"Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name [by] what they dedicate to Me: I [am] the LORD.
"Say to them: 'Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I [am] the LORD.
'Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who [is] a leper or has a discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings until he is clean. And whoever touches anything made unclean [by] a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,
'or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be --
'the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy [offerings] unless he washes his body with water.
'But if the priest's daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house as in her youth, she may eat her father's food; but no outsider shall eat it.
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD as a burnt offering --
'And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, to fulfill [his] vow, or a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.
'Those [that are] blind or broken or maimed, or have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.
'Nor from a foreigner's hand shall you offer any of these as the bread of your God, because their corruption [is] in them, [and] defects [are] in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf.' "
"When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thereafter it shall be accepted as an offering made by fire to the LORD.