Washed and restored at sunset

Holy Food and Acceptable Offerings · Leviticus 22

Story guide: A temporarily unclean priest washes and rinses his garment behind a linen screen; as the sun sets, other priests prepare a clean place for him to share rightful holy food.

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4Any man from the offspring of Aaron, if he is afflicted with a skin disease or has a discharge, shall not eat from the holy things until he becomes clean. And whoever touches anything unclean by a dead person, or a man from whom an emission of semen comes out,

5or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or a person by whom he becomes unclean, whatever his uncleanness.

6The person who touches it shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat any of the holy things unless he has washed his body with water.

7When the sun has set, he will be clean; and afterward he may eat from the holy things, because they are his food.

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