1And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to Aaron and to his sons that they be alerted regarding the holy things of the children of Israel that they consecrate to me, so they will not desecrate my holy name. I am YHWH.
3Say to them: Through your generations, any man who will come close, from all of your seed, to the holy things that the children of Israel will consecrate to YHWH, while his impurity is on him: that person will be cut off from in front of me. I am YHWH.
4“Any man from Aaron’s seed and who is a leper or has an emission shall not eat any of the holy things until he becomes pure. And one who touches anything that is impure by a person, or a man from whom intercourse seed will come out,
22:4. impure by a person. Meaning: something that has become impure because of contact with the dead body of a person.
5or a man who will touch any swarming creature by which he will become impure or a human by whom he will become impure, whatever his impurity:
6a person who will touch him will be impure until evening; and he shall not eat from the holy things unless he has washed his flesh in water.
7And when the sun has set, he shall be pure, and after that he shall eat from the holy things, because it is his food.
8He shall not eat a carcass or a torn animal, to become impure by it. I am YHWH.
9“And they shall keep my charge so they will not bear sin over it and die through it when they desecrate it. I, YHWH, make them holy.
10“And any outsider shall not eat what is holy: a priest’s visitor and an employee shall not eat what is holy.
22:10. outsider. See comment on Exod 29:33.
11But when a priest buys a person as a possession by his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his household: they may eat his bread.
12And a priest’s daughter who will become an outsider’s: she shall not eat the donated holy things;
13but a priest’s daughter who will be a widow or a divorcée and has no seed and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s bread. But any outsider shall not eat it.
14And a man who eats what is holy by mistake shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
15And they shall not desecrate the holy things of the children of Israel that they will donate to YHWH
16so that they would make them bear a crime requiring a guilt offering by their eating their holy things, because I, YHWH, make them holy.”
17And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
18“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: Any man from the house of Israel or from the aliens in Israel who will make his offering—for all their vows and all their contributions that they bring forward to YHWH as a burnt offering—
19for acceptance for you it is to be unblemished, male of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20You shall not bring forward any that has an injury in it, because it will not be acceptable for you.
21And a man who will bring forward a peace-offering sacrifice to YHWH to express a vow or as a contribution of the cattle or of the flock: it shall be unblemished for acceptance; there shall not be any injury in it.
22Blind or broken or slashed or sore or scabbed or scurvied: you shall not bring these forward to YHWH, and you shall not give an offering by fire of them on the altar to YHWH.
23An ox or a sheep that has an elongated limb or a short limb: you may make it a contribution, but it shall not be accepted for a vow.
24And you shall not bring forward to YHWH one that is bruised, crushed, torn, or cut. And you shall not do it in your land,
25and you shall not bring forward your God’s bread from any of these from a foreigner’s hand, because their flaw is in them, an injury is in them; they shall not be accepted for you.”
26And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
27“When an ox or a sheep or a goat will be born, it will be under its mother seven days, and from the eighth day on it will be accepted as an offering, an offering by fire to YHWH.
28And an ox or a sheep: you shall not slaughter it and its child on one day.
22:28. it and its child on one day. It is possible that this is a parallel to the commandment against cooking a kid in its mother’s milk. This case is more commonly understood to be a moral matter—a respect for the animals, accepting that although we eat animals we must appreciate that they are living beings—whereas the case of the kid also has a ritual dimension, reflected in a Ugaritic text. See comment on Exod 23:19.
29And if you will make a sacrifice of thanks to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it so it will be acceptable for you.
30It shall be eaten on that day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am YHWH.
31“And you shall observe my commandments and do them. I am YHWH.
32“And you shall not desecrate my holy name, so I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel. I am YHWH, who makes you holy,
33who brought brought you out from the land of Egypt to be God to you. I am YHWH.”
