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¹On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

²He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

³And tell the Israelites: Take a male goat for a sin offering; a calf and a lamb, male yearlings without blemish, for a burnt offering;

⁴an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the LORD; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD is going to appear to you.”

⁵They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the LORD.

⁶Moses said, “This is what the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”

⁷Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people. Sacrifice the people’s offering and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.”

⁸So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

⁹Aaron’s sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

¹⁰He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹¹He burned the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

¹²Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.

¹³They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, along with the head, and he burned them on the altar.

¹⁴He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and made a sin offering with it as he did before.

¹⁶He presented the burnt offering and sacrificed it according to the regulation.

¹⁷Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.

¹⁸Finally, he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people’s fellowship sacrifice. Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.

¹⁹They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram — the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver —

²⁰and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,

²¹but he presented the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.

²²Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. He came down after sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering.

²³Moses and Aaron then entered the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

²⁴Fire came from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown.

¹Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

²Then fire came from the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

³Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD has spoken: I will demonstrate my holiness to those who are near me, and I will reveal my glory before all the people.” And Aaron remained silent.

⁴Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”

⁵So they came forward and carried them in their tunics outside the camp, as Moses had said.

⁶Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the conflagration the LORD ignited.

⁷You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting or you will die, for the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses said.

⁸The LORD spoke to Aaron:

⁹“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

¹⁰You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,

¹¹and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given to them through Moses.”

¹²Moses spoke to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: “Take the grain offering that is left over from the fire offerings to the LORD, and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, because it is especially holy.

¹³You must eat it in a holy place because it is your portion and your sons’ from the fire offerings to the LORD, for this is what I was commanded.

¹⁴But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites’ fellowship sacrifices.

¹⁵They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the presentation offering, together with the offerings of fat portions made by fire, to present as a presentation offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD commanded.”

¹⁶Then Moses inquired carefully about the male goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, and asked,

¹⁷“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and he has assigned it to you to take away the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the LORD.

¹⁸Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

¹⁹But Aaron replied to Moses, “See, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the LORD’s sight?”

²⁰When Moses heard this, it was acceptable to him.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

²“Tell the Israelites: You may eat all these kinds of land animals.

³You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.

⁴But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these: camels, though they chew the cud, do not have divided hooves — they are unclean for you;

⁵hyraxes, though they chew the cud, do not have hooves — they are unclean for you;

⁶hares, though they chew the cud, do not have hooves — they are unclean for you;

⁷pigs, though they have divided hooves, do not chew the cud — they are unclean for you.

⁸Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses — they are unclean for you.

⁹“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.

¹⁰But these are to be abhorrent to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.

¹¹They are to remain abhorrent to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must abhor their carcasses.

¹²Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be abhorrent to you.

¹³“You are to abhor these birds. They must not be eaten because they are abhorrent: eagles, bearded vultures, Egyptian vultures,

¹⁴kites, any kind of falcon,

¹⁵every kind of raven,

¹⁶ostriches, short-eared owls, gulls, any kind of hawk,

¹⁷little owls, cormorants, long-eared owls,

¹⁸barn owls, eagle owls, ospreys,

¹⁹storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, and bats.

²⁰“All winged insects that walk on all fours are to be abhorrent to you.

²¹But you may eat these kinds of all the winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

²²You may eat these: any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, and grasshopper.

²³All other winged insects that have four feet are to be abhorrent to you.

²⁴“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁵and whoever carries any of their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

²⁶All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

²⁷All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

²⁸and anyone who carries their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

²⁹“These creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean for you: weasels, mice, any kind of large lizard,

³⁰geckos, monitor lizards, common lizards, skinks, and chameleons.

³¹These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

³²When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean — any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

³³If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you are to break it.

³⁴Any edible food coming into contact with that unclean water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean.

³⁵Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it is to be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

³⁶A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

³⁷If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

³⁸but if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean for you.

