23. Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.
24. “‘In a controversy they will act as judges; they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe my Sabbaths.
25. “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.
26. After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.
27. On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.
28. “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
29. They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.