1. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2. “Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the Israelites’ votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I am Yahweh.
3. “Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, any man from any of your offspring who comes near the votive offerings that the Israelites consecrate to Yahweh with his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off from before me; I am Yahweh.
4. “ ‘Anyone from Aaron’s offspring, if he is afflicted with a skin disease or a fluid discharge, shall not eat in the sanctuary until he is clean; and the one who touches any unclean person or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out,
5. or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him due to whatever his uncleanness,
6. a person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the votive offerings, except when he washes his body with water
7. and the sun sets, and he shall be clean; then afterward he may eat from the votive offerings, because it is his food.
8. He shall not eat a naturally dead body or a mangled carcass, so that he becomes unclean by it; I am Yahweh.