Leviticus 22:3-4

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ¹  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ²  to the Lord while he is impure, ³  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁴  I am the Lord. 22:4 No man ⁵  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ⁶  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ⁷  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁸  or a man who has a seminal emission, ⁹ 

Leviticus 22:18

22:18 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man ¹⁰  from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel ¹¹  presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering,

Leviticus 23:18

23:18 Along with the loaves of bread, ¹²  you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, ¹³  one young bull, ¹⁴  and two rams. ¹⁵  They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering ¹⁶  and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “To your generations.”

² 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”]”).

³ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ 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).

⁶ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

⁷ tn Heb “And the one.”

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Man, man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.; see the distributive repetition of the noun in GKC 395-96 §123.c).

¹¹ tn Heb “and from the foreigner [singular] in Israel.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate add “who resides” after “foreigner”: “the foreigner who resides in Israel” (cf., e.g., Lev 20:2 above).

¹² tn Heb “And you shall present on the bread.”

¹³ tn Heb “seven flawless lambs, sons of a year.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and one bull, a son of a herd.”

¹⁵ tc Smr and LXX add “flawless.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and their grain offering.”

¹⁷ sn See the note on Lev 1:9.