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Leviticus 22:7-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

7. When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.

8. He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’

9. They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

10. “A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,

11. but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

12. If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.

13. But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.

14. And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.

15. They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord,

16. and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

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