Leviticus [Pertaining to Levites] 22:1-8

¹Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

²“Tell Aaron Light-bringer and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel God prevails, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Adonai .

³“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout all your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel God prevails make holy to Adonai , having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Adonai .

⁴“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron Light-bringer is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose offspring goes from him;

⁵or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

⁶the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

⁷When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

⁸That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Adonai .