⁵ Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate^(A) yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

²⁰ But if anyone who is unclean^(A) eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.^{(B) 21} Anyone who touches something unclean^(C)—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground^[a]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’”

Discharges Causing Uncleanness

15 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge,^(A) such a discharge is unclean. ³ Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness: