Leviticus 21:12

21:12 He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane ¹  the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:22

21:22 He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

Leviticus 24:15

24:15 Moreover, ²  you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God ³  he will bear responsibility for his sin,

Leviticus 4:22

For the Leader

4:22 “‘Whenever ⁴  a leader, by straying unintentionally, ⁵  sins and violates one of the commandments of the Lord his God which must not be violated, ⁶  and he pleads guilty,

Leviticus 21:17

21:17 “Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations ⁷  who has a physical flaw ⁸  is to approach to present the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:21

21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ⁹  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

¹ sn Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

² tn Heb “And.”

³ sn See the note on v. 11 above and esp. Exod 22:28 [27 HT].

³ tn This section begins with the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) which usually means “who” or “which,” but here means “whenever.”

⁴ tn See the Lev 4:2 note on “straying.”

⁵ tn Heb “and does one from all the commandments of the Lord his God which must not be done”; cf. NRSV “ought not to be done”; NIV “does what is forbidden in any of the commands.”

⁴ tn Heb “to their generations.”

⁵ tn Heb “who in him is a flaw”; cf. KJV, ASV “any blemish”; NASB, NIV “a defect.” The rendering “physical flaw” is used to refer to any birth defect or physical injury of the kind described in the following verses (cf. the same Hebrew word also in Lev 24:19-20). The same term is used for “flawed” animals, which must not be offered to the Lord in Lev 22:20-25.

⁵ tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).