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pours forth the blood of the peace-offering. ⁵And the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering of praise shall be his, and it shall be eaten in the day in which it is offered: they shall not leave of it till the morning. ⁶And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on the morrow. ⁷And that which is left of the flesh of the sacrifice till the third day, shall be consumed with fire. ⁸And if he do at all eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be accepted for him that offers: it shall not be reckoned to him, it is pollution; and whatsoever soul shall eat of it, shall bear his iniquity. ⁹And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh. ¹⁰And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering which is the Lord's, and his uncleanness be upon him, that soul shall perish from his people. ¹¹And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean ¹ abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering, which is the Lord's, that soul shall perish from his people.

¹²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹³Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat of oxen or sheep or goats. ¹⁴And the fat of such animals as have died of themselves, or have been seized of beasts, may be employed for any work; but it shall not be eaten for food. ¹⁵Every one that eats fat off the beasts, from which he will bring a burnt-offering to the Lord--that soul shall perish from his people. ¹⁶Ye shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds. ¹⁷Every soul that shall eat blood, that sould shall perish from his people.

¹⁸And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁹Thou shalt also speak to the children of Israel, saying, He that offers a sacrifice of peace-offering, shall bring his gift to the Lord also from the sacrifice of peace-offering. ²⁰His hands shall bring the burnt-offerings to the Lord; the fat which is on the breast and the lobe of the liver, he shall bring them, so as to set them for a gift before the Lord. ²¹And the priest shall offer the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons, ²²and ye shall give the right shoulder for a choice piece to the priest of your sacrifices of peace-offering. ²³He that offers the blood of the peace-offering, and the fat, of the sons of Aaron, his shall be the right shoulder for a portion. ²⁴For I have taken the ² wave-breast and ³ shoulder of separation from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons, a perpetual ordinance due from the children of Israel. ²⁵This is the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons, their portion of the burnt-offerings of the Lord, in the day in which he brought them forward to minister as priests to the Lord; ²⁶as the Lord commanded to give to them in the day in which he anointed them of the sons

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of Israel, a perpetual statute through their generations. ²⁷This is the law of the whole-burnt-offerings, and of sacrifice, and of sin-offering, and of offering for transfression, and of the sacrifice of consecration and of the sacrifice of peace-offering; ²⁸as the Lord commanded Moses in the mount Sina, in the day in which he commanded the children of Israel to offer their gifts before the Lord in the wilderness of Sina.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²Take Aaron and his sons, and his robes and the anointing oil, and the calf for the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, ³and assemble the whole congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁴And Moses did as the Lord appointed him, and he assembled the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁵And Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do. ⁶And Moses brought nigh Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water, ⁷and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod; ⁸and girded him with a girdle according to the make of the ephod, and clasped him closely with it: and put upon it the oracle, and put upon the oracle the ⁴ Manifestation and the Truth. ⁹And he put the mitre on his head, and put upon the mitre in front the golden plate, ⁵ the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁰And Moses took of the anointing oil, ¹¹and sprinkled of it seven times on the altar; and anointed the altar, and hallowed it, and all things ⁶ on it, and the laver, and its foot, and sanctified them; and anointed the tabernacle and all its furniture, and hallowed it. ¹²And Moses poured of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron; and he anointed him and sanctified him. ¹³And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them coats and girded them with girdles, and put on them bonnets, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁴And Moses brought near the calf for the sin-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the calf of the sin-offering. ¹⁵And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger; and he purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement upon it. ¹⁶And Moses took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe on the liver, and both the kidneys, and the fat that was upon them, and Moses offered them on the altar. ¹⁷But the calf, and his hide, and his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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ram. And Moses slaw the ram: and Moses poured the blood on the altar round about. ¹⁹And he divided the ram by its limbs, and Moses offered the head and the limbs and the fat; and he washed the belly and the feet with water. ²⁰And Moses offered up the whole ram on the altar: it is a whole-burnt-offering for a sweet-smelling savour; it is a burnt-offering to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²¹And Moses brought the second ram, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram and he slew him; ²²and Moses took of his blood, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. ²³And Moses brought near the sons of Aaron; and Moses put of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and Moses poured out the blood on the altar round about. ²⁴And he took the fat and the rump, and the fat on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder. ²⁵And from the basket of consecration, which was before the Lord he also took one unleavened loaf, and one loaf made with oil, and one cake; and put them upon the fat and the right shoulder: ²⁶and put them all on the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and offered them up for a wave-offering before the Lord. ²⁷And Moses took them at their hands, and Moses offered them on the altar, on the whole-burnt-offering of consecration, which is a smell of sweet savour: it is a burnt-offering to the Lord. ²⁸And Moses took the breast, and separated it for a heave-offering before the Lord, from the ram of consecration; and it became Moses' portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁹And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. ³⁰And he sanctified Aaron and his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh in the tent of the tabernacle of witness in the holy place; and there ye shall eat it and the loaves in the basket of consecration, as it has been appointed me, the Lord saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat them. ³²And that which is left of the flesh and of the loaves burn ye with fire. ³³And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of witness for seven days, until the day be fulfilled, the day of your consecration; for in seven days shall he ⁷ consecrate you, ³⁴as he did in this day on which the Lord commanded me to do so, to make an atonement for you. ³⁵ And ye shall ⁸ remain seven days at the door of the tabernacle of witness, day and night ye shall observe the ordinances of the Lord, that ye die not; for so has

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the Lord God commanded me. ³⁶And Aaron and his sons performed all these commands which the Lord commanded Moses.

And it came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel, ²and Moses said to Aaron, Take to thyself a young calf of the herd for a sin-fferoing, and a ram for a whole-burnt-offering, unblemished, and offer them before the Lord. ³And speak to the elders of Israel, saying, Take one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and a young calf, and a lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering, spotless, ⁴and a calf and a ram for a peace offering before the Lord, and fine flour mingled with oil, for to-day the Lord will appear among you. ⁵And they took as Moses commanded them before the tabernacle of witness, and all the congregation drew nigh, and they stood before the Lord. ⁶And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord has spoken; do it, and the glory of the Lord shall appear among you. ⁷And Moses said to Aaron, Draw nigh to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy whole-burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for thy house; and offer the gifts of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded Moses. ⁸And Aaron drew night to the altar, and slew the calf of his sin-offering. ⁹And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and he poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar. ¹⁰And he offered up on the altar the fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, according as the Lord commanded Moses. ¹¹And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire outside of the camp. ¹²And hew slew the whole-burnt-offering; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about. ¹³And they brought the whole-burnt-offering, according to its pieces; them and the head he put upon the altar. ¹⁴And he washed the belly and the feet with water, and he put them on the whole-burnt-offering on the altar.

¹⁵And he brought the gift of the people, and took the goat of the sin-offering of the people, and slew it, and purified it as also the first. ¹⁶And he brought the whole-burnt-offering, and offered it ⁹ in due form. ¹⁷And he brought the sacrifice and filled his hands with it, and laid it on the altar, besides the morning whole-burnt-offering. ¹⁸And he slew the calf, and the ram of the sacrifice of peace-offering of the people; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about. ¹⁹And he took the fat of the calf, and the ¹⁰ hind quarters of the ram, and the fat covering the belly, and the two kidneys, and the fat upon them, and the caul on the liver. ²⁰And he put the fat on the breasts, and offered the fat on the altar. ²¹And Aaron separated the breast and the right

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shoulder as a choice-offering before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. ²²And Aaron lifted up his hands on the people and blessed them; and after he had offered the sin-offering, and the whole-burnt-offerings, and the peace-offerings, he came down. ²³And Moses and Aaron entered into the tabernacle of witness. And they came out and blessed all the people and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. ²⁴And fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured the offerings on the altar, both the whole-burnt-offerings and the fat; and all the people saw, and were amazed, and fell upon their faces.

