1. And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
2. “Speak to Aharon and his sons, that they separate themselves from the set-apart offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and that they do not profane My set-apart Name in what they set apart to Me. I am יהוה.
3. “Say to them, ‘Any man of all your offspring throughout your generations who draws near the set-apart offerings which the children of Yisra’ĕl set apart to יהוה, while he has uncleanness upon him, that being shall be cut off from before Me. I am יהוה.
4. ‘Any man of the offspring of Aharon, who is a leper or has a discharge, does not eat the set-apart offerings until he is clean. And whoever touches what is rendered unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,
5. or a man who touches any creeping creature by which he would be made unclean, or any being by whom he would become unclean, even any of his uncleanness;
6. the being who has touched it shall be unclean until evening, and does not eat the set-apart offerings, but shall bathe his body in water.
7. ‘And when the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward eat the set-apart offerings, because it is his food.
8. ‘He does not eat that which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it. I am יהוה.