Leviticuschapter 5
19 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law
Original Language
Leviticus 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Leviticus 5. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Weekly portion 24 of 54
וַיִּקְרָא Vayikra, Leviticus 1:1 to 5:26
Read with it: Isaiah 43:21 to 44:23.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Four hidden sins that must be confessed1
Leviticus 5:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 5:1
AND HE IS A WITNESS, WHETHER HE HATH SEEN OR KNOWN. The section here discusses the offering of higher or lower value (see above, Note 15), the verse before us stating that this offering is required in the case of a false oath concerning testimony.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 5:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Two birds, or a handful of flour7
Leviticus 5:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 5:10
כמשפט [AND THE SECOND HE SHALL OFFER FOR A BURNT-OFFERING] ACCORDING TO THE REGULATION — according to the law that is mentioned with regard to a free-will burnt-offering of fowls at the beginning of the section (Leviticus:14) (cf. Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Chovah, Chapter 18; Chullin 21a).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 5:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Trespass against the holy things14
Leviticus 5:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 5:15
AND HE SHALL BRING ‘ASHAMO’ (HIS GUILT-OFFERING) UNTO THE ETERNAL. This offering is called asham (“guilt-offering” — as distinguished from the sin-offering), just as He has said [here in the verse] after the shekel of the Sanctuary, for a guilt-offering. But he shall bring ‘ashamo’ unto the Eternal.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 5:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 5:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible