OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Leviticus 22:7

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When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

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Leviticus 22:4–10

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“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,

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or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has—

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the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

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When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

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He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.

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“‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

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“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

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