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Leviticus 17:4 – NASB vs. HCSB vs. ESV
Leviticus 17:4 NASB and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguiltiness is to be reckoned to that man. He has shed blood and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:4 HCSB (2004) instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle–that person will be charged with murder. He has shed blood and must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:4 HCSB (2010) instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle — that person will be considered guilty. He has shed blood and must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:4 ESV and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
I included this passage not so much as a comparison or contrast between the HCSB and the NASB and ESV, but to contrast the 2004 and 2010 versions of the HCSB. “Murder” struck me as strange. The Hebrew means “blood” and can mean murder. However, as the updated HCSB implies by the change, “murder” is the wrong translation because then it would equate killing an animal as murder. The guilty is guilty of shedding blood improperly, but not of a man in a crime, but of an animal in an irreligious act.
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