This verse is a summary statement which states the same truth twice in slightly different words. Good News Translation has reduced this to a single statement. Receptor-language habits will determine whether it is more natural to follow the Revised Standard Version or the Good News Translation formulation.

Come near: the word used here is not the same as in verses 17 and 18 above, but the meaning is virtually identical.

The bread of his God: see verses 6 and 17.

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 .