¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and tell them that they should separate themselves from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and not profane my holy name, inasmuch as they are sanctifying things to me. I am the Lord. ³Say to them, ‘In your generations, every man of any of your seed who is in an unclean state, who approaches the holy things which the sons of Israel are sanctifying to the Lord, that person will be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord. ⁴Any man of the seed of Aaron who is leprous or with a discharge shall not eat in the holy places until he is clean, and whoever touches any person who is unclean, or a man from whom semen is emitted, ⁵or a man who touches any reptile by which one is defiled, or a man by whom he is defiled – by any uncleanness of his – ⁶the person who has touched him will be unclean until the evening, and he will not eat of the holy things, but he will wash his body with water. ⁷And when the sun has set, he will be clean, and after that he will partake of the holy things, for it is his bread. ⁸He shall not eat from a carcase or savaged animal, which would defile him. I am the Lord. ⁹And they will keep my charge, so as not to bear sin on its account, and they will die in it if they have profaned it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them. ¹⁰And no foreigner will eat any holy thing; no resident with the priest, nor a hired labourer will eat any holy thing. ¹¹But if a priest buys a person as a purchase with his own money, that person may eat of it, as may anyone born in his house; they may partake of his bread. ¹²Neither will a priest's daughter, if she is wife to a foreigner, partake of the heave-offering of the holy things. ¹³And as for the daughter of a priest who becomes a widow or is divorced, and has no offspring, she will return to the house of her father, as in her youth. She will partake of her father's bread, and no foreigner will eat it. ¹⁴And if a man eats a holy thing in ignorance, then he will add one fifth to it, and he will give the holy thing to the priest. ¹⁵And they will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel which they heave to the Lord. ¹⁶Nor shall they cause them to bear iniquity, entailing guilt, which they would incur if they were to eat their holy things, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’ ” ¹⁷Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or of foreign residents in Israel who offers his oblation according to all their vows, or according to all their freewill-offerings which they make to the Lord as a burnt offering, ¹⁹let him offer for your acceptance, a male without blemish, among the oxen, lambs, or goats. ²⁰You shall not offer any animal that has a blemish, for it will not be accepted on your behalf. ²¹And if a man offers a peace-sacrifice to the Lord, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill-offering, it will be an animal without blemish from the oxen or the sheep offered for acceptance; there will not be any blemish in it. ²²As for animals suffering blindness, or which are fractured or lacerated, or which have a festering sore, or scurvy, or scabs – you will not offer these to the Lord, and you will not make a fire-offering of any of them to the Lord on the altar. ²³A bull or a lamb with anything overgrown or undergrown you may offer as a freewill-offering, but it will not be accepted for a vow. ²⁴And you will not offer to the Lord any animal that is bruised or crushed or castrated or with anything cut off, and you shall not offer it in your land. ²⁵And you will not offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, with any of these offerings, for they are inherently defiled – there is a blemish in them. They will not be accepted for you.’ ” ²⁶Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²⁷“A bull or a lamb or a goat, when it is born, will be kept for seven days with its mother, but from the eighth day onwards it will be accepted as an oblation of a fire-offering to the Lord. ²⁸And you shall not kill both a bull or a sheep and its young in one day. ²⁹And when you offer the sacrifice of a thank-offering to the Lord, you will make the sacrifice for your acceptance. ³⁰It must be eaten on that very day; you shall not leave any of it until the morning. I am the Lord. ³¹And you shall keep my commandments, and you shall carry them out. I am the Lord. ³²And you will not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified among the sons of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you, ³³who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be God to you. I am the Lord.”