Leviticus 22:4

Context
22:4 No man¹ from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge² may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one³ who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person,⁴ or a man who has a seminal emission,⁵

Leviticus 22:7

Context
22:7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

[22:4] ¹tn 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] ²sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

[22:4] ³tn Heb “And the one.”

[22:4] ⁴tn 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] ⁵tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”