Leviticus 7:21

7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) ¹  and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’” ² 

Leviticus 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ³  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ⁴  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ⁵ 

Leviticus 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ⁶  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ⁷  to the Lord while he is impure, ⁸  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁹  I am the Lord.

[7:21]  ¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

[7:21]  ² sn For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

[20:3]  ⁴ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

[20:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

[22:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “To your generations.”

[22:3]  ⁶ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

[22:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

[22:3]  ⁸ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”