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Leviticus 22:9
Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
Leviticus 22:9 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Leviticus 22:9 in other translations
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
“‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
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In context
6 Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with water,
7 And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.
8 That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.
9 Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
10 No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.
11 But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.
12 If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits.
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