1 The Lord now spoke to Moses from the Tabernacle,
2 and commanded him to give the following instructions to the people of Israel: "When you sacrifice to the Lord, use animals from your herds and flocks.
3 "If your sacrifice is to be an ox given as a burnt offering, use only a bull with no physical defects. Bring the animal to the entrance of the Tabernacle where the priests will accept your gift for the Lord.
4 The person bringing it is to lay his hand upon its head, and it then becomes his substitute: the death of the animal will be accepted by God instead of the death of the man who brings it, as the penalty for his sins.
5 The man shall then kill the animal there before the Lord, and Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood before the Lord, sprinkling it upon all sides of the altar at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
6 Then the priests will skin the animal and quarter it, and build a wood fire upon the altar,
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8 and put the sections of the animal and its head and fat upon the wood.
9 The internal organs and the legs are to be washed, then the priests will burn them upon the altar, and they will be an acceptable burnt offering with which the Lord is pleased.
10 "If the animal used as a burnt offering is a sheep or a goat, it too must be a male, and without any blemishes.
11 The man who brings it will kill it before the Lord on the north side of the altar, and Aaron's sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood back and forth upon the altar.
12 Then the man will quarter it, and the priests will lay the pieces, with the head and the fat, on top of the wood on the altar.
13 But the internal organs and the legs shall first be washed with water. Then the priests shall burn it all upon the altar as an offering to the Lord; for burnt offerings give much pleasure to the Lord.
14 "If anyone wishes to use a bird as his burnt offering, he may choose either turtledoves or young pigeons.
15 A priest will take the bird to the altar and wring off its head, and the blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar.
16 Then the priest will remove the crop and the feathers and throw them on the east side of the altar with the ashes.
17 Then, grasping it by the wings, he shall tear it apart, but not completely. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar, and the Lord will have pleasure in this sacrifice.
1 "Anyone who wishes to sacrifice a grain offering to the Lord is to bring fine flour and is to pour olive oil and incense upon it.
2 Then he is to take a handful, representing the entire amount, to one of the priests to burn, and the Lord will be fully pleased.
3 The remainder of the flour is to be given to Aaron and his sons as their food; but all of it is counted as a holy burnt offering to the Lord.
4 "If bread baked in the oven is brought as an offering to the Lord, it must be made from finely ground flour, baked with olive oil but without yeast. Wafers made without yeast and spread with olive oil may also be used as an offering.
5 If the offering is something from the griddle, it shall be made of finely ground flour without yeast, and mingled with olive oil.
6 Break it into pieces and pour oil upon it--it is a form of grain offering.
7 If your offering is cooked in a pan, it too shall be made of fine flour mixed with olive oil.
8 "However it is prepared--whether baked, fried, or grilled--you are to bring this grain offering to the priest and he shall take it to the altar to present it to the Lord.
9 "The priests are to burn only a representative portion of the offering, but all of it will be fully appreciated by the Lord.
10 The remainder belongs to the priests for their own use, but it is all counted as a holy burnt offering to the Lord.
11 "Use no yeast with your offerings of flour; for no yeast or honey is permitted in burnt offerings to the Lord.
12 You may offer yeast bread and honey as thanksgiving offerings at harvest time, but not as burnt offerings.
13 "Every offering must be seasoned with salt, because the salt is a reminder of God's covenant.
14 "If you are offering from the first of your harvest, remove the kernels from a fresh ear, crush and roast them, then offer them to the Lord.
15 Put olive oil and incense on the offering, for it is a grain offering.
16 Then the priests shall burn part of the bruised grain mixed with oil and all of the incense as a representative portion before the Lord.
1 "When anyone wants to give an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord, he may use either a bull or a cow, but the animal must be entirely without defect if it is to be offered to the Lord!
2 The man who brings the animal shall lay his hand upon its head and kill it at the door of the Tabernacle. Then Aaron's sons shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar
3 and shall burn before the Lord the fat that covers the inward parts, the two kidneys and the loin-fat on them, and the gall bladder. And it will give the Lord much pleasure.
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6 "If a goat or sheep is used as a thank-offering to the Lord, it must have no defect and may be either a male or female.
7 "If it is a lamb, the man who brings it
8 shall lay his hand upon its head and kill it at the entrance of the Tabernacle; the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar,
9 and shall offer upon the altar the fat, the tail removed close to the backbone, the fat covering the internal organs,
10 the two kidneys with the loin-fat on them, and the gall bladder, as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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12 "If anyone brings a goat as his offering to the Lord,
13 he shall lay his hand upon its head and kill it at the entrance of the Tabernacle. The priest shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar,
14 and shall offer upon the altar, as a burnt offering to the Lord, the fat that covers the insides,
15 the two kidneys and the loin-fat on them, and the gall bladder. This burnt offering is very pleasing to the Lord. All the fat is Jehovah's.
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17 This is a permanent law throughout your land, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood."
1 Then the Lord gave these further instructions to Moses:
2 "Tell the people of Israel that these are the laws concerning anyone who unintentionally breaks any of my commandments.
3 If a priest sins unintentionally and so brings guilt upon the people, he must offer a young bull without defect as a sin offering to the Lord.
4 He shall bring it to the door of the Tabernacle, and shall lay his hand upon its head and kill it there before Jehovah.
5 Then the priest shall take the animal's blood into the Tabernacle,
6 and shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil that bars the way to the Holy of Holies.
7 Then the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the incense altar before the Lord in the Tabernacle; the remainder of the blood shall be poured out at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, at the entrance to the Tabernacle.
8 Then he shall take all the fat on the entrails,
9 the two kidneys and the loin-fat on them, and the gall bladder,
10 and shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering, just as in the case of a bull or cow sacrificed as a thank-offering.
11 But the remainder of the young bull--the skin, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and intestines--
12 shall be carried to a ceremonially clean place outside the camp--a place where the ashes are brought from the altar--and burned there on a wood fire.
13 "If the entire nation of Israel sins without realizing it and does something that Jehovah has said not to do, all the people are guilty.
14 When they realize it, they shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, bringing it to the Tabernacle
15 where the leaders of the nation shall lay their hands upon the animal's head and kill it before the Lord.
16 Then the priest shall bring its blood into the Tabernacle,
17 and shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil.
18 Then he shall put blood upon the horns of the altar there in the Tabernacle before the Lord, and all the remainder of the blood shall be poured out at the base of the burnt offering altar, at the entrance to the Tabernacle.
19 All the fat shall be removed and burned upon the altar.
20 He shall follow the same procedure as for a sin offering; in this way the priest shall make atonement for the nation, and everyone will be forgiven.
21 The priest shall then cart the young bull outside the camp and burn it there, just as though it were a sin offering for an individual, only this time it is a sin offering for the entire nation.
22 "If one of the leaders sins without realizing it and is guilty of disobeying one of God's laws,
23 as soon as it is called to his attention he must bring as his sacrifice a male goat without any physical defect.
24 He shall lay his hand upon its head and kill it at the place where the burnt offerings are killed, and present it to the Lord. This is his sin offering.
25 Then the priest shall take some of the blood of this sin offering and place it with his finger upon the horns of the altar of burnt offerings, and the rest of the blood shall be poured out at the base of the altar.
26 All the fat shall be burned upon the altar, just as if it were the fat of the sacrifice of a thank-offering; thus the priest shall make atonement for the leader concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
27 "If any one of the common people sins and doesn't realize it, he is guilty.
28 But as soon as he does realize it, he is to bring as his sacrifice a female goat without defect to atone for his sin.
29 He shall bring it to the place where the animals for burnt offerings are killed, and there lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and kill it.
30 And the priest shall take some of the blood with his finger and smear it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar. Then the priest shall pour out the remainder of the blood at the base of the altar.
31 All the fat shall be taken off, just as in the procedure for the thank-offering sacrifice, and the priest shall burn it upon the altar; and the Lord will appreciate it. Thus the priest shall make atonement for that man, and he shall be forgiven.
32 "However, if he chooses to bring a lamb as his sin offering, it must be a female without physical defect.
33 He shall bring it to the place where the burnt offerings are killed, and lay his hand upon its head and kill it there as a sin offering.
34 The priest shall take some of the blood with his finger and smear it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and all the rest of the blood shall be poured out at the base of the altar.
35 The fat shall be used just as in the case of a thank-offering lamb--the priest shall burn the fat on the altar as in any other sacrifice made to Jehovah by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for the man, and his sin shall be forgiven.
1 "Anyone refusing to give testimony concerning what he knows about a crime is guilty.
2 "Anyone touching anything ceremonially unclean--such as the dead body of an animal forbidden for food, wild or domesticated, or the dead body of some forbidden insect--is guilty, even though he wasn't aware of touching it.
3 Or if he touches human discharge of any kind, he becomes guilty as soon as he realizes that he has touched it.
4 "If anyone makes a rash vow, whether the vow is good or bad, when he realizes what a foolish vow he has taken, he is guilty.
5 "In any of these cases, he shall confess his sin
6 and bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a female lamb or goat, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be freed from his sin, and need not fulfill the vow.
7 "If he is too poor to bring a lamb to the Lord, then he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons as his guilt offering; one of the birds shall be his sin offering and the other his burnt offering.
8 The priest shall offer as the sin sacrifice whichever bird is handed to him first, breaking its neck, but not severing its head from its body.
9 Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood at the side of the altar and the rest shall be drained out at the base of the altar; this is the sin offering.
10 He shall offer the second bird as a burnt offering, following the customary procedures that have been set forth; so the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
11 "If he is too poor to bring turtledoves or young pigeons as his sin offering, then he shall bring a tenth of a bushel of fine flour. He must not mix it with olive oil or put any incense on it because it is a sin offering.
12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take out a handful as a representative portion and burn it on the altar just as any other offering to Jehovah made by fire; this shall be his sin offering.
13 In this way the priest shall make atonement for him for any sin of this kind, and he shall be forgiven. The rest of the flour shall belong to the priest, just as was the case with the grain offering."
14 And the Lord said to Moses,
15 "If anyone sins by unintentionally defiling what is holy, then he shall bring a ram without defect, worth whatever fine you charge against him, as his guilt offering to the Lord.
16 And he shall make restitution for the holy thing he has defiled, or the tithe omitted, by paying for the loss, plus a 20 percent penalty; he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
17 "Anyone who disobeys some law of God without realizing it is guilty anyway,
18 and must bring his sacrifice of a value determined by Moses. This sacrifice shall be a ram without blemish taken to the priest as a guilt offering; with it the priest shall make atonement for him, so that he will be forgiven for whatever it is he has done without realizing it.
