Bible Verses

 If a priest’s daughter marries someone who is not a priest, she may not eat the holy portion set aside;

But if the priest has acquired a slave through purchase, the slave may eat them. Similarly, anyone born in the household may eat a share of the food.

No layperson may eat any of the sacred offerings: neither the guest of a priest nor his hired servant.

Let them follow these rules and avoid burdening themselves with sin, so they do not die because they have defiled this food. I am the Lord who makes them holy.

He must not eat an animal that has died a natural death or one killed by wild animals; he would become unclean by doing this. I am the Lord.

At sunset, he will be clean and may then eat holy things, for these are his foods.

 in short, anyone who has had any such contact shall be unclean until evening and must not eat holy things until he has taken a bath.

or is made unclean by touching a creeping thing or someone who has communicated his own uncleanness of any kind,

Anyone in Aaron’s line who is afflicted with leprosy or has a discharge must not eat holy things until he is clean. Anyone who touches something made unclean by a dead body or has a seminal discharge,

Tell them this: Anyone who is a descendant of yours, in any generation, who approaches the holy offerings consecrated to the Lord by the people of Israel while in a state of uncleanness shall be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord.