That: this expresses the potential result of marrying someone other than the kind of person recommended. Marriage to an unacceptable woman can only produce unacceptable children. It will be possible in some languages to begin a new sentence with “If he does not obey this requirement, then….” Note that Good News Translation begins a new sentence with “Otherwise….”

Sanctify: set apart. See verse 8.

Notice that the Good News Translation rendering supplies implicit information at the end of this verse, since this is the conclusion of the paragraph on the requirements for the High Priest.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .