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Leviticus 22:7-16 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

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