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Leviticus 22:6-24 Modern English Version (MEV)

6. the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his body with water.

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

8. That which dies of itself or is torn by animals he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord.

9. They shall therefore keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin from it and therefore die if they defile it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

10. There shall be no outsider who eats of a holy thing, whether a foreign guest of the priest or a hired servant, he shall not eat of a holy offering.

11. But if a priest buys a person with his money, the person acquired shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house shall eat of his food.

12. If the priest’s daughter marries an outsider, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

13. But if the priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no outsider may eat of it.

14. If a man eats the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall add a fifth of the value to it and shall give the holy thing to the priest.

15. They shall not defile the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord,

16. and cause them to suffer and to bear the iniquity of guilt when they eat their holy things, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

17. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: Whoever from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel who offers his burnt offering for any vows or freewill offerings that he offers to the Lord,

19. then if it is to be accepted for you, the offering shall be a male without ­blemish, a bull, sheep, or goat.

20. But whatever has a blemish you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

21. Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to fulfill his vow or a freewill offering, whether from the herd or flock, to be accepted it shall be perfect, with no blemish on it.

22. Blind, or disabled, or maimed, or having an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor make a food offering by fire on the altar to the Lord.

23. A herd animal or a flock animal that has a limb that is too long or short you may offer for a freewill offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

24. You shall not offer to the Lord an animal that is bruised or crushed or torn or cut; nor shall you make any offering of them in your land.

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