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Leviticus
22
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of
those things that are consecrated of the children of
Israel, and defile not the name of the things sanctified
to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.
Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your
race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated,
and which the children of Israel have offered to the
Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before
the Lord. I am the Lord.
The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that
suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those
things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed.
He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the
dead, and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation,
And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean
thing, the touching of which is defiling,
Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat
those things that are sanctified: but when he hath washed
his flesh with water,
And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat
of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.
That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken
by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith,
I am the Lord.
Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into
sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have
defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner
of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of
them.
But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his
servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.
If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the
people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified,
nor of the firstfruits.
But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children
return to her father's house, she shall eat of her father's
meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid, no
stranger hath leave to eat of them.
He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance,
shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and
shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.
And they shall not profane the sanctified things of
the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:
Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass,
when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I
am the Lord who sanctify them.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children
of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the
house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with
you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows,
or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which
he presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,
To be offered by you, it shall be a male without blemish
of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
If it have a blemish you shall not offer it, neither
shall it be acceptable.
The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to
the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his
own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer
it without blemish, that it may be acceptable: there
shall be no blemish in it.
If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters,
or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them
to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's
altar.
An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut
off, thou mayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not
be paid with them.
You shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath
the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken
away: neither shall you do any such thing in your land.
You shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand
of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give:
because they are all corrupted, and defiled: you shall
not receive them.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth,
they shall be seven days under the udder of their dam:
but the eighth day, and thenceforth, they may be offered
to the Lord.
Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed
the same day with their young ones.
If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord,
that he may be favourable,
You shall eat it the same day, there shall not any of
it remain until the morning of the next day. I am the
Lord.
Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.
Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in
the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord who
sanctify you,
And who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I
might be your God: I am the Lord.
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