Discovery BoxLeviticus 22:3-4 
Context22:3 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 22:9
Context22:9 They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it 10 and therefore die 11 because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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 “and they will not lift up on it sin.” The pronoun “it” (masculine) apparently refers to any item of food that belongs to the category of “holy offerings” (see above).
11 tn Heb “and die in it.”