³⁹“If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁰Anyone who eats some of its carcass is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

⁴¹“All the creatures that swarm on the earth are abhorrent; they must not be eaten.

⁴²Do not eat any of the creatures that swarm on the earth, anything that moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet, for they are abhorrent.

⁴³Do not become contaminated by any creature that swarms; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

⁴⁴For I am the LORD your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.

⁴⁵For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.

⁴⁶“This is the law concerning animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that swarm on the ground,

⁴⁷in order to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the animals that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.

³The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.

⁴She will continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.

⁵But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.

⁶“When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

⁷He will present them before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf; she will be clean from her discharge of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or female.

⁸But if she doesn’t have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

²“When a person has a swelling, scab, or spot on the skin of his body, and it may be a serious disease on the skin of his body, he is to be brought to the priest Aaron or to one of his sons, the priests.

³The priest will examine the sore on the skin of his body. If the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is in fact a serious skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.

⁴But if the spot on the skin of his body is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the stricken person for seven days.

⁵The priest will then reexamine him on the seventh day. If he sees that the sore remains unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine him for another seven days.

⁶The priest will examine him again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean; it is a scab. The person is to wash his clothes and will become clean.

⁷But if the scab spreads further on his skin after he has presented himself to the priest for his cleansing, he is to present himself again to the priest.

⁸The priest will examine him, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a serious skin disease.

⁹“When a case of serious skin disease may have developed on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.

¹⁰The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

¹¹it is a chronic serious disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not quarantine him, for he is unclean.

¹²But if the skin disease breaks out all over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the stricken person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see,

¹³the priest will look, and if the skin disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the stricken person clean. Since he has turned totally white, he is clean.

¹⁴But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.

¹⁵When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; this is a serious skin disease.

¹⁶But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he is to go to the priest.

¹⁷The priest will examine him, and if the sore has turned white, the priest must pronounce the stricken person clean; he is clean.

¹⁸“When a boil appears on the skin of someone’s body and it heals,

¹⁹and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, the person is to present himself to the priest.

²⁰The priest will make an examination, and if the spot seems to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a case of serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil.

²¹But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest will quarantine him seven days.

²²If it spreads further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is in fact a disease.

²³But if the spot remains where it is and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil. The priest is to pronounce him clean.

²⁴“When there is a burn on the skin of one’s body produced by fire, and the patch made raw by the burn becomes reddish-white or white,

²⁵the priest is to examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a serious skin disease.

²⁶But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in the spot and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest will quarantine him seven days.

²⁷The priest will reexamine him on the seventh day. If it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is in fact a case of serious skin disease.

²⁸But if the spot has remained where it was and has not spread on the skin but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn. The priest is to pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar from the burn.

²⁹“When a man or woman has a condition on the head or chin,

³⁰the priest is to examine the condition. If it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and sparse, the priest must pronounce the person unclean. It is a scaly outbreak, a serious skin disease of the head or chin.

³¹When the priest examines the scaly condition, if it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest will quarantine the person with the scaly condition for seven days.

³²The priest will reexamine the condition on the seventh day. If the scaly outbreak has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,

³³the person is to shave himself but not shave the scaly area. Then the priest will quarantine the person who has the scaly outbreak for another seven days.

³⁴The priest will examine the scaly outbreak on the seventh day, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce the person clean. He is to wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

³⁵But if the scaly outbreak spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,

³⁶the priest is to examine the person. If the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.

³⁷But if as far as he can see, the scaly outbreak remains unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed; he is clean. The priest is to pronounce the person clean.

³⁸“When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin of the body,

³⁹the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is only a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

⁴⁰“If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

⁴¹Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.

⁴²But if there is a reddish-white condition on the bald head or forehead, it is a serious skin disease breaking out on his head or forehead.

⁴³The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the condition on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of a serious skin disease on his body,

⁴⁴the man is afflicted with a serious skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.