19 It must be offered as a guilt offering, for he is certainly guilty before the Lord."
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
2 "If anyone sins against me by refusing to return a deposit on something borrowed or rented, or by refusing to return something entrusted to him, or by robbery, or by oppressing his neighbor,
3 or by finding a lost article and lying about it, swearing that he doesn't have it--
4 on the day he is found guilty of any such sin, he shall restore what he took,
5 adding a 20 percent fine, and give it to the one he has harmed; and on the same day he shall bring his guilt offering to the Tabernacle.
6 His guilt offering shall be a ram without defect, and must be worth whatever value you demand. He shall bring it to the priest,
7 and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven."
8 Then the Lord said to Moses,
9 "Give Aaron and his sons these regulations concerning the burnt offering: "The burnt offering shall be left upon the hearth of the altar all night, with the altar fire kept burning.
10 (The next morning) the priest shall put on his linen undergarments and his linen outer garments, and clean out the ashes of the burnt offering, and put them beside the altar.
11 Then he shall change his clothes and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.
12 Meanwhile, the fire on the altar must be kept burning--it must not go out. The priest shall put on fresh wood each morning, and lay the daily burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the daily peace offering.
13 The fire must be kept burning upon the altar continually. It must never go out.
14 "These are the regulations concerning the grain offering: "Aaron's sons shall stand in front of the altar to offer it before the Lord.
15 The priest shall then take out a handful of the finely ground flour, with the olive oil and the incense mixed into it, and burn it upon the altar as a representative portion for the Lord; and it will be received with pleasure by the Lord.
16 After taking out this handful, the remainder of the flour will belong to Aaron and his sons for their food; it shall be eaten without yeast in the courtyard of the Tabernacle.
17 (Stress this instruction, that if it is baked, it must be without yeast.) I have given to the priests this part of the burnt offerings made to me. However, all of it is most holy, just as is the entire sin offering and the entire guilt offering.
18 It may be eaten by any male descendant of Aaron, any priest, generation after generation. But only the priests may eat these offerings made by fire to the Lord."
19 And Jehovah said to Moses,
20 "On the day Aaron and his sons are anointed and inducted into the priesthood, they shall bring to the Lord a regular grain offering--a tenth of a bushel of fine flour, half to be offered in the morning and half in the evening.
21 It shall be cooked on a griddle, using olive oil, and should be well cooked, then brought to the Lord as an offering that pleases him very much.
22 As the sons of the priests replace their fathers, they shall be inducted into office by offering this same sacrifice on the day of their anointing. This is a perpetual law.
23 These offerings shall be entirely burned up before the Lord; none of it shall be eaten."
24 Then the Lord said to Moses,
25 "Tell Aaron and his sons that these are the instructions concerning the sin offering: "This sacrifice is most holy, and shall be killed before the Lord at the place where the burnt offerings are killed.
26 The priest who performs the ceremony shall eat it in the courtyard of the Tabernacle.
27 Only those who are sanctified--the priests--may touch this meat; if any blood sprinkles onto their clothing, it must be washed in a holy place.
28 Then the clay pot in which the clothing is boiled shall be broken; or if a bronze kettle is used, it must be scoured and rinsed out thoroughly.
29 Every male among the priests may eat this offering, but only they, for it is most holy.
30 No sin offering may be eaten by the priests if any of its blood is taken into the Tabernacle to make atonement in the Holy Place. That carcass must be entirely burned with fire before the Lord.
1 "Here are the instructions concerning the most holy offering for guilt:
2 "The sacrificial animal shall be killed at the place where the burnt offering sacrifices are slain, and its blood shall be sprinkled back and forth upon the altar.
3 The priest will offer upon the altar all its fat, including the tail, the fat that covers the insides,
4 the two kidneys and the loin-fat, and the gall bladder--all shall be set aside for sacrificing.
5 The priests will burn them upon the altar as a guilt offering to the Lord.
6 Only males among the priests may then eat the carcass, and it must be eaten in a holy place, for this is a most holy sacrifice.
7 "The same instructions apply to both the sin offering and the guilt offering--the carcass shall be given to the priest who is in charge of the atonement ceremony, for his food.
8 (When the offering is a burnt sacrifice, the priest who is in charge shall also be given the animal's hide.)
9 The priests who present the people's grain offerings to the Lord shall be given whatever remains of the sacrifice after the ceremony is completed. This rule applies whether the sacrifice is baked, fried, or grilled.
10 All other grain offerings, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, are the common property of all sons of Aaron.
11 "Here are the instructions concerning the sacrifices given to the Lord as special peace offerings:
12 "If it is an offering of thanksgiving, unleavened short bread shall be included with the sacrifice, along with unleavened wafers spread with olive oil and loaves from a batter of flour mixed with olive oil.
13 This thanksgiving peace offering shall be accompanied with loaves of leavened bread.
14 Part of this sacrifice shall be presented to the Lord by a gesture of waving it before the altar, then it shall be given to the assisting priest, the one who sprinkles the blood of the animal presented for the sacrifice.
15 After the animal has been sacrificed and presented to the Lord as a peace offering to show special appreciation and thanksgiving to him, its meat is to be eaten that same day, and none left to be eaten the next day.
16 "However, if someone brings a sacrifice that is not for thanksgiving, but is because of a vow or is simply a voluntary offering to the Lord, any portion of the sacrifice that is not eaten the day it is sacrificed may be eaten the next day.
17 But anything left over until the third day shall be burned.
18 For if any of it is eaten on the third day, the Lord will not accept it; it will have no value as a sacrifice, and there will be no credit to the one who brought it to be offered; and the priest who eats it shall be guilty, for it is detestable to the Lord, and the person who eats it must answer for his sin.
19 "Any meat that comes into contact with anything that is ceremonially unclean shall not be eaten, but burned; and as for the meat that may be eaten, it may be eaten only by a person who is ceremonially clean.
20 Any priest who is ceremonially unclean but eats the thanksgiving offering anyway, shall be cut off from his people, for he has defiled what is sacred.
21 Anyone who touches anything that is ceremonially unclean, whether it is uncleanness from man or beast, and then eats the peace offering, shall be cut off from his people, for he has defiled what is holy."
22 Then the Lord said to Moses,
23 "Tell the people of Israel never to eat fat, whether from oxen, sheep, or goats.
24 The fat of an animal that dies of disease, or is attacked and killed by wild animals, may be used for other purposes, but never eaten.
25 Anyone who eats fat from an offering sacrificed by fire to the Lord shall be outlawed from his people.
26 "Never eat blood, whether of birds or animals. Anyone who does shall be excommunicated from his people."
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28 And the Lord said to Moses,
29 "Tell the people of Israel that anyone bringing a thanksgiving offering to the Lord must bring it personally with his own hands.
30 He shall bring the offering of the fat and breast, which is to be presented to the Lord by waving it before the altar.
31 Then the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons,
32 while the right thigh shall be given to the officiating priest.
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34 For I have designated the breast and thigh as donations from the people of Israel to the sons of Aaron. Aaron and his sons must always be given this portion of the sacrifice.
35 This is their pay! It is to be set apart from the burnt offerings, and given to all who have been appointed to minister to the Lord as priests--to Aaron and to his sons.
36 For on the day the Lord anointed them, he commanded that the people of Israel give these portions to them; it is their right forever throughout all their generations."
37 These were the instructions concerning the burnt offering, grain offering, sin offering, and guilt offering, and concerning the consecration offering and the peace offering;
38 these instructions were given to Moses by the Lord on Mount Sinai, to be passed on to the people of Israel so that they would know how to offer their sacrifices to God in the Sinai desert.
1 The Lord said to Moses,
2 "Now bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tabernacle, together with their garments, the anointing oil, the young bull for the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of bread made without yeast;
3 and summon all Israel to a meeting there."
4 So all the people assembled,
5 and Moses said to them, "What I am now going to do has been commanded by Jehovah."
6 Then he took Aaron and his sons and washed them with water,
7 and he clothed Aaron with the special coat, sash, robe, and the ephod-jacket with its beautifully woven belt.
8 Then he put on him the chestpiece and deposited the Urim and the Thummim inside its pouch;
9 and placed on Aaron's head the turban with the sacred gold plate at its front--the holy crown--as the Lord had commanded Moses.
10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and sprinkled it upon the Tabernacle itself and on each item in it, sanctifying them.
11 When he came to the altar he sprinkled it seven times, and also sprinkled the utensils of the altar and the washbasin and its pedestal, to sanctify them.
12 Then he poured the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, thus setting him apart for his work.
13 Next Moses placed the robes on Aaron's sons, with the belts and caps, as the Lord had commanded him.
14 Then he took the young bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head
15 as Moses killed it. He smeared some of the blood with his finger upon the four horns of the altar and upon the altar itself, to sanctify it, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar; thus he sanctified the altar, making atonement for it.
16 He took all the fat covering the entrails, the fatty mass above the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and burned them all on the altar.
17 The carcass of the young bull, with its hide and dung, was burned outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
18 Then he presented to the Lord the ram for the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head,
19 and Moses killed it and sprinkled the blood back and forth upon the altar.
20 Next he quartered the ram and burned the pieces, the head and the fat.
21 He then washed the insides and the legs with water, and burned them upon the altar, so that the entire ram was consumed before the Lord; it was a burnt offering that pleased the Lord very much, for Jehovah's directions to Moses were followed in every detail.
22 Then Moses presented the other ram, the ram of consecration; Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon its head.
23 Moses killed it and took some of its blood and smeared it upon the lobe of Aaron's right ear and the thumb of his right hand and upon the big toe of his right foot.
24 Next he smeared some of the blood upon Aaron's sons--upon the lobes of their right ears, upon their right thumbs, and upon the big toes of their right feet. The rest of the blood he sprinkled back and forth upon the altar.
25 Then he took the fat, the tail, the fat upon the inner organs, the gall bladder, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right shoulder,
26 and placed on top of these one unleavened wafer, one wafer spread with olive oil, and a slice of bread, all taken from the basket that had been placed there before the Lord.
27 All this was placed in the hands of Aaron and his sons to present to the Lord by a gesture of waving them before the altar.
28 Moses then took it all back from them and burned it upon the altar, along with the burnt offering to the Lord; and Jehovah was pleased by the offering.
29 Now Moses took the breast and presented it to the Lord by waving it before the altar; this was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, just as the Lord had instructed him.
