Leviticus 22:3-7
New King James Version
3 Say to them: ‘Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the Lord, (A)while he has [a]uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the Lord.
4 ‘Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a (B)leper or has (C)a discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings (D)until he is clean. And (E)whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or (F)a man who has had an emission of semen, 5 or (G)whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or (H)any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be— 6 the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he (I)washes his body with water. 7 And when the sun goes down he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat the holy offerings, because (J)it is his food.
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- Leviticus 22:3 defilement
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