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Priestly Purity and Handling Holy Things
Leviticus 22:1-9
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
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“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.
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Tell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.
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If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
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or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
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the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
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When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.
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He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
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The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
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