30 Next he took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that had been sprinkled upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his clothes and upon his sons and upon their clothes, thus consecrating to the Lord's use Aaron and his sons and their clothes.
31 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and eat it along with the bread that is in the basket of consecration, just as I instructed you to do.
32 Anything left of the meat and bread must be burned."
33 Next he told them not to leave the Tabernacle entrance for seven days, after which time their consecration would be completed--for it takes seven days.
34 Then Moses stated again that all he had done that day had been commanded by the Lord in order to make atonement for them.
35 And again he warned Aaron and his sons to stay at the entrance of the Tabernacle day and night for seven days. "If you leave," he told them, "you will die--this is what the Lord has said."
36 So Aaron and his sons did all that the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 On the eighth day (of the consecration ceremonies), Moses summoned Aaron and Aaron's sons and the elders of Israel,
2 and told Aaron to take a bull calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram without bodily defect for a burnt offering, and to offer them before the Lord.
3 "And tell the people of Israel," Moses instructed, "to select a male goat for their sin offering, also a yearling calf and a yearling lamb, all without bodily defect, for their burnt offering.
4 In addition, the people are to bring to the Lord a peace offering sacrifice--an ox and a ram, and a grain offering--flour mingled with olive oil. For today," Moses said, "Jehovah will appear to them."
5 So they brought all these things to the entrance of the Tabernacle, as Moses had commanded, and the people came and stood there before the Lord.
6 Moses told them, "When you have followed the Lord's instructions, his glory will appear to you."
7 Moses then told Aaron to proceed to the altar and to offer the sin offering and the burnt offering, making atonement for himself first, and then for the people, as the Lord had commanded.
8 So Aaron went up to the altar and killed the calf as a sacrifice for his own sin;
9 his sons caught the blood for him, and he dipped his finger in it and smeared it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest at the base of the altar.
10 Then he burned upon the altar the fat, kidneys, and gall bladder from this sin offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses,
11 but he burned the meat and hide outside the camp.
12 Next he killed the burnt offering animal, and his sons caught the blood, and he sprinkled it back and forth upon the altar;
13 they brought the animal to him piece by piece, including the head, and he burned each part upon the altar.
14 Then he washed the insides and the legs, and offered these also upon the altar as a burnt offering.
15 Next he sacrificed the people's offering; he killed the goat and offered it in just the same way as he had the sin offering for himself.
16 Thus he sacrificed their burnt offering to the Lord, in accordance with the instructions God had given.
17 Then he presented the grain offering, taking a handful and burning it upon the altar in addition to the regular morning offering.
18 Next he killed the ox and ram--the people's peace offering sacrifice; and Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it back and forth upon the altar.
19 Then he collected the fat of the ox and the ram--the fat from their tails and the fat covering the inner organs--and the kidneys and gall bladders.
20 The fat was placed upon the breasts of these animals, and Aaron burned it upon the altar;
21 but he waved the breasts and right shoulders slowly before the Lord as a gesture of offering it to him, just as Moses had commanded.
22 Then, with hands spread out toward the people, Aaron blessed them and came down from the altar.
23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle, and when they came out again they blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole assembly.
24 Then fire came from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar; and when the people saw it, they all shouted and fell flat upon the ground before the Lord.
1 But Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, placed unholy fire in their censers, laid incense on the fire, and offered the incense before the Lord --contrary to what the Lord had just commanded them!
2 So fire blazed forth from the presence of the Lord and destroyed them.
3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord meant when he said, 'I will show myself holy among those who approach me, and I will be glorified before all the people.' " And Aaron was speechless.
4 Then Moses called for Mishael and Elzaphon, Aaron's cousins, the sons of Uzziel, and told them, "Go and get the charred bodies from before the Tabernacle, and carry them outside the camp."
5 So they went over and got them, and carried them out in their coats as Moses had told them to.
6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not mourn--do not let your hair hang loose as a sign of your mourning, and do not tear your clothes. If you do, God will strike you dead too, and his wrath will come upon all the people of Israel. But the rest of the people of Israel may lament the death of Nadab and Abihu, and mourn because of the terrible fire the Lord has sent.
7 But you are not to leave the Tabernacle under penalty of death, for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you." And they did as Moses commanded.
8 Now the Lord instructed Aaron,
9 "Never drink wine or strong drink when you go into the Tabernacle, lest you die; and this rule applies to your sons and to all your descendants from generation to generation.
10 Your duties will be to arbitrate for the people, to teach them the difference between what is holy and what is ordinary, what is pure and what is impure;
11 and to teach them all the laws Jehovah has given through Moses."
12 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons who were left, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the grain offering--the food that remains after the handful has been offered to the Lord by burning it on the altar--make sure there is no leaven in it, and eat it beside the altar. The offering is most holy;
13 therefore, you must eat it in the sanctuary, in a holy place. It belongs to you and to your sons, from the offerings to Jehovah made by fire; for so I am commanded.
14 But the breast and the thigh, which have been offered to the Lord by the gesture of waving it before him, may be eaten in any holy place. It belongs to you and to your sons and daughters for your food. It is your portion of the peace offering sacrifices of the people of Israel.
15 The people are to bring the thigh that was set aside, along with the breast that was offered when the fat was burned, and they shall be presented before the Lord by the gesture of waving them. And afterwards they shall belong to you and your family, for the Lord has commanded this."
16 Then Moses searched everywhere for the goat of the sin offering and discovered that it had been burned! He was very angry about this with Eleazar and Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron.
17 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to take away the iniquity and guilt of the people, to make atonement for them before the Lord?" he demanded.
18 "Since its blood was not taken inside the sanctuary, you should certainly have eaten it there, as I ordered you."
19 But Aaron interceded with Moses. "They offered their sin offering and burnt offering before the Lord," he said, "but if I had eaten the sin offering on such a day as this, would it have pleased the Lord?"
20 And when Moses heard that, he was satisfied.
1 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2 "Tell the people of Israel that the animals which may be used for food include any animal with cloven hooves which chews its cud.
3
4 This means that the following may not be eaten: The camel (it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves);
5 The coney, or rock badger (because although it chews the cud, it does not have cloven hooves);
6 The hare (because although it chews the cud, it does not have cloven hooves);
7 The swine (because although it has cloven hooves, it does not chew the cud).
8 You may not eat their meat or even touch their dead bodies; they are forbidden foods for you.
9 "As to fish, you may eat whatever has fins and scales, whether taken from rivers or from the sea;
10 but all other water creatures are strictly forbidden to you.
11 You mustn't eat their meat or even touch their dead bodies.
12 I'll repeat it again--any water creature that does not have fins or scales is forbidden to you.
13 "Among the birds, these are the ones you may not eat: The eagle, the metire, the osprey,
14 The falcon (all kinds), the kite,
15 The raven (all kinds),
16 the ostrich, The nighthawk, the seagull, The hawk (all kinds),
17 the owl, The cormorant, the ibis,
18 The marsh hen, The pelican, The vulture,
19 the stork, The heron (all kinds), The hoopoe, the bat.
20 "No insects may be eaten,
21 with the exception of those that jump; locusts of all varieties--ordinary locusts, bald locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers--may be eaten.
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23 All insects that fly and walk or crawl are forbidden to you.
24 "Anyone touching their dead bodies shall be defiled until the evening
25 and must wash his clothes immediately. He must also quarantine himself until nightfall, as being ceremonially defiled.
26 "You are also defiled by touching any animal with only semiparted hoofs, or any animal that does not chew the cud.
27 Any animal that walks on paws is forbidden to you as food. Anyone touching the dead body of such an animal shall be defiled until evening.
28 Anyone carrying away the carcass shall wash his clothes and be ceremonially defiled until evening; for it is forbidden to you.
29 "These are the forbidden small animals which scurry about your feet or crawl upon the ground: The mole, the rat, The great lizard,
30 the gecko, The mouse, the lizard, The snail, the chameleon.
31 Anyone touching their dead bodies shall be defiled until evening,
32 and anything upon which the carcass falls shall be defiled--any article of wood, or of clothing, a rug, or a sack; anything it touches must be put into water and is defiled until evening. After that it may be used again.
33 If it falls into a pottery bowl, anything in the bowl is defiled, and you shall smash the bowl.
34 If the water used to cleanse the defiled article touches any food, all of it is defiled. Any drink which is in the defiled bowl is also contaminated.
35 "If the dead body of such an animal touches any clay oven, it is defiled and must be smashed.
36 If the body falls into a spring or cistern where there is water, that water is not defiled; yet anyone who pulls out the carcass is defiled.
37 And if the carcass touches grain to be sown in the field, it is not contaminated;
38 but if the seeds are wet and the carcass falls upon it, the seed is defiled.
39 "If an animal which you are permitted to eat dies of disease, anyone touching the carcass shall be defiled until evening.
40 Also, anyone eating its meat or carrying away its carcass shall wash his clothes and be defiled until evening.
41 "Animals that crawl shall not be eaten.
42 This includes all reptiles that slither along upon their bellies as well as those that have legs. No crawling thing with many feet may be eaten, for it is defiled.
43 Do not defile yourselves by touching it.
44 "I am the Lord your God. Keep yourselves pure concerning these things, and be holy, for I am holy; therefore do not defile yourselves by touching any of these things that crawl upon the earth.
45 For I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You must therefore be holy, for I am holy."
46 These are the laws concerning animals, birds, and whatever swims in the water or crawls upon the ground.
47 These are the distinctions between what is ceremonially clean and may be eaten, and what is ceremonially defiled and may not be eaten, among all animal life upon the earth.
1 The Lord told Moses to give these instructions to the people of Israel:
2 "When a baby boy is born, the mother shall be ceremonially defiled for seven days, and under the same restrictions as during her monthly menstrual periods.
3 On the eighth day, her son must be circumcised.
4 Then, for the next thirty-three days, while she is recovering from her ceremonial impurity, she must not touch anything sacred nor enter the Tabernacle.
5 "When a baby girl is born, the mother's ceremonial impurity shall last two weeks, during which time she will be under the same restrictions as during menstruation. Then for a further sixty-six days she shall continue her recovery.
6 "When these days of purification are ended (the following instructions are applicable whether her baby is a boy or girl), she must bring a yearling lamb as a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. She must take them to the door of the Tabernacle to the priest;
7 and the priest will offer them before the Lord and make atonement for her; then she will be ceremonially clean again after her bleeding at childbirth. "These then, are the procedures after childbirth.
8 But if she is too poor to bring a lamb, then she must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons. One will be for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. The priest will make atonement for her with these, so that she will be ceremonially pure again."
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2 "If anyone notices a swelling in his skin, or a scab or boil or pimple with transparent skin, leprosy is to be suspected. He must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons
3 for the spot to be examined. If the hair in this spot turns white, and if the spot looks to be more than skin-deep, it is leprosy, and the priest must declare him a leper.
4 "But if the white spot in the skin does not seem to be deeper than the skin and the hair in the spot has not turned white, the priest shall quarantine him for seven days.
5 At the end of that time, on the seventh day, the priest will examine him again, and if the spot has not changed and has not spread in the skin, then the priest must quarantine him seven days more.
6 Again on the seventh day the priest will examine him, and if the marks of the disease have become fainter and have not spread, then the priest shall pronounce him cured; it was only a scab, and the man need only wash his clothes and everything will be normal again.
7 But if the spot spreads in the skin after he has come to the priest to be examined, he must come back to the priest again,
8 and the priest shall look again, and if the spot has spread, then the priest must pronounce him a leper.
9 "When anyone suspected of having leprosy is brought to the priest,
10 the priest is to look to see if there is a white swelling in the skin with white hairs in the spot, and an ulcer developing.
11 If he finds these symptoms, it is an established case of leprosy, and the priest must pronounce him defiled. The man is not to be quarantined for further observation, for he is definitely diseased.
12 But if the priest sees that the leprosy has erupted and spread all over his body from head to foot wherever he looks,
13 then the priest shall pronounce him cured of leprosy, for it has all turned white; he is cured.
14 But if there is raw flesh anywhere, the man shall be declared a leper. It is proved by the raw flesh.
15
16 But if the raw flesh later changes to white, the leper will return to the priest
17 to be examined again. If the spot has indeed turned completely white, then the priest will pronounce him cured.
18 "In the case of a man who has a boil in his skin which heals,
19 but which leaves a white swelling or a bright spot, sort of reddish white, the man must go to the priest for examination.
20 If the priest sees that the trouble seems to be down under the skin, and if the hair at the spot has turned white, then the priest shall declare him defiled, for leprosy has broken out from the boil.
21 But if the priest sees that there are no white hairs in this spot, and the spot does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and if the color is gray, then the priest shall quarantine him for seven days.
22 If during that time the spot spreads, the priest must declare him a leper.
23 But if the bright spot grows no larger and does not spread, it is merely the scar from the boil, and the priest shall declare that all is well.
24 "If a man is burned in some way, and the burned place becomes bright reddish white or white,
25 then the priest must examine the spot. If the hair in the bright spot turns white and the problem seems to be more than skin-deep, it is leprosy that has broken out from the burn, and the priest must pronounce him a leper.
26 But if the priest sees that there are no white hairs in the bright spot and the brightness appears to be no deeper than the skin and is fading, the priest shall quarantine him for seven days
27 and examine him again the seventh day. If the spot spreads in the skin, the priest must pronounce him a leper.
28 But if the bright spot does not move or spread in the skin, and is fading, it is simply a scar from the burn, and the priest shall declare that he does not have leprosy.
29 "If a man or woman has a sore on the head or chin,
30 the priest must examine him; if the infection seems to be below the skin and yellow hair is found in the sore, the priest must pronounce him a leper.
31 But if the priest's examination reveals that the spot seems to be only in the skin but there is healthy hair in it, then he shall be quarantined for seven days,
32 and examined again on the seventh day. If the spot has not spread and no yellow hair has appeared, and if the infection does not seem to be deeper than the skin,
33 he shall shave off all the hair around the spot (but not on the spot itself) and the priest shall quarantine him for another seven days.
34 He shall be examined again on the seventh day, and if the spot has not spread, and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him well, and after washing his clothes, he is free.
35 But if, later on, this spot begins to spread,
36 then the priest must examine him again and, without waiting to see if any yellow hair develops, declare him a leper.
37 But if it appears that the spreading has stopped and black hairs are found in the spot, then he is healed and is not a leper, and the priest shall declare him healed.
38 "If a man or a woman has white, transparent areas in the skin,
39 but these spots are growing dimmer, this is not leprosy, but an ordinary infection that has broken out in the skin.
40 "If a man's hair is gone, this does not make him a leper even though he is bald!
41 If the hair is gone from the front part of his head, he simply has a bald forehead, but this is not leprosy.
42 However, if in the baldness there is a reddish white spot, it may be leprosy breaking out.
43 In that case the priest shall examine him, and if there is a reddish white lump that looks like leprosy,
44 then he is a leper, and the priest must pronounce him such.
45 "Anyone who is discovered to have leprosy must tear his clothes and let his hair grow in wild disarray, and cover his upper lip and call out as he goes, "I am a leper, I am a leper."
46 As long as the disease lasts, he is defiled and must live outside the camp.
47 "If leprosy is suspected in a woolen or linen garment or fabric, or in a piece of leather or leather-work,
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49 and there is a greenish or a reddish spot in it, it is probably leprosy, and must be taken to the priest to be examined.
50 The priest will put it away for seven days
51 and look at it again on the seventh day. If the spot has spread, it is a contagious leprosy,
52 and he must burn the clothing, fabric, linen or woolen covering, or leather article, for it is contagious and must be destroyed by fire.
53 "But if when he examines it again on the seventh day the spot has not spread,
54 the priest shall order the suspected article to be washed, then isolated for seven more days.
55 If after that time the spot has not changed its color, even though it has not spread, it is leprosy and shall be burned, for the article is infected through and through.
56 But if the priest sees that the spot has faded after the washing, then he shall cut it out from the garment or leather goods or whatever it is in.
57 However, if it then reappears, it is leprosy and he must burn it.
58 But if after washing it there is no further trouble, it can be put back into service after another washing."
59 These are the regulations concerning leprosy in a garment or anything made of skin or leather, indicating whether to pronounce it leprous or not.
1 And the Lord gave Moses these regulations concerning a person whose leprosy disappears:
2
3 "The priest shall go out of the camp to examine him. If the priest sees that the leprosy is gone,
4 he shall require two living birds of a kind permitted for food, and shall take some cedar wood, a scarlet string, and some hyssop branches, to be used for the purification ceremony of the one who is healed.
5 The priest shall then order one of the birds killed in an earthenware pot held above running water.
6 The other bird, still living, shall be dipped in the blood, along with the cedar wood, the scarlet thread, and the hyssop branch.
7 Then the priest shall sprinkle the blood seven times upon the man cured of his leprosy, and the priest shall pronounce him cured, and shall let the living bird fly into the open field.
8 "Then the man who is cured shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe himself, and return to live inside the camp; however, he must stay outside his tent for seven days.
9 The seventh day he shall again shave all the hair from his head, beard, and eyebrows, and wash his clothes and bathe, and shall then be declared fully cured of his leprosy.
10 "The next day, the eighth day, he shall take two male lambs without physical defect, one yearling ewe-lamb without physical defect, ten quarts of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, and a pint of olive oil;
11 then the priest who examines him shall place the man and his offerings before the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
12 The priest shall take one of the lambs and the pint of olive oil and offer them to the Lord as a guilt offering by the gesture of waving them before the altar.
13 Then he shall kill the lamb at the place where sin offerings and burnt offerings are killed, there at the Tabernacle; this guilt offering shall then be given to the priest for food, as in the case of a sin offering. It is a most holy offering.
14 The priest shall take the blood from this guilt offering and smear some of it upon the tip of the right ear of the man being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot.
15 "Then the priest shall take the olive oil and pour it into the palm of his left hand,
16 and dip his right finger into it, and sprinkle it with his finger seven times before the Lord.
17 Some of the oil remaining in his left hand shall then be placed by the priest upon the tip of the man's right ear and the thumb of his right hand and the big toe of his right foot--just as he did with the blood of the guilt offering.
18 The remainder of the oil in his hand shall be used to anoint the man's head. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
19 "Then the priest must offer the sin offering and again perform the rite of atonement for the person being cleansed from his leprosy; and afterwards the priest shall kill the burnt offering,
20 and offer it along with the grain offering upon the altar, making atonement for the man, who shall then be pronounced finally cleansed.
21 "If he is so poor that he cannot afford two lambs, then he shall bring only one, a male lamb for the guilt offering, to be presented to the Lord in the rite of atonement by waving it before the altar; and only three quarts of fine white flour, mixed with olive oil, for a grain offering, and a pint of olive oil.
22 "He shall also bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons--whichever he is able to afford--and use one of the pair for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
23 He shall bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle on the eighth day, for his ceremony of cleansing before the Lord.
24 The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, and the pint of oil, and wave them before the altar as a gesture of offering to the Lord.
25 Then he shall kill the lamb for the guilt offering and smear some of its blood upon the tip of the man's right ear--the man on whose behalf the ceremony is being performed--and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the big toe of his right foot.
26 "The priest shall then pour the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand,
27 and with his right finger he is to sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord.
28 Then he must put some of the olive oil from his hand upon the tip of the man's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot, just as he did with the blood of the guilt offering.
29 The remaining oil in his hand shall be placed upon the head of the man being cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord.
30 "Then he must offer the two turtledoves or two young pigeons (whichever pair he is able to afford).
31 One of the pair is for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, to be sacrificed along with the grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement for the man before the Lord."
32 These, then, are the laws concerning those who are cleansed of leprosy but are not able to bring the sacrifices normally required for the ceremony of cleansing.
33 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
34 "When you arrive in the land of Canaan which I have given you, and I place leprosy in some house there,
35 then the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, 'It seems to me that there may be leprosy in my house!'
36 "The priest shall order the house to be emptied before he examines it, so that everything in the house will not be declared contaminated if he decides that there is leprosy there.
37 If he finds greenish or reddish streaks in the walls of the house which seem to be beneath the surface of the wall,
38 he shall close up the house for seven days,
39 and return the seventh day to look at it again. If the spots have spread in the wall,
40 then the priest shall order the removal of the spotted section of wall, and the material must be thrown into a defiled place outside the city.
41 Then he shall order the inside walls of the house scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in a defiled place outside the city.
42 Other stones shall be brought to replace those that have been removed, new mortar used, and the house replastered.
43 "But if the spots appear again,
44 the priest shall come again and look, and if he sees that the spots have spread, it is leprosy, and the house is defiled.
45 Then he shall order the destruction of the house--all its stones, timbers, and mortar shall be carried out of the city to a defiled place.
