1. Adonai spoke to Moses, saying:
2. “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of Bnei-Yisrael, which they consecrate to Me, so that they would not profane My holy Name. I am Adonai.
3. Tell them, if anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which Bnei-Yisrael consecrate to Adonai, while in a state of uncleanness, that soul will be cut off from before Me. I am Adonai.
4. “None of the offspring of Aaron who has tza'arat or has a discharge shall eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead or a man whose seed discharges from him
5. or who touches any creeping thing that may make him unclean or a person who is unclean—whatever his uncleanness—
6. the person who touches any such thing will be unclean until the evening, and is not to eat of the holy things, unless he has bathed his body in water.
7. When the sun sets, he will become clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his food.
8. A carcass or what is torn by beasts he is not to eat, becoming unclean by it. I am Adonai.
9. “Therefore kohanim should keep My charge, so that they do not become guilty of sin and die should they profane it. I am Adonai who sanctifies them.
10. “No layman is to eat from the holy offering. A foreigner living with the kohanim or a hired servant is not to eat from the holy offering.
11. But if a kohen buys a slave purchased by his money, that one may eat from it. Also those born in his house may eat his food.