as} a gift to Yahweh, then the person, the one eating it, shall be cut off from his people.

If ever anyone eats the fat from these domesticated animals that people use to offer gifts to me, to Yahweh, that person who ate the fat is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.

What had to be done to anyone who is eating fat from an animal or blood from a bird or an animal? (7:25-26)

Anyone who is eating fat from the livestock or blood from a bird or livestock must be cut off from his people.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:26

And you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwelling places, of the bird or of the livestock.

And wherever you happen to live, no one should ever eat any blood, whether from a bird or from a domesticated animal.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:27

Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

If ever any individual eats any blood, that person is now an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:28

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh told Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:29

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘The person presenting the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

to say to the Israelite people, “Anyone who offers a fellowship sacrifice to me, to Yahweh, should bring part of that sacrifice directly to my presence.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:30

His hands shall bring Yahweh’s gift: the fat on the breast. He shall bring the breast to raise it {as} a raised offering to the face of Yahweh.

He himself should bring the gift that he is offering to me. He should bring the fat along with the meat of the animal’s breast in order to fan it in my presence as a special contribution to me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:31

And the priest shall cause the fat to become smoke on the altar, and the breast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.

Then the priest should burn the fat of the animal’s breast meat on the altar in a way that causes smoke to go up. However, the breast meat itself belongs to Aaron and to his male descendants for food.

What has to be given to the priest after the fat is burned on the altar and the breast is given to Aaron and for his sons? (7:31-32)

After the fat is burned on the altar and the breast is given to Aaron and for his sons, the right thigh must be given to the priest who performs the sacrifice of your peace offerings.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:32

And the right thigh you shall give {as} a contribution to the priest from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

And, as a special contribution, the person offering the fellowship sacrifice should give the animal’s right thigh to the priest who performed the sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:33

The person from the sons of Aaron presenting the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be for him for a portion.

The right thigh belongs to whichever priest, being a male descendant of Aaron, presented the blood and the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. It is his share of food.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:34

For I took the breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I gave them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as an enduring portion from the sons of Israel.’”

For, by instructing the people of God to offer sacrifices in this manner, I have taken the breast meat of the sacrifice that the priest fans in my presence and the special contribution of the right thigh from the people of Israel, from their fellowship sacrifices, and I have given these special portions to Aaron the priest and to his male descendants. These instructions teach that the people of Israel should always provide portion of food for the priests.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:35

This {is} the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the gifts of Yahweh, on the day he presented them as priests to Yahweh,

Those are the allotments that belong to Aaron and the allotments that belong to his male descendants from the gifts that people offer to Yahweh. Yahweh commanded these instructions on the day that Moses presented Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:36

which Yahweh commanded to give to them on the day of his anointing them from the people of Israel, an enduring statute for their generations.

Yahweh made sure to give these instructions and regulations to the priests on the day that Moses anointed them and set them apart from the people of Israel. These portions of the sacrifices are a permanent and enduring regulation that the people of Israel and all their descendants should always observe.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:37

This {is} the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering and of the sin offering and of the guilt offering and of the ordination offering and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings,

So, those are the ways in which people should offer the wholly burned sacrifices, the grain offerings, the purifying sacrifices, the restoring sacrifices, the appointing sacrifices, and the fellowship sacrifices.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 7:38

which Yahweh commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day of his commanding the sons of Israel to present their offerings to Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai.

Yahweh made sure that Moses received all these instructions and regulations on Mount Sinai on the day that Yahweh commanded the people of Israel to begin offering their sacrifices to Yahweh in the desert wilderness around Sinai.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:1

And it happened on the eighth day, Moses called to Aaron and to his sons and to the elders of Israel.

Eight days later, Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the oldest and most respected people of Israel.

On what day did Moses call to Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel?

Moses called to Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel on the eighth day.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:2

And he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a calf, a son of the cattle, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, perfect, and present {them} to the face of Yahweh.

He said to Aaron, “Take a totally healthy calf from the domesticated bulls that you own and offer it as a purifying sacrifice along with a totally healthy ram that you will offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. Present these animals to Yahweh.

What two animals did Moses ask Aaron and his sons to bring to offer to Yahweh?

Moses ask Aaron to take a calf from the bulls for a sin offering and a perfect ram for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:3

And to the sons of Israel, you will speak, saying, ‘Take a buck of the goats for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, perfect sons of a year, for a burnt offering,

Then tell the Israelite people to take a male goat and offer it as a purifying sacrifice, along with a calf and a lamb that they will offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. Tell them to make sure that both animals are a year old and totally healthy.

What animals did Moses ask Aaron to tell the people of Israel to bring to offer to Yahweh? (9:3-4)

Moses asked Aaron to tell the people to bring a male goat, a calf, a lamb, an ox, and a ram to offer to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:4

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice to the face of Yahweh, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today Yahweh will appear to you.’”

Also tell the Israelite people to take an ox and a ram and offer them as fellowship sacrifices when they sacrifice in Yahweh’s presence. They should offer these animals along with a grain offering that consists of wheat flour that they have combined with olive oil. Tell them that they should bring these offerings because Yahweh himself is going to appear to them today.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:5

And they brought that which Moses commanded to the face of the tent of meeting. And the whole congregation presented {them}, and they stood to the face of Yahweh.

{After Aaron relayed these instructions to the Israelite people,} the people brought before the sacred tent everything that Moses told them to bring. Then all the people presented the animals and the offerings, and they stood together in Yahweh’s presence.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:6

And Moses said, “This {is} the thing that Yahweh commanded you will do, and the glory of Yahweh will appear to you.”

Then Moses said, “This is exactly what Yahweh told you to do. Now you will see how glorious he is.”

Why had Yahweh commanded them to do this?

Yahweh commanded them to do this and they would see how glorious Yahweh is.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:7

And Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for the benefit of yourself and for the benefit of the people. And make the offering of the people and make atonement for their benefit, just as Yahweh commanded.”

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and perform the purifying sacrifice and the wholly burned sacrifice that Yahweh told you to offer. Do this so that Yahweh will remove your sins from you and restore you and the people to relationship with him. Then perform the sacrifices that Yahweh told the people to offer. Do this so that Yahweh will remove the peoples’ sins from them and restore them to relationship with him. Perform these sacrifices exactly as Yahweh instructed.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:8

And Aaron drew near to the altar, and he slaughtered the calf of the sin offering, which {was} for himself.

So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf that he would offer as a purifying sacrifice {to cleanse the holy space dedicated to Yahweh from the impurity of his own sin}.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:9

And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and he put {it} on the horns of the altar. And the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

Then, {after they collected some of the calf’s blood in a bowl,} Aaron’s sons presented the blood to their father. Aaron dipped one of his fingers into the blood and applied some of it to the four projections on the corners of the altar. He poured the rest of the blood onto the base of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:10

And the fat and the kidneys and the lobe from the liver from the sin offering he caused to become smoke on the altar, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

He then burned the calf’s fat, including the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the calf that Aaron sacrificed as a purifying sacrifice, on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up Aaron did this exactly as Yahweh told Moses.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:11

But the meat and the skin he burned with fire on the outside of the camp.

But someone else completely burned the rest of the calf’s meat and its skin {at a clean place} outside of the camp.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:12

And he slaughtered the burnt offering. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he splashed it on the altar all around.

Then Aaron killed the ram that he was going to offer as a wholly burned sacrifice. {After collecting some of the blood of the ram,} his sons brought him some of the blood, and he splattered it on every side of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:13

And the burnt offering they brought to him in its pieces and the head, and he caused {them} to become smoke on the altar.

Then, {after cutting the ram into its appropriate portions,} Aaron’s sons brought him the appropriate portions of the ram’s meat, fat, and internal organs, including the animal’s head. Aaron burned them on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:14

And he washed the innards and the legs and he caused {them} to become smoke on the burnt offering, on the altar.

Then Aaron washed the ram’s intestines and legs, and he burned them on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up. He placed them on top of the other portions of the sacrifices that he was already burning on the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:15

And he presented the offering of the people. And he took the goat of the sin offering that {was} for the people and he slaughtered it and he offered it as a sin offering, like the first.

Then Aaron brought the animals that the Israelite people offered to Yahweh. He took the goat that the people required for their purifying sacrifice, and he killed it. By offering it, Aaron cleansed the people from the impurity of their sin, just as he had done with the goat that he offered for himself.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:16

And he presented the burnt offering and he did it according to the regulation.

In this way, he presented the animal that the people required for their sacrifice. Aaron offered this sacrifice in the way that Yahweh had instructed Moses.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:17

And he presented the grain offering, and he filled his palm from it, and he caused {it} to become smoke on the altar in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

Then Aaron presented the offering that consisted of a sacrifice of harvested grain. He took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up, in addition to the animal sacrifices that he had prepared and completely burned on the altar in the morning.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:18

And he slaughtered the ox and the ram of the sacrifice of the peace offerings that {were} for the people. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he splashed it on the altar all around.

Then Aaron killed the ox and the ram that the Israelite people required for their sacrifice that promised friendship with Yahweh. {After catching some of the blood of the animals,} his sons brought him the blood, and he flicked the blood against every side of the altar.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:19

And the fat from the bull and from the ram, the fatty tail and that which covers {the innards} and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver—

He took the fat portions from the ox and the ram, including their fatty tails, their visceral fat that was attached to the animals’ internal organs, their kidneys, and the lobes of their livers.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:20

they put the fat on the breasts, and he caused the fat portions to become smoke on the altar.

Then his sons placed all these portions of fat and internal organs on top of the breast meat of those animals, and Aaron burned these portions on the altar in a way that caused smoke to go up.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:21

And the breasts and the right thigh, Aaron raised {as} a raised offering to the face of Yahweh, just as Moses had commanded.

Next, Aaron fanned the breast meat and the right thigh of those animals in Yahweh’s presence, exactly as Yahweh told Moses.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:22

And Aaron lifted his hands toward the people, and he blessed them. And he came down from making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

When he had finished offering all the sacrifices, Aaron lifted his hands over the people, and he asked Yahweh to bless them. Then, he came down from the altar where he had offered the purifying sacrifices, the wholly burned sacrifices, and the fellowship sacrifices that he and the people had required.

After Aaron made the offerings as Moses had said, what did Aaron do for the people?

After Aaron made the offerings, he lifted up his hands toward the people and he blessed them.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:23

And Moses and Aaron came into the tent of meeting, and they went out, and they blessed the people. And the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.

Then Moses and Aaron entered into the Holy Place in the sacred tent. When they came out later, they asked Yahweh to bless the people again. When they did this, all the people saw how glorious Yahweh was.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 9:24

And fire went forth before the face of Yahweh, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw, and they shouted, and they fell on their faces.

Fire came out from the sacred precincts, where Yahweh lived among the Israelites, and completely burned everything that was on the altar, including the wholly burned offerings and all the portions of fat. When all the people saw this happen, they shouted joyfully and bowed themselves down on the ground to worship Yahweh.

What happened when the glory of Yahweh appeared to the people?

When the glory of Yahweh appeared to the people, fire went forth before the face of Yahweh and consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar.

What did the people do when the fire came from Yahweh?

When the fire came out from Yahweh, the people shouted and fell on their faces.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:1

And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer, and they gave fire in them, and they put incense on it. And they offered to the face of Yahweh strange fire that he did not command them.

Two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, took the pans in which they burned incense. They put some burning coals in them and put incense on top of the coals. They offered this fire {and incense} to Yahweh, {but the fire was not acceptable to Yahweh because} it was not the kind that he had commanded them to burn.

Who offered unacceptable fire to Yahweh?

Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, offered strange fire to Yahweh that he did not command them.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:2

And fire went forth from before the face of Yahweh, and it consumed them. And they died to the face of Yahweh.

Flames shot out from the precincts of the sacred tent where Yahweh lived among the Israelites, and the fire burned up Aaron’s two sons, Nadab and Abihu. The fire killed them right in Yahweh’s presence.

