There is a great deal of information in this verse that may be left implicit. Compare Good News Translation.
A statute for ever …: see 3.17 and 10.9.
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 .