4. No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,
5. or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity –
6. the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.
7. When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
8. He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.
9. They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
10. “‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,
11. but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.