What happened to these two men as a result of this act?

Fire shot out from Yahweh and consumed them. They died in Yahweh’s presence.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:3

And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke, saying, ‘Among those who draw near to me, I will show myself to be holy. And on the faces of all the people, I will be honored.’” And Aaron was silent.

Moses turned and said to Aaron, “These events are exactly what Yahweh spoke of when he said, ‘In the presence of the holy priests who draw near to me, I will demonstrate that I am set apart from everything else; in the sight of everyone, I will demonstrate that I should always be honored and worshiped.’” But Aaron was silent and said nothing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:4

And Moses called to Mishael and to Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron. And he said to them, “Present {yourselves and} lift your brothers from the face of the Holy Place to {a place} on the outside of the camp.”

So Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, Aaron’s cousins, the sons of Aaron’s uncle, Uzziel. Moses said to them, “Offer yourselves for service and carry the corpses of your relatives from the front of the Holy Place in the sacred tent. Bring them to a place outside the camp.”

Who was called upon by Moses to carry the bodies out of the tabernacle?

Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, were called by Moses to carry the corpses outside the camp.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:5

And they presented {themselves}, and they lifted them by their tunics to {a place} on the outside of the camp, just as Moses had spoken.

So Aaron’s cousins stepped forward and carried the two corpses of Aaron’s sons in the folds of their embroidered tunics. They carried them to a place outside the camp, exactly as Moses told them to do.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let your heads be loose and do not tear your clothes, so that you will not die and against all the congregation he will {not} be angry. But your brothers, all of the house of Israel, shall weep {for} the burning that Yahweh has burned.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not mourn for your brothers as is customary. You should not allow your hair to hang down, nor should you tear your clothing. If you do, Yahweh may also kill you, and his anger may extend to the whole congregation as well. However, your fellow Israelites, every single person, should mourn because Yahweh is angry with his priests, as his burning fire has demonstrated.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:7

And from the entrance of the tent of meeting, you shall not go out, lest you die, for the oil of the anointing of Yahweh {is} on you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.

However, make sure that you do not leave the entrance of the sacred tent. If you do so, Yahweh will kill you too. You should not forget that when I poured Yahweh’s holy oil on your heads, Yahweh set you apart to serve him here.” So, Aaron and his remaining sons did everything that Moses told them to do.

What did Moses say to Aaron and his sons?

Moses said to them that they should not go out of the tent of meeting or they would die.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:8

And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Aaron,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:9

“Wine or beer do not drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, so you will not die—a statute of eternity throughout your generations—

“You and your two sons who are still alive should not drink wine or beer before you enter the sacred tent. If you drink alcohol before you enter the sacred precincts where Yahweh lives among the Israelites, Yahweh will kill you. This practice is a permanent and enduring instruction for how the priests should behave, which applies to every generation of the people of Israel.

What did Yahweh say to Aaron and his sons about what they should not drink?

Yahweh told Aaron and his sons that they should not drink wine or beer before entering the tent of meeting.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:10

and to separate between the holy and between the common and between the unclean and between the clean,

As priests, you should learn how to distinguish what is set apart for Yahweh and his purposes from that which you may use for everyday, common purposes. You will also be able to distinguish what is unacceptable to Yahweh and unclean from that which is acceptable to Yahweh and clean.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:11

and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes that Yahweh has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”

By learning how to distinguish these things from one another, the whole people of Israel will learn how to follow all the instructions that I told Moses, who then told them to you.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:12

And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his remaining sons, “Take the grain offering, the remainder from the gifts of Yahweh, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is a holy thing of the holy things.

Moses then said to Aaron and his remaining two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take whatever grain offering now remains after Aaron has burned the gifts that he offered to Yahweh on the altar and eat the unleavened loaves of bread next to the altar. You should eat it here because these leftovers are set apart for the priests among all the gifts that people offer to Yahweh and that are set apart for him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:13

And you shall eat it in a holy place because it {is} your portion and the portion of your sons from the gifts of Yahweh, because thus I have been commanded.

Make sure that you eat these leftovers in the place that priests have dedicated for such purposes. You should do this because these leftovers are the food that Yahweh has provided for you and for your children from all the gifts that people offer to Yahweh that are also set apart for himself. It is so because Yahweh has told me that this is what you should do.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:14

And the breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given {as} your portion and the portion of your sons from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

You and your children may eat the breast meat that was held up and moved about in Yahweh’s presence and the meat of the right thigh that people have offered as a special contribution to Yahweh. You and your children should eat these portions of meat in any place that the priests have set apart for such holy purposes. Yahweh has given them to you and to your children as your portion of food that comes from the fellowship sacrifices that people offer to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:15

The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the raised offering, in addition to the gifts of the fat portions, they shall bring to raise {as} a raised offering to the face of Yahweh. And it shall be for you and for your sons with you as an enduring portion, just as Yahweh commanded.”

In addition to the other fat portions that people offer to Yahweh, the priests should bring the meat of the right thigh that people have offered as a special contribution to Yahweh and the breast meat to hold them up and move them about in Yahweh’s presence. Remember that these portions of meat are food for you and for your children. These instructions should be perpetual and enduring, exactly as Yahweh has told you to do.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:16

And the goat of the sin offering Moses, searching, searched for. But look! It had been burned up! And he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, saying,

After asking about the location of the goat that the priests had offered as a purifying sacrifice, Moses diligently looked for it. He discovered that the priests had mistakenly burned it completely on the altar when they ought to have eaten it. So Moses was very angry with Aaron’s two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, and asked them,

Why was Moses angry with Eleazer and Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron?

Moses was angry with Eleazer and Ithamar because they had let the goat for the sin offering burn up instead of eating it.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:17

“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the Holy Place, for it is a holy thing of holy things? And he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them to the face of Yahweh.

“Why did you not eat the meat of the purifying sacrifice in a location that the priests have set apart for such holy purposes? You should have considered that meat to be specifically dedicated for you among all the gifts that people offer to Yahweh that are also set apart for him! Yahweh gave that meat to you not only so that you could eat it, but also so that it would address the wrongdoing of the whole congregation. When you ate that meat in Yahweh’s presence, he was going to forgive the whole congregation for their sins and restore their relationship with him!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:18

Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner Holy Place. Eating, you shall eat it in the Holy Place, just as I commanded!”

Consider this: the sacrifice was not the type of purifying sacrifice that required the priest to bring any blood into the inner portion of the Holy Place in the sacred tent! You should certainly have eaten it in the place that the priests have set apart for such holy purposes, exactly as I told you to do!”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:19

And Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering to the face of Yahweh, and it has happened to me according to these things. But {if} I ate the sin offering today, would it have been good in the eyes of Yahweh?”

But Aaron replied, “Consider this: today, my sons brought their purifying sacrifices and their wholly burned sacrifices to Yahweh in the precincts where he lives among the Israelite people. Yet, nonetheless, these horrible things have happened to me! Even if I myself had eaten the meat of the purifying sacrifice today, would Yahweh have approved of everything that has happened here today, even the death of my sons?”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 10:20

And Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes.

When Moses heard Aaron’s response, he was satisfied and said nothing further.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh told Moses

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘A woman, if she produces seed and bears a male, then she shall be unclean for seven days. Like the days of the menstruation of her menstruating, she shall be unclean.

“Tell the people of Israel that when a woman is pregnant and gives birth to a boy, she has become impure for seven days. This is just like when she becomes impure from her regular menstruation; she has become impure.

What did Yahweh say to Moses about women who give birth to a male child?

Yahweh said to Moses that a woman who gives birth to a male child would be unclean for seven days.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:3

And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

She should make sure that the priests circumcise her baby boy eight days after he is born.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:4

And thirty days and three days she shall stay in the blood of her purification. Any holy thing she shall not touch, and into the holy place she shall not go until the days of her purification are full.

Then the woman should wait about a month in the impurity of the blood she bled from giving birth. During this time, she should not touch sacred objects or enter into holy space, like the sacred tent, until that time is over.

What was a woman required to do following her being unclean?

She must wait about a month in the impurity of the blood she bled from giving birth. She must not enter the tabernacle or touch anything holy until that time is over.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:5

But if she bears a female, then she will be unclean {for} two sets of seven {days}, like her menstruation. And sixty days and six days she shall stay in the blood of her purification.

But if a woman gives birth to a baby girl, she has become impure for two weeks. This is just like when she is menstruating each month. The woman should wait about two months in the impurity of the blood she bled when she gave birth to the baby.

What was a woman required to do differently if she gave birth to a female child?

If a woman gives birth to female child, she will be unclean for two weeks. The woman should wait about two months in the impurity of the blood she bled when she gave birth to the baby.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:6

And when the days of her purification are full, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb, a son of its year, as a burnt offering, and a son of a pigeon or dove as a sin offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.

After the time in which she is waiting to purify herself is over, that woman should bring a one-year-old lamb to the priest at the entrance of the sacred tent. She should do this whether she gives birth to a baby boy or a baby girl. The priest should offer the lamb as a wholly burned sacrifice. The woman should also bring a dove or a pigeon to the priest. He should offer it as a purifying sacrifice. {This will purify her and allow her to be pure again before me.}

What was a woman required to do at the end of her purification?

At the end of her purification, a woman should bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or dove for a sin offering to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:7

And he shall present it to the face of Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her. And she will be purified from the flow of her blood. This {is} the law of the {woman} who bears a male or a female.

The priest should offer these animals in my presence in the sacred tent. When this happens, I will accept her again and purify her from the impurity of the blood that she bled when she gave birth to the baby. This is the way that women who give birth, whether to a baby boy or girl, should offer sacrifices to purify themselves from the impurity of the blood that they bleed when they give birth to their children.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 12:8

And if her hand does not find enough {for} a sheep, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young doves, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be pure.’”

However, if any woman cannot afford a lamb, then she may bring two pigeons or two doves. The priest should offer one of the birds as a wholly burned sacrifice and the other as a purifying sacrifice. When the priest offers these birds, I will accept the woman again, and I will purify her from the impurity of the blood that she bled when she gave birth to her children.”

What if the woman who gives birth to a child cannot afford a lamb?

If the woman cannot afford a lamb, she must bring two pigeons or two doves for the burnt and sin offerings.

What would happen to the woman after she did these things?

The woman will be clean after the priest makes atonement for her.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘A man, a man, when he is flowing from his flesh, his flow—it {is} unclean.

“Tell the people of Israel that any man might have a discharge coming from his genitals. Whenever this happens, the people of Israel should consider this discharge to be impure.

What did Yahweh say to Moses and Aaron was the condition of a man who has a flow of from his flesh? (15:2-3)

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron that any man who has a discharge coming from his genitals is impure.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:3

And this is his uncleanness in his flow: {whether} his flesh secretes his flow or his flesh blocks his flow, it {is} his uncleanness.

Now, this is how the people of Israel should deal with these types of discharges that have the potential to make people impure. It does not matter whether the man’s genitals have secreted the discharge or whether there is a blockage in the man’s genitals; the people of Israel should consider this man to be impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:4

Any bed on which the {one} flowing lies shall be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits shall be unclean.

The people should consider any bed on which the man who has had a discharge lies to also be impure. Additionally, they should consider any furniture on which the man sits to be impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:5

And a man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes. And he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches that man’s bed should wash and clean his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the man’s bed.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:6

And the person who sits on the furniture on which the {one} flowing sat shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who sits on any furniture on which the man who has had a discharge has sat should also wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should likewise consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he sat on the impure man’s furniture.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:7

And the person who touches the flesh of the {one} flowing shall wash his clothes. And he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

In the same way, anyone who touches the man who has had a discharge should wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. The person should also consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the impure man.

What happens to the person who touches the person who is unclean because he had a discharge?

Anyone who touches the unclean person will be unclean himself and must bathe in water and wash his clothes, and he is unclean until evening.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:8

And when the {one} flowing spits on a person who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

It may happen that the man who has had a discharge spits on someone who is still pure. If this occurs, the person on whom the impure man spat should wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. He should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which the impure man spat on him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:9

And any means of riding on which the flowing {man} rides shall be unclean.

The people of Israel should also consider any clothing or saddle on which the man who has had a discharge rides to be just as impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:10

And any person who touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And the one who lifts them shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches anything that was under him while he rode should also consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the impure man’s clothing or saddle on which he rode. Likewise, anyone who picks up or carries whatever was under him while he rode should wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. He should also consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he lifted or carried the impure man’s means of riding.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:11

And anyone whom the {one} flowing touches and he does not rinse his hands in water, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

It may happen that the man who has had a discharge touches someone without first washing his hands. If this happens, the person he touched should wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should also consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which the impure man touched him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:12

And a vessel of clay that the {one} flowing touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed with water.

It may happen that the man who has had a discharge touches a clay pot. If this happens, whoever owns the pot should shatter it. However, if the man touches a wooden utensil, whoever owns the utensil must rinse it with water.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:13

And when the {one} flowing cleanses from his flow, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing. And he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in living water. And he will be clean.

It may happen that a man who has had a discharge recovers and no longer experiences any discharge. If this happens, the man should remain as he is for one full week in order to prepare for the day when I will cleanse him from his impurity. During this time, he should wash his clothes and make sure to bathe and clean his genitals with fresh water. If he does this, he can consider himself to be pure once again.

In what kind of water must the person being cleansed from an infected flow of fluid bathe?

The person being cleansed from an infected flow of fluid must bathe in fresh water.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:14

And on the eighth day, he shall take for himself two doves or two sons of a pigeon and he shall come to the face of Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And he shall give them to the priest.

On the last day of that week, he should acquire two doves or two pigeons and come into my presence at the entrance of the sacred tent. There, the man should give the birds he acquired to the priest.

What must the unclean man present to the priest for a sin offering and for a burnt offering? (15:14-15)

The unclean man must present to the priest two doves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:15

And the priest shall make them, one {as} a sin offering and one {as} a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him to the face of Yahweh for his flow.

The priest should prepare the birds as sacrifices to me. One of the birds should be a purifying sacrifice and the other should be a wholly burned sacrifice. When the priest offers these sacrifices in my presence, I will accept them and restore the man. I will remove from the man the impurity he acquired from his impure discharge.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:16

And a man, when a lying of seed goes out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh with water. And he shall be unclean until the evening.

It may also happen that a man experiences a seminal emission. When this happens, the man should bathe his whole body, including his genitals, thoroughly. The man should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he experienced the emission.

What is the condition of anything or any person that has contact with a man’s semen? (15:16-18)

They must be washed in water and will be unclean until evening.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:17

And any clothing and any leather on which is a lying of seed—and it shall be washed in water. And it shall be unclean until the evening.

The man who had the emission should thoroughly wash any clothing or leather that came into contact with the semen. He should consider that piece of clothing or leather to be impure until the evening of the day on which they came into contact with the semen.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:18

And a woman, when a man lies with her, a lying down of seed, then they shall bathe with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening.

It may happen that a man has sexual relations with a woman and experiences a seminal emission. When this happens, both the man and the woman should bathe themselves thoroughly. They should consider themselves to be impure until the evening of the day on which they had sexual relations.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:19

And a woman, when she is flowing—blood is her flow in her flesh—{for} seven days, she will be in her menstruation. And any person who touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

Similarly, it may happen that a woman experiences her menstrual period, such that blood discharges from her genitals. When this happens, she should remain as she is for a full week. During this period, whoever touches the menstruating woman should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched her.

How long will woman be impure as she menstruates?

She will be impure for seven days.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:20

And anything on which she lies in her menstruation shall be unclean. And anything on which she sits shall be unclean.

The people of Israel should consider any furniture on which the menstruating woman lies or sits to be impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:21

And any person who touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water. And he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches a menstruating woman’s bed should wash and clean his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the menstruating woman’s bed.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:22

And any person who touches any furniture on which she sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water. And he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches any furniture on which a menstruating woman has sat should also wash his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should likewise consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the menstruating woman’s bed or her furniture.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:23

But if it {is} on the bed or on furniture on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

It may happen that there was something on the menstruating woman’s bed or on a piece of furniture on which the menstruating woman sat. When someone touches that object, he should consider himself to be unclean until the evening of the day on which he touched that object.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:24

And if, lying, a man lies with her, and her menstruation is on him, then he shall be unclean {for} seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

It may occasionally happen that a man has sexual relations with a menstruating woman such that he comes into contact with her menstrual blood. If this happens, he should consider himself to be impure for a full week. The people of Israel should consider any bed on which that man lies to be impure as well.

How long will a man be unclean if he sleeps with a woman who is menstruating, and her flow touches him?

He shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:25

And a woman, when a flow of her blood flows {for} many days when {it is} not the time of her menstruation, or when she flows beyond her menstruation, all the days of the flow of her uncleanness shall be like the days of her menstruation. She {is} unclean.

It may also happen that a woman experiences an extended discharge of blood when she is not normally menstruating, or her discharge continues for an inordinate amount of time. If this happens, as long as she experiences a discharge of blood, she should consider herself to be impure, just as when she experiences her normal menstruation.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:26

Every bed on which she lies all the days of her flow shall be to her like the bed of her menstruation. And any furniture on which she sits shall be unclean, like the uncleanness of her menstruation.

As long as the woman experiences this type of unusual bloody discharge, the people of Israel should consider any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits to be impure, just as is the case when women normally menstruate and become temporarily impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:27

And any person who touches them shall be unclean. And he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches the woman’s bed or furniture should consider himself to be unclean. He should wash and clean his clothes and bathe thoroughly. That person should consider himself to be impure until the evening of the day on which he touched the woman’s bed or furniture.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:28

But if she becomes clean from her flow, then she shall count for herself seven days and, afterward, she shall be clean.

It may happen that a woman who has experienced an unusual bloody discharge recovers and no longer experiences any discharge. If this happens, the woman should remain as she is for one full week in order to prepare for the day when I will cleanse her from her impurity. After this time, she should consider herself to be pure once again.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:29

And on the eighth day, she shall take for herself two doves or two sons of a pigeon and she shall bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

On the last day of that week, the woman should acquire two doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the sacred tent.

What is a woman to bring as a sacrifice on the eight day after her flow of blood stops?

She is to bring to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, two doves or two pigeons.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:30

And the priest shall make one {as} a sin offering and one {as} a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her to the face of Yahweh from the flow of her uncleanness.

The priest should prepare the birds as sacrifices to me. One of the birds should be a purifying sacrifice and the other should be a wholly burned sacrifice. When the priest offers these sacrifices in my presence, I will accept them and restore the woman. I will remove from her the impurity she acquired from her impure bloody discharge.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:31

And you shall hold back the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they will not die by their uncleanness, by their defiling my Dwelling, which {is} in their midst.

The people of Israel must follow these instructions in order to distinguish themselves from that which is impure among them. If they are able to do this, they will not desecrate the sacred place in which I live among them and so I will not kill them. {But if they continue to make themselves impure, I will kill them when they desecrate the sacred place in which I live among them.}

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:32

This {is} the law of the flowing {person} and of him from whom a layer of seed goes out to become unclean by it

So, this is what the people of Israel should do when someone experiences a discharge—whenever a man has a seminal emission and so becomes impure,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 15:33

and of {the woman} who is sick in her menstruation and of the flowing of his flow, whether male or female, and of the man who lies with an unclean {woman}.’”

whenever any woman menstruates, whenever anyone, whether a man or a woman, has a bodily discharge, or whenever a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual period.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:2

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘This {is} the thing that Yahweh commanded, saying,

“Speak to Aaron, his living sons, and all the people of Israel. Tell them that I, Yahweh, am giving them the following instructions:

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:3

“A man, a man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp or who slaughters {it} outside of the camp,

‘This is forbidden: No Israelite should ever kill an ox, a lamb, or a goat either inside or outside of the camp where the Israelites live.

If a man kills an ox, lamb, or goat without bringing it to the entrance of the tent of the assembly to offer it as a sacrifice to Yahweh, of what sin is he guilty? (17:3-4)

The man who kills an ox, lamb, or goat without bringing it to the entrance of the tent of the assembly to offer it as a sacrifice to Yahweh is guilty of shedding innocent blood and must be cut off from his people.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:4

but to the entrance of the tent of meeting he does not bring it to present an offering to Yahweh to the face of the Dwelling of Yahweh—blood will be reckoned to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people

This is because when they do this, they have not brought their animals into my presence in the sacred tent. They should offer their animals to me, to Yahweh, in the place where I live among the Israelites. But because they kill the animals somewhere else, they have shed innocent blood. I, Yahweh, will demand that blood from them. I will make the person who does this an outcast and remove him from my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:5

so that the sons of Israel will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing on the face of the field and bring them to Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them {as} sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

The people of Israel should do this so that they will no longer offer any sacrifices in the open fields. Instead, they must offer those sacrifices to me by bringing them to the priest who is at the entrance to the sacred tent. There they can offer their animals as fellowship offerings to me, to Yahweh.

What was the purpose of this command?

The purpose of this command was to get the people to offer their sacrifices to Yahweh in front of the tent of meeting instead of in the open fields.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:6

And the priest shall splash the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And he will cause the fat to become smoke as a scent of pleasing to Yahweh.

{After the priest kills whatever animal the people of Israel bring,} he should splatter some of its blood against the altar that belongs to me alone, the one that is located at the entrance to the sacred tent. There the priest should burn the animal’s fat in a way that causes smoke to go up, and I will enjoy the smell of the smoke.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:7

And they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they are prostituting themselves. This will be an enduring statute for them for their generations.”’

Let me be clear: The people of Israel have been unfaithful to me by sacrificing to goat demons that they consider to be gods. They should never again sacrifice animals to these demons and supposed gods. These instructions are permanent and enduring; the people of Israel and all their descendants should always observe them.

What would this statute end?

This statute would stop the people from offering sacrifices to the goat idols.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:8

And you shall say to them, ‘A man, a man from the house of Israel or from the sojourner who sojourns in their midst, who makes a burnt offering or a sacrifice go up,

You should also tell Aaron and his sons that this is also forbidden: no native-born Israelite or immigrant who lives among the Israelites should offer wholly burned offerings or any sacrifices

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:9

but to the entrance of the tent of meeting, he does not bring it to make it to Yahweh, then that man shall be cut off from his people.

without first bringing his animal into my presence in the sacred tent to offer it to me. I, Yahweh, will make the person who does this an outcast from my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:10

And a man, a man from the house of Israel or from the sojourner sojourning in their midst, who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person having eaten blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

I will oppose any person, whether a native-born Israelite or an immigrant who lives among the Israelites, who consumes any blood. I will make the person who does this an outcast and remove him from my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh, it is in the blood, and I myself have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives. For the blood, it makes atonement with the life.

For the life of every living thing resides in its blood. I myself have specially provided this blood for my people so that I can remove their sins from them when the blood touches the altar. It is through the blood that I am able to accomplish this, because of the life of the animal that is in its blood.

What does Yahweh say makes atonement?

Yahweh says that the blood makes atonement.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:12

Therefore, I said to the sons of Israel, “Every person among you shall not eat blood. And the sojourner, the one sojourning in your midst shall not eat blood.”

It is for this reason that I have told the people of Israel that nobody, including the immigrant who lives with the people of Israel, may ever consume blood.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:13

And a man, a man from the sons of Israel or from the sojourner, the one sojourning in their midst, who hunts a game of animal or wing that will be eaten, then he shall pour out its blood, and he shall cover it with soil,

Now it may be that a native-born Israelite or an immigrant who is living with the people of Israel goes hunting and kills wild game or a bird. Provided that whatever they kill is pure and acceptable for eating, whoever killed it should first drain out its blood. Then he should make sure to cover the blood with dirt.

What does Yahweh say must be done to any animal or bird that is killed to eat by any of the people of Israel or any foreigner who lives among them?

Yahweh says that any of the people of Israel or a foreigner living among them who kills an animal or bird to eat must pour the blood from it and cover the blood with soil.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:14

for the life of all flesh, its blood, its life is in it. And I said to the sons of Israel, “The blood of any flesh you shall not eat, for the life of all flesh, it is its blood. All who eat it shall be cut off.”

The life of every living thing resides in its blood. Its blood is its life! That is why I have told the people of Israel that nobody may consume the blood of any living thing. Let me be clear: the life of every living thing resides in its blood. I will make whoever consumes blood an outcast and remove him from my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:15

And any person who eats an {animal} carcass or a torn animal among the native-born or among the sojourner, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he will be unclean until the evening. Then he will be clean.

Anyone in Israel, including foreigners, who eats any of the meat of any creature that is found dead, or that had been killed by wild animals, must wash his clothes and bathe. Then he {must not touch anyone} until that evening because he is impure until then.

What must a person do who has eaten an animal that has died or been torn apart by animals?

A person who has eaten an animal that has died or has been torn apart by animals must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

What must he do if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself in water? (17:15-16)

If he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, then he is now responsible for addressing his wrongdoing.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 17:16

But if he does not wash or his flesh he does not bathe, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

But if the person does not wash his clothes or bathe himself, he is now responsible for addressing his wrongdoing.’”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘I {am} Yahweh your God.

“Make sure to speak to the people of Israel and remind them that I am Yahweh their God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:3

According to the work of the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, you shall not do. And according to the work of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you, you shall not do. And you shall not walk in their statutes.

The people of Israel must not behave like the Egyptians, in whose land they used to live. Neither should they behave like the Canaanites, whose land I am giving to them. The people of Israel should not live in a way that emulates any of the practices that these people do.

What two places did Yahweh tell the people they could not behave like the people there?

Yahweh told the people of Israel they could not behave like the Egyptians or Canaanites.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:4

My customs you shall do, and my statutes you shall keep, to walk in them. I {am} Yahweh your God.

Instead, the people of Israel should obey my laws and be very careful to do everything that I tell them. They should live this way, because I am Yahweh their God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:5

And you shall keep my statutes and my customs, which the man shall do them and he shall live by them. I {am} Yahweh.

The people of Israel should live in such a way that they make a habit of obeying my laws and doing everything that I tell them. When people do this, they truly live. This is because I am Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:6

A man, a man, you shall not draw near to any body of his flesh to uncover nakedness. I am Yahweh.

So, remember: no Israelite should approach any of his close relatives to have sexual relations with them and so shame them. I am Yahweh!

What is one group of people with whom God forbade Israelites to have sexual relations?

Yahweh told the people they could not have sexual relations with any close relative.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:7

The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She {is} your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

No one should have sexual relations with his mother and so shame her. She is his mother! He should absolutely not shame her or his father in this way.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:8

The nakedness of the wife of your father you shall not uncover. It {is} the nakedness of your father.

Likewise, no one should have sexual relations with any of his father’s other wives and so shame them. {Not only would this shame them,} it would also shame his father.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:9

The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, born of {the same} house or born outside {it}, you shall not uncover their nakedness.

No one should have sexual relations with his sister and shame her, whether she is his father’s or his mother’s daughter or whether she was born in the same household or somewhere else.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:10

The nakedness of the daughter of your son or the daughter of your daughter— you shall not uncover their nakedness, for they {are} your nakedness.

No one should have sexual relations with his own grandchildren and shame them. In doing so, the person who does this would absolutely shame himself.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:11

The nakedness of the daughter of the wife of your father, the one born of your father, she {is} your sister. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

No one should have sexual relations with his half-sister and shame her. She is his sister!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:12

The nakedness of the sister of your father, you shall not uncover. She is the flesh of your father.

No one should have sexual relations with his father’s sister and shame her. She is his father’s close relative!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:13

The nakedness of the sister of your mother, you shall not uncover, for she is the flesh of your mother.

Neither should anyone have sexual relations with his mother’s sister and shame her. She is his mother’s close relative!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:14

The nakedness of the brother of your father, you shall not uncover; to his wife you shall not draw near. She is your aunt.

No one should have sexual relations with his aunt and so shame her and your uncle. No one should approach his aunt to have sexual relations with her. She is his aunt!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:15

The nakedness of your daughter-in-law, you shall not uncover. She is the wife of your son. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

No one should have sexual relations with his daughter-in-law and so shame her. She is his son’s wife! He should absolutely not shame her in this way.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:16

The nakedness of the wife of your brother, you shall not uncover. She is the nakedness of your brother.

No one should have sexual relations with his sister-in-law and so shame her. The person who does this would shame both her and his brother.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:17

The nakedness of a woman and her daughter, you shall not uncover. The daughter of her son or the daughter of her daughter, you shall not take to uncover her nakedness. They are flesh. It is depravity.

No one should have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. This also means that no one should attempt to marry a woman and her granddaughter so that he can have sexual relations with her. They are her close relatives! These kinds of behaviors are utterly depraved—they transgress the way Yahweh intended for family members to relate to one another and only brings shame to everyone involved.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:18

And a woman to her sister, you shall not take to be a concubine to uncover her nakedness on her in her life.

No one should attempt to marry his wife’s sister so that he can have sexual relations with her while his wife is still living. To do so would only make his sister-in-law a concubine and rival wife.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:19

And to a woman in the menstruation of her uncleanness, you shall not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

No one should approach a woman who is menstruating and so is impure in order to have sexual relations with her.

Why is a man not to have sexual relations with a woman during her menstruation?

A man may not have sexual relations with a woman during her menstruation, because during that time she is unclean.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:20

And to the wife of your fellow citizen, you shall not give your lying of seed to become unclean with her.

No man should have sexual relations and have a seminal emission with a fellow Israelite’s wife. If he does this, he will become impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:21

And from your seed, you shall not give {them} to cause {them} to pass over to Molech. And you shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

No one should sacrifice their children to the god Molech by burning them alive. Doing so would profane and dishonor my reputation as your God. Remember: I am Yahweh!

What may the people not sacrifice to Molech?

The people may not sacrifice their children to Molech.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:22

And you shall not lie with a male {as} the lyings of a woman. It is an abomination.

No man should have sexual relations with another man as he would have with a woman. This behavior is utterly abominable; it transgresses the way Yahweh intended for people to behave and only brings shame to everyone involved.

What two sexual relations do verses 22 and 23 forbid? (18:22-23)

Verses 22 and 23 forbid sexual relations with other men or animals.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:23

And with any animal you shall not give your lying to become unclean by it. And a woman shall not stand to the face of an animal to mate with it. It {is} perversion.

Likewise, no one should have sexual relations with any animal. This means that no woman should give herself to an animal to copulate with it. Doing so would make the person who does this impure. This behavior is utterly perverse—it transgresses the way Yahweh intended for people to behave and only brings shame to everyone involved.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:24

Do not make yourselves unclean in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations that I am sending out from your faces make themselves unclean.

The people of Israel must not make themselves impure by doing any of these things, because by doing these things, the people who currently live in the land of Canaan have made themselves impure. I am removing them from the land so that you can live there.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:25

And the land became unclean, and I visited its iniquity on it. And the land vomited out the ones dwelling {in} it.

In fact, the people who currently live in the land of Canaan have even made the land itself impure. Because of this, I have brought against the land the punishment for the guilt that the land has acquired because of their wrongdoing. I am removing the people who did these things in the land as if the ground itself is throwing them up and rejecting them.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:26

And you yourselves shall keep my statutes and my customs. And you shall not do any of these abominations—the native-born nor the sojourner, the one sojourning in your midst—

But my people, both the native-born Israelite and the immigrant who is living with the people of Israel, must all be careful to do everything that I have told them, including my laws and my customs. They should never do all of these abominable behaviors that the people who live in the land practice,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:27

for all these abominations the men of the land who {were} to your faces have done, and the land became unclean.

because the people who currently live in the land of Canaan have done all of these abominable behaviors. As a consequence, they have made the land itself impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:28

And the land will not vomit you out in your making it unclean, just as it vomited out the nation that {was} to your faces.

Just as I am removing the people who currently live in the land as if the land itself is throwing them up and rejecting them, if the people of Israel do the same thing, I will also remove them in the same manner.

What happened to the people who lived in the land before the people of Israel?

The people, those who lived in the land before the people of Israel, defiled the land, and the land vomited them out.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:29

For anyone who does any of these abominations—the people who do will be cut off from the midst of their people.

I will remove the people of Israel because I will make any person who does any of these abominable practices an outcast. I, Yahweh, will remove him from my people.

What will happen to any of the people or the foreigners who live among them who do any of these detestable things?

God will remove from his people any of the people who do any of these abominable practices.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 18:30

And you shall keep my watch not to do the statutes, the abominations that are done to your faces, and you shall not make yourselves unclean by them. I {am} Yahweh your God.’”

So, the people of Israel should be very careful to do everything that I have told them. If they are careful, they will not do the abominable practices that the people who currently live in the land do. The people of Israel will avoid making themselves impure. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, {am} holy.

“Make sure to tell the entire people of Israel that they must be set apart, because I, Yahweh their God, am set apart from wrongdoing and impurity of the world. {I want my people to be like me.}

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:3

A man, his mother and his father, you shall fear, and my sabbaths you shall keep. I {am} Yahweh your God.

Everyone should show respect to their parents. Likewise, everyone should practice the Sabbath days and honor them. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!

What two things did Yahweh tell the people they must do? (19:3-4)

Yahweh told the people that they must respect their father and mother, and everyone should practice the Sabbath days and honor them.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:4

You shall not turn to idols, and gods of cast metal you shall not make for yourselves. I {am} Yahweh your God.

No one should ever abandon me to worship worthless idols. Neither should anyone fashion for themselves idol statues out of cast metal. Remember: I alone am Yahweh your God!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:5

And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it for your acceptance.

Whenever someone wants to sacrifice a fellowship sacrifice to me, to Yahweh, he should offer it in a way that I will accept.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:6

On the day of your sacrifice, it shall be eaten, or from tomorrow. And the remainder until the third day shall be burned with fire.

The people of Israel may eat the meat that comes from such a fellowship sacrifice on the day that he offers the sacrifice and on the following day. However, on the third day after he offered the sacrifice, the person who offered the fellowship sacrifice should completely burn the remaining meat.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:7

But if, eating, it is eaten on the third day, it {is} defiled. It will not be accepted.

If anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, I will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. The meat is now considered desecrated.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:8

And the person eating it shall bear his iniquity because he profaned the holiness of Yahweh. And that person shall be cut off from his people.

The people of Israel must hold responsible for addressing his wrongdoing whoever eats that meat because he has defiled what is set apart for my purposes alone. I, Yahweh, will make the person who does this an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:9

And in your harvesting the harvest of your land, you shall not complete the edge of your field to harvest, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not glean.

Whenever the people of Israel gather in the harvest of their fields during harvest time, they should leave the corners of the fields unharvested. They should also refrain from picking up anything that they drop while harvesting.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:10

And your vineyard you shall not strip, and the {fallen} grapes of your vineyard you shall not glean. For the poor and for the sojourner you shall leave them. I {am} Yahweh your God.

Likewise, when the people of Israel harvest the grapes from their vineyards, they should not pick every single grape, nor should they go back a second time to pick up the grapes that they have accidentally dropped. They should leave the unharvested corners of their fields and the dropped grapes to provide food for the poor and the immigrants. Remember, they should do this because I am Yahweh their God!

Why did Yahweh tell the people to leave the corners of their fields unharvested and to leave some of the grapes on the vine or on the ground?

The unharvested grain and grapes must be left for the poor and the immigrants.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:11

You shall not steal, and you shall not deny, and you shall not lie—a man with his fellow citizen.

Here is how the people of Israel should treat one another: No one should steal, deceive, or lie to his fellow Israelite.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:12

And you shall not swear by my name to a lie and profane the name of your God. I {am} Yahweh.

No one should call on me to be a false witness in order to acquit himself from the guilt of his wrongdoing. Doing so would dishonor me and associate the God of Israel with the impurity that comes from wrongdoing. Remember: I am Yahweh!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:13

You shall not extort your neighbor, and you shall not rob. You shall not retain the wages of a hired {person} with you until morning.

No one should extort the people close to him or steal anything from them. Neither should anyone withhold any wages from hired workers until the next day.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:14

You shall not curse a deaf {person}, and to the face of a blind {person}, you shall not provide a hindrance. And you shall fear your God. I {am} Yahweh.

No one should ever pronounce a curse against someone who is deaf or intentionally do something that would cause someone who is blind to trip and fall. Instead, the people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember: I am Yahweh!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:15

You shall not do injustice with judgment. You shall not lift the face of an insignificant {person}, and you shall not honor the face of a great {person}. In righteousness, you shall judge your fellow citizen.

No one should ever unjustly judge someone. This means that no judge should give special treatment to someone who is poor and seemingly insignificant; neither should they favor someone who is wealthy and seemingly important. Rather, judges should always execute judgment fairly and ethically for the people of Israel.

To whom should the people not show favoritism?

The people should not show favoritism to someone because he is poor or rich, but instead judge the neighbor righteously.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:16

You shall not walk {as} a slanderer among your people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I {am} Yahweh.

No one should go about spreading false rumors about people. Neither should anyone act in such a way as to oppose the life of someone who is close to him {by giving false testimony in court that might lead to someone’s execution}. Remember: I am Yahweh!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate your brother with your heart. Reproving, you shall reprove your fellow citizen, and you shall not lift sin on him.

No one should continue hating someone who is close to him. Clearly admonish your fellow Israelite when he sins so that you will not become guilty as well.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:18

You shall not avenge, and you shall not guard the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I {am} Yahweh.

No one should try to get revenge against another person or be inordinately angry with one of his own people. Instead, the people of Israel should act lovingly to those who are closest to them. They should treat one another as they treat themselves. Remember: I am Yahweh!

What are the people to do instead of taking vengeance or holding a grudge?

Instead of taking vengeance or holding a grudge, the people are to love their neighbor as themselves.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:19

My statutes you shall keep. Your livestock—you shall not copulate {two} different kinds. Your field—you shall not sow {two} different kinds; and clothing of two different kinds—mixed material shall not go up on you.

The Israelites should be very careful to do what I have told them. They should not breed two kinds of animals that they own, nor should they sow two kinds of seeds in the same field. Likewise, they should not wear clothing that they have made from mixed fabrics.

What must the people do when planting seeds in the field?

When planting in the field, the people must not plant two kinds of seed in the same field.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:20

And a man, when he lies with a woman, a lying of seed, but she is a {female} slave, a {woman} being assigned to a man, but, being redeemed, she has not been redeemed or freedom has not been given to her, recompense shall occur. They shall not be executed because she had not been freed.

Now, it may happen that a man has sexual relations with a woman and experiences a seminal emission. However, it may be that this woman was a female slave whose master had given her to be another man’s wife, but the woman’s master had not first paid for her bride price (which would secure her freedom) or outright freed her. If this is the case, then the woman’s owner should pay a sum of money for the wrong he has done. The people of God must execute neither person who has sexual relations because she was not a free woman (and, therefore, her master had not properly given her to the man whom she was to marry) when the man had sexual relations with her.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:21

And he shall bring his guilt to Yahweh, to the entrance of the tent of meeting—a ram of a guilt offering.

However, the man who had sexual relations with the slave woman should bring the required penalty for his guilt to me, to Yahweh, at the entrance of the sacred tent. Specifically, he should offer a goat as a restoring sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:22

And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering to the face of Yahweh for his sin that he sinned. And it will be forgiven to him from his sin that he sinned.

When this happens, the priest will offer the goat as a restoring sacrifice in my presence, so that I, Yahweh, will remove the guilt that the man acquired because of the wrongdoing that he has done. Then I, Yahweh, will forgive the man of the wrongdoing he has done.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:23

And when you enter into the land, and you plant every tree of food, then you shall leave uncircumcised {as} its foreskin its fruit. Three years it shall be uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten.

When the people of Israel enter the land that I have promised to give to them, they should plant various kinds of trees that produce fruit. However, for three years, the people of Israel should consider the fruit of these trees to be forbidden, as if they were a person’s uncircumcised foreskin. During this time, no one should eat this fruit.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:24

And in the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be holy; praise offerings to Yahweh.

The next year, all the fruit of the trees the people of Israel have planted should be considered set apart for me. The people of Israel should offer them as special offerings of praise to me, to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:25

And in the fifth year, you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for yourselves. I {am} Yahweh your God.

But in the fifth year, the people of Israel may eat the fruit of the trees that they have planted, so that their yield of fruit increases every year. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!

How long must a planter of a fruit tree wait before he can eat the fruit?

A planter of a fruit tree must wait until the fifth year before he can eat the fruit of the tree.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:26

You shall not eat with the blood. You shall not practice divination, and you shall not practice soothsaying.

No one should eat any meat that still has the animal’s blood in it. Also, no one should use magic to try to know or control the future.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:27

You shall not round off the corners of your head, and you shall not ruin the corners of your beard.

{The people of Israel should not mourn for their dead as the people of the surrounding nations do.} They should not shave the hairs of their heads, nor should they trim the corners of their beads.

What were the people told not to do?

The people were told not to shave the corners of their heads and or trim the corners of their beads.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:28

And a cut for the spirit you shall not put on your flesh, and a writing of a tattoo you shall not put on yourselves. I {am} Yahweh.

The people of Israel should not cut their bodies when they mourn for people who have died. Likewise, they should not tattoo themselves. Remember: I am Yahweh!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:29

You shall not profane your daughter by making her practice prostitution, and the land shall not practice prostitution, or the land will fill {itself with} depravity.

The people of Israel should never disgrace the value of their daughters by forcing them to become prostitutes. If they do so, soon prostitutes will be so numerous that it will be as if the land itself is a prostitute. The land will be filled with all other kinds of depraved behavior.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:30

My sabbaths you shall keep, and my holy place you shall fear. I {am} Yahweh.

Honor my sacred festivals by celebrating them. Honor the place where you worship me. Remember: I am Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:31

You shall not turn to the mediums, and to the spiritists, you shall not seek to become unclean by them. I {am} Yahweh your God.

No one should ever abandon me by inquiring of someone who speaks to the dead, nor should anyone seek the advice of someone who inquires of dead family members. Doing so will only make the people of Israel impure. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:32

From the face of gray hair, you shall rise, and you shall honor the face of an elderly {person}. You shall fear your God. I {am} Yahweh.

The people of Israel should respect elderly people by standing up when they enter the room. They should also honor the elderly. The people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember, I am Yahweh!

Whom did Yahweh tell the people to arise before and honor?

Yahweh told the people to rise before a person with gray hair and honor elderly people.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:33

And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not oppress him.

When immigrants live among the people of Israel in their land, the people of Israel must not mistreat them.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:34

Like the native-born from you shall be to you the sojourner, the one sojourning with you. And you shall love him as yourself because you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I {am} Yahweh your God.

The people of Israel must treat immigrants who live with them like they treat the native-born person. Indeed, the people of Israel should act lovingly toward them, just as if they were their own bodies. This is because the people of Israel were once immigrants in Egypt. Remember, I am Yahweh your God!

Why did Yahweh say that the people of Israel should love the immigrants as they love themselves?

Yahweh told the people to love the foreigner because the people of Israel were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:35

You shall not do injustice with judgment, in measure, in weight, or in volume.

No one should ever unjustly judge someone with regards to how long something is, how much it weighs, or its volume.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:36

Scales of righteousness, stones of righteousness, an ephah of righteousness, and a hin of righteousness shall belong to you. I {am} Yahweh your God, who is bringing you from the land of Egypt.

This is because the people of Israel should always be using honest measuring sticks, weights on the scales, and measuring baskets. Remember: I am Yahweh your God, who is bringing the people of Israel out of Egypt.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 19:37

And you shall keep all my statutes and all my customs, and you shall do them. I {am} Yahweh.’”

The people of Israel should always be careful to do everything that I have told them to do and should obey my customs. Remember, I am Yahweh!”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:2

“And to the sons of Israel, you shall say, ‘A man, a man from the sons of Israel or from the sojourner, the one sojourning in Israel, who gives from his seed to Molech—dying, he shall be executed. The people of the land shall stone him with the rock.

“Be sure to tell the people of Israel that any Israelite or any foreigner who is living in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to the false god Molech should certainly die. The people living in Israel should kill such a person by throwing stones at him.

What would happen to anyone among the people of Israel who gives their child to Molech?

Anyone who gives their child to Molech the people living in Israel should kill by throwing stones at him.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:3

And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people, for he gave his seed to Molech, to make my Holy Place unclean and to profane my holy name.

I will personally punish such a person. I will make the person who does this an outcast and remove him from my people. I will do this because he has given his child to the false god Molech and so defiled my holy space and tainted my reputation.

What would Yahweh do to the man if the people did not put him to death?

If the people do not put him to death, Yahweh says he will cut him off from his people.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:4

And if, hiding, the people of the land hide their eyes from that man when he gives his seed to Molech, so as not to execute him,

But it may happen that the people who live in Israel ignore that person when he sacrifices one of his children to the false idol Molech, and they do not execute that person.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:5

then I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. And I will cut him off and all the people who practice prostitution after him, by prostituting after Molech, from the midst of their people.

If that happens, I will personally punish that person and his family unit. I will remove that person from my people—him and anyone else who acts unfaithfully in the same manner by worshiping the false idol Molech.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:6

And the person who turns to the mediums or to the spiritists to practice prostitution after them—I will set my face against that person. And I will cut him off from among his people.

I will punish those who abandon me by inquiring of someone who speaks to the dead or someone who inquires of dead family members. In doing these things, the people of Israel act unfaithfully. I will make the person who does this an outcast and remove him from my people.

To whom did Yahweh tell the people not to turn?

Yahweh told the people not to turn to the mediums and spiritists, those who talk to the dead.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:7

So you shall make yourselves holy and you shall be holy {people}, because I {am} Yahweh your God.

The people of Israel must be careful to keep themselves set apart for me and to be holy people. They should do this because I am Yahweh their God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:8

And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them. I {am} Yahweh, the one making you holy.

The Israelites should habitually obey my laws and live by them. Remember: I am Yahweh, the one who sets you apart from the other people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:9

When a man, a man who curses his father or his mother, dying—he shall be executed. His father and his mother he has cursed; his blood {is} on him.

The people of Israel must execute anyone who curses his father or his mother. He has caused his own death by cursing his father and mother.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:10

And a man who commits adultery {with} the wife of a man, who commits adultery {with} the wife of his neighbor—dying, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be executed.

It may happen that a man commits adultery with another man’s wife. If this happens, the people of Israel must execute both the man and the woman.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:11

And a man who lies with the wife of his father—he has uncovered the nakedness of his father. Dying, both of them shall be executed; their blood {is} on them.

A man who has sexual relations with one of his father’s wives has shamed his father. The people of Israel must execute both that man and woman. They will be responsible for their own deaths.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:12

And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law—dying, both of them shall be executed. They have done perversion; their blood {is} on them.

The people of Israel must execute a man who has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law. They must execute both that man and the woman. They have done something that is utterly perverse. They will be responsible for their own deaths.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:13

And a man who lies with a male, lying as a woman, both of them have done an abomination. Dying, they shall be executed; their blood {is} on them.

If a man has sexual relations with another man, as he would with a woman, they both have done something that is utterly abominable. The people of Israel must execute both men. They will be responsible for their own deaths.

What was the result of a man having sexual relations with another man?

A man who has sexual relations with another man has done something abominable and both must be executed.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:14

And a man who takes a wife and her mother—this {is} depravity. They shall burn him and them with fire, and depravity will not be in your midst.

A man who marries both a woman and her mother has done something utterly depraved. The people of Israel must burn all three of them to death so that no one among the people of Israel will continue to commit such a depraved action.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:15

And a man who gives his layer in a livestock—dying, he shall be executed, and you shall kill the livestock.

The people of Israel must execute a man who has sexual relations with an animal. They must also kill the animal.

If a woman has sexual relations with an animal, what must be done? (20:15-16)

The woman and the animal must be executed.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:16

And a woman who draws near to any livestock to mate with it—then you shall kill the woman and the livestock. Dying, they must be executed; their blood {is} on them.

Likewise, the people of Israel must kill a woman who gives herself to an animal to copulate with it. They must execute both her and that animal. They will be responsible for their own deaths.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:17

And a man who takes his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and he sees her nakedness, and she herself sees his nakedness—it {is} a disgrace. And they shall be cut off in the eyes of the sons of their people. The nakedness of his sister he has uncovered; he shall bear his iniquity.

If a man sleeps with his sister, whether she is his father’s or his mother’s daughter, and they see one another naked, they have done something disgraceful. Because the man has shamed his sister, I will remove them from among my people so that the people of Israel no longer see them. The people of Israel should hold him responsible for his wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:18

And a man who lies with a sick woman—and he has uncovered her nakedness; he has exposed her flow, and she herself has uncovered the flow of her blood. And {the} two of them shall be cut off from among their people.

If a man sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period, they have both revealed her flowing blood and brought shame on the woman. I will make both of them outcasts and remove them from my people.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:19

And the nakedness of the sister of your mother or the sister of your father, you shall not uncover because he would expose his body. They shall carry their iniquity.

No man should have sexual relations with his aunt and shame her, whether she is his mother’s or his father’s sister. In so doing, he would disgrace a close relative. The people of Israel should hold both of them responsible for their wrongdoing.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:20

And a man who lies with his aunt, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they will die childless.

A man who has sexual relations with his uncle’s wife has shamed his uncle. I will punish both of them by causing them to die without having any children.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:21

And a man who takes the wife of his brother, it is menstruation {impurity}. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they will be childless.

If a man has sex with his brother’s wife {while his brother is still living}, that is disgraceful. He has dishonored his brother; and they both will die without having any children.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:22

And you shall keep all my statutes and all my judgments. And you shall do them, and the land that I am bringing you there to dwell in it will not vomit you out.

The people of Israel should habitually obey all my laws and customs and do everything that I tell them. If they do this, I will not reject and remove them from the land to which I am bringing them to live.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:23

And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am sending out from before your face, for they do all these things, and I loathe them.’

Likewise, the people of Israel must not practice the laws and customs of the people who currently live in the land. I am removing them from the places in which they live because they have done all of these practices. For this reason, I abhor them.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:24

And I said to you, ‘You yourselves will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to inherit it: a land flowing {with} milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God, who separates you from the peoples.

But I told the people of Israel, ‘You will take their land from them as if you were inheriting it from your father. I will give it to you personally to be your family’s possession. The soil in that land is very fertile and produces good crops abundantly. Remember: I am Yahweh your God, who has set you apart from the other people who live around you.’

How did Yahweh describe the land that he had given the people of Israel?

Yahweh called the land “a land flowing with milk and honey.”

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:25

And you shall separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. And you shall not make your lives detestable with an animal or with a bird or with anything that crawls on the ground, which I separated from you to {be} unclean.

So the people of Israel should learn to distinguish which animals and birds are acceptable to me and pure from those that are unacceptable to me and impure. By doing so, they will not defile themselves by eating unacceptable animals, birds, or other creatures that crawl along on the ground. These animals I have set apart as those which make the people of Israel impure and unable to enter into holy space.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:26

And you shall be holy {people} for me, because I Yahweh am holy, and I separate you from the peoples to be for me.

In this way, the people of Israel must belong to me, Yahweh, as a people who are set apart and noticeably different from the people who live around them. This is because I am Yahweh, and I am also set apart from every created thing. In the same way, I have set the people of Israel apart from the people of other nations. They belong to me uniquely.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 20:27

And a man or woman, when there is among them a medium or spiritist—dying, they shall be executed. They must stone them with stones. Their blood {is} on them.’”

But the people of Israel must execute anyone among them who speaks to the dead or inquires of dead family members. The people of Israel must kill them by throwing stones at them. Such people are responsible for their own deaths.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:1

And Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them, ‘For a {dead} person, he shall not make himself unclean among his people,

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them that, as long as they live among the people of Israel, they must not make themselves impure by touching a dead body.

For the death of which person must a priest make himself unclean? (21:1-3)

A priest should make himself unclean for the death of a very close relative.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:2

except for his flesh, the one close to him, for his mother or for his father or for his son or for his daughter or for his brother

However, they may touch the dead bodies of their close relatives, such as their mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:3

or for his virgin sister, the one close to him, who does not have a husband, for her, he shall make himself unclean.

They may also touch the dead body of a sister if she is an unmarried virgin and has been living in their house, because she has no husband to bury her. For the sake of burying such a sister, the priests may become impure.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:4

He shall not make himself unclean {as} a husband among his people, to profane himself.

However, as long as they live among the people of Israel, the priests must not cause themselves to become impure by touching the dead bodies of his in-laws. Doing so would dishonor the priesthood and associate the God of Israel with impurity.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:5

They shall not bald a bald patch on their heads, and the edges of their beard they shall not shave, and they shall not cut a cut in their flesh.

The priests of Israel must not participate in the mourning rituals of the nations who live around Israel. This means that they must not shave their heads or trim the edges of their beards or slash their bodies in grief.

What restrictions were placed on the priests concerning their hair and beards?

Priests were not allowed to shave their heads or the edges of their beards.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:6

They shall be holy {people} to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for they are presenting gifts of Yahweh, the bread of their God, and they shall be holy.

The priests of Israel must be people who are set apart to me, their God. They must not disgrace and tarnish my reputation, because they are the ones who present the gifts of food that the people of Israel will offer to Yahweh. For this reason, the priests of Israel must be set apart in their behavior.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:7

He shall not take a prostituting or profaned woman, and he shall not take a woman divorced from her husband, for he {is} holy to his God.

The priests of Israel must not marry a prostitute who has defiled herself or a woman who has divorced her husband, because the priests are set apart for God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:8

And you shall make him holy, for he is the one presenting the bread of your God. He shall be holy for you, because holy {am} I, Yahweh, the one making you holy.

You, Moses, should make sure that the priests of Israel are set apart to worship and serve me because they are the ones who present the food offerings to me, their God. You, Moses, should think of the priests as belonging to me, because I, Yahweh, am the one who set the priests apart to serve and worship me. I, Yahweh, am set apart from the impurity of the world.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:9

And a daughter of a man, a priest, when she is profaned by prostituting—she is profaning her father. She must be burned with fire.

If a daughter of a priest disgracefully becomes a prostitute she also disgraces her father. The Israelites must burn her to death.

What would happen to a priest’s daughter who defiled herself by becoming a prostitute?

A priest’s daughter who disgraces her father by becoming a prostitute must be burned.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:10

And the great priest from his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointing was poured and whose hand is filled to wear the clothing, his head he shall not let be unbound, and his clothes he shall not tear.

The high priest is the one among his relatives whom I have appointed for his work by pouring on his head the sacred olive oil that the priests use to dedicate people and objects wholly to Yahweh. The high priest is also the one whom God has given the responsibility of wearing the special clothes. He must not allow his hair to be uncombed, nor should he tear his clothes when he is mourning for a dead relative.

What must a high priest avoid even if the dead person is his father or mother? (21:10-11)

A high priest must not make himself unclean by entering a place where there is a dead body, even if his father or mother has died.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:11

And near any dead person, he shall not go, for his father or for his mother. He shall not make himself unclean.

The high priest of Israel must not enter any place where there is a dead body. To do so would cause him to become impure and unable to perform his work. He should not touch a dead body, even if his father or his mother has died.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:12

And he shall not go out from the Holy Place, and he shall not profane the Holy Place of his God, for the crown of the oil of the anointing of his God {is} on him. I {am} Yahweh.

When one of his close relatives dies, the high priest must not leave the sacred tent to join those who are mourning because the sacred olive oil that you, Moses, have poured on his head has set him apart to serve and worship me. Leaving and mourning would cause him to become impure and unfit for his work and would also defile my sacred tent. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:13

And he himself shall take a wife in her virginity.

Remember, the priests of Israel should only marry women who have never had sexual relations.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:14

A widow or a divorced {woman} or a profaned prostituting {woman}, these he shall not take. But rather, a virgin from his people he shall take {as} a wife.

The priests of Israel should not marry widows or divorced women or defiled prostitutes. Rather, they must only marry young, unmarried Israelite women.

What kind of woman must the priest not marry?

The priest must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman who is a prostitute.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:15

And he shall not profane his seed among his people. For I {am} Yahweh, the one making him holy.’”

If they do, their children will remain pure and able to be priests among the people of Israel. Remember: I am Yahweh, and I set the priests apart to serve and worship me.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:16

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:17

“Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘A man from your seed to their generations on whom is a blemish shall not draw near to present the bread of his God.

“Tell Aaron that no one of his descendants who suffers from a deformity or disability should ever present the food gifts that people offer to me, their God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:18

For any man on whom {is} a blemish shall not draw near: a man blind or lame or mutilated or extended

In fact, no one who suffers from a deformity or disability may approach my holy space and offer a sacrifice. This includes anyone who is blind, lame, whose face is disfigured, whose legs are of unequal lengths,

What kind of man did Yahweh not want to approach him to perform the offerings? (21:18-20)

Yahweh did not want any man with a bodily defect to approach him.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:19

or a man on whom {is} a broken foot or a broken hand

anyone who suffers from a disability in their feet or hands,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback or a dwarf or one with a defect in his eye or a scab or a rash or a crushed testicle.

anyone who has a misshapen back, anyone who is abnormally short, has defective sight, has a skin disease of any kind, or whose genitals have been damaged.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:21

Any man on whom {is} a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest shall not approach to present the gift of Yahweh. A blemish {is} on him. He shall not approach to present the bread of his God.

No descendant of Aaron, the first high priest, who suffers from any disability or deformity should ever approach my altar to present the food gifts that the people of Israel offer to me, Yahweh. This is because he suffers from a disability or deformity. He must never present the food gifts that the people of Israel offer to me, their God.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:22

The bread of his God, from the holy things of the holy things and from the holy things, he may eat.

However, priests who suffer from disabilities or deformities may still eat any of the sacred food that I have set apart for the priests to eat.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:23

However, he shall not enter into the curtain, and he shall not draw near to the altar, for a blemish {is} on him. And he shall not profane my Holy Place, for I {am} Yahweh, the one making them holy.’”

Despite this, because of their disabilities or deformities, such priests must not pass through the special curtain in the sacred tent or approach my altar. If they did that, they would cause my sacred tent to become impure and unfit for my presence. Remember: I am Yahweh, and I set these places apart for myself.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 21:24

And Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.

So Moses spoke to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘The appointed times of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim them {as} assemblies of holiness, these {are} them, my appointed times.

“Tell the Israelite people: I have appointed these sacred festivals. You must announce when the people should gather together to worship me.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:3

Six days work shall be done, and on the seventh day {is} a sabbath of sabbaths, an assembly of holiness. You shall not do any work. It {is} a sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

You may work for six days, but the seventh day is a special day of complete rest. You must gather together to worship me. You must not do any work on that day. This is a Sabbath to honor Yahweh wherever you live.

What does Yahweh say about work and the Sabbath?

Yahweh says that people may work for six days, but the seventh day, the Sabbath, is to be a day of rest.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:4

These {are} the appointed times of Yahweh, assemblies of holiness which you shall proclaim them in their appointed times.

These are the special times that I have chosen, the holy gatherings that you must announce at their proper times.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:5

In the first month, on {day} 14 of the month, between the evenings, {is} the Passover to Yahweh.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day at twilight, {you must celebrate} the Passover to {honor} Yahweh.

What festival is to be celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month?

The Passover to honor Yahweh is to be celebrated in the first month on the fourteenth day.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:6

And on day 15 of this month {is} the Festival of Unleavened Bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

On the fifteenth day of this same month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to {honor} Yahweh. For seven days you must eat bread {that you made} without yeast.

What festival follows Passover on the fifteenth day of the first month?

The Festival of Unleavened Bread follows Passover on the fifteenth day of this month.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:7

On the first day there shall be an assembly of holiness for you. You shall not do any work of labor.

On the first day you must gather together for a holy meeting. You must not do any regular work.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:8

And you shall present a gift to Yahweh {for} seven days. On the seventh day {is} an assembly of holiness. You shall not do any work of labor.’”

For seven days you must bring offerings to Yahweh. On the seventh day you must gather again for a holy meeting. You must not do any regular work.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:9

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:10

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘When you enter into the land that I am giving to you and you harvest its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first of your harvest to the priest.

“Tell the Israelite people: When you enter the land that I am giving you and harvest your crops, you must bring a bundle of the first grain you harvest to the priest.

What must the people bring to the priest after the first harvest in the land that Yahweh is going to give them?

The people must bring to the priest a sheaf of the first of your harvest in the land that Yahweh is going to give them.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:11

And he shall wave the sheaf to the face of Yahweh for your acceptance. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

The priest will lift up the bundle {to present it} to Yahweh so that Yahweh will accept your gift. The priest must do this on the day after the Sabbath.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:12

And on the day you raise the sheaf, you shall offer a perfect lamb, a son of its year, as a burnt offering to Yahweh.

On the day you present the bundle of grain, you must also sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:13

And its grain offering {shall be} two-tenths {of an ephah} of flour mixed with oil, a gift to Yahweh, a scent of pleasing, and its drink offering {shall be} wine, a fourth of a hin.

With it {you must also bring} a grain offering of four liters of fine flour mixed with olive oil as an offering to Yahweh. It will make an aroma he enjoys. {You must also bring} one liter of wine as a drink offering.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:14

And bread and roasted grain and fresh grain you shall not eat until this same day, until you bring the offering of your God. {It is} a statute of eternity for your generations in all your dwellings.

On that day, you must not eat any bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until you have brought this offering to your God. This is a rule that will continue forever for all your descendants, wherever you live.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:15

And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the raised offering, seven sabbaths shall be complete.

Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath when you brought the bundle of grain as an offering.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:16

Until the day after the seventh sabbath you shall count 50 days, and you shall present a new grain offering to Yahweh.

Count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then bring a new grain offering to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:17

From your dwellings you shall bring bread of raising, two {loaves} of two-tenths {of an ephah}. They shall be {of} flour. They shall be baked {with} leaven, first fruits to Yahweh.

At home, {each family must} bake two loaves of bread using yeast and four liters of fine flour. {Take them to the priest} and he will lift them up high to dedicate them to Yahweh. This will be the first offering to Yahweh from your harvest.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:18

And you shall present with the bread seven perfect male lambs, sons of a year, and one bull, a son of cattle, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, and their grain offering and their drink offerings, a gift, a scent of pleasing to Yahweh.

Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. Burn them completely {on the altar} to Yahweh. They and the grain offering and drink offerings are a present for Yahweh and will make a pleasing aroma for Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:19

And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering and two lambs, sons of a year, as a sacrifice of peace offerings.

You must also offer one male goat as a purifying sacrifice and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship sacrifice.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:20

And the priest shall raise them with the bread of the first fruits {as} a raised offering to the face of Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

The priest will lift up these two lamb offerings {high to dedicate them} to Yahweh. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are sacred to Yahweh, but they are for the priests {to eat}.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:21

And you shall proclaim on this same day: it shall be an assembly of holiness for you. You shall not do any work of labor. {It is} a statute of eternity in all your dwellings for your generations.

On that same day announce that the people must gather together for a holy meeting. You must not do any regular work. This is a rule that will continue forever for all your descendants, wherever you live.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:22

And when you harvest the harvest of your land, you shall not finish the edge of your field in your harvesting, and you shall not glean the gleaning of your harvest. For the poor and for the foreigner you shall leave them. I {am} Yahweh your God.’”

When you harvest your crops, do not harvest all the way to the edges of your fields. Do not pick up the grain that falls on the ground. Leave it for poor people and foreigners. Remember: I am Yahweh your God.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:23

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:24

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on {day} one of the month, there shall be for you a rest, a memorial of a loud blast, an assembly of holiness.

“Tell the Israelite people: On the first day of the seventh month, you must have a special day of rest. You must gather together for a holy meeting {when you hear} the trumpet blast.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:25

You shall not do any work of labor, and you shall present a gift to Yahweh.’”

You must not do any regular work {on that day}. Instead you must bring a present to Yahweh.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:26

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:27

“Surely on the tenth of this seventh month, it is the Day of Atonement. It shall be an assembly of holiness for you, and you shall humble your souls, and you shall present a gift to Yahweh.

“On the tenth day of this seventh month you must gather together for a holy meeting. Show that you are sorry for sinning {by not eating}. Bring a food present to Yahweh. This will be a special day for asking Yahweh to forgive you for the sins that you have committed.

What date did Yahweh set for the Day of Atonement?

Yahweh set the tenth day of the seventh month as the Day of Atonement.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:28

And you shall not do any work on this same day, for it {is} a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you to the face of Yahweh your God.

Because on that day {the priests} will offer sacrifices to Yahweh your God to ask him to forgive your sins, you must not do any work all day.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:29

For any person who is not humbled on this same day shall be cut off from his people.

You must expel from your group and from the Israelite nation anyone who does not show that he is sorry for sinning {by not eating} on that day.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:30

And any person who does any work on this same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.

I will kill anyone who does any work on that day, right in the middle of his family!

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:31

You shall not do any work. {It is} a statute of eternity for your generations in all your dwellings.

You must not work at all! You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live.

What must the people not do on the Day of Atonement?

The people must not do any work on the Day of Atonement.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:32

It {is} a sabbath of sabbaths for you, and you shall humble your souls. On {day} nine of the month in the evening, from evening until evening, you shall observe your sabbath.”

That day you must all rest completely. Also, you must {not eat} to show that you are sorry for having sinned. Rest from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the evening of the tenth day of the month.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:33

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:34

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On day 15 of this seventh month {is} the Feast of Booths {for} seven days to Yahweh.

“Tell the Israelite people: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Shelters. This festival to honor Yahweh will last for seven days.

What festival did Yahweh say would take place on the fifteenth day of the seventh month?

Yahweh said that the Festival of Shelters for Yahweh would take place on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:35

On the first day is an assembly of holiness. You shall not do any work of labor.

On the first day you must gather together for a holy meeting. You must not do any regular work.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:36

{For} seven days you shall present a gift to Yahweh. On the eighth day there shall be an assembly of holiness for you, and you shall present a gift to Yahweh. It is a holiday. You shall not do any work of labor.

On each of the seven days of this festival, you must bring food presents to Yahweh. On the eighth day you must gather together again for a holy meeting and bring another food present to Yahweh. This is a special gathering. You must not do any regular work.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:37

These {are} the appointed times of Yahweh which you shall proclaim {as} assemblies of holiness, to present a gift to Yahweh: a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, the thing of a day on its day,

(To summarize, these are the festivals that Yahweh has appointed. You must announce that these are holy meetings in order to give presents to Yahweh. You will bring these: animal presents that you will burn completely, presents you make from flour, presents {to promise friendship with Yahweh}, and presents of wine. Bring each present on the day that Yahweh commanded.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:38

besides the sabbaths of Yahweh and besides your gifts and besides all your vows and besides all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh.

You must celebrate these festivals in addition to worshiping Yahweh on the Sabbath days. You must give Yahweh all those offerings in addition to his regular presents, the presents that people give when they solemnly promise to do something, and any presents that people give to Yahweh voluntarily.)

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:39

Surely on day 15 of the seventh month, when you gather the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh {for} seven days. On the first day {shall be} a sabbath, and on the eighth day {shall be} a sabbath.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have harvested your crops, be sure to celebrate the Festival of Shelters to honor Yahweh for seven days. Rest completely on the first day and on the eighth day.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:40

And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the river, and you shall rejoice to the face of Yahweh your God {for} seven days.

On the first day, take the best fruit from your trees, palm branches, leafy branches, and willow branches from the riverbank. Celebrate with joy before Yahweh your God for seven days.

What must the people use to rejoice during the Festival of Shelters for Yahweh?

The people must use the best fruit from their trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows from riverbanks to rejoice before Yahweh for seven days.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:41

And you shall celebrate it {as} a feast to Yahweh {for} seven days in the year. {It is} a statute of eternity for your generations. In the seventh month you shall celebrate it.

Celebrate this festival to honor Yahweh for seven days each year. You must celebrate it in the seventh month. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:42

You shall dwell in booths {for} seven days. All the native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,

During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelites all of your lives must live in shelters.

Where were the people of Israel to live during the Festival of Shelters?

The people of Israel were to live in small shelters for the seven days of the Festival of Shelters.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:43

so that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I {am} Yahweh your God.’”

That will remind your descendants that I made their ancestors live in shelters after I rescued them from Egypt. Do not forget that I, Yahweh your God, {am the one who is commanding this}.”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 23:44

And Moses declared the appointed times of Yahweh to the sons of Israel.

So Moses told the Israelites about all these special times that Yahweh had chosen.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh also said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:2

“Command the sons of Israel, and they shall bring to you pure oil of olive, beaten, for the light, to make a lamp go up continually.

“Command the Israelite people to constantly bring you clear oil made from pressed olives. This is to burn in the lamps {in the sacred tent} in order that those lamps will be lit all the time.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:3

From outside of the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning to the face of Yahweh continually. {It is} a statute of eternity for your generations.

Aaron must take care of the lamps in Yahweh’s presence continually, so that they will burn all night long. You must obey this rule forever. Outside the curtain of the very holy place which is in the sacred tent

What must Aaron do with the pure oil the people are to bring him?

Aaron must keep a lamp burning outside of the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting from evening until morning continually.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:4

On the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps to the face of Yahweh continually.

on the lampstand that is dedicated to Yahweh, he must constantly take care of the lamps that burn in Yahweh’s presence.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:5

And you shall take flour and you shall bake it {into} 12 loaves. Two-tenths {of an ephah} shall be the one loaf.

Also, each week you must take some fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using four and one-half liters of flour for each loaf.

What must the priest place in two rows of six each Sabbath? (24:5-6)

Each Sabbath, the priest must place on the gold table twelve loaves of bread in two rows of six.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:6

And you shall place them {in} two rows, six {in} the row, on the pure table to the face of Yahweh.

Put the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row, on the table covered with pure gold in Yahweh’s presence.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:7

And you shall put on the row pure frankincense, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial portion, a gift to Yahweh.

Along each row, place on {the gold table} some pure incense. It will represent the bread, and {the priest will burn} it as a present for Yahweh instead of the bread.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:8

On the day of the sabbath, on the day of the sabbath, he shall arrange it to the face of Yahweh continually from the sons of Israel, a covenant of eternity.

The priests must put new loaves of bread on the table each Sabbath day. You Israelites continually offering this gift to me, Yahweh, represents the never-ending covenant between us.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:9

And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it {is} a holy of holies for him from the gifts of Yahweh, a statute of eternity.”

When they remove the loaves from the table, they will belong to Aaron and his descendants. They must eat them in a sacred place set aside for this purpose, because they are a very sacred part of the presents to Yahweh. This food will always be for the priestly family.”

Who is allowed to eat the offering of the twelve loaves?

Aaron and his sons must eat it in the holy place.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:10

And a son of an Israelite woman (and he {was} a son of an Egyptian man) went out among the sons of Israel. And they fought in the camp, the son of the Israelite woman and the Israelite man.

There was a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father. His mother’s name was Shelomith. Her father was Dibri from the tribe of Dan. One day the half-Israelite man was walking in the Israelite camp, and he and an Israelite man started fighting there in the camp. While they were fighting, the half-Israelite man said bad things about Yahweh and cursed Yahweh. Then some people took the half-Israelite man to Moses. (vv10-11)

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:11

And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. And the name of his mother {was} Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:12

And they placed him in custody to declare to them according to the mouth of Yahweh.

Moses had some people guard him until they could find out from Yahweh what they should do to him.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:13

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:14

“Bring out the curser to outside of the camp, and all the hearers shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him.

“Take the man who cursed me outside the camp. There all those who heard what he said must put their hands on his head {to indicate that he is guilty}. Then all the people must kill him by throwing stones at him.

What were the people of Israel told to do to the man who blasphemed Yahweh?

Yahweh told the people of Israel to take the man outside the camp, place their hands on him, and stone him to death.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:15

And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘A man, a man if he curses his God, then he shall bear his sin.

Tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses God, you must punish him for sinning.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:16

And the blasphemer {of} the name of Yahweh—dying, he shall be executed. Stoning, all the congregation shall stone him. As {for} the sojourner, as {for} the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he shall be executed.

So you must surely execute anyone who curses Yahweh. All the people must throw stones at him until he is dead. It does not matter if he is a foreigner or an Israelite from birth. You must surely execute anyone who curses Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:17

And a man, when he strikes any life of a man—dying, he shall be executed.

Also, if anyone murders another person, the people must surely execute him.

What must happen to a man who kills another man?

He must certainly be put to death.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:18

And a striker of the life of a livestock shall restore it, a life for a life.

And anyone who kills another person’s animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:19

And a man, when he gives a blemish to his fellow citizen, just as he did, thus it shall be done to him:

If one Israelite injures another Israelite, injure the person who caused the injury in the same way as the injury he caused.

What did Yahweh say must be done to anyone who causes death or injury to another person? (24:19-20)

Yahweh said to the people that what they have done to another should be done to them; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:20

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he gives a blemish in the man, thus it shall be given to him.

If someone breaks one of another person’s bones, break the same bone of the person who caused the injury. If someone injures another person’s eye, injure his eye. If someone knocks out another person’s tooth, knock out one of his teeth. Do to the offender the same as what he did to the other person.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:21

And a striker of livestock shall restore it, but a striker of a man shall be executed.

Whoever kills another person’s animal must give that person a live animal to replace the one that he killed, but the people must execute anyone who murders another person.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:22

One judgment shall be for you. As {for} the sojourner, as {for} the native-born it shall be, for I {am} Yahweh your God.’”

You Israelites and foreigners who live among you must all have that same law. Remember: I am Yahweh your God.’”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 24:23

And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought out the curser to outside of the camp, and they stoned him {with} stone. And the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Then Moses told the Israelites everything Yahweh had said. So they took the man who had cursed Yahweh outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him. The Israelites did exactly what Yahweh commanded them to do through Moses.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:1

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh also said to Moses,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘A man when he makes extraordinary a vow, by your valuation of persons to Yahweh,

“Tell the Israelites these things for me: ‘If a man solemnly promises to set apart {another} person to {belong only to} Yahweh, {Yahweh will be willing to set that person free from having to do that if the responsible man} pays the priest an amount of money.

What is the purpose of the standard value? (27:2-4)

The purpose of the standard value is to determine how much someone must pay to free another person from a vow to belong only to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:3

and your valuation of the male from a son of 20 years and until a son of 60 years will be {thus}, and your valuation will be 50 shekels of silver by the shekel of the holy place.

The priest must calculate the amount of money in terms of the silver pieces that they use in Yahweh’s sacred tent. {You must pay:} 50 pieces of silver for men who are between 20 and 60 years old;

What is the standard value of a man between the ages of twenty and sixty?

A man between the ages of twenty and sixty has a standard value of fifty shekels of silver.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:4

And if {it is} a female, then your valuation will be 30 shekels.

30 pieces of silver for adult women who are between 20 and 60 years old;

What is the standard value of a woman between the ages of twenty and sixty?

A woman between the ages of twenty and sixty has the standard value of thirty shekels.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:5

And if {it is} from a son of five years and until a son of 20 years, then your valuation will be {for} the male 20 shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

20 pieces of silver for young men who are between 5 and 20 years old; 10 pieces of silver for young women who are between 5 and 20 years old;

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:6

And if from a son of a month and until a son of five years, then your valuation will be {for} the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your valuation {will be} three shekels of silver.

5 pieces of silver for boys who are between 1 month and 5 years old; 3 pieces of silver for girls who are between 1 month and 5 years old;

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:7

And if from a son of 60 years and upward, if a male, then your valuation will be 15 shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

15 pieces of silver for men who are more than 60 years old; and 10 pieces of silver for women who are more than 60 years old.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:8

And if he is too poor from your valuation, then he shall stand him before the face of the priest, and the priest shall value him. Upon the mouth of what the hand of the one vowing can reach, the priest shall value him.

If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay to set free the person whom he has given to Yahweh, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price for freeing him to an amount that the person can pay.

What if the one making the vow is unable to afford the standard value of the person he had dedicated?

If the one making the vow is not able to afford the standard value, he must take that person to the priest and the priest will set the price for freeing him to an amount that the person can pay.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:9

And if {it is} an animal which they will present from it an offering to Yahweh, all which he will give from it to Yahweh will be holy.

If someone solemnly promises Yahweh to give him an animal that is acceptable to him, that animal becomes very special to Yahweh; it belongs to him alone.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:10

He shall not exchange it and he shall not substitute it, good with bad or bad with good. And if substituting, he substitutes animal with animal, then it shall be {that} it and its substitute shall be holy.

The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised. He must not substitute a bad one for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he tries to do that, both animals will become dedicated to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:11

And if {it is} any unclean animal which they shall not present from it a present to Yahweh, then he shall stand the animal to the face of the priest,

If the animal that he wishes to give to Yahweh is a kind that is unacceptable as an offering, he must take the animal to the priest.

What other things may the priest value that are to be presented to Yahweh? (27:11-16)

The priest may also value an animal to be presented for sacrifice, a man’s house, or some of his land.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:12

and the priest shall value it between good and between bad. According to your valuation, O priest, so it shall be.

The priest then will decide what its value is, according to the animal’s quality. Whatever value the priest sets will be the value, and that is the price of the animal.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:13

And if redeeming he will redeem it, then he shall add its fifth upon your valuation.

If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay to the priest that price plus an added one-fifth.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:14

And a man when he consecrates his house holy to Yahweh, then the priest will value it between good and between bad. Just as the priest will value it, so it will stand.

Similarly, if someone dedicates his house, setting it apart for the honor of Yahweh, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on the house’s condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:15

And if the one consecrating would redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will be to him.

If a man sets apart his house for the honor of Yahweh, but later he wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an added one-fifth, and then the house will belong to him again.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:16

And if from the field of his possession a man consecrates to Yahweh, then your valuation will be to the mouth of its seed, seed of a homer of barley at 50 shekels of silver.

If someone sets apart some of the property that belongs to him and his family for the honor of Yahweh, its value will be determined by the quantity of seed that would be needed to sow that entire tract of land. It will be 50 pieces of silver for each 220 liters of seed.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:17

If from the year of the jubilee he consecrates his field, according to your valuation it will stand.

If he dedicates the field during the year for restoring, its value will be the full amount.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:18

But if after the jubilee he consecrates his field, then the priest shall calculate for him the silver upon the mouth of the years remaining until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be subtracted from your valuation.

But if he dedicates his field after the restoration year, the priest will calculate the remaining years to the next one and lower the price accordingly.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:19

And if redeeming he will redeem the field, the one consecrating it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will stand to him.

If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay back the field’s price plus an added one-fifth. Then the field will belong to that man again.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:20

And if he does not redeem the field, and if he sells the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed again.

However, if he does not buy it back, or if he also sells it to someone else, he may never buy it back again.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:21

And the field shall be, in its going out in the Jubilee, holy to Yahweh, as a field of devotion. It shall be to the priest, his possession.

When the year for restoring comes, Yahweh will claim the field permanently as his holy property, and the priest will receive it.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:22

And if he consecrates to Yahweh a field of his purchase which {is} not from the field of his possession,

If someone dedicates some land that he has bought to Yahweh, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned,

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:23

then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation until the year of the jubilee, and he shall give your valuation in that day. {It shall be} holy to Yahweh.

the priest must count the number of years until the next year of restoring to determine how much it is worth. The man must pay that amount to the priest on that day. His payment is a holy gift to Yahweh.

What must a man do with a field he has sanctified to Yahweh in the year of the jubilee?

When a man has sanctified a field to Yahweh and the year of the jubilee comes, the priest will figure the estimated value of the field up to the year of the jubilee and the man must pay its value on that day as a holy gift to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:24

In the year of the jubilee the field will return to him from whom he bought it, to whom to him {is} the possession of the land.

However, in the year for restoring, he will restore the land to the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:25

And all your valuation shall be by the shekel of the holy place; the shekel shall be 20 gerahs.

The priest must always calculate the amount of money in terms of the silver pieces called shekels that they use in Yahweh’s sacred tent. One piece called a shekel is equal to 20 smaller pieces called gerahs.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:26

However, a firstborn (which firstborn {belongs} to Yahweh) among animals, a man shall not consecrate it, whether ox or sheep, it {belongs} to Yahweh.

Since firstborn animals already belong to Yahweh, no one may dedicate the firstborn of any cow or sheep for any purpose.

Which of the animals belongs only to Yahweh?

The firstborn of all the animals belongs only to Yahweh.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:27

And if {it is} among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom {it} by your valuation and add its fifth upon it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at your valuation.

If someone gives Yahweh a {firstborn} animal that is not one of the acceptable kinds, he may buy it back by paying its standard price plus an added one-fifth of its value. If he does not buy it back, the priest must sell it for its standard price.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:28

However, any devoted thing which a man will devote to Yahweh from all which {belongs} to him, from man and animal and from field of his possession, it shall not be sold and it shall not be redeemed. Every devoted thing, it {is} a holy thing of holy things to Yahweh.

However, if someone permanently dedicates anything he owns like a person, animal, or family land to Yahweh, you must not restore it or sell it. Anything that you permanently dedicate becomes Yahweh’s especially sacred property.

What part of the things dedicated to Yahweh may be sold or redeemed?

Nothing dedicated to Yahweh may be sold or redeemed.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:29

All devoted ones who are devoted to destruction from mankind shall not be ransomed; dying he shall be put to death.

You will not let anyone live from the people whom Yahweh has commanded you to completely destroy. You must execute them all.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:30

And all tithe of the land from the seed of the land, from the fruit of the tree, {belongs} to Yahweh. It {is} holy to Yahweh.

One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’s land is sacred and belongs to Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:31

And if redeeming, a man will redeem from his tithe, its fifth he shall add upon it.

If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay to the priest what it is worth plus an added one-fifth.

If a man redeems any of his tithe, what must he add to it?

If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:32

And all tithe of cattle and flock, all which passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to Yahweh.

One of every ten domestic animals belongs to Yahweh. When someone counts his cattle and sheep as they pass under his walking stick, he must set aside every tenth one for Yahweh.

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:33

He shall not examine between good to bad, and he shall not substitute it. And if substituting, he substitutes it, then it shall be {that} it and its substitute shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones or leave the bad ones or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he tries to substitute one animal for another, he must set aside both animals for Yahweh, and he may not buy them back.’”

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unfoldingWord® Translation Questions :: Leviticus 27:34

These {are} the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses to the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.

Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to tell to the Israelites.

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