Leviticus 22

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and they will be separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they will not defile My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me. I am YHWH. 3 Say to them: Throughout your generations, any man who draws near, out of all your seed, to the holy things which the sons of Israel sanctify to YHWH, and his uncleanness is on him—indeed, that person will be cut off from before My face. I am YHWH. 4 Any man of the seed of Aaron, and he is leprous or has discharge—he will not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed from intercourse goes out from him, 5 or a man who comes against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness— 6 the person who comes against it will even be unclean until the evening, and will not eat of the holy things, but will bathe his flesh with water, 7 and the sun will be gone in, and he will be clean, and afterward he eats of the holy things, for it is his food. 8 He will not eat a carcass or torn thing, to become unclean with it. I am YHWH. 9 And they will keep My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they will die for it when they defile it. I am YHWH sanctifying them. 10 And no stranger will eat of the holy thing. A settler with a priest and a hired worker will not eat of the holy thing. 11 But when a priest buys a person, the purchase of his money, he will eat of it, also one born in his house. They will eat of his bread. 12 And a priest’s daughter, when she is a strange man’s, she will not eat of the raised-offering of the holy things. 13 But a priest’s daughter, when she is a widow, or thrown out, and has no seed, and has turned back to the house of her father, as in her youth, she will eat of her father’s bread. But no stranger will eat of it. 14 And when a man eats of a holy thing through ignorance, then he will add its fifth part to it, and give it to the priest, with the holy thing. 15 And they will not defile the holy things of the sons of Israel—that which they lift up to YHWH, 16 or will caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things. for I am YHWH, sanctifying them.” 17 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and you say to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, who brings his offering near, of all his vows, or of all his willing offerings which they bring near to YHWH for a burnt-offering— 19 you bring near at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats. 20 Nothing in which is blemished do you bring near, for it will not be for a pleasing thing for you. 21 And when a man brings a sacrifice of peace-offerings near to YHWH, to complete a special vow, or for a willing-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect for a pleasing thing: no blemish will be in it. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having an oozing sore *, or itch, or scab—you will not bring these near to YHWH, and you will not make a fire-offering from them on the altar to YHWH. 23 As for an ox or sheep that is deformed or stunted—you make it a willing-offering, but it will not be pleasing for a vow. 24 As for bruised, or beaten, or torn, or cut—you will not bring it near to YHWH. And in your land you will not do it. 25 And you will not bring the bread of your God near from the hand of a son of a stranger, from any of these, for their corruption is in them. Blemish is in them. They will not be pleasing for you.” 26 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “When ox, or lamb, or goat is born, and it has been under its mother for seven days, then from the eighth day and from now on, it is pleasing for an offering, a fire-offering to YHWH. 28 But an ox or sheep—you will not slaughter it and its young one in one day. 29 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to YHWH, you will sacrifice at your pleasure. 30 It will be eaten on that day—you will not leave of it until morning. I am YHWH. 31 And you will keep my commands and will do them. I am YHWH. 32 And you will not defile My holy name, and I will be hallowed in the middle of the sons of Israel. I am YHWH, sanctifying you, 33 who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to become your God. I am YHWH.”


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