Leviticus 21:21
Context21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward 1 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
Context22:4 No man 2 from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge 3 may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one 4 who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, 5 or a man who has a seminal emission, 6


[21:21] 1 tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).
[22:4] 2 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).
[22:4] 3 sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.
[22:4] 4 tn Heb “And the one.”
[22:4] 5 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.
[22:4] 6 tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”