¹⁸ Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the Lord's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”

¹⁰ In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.

²⁹ Every male among the priests may eat of it; ^(A)it is most holy.

⁹ But you are ^(A)a chosen race, ^(B)a royal ^(C)priesthood, ^(D)a holy nation, ^(E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^(F)out of darkness into ^(G)his marvelous light.

¹⁶ since it is written, ^(A)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

²⁰ And ^(A)on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^(B)“Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be ^(C)holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And ^(D)there shall no longer be ^(E)a trader^[a] in the house of the Lord of hosts ^(F)on that day.

¹² ‘If someone carries ^(A)holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, ^(B)“No.” ¹³ Then Haggai said, ^(C)“If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body ^(D)touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” ¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, ^(E)“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.

³ Say 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 ^(A)he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. ⁴ None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a ^(B)discharge may eat of the holy things ^(C)until he is clean. ^(D)Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or ^(E)a man who has had an emission of semen, ⁵ and ^(F)whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or ^(G)a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be— ⁶ the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has ^(H)bathed his body in water. ⁷ When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because ^(I)they are his food.

²¹ No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to ^(A)offer the Lord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. ²² He may eat the bread of his God, both of ^(B)the most holy and of the ^(C)holy things,