Leviticus 22:4
Good News Translation
"None of the descendants of Aaron who has a dreaded skin disease or a discharge may eat any of the sacred offerings until he is ritually clean. Any priest is unclean if he touches anything which is unclean through contact with a corpse or if he has an emission of semen

New Revised Standard Version
No one of Aaron’s offspring who has a leprous disease or suffers a discharge may eat of the sacred donations until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse or a man who has had an emission of semen,

Contemporary English Version
None of you may take part in the sacred meals while you have a skin disease or an infected penis, or after you have been near a dead body or have had a flow of semen,

New American Bible
No descendant of Aaron who is stricken with a scaly infection, or who suffers from a genital discharge, may eat of the sacred offerings, until he again becomes clean. Moreover, if anyone touches a person who has become unclean by contact with a corpse, or if anyone has had an emission of semen,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

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The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

a leper

Leviticus 13:2,3,44-46 The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different colour or a blister, or as it were something shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or of his sons. . . .

Leviticus 15:2,3 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean. . . .

holy things

Leviticus 2:3,10 And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 6:25-29 Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies. . . .

Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

Numbers 18:9,19 These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. . . .

until

Leviticus 14:2 This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:

Leviticus 15:13-15 If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean. . . .

unclean

Leviticus 21:1 The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

Numbers 19:11-16 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . .

whose

Leviticus 15:16 The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
3Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord. 4The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:5And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling:…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:24
And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:

Leviticus 11:39
If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 14:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 15:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15:16
The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:17
The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.

Haggai 2:13
And Haggai said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul touch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered, and said: It shall be defiled.

Leviticus 22:3
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