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Leviticus 22:5-11 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.

9. “ ‘And they shall keep my obligation, and they shall not incur guilt because of it, so that they die through it, because they have profaned it; I am Yahweh who consecrates them.

10. “ ‘No stranger shall eat the votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat the votive offering.

11. But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as his possession, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food.

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