OET-RV LEV Chapter 22

22 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

2 Tell Aharon and his sons that they must carefully honour the holy things offered by the Israeli people, and they mustn’t profane my holy reputation. I am Yahweh. 3 Tell them that throughout the generations, any of your descendants who is ‘unclean’ and approaches things that have become holy because the people have consecrated them to Yahweh, that person will be cut off from me. I am Yahweh.

4 Any man who’s a descendant of Aharon, if he has a skin disease or a discharge, he mustn’t eat any of the sacred food until he’s ‘clean’ again. The same applies if he’s touched any ‘unclean’ corpse, anyone who’s had a seminal emission, 5 anyone who’s touched any swarming creature that makes him ‘unclean’ or touches another person who makes him ‘unclean’ (whatever that person’s uncleanness is). 6 No, the man who’s touched any of those will be ‘unclean’ until the evening and he mustn’t eat any of the sacred food until he’s washed his body with water. 7 When the sun sets, then he’ll be ‘clean’ and will be able to eat any of those sacred offerings because that’s his food. 8 But he must never eat an animal found dead or torn by wild animals and become ‘unclean’ in that way. I am Yahweh.

9 The priests must follow my instructions so they won’t have to bear their own disobedience and die from it because they profaned them. I am Yahweh who makes them sacred.

10 However, no stranger may eat the sacred food, e.g., someone staying with the priest, or his hired servant. 11 If the priest had purchased the person with cash, then that person can eat it, plus anyone that was born into the priest’s household. 12 A priest’s daughter who is married by someone who’s not a priest can no longer eat those sacred offerings. 13 However, in the future if she became a widow or was divorced without having had children, and if she has returned to her father’s house like when she was young, then she can eat the same food as her father, but no stranger may eat it.

14 If someone accidentally eats something that’s sacred, then they must pay back the full value plus 20% to the priest.

15 So in summary, the priests must not profane the sacred things contributed by the Israelis and which they’ve offered to Yahweh 16 or else they’ll cause themselves to bear the guilt from their disobedience concerning eating sacred food, because I am Yahweh who has separated them to be sacred.

17 The Yahweh told Mosheh:

18 Tell Aharon and his sons, and all the Israelis that any Israeli or outsider residing in Yisrael, when they present their burnt offering to Yahweh, whether it’s for a vow or for a freewill offering, 19 to be accepted it must be a male with no defects, whether it’s a cow, or a sheep, or a goat. 20 Anything that has a defect must not be presented because it wouldn’t be acceptable on your behalf.[ref] 21 When someone presents a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, to be accepted it must flawless with no defects—22 not blind or with broken bones, and not maimed or with an oozing sore or rash or scab. You all mustn’t present anything like that to Yahweh, and must not even offering any part of them to Yahweh on the altar. 23 However, if a cow or a sheep has something enlarged or something stunted, it can be offered as a freewill offering, but it wouldn’t be accepted for a vow, 24 and you all must never present to Yahweh any animal that’s bruised or torn or cut.[fn] You mustn’t do that in your country.

25 You all mustn’t present any of those animals raised by foreigners to your god because they’ve been ruined and are defective,[fn] so they won’t be accepted for you.

26 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

27 A newborn calf or lamb or goat must remain with its mother for seven days—it can be offered as a sacrifice to Yahweh from the eighth day onwards, 28 but you mustn’t slaughter a cow or a sheep and it’s offspring on the same day. 29 When you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to Yahweh, it must be acceptable as a sacrifice 30 and you can eat it that same day but no part of it should be left until the morning. I am Yahweh.

31 You all must record my instructions and follow them. I am Yahweh. 32 You mustn’t profane the reputation of my holiness, and I will demonstrate my holiness among the Israeli people. I am Yahweh who separates you all to be sacred—33 who brought you all out of Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) to be your god. I am Yahweh.