Leviticus 21:21

21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ¹  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

Leviticus 22:3-4

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ²  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ³  to the Lord while he is impure, ⁴  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁵  I am the Lord. 22:4 No man ⁶  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ⁷  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ⁸  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁹  or a man who has a seminal emission, ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).

² tn Heb “To your generations.”

³ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

⁴ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

⁵ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”

⁶ tn Heb “Man man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.), but with a negative command it means “No man” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 147).

⁷ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

⁸ tn Heb “And the one.”

⁹ tn Heb “in all unclean of a person/soul”; for the Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) meaning “a [dead] person,” see the note on Lev 19:28.

¹⁰ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”