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And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, took each his censer, and put fire therein, and threw incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them, ²and fire same forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. ³And Moses said to Aaron, This is the thing which the Lord spoke, saying, I will be sanctified among them that draw nigh to me, and I will be glorified in the whole congregation; and Aaron was pricked in his heart. ⁴And Moses called Misadae, and Elisaphan, sons of Oziel, sons of the brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, Draw near and take your brethren from before the ¹¹ sanctuary out of the camp. ⁵And they came near and took them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses said, ⁶And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were left, Ye shall not make bare your ¹² heads and ye shall not tear your garments; that ye die not, and so there ¹³ should lie wrath on all the congregation: but your brethren, even all the house of Israel, shall lament for the burning, with which they were burnt by the Lord. ⁷And ye shall not go forth from the door of the tabernacle of witness, that ye die not; for the Lord's anointing oil is upon you: and they did according to the word of Moses.

⁸And the Lord spate to Aaron, saying, ⁹ye shall not drink wine nor strong drink thou and thy sons with thee, whensoever ye enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when ye approach the altar, so shall ye not die; it is a perpetual statute for your generations, ¹⁰to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean, ¹¹and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes, which the Lord spoke to them ¹⁴ by Moses. ¹²And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who survived. Take the sacrifice that is left of the burnt-offerings of the Lord, and ye shall eat unleavened bread by the altar: it is most holy. ¹³And ye shall eat it in the holy place; for this is a statute for thee and a statute for thy sons, of the burnt-offerings to the Lord; for so it has been commanded me. ¹⁴And ye shall eat the breast of separation, and the shoulder of the choice-offering in the holy place, thou and thy sons and thy house with thee; for it has been given as an ordinance for thee and an ordinance for thy sons of the sacrifices of peace-offering of the children of Israel. ¹⁵They shall

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bring the shoulder of the choice-offering, and the breast of the separation upon the burnt-offerings of the fat, to separate for a separation before the Lord; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁶And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, but it had been consumed by fire; and Moses was angry with Eleazar and lthamar the sons of Aaronn that were left, saying, ¹⁷Why did ye not eat the sin-offering in the holy place? for because it is most holy he has given you this to eat, that ye might take away the sin of the congregation, and make atonement for them before the Lord. ¹⁸For the blood of it was not brought into the holy place: ye shall eat it within, ¹⁵ before the Lord as the Lord commanded me. ¹⁹And Aaron spoke to Moses, saying, If they have brought their whole-burnt-offerings before the Lord and these events have happened to me, and yet I should eat to-day of the sin-offerings, ¹⁶ would it be pleasing to the Lord? ²⁰And Moses heard it, and it pleased him.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁸Speak ye to the sons of Israel saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat of all beasts that are upon the earth. ³Every beast parting the hoof and making divisions of two claws, and chewing the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat. ⁴But of these ye shall not eat, of those that chew the cud, and of those that part the hoofs, and divide claws; the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean, to you. ⁵And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you. ⁶And the hare, because it does ¹⁷ not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof this is unclean to you. ⁷ And the swine, because this animal divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, and it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. ⁸Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall not touch their ¹⁸ carcases; these are unclean to you.

⁹And these are what ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all things that have fins and scales in the waters, and in the seas, and in the brooks, these ye shall eat. ¹⁰And all things which have not, fins or scales in the water, or in the seas, and in the brooks, of all which the waters ¹⁹ produce, and of every soul living in the water; are an abomination; and they shall be abominations to you. ¹¹Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall abhor their carcases. ¹²And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters these are an abomination to you. ¹³And these are the things which ya shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle. ¹⁴ And the vulture, and the kite and the like to it; ¹⁵and the sparrow, and the owl, and the sea-mew, and the like to it: ¹⁶and every raven, and the birds, like it, and

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the hawk and his like, ¹⁷and the night-raven and the cormorant and the stork, ¹⁸and the red-bill, and pelican, and swan, ¹⁹and the heron and the ²⁰ lapwing, and the like to it and the hoopoe and the bat. ²⁰And all winged creatures that creep, which go upon four feet, are abominations to you. ²¹But these ye shall eat of the creeping winged animals, which go upon four feet, which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth. ²²And these of them ye shall eat: the caterpillar and his like and the attacus and his like, and the ²¹ cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like. ²³Every creeping thing from among the birds, ²² which has four feet, is an abomination to you. ²⁴And by these ye shall be defiled; every one that touches their carcases shall be unclean till the evening. ²⁵And every one that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till the evening. ²⁶And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening. ²⁷And every one among all the wild beasts that moves upon its fore feet, which goes on all four, ²³ is unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening. ²⁸And he that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till evening: these are unclean to you.