46 Anyone entering the house while it is closed shall be defiled until evening.
47 Anyone who lies down or eats in the house shall wash his clothing.
48 "But if, when the priest comes again to look, the spots have not reappeared after the fresh plastering, then he will pronounce the house cleansed and declare the leprosy gone.
49 He shall also perform the ceremony of cleansing, using two birds, cedar wood, scarlet thread, and hyssop branches.
50 He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in an earthenware bowl,
51 and dip the cedar wood, hyssop branch, and scarlet thread, as well as the living bird, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water, and shall sprinkle the house seven times.
52 In this way the house shall be cleansed.
53 Then he shall let the live bird fly away into an open field outside the city. This is the method for making atonement for the house and cleansing it."
54 These, then, are the laws concerning the various places where leprosy may appear:
55 in a garment or in a house,
56 or in any swelling in one's skin, or a scab from a burn, or a bright spot.
57 In this way you will know whether or not it is actually leprosy. That is why these laws are given.
1 The Lord told Moses and Aaron
2 to give the people of Israel these further instructions: "Any man who has a genital discharge is ceremonially defiled.
3 This applies not only while the discharge is active, but also for a time after it heals.
4 Any bed he lies on and anything he sits on is contaminated:
5 so anyone touching the man's bed is ceremonially defiled until evening, and must wash his clothes and bathe himself.
6 Anyone sitting on a seat the man has sat upon while defiled is himself ceremonially impure until evening, and must wash his clothes and bathe himself.
7 The same instructions apply to anyone touching him.
8 Anyone he spits on is ceremonially impure until evening, and must wash his clothes and bathe himself.
9 Any saddle he rides on is defiled.
10 Anyone touching or carrying anything else that was beneath him shall be defiled until evening, and must wash his clothes and bathe himself.
11 If the defiled man touches anyone without first rinsing his hands, that person must wash his clothes and bathe himself and be defiled until evening.
12 Any earthen pot touched by the defiled man must be broken, and every wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.
13 "When the discharge stops, he shall begin a seven-day cleansing ceremony by washing his clothes and bathing in running water.
14 On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and give them to the priest.
15 The priest shall sacrifice them there, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; thus the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the man because of his discharge.
16 "Whenever a man's semen goes out from him, he shall take a complete bath and be ceremonially impure until the evening.
17 Any clothing or bedding the semen spills on must be washed and remain ceremonially defiled until evening.
18 After sexual intercourse, the woman as well as the man must bathe, and they are ceremonially defiled until the next evening.
19 "Whenever a woman menstruates, she shall be in a state of ceremonial defilement for seven days afterwards, and during that time anyone touching her shall be defiled until evening.
20 Anything she lies on or sits on during that time shall be defiled.
21 Anyone touching her bed or anything she sits upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself and be ceremonially defiled until evening.
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24 A man having sexual intercourse with her during this time is ceremonially defiled for seven days, and every bed he lies upon shall be defiled.
25 "If the menstrual flow continues after the normal time, or at some irregular time during the month, the same rules apply as indicated above,
26 so that anything she lies upon during that time is defiled, just as it would be during her normal menstrual period, and everything she sits on is in a similar state of defilement.
27 Anyone touching her bed or anything she sits on shall be defiled, and shall wash his clothes and bathe and be defiled until evening.
28 Seven days after the menstruating stops, she is no longer ceremonially defiled.
29 "On the eighth day, she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle,
30 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for her before the Lord for her menstrual defilement.
31 In this way you shall cleanse the people of Israel from their defilement, lest they die because of defiling my Tabernacle that is among them."
32 This, then, is the law for the man who is defiled by a genital disease or by a seminal emission;
33 and for a woman's menstrual period; and for anyone who has sexual intercourse with her while she is in her period of defilement afterwards.
1 After Aaron's two sons died before the Lord, the Lord said to Moses,
2 "Warn your brother Aaron not to enter into the Holy Place behind the veil, where the Ark and the place of mercy are, just whenever he chooses. The penalty for intrusion is death. For I myself am present in the cloud above the place of mercy.
3 "Here are the conditions for his entering there: He must bring a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He must bathe himself and put on the sacred linen coat, shorts, belt, and turban.
5 The people of Israel shall then bring him two male goats for their sin offering, and a ram for their burnt offering.
6 First he shall present to the Lord the young bull as a sin offering for himself, making atonement for himself and his family.
7 Then he shall bring the two goats before the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle,
8 and cast lots to determine which is the Lord's and which is to be sent away.
9 The goat allotted to the Lord shall then be sacrificed by Aaron as a sin offering.
10 The other goat shall be kept alive and placed before the Lord. The rite of atonement shall be performed over it, and it shall then be sent out into the desert as a scapegoat.
11 "After Aaron has sacrificed the young bull as a sin offering for himself and his family,
12 he shall take a censer full of live coals from the altar of the Lord, and fill his hands with sweet incense beaten into fine powder, and bring it inside the veil.
13 There before the Lord he shall put the incense upon the coals, so that a cloud of incense will cover the mercy place above the Ark (containing the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments); thus he will not die.
14 And he shall bring some of the blood of the young bull and sprinkle it with his finger upon the east side of the mercy place, and then seven times in front of it.
15 "Then he must go out and sacrifice the people's sin offering goat, and bring its blood within the veil, and sprinkle it upon the place of mercy and in front of it, just as he did with the blood of the young bull.
16 Thus he shall make atonement for the holy place because it is defiled by the sins of the people of Israel, and for the Tabernacle, located right among them and surrounded by their defilement.
17 Not another soul shall be inside the Tabernacle when Aaron enters to make atonement in the Holy Place--not until after he comes out again and has made atonement for himself and his household and for all the people of Israel.
18 Then he shall go out to the altar before the Lord and make atonement for it. He must smear the blood of the young bull and the goat on the horns of the altar,
19 and sprinkle blood upon the altar seven times with his finger, thus cleansing it from the sinfulness of Israel and making it holy.
20 "When he has completed the rite of atonement for the Holy Place, the entire Tabernacle, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat and,
21 laying both hands upon its head, confess over it all the sins of the people of Israel. He shall lay all their sins upon the head of the goat and send it into the desert, led by a man appointed for the task.
22 So the goat shall carry all the sins of the people into a land where no one lives, and the man shall let it loose in the wilderness.
23 "Then Aaron shall go into the Tabernacle again and take off the linen garments he wore when he went behind the veil, and leave them there in the Tabernacle.
24 Then he shall bathe in a sacred place, put on his clothes again, and go out and sacrifice his own burnt offering for the people, making atonement for himself and for them.
25 He shall also burn upon the altar the fat for the sin offering.
26 "(The man who took the goat out into the desert shall afterwards wash his clothes and bathe himself and then come back into the camp.)
27 And the young bull and the goat used for the sin offering (their blood was taken into the Holy Place by Aaron, to make atonement) shall be carried outside the camp and burned, including the hides and internal organs.
28 Afterwards, the person doing the burning shall wash his clothes and bathe himself and then return to camp.
29 "This is a permanent law: You must do no work on the twenty-fifth day of September, but must spend the day in self-examination and humility. This applies whether you are born in the land or are a foreigner living among the people of Israel;
30 for this is the day commemorating the atonement, cleansing you in the Lord's eyes from all of your sins.
31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall spend the day in quiet humility; this is a permanent law.
32 This ceremony, in later generations, shall be performed by the anointed High Priest, consecrated in place of his ancestor Aaron; he shall be the one to put on the holy linen garments,
33 and make atonement for the holy sanctuary, the Tabernacle, the altar, the priests, and the people.
34 This shall be an everlasting law for you, to make atonement for the people of Israel once each year, because of their sins." And Aaron followed all these instructions that the Lord gave to Moses.
1 The Lord gave to Moses these additional instructions for Aaron and the priests and for all the people of Israel:
2
3 "Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, lamb, or goat anywhere
4 except at the Tabernacle is guilty of murder and shall be excommunicated from his nation.
5 The purpose of this law is to stop the people of Israel from sacrificing in the open fields, and to cause them to bring their sacrifices to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and to burn the fat as a savor the Lord will appreciate and enjoy--
6 for in this way the priest will be able to sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and to burn the fat as a savor the Lord will appreciate and enjoy--
7 instead of the people's sacrificing to evil spirits out in the fields. This shall be a permanent law for you, from generation to generation.
8 I repeat: Anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
9 anywhere other than at the entrance of the Tabernacle, where it will be sacrificed to the Lord, shall be excommunicated.
10 "And I will turn my face against anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you, who eats blood in any form. I will excommunicate him from his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given you the blood to sprinkle upon the altar as an atonement for your souls; it is the blood that makes atonement because it is the life.
12 That is the reasoning behind my decree to the people of Israel, that neither they, nor any foreigner living among them, may eat blood.
13 Anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you, who goes hunting and kills an animal or bird of a kind permitted for food, must pour out the blood and cover it with dust,
14 for the blood is the life. That is why I told the people of Israel never to eat it, for the life of every bird and animal is its blood. Therefore, anyone who eats blood must be excommunicated.
15 "And anyone--native born or foreigner--who eats the dead body of an animal that dies a natural death, or is killed by wild animals, must wash his clothes and bathe himself and be defiled until evening; after that he shall be declared cleansed.
16 But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe, he shall suffer the consequence."
1 The Lord then told Moses to tell the people of Israel, "I am Jehovah your God,
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3 so don't act like heathen--like the people of Egypt where you lived so long, or the people of Canaan where I am going to take you.
4 You must obey only my laws, and you must carry them out in detail, for I am the Lord your God.
5 If you obey them, you shall live. I am the Lord.
6 "None of you shall marry a near relative, for I am the Lord.
7 Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother,
8 nor any other of your father's wives.
9 Do not have intercourse with your sister or half-sister, whether the daughter of your father or your mother, whether brought up in the same household or elsewhere.
10 "You shall not have intercourse with your granddaughter--the daughter of either your son or your daughter--for she is a close relative.
11 You may not have intercourse with a half-sister--your father's wife's daughter;
12 nor your aunt--your father's sister--because she is so closely related to your father;
13 nor your aunt--your mother's sister--because she is a close relative of your mother;
14 nor your aunt--the wife of your father's brother.
15 "You may not marry your daughter-in-law--your son's wife;
16 nor your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.
17 You may not marry both a woman and her daughter or granddaughter, for they are near relatives, and to do so is horrible wickedness.
18 You shall not marry two sisters, for they will be rivals. However, if your wife dies, then it is all right to marry her sister.
