Leviticus 22:1–16

22Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they ^aseparate ¹themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they ^bdo not profane My holy name by what they ^cdedicate to Me: I am the Lord. ³Say to them: ‘Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the Lord, ^dwhile he has ²uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the Lord.

⁴‘Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a ^eleper or has ^fa discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings ^guntil he is clean. And ^hwhoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or ⁱa man who has had an emission of semen, ⁵or ^jwhoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or ^kany person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—⁶the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he ^lwashes his body with water. ⁷And when the sun goes down he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat the holy offerings, because ^mit is his food. ⁸ⁿWhatever dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the Lord.

⁹‘They shall therefore keep ^oMy ³ordinance, ^plest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they profane it: I the Lord sanctify them.

^10q‘No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who ⁴dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing. ¹¹But if the priest ^rbuys a person with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food. ¹²If the priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy offerings. ¹³But if the priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food; but no outsider shall eat it.

¹⁴‘And if a man eats the holy offering unintentionally, then he shall restore a holy offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it. ¹⁵They shall not profane the ^sholy offerings of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord, ¹⁶or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy offerings; for I the Lord sanctify them.’ ”