Leviticus [Pertaining to Levites] 22:5-28

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 .

⁹“‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh M'Kaddesham Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy.

¹⁰“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

¹¹But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

¹²If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

¹³But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has teshuvah ·completely returned· to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

¹⁴“‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.

¹⁵The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel God prevails, which they offer to Adonai ,

¹⁶and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh M'Kaddesham Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy.’” (3)

¹⁷Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

¹⁸“Speak to Aaron Light-bringer, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel God prevails, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel God prevails, or of the foreigners in Israel God prevails, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to Adonai for a burnt offering;

¹⁹that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

²⁰But whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

²¹Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

²²Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Adonai , nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Adonai .

²³Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

²⁴You must not offer to Adonai that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.

²⁵You must not receive any of these from the hand of a foreigner to offer as bread for your God, because their deformity is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

²⁶Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

²⁷“When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Adonai .

²⁸Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.