Leviticus 22:1-30

¹Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

²“Tell Aaron and his sons to greatly respect the sacred offerings that the Israeli people bring to me; by doing that you will respect me MTY, Yahweh.

³Tell them that for all future time, if any of their descendants comes near to the sacred offerings that the Israeli people dedicate to me while he is unfit to work for me, that person will no longer be allowed to work for me. I, Yahweh, am commanding this.

⁴If any descendant of Aaron has a contagious skin disease or a discharge from his sexual organs, he is not allowed to eat any of the sacred offerings until he is cured. He will also be unfit for his work if he touches anything which has become unacceptable to me because it has touched a corpse, or if he touches anyone who as an emission of semen,

⁵or if he touches anything that crawls on the ground, or if he touches any person who causes him to be unfit for his work.

⁶Any priest who touches such things must bathe, and he must not touch anyone else until that evening.

⁷After the sun sets, he will be permitted to eat some of the sacred offerings that are for him to eat.

⁸He must not eat anything that is found dead or that has been killed by wild animals, because if he did that, he would be unfit to work for me. I, Yahweh am commanding those things.

⁹The priests must obey my commandments in order that they will not become guilty and die as a result of ◄despising/not obeying► them.

¹⁰Anyone who is not a member of a priest's family is not permitted to eat any of a sacred offering, and no one who is visiting the priest or whom the priest has hired is permitted to eat it.

¹¹But if a priest buys a slave, or if a slave is born in his house, that slave is permitted to eat such food.

¹²If a priest's daughter marries a man who is not a priest, she no longer is permitted to eat the sacred food.

¹³But if a priest's daughter who has no children becomes a widow or becomes divorced, if she returns to her father's house to live there like she did when she was young, she may eat the same food that her father eats. But no other person is permitted to eat any of it.

¹⁴If anyone who is not permitted to eat a sacred offering eats it without realizing that it is sacred, he must pay the priest for the offering, and pay him an extra one-fifth of its value.

¹⁵When the priests bring offerings to me, the sacred offerings that the Israeli people bring to them, they must not treat those offerings as though they are not sacred

¹⁶by allowing those who are not priests to eat any of those offerings. If they did that, they would become guilty and must make a payment. I am Yahweh, the one who causes those offerings to be sacred.”

¹⁷Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israeli people and tell them that I command this: ‘If any of you Israelis or foreigners who live in Israel brings to me an animal that will be completely burned on the altar, either as a result of a solemn promise that you made to me or to be an offering that is given voluntarily,

¹⁹it must be an animal that has no defects, in order that it will be accepted by me.

²⁰Do not bring any animals that have defects, because I will not accept them as an offering from you.

²¹Similarly, when someone brings from his cattle or sheep or goats an offering to maintain fellowship with me, either to fulfill a promise that he made to me or to be a voluntary offering, in order that I will accept it, it must have no defects DOU or blemishes.

²²Do not offer to me animals that are blind or injured or maimed/crippled, or any animal that has warts or a festering sore DOU.

²³You may present to me to be a voluntary offering an ox or a sheep that is injured or stunted, but it will not be accepted to fulfill a promise made to me.

²⁴You must not offer to me animals whose testicles are bruised or crushed or torn or cut. You must not injure the testicles of any animal in your land,

²⁵and you must not accept such animals that are sold/given to you by a foreigner. You must not offer them to me as a sacrifice for me. Such animals will not be accepted by me, because they are deformed or have defects.’”

²⁶Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

²⁷“When a calf or lamb or goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. After that, it will be acceptable as an offering to me that will be burned.

²⁸Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its baby on the same day.

²⁹When you sacrifice an animal to thank me for what I have done, sacrifice it in a way that is acceptable to me.

³⁰The meat must be eaten on that day; do not leave any of it until the next morning. I, Yahweh, am the one who am commanding this.