⁴⁵“The person who has a case of serious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

⁴⁶He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

⁴⁷“If a fabric is contaminated with mildew — in wool or linen fabric,

⁴⁸in the warp or weft of linen or wool, or in leather or anything made of leather —

⁴⁹and if the contamination is green or red in the fabric, the leather, the warp, the weft, or any leather article, it is a mildew contamination and is to be shown to the priest.

⁵⁰The priest is to examine the contamination and quarantine the contaminated fabric for seven days.

⁵¹The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the weft, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean.

⁵²He is to burn the fabric, the warp or weft in wool or linen, or any leather article, which is contaminated. Since it is harmful mildew it must be burned.

⁵³“When the priest examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article,

⁵⁴the priest is to order whatever is contaminated to be washed and quarantined for another seven days.

⁵⁵After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn the fabric. It is a fungus on the front or back of the fabric.

⁵⁶“If the priest examines it, and the contamination has faded after it has been washed, he is to cut the contaminated section out of the fabric, the leather, or the warp or weft.

⁵⁷But if it reappears in the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article, it has broken out again. You must burn whatever is contaminated.

⁵⁸But if the contamination disappears from the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article, which have been washed, it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.

⁵⁹“This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, warp or weft, or any leather article, in order to pronounce it clean or unclean.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“This is the law concerning the person afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing. He is to be brought to the priest,

³who will go outside the camp and examine him. If the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person,

⁴the priest will order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed.

⁵Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

⁶He is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them all into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

⁷He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.

⁸The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

⁹He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

¹⁰“On the eighth day he must take two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quart of olive oil.

¹¹The priest who performs the cleansing will place the person who is to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

¹²The priest is to take one male lamb and present it as a guilt offering, along with the one-third quart of olive oil, and he will present them as a presentation offering before the LORD.

¹³He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered, for like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is especially holy.

¹⁴The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

¹⁵Then the priest will take some of the one-third quart of olive oil and pour it into his left palm.

¹⁶The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.

¹⁷From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

¹⁸What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD.

¹⁹The priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he will slaughter the burnt offering.

²⁰The priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

²¹“But if he is poor and cannot afford these, he is to take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be presented in order to make atonement for him, along with two quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one-third of a quart of olive oil,

²²and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

²³On the eighth day he is to bring these things for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD.

²⁴The priest will take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the one-third quart of olive oil, and present them as a presentation offering before the LORD.

²⁵After he slaughters the male lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

²⁶Then the priest will pour some of the oil into his left palm.

²⁷With his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.

²⁸The priest will also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the same place as the blood of the guilt offering.

²⁹What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the LORD.

³⁰He is to then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, either the turtledoves or young pigeons,

³¹one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, sacrificing what he can afford together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.

³²This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

³³The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

³⁴“When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,

³⁵the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house.

³⁶The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house.

³⁷He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

³⁸the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days.

³⁹The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house,

⁴⁰the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

⁴¹He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and have the plaster that is scraped off dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

⁴²Then they are to take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.

⁴³“If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,

⁴⁴the priest is to come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.

⁴⁵It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

⁴⁶Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁷Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.

⁴⁸“But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.

⁴⁹He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,

⁵⁰and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water.

⁵¹He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵²He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

⁵³Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

⁵⁴“This is the law for any skin disease or mildew, for a scaly outbreak,

⁵⁵for mildew in clothing or on a house,

⁵⁶and for a swelling, scab, or spot,

⁵⁷to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.

³This is uncleanness of his discharge: Whether his member secretes the discharge or retains it, he is unclean. All the days that his member secretes or retains anything because of his discharge, he is unclean.

⁴Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

⁵Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

⁶Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

⁷Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

⁸If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

⁹Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on will be unclean.

¹⁰Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

¹¹If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

¹²Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil is to be rinsed with water.

¹³“When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.

¹⁴He must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.

¹⁵The priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.

