6. the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.
7. When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
8. He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the Lord.
9. “‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
10. “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
11. But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.
12. If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
13. But if a 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 bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
14. “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
15. The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord,
16. and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings 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 is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to the Lord for a burnt offering:
19. that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20. But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21. Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
22. You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the Lord.
23. Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
24. You must not offer to the Lord that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.