19 "There must be no sexual relationship with a woman who is menstruating;
20 nor with anyone else's wife, to defile yourself with her.
21 "You shall not give any of your children to Molech, burning them upon his altar; never profane the name of your God, for I am Jehovah.
22 "Homosexuality is absolutely forbidden, for it is an enormous sin.
23 A man shall have no sexual intercourse with any female animal, thus defiling himself; and a woman must never give herself to a male animal, to mate with it; this is a terrible perversion.
24 "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for these are the things the heathen do; and because they do them, I am going to cast them out from the land into which you are going.
25 That entire country is defiled with this kind of activity; that is why I am punishing the people living there, and will throw them out of the land.
26 You must strictly obey all of my laws and ordinances, and you must not do any of these abominable things; these laws apply both to you who are born in the nation of Israel and to foreigners living among you.
27 "Yes, all these abominations have been done continually by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land is defiled.
28 Do not do these things or I will throw you out of the land, just as I will throw out the nations that live there now.
29 Whoever does any of these terrible deeds shall be excommunicated from this nation.
30 So be very sure to obey my laws, and do not practice any of these horrible customs. Do not defile yourselves with the evil deeds of those living in the land where you are going. For I am Jehovah your God."
1 The Lord also told Moses
2 to tell the people of Israel, "You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy. You must respect your mothers and fathers, and obey my Sabbath law, for I am the Lord your God.
3 Do not make or worship idols, for I am Jehovah your God.
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5 "When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, offer it correctly so that it will be accepted:
6 Eat it the same day you offer it, or the next day at the latest; any remaining until the third day must be burned.
7 For any of it eaten on the third day is repulsive to me and will not be accepted.
8 If you eat it on the third, day you are guilty, for you profane the holiness of Jehovah, and you shall be excommunicated from Jehovah's people.
9 "When you harvest your crops, don't reap the corners of your fields, and don't pick up stray grains of wheat from the ground.
10 It is the same with your grape crop--don't strip every last piece of fruit from the vines, and don't pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Leave them for the poor and for those traveling through, for I am Jehovah your God.
11 "You must not steal nor lie nor defraud.
12 You must not swear to a falsehood, thus bringing reproach upon the name of your God, for I am Jehovah.
13 "You shall not rob nor oppress anyone, and you shall pay your hired workers promptly. If something is due them, don't even keep it overnight.
14 "You must not curse the deaf nor trip up a blind man as he walks. Fear your God; I am Jehovah!
15 "Judges must always be just in their sentences, not noticing whether a person is poor or rich; they must always be perfectly fair.
16 "Don't gossip. Don't falsely accuse your neighbor of some crime, for I am Jehovah.
17 "Don't hate your brother. Rebuke anyone who sins; don't let him get away with it, or you will be equally guilty.
18 Don't seek vengeance. Don't bear a grudge; but love your neighbor as yourself, for I am Jehovah.
19 "Obey my laws: Do not mate your cattle with a different kind; don't sow your field with two kinds of seed; don't wear clothes made of half wool and half linen.
20 "If a man seduces a slave girl who is engaged to be married, they shall be tried in a court but not put to death, because she is not free.
21 The man involved shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle; the offering shall be a ram.
22 The priest shall make atonement with the ram for the sin the man has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
23 "When you enter the land and have planted all kinds of fruit trees, do not eat the first three crops, for they are considered ceremonially defiled.
24 And the fourth year the entire crop shall be devoted to the Lord, and shall be given to the Lord in praise to him.
25 Finally, in the fifth year, the crop is yours.
26 "I am Jehovah your God! You must not eat meat with undrained blood nor use fortune telling or witchcraft.
27 "You must not trim off your hair on your temples or clip the edges of your beard, as the heathen do.
28 You shall not cut yourselves nor put tattoo marks upon yourselves in connection with funeral rites; I am the Lord.
29 "Do not violate your daughter's sanctity by making her a prostitute, lest the land become full of enormous wickedness.
30 "Keep my Sabbath laws and reverence my Tabernacle, for I am the Lord.
31 "Do not defile yourselves by consulting mediums and wizards, for I am Jehovah your God.
32 "You shall give due honor and respect to the elderly, in the fear of God. I am Jehovah.
33 "Do not take advantage of foreigners in your land; do not wrong them.
34 They must be treated like any other citizen; love them as yourself, for remember that you too were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
35 "You must be impartial in judgment. Use accurate measurements--lengths, weights, and volumes--and give full measure, for I am Jehovah your God who brought you from the land of Egypt.
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37 You must heed all of my commandments and ordinances, carefully obeying them, for I am Jehovah."
1 The Lord gave Moses these further instructions for the people of Israel:
2 "Anyone--whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you--who sacrifices his child as a burnt offering to Molech shall without fail be stoned by his peers.
3 And I myself will turn against that man and cut him off from all his people, because he has given his child to Molech, thus making my Tabernacle unfit for me to live in, and insulting my holy name.
4 And if the people of the land pretend they do not know what the man has done and refuse to put him to death,
5 then I myself will set my face against that man and his family and cut him off, along with all others who turn to other gods than me.
6 "I will set my face against anyone who consults mediums and wizards instead of me and I will cut that person off from his people.
7 So sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
8 You must obey all of my commandments, for I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
9 "Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death--for he has cursed his own flesh and blood.
10 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and woman shall be put to death.
11 If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has defiled what is his father's; both the man and the woman must die, for it is their own fault.
12 And if a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both shall be executed: they have brought it upon themselves by defiling each other.
13 The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have brought it upon themselves.
14 If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and with her mother, it is a great evil. All three shall be burned alive to wipe out wickedness from among you.
15 "If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he shall be executed and the animal killed.
16 If a woman has sexual intercourse with an animal, kill the woman and the animal, for they deserve their punishment.
17 "If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, it is a shameful thing, and they shall publicly be cut off from the people of Israel. He shall bear his guilt.
18 If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman during her period of menstruation, both shall be excommunicated, for he has uncovered the source of her flow, and she has permitted it.
19 "Sexual intercourse is outlawed between a man and his maiden aunt--whether the sister of his mother or of his father--for they are near of kin; they shall bear their guilt.
20 If a man has intercourse with his uncle's wife, he has taken what belongs to his uncle; their punishment is that they shall bear their sin and die childless.
21 If a man marries his brother's wife, this is impurity; for he has taken what belongs to his brother, and they shall be childless.
22 "You must obey all of my laws and ordinances so that I will not throw you out of your new land.
23 You must not follow the customs of the nations I cast out before you, for they do all these things I have warned you against; that is the reason I abhor them.
24 I have promised you their land; I will give it to you to possess it. It is a land 'flowing with milk and honey.' I am the Lord your God who has made a distinction between you and the people of other nations.
25 "You shall therefore make a distinction between the birds and animals I have given you permission to eat and those you may not eat. You shall not contaminate yourselves and make yourselves hateful to me by eating any animal or bird which I have forbidden, though the land teem with them.
26 You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have set you apart from all other peoples to be mine.
27 "A medium or a wizard--whether man or woman--shall surely be stoned to death. They have caused their own doom."
1 The Lord said to Moses: "Tell the priests never to defile themselves by touching a dead person,
2 unless it is a near relative--a mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3 or unmarried sister for whom he has special responsibility since she has no husband.
4 For the priest is a leader among his people, and he may not ceremonially defile himself as an ordinary person can.
5 "The priests shall not clip bald spots in their hair or beards, nor cut their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God and shall not dishonor and profane his name; otherwise they will be unfit to make food offerings by fire to the Lord their God.
7 A priest shall not marry a prostitute, nor a woman of another tribe, and he shall not marry a divorced woman, for he is a holy man of God.
8 The priest is set apart to offer the sacrifices of your God; he is holy, for I, the Lord who sanctifies you, am holy.
9 The daughter of any priest who becomes a prostitute, thus violating her father's holiness as well as her own, shall be burned alive.
10 "The High Priest--anointed with the special anointing oil and wearing the special garments--must not let his hair hang loose in mourning, nor tear his clothing,
11 nor be in the presence of any dead person--not even his father or mother.
12 He shall not leave the sanctuary when on duty, nor treat my Tabernacle like an ordinary house, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him; I am Jehovah.
13 He must marry a virgin.
14 He may not marry a widow, nor a woman who is divorced, nor a prostitute. She must be a virgin from his own tribe,
15 for he must not be the father of children of mixed blood--half priestly and half ordinary."
16 And the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron that any of his descendants from generation to generation who have any bodily defect may not offer the sacrifices to God.
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18 For instance, if a man is blind or lame, or has a broken nose or any extra fingers or toes,
19 or has a broken foot or hand,
20 or has a humped back, or is a dwarf, or has a defect in his eye, or has pimples or scabby skin, or has imperfect testicles--
21 although he is a descendant of Aaron--he is not permitted to offer the fire sacrifices to the Lord because of his physical defect.
22 However, he shall be fed with the food of the priests from the offerings sacrificed to God, both from the holy and most holy offerings.
23 But he shall not go in behind the veil, nor come near the altar, because of the physical defect; this would defile my sanctuary, for it is Jehovah who sanctifies it."
24 So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel.
1 The Lord told Moses, "Instruct Aaron and his sons to be very careful not to defile my holy name by desecrating the people's sacred gifts; for I am Jehovah.
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3 From now on and forever, if a priest who is ceremonially defiled sacrifices the animals brought by the people or handles the gifts dedicated to Jehovah, he shall be discharged from the priesthood. For I am Jehovah!
4 "No priest who is a leper or who has a running sore may eat the holy sacrifices until healed. And any priest who touches a dead person, or who is defiled by a seminal emission,
5 or who touches any reptile or other forbidden thing, or who touches anyone who is ceremonially defiled for any reason--
6 that priest shall be defiled until evening and shall not eat of the holy sacrifices until after he has bathed that evening.
7 When the sun is down, then he shall be purified again and may eat the holy food, for it is his source of life.
8 He may not eat any animal that dies of itself or is torn by wild animals, for this will defile him. I am Jehovah.
9 Warn the priests to follow these instructions carefully, lest they be declared guilty and die for violating these rules. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
10 "No one may eat of the holy sacrifices unless he is a priest; no one visiting the priest, for instance, nor a hired servant, may eat this food.
11 However, there is one exception--if the priest buys a slave with his own money, that slave may eat it, and any slave children born in his household may eat it.
