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Leviticus 22:6-14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6. a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water.

7. But when the sun sets, he will be clean, and afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food.

8. He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.

9. They shall therefore keep My charge, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die thereby because they profane it; I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

10. 'No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.

11. But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

12. If a priest's daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

13. But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father's house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food; but no layman shall eat of it.

14. But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest.

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