¹⁶“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

¹⁷Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen is to be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.

¹⁸If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

¹⁹“When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

²⁰Anything she lies on during her menstruation will become unclean, and anything she sits on will become unclean.

²¹Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

²²Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

²³If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.

²⁴If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.

²⁵“When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, though it is not the time of her menstruation, or if she has a discharge beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

²⁶Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

²⁷Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

²⁸When she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean.

²⁹On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

³⁰The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD because of her unclean discharge.

³¹“You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling my tabernacle that is among them.

³²This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;

³³a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the LORD and died.

²The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the curtain in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

³“Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

⁴He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He is to tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

⁵He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

⁶“Aaron will present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.

⁷Next he will take the two goats and place them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁸After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other for an uninhabitable place,

⁹he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.

¹⁰But the goat chosen by lot for an uninhabitable place is to be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement with it by sending it into the wilderness for an uninhabitable place.

¹¹“When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he will slaughter the bull for his sin offering.

¹²Then he is to take a firepan full of blazing coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

¹³He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, so that the cloud of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony, or else he will die.

¹⁴He is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times.

¹⁵“When he slaughters the male goat for the people’s sin offering and brings its blood inside the curtain, he will do the same with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

¹⁶He will make atonement for the most holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites’ impurities and rebellious acts. He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

¹⁷No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the most holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

¹⁸Then he will go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on the horns on all sides of the altar.

¹⁹He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites’ impurities.

²⁰“When he has finished making atonement for the most holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he is to present the live male goat.

²¹Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites’ iniquities and rebellious acts — all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task.

²²The goat will carry all their iniquities into a desolate land, and the man will release it there.

²³“Then Aaron is to enter the tent of meeting, take off the linen garments he wore when he entered the most holy place, and leave them there.

²⁴He will bathe his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering; he will make atonement for himself and for the people.

²⁵He is to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

²⁶The man who released the goat for an uninhabitable place is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

²⁷The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the most holy place to make atonement, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, flesh, and waste burned.

²⁸The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

²⁹“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the alien who resides among you.

³⁰Atonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

³¹It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

³²The priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as high priest in place of his father will make atonement. He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

³³and make atonement for the most holy place. He will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

³⁴This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD commanded Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: This is what the LORD has commanded:

³Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,

⁴instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before his tabernacle — that person will be considered guilty. He has shed blood and is to be cut off from his people.

⁵This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices to the LORD.

⁶The priest will then splatter the blood on the LORD’s altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

⁷They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

⁸“Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

⁹but does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that person is to be cut off from his people.

¹⁰“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.

¹¹For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.

¹²Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no alien who resides among you may eat blood.

¹³“Any Israelite or alien residing among them, who hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

¹⁴Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You are not to eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.

¹⁵“Every person, whether the native or the resident alien, who eats an animal that died a natural death or was mauled by wild beasts is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

¹⁶But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his iniquity.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.

³Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

⁴You are to practice my ordinances and you are to keep my statutes by following them; I am the LORD your God.

⁵Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the LORD.

⁶“You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am the LORD.

⁷You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your father and mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her.

⁸You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; she is your father’s family.

⁹You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

¹⁰You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for they are your family.

¹¹You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister.

¹²You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

¹³You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

¹⁴You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.

¹⁵You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her.

¹⁶You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.

¹⁷You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

¹⁸You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

¹⁹“You are not to approach a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

²⁰You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

²¹“You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

²²You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

²³You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

²⁴“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

²⁵The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

²⁶But you are to keep my statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable acts — not the native or the alien who resides among you.

²⁷For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.

²⁸If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

²⁹Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.

³⁰You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

³“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.

⁴Do not turn to idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.

⁵“When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

⁶It is to be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day, but what remains on the third day must be burned.

⁷If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.

⁸Anyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person is to be cut off from his people.

⁹“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

¹⁰Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the resident alien; I am the LORD your God.

¹¹“Do not steal. Do not act deceptively or lie to one another.

¹²Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God; I am the LORD.

¹³“Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired worker must not remain with you until morning.

¹⁴Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am the LORD.

¹⁵“Do not act unjustly when deciding a case. Do not be partial to the poor or give preference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

¹⁶Do not go about spreading slander among your people; do not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am the LORD.

¹⁷“Do not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

¹⁸Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.

¹⁹“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

²⁰“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

²¹However, he must bring a ram as his guilt offering to the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

²²The priest will make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin he committed.

²³“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

²⁴In the fourth year all its fruit is to be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.

²⁵But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

²⁶“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or witchcraft.

²⁷You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

²⁸You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.

²⁹“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

³⁰Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

³¹“Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.

³²“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am the LORD.

³³“When an alien resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

³⁴You will regard the alien who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

³⁵“Do not be unfair in measurements of length, weight, or volume.

³⁶You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

³⁷Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Say to the Israelites: Any Israelite or alien residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him.

³I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

⁴But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

⁵then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

⁶“Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.

⁷Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

⁸Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sets you apart.

⁹“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his death is his own fault.

¹⁰“If a man commits adultery with a married woman — if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife — both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

¹¹If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father. Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

¹²If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their death is their own fault.

¹³If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable act. They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

¹⁴If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned, so that there will be no depravity among you.

¹⁵If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you are also to kill the animal.

¹⁶If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

¹⁷If a man marries his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his iniquity.

¹⁸If a man sleeps with a menstruating woman and has sexual intercourse with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

¹⁹You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for it is exposing one’s own blood relative; both people will bear their iniquity.

²⁰If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his uncle; they will bear their guilt and die childless.

²¹If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother; they will be childless.

²²“You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

²³You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.

²⁴And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who set you apart from the peoples.

²⁵Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

²⁶You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.

²⁷“A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.”

¹The LORD said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,

²except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

³He may make himself unclean for his unmarried virgin sister in his immediate family.

⁴He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage and so defile himself.

⁵“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

⁶They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they present the fire offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, and they must be holy.

⁷They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution. They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

⁸You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, the LORD who sets you apart, am holy.

⁹If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned to death.

¹⁰“The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the clothes, must not dishevel his hair or tear his clothes.

¹¹He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

¹²He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD.

¹³“He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.

¹⁴He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

¹⁵so that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am the LORD who sets him apart.”

¹⁶The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁷“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.

¹⁸No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;

¹⁹no man who has a broken foot or hand,

²⁰or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

²¹No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.

²²He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

²³But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate my holy places, for I am the LORD who sets them apart.”

²⁴Moses said this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses:

²“Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to me, so they do not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.

³Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the LORD.

⁴No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

⁵or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean — whatever his uncleanness —

⁶the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

⁷When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.

⁸He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, making himself unclean by it; I am the LORD.

⁹They must keep my instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the LORD who sets them apart.

¹⁰“No one outside a priest’s family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.

¹¹But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

¹²If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

¹³But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.

¹⁴If anyone eats a holy offering in error, he is to add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.

¹⁵The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the LORD

¹⁶by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am the LORD who sets them apart.”

¹⁷The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁸“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens in Israel who presents his offering  — whether they present payment of vows or freewill gifts to the LORD as burnt offerings —

¹⁹must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.

²⁰You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

²¹“When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.

²²You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a fire offering to the LORD.

²³You may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering.

²⁴You are not to present to the LORD anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles; you must not sacrifice them in your land.

²⁵Neither you nor a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”

²⁶The LORD spoke to Moses:

²⁷“When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days; from the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering, a fire offering to the LORD.

²⁸But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.

²⁹When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

³⁰It is to be eaten on the same day. Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am the LORD.

³¹“You are to keep my commands and do them; I am the LORD.

³²You must not profane my holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sets you apart,

³³the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD.”