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“Tell[a] Aaron and his sons[b] that[c] they must deal respectfully with the Israelites[d] votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I am Yahweh.

“Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, any man from any of your offspring who comes near the votive offerings that the Israelites[e] consecrate to Yahweh with[f] his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off[g] from before me;[h] I am Yahweh.

“‘Anyone[i] from Aaron’s offspring, if[j] he is afflicted with a skin disease or a fluid discharge, shall not eat in the sanctuary until[k] he is clean; and the one who touches any unclean person or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out, or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him due to[l] whatever his uncleanness, a person who touches such a thing[m] shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the votive offerings, except[n] when he washes[o] his body with water and the sun sets,[p] and he shall be clean; then[q] afterward he may eat from the votive offerings, because it is his food. He shall not eat a naturally dead body or[r] a mangled carcass, so that he becomes unclean[s] by it; I am Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 22:2 Or “Speak to”
  2. Leviticus 22:2 Literally “to Aaron and to his sons”
  3. Leviticus 22:2 Or “and”
  4. Leviticus 22:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Leviticus 22:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  6. Leviticus 22:3 Or “and”
  7. Leviticus 22:3 Or “and that person shall be cut off”
  8. Leviticus 22:3 Literally “to the faces of me”
  9. Leviticus 22:4 Literally “A man a man”
  10. Leviticus 22:4 Or “and”
  11. Leviticus 22:4 Literally “until which”
  12. Leviticus 22:5 Literally “for”
  13. Leviticus 22:6 Hebrew “him” or “it”
  14. Leviticus 22:6 Or “but if” or “but rather”
  15. Leviticus 22:6 Or “bathes”
  16. Leviticus 22:7 Literally “the sun goes” or “the sun enters”
  17. Leviticus 22:7 Or “and”
  18. Leviticus 22:8 Or “and”
  19. Leviticus 22:8 Literally “to become unclean”