Leviticus 22:9-28

⁹The priests must do as I demand, so that they don't become guilty and die because they have not done so, treating my requirements with contempt. I am the Lord who makes them holy.

¹⁰Anyone who isn't part of a priest's family is not allowed eat the holy offerings. This also applies to a priest's guest or his paid worker.

¹¹However, if a priest uses his own money to buy a slave, or if a slave is born in the priest's household, then that slave is allowed to eat his food.

¹²If the priest's daughter gets married to a man who isn't a priest, she is not allowed to eat the holy offerings.

¹³But if a priest's daughter without children is widowed or divorced and goes back to her father's house, she is allowed to eat her father's food as she did when she was growing up. But no one outside the priest's family can eat it.

¹⁴Anyone who eats a holy offering by mistake must pay compensation by adding a fifth to its value, and give it all to the priest.

¹⁵The priests must not make the holy offerings the Israelites present to the Lord unclean

¹⁶by allowing the people to eat them and in so doing take upon themselves the punishment for guilt. For I am the Lord who makes them holy.”

¹⁷The Lord told Moses,

¹⁸“Tell Aaron, his sons and all the Israelites: If you or foreigner living with you wants to make a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord, whether it's to fulfill a promise or as a freewill offering, this is what you are to do.

¹⁹If it is to be accepted on your behalf you must offer a male without defects from the herds of cattle, sheep, or goats.

²⁰Don't present anything with a defect because it won't be accepted on your behalf.

²¹If you want to present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or flock to fulfill a promise or as a freewill offering, in order to be acceptable the animal must be perfect, completely without defects.

²²Don't present to the Lord an animal that is blind, injured, or damaged in some way, or has warts, skin sores, or scabs. Don't place any animal that has these on the altar as a food offering to the Lord.

²³However, you can present a freewill offering of a bull or sheep that has a leg that is too long or too short, but not if it is a sacrifice to fulfill a promise.

²⁴Don't present to the Lord an animal with testicles that are accidentally or deliberately damaged. You are not allowed to sacrifice any of these damaged animals in your land.

²⁵Nor are you allowed to accept such animals from a foreigner to be damaged and defective.”

²⁶The Lord told Moses,

²⁷“When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must stay with its mother for seven days. After eight days it can be accepted as a food offering to the Lord.

²⁸However, don't kill a bull or a sheep and its young on the same day.