16The LORD spoke further to Moses: 17Speak to Aaron and say: No man of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall be qualified to offer the food of his God. 18No one at all who has a defect shall be qualified: no man who is blind, or lame, or c-has a limb too short or too long;-c 19no man who has a broken leg or a broken arm; 20or who is a hunchback, or a dwarf, or who has a growth in his eye, or who has a boil-scar, or scurvy, or crushed testes. 21No man among the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall be qualified to offer the LORD’s offering by fire; having a defect, he shall not be qualified to offer the food of his God. 22He may eat of the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy; 23but he shall not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar, for he has a defect. He shall not profane these places sacred to Me, for I the LORD have sanctified them.
24Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2Instruct Aaron and his sons to be scrupulous about the sacred donations that the Israelite people consecrate to Me, lest they profane My holy name, Mine the LORD’s. 3Say to them:
Throughout the ages, if any man among your offspring, while in a state of uncleanness, partakes of any sacred donation that the Israelite people may consecrate to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from before Me: I am the LORD. 4No man of Aaron’s offspring who has an eruption or a dischargea shall eat of the sacred donations until he is clean. If one touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or if a man has an emission of semen, 5or if a man touches any swarming thing by which he is made unclean or any human being by whom he is made unclean—whatever his unclean- ness—6the person who touches such shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in water. 7As soon as the sun sets, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the sacred donations, for they are his food. 8He shall not eat any- thing that died or was torn by beasts, thereby becoming unclean: I am the LORD. 9They shall keep My charge, lest they incur guilt thereby and die for it, having committed profanation: I the LORD consecrate them.
10No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired laborer of a priest shall eat of the sacred donations; 11but a person who is a priest’s property by purchase may eat of them; and those that are born into his household may eat of his food. 12If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she may not eat of the sacred gifts; 13but if the priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and without offspring, and is back in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food. No lay person may eat of it: 14but if a man eats of a sacred donation unwit- tingly, he shall pay the priest for the sacred donation, adding one-fifth of its value. 15But [the priests] must not allow the Israelites to profane the sacred donations that they set aside for the LORD, 16or to incur guilt requiring a penalty payment, by eating such sacred donations: for it is I the LORD who make them sacred.
17The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 18Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelite people, and say to them:
When any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering for any of the votive or any of the freewill offerings that they offer to the LORD, 19it must, to be ac- ceptable in your favor, be a male without blemish, from cattle or sheep or goats. 20You shall not offer any that has a defect, for it will not be accepted in your favor.
21And when a man offers, from the herd or the flock, a sacrifice of well- being to the LORD for an explicitb vow or as a freewill offering, it must, to be acceptable, be without blemish; there must be no defect in it. 22Anything blind, or injured, or maimed, or with a wen, boil-scar, or scurvy—such you shall not offer to the LORD; you shall not put any of them on the altar as offerings by fire to the LORD. 23You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep with a limb extended or contracted; but it will not be accepted for a vow. 24You shall not offer to the LORD anything [with its testes] bruised or crushed or torn or cut. You shall have no such practicesc in your own land, 25nor shall you accept such [animals] from a foreigner for offering as food for your God, for they are mutilated, they have a defect; they shall not be accepted in your favor.
26The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 27When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the LORD. 28However, no animal from the herd or from the flock shall be slaughtered on the same day with its young.
29When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the LORD, sacrifice it so that it may be acceptable in your favor. 30It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am the LORD.
31You shall faithfully observe My commandments: I am the LORD. 32You shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the Israelite people—I the LORD who sanctify you, 33I who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God, I the LORD.
23 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
These are My fixed times, the fixed times of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions.
3On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabbath of complete rest, a sacred occasion. You shall do no work; it shall be a sabbath of the LORD throughout your settlements.
4These are the set times of the LORD, the sacred occasions, which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time: 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a passover offering to the LORD, 6and on the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days. 7On the first day you shall celebrate a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations. 8Seven days you shall make offerings by fire to the LORD. The seventh day shall be a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.
9The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 10Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
When you enter the land that I am giving to you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. 11He shall elevate the sheaf before the LORD for acceptance in your behalf; the priest shall elevate it on the day after the sabbath. 12On the day that you elevate the sheaf, you shall offer as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb of the first year without blemish. 13The meal offering with it shall be two- tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD; and the libation with it shall be of wine, a quarter of a hin. 14Until that very day, until you have brought the offering of your God, you shall eat no bread or parched grain or fresh ears;a it is a law for all time throughout the ages in all your settlements.
15And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of elevation offer- ing—the day after the sabbath—you shall count off seven weeks. They must be complete: 16you must count until the day after the seventh week— fifty days; then you shall bring an offering of new grain to the LORD. 17You shall bring from your settlements two loaves of bread as an ele- vation offering; each shall be made of two-tenths of a measure of choice flour, baked after leavening, as first fruits to the LORD. 18With the bread you shall present, as burnt offerings to the LORD, seven yearling lambs without blemish, one bull
