⁴ ‘Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a ^(A)leper or has ^(B)a discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings ^(C)until he is clean. And ^(D)whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or ^(E)a man who has had an emission of semen,

Regulations for Conduct of Priests^(A)

21 And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ^(B)‘None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

¹³ ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then ^(A)he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean. ¹⁴ On the eighth day he shall take for himself ^(B)two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest. ¹⁵ Then the priest shall offer them, ^(C)the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. ^(D)So the priest shall make ^[a]atonement for him before the Lord because of his discharge.

^16 (E)‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.

² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(A)‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. ³ And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

³⁹ ‘And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be ^(A)unclean until evening.

^11 (A)‘He who touches the dead ^[a]body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. ^12 (B)He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. ¹³ Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and ^(C)does not purify himself, ^(D)defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because ^(E)the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; ^(F)his uncleanness is still on him.

¹⁴ ‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; ¹⁵ and every ^(G)open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. ^16 (H)Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁹ “All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; ^(A)it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you.”

⁹ This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every ^(A)grain offering and every ^(B)sin offering and every ^(C)trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons.

²² He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;