1. The Lord told Moses
2. to say to Aaron and his sons:I am the Lord God, and I demand that you honour my holy name by showing proper respect for the offerings brought to me by the people of Israel.
3. If any of you are unclean when you accept an offering for me, I will no longer let you serve as a priest.
4. None of you may take part in the sacred meals while you have a skin disease or an infected penis, or after you have been near a dead body or have had a flow of semen,
5. or if you have touched an unclean creature of any sort, including an unclean person.
6-7. Once you are unclean, you must take a bath, but you still cannot eat any of the sacred food until evening.
8. I command you not to eat anything that is killed by a wild animal or dies a natural death. This would make you unclean.