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Leviticus 23:18-20
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Leviticus 23:18-20
New English Translation
18 Along with the loaves of bread,[a] you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs,[b] one young bull,[c] and two rams.[d] They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering[e] and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.[f] 19 You must also offer[g] one male goat[h] for a sin offering and two yearling lambs for a peace-offering sacrifice, 20 and the priest is to wave them—the two lambs[i]—along with the bread of the firstfruits, as a wave offering before the Lord; they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.
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- Leviticus 23:18 tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”
- Leviticus 23:18 tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”
- Leviticus 23:18 tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”
- Leviticus 23:18 tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”
- Leviticus 23:18 tn Heb “and their grain offering.”
- Leviticus 23:18 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.
- Leviticus 23:19 tn Heb “And you shall make.”
- Leviticus 23:19 tn Heb “a he-goat of goats.”
- Leviticus 23:20 tn Smr and LXX have the Hebrew article on “lambs.” The syntax of this verse is difficult. The object of the verb (two lambs) is far removed from the verb itself (shall wave) in the MT, and the preposition עַל (ʿal, “upon”), rendered “along with” in this verse, is also added to the far removed subject (literally, “upon [the] two lambs”; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 159). It is clear, however, that the two lambs and the loaves (along with their associated grain and drink offerings) constituted the “wave offering,” which served as the prebend “for the priest.” Burnt and sin offerings (vv. 18-19a) were not included in this (see Lev 7:11-14, 28-36).
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