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or is contaminated by touching a crawling creature, or touches a person who is contaminated for whatever reason
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- a person who touches any such thing will be ritually unclean until evening and may not eat any of the holy offerings unless he has washed well with water.
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After the sun goes down he is clean and may go ahead and eat the holy offerings; they are his food.
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But he must not contaminate himself by eating anything found dead or torn by wild animals. I am God.
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"The priests must observe my instructions lest they become guilty and die by treating the offerings with irreverence. I am God who makes them holy.
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"No layperson may eat anything set apart as holy. Nor may a priest's guest or his hired hand eat anything holy.
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But if a priest buys a slave, the slave may eat of it; also the slaves born in his house may eat his food.
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If a priest's daughter marries a layperson, she may no longer eat from the holy contributions.
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But if the priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and without children and returns to her father's household as before, she may eat of her father's food. But no layperson may eat of it.
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"If anyone eats from a holy offering accidentally, he must give back the holy offering to the priest and add twenty percent to it.
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"The priests must not treat with irreverence the holy offerings of the Israelites that they contribute to God