⁶ They shall be holy to their God and ^(A)not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, ^(B)the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

⁸ You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for ^(A)I, the Lord, who sanctify you, ^(B)am holy.

¹⁷ “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may ^(A)approach to offer the bread of his God.

²¹ No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to ^(A)offer the Lord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. ²² He may eat the bread of his God, both of ^(B)the most holy and of the ^(C)holy things,

⁷ When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because ^(A)they are his food.

²⁵ neither shall you offer as ^(A)the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a ^(B)blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

² “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, ^(A)my food for my food offerings, my ^(B)pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’

⁷ in ^(A)admitting foreigners, ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, ^(C)profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You^[a] have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

^7 (A)By offering polluted food upon my altar. ^(B)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that ^(C)the Lord's table may be despised.