 1 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons so that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the children of Israel, and so that they do not profane my holy name in what they devote to me. I am the Lord. 3 Say to them, Any one of all your descendants among your generations who draws near to the holy things that the children of Israel set apart to the Lord, if they have any uncleanness, that soul shall be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord. 4 Any descendant of Aaron who is leprous or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until they are clean. Anyone who touches anything that is unclean or by contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission, 5 or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or touches a man who is unclean to him by any uncleanness he has, 6 the soul who has touched it will be unclean until evening. He shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his flesh with water. 7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food. 8 He shall not eat a dead body or one torn to defile himself with them. I am the Lord. 9 They shall keep my ordinance lest they bear sin for it so that they may not die for it when they defile it. I the Lord sanctify them. 10 No stranger shall eat of the holy things. A tenant of a priest or a hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if the priest buys a soul with his silver, he shall eat of it. And one born in his house shall eat of his food. 12 A priest's daughter, when she belongs to a man, a stranger, she may not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. 13 But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food. But no stranger shall eat of it. 14 If a man eats a holy thing without knowing it, then he shall put the fifth part to it, and shall give to the priest with the holy thing. 15 They shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer to the Lord, 16 and so load on them the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating of their holy things. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 17 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 18 Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifices for his vows, for all his free will offerings, which they will offer to the Lord for a burnt offering, 19 you shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 You shall not offer what has a blemish. For it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 When a man offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to carry out his vow or a free will offering in cattle or sheep it must be perfect to be accepted. There must be no blemish in them. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore, or having scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the Lord. 23 As to a young bull or a sheep that is deformed or dwarfed, you may offer that for a free will offering. But for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 You shall not offer to the Lord what is bruised or crushed, or broken or cut. You shall not make any offering of it in your land. 25 You shall not offer the bread of your God from a son of a stranger, or any of these, because their uncleanness is in them, and blemishes are in them. They shall not be accepted for you. 26 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 27 When a bull or a lamb or a goat is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam. From the eighth day and from then on it shall be accepted for a fire offering to the Lord. 28 But you must not kill a bull or sheep and its young one in one day. 29 When you will, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord. Offer it of your own will. 30 On the same day it must be eaten. You must not leave any of it until morning. I am the Lord. 31 You shall keep my commandments and do them. I am the Lord. 32 You shall not profane my holy name. But I will be holy among the children of Israel. I am the Lord who is sanctifying you, 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord.
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