Leviticus 22

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ² "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they should sequester themselves from the holy things of the sons of Israel which they are sanctifying to Me so that they may not profane My holy Name: I am Yahweh. ³ Say to them: Throughout your generations, every man of all your seed who is coming near to the holy things which the sons of Israel are sanctifying to Yahweh, when his uncleanness is on him, that soul will be cut off from My presence: I am Yahweh. ⁴ Any man of the seed of Aaron, when he is a leprous man or has a discharge, he may not eat of the holy things until he be clean. As for the one touching any unclean soul, or a man from whom an emission of semen comes forth, ⁵ or a man who touches any swarmer which is unclean to him or a human who is unclean to him because of any uncleanness on him, ⁶ the soul who touches it also will be unclean until the evening and may not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his flesh in water. ⁷ When the sun sets he will be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, for it is his bread. ⁸ A carcass or animal torn to pieces he shall not eat so as to defile himself by it: I am Yahweh. ⁹ Hence they will keep My charge so that they shall not bear sin on its account and die by it, in case they should violate it: I, Yahweh, am hallowing them. ¹⁰ Nor shall any alien eat the holy thing; that is, a priest's guest or hireling shall not eat the holy thing. ¹¹ Yet when a priest buys a soul, an acquisition with his silver, he may eat of it; also his homeborn, they may eat of his bread. ¹² In case a daughter of a priest comes to have an alien husband, she may not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. ¹³ Yet in case the daughter of the priest becomes a widow or is driven out and she has no seed and so she returns to the house of her father as in her youth, of her father's bread she may eat, yet no alien at all may eat of it. ¹⁴ And in case someone eats a holy thing inadvertently then he shall add a fifth of its value to it and restitute the holy thing to the priest. ¹⁵ They shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel which they are raising up to Yahweh ¹⁶ and cause them to bear the depravity of guilt when they eat their holy things for I, Yahweh, am hallowing them." ¹⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁸ "Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man of the house of Israel or of the sojourners sojourning in Israel, brings near his approach present for all their vows and for all their voluntary offerings which they may bring near to Yahweh for an ascent offering ¹⁹ for acceptance on your behalf, it has to be a flawless male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats. ²⁰ Any in which there is a blemish you shall not bring near seeing that it shall not be for acceptance on your behalf. ²¹ When a man brings near a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to make an extraordinary vow or as a voluntary offering of the herd or of the flock, flawless shall it be for acceptance; no blemish at all shall be in it. ²² Blind or crippled or gashed or with an ulcer or eczema or tetter, you shall not bring these near to Yahweh, nor as a fire offering shall you offer of them on the altar to Yahweh. ²³ As for a bull or a flockling deformed or stunted you may offer it as a voluntary offering, yet for a vow it shall not be accepted. ²⁴ And one with testicles squashed or pounded to pieces or pulled away or cut out you shall not bring near to Yahweh. You shall not do this in your own land, ²⁵ nor shall you bring near as the bread of your Elohim of any of these animals acquired from the hand of a foreigner's son. Since their ruin is in them, and a blemish is in them, they shall not be accepted on your behalf." ²⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷ "When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born then it will come to be seven days under its mother; from the eighth day and beyond it may be accepted as an approach present of a fire offering to Yahweh. ²⁸ As for a bull or a flockling, it and its young you shall not slay in one day. ²⁹ And in case you should sacrifice an acclamation sacrifice to Yahweh, for acceptance on your behalf shall you sacrifice it. ³⁰ On the same day shall it be eaten; you shall not leave any of it until the morning: I am Yahweh. ³¹ Hence observe My instructions and keep them: I am Yahweh. ³² You shall not profane My holy name, so that I be hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel. I am Yahweh Who is hallowing you, ³³ Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt to be your Elohim: I am Yahweh."