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.
12. And a priest’s daughter, when she marries a layman, she herself may not eat the votive offering.
13. But a priest’s daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced or there is no offspring for her, and she returns to her father’s house as in her childhood, she may eat from her father’s food, but no layman may eat it.
14. And if a man eats the votive offering unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it, and he shall give the votive offering to the priest.
15. And they shall not profane the Israelites’ votive offerings that they present to Yahweh,
16. and so cause them, by their eating their votive offerings, to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.’ ”
17. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
18. “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering,
19. it must be without defect to be acceptable for you: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats.
20. You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you.