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# Leviticus 22

Leviticus 22 is chapter 22 of 27 in the Book of Leviticus. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Who may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Leviticus 22 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The Lord also spoke to Moses saying:
2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, so that they may be careful of those things which have been consecrated for the sons of Israel, and so that they may not contaminate the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.
3. Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your stock, who approaches toward those things which have been consecrated, and which the sons of Israel have brought forward to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.
4. The man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who is suffering a flow of seed, shall not eat of those things which have been sanctified to me, until he is healed. Whoever will have touched what is unclean because of the dead, and he whose seed goes out from him, as if from sexual intercourse,
5. and whoever has touched a creeping thing, or any kind of unclean thing, the touching of which is filthy,
6. shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat those things which have been sanctified. But when he has washed his flesh with water,
7. and the sun has set, then, having been purified, he shall eat from what has been sanctified, because it is his food.
8. Whatever dies on its own, and whatever has been seized by a wild beast, they shall not eat, nor shall they be polluted by these. I am the Lord.
9. Let them observe my precepts, so that they may not fall under sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they will have defiled it. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.
10. No foreigner shall eat from what has been sanctified; a guest of the priests and a hired servant shall not eat from them.
11. But whomever the priest has bought, and whoever has been born into his house, these shall eat from them.
12. If the daughter of a priest has been married to any of the people, she shall not eat from what has been sanctified, nor from the first-fruits.
13. But if she is a widow or divorced, and, being without children, she returns to her father’s house, she shall be nourished by her father’s foods, just as she was accustomed to do as a girl. No foreigner shall have the authority to eat from them.
14. Whoever, through ignorance, eats from what has been sanctified shall add a fifth part to that which he ate, and he shall give it to the priest at the Sanctuary.
15. And they shall not contaminate what has been sanctified from the sons of Israel, which they offer to the Lord,
16. lest perhaps they may suffer the iniquity of their offense, when they will have eaten what has been sanctified. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.
17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man from the house of Israel, or from the newcomers who live with you, who would bring forward his oblation, either fulfilling his vows or offering spontaneously, whatever he brings forward as a holocaust for the Lord,
19. in order to be offered through you, shall offer an immaculate male from the oxen, or from the sheep, or from the goats.
20. If it has a blemish, you shall not offer it, and it shall not be acceptable.
21. The man who will have offered a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either fulfilling his vows or offering spontaneously, whether of oxen, or of sheep, shall offer what is immaculate, so that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.
22. If it is blind, or if it is broken, or if it has a scar, or if it is has a boil, or a skin disease or infection, you shall not offer these to the Lord, nor shall you burn any of these upon the altar of the Lord.
23. An ox or a sheep, having an amputated ear or tail, you are able to offer voluntarily, but a vow is not able to be fulfilled by these.
24. You shall not offer to the Lord any animal which has the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away, and you shall not cause any of these things in your land.
25. From the hand of a foreigner, you shall not offer bread to your God, nor anything else that he would choose to give; for all this has been corrupted and blemished. You shall not accept them.
26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
27. An ox, a sheep, or a goat, when they have been born, shall be under the udder of their mother for seven days. But on the eighth day and thereafter, they are able to be offered to the Lord.
28. Whether it is an ox, or a sheep, they shall not be immolated on the same day with their newborns.
29. If you immolate a victim as an act of thanksgiving to the Lord, so that he may be pleased,
30. you shall eat it on the same day; none of it shall remain until morning on the next day. I am the Lord.
31. Observe my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.
32. Do not pollute my holy name, so that I may be sanctified in the midst of the sons of Israel. I am the Lord, who sanctifies you,
33. and who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I may be to you as God. I am the Lord.

## Leviticus 22 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Locutus quoque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
2. Loquere ad Aaron et ad filios ejus, ut caveant ab his quæ consecrata sunt filiorum Israël, et non contaminent nomen sanctificatorum mihi, quæ ipsi offerunt. Ego Dominus.
3. Dic ad eos, et ad posteros eorum: Omnis homo qui accesserit de stirpe vestra ad ea quæ consecrata sunt, et quæ obtulerunt filii Israël Domino, in quo est immunditia, peribit coram Domino. Ego sum Dominus.
