Leviticus 27:30

Redemption of the Tithe

27:30 “‘Any tithe ¹  of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 21:21

21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ²  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

Leviticus 22:4

22:4 No man ³  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ⁴  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ⁵  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁶  or a man who has a seminal emission, ⁷ 

¹ tn On the “tithe” system in Israel, see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:1035-55 and esp. pp. 1041-42 on Lev 27:30-33.

² tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).

³ 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).

⁴ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

⁵ tn Heb “And the one.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”