Catholic Public Domain Version

Leviticus 22:4-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. The man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who is suffering a flow of seed, shall not eat of those things which have been sanctified to me, until he is healed. Whoever will have touched what is unclean because of the dead, and he whose seed goes out from him, as if from sexual intercourse,

5. and whoever has touched a creeping thing, or any kind of unclean thing, the touching of which is filthy,

6. shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat those things which have been sanctified. But when he has washed his flesh with water,

7. and the sun has set, then, having been purified, he shall eat from what has been sanctified, because it is his food.

8. Whatever dies on its own, and whatever has been seized by a wild beast, they shall not eat, nor shall they be polluted by these. I am the Lord.

9. Let them observe my precepts, so that they may not fall under sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they will have defiled it. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

10. No foreigner shall eat from what has been sanctified; a guest of the priests and a hired servant shall not eat from them.

11. But whomever the priest has bought, and whoever has been born into his house, these shall eat from them.

12. If the daughter of a priest has been married to any of the people, she shall not eat from what has been sanctified, nor from the first-fruits.

13. But if she is a widow or divorced, and, being without children, she returns to her father's house, she shall be nourished by her father's foods, just as she was accustomed to do as a girl. No foreigner shall have the authority to eat from them.