4. Homo de semine Aaron, qui fuerit leprosus, aut patiens fluxum seminis, non vescetur de his quæ sanctificata sunt mihi, donec sanetur. Qui tetigerit immundum super mortuo, et ex quo egreditur semen quasi coitus,
5. et qui tangit reptile, et quodlibet immundum cujus tactus est sordidus,
6. immundus erit usque ad vesperum, et non vescetur his quæ sanctificata sunt: sed cum laverit carnem suam aqua,
7. et occubuerit sol, tunc mundatus vescetur de sanctificatis, quia cibus illius est.
8. Morticinum et captum a bestia non comedent, nec polluentur in eis. Ego sum Dominus.
9. Custodiant præcepta mea, ut non subjaceant peccato, et moriantur in sanctuario, cum polluerint illud. Ego Dominus qui sanctifico eos.
10. Omnis alienigena non comedet de sanctificatis; inquilinus sacerdotis et mercenarius non vescentur ex eis.
11. Quem autem sacerdos emerit, et qui vernaculus domus ejus fuerit, his comedent ex eis.
12. Si filia sacerdotis cuilibet ex populo nupta fuerit, de his quæ sanctificata sunt, et de primitiis non vescetur.
13. Sin autem vidua, vel repudiata, et absque liberis reversa fuerit ad domum patris sui: sicut puella consueverat, aletur cibis patris sui. Omnis alienigena comedendi ex eis non habet potestatem.
14. Qui comederit de sanctificatis per ignorantiam, addet quintam partem cum eo quod comedit, et dabit sacerdoti in sanctuarium.
15. Nec contaminabunt sanctificata filiorum Israël, quæ offerunt Domino:
16. ne forte sustineant iniquitatem delicti sui, cum sanctificata comederint. Ego Dominus qui sanctifico eos.
17. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
18. Loquere ad Aaron et filios ejus, et ad omnes filios Israël, dicesque ad eos: Homo de domo Israël, et de advenis qui habitant apud vos, qui obtulerit oblationem suam, vel vota solvens, vel sponte offerens, quidquid illud obtulerit in holocaustum Domini,
19. ut offeratur per vos, masculus immaculatus erit ex bobus, et ovibus, et ex capris:
20. si maculam habuerit, non offeretis, neque erit acceptabile.
21. Homo qui obtulerit victimam pacificorum Domino, vel vota solvens, vel sponte offerens, tam de bobus quam de ovibus, immaculatum offeret ut acceptabile sit: omnis macula non erit in eo.
22. Si cæcum fuerit, si fractum, si cicatricem habens, si papulas, aut scabiem, aut impetiginem: non offeretis ea Domino, nec adolebitis ex eis super altare Domini.
23. Bovem et ovem, aure et cauda amputatis, voluntarie offerre potes, votum autem ex eis solvi non potest.
24. Omne animal, quod vel contritis, vel tusis, vel sectis ablatisque testiculis est, non offeretis Domino, et in terra vestra hoc omnino ne faciatis.
25. De manu alienigenæ non offeretis panes Deo vestro, et quidquid aliud dare voluerit, quia corrupta, et maculata sunt omnia: non suscipietis ea.
26. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
27. Bos, ovis et capra, cum genita fuerint, septem diebus erunt sub ubere matris suæ: die autem octavo, et deinceps, offerri poterunt Domino.
28. Sive illa bos, sive ovis, non immolabuntur una die cum fœtibus suis.
29. Si immolaveritis hostiam pro gratiarum actione Domino, ut possit esse placabilis,
30. eodem die comedetis eam: non remanebit quidquam in mane alterius diei. Ego Dominus.
31. Custodite mandata mea, et facite ea. Ego Dominus.
32. Ne polluatis nomen meum sanctum, ut sanctificer in medio filiorum Israël. Ego Dominus qui sanctifico vos,
33. et eduxi de terra Ægypti, ut essem vobis in Deum. Ego Dominus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: This is to give us to understand, with what purity of soul we are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which these meats that had been offered in sacrifice were a figure.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).