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3 Say to them and to their posterity: Ev- wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger
ery man of your race, that approacheth to those hath leave to eat of them.
things that are consecrated, and which the chil- 14 He that eateth of the sanctified things
dren of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with
there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest
I am the Lord. into the sanctuary.
4 The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a 15 And they shall not profane the sanctified
leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, things of the children of Israel, which they offer
shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to the Lord:
to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any 16 Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their
thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he trespass, when they shall have eaten the sancti-
whose seed goeth from him as in generation: fied things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
5 And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
any unclean thing, the touching of which is de- 18 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to
filing: all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to
6 Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall them: The man of the house of Israel, and of
not eat those things that are sanctified. But the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth
when he hath washed his flesh with water, his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering
7 And the sun is down, then being purified, of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he
he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,
his meat. 19 To be offered by you: it shall be a male
8 That which dieth of itself, and that which without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep,
was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be or of the goats.
defiled therewith. I am the Lord. 20 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it:
9 Let them keep my precepts, that they may neither shall it be acceptable.
not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when 21 The man that offereth a victim of peace
they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or
sanctify them. offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or
10 No stranger shall eat of the sanctified of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it
things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired ser- may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in
vant, shall not eat of them. it.
11 But he whom the priest hath bought, and 22 If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or
he that is his servant, born in his house, these blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not
shall eat of them. offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of
12 If the daughter of a priest be married to any them upon the Lord’s altar.
of the people, she shall not eat of those things 23 An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the
that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits. tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily: but a
13 But if she be a widow, or divorced, and vow may not be paid with them.
having no children return to her father’s house, 24 you shall not offer to the Lord any beast
she shall eat of her father’s meats, as she was that hath the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut