Leviticus 22:3-7

English Standard Version

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.