3. If any of your descendants, while he is ritually unclean, comes near the sacred offerings which the people of Israel have dedicated to me, he can never again serve at the altar. This applies for all time to come. I am the Lord.
4. “None of the descendants of Aaron who has a dreaded skin disease or a discharge may eat any of the sacred offerings until he is ritually clean. Any priest is unclean if he touches anything which is unclean through contact with a corpse or if he has an emission of semen
5. or if he has touched an unclean animal or person.
6. Any priest who becomes unclean remains unclean until evening, and even then he may not eat any of the sacred offerings until he has had a bath.
7. After the sun sets he is clean, and then he may eat the sacred offerings, which are his food.
8. He shall not eat the meat of any animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild animals; it will make him unclean. I am the Lord.
9. “All priests shall observe the regulations that I have given. Otherwise, they will be guilty and die, because they have disobeyed the sacred regulations. I am the Lord and I make them holy.
26-27. When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it must not be taken from its mother for seven days, but after that it is acceptable as a food offering.
28. Do not sacrifice a cow and its calf or a sheep and its lamb or a goat and its kid on the same day.
29. When you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, follow the rules so that you will be accepted;
30. eat it the same day and leave none of it until the next morning.
31. The Lord said, “Obey my commands; I am the Lord.
32. Do not bring disgrace on my holy name; all the people of Israel must acknowledge me to be holy. I am the Lord and I make you holy;
33. and I brought you out of Egypt to become your God. I am the Lord.”