Restrictions against the Unclean

1The Lord also spoke to Moses saying: 2Speak to Aaron and to his sons, so that they may be careful of those things which have been consecrated for the sons of Israel, and so that they may not contaminate the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord. 3Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your stock, who approaches toward those things which have been consecrated, and which the sons of Israel have brought forward to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord. 4The man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who is suffering a flow of seed, shall not eat of those things which have been sanctified to me, until he is healed. Whoever will have touched what is unclean because of the dead, and he whose seed goes out from him, as if from sexual intercourse, 5and whoever has touched a creeping thing, or any kind of unclean thing, the touching of which is filthy,

6shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat those things which have been sanctified. But when he has washed his flesh with water, 7and the sun has set, then, having been purified, he shall eat from what has been sanctified, because it is his food. 8Whatever dies on its own, and whatever has been seized by a wild beast, they shall not eat, nor shall they be polluted by these. I am the Lord. 9Let them observe my precepts, so that they may not fall under sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they will have defiled it. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

10No foreigner shall eat from what has been sanctified; a guest of the priests and a hired servant shall not eat from them. 11But whomever the priest has bought, and whoever has been born into his house, these shall eat from them. 12If the daughter of a priest has been married to any of the people, she shall not eat from what has been sanctified, nor from the first-fruits. 13But if she is a widow or divorced, and, being without children, she returns to her father’s house, she shall be nourished by her father’s foods, just as she was accustomed to do as a girl. No foreigner shall have the authority to eat from them. 14Whoever, through ignorance, eats from what has been sanctified shall add a fifth part to that which he ate, and he shall give it to the priest at the Sanctuary. 15And they shall not contaminate what has been sanctified from the sons of Israel, which they offer to the Lord, 16lest perhaps they may suffer the iniquity of their offense, when they will have eaten what has been sanctified. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

Worthy Offerings

17And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 18Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man from the house of Israel, or from the newcomers who live with you, who would bring forward his oblation, either fulfilling his vows or offering spontaneously, whatever he brings forward as a holocaust for the Lord, 19in order to be offered through you, shall offer an immaculate male from the oxen, or from the sheep, or from the goats. 20If it has a blemish, you shall not offer it, and it shall not be acceptable. 21The man who will have offered a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either fulfilling his vows or offering spontaneously, whether of oxen, or of sheep, shall offer what is immaculate, so that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it. 22If it is blind, or if it is broken, or if it has a scar, or if it is has a boil, or a skin disease or infection, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor shall you burn any of these upon the altar of the Lord. 23An ox or a sheep, having an amputated ear or tail, you are able to offer voluntarily, but a vow is not able to be fulfilled by these. 24You shall not offer to the Lord any animal which has the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away, and you shall not cause any of these things in your land. 25From the hand of a foreigner, you shall not offer bread to your God, nor anything else that he would choose to give; for all this has been corrupted and blemished. You shall not accept them.

26And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27An ox, a sheep, or a goat, when they have been born, shall be under the udder of their mother for seven days. But on the eighth day and thereafter, they are able to be offered to the Lord. 28Whether it is an ox, or a sheep, they shall not be immolated on the same day with their newborns. 29If you immolate a victim as an act of thanksgiving to the Lord, so that he may be pleased, 30you shall eat it on the same day; none of it shall remain until morning on the next day. I am the Lord. 31Observe my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.

32Do not pollute my holy name, so that I may be sanctified in the midst of the sons of Israel. I am the Lord, who sanctifies you, 33and who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I may be to you as God. I am the Lord.