Leviticus 22
1GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
2Instruct Aaron and his sons to be scrupulous about the sacred donations that the Israelite people consecrate to Me, lest they profane My holy name, Mine GOD’s.
3Say to them:Throughout the ages, if any man among your offspring, while in a state of impurity, partakes of any sacred donation that the Israelite people may consecrate to GOD, that person shall be cut off from before Me: I am GOD.
4No man whatsoever among Aaron’s offspring who has an eruption or a discharge shall eat of the sacred donations until he is pure. If one touches anything made impure by a corpse, or if a man has an emission of semen,
5or if a man touches any swarming thing by which he is made impure or any human being by whom he is made impure—whatever his impurity—
6the person who touches such shall be impure until evening and shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in water.
7As soon as the sun sets, he shall be pure; and afterward he may eat of the sacred donations, for they are his food.
8He shall not eat anything that died or was torn by beasts, thereby becoming impure: I am GOD.
9They shall keep My charge, lest they incur guilt thereby and die for it, having committed profanation: I GOD consecrate them.
10No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired laborer of a priest shall eat of the sacred donations;
11but a person who is a priest’s property by purchase may eat of them; and those that are born into his household may eat of his food.
12If a priest’s daughter becomes a layman’s wife, she may not eat of the sacred gifts;
13but if the priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and without offspring, and is back in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food. No lay person may eat of it—
14but if someone eats of a sacred donation unwittingly, the priest shall be paid for the sacred donation, adding one-fifth of its value.
15But [the priests] must not allow the Israelites to profane the sacred donations that they set aside for GOD,
16or to incur guilt requiring a penalty payment, by eating such sacred donations: for it is I GOD who make them sacred.
17GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
18Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelite people, and say to them:When anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, presents a burnt offering as their offering for any of the votive or any of the freewill offerings that are offered to GOD,
19it must, to be acceptable in your favor, be a male without blemish, from cattle or sheep or goats.
20You shall not offer any that has a defect, for it will not be accepted in your favor.
21And when anyone offers, from the herd or the flock, a sacrifice of well-being to GOD for an explicit uncertain. vow or as a freewill offering, it must, to be acceptable, be without blemish; there must be no defect in it.
22Anything blind, or injured, or maimed, or with a wen, boil-scar, or scurvy—such you shall not offer to GOD; you shall not put any of them on the altar as offerings by fire to GOD.
23You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep with a limb extended or contracted; but it will not be accepted for a vow.
24You shall not offer to GOD anything [with its testes] bruised or crushed or torn or cut. You shall have no such practices in your own land,
25nor shall you accept such [animals] from a foreigner for offering as food for your God, for they are mutilated, they have a defect; they shall not be accepted in your favor.
26GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
27When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to GOD.
28However, no animal from the herd or from the flock shall be slaughtered on the same day with its young.
29When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to GOD, sacrifice it so that it may be acceptable in your favor.
30It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am GOD.
31You shall faithfully observe My commandments: I am GOD.
32You shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the Israelite people—I, GOD, who sanctify you,
33I who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God, I, the ETERNAL.