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Leviticus 22:4-6
New English Translation
Leviticus 22:4-6
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] 5 or with a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean,[f] or who touches a person[g] by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity[h]— 6 the person who touches any of these[i] will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.
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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 22:5 tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”
- Leviticus 22:5 tn The Hebrew term for “person” here is אָדָם (ʾadam, “human being”), which could be either a male or a female person.
- Leviticus 22:5 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.”
- Leviticus 22:6 sn The phrase “any of these” refers back to the unclean things touched in vv. 4b-5.
Leviticus 22:4-6
New International Version
Leviticus 22:4-6
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, 5 or if he touches any crawling thing(C) that makes him unclean, or any person(D) who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. 6 The one who touches any such thing will be unclean(E) till evening.(F) He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.(G)
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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