Leviticus 22:1-16 - Priests And Their Food

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name in what they devote to Me. I am Jehovah. ³ Say to them, Any man of all your seed among your generations who draws near to the holy things, which the sons of Israel set apart to Jehovah, if he has his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from My presence. I am Jehovah. ⁴ Any man of the seed of Aaron who is leprous, or has an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. And he who touches any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose semen has gone out from him, ⁵ or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or touches a man who is unclean to him, by any uncleanness he has, ⁶ the soul which has touched it shall be unclean until evening. And he shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his flesh with water. ⁷ And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food. ⁸ He shall not eat a dead body or one torn, to defile himself with them. I am Jehovah. ⁹ And they shall keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, that they may not die for it when they defile it. I, Jehovah, sanctify them.

¹⁰ There shall no stranger eat of the holy things. A tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. ¹¹ But if the priest buys a soul with his silver, he shall eat of it. And one born in his house shall eat of his food. ¹² And a priest's daughter, when she belongs to a man, a stranger, she may not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. ¹³ But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food. But no stranger shall eat of it. ¹⁴ And if a man eats a holy thing without knowing it, then he shall put the fifth part to it, and shall give to the priest with the holy thing. ¹⁵ And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel which they offer to Jehovah, ¹⁶ and so load on them the iniquity of the guilt offering in their eating of their holy things. For I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.