²⁹And these are unclean to you of reptiles upon the earth, the ²⁴ weasel, and the mouse, and the ²⁵ lizard, ³⁰the ferret, and the chameleon, and the evet, and the newt, and the mole. ³¹These are unclean to you of all the reptiles which are on the earth; every one who touches their caresses shall be unclean till evening. ³²And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; ²⁶ whatever wooden vessel; or garment, or skin, or ²⁷ sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean. ³³And every earthen vessel into which one of these things shall fall, whatsoever is inside it shall be unclean, and it shall be broken. ³⁴And all food that is eaten, on which water shall come from such a vessel shall be unclean · and every beverage which is drunk in any such vessel shall be unclean. ³⁵And every thing on which there shall fall of their dead bodies shall be unclean; ovens and stands for jars shall be broken down: these are unclean, and they shall be unclean to you. ³⁶Only if the water be of fountains of water, or a pool, or confluence of water, it shall lie clean but he that touches their caresses shall be unclean. ³⁷And if one of their carcaaes should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean. ³⁸But if water be poured on any seed and one of their dead bodies fall upon it, it is unclean to you. ³⁹And if one of the cattle die, which it is lawful for you to eat, he that touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening. ⁴⁰And he that eats of their carcases shall wash his garments, and be unclean till evening; and he that carries any

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of their carcases shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and be unclean till evening. ⁴¹And every reptile that creeps on the earth, this shall be an abomination to you; it shall not be eaten. ⁴²And every animal that creeps on its belly, and every one that goes on four feet continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles creeping upon the earth-ye shall not eat it, for it is an abomination to you. ⁴³And ye shall not ²⁸ defile your souls with any of the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and ye shall not be polluted with them, and ye shall not be, unclean by them. ⁴⁴For I am the Lord your God; and ye shall be sanctified, and ye shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and ye shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth. ⁴⁵For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; and ye shall be holy, for I the Lord am holy. ⁴⁶This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth; ⁴⁷to distinguish between the unclean and the clean; and between those that bring forth alive, such as should be eaten, and those that bring forth alive, such as should not be eaten.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever, woman shall have conceived and born a male child shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days, of separatian for her monthly courses. ³And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin. ⁴And for thirty-three days she shall continue in her unclean blood; she shall touch nothing holy, and shall not enter the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. ⁵But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean twice seven days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for sixty-six days she shall remain in her unclean blood.

⁶And when the days of her purification shall have been fulfilled for a son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of a year old without belmish for a whole-burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or turtle-dove for a sin-offering to the door of the tabernacle of witness, to the priest. ⁷And the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purfe her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female. ⁸And if ²⁹ she cannot afford a lamb, then shall she take two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, one for a whole-burnt-offering and one for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be purified.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²If any man should have in the skin of his flesh a bright clear spot, and there should be in the skin of his flesh a plague of leprosy, he shall be borugh to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. ³And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot

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be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be ³⁰shall pour the blood on the altar round about before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the fat for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

⁷And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain gods after which they go a whoring; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your generations. ⁸And thou shalt say to them, Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the sons of the proselytes abiding among you, shall offer a whole-burnt-offering or a sacrifice, ⁹and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be destroyed among his people. ¹⁰And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will destroy it from its people. ¹¹For the life of flesh is its blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for its blood shall make atonement for the soul. ¹²Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood. ¹³And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you shall take any animal in hunting, beast, or bird, which is eaten, then shall he pour out the blood, and cover it in the dust. ¹⁴For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: every one that eats it shall be destroyed. ¹⁵And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening: then shall he be clean. ¹⁶But if he do not wash his garments, and do not bathe his body in water, then shall he bear his iniquity.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, I am the Lord your God, ³Ye shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which ye dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, ye shall not do; and ye shall not walk in their ordinances. ⁴Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God. ⁵³¹So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God. ⁶No man shall draw nigh to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord. ⁷Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, for she is thy mother; thou

