These verses repeat, in a somewhat simplified form, the same basic content found in verses 5-10. Translators should carefully compare their rendering of these verses with 5-10 in order to assure that both the similarities and the minor differences between the two are reproduced in translation.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .