1. The Lord spoke to Moses:
2. “Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to Me, so they do not profane My holy name; I am Yahweh.
3. Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person will be cut off from My presence; I am Yahweh.
4. No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,
5. or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean — whatever his uncleanness —
6. the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.