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I am the LORD. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> 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, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be— <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.” <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Worthy Offerings<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You may present as a freewill offering an ox<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“When an ox,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But you must not slaughter an ox<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> or a sheep on the same day as its young. <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Forms of the Hebrew <i>tzaraath</i><span class="thin"> </span>, traditionally translated as <i>leprosy</i><span class="thin"> </span>, were used for various skin diseases; see <a href="../leviticus/13.htm">Leviticus 13</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>a bull</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>a cow</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>a calf</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>a cow</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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