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shalt not uncover her nakedness ⁸Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife; it is thy father's nakedness. ⁹The nakedness of thy sister by thy father or by thy mother, born at home or abroad their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. ¹⁰The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; because it is thy nakedness. ¹¹Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of thy father's wife; she is thy sister by the same father: thou shalt not uncover, her nakedness. ¹²Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister; for she is nearakin to thy father. ¹³Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, for she is nearakin to thy mother. ¹⁴Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, and thou shalt not go in to his wife; for she is thy relation. ¹⁵Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law, for she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. ¹⁶Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife, it is thy brother's nakedness. ¹⁷The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter shalt thou not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are thy kinswomen: it is impiety. ¹⁸Thou shalt not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.

¹⁹And thou shalt not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness. ²⁰And thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. ²¹And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve ³²a ruler; and, thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord. ²²And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman for it is an abomination. ²³Neither shalt thou lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion with it; for it is an abomination. ²⁴Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you, ²⁵ and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it. ²⁶And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations neither the, native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you: (²⁷for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,) ²⁸and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you. ²⁹For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people. ³⁰And ye shall keep mine ordinances that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

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²Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord pour God am holy. ³Let every one of you ³³reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ⁴Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God. ⁵And if ye will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it, acceptable from yourselves. ⁶In what day soever ye shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire. ⁷And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted. ⁸And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.

⁹And when ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping. ¹⁰And thou shalt not go over the gathering of thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the ³⁴ remaining grapes of thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God. ¹¹Ye shall not steal, ye shall not lie neither shall ³⁵ one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbour. ¹²And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name and ye shall not profane the holy name ot your God: I am the Lord your God.¹³Thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

¹⁴Thou shalt not revile the deaf, neither shall, thou put a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord your God. ¹⁵Thou shalt not act unjustly in judgment: thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice thou shalt judge thy neighbour. ¹⁶Thou shalt not walk deceitfully among thy people, thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord your God. ¹⁷Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour so thou shalt not bear sin on his account. ¹⁸And thy hand shall not avenge thee; and thou shalt not be angry with the children of thy people; ³⁶ and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord.

¹⁹Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials.²⁰And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty. ²¹And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering. ²²And

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the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him. ²³And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit-tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten. ²⁴And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, ³⁷a subject of praise to the Lord. ²⁵And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

²⁶Eat not on the mountains, nor shall ye employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds. ²⁷Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor ³⁸disfigure your beard. ²⁸And ye shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead ³⁹body, and ye shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God. ²⁹Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity. ³⁰Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord. ³¹Ye shall not attend to ⁴⁰those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God. ³²Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord your God. ³³And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, ye shall not afflict him. ³⁴The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ³⁵Ye shall not act unrighteously in judgement, in measures and weights and scales. ³⁶There shall be among you just balances and just weights and a just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. ³⁷And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, if there shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to ⁴¹Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones. ³And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me. ⁴And if the natives of the land should in anywise overlook that man in giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death; ⁵then will I set my face against that man and his family and I will destroy him, and all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to ⁴²the princes, from their people.

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my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people. ⁷And ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. ⁸And ye shall observe my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you. ⁹Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? he shall be guilty.

¹⁰Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress. ¹¹And if any one should lie with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty. ¹²And if any one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty. ¹³And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty. ¹⁴Whosoever shall take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they shall burn him and them with fire; so there shall not be iniquity among you. ¹⁵And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast. ¹⁶And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connexion with it, ye shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they are guilty. ¹⁷Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their sin. ¹⁸And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart for a flux, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their generation. ¹⁹And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister, or of the sister of thy mother; for that man has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin : they shall bear their iniquity. ²⁰Whosoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin to him : they shall die childless. ²¹Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall die childless.

²²And keep ye all my ordinances, and my judgments; and ye shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it. ²³And walk ye not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them: ²⁴and I said to you. Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people. ²⁵And ⁴³ ye shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and ye shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of

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the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness. ²⁶And ye shall be holy to me; becausen I the Lord your God am holy, who separated you from all nations, to be mine.

²⁷And as for a man or woman whosoever of them shall have in them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the death : ye shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt tell them that they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead, ²but they may mourn for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother, ³and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man ; for these one shall defile himself. ⁴He shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself. ⁵And ye shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not ⁴⁴shave their beard, neither shall they make qashes on their flesh. ⁶They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy. ⁷They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, ⁴⁵or a woman put away from her husband ; for he is holy to the Lord his God. ⁸And thou shalt hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for l the Lord that sanctify them am holy. ⁹And if the daughter of a ⁴⁶priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰And the priest that is chief among his brethren, the oil having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the mitre of hes head, and shall not rend his garments: ¹¹neither shall he go in to any dead body. neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother. ¹²And he shall not go forth out od the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointhing oil of God isupon him: I am the Lord. ¹³He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own ⁴⁷tribe. ¹⁴But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shal take for a wife a virgin of his own people. ¹⁵And he shall not profane his seed among his people: l amthe Lord that sanctifies him. ¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷Say to Aaron, A man of thy ⁴⁸tribe throughout your generations, who shall heve a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to:offer the gifts of his God. ¹⁸No man who has a blemish on him shall draw nigh; a man blind, lame, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut, ¹⁹ a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot, ²⁰or hump-backed, or blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle. ²¹Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to to offer sacrifices to thy God.

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because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of God. ²²The gifts of God are most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things. ²³Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw nigh to the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them. ²⁴And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and let them take heed concerning the holy things of the children of Israel, so they shall not profane my holy name in any of the things which they consecrate to me: I am the Lord. ³Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, ⁴⁹while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I am the Lord your God. ⁴And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him, ⁵or whosoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him, or who shall touch a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all his uncleanness: ⁶whatsoever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water, ⁷and the sun go down, and then he shall be clean; and then shall he eat of all the holy things, for they are his bread. ⁸He shall not eat that which dies of it self, or is taken of beasts, so that he should be polluted by them: I am the Lord. ⁹And they shall keep my ordinances, that they do not bear iniquity because of them, and die because of them, if they shall profane them: I am the Lord God that sanctifies them. ¹⁰And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or is a hireling, shall not eat the holy things. ¹¹But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat of his bread. ¹²And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the ⁵⁰offerings of the sanctuary. ¹³And if the daughter of a priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father's house as in her youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat of it. ¹⁴And the man who shall ignorantly eat holy things, shall add the fifth part to it, and give the holy thing to the priest. ¹⁵And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord. ¹⁶So ⁵¹should they bring upon themselves the iniquity of trespass in their eating their holy things: for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.

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of the strangers that abide among them in Israel, who shall offer his gifts according to all their confession and according to all their choice, whatsoever they may bring to the Lord for whole-burnt-offerings—¹⁹ your ⁵²free-will-offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats. ²⁰ They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you. ²¹ And whatsoever man shall offer a peace-offering to the Lord, discharging a vow, or in the way of free-will-offering, or an offering in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it. ²² One that is blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the Lord; neither shall ye offer any of them for a burnt-offering on the altar of the Lord. ²³ And a calf or a sheep with the ears out off, or that has lost its tail, thou shalt slay them for thyself; but they shall not be accepted for thy vow. ²⁴ That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated,—thou shalt not offer them to the Lord, neither shall ye sacrifice them upon your land. ²⁵ Neither shall ye offer the gifts of your God of all these things by the hand of a stranger, because there is ⁵³corruption in them, a blemish in them: these shall not be accepted for you. ²⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ As for a calf, or a sheep, or a goat, whenever it is born, then shall it be seven days under its mother; and on the eighth day and after they shall be accepted for sacrifices, a burnt-offering to the Lord. ²⁸ And a ⁵⁴bullock and a ⁵⁵ewe, it and its young, thou shalt not kill in one day.

²⁹ And if thou shouldest offer a sacrifice, a vow of rejoicing to the Lord, ye shall offer it so as to be accepted for you. ³⁰ In that same day it shall be eaten; ye shall not leave of the flesh till the morrow: I am the Lord. ³¹ And ye shall keep my commandments and do them. ³² And ye shall not profane the name of the Holy One, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord that sanctifies you, ³³ who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord.