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Leviticus 17–22: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jacob Milgrom, a rabbi and Bible scholar, has devoted the bulk of his career to examining the laws of the Torah. His incisive commentary on Leviticus, which began with Leviticus 1–16, continues in this second of three volumes. It provides an authoritative and comprehensive explanation of ethical values concealed in Israel’s rituals. Although at first glance Leviticus seems far removed from the...

I called it to account for. wāʾepqōd ʿālêhā. For this meaning of pāqad ʿal, see Isa 10:12; Jer 5:9, 29; 9:24; Hos 4:14; Amos 3:14; Zeph 1:8, 9; 3:7; Zech 10:3. God’s intervention is automatic; it is as though he had no choice. In Ezek 18, God’s justice mandates the predicted consequence (v. 30a). All God can do is exhort (vv. 30b–32), as he does here. For an expanded treatment, see Schwartz (1987: 103–4). it … for its iniquity. ʿăwōnāh ʿālêhā. The antecedent is ḥāʾāreṣ ‘the land’. The
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