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Leviticus 16:3-5
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Leviticus 16:3-5
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Day of Atonement Offerings
3 “In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary—with a young bull[a] for a sin offering[b] and a ram for a burnt offering.[c] 4 He must put on a holy linen tunic,[d] linen leggings are to cover his body,[e] and he is to wrap himself with a linen sash[f] and wrap his head with a linen turban.[g] They are holy garments, so he must bathe[h] his body in water and put them on. 5 He must also take[i] two male goats[j] from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
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- Leviticus 16:3 tn Heb “with a bull, a son of the herd.”
- Leviticus 16:3 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
- Leviticus 16:3 sn For the “burnt offering” see the note on Lev 1:3.
- Leviticus 16:4 sn The term “tunic” refers to a shirt-like garment worn next to the skin and, therefore, put on first (cf. Exod 28:4, 39-40; 29:5, 8; 39:27). It covered the upper body only. For detailed remarks on the terminology for the priestly clothing in this verse (except the “linen leggings”) see the notes on Lev 8:7-9 and the literature cited there.
- Leviticus 16:4 tn Heb “shall be on his flesh.” As in many instances in Lev 15, the term “flesh” or “body” here is euphemistic for the male genitals (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1017, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 222; cf. the note on Lev 15:2), which the priest must be careful not to expose during such ritual procedures (see Exod 20:26 with 28:42-43).
- Leviticus 16:4 sn The sash fastened the tunic around the waist (Exod 28:4, 39; 29:9; 39:29).
- Leviticus 16:4 tn Heb “and in a turban of linen he shall wrap.” sn The turban consisted of wound up linen (cf. Exod 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6; 39:31; Lev 16:4). It is usually thought to be a “turban,” but it might be only a “turban-like headband” wound around the forehead area (HALOT 624 s.v. מִצְנֶפֶת).
- Leviticus 16:4 tn Heb “and he shall bathe….”
- Leviticus 16:5 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
- Leviticus 16:5 tn Heb “he-goats of goats”; CEV “two goats, both of them males.”
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