{
  "chapterNum": 22,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "Tell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease  or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 23,
      "text": "You may present as a freewill offering an ox  or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 24,
      "text": "You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 25,
      "text": "Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 26,
      "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 27,
      "text": "“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 28,
      "text": "But you must not slaughter an ox  or a sheep on the same day as its young."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 29,
      "text": "When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 30,
      "text": "It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 31,
      "text": "You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 32,
      "text": "You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 33,
      "text": "who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”"
    }
  ]
}