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Leviticus 22:9-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

10. No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

11. But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

12. If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified, nor of the firstfruits.

13. But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid, no stranger hath leave to eat of them.

14. He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.

15. And they shall not profane the sanctified things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:

16. Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,

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