Leviticus 22:4
Context22:4 No man 1 from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge 2 may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one 3 who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, 4 or a man who has a seminal emission, 5
Leviticus 22:7
Context22:7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
1 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).
2 sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.
3 tn Heb “And the one.”
4 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.
5 tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”