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

Leviticus 22:4

4 No man ^{▼▼ 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).} from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ^{▼▼ The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13–15.} may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ^{▼▼ Heb “And the one.”} who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ^{▼▼ 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.} or a man who has a seminal emission, ^{▼▼ Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”}