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I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v03022003" class="ver">3</span><a id="rfn03022003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022003-1">*</a> Tell them: If any one of you, or of your descendants in any future generation, dares, while he is in a state of uncleanness, to draw near the sacred offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, such a one shall be cut off from my presence.<a id="ren03022003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022003-a">a</a> I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v03022004" class="ver">4</span>No descendant of Aaron who is stricken with a scaly infection,<a id="ren03022004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022004-b">b</a> or who suffers from a genital discharge,<a id="ren03022004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022004-c">c</a> may eat of the sacred offerings, until he again becomes clean. Moreover, if anyone touches a person who has become unclean by contact with a corpse,<a id="ren03022004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022004-d">d</a> or if anyone has had an emission of semen,<a id="ren03022004-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022004-e">e</a> <span id="v03022005" class="ver">5</span>or if anyone touches any swarming creature<a id="ren03022005-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022005-f">f</a> whose uncleanness is contagious or any person whose uncleanness, of whatever kind it may be, is contagious—<a id="ren03022005-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022005-g">g</a> <span id="v03022006" class="ver">6</span>the one who touches such as these shall be unclean until evening and may not eat of the sacred portions until he has first bathed his body in water.<a id="ren03022006-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022006-h">h</a> <span id="v03022007" class="ver">7</span>Then, when the sun sets, he shall be clean.<a id="ren03022007-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022007-i">i</a> Only then may he eat of the sacred offerings, for they are his food. <span id="v03022008" class="ver">8</span><a id="rfn03022008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022008-1">*</a> He shall not make himself unclean by eating of any animal that has died of itself or has been killed by wild beasts.<a id="ren03022008-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022008-j">j</a> I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v03022009" class="ver">9</span>They shall keep my charge so that they will not bear the punishment in this matter and die<a id="ren03022009-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022009-k">k</a> for their profanation. I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> who makes them holy.</p> <p><span id="v03022010" class="ver">10</span>Neither an unauthorized person nor a priest’s tenant or laborer may eat of any sacred offering.<a id="ren03022010-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022010-l">l</a> <span id="v03022011" class="ver">11</span>But a slave<a id="rfn03022011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022011-1">*</a> whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food. <span id="v03022012" class="ver">12</span><a id="rfn03022012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022012-1">*</a> A priest’s daughter who is married to an unauthorized person may not eat of the sacred contributions. <span id="v03022013" class="ver">13</span>But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and, having no children, returns to her father’s house, she may then eat of her father’s food as in her youth. No unauthorized person, however, may eat of it. <span id="v03022014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren03022014-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022014-m">m</a> If such a one eats of a sacred offering through inadvertence, that person shall make restitution to the priest for the sacred offering, with an increment of one fifth of the amount. <span id="v03022015" class="ver">15</span>The priests shall not allow the sacred offerings which the Israelites contribute to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> to be profaned<a id="ren03022015-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022015-n">n</a> <span id="v03022016" class="ver">16</span>nor make them incur a penalty when they eat their sacred offerings. For I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, make them holy.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Unacceptable Victims.</span> <span id="v03022017" class="ver">17</span><a id="rfn03022017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022017-1">*</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03022018" class="ver">18</span>Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites, and tell them: When anyone of the house of Israel, or any alien residing in Israel, who presents an offering, brings a burnt offering<a id="ren03022018-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022018-o">o</a> as a votive offering or as a voluntary offering to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, <span id="v03022019" class="ver">19</span>if it is to be acceptable for you, it must be an unblemished male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats.<a id="ren03022019-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022019-p">p</a> <span id="v03022020" class="ver">20</span>You shall not offer one that has any blemish, for such a one would not be acceptable on your behalf.<a id="ren03022020-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022020-q">q</a> <span id="v03022021" class="ver">21</span>When anyone presents a communion sacrifice<a id="ren03022021-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022021-r">r</a> to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> from the herd or the flock in fulfillment of a vow, or as a voluntary offering, if it is to find acceptance, it must be unblemished; it shall not have any blemish. <span id="v03022022" class="ver">22</span>One that is blind or lame or maimed, or one that has running lesions or sores or scabs, you shall not offer to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; do not put such an animal on the altar as an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v03022023" class="ver">23</span><a id="rfn03022023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022023-1">*</a> An ox or a sheep that has a leg that is too long or is stunted you may indeed present as a voluntary offering, but it will not be acceptable as a votive offering. <span id="v03022024" class="ver">24</span>One that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn out or cut off you shall not offer to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. You shall neither do this in your own land <span id="v03022025" class="ver">25</span>nor receive from a foreigner any such animals to offer up as the food of your God; since they are deformed or blemished, they will not be acceptable on your behalf.</p> <p><span id="v03022026" class="ver">26</span><a id="rfn03022026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03022026-1">*</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03022027" class="ver">27</span>When an ox or a lamb or a goat is born, it shall remain with its mother for seven days; only from the eighth day onward will it be acceptable, to be offered as an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren03022027-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022027-s">s</a> <span id="v03022028" class="ver">28</span>You shall not slaughter an ox or a sheep on one and the same day with its young. <span id="v03022029" class="ver">29</span>Whenever you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, so offer it that it may be acceptable on your behalf; <span id="v03022030" class="ver">30</span>it must be eaten on the same day; none of it shall be left over until morning.<a id="ren03022030-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03022030-t">t</a> I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v03022031" class="ver">31</span>Be careful to observe my commandments. I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v03022032" class="ver">32</span>Do not profane my holy name, that in the midst of the Israelites I may be hallowed. I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, make you holy, <span id="v03022033" class="ver">33</span>who led you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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