12 If a priest's daughter is married outside the tribe, she may not eat the sacred offerings.
13 But if she is a widow or divorced and has no son to support her, and has returned home to her father's household, she may eat of her father's food again. But otherwise, no one who is not in the priestly families may eat this food.
14 "If someone should eat of the holy sacrifices without realizing it, he shall return to the priest the amount he has used, with 20 percent added;
15 for the holy sacrifices brought by the people of Israel must not be defiled by being eaten by unauthorized persons, for these sacrifices have been offered to the Lord.
16 Anyone who violates this law is guilty and is in great danger because he has eaten the sacred offerings; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies the offerings."
17 And the Lord said to Moses,
18 "Tell Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel that if an Israelite or other person living among you offers a burnt offering sacrifice to the Lord--whether it is to fulfill a promise or is a spontaneous free will offering--
19 it will only be acceptable to the Lord if it is a male animal without defect; it must be a young bull or a sheep or a goat.
20 Anything that has a defect must not be offered, for it will not be accepted.
21 "Anyone sacrificing a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or flock, whether to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary offering, must sacrifice an animal that has no defect, or it will not be accepted:
22 An animal that is blind or disabled or mutilated, or which has sores or itch or any other skin disease, must not be offered to the Lord; it is not a fit burnt offering for the altar of the Lord.
23 If the young bull or lamb presented to the Lord has anything superfluous or lacking in its body parts, it may be offered as a free will offering, but not for a vow.
24 An animal that has injured genitals--crushed or castrated--shall not be offered to the Lord at any time.
25 This restriction applies to the sacrifices made by foreigners among you as well as those made by yourselves, for no defective animal is acceptable for this sacrifice."
26 And the Lord said to Moses,
27 "When a bullock, sheep, or goat is born, it shall be left with its mother for seven days, but from the eighth day onward it is acceptable as a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.
28 You shall not slaughter a mother animal and her offspring the same day, whether she is a cow or ewe.
29 When you offer the Lord a sacrifice of thanksgiving, you must do it in the right way,
30 eating the sacrificial animal the same day it is slain. Leave none of it for the following day. I am the Lord.
31 "You must keep all of my commandments, for I am the Lord.
32 You must not treat me as common and ordinary. Revere me and hallow me, for I, the Lord, made you holy to myself
33 and rescued you from Egypt to be my own people! I am Jehovah!"
1 The Lord said to Moses, "Announce to the people of Israel that they are to celebrate several annual festivals of the Lord--times when all Israel will assemble and worship me.
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3 (These are in addition to your Sabbaths --the seventh day of every week--which are always days of rest in every home, times for assembling to worship, and for resting from the normal business of the week.)
4 These are the holy festivals which are to be observed each year:
5 "The Passover of the Lord: This is to be celebrated on the first day of April, beginning at sundown.
6 "The Festival of Unleavened Bread: This is to be celebrated beginning the day following the Passover, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
7 On the first day of this festival, you shall gather the people for worship, and all ordinary work shall cease.
8 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the festival. On each of the intervening days you shall make an offering by fire to the Lord.
9 "The Festival of First Fruits: When you arrive in the land I will give you and you reap your first harvest, bring the first sheaf of the harvest to the priest
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11 on the day after the Sabbath. He shall wave it before the Lord in a gesture of offering, and it will be accepted by the Lord as your gift.
12 That same day you shall sacrifice to the Lord a male yearling lamb without defect as a burnt offering.
13 A grain offering shall accompany it, consisting of a fifth of a bushel of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil, to be offered by fire to the Lord; this will be very pleasant to him. Also offer a drink offering consisting of three pints of wine.
14 Until this is done you must not eat any of the harvest for yourselves--neither fresh kernels nor bread nor parched grain. This is a permanent law throughout your nation.
15 "The Harvest Festival (Festival of Pentecost): Fifty days later you shall bring to the Lord an offering of a sample of the new grain of your later crops.
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17 This shall consist of two loaves of bread from your homes to be waved before the Lord in a gesture of offering. Bake this bread from a fifth of a bushel of fine flour containing yeast. It is an offering to the Lord of the first sampling of your later crops.
18 Along with the bread and the wine, you shall sacrifice as burnt offerings to the Lord seven yearling lambs without defects, one young bull, and two rams. All are fire offerings, very acceptable to Jehovah.
19 And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male yearling lambs for a peace offering.
20 "The priests shall wave these offerings before the Lord along with the loaves representing the first sampling of your later crops. They are holy to the Lord and will be given to the priests as food.
21 That day shall be announced as a time of sacred convocation of all the people; don't do any work that day. This is a law to be honored from generation to generation.
22 (When you reap your harvests, you must not thoroughly reap all the corners of the fields, nor pick up the fallen grain; leave it for the poor and for foreigners living among you who have no land of their own; I am Jehovah your God!)
23 "The Festival of Trumpets: Mid-September is a time for all the people to meet together for worship; it is a time of remembrance, and is to be announced by loud blowing of trumpets.
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25 Don't do any hard work on that day, but offer a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.
26 "The Day of Atonement follows nine days later: All the people are to come together before the Lord, saddened by their sin; and they shall offer sacrifices by fire to the Lord.
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28 Don't do any work that day, for it is a special day for making atonement before the Lord your God.
29 Anyone who does not spend the day in repentance and sorrow for sin shall be excommunicated from his people.
30 And I will put to death anyone who does any kind of work that day. This is a law of Israel from generation to generation.
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32 For this is a Sabbath of rest, and in it you shall go without food and be filled with sorrow; this time for atonement begins in the evening and continues through the next day.
33 "The Festival of Shelters: Five days later, on the last day of September, is the Festival of Shelters to be celebrated before the Lord for seven days.
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35 On the first day there will be a sacred assembly of all the people; don't do any hard work that day.
36 On each of the seven days of the festival you are to sacrifice an offering by fire to the Lord. The eighth day requires another sacred convocation of all the people, at which time there will again be an offering by fire to the Lord. It is the closing assembly, and no regular work is permitted.
37 "(These, then, are the regular annual festivals--sacred convocations of all people--when offerings to the Lord are to be made by fire.
38 These annual festivals are in addition to your regular Sabbaths--the weekly days of holy rest. The sacrifices made during the festivals are to be in addition to your regular giving and normal fulfillment of your vows.)
39 "This last day of September, at the end of your harvesting, is the time to begin to celebrate this seven-day festival before the Lord. Remember that the first and last days of the festival are special days of rest.
40 On the first day, take boughs of fruit trees laden with fruit, and palm fronds, and the boughs of leafy trees--such as willows that grow by the brooks--and build shelters with them, rejoicing before the Lord your God for seven days.
41 This seven-day annual feast is a law from generation to generation.
42 During those seven days, all of you who are native Israelites are to live in these shelters.
43 The purpose of this is to remind the people of Israel, generation after generation, that I rescued you from Egypt, and caused you to live in shelters. I am Jehovah your God."
44 So Moses announced these annual festivals of the Lord to the people of Israel.
1 The Lord said to Moses, "Tell the people of Israel to bring you pure olive oil for an eternal flame
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3 in the lampstand of pure gold which stands outside the veil that secludes the Holy of Holies. Each morning and evening Aaron shall supply it with fresh oil and trim the wicks.
4 It will be an eternal flame before the Lord from generation to generation.
5 "Every Sabbath day the High Priest shall place twelve loaves of bread in two rows upon the gold table that stands before the Lord.
6 These loaves shall be baked from finely ground flour, using a fifth of a bushel for each.
7 Pure frankincense shall be sprinkled along each row.
8 This will be a memorial offering made by fire to the Lord, in memory of his everlasting covenant with the people of Israel.
9 The bread shall be eaten by Aaron and his sons, in a place set apart for the purpose. For these are offerings made by fire to the Lord under a permanent law of God and are most holy."
10 Out in the camp one day, a young man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian, got into a fight with one of the men of Israel.
11 During the fight the Egyptian man's son cursed God, and was brought to Moses for judgment. (His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)
12 He was put in jail until the Lord would indicate what to do with him.
13 And the Lord said to Moses, "Take him outside the camp and tell all who heard him to lay their hands upon his head; then all the people are to execute him by stoning.
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15 And tell the people of Israel that anyone who curses his God must pay the penalty:
16 he must die. All the congregation shall stone him; this law applies to the foreigner as well as to the Israelite who blasphemes the name of Jehovah. He must die.
17 "Also, all murderers must be executed.
18 Anyone who kills an animal that isn't his shall replace it.
19 The penalty for injuring anyone is to be injured in exactly the same way:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever anyone does to another shall be done to him.
21 "To repeat, whoever kills an animal must replace it, and whoever kills a man must die.
22 You shall have the same law for the foreigner as for the home-born citizen, for I am Jehovah your God."
23 So they took the youth out of the camp and stoned him until he died, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
1 While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord gave him these instructions for the people of Israel:
2 "When you come into the land I am going to give you, you must let the land rest before the Lord every seventh year.
3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,
4 but during the seventh year the land is to lie fallow before the Lord, uncultivated. Don't sow your crops and don't prune your vineyards during that entire year.
5 Don't even reap for yourself the volunteer crops that come up, and don't gather the grapes for yourself; for it is a year of rest for the land.
6 Any crops that do grow that year shall be free to all--for you, your servants, your slaves, and any foreigners living among you.
7 Cattle and wild animals alike shall be allowed to graze there.
8 "Every fiftieth year,
9 on the Day of Atonement, let the trumpets blow loud and long throughout the land.
10 For the fiftieth year shall be holy, a time to proclaim liberty throughout the land to all enslaved debtors, and a time for the canceling of all public and private debts. It shall be a year when all the family estates sold to others shall be returned to the original owners or their heirs.
11 "What a happy year it will be! In it you shall not sow, nor gather crops nor grapes;
12 for it is a holy Year of Jubilee for you. That year your food shall be the volunteer crops that grow wild in the fields.
13 Yes, during the Year of Jubilee everyone shall return home to his original family possession; if he has sold it, it shall be his again!
14 Because of this, if the land is sold or bought during the preceding forty-nine years, a fair price shall be arrived at by counting the number of years until the Jubilee.
15 If the Jubilee is many years away, the price will be high; if few years, the price will be low;
16 for what you are really doing is selling the number of crops the new owner will get from the land before it is returned to you.
17 "You must fear your God and not overcharge! For I am Jehovah. Obey my laws if you want to live safely in the land.
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19 When you obey, the land will yield bumper crops and you can eat your fill in safety.
