5 or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.
6 The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water.
7 When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially clean again and may eat from the sacred offerings, for this is his food.
8 He may not eat an animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild animals, for this would defile him. I am the lord.
9 “The priests must follow my instructions carefully. Otherwise they will be punished for their sin and will die for violating my instructions. I am the lord who makes them holy.
10 “No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings. Even guests and hired workers in a priest’s home are not allowed to eat them.
11 However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.