Leviticus 22:4
New English Translation
4 No man[a] from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge[b] may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one[c] who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person,[d] or with a man who has a seminal emission,[e]
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- Leviticus 22:4 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).
- Leviticus 22:4 sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.
- Leviticus 22:4 tn Heb “And the one.”
- Leviticus 22:4 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.
- Leviticus 22:4 tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”
Leviticus 22:4
New International Version
4 “‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[a] or a bodily discharge,(A) he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse(B) or by anyone who has an emission of semen,
Footnotes
- Leviticus 22:4 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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