Leviticus 22:3-7

3Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while ahe has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. 4None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a bdischarge may eat of the holy things cuntil he is clean. dWhoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or ea man who has had an emission of semen, 5and fwhoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or ga person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be— 6the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has hbathed his body in water. 7When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because ithey are his food.
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