Discovery BoxLeviticus 22:5 
Context22:5 or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, 1 or touches a person 2 by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity 3 –
Leviticus 26:40
Context26:40 However, when 4 they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, 5 by which they also walked 6 in hostility against me 7
1 tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”
2 tn The Hebrew term for “person” here is אָדָם (adam, “human being”), which could either a male or a female person.
3 tn Heb “to all his impurity.” The phrase refers to the impurity of the person whom the man touches to become unclean (see the previous clause). To clarify this, the translation uses “that person’s” rather than “his.”
4 tn Heb “And.” Many English versions take this to be a conditional clause (“if…”) though there is no conditional particle (see, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV; but see the very different rendering in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 190). The temporal translation offered here (“when”) takes into account the particle אָז (’az, “then”), which occurs twice in v. 41. The obvious contextual contrast between vv. 39 and 40 is expressed by “however” in the translation.
5 tn Heb “in their trespassing which they trespassed in me.” See the note on Lev 5:15, although the term is used in a more technical sense there in relation to the “guilt offering.”
6 tn Heb “and also which they walked.”
7 tn Heb “with me.”
