Certainly ¹  no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, ²  or a limb too long,

biblegateway Lev 21:18

‘For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,

No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;

Indeed, no one who has a physical defect may ever come near the altar. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity,

biblegateway Lev 21:18

No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

bibleoremus Lev 21:18

For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

No man with a defect is to come, whether a blind man, a lame man, a man stunted or overgrown,

biblegateway Lev 21:18

‘For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long,

For whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

biblegateway Lev 21:18

Certainly ¹  no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, ²  or a limb too long,

¹ tn The particle כִּי (ki) in this context is asseverative, indicating absolutely certainty (GKC 498 §159.ee).

² tn Lexically, the Hebrew term חָרֻם (kharum) seems to refer to a split nose or perhaps any number of other facial defects (HALOT 354 s.v. II חרם qal; cf. G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 292, n. 7); cf. KJV, ASV “a flat nose”; NASB “a disfigured face.” The NJPS translation is “a limb too short” as a balance to the following term which means “extended, raised,” and apparently refers to “a limb too long” (see the explanation in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 146).