Leviticus 22:1-13 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, and they shall be separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, lest they profane My holy name that they dedicate to Me. I am YHWH.

3 Say to them throughout your? generations: Any man of all your? seed who goes near the holy things that the sons of Israel dedicate to YHWH, and his uncleanness is upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence. I am YHWH.

4 Any man of the seed of Aaron and who is a leper or has a discharge—the holy offerings he shall not eat until that he is clean; and whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse or a man from whom a laying of seed goes out,

5 or a man who touches any swarming thing that is unclean to him or any person who is unclean to him, whatever his uncleanness may be,

6 then the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat of the holy things, unless if he bathes his flesh with the water.

7 And when the sun goes down, then he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his food.

8 A carcass or torn thing he shall not eat, to defile himself with it. I am YHWH.

9 And they shall keep My ordinance and bear no sin for it that they die in it because they profane it. I am YHWH, sanctifying them.

10 And not any outsider shall eat the holy thing; one who dwells with the priest and a hireling shall not eat the holy thing.

11 And if a priest buys a person with his silver, he may eat it. And one who is born in his house, they may eat his food.

12 And the daughter of a priest, if she is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy contributions.

13 And the daughter of a priest, if she is a widow or divorced and has no seed to her and has returned to the house of her father as in her youth, she may eat from the bread of her father, and no outsider shall eat it.