20 But you will ask, 'What shall we eat the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?'
21 The answer is, 'I will bless you with bumper crops the sixth year that will last you until the crops of the eighth year are harvested!'
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23 And remember, the land is mine, so you may not sell it permanently. You are merely my tenants and sharecroppers!
24 "In every contract of sale there must be a stipulation that the land can be redeemed at any time by the seller.
25 If anyone becomes poor and sells some of his land, then his nearest relatives may redeem it.
26 If there is no one else to redeem it, and he himself gets together enough money,
27 then he may always buy it back at a price proportionate to the number of harvests until the Jubilee, and the owner must accept the money and return the land to him.
28 But if the original owner is not able to redeem it, then it shall belong to the new owner until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee year it must be returned again.
29 "If a man sells a house in the city, he has up to one year to redeem it, with full right of redemption during that time.
30 But if it is not redeemed within the year, then it will belong permanently to the new owner--it does not return to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
31 But village houses--a village is a settlement without fortifying walls around it--are like farmland, redeemable at any time, and are always returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
32 "There is one exception: The homes of the Levites, even though in walled cities, may be redeemed at any time,
33 and must be returned to the original owners in the Year of Jubilee; for the Levites will not be given farmland like the other tribes, but will receive only houses in their cities, and the surrounding fields.
34 The Levites are not permitted to sell the fields of common land surrounding their cities, for these are their permanent possession, and they must belong to no one else.
35 "If your brother becomes poor, you are responsible to help him; invite him to live with you as a guest in your home.
36 Fear your God and let your brother live with you; and don't charge him interest on the money you lend him.
37 Remember--no interest; and give him what he needs, at your cost: don't try to make a profit!
38 For I, the Lord your God, brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 "If a fellow Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to you, you must not treat him as an ordinary slave,
40 but rather as a hired servant or as a guest; and he shall serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.
41 At that time he can leave with his children and return to his own family and possessions.
42 For I brought you from the land of Egypt, and you are my servants; so you may not be sold as ordinary slaves
43 or treated harshly; fear your God.
44 "However, you may purchase slaves from the foreign nations living around you,
45 and you may purchase the children of the foreigners living among you, even though they have been born in your land.
46 They will be permanent slaves for you to pass on to your children after you; but your brothers, the people of Israel, shall not be treated so.
47 "If a foreigner living among you becomes rich, and an Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner or to the foreigner's family,
48 he may be redeemed by one of his brothers,
49 his uncle, nephew, or anyone else who is a near relative. He may also redeem himself if he can find the money.
50 The price of his freedom shall be in proportion to the number of years left before the Year of Jubilee--whatever it would cost to hire a servant for that number of years.
51 If there are still many years until the Jubilee, he shall pay almost the amount he received when he sold himself;
52 if the years have passed and only a few remain until the Jubilee, then he will repay only a small part of the amount he received when he sold himself.
53 If he sells himself to a foreigner, the foreigner must treat him as a hired servant rather than as a slave or as property.
54 If he has not been redeemed by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, then he and his children shall be freed at that time.
55 For the people of Israel are my servants; I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
1 "You must have no idols; you must never worship carved images, obelisks, or shaped stones, for I am the Lord your God.
2 You must obey my Sabbath laws of rest, and reverence my Tabernacle, for I am the Lord.
3 "If you obey all of my commandments,
4 I will give you regular rains, and the land will yield bumper crops, and the trees will be loaded with fruit long after the normal time!
5 And grapes will still be ripening when sowing time comes again. You shall eat your fill, and live safely in the land,
6 for I will give you peace, and you will go to sleep without fear. I will chase away the dangerous animals.
7 You will chase your enemies; they will die beneath your swords.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you, ten thousand! You will defeat all of your enemies.
9 I will look after you, and multiply you, and fulfill my covenant with you.
10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you won't know what to do with them when the new harvest is ready!
11 And I will live among you and not despise you.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be my people.
13 For I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would be slaves no longer; I have broken your chains so that you can walk with dignity.
14 "But if you will not listen to me or obey me,
15 but reject my laws,
16 this is what I will do to you: I will punish you with sudden terrors and panic, and with tuberculosis and burning fever; your eyes shall be consumed and your life shall ebb away; you will sow your crops in vain, for your enemies will eat them.
17 I will set my face against you and you will flee before your attackers; those who hate you will rule you; you will even run when no one is chasing you!
18 "And if you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times more severely for your sins.
19 I will break your proud power and make your heavens as iron and your earth as bronze.
20 Your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its crops, nor your trees their fruit.
21 "And if even then you will not obey me and listen to me, I will send you seven times more plagues because of your sins.
22 I will send wild animals to kill your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your numbers so that your roads will be deserted.
23 "And if even this will not reform you, but you continue to walk against my wishes,
24 then I will walk against your wishes, and I, even I, will personally smite you seven times for your sin.
25 I will revenge the breaking of my covenant by bringing war against you. You will flee to your cities, and I will send a plague among you there; and you will be conquered by your enemies.
26 I will destroy your food supply so that one oven will be large enough to bake all the bread available for ten entire families; and you will still be hungry after your pittance has been doled out to you.
27 "And if you still won't listen to me or obey me,
28 then I will let loose my great anger and send you seven times greater punishment for your sins.
29 You shall eat your own sons and daughters,
30 and I will destroy the altars on the hills where you worship your idols, and I will cut down your incense altars, leaving your dead bodies to rot among your idols; and I will abhor you.
31 I will make your cities desolate, and destroy your places of worship, and will not respond to your incense offerings.
32 Yes, I will desolate your land; your enemies shall live in it, utterly amazed at what I have done to you.
33 "I will scatter you out among the nations, destroying you with war as you go. Your land shall be desolate and your cities destroyed.
34 Then at last the land will rest and make up for the many years you refused to let it lie idle; for it will lie desolate all the years that you are captives in enemy lands.
35 Yes, then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths! It will make up for the rest you didn't give it every seventh year when you lived upon it.
36 "And for those who are left alive, I will cause them to be dragged away to distant lands as prisoners of war and slaves. There they will live in constant fear. The sound of a leaf driven in the wind will send them fleeing as though chased by a man with a sword; they shall fall when no one is pursuing them.
37 Yes, though none pursue they shall stumble over each other in flight, as though fleeing in battle, with no power to stand before their enemies.
38 You shall perish among the nations and be destroyed among your enemies.
39 Those left shall pine away in enemy lands because of their sins, the same sins as those of their fathers.
40 "But at last they shall confess their sins and their fathers' sins of treachery against me.
41 (Because they were against me, I was against them, and brought them into the land of their enemies.) When at last their evil hearts are humbled and they accept the punishment I send them for their sins,
42 then I will remember again my promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will remember the land (and its desolation).
43 For the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as it lies desolate. But then at last they shall accept their punishment for rejecting my laws and for despising my rule.
44 But despite all they have done, I will not utterly destroy them and my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God.
45 For their sakes I will remember my promises to their ancestors to be their God. For I brought their forefathers out of Egypt as all the nations watched in wonder. I am Jehovah."
46 These were the laws, ordinances, and instructions that Jehovah gave to the people of Israel, through Moses, on Mount Sinai.
1 The Lord said to Moses, "Tell the people of Israel that when a person makes a special vow to give himself to the Lord, he shall give these payments instead:
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3 A man from the age of twenty to sixty shall pay twenty-five dollars;
4 a woman from the age of twenty to sixty shall pay fifteen dollars;
5 a boy from five to twenty shall pay ten dollars; a girl, five dollars.
6 A boy one month to five years old shall have paid for him two and a half dollars; a girl, one and a half dollars.
7 A man over sixty shall pay seven and a half dollars; a woman, five dollars.
8 But if the person is too poor to pay this amount, he shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall talk it over with him, and he shall pay as the priest shall decide.
9 "But if it is an animal that is vowed to be given to the Lord as a sacrifice, it must be given.
10 The vow may not be changed; the donor may neither change his mind about giving it to the Lord, nor substitute good for bad or bad for good; if he does, both the first and the second shall belong to the Lord!
11 But if the animal given to the Lord is not a kind that is permitted as a sacrifice, the owner shall bring it to the priest to value it, and he shall be told how much to pay instead.
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13 If the animal is a kind that may be offered as a sacrifice, but the man wants to redeem it, then he shall pay 20 percent more than the value set by the priest.
14 "If someone donates his home to the Lord and then wishes to redeem it, the priest will decide its value,
15 and the man shall pay that amount plus 20 percent, and the house will be his again.
16 "If a man dedicates any part of his field to the Lord, value it in proportion to its size, as indicated by the amount of seed required to sow it. A section of land that requires ten bushels of barley seed for sowing is valued at twenty-five dollars.
17 If a man dedicates his field in the Year of Jubilee, then the whole estimate shall stand;
18 but if it is after the Year of Jubilee, then the value shall be in proportion to the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee.
19 If the man decides to redeem the field, he shall pay 20 percent in addition to the priest's valuation, and the field will be his again.
20 But if he decides not to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to someone else and has given to the Lord his rights to it at the Year of Jubilee, it shall not be returned to him again.
21 When it is freed in the Year of Jubilee, it shall belong to the Lord as a field devoted to him, and it shall be given to the priests.
22 "If a man dedicates to the Lord a field he has bought, but which is not part of his family possession,
23 the priest shall estimate the value until the Year of Jubilee, and he shall immediately give that estimated value to the Lord,
24 and in the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the original owner from whom it was bought.
25 All the valuations shall be stated in standard money.
26 "You may not dedicate to the Lord the firstborn of any ox or sheep, for it is already his.
27 But if it is the firstborn of an animal that cannot be sacrificed because it is not on the list of those acceptable to the Lord, then the owner shall pay the priest's estimate of its worth, plus 20 percent; or if the owner does not redeem it, the priest may sell it to someone else.
28 However, anything utterly devoted to the Lord--people, animals, or inherited fields--shall not be sold or redeemed, for they are most holy to the Lord.
29 No one sentenced by the courts to die may pay a fine instead; he shall surely be put to death.
30 "A tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain or fruit, is the Lord's, and is holy.
31 If anyone wants to buy back this fruit or grain, he must add a fifth to its value.
32 And the Lord owns every tenth animal of your herds and flocks and other domestic animals, as they pass by for counting.
33 The tenth given to the Lord shall not be selected on the basis of whether it is good or bad, and there shall be no substitutions; for if there is any change made, then both the original and the substitution shall belong to the Lord, and may not be bought back!"
34 These are the commandments the Lord gave to Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.