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Leviticus 22:8

Verse 8 of 33. The 22nd of 27 chapters in Leviticus, in The Law.

4“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,

5or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has—

6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

7When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

8He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.

9“‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

10“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

11But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.

12If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

Read Leviticus 22

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.