Category: Leviticus

Clean and Unclean Land Animals

1 TheLordspoke to Moses and Aaron:

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

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

4 But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

the camel,though it chews the cud,

does not have divided hooves — it is unclean for you;

5 the hyrax,though it chews the cud,

does not have hooves — it is unclean for you;

6 the hare, though it chews the cud,

does not have hooves — it is unclean for you;

7 the pig, though it has divided hooves,

does not chew the cud — it is unclean for you.

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

Clean and Unclean Aquatic Animals

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.

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

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

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

Unclean Birds

13 “You are to detest these birds. They must not be eaten because they are detestable:

the eagle,the beardedvulture,

the black vulture,

14 the kite,

any kind of falcon,

15 every kind of raven,

16 the ostrich,

the short-eared owl,the gull,

any kind of hawk,

17 the littleowl, the cormorant,

the long-eared owl,

18 the whiteowl, the desert owl,

the osprey,

19 the stork,

any kind of heron,

the hoopoe, and the bat.

Clean and Unclean Flying Insects

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

21 But 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.

22 You may eat these:

any kind of locust,katydid, cricket, and grasshopper.

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

Purification after Touching Dead Animals

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

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

26 All 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.

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

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

29 “These creatures that swarmon the ground are unclean for you:

the weasel,the mouse,

any kind of large lizard,

30 the gecko, the monitor lizard,

the common lizard,the skink,

and the chameleon.

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

32 When 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.

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

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

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

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

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

38 but 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.

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

Unclean Swarming Creatures

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

42 Do 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 detestable.

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

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

45 For I am Yahweh, 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,

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

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Purification after Childbirth

1 TheLordspoke 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.

3 The flesh of his foreskinmust be circumcisedon the eighth day.

4 She will continue in purificationfrom her bleedingfor 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.

5 But 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 66 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 sinoffering.

7 He will present them before theLordand 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.

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

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Skin Diseases

1 TheLordspoke to Moses and Aaron:

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

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

4 But 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 must quarantine the infected person for seven days.

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

6 The priest will examine him again on the seventh day. If the infection 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.

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

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

9 “When a skin disease develops on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.

10 The 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,

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

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

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

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

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

16 But if the raw flesh changesandturns white, he must go to the priest.

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

18 “When a boil appears on the skinof one’s bodyand it heals,

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

20 The 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 skin disease that has broken out in the boil.

21 But 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 must quarantine him seven days.

22 If it spreads further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

23 But 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,

25 the 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 skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.

26 But 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 must quarantine him seven days.

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

28 But 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 an infection on the head or chin,

30 the priest must examine the infection. 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 skin disease of the head or chin.

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

32 The priest will reexamine the infection 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,

33 the person must shave himselfbut not shave the scaly area. Then the priest must quarantine the person who has the scaly outbreak for another seven days.

34 The 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.

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

36 the 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.

37 But 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,

39 the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is only a rashthat 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.

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

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

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

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

45 “The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes tornand his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouthand cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean! ’

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

Contaminated Fabrics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

55 After 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 up the fabric. It is a funguson the front or back of the fabric.

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

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

58 But if the contamination disappears from the fabric, the warp or woof, 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 woof, or any leather article, in order to pronounce it clean or unclean.”

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Cleansing of Skin Diseases

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

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

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

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

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

6 He 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.

7 He 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.

8 The 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.

9 He 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 unblemishedmale lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of three quartsof fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quartof olive oil.

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

12 The priest is to take one male lamb and present it as a restitution offering,along with the one-third quartof olive oil, and he must wave them as a presentation offeringbefore theLord.

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

14 The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution 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.

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

16 The 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 theLord.

17 From 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 restitution offering.

18 What 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 theLord.

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

20 The 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 poorand cannot afford these,he is to take one male lamb for a restitution offering to be waved in order to make atonement for him, along with two quartsof fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one-third of a quartof olive oil,

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

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

24 The priest will take the male lamb for the restitution offering and the one-third quartof olive oil, and wave them as a presentation offering before theLord.

25 After he slaughters the male lamb for the restitution offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the restitution 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.

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

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

28 The 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 restitution offering.

29 What 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 theLord.

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

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

32 This is the law for someone who hasa skin disease and cannot affordthe cost of his cleansing.”

Cleansing of Contaminated Objects

33 TheLordspoke to Moses and Aaron:

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

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

36 The 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.

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

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

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

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

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

42 Then they must take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plasterto 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,

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

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

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

47 Whoever 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.

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

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

51 He 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.

52 He 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.

53 Then he is to release the live bird into the open countrysideoutside 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,

55 for mildew in clothing or on a house,

56 and for a swelling, scab, or spot,

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

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Bodily Discharges

1 TheLordspoke to Moses and Aaron:

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

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

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

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

6 Whoever 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.

7 Whoever 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.

8 If 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.

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

10 Whoever 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.

11 If 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.

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

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

15 The 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 theLordbecause 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.

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

18 If 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 menstruationfor seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

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

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

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

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

24 If 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.

26 Any 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.

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

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

29 On 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.

30 The 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 theLordbecause of her unclean discharge.

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

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

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

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The Day of Atonement

1 TheLordspoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presenceoftheLordand died.

2 TheLordsaid to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy placebehind the veilin front of the mercy seaton the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloudabove the mercy seat.

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

4 He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He must 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.

5 He 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.

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

8 After Aaron casts lotsfor the two goats, one lot for theLordand the other for azazel,

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

10 But the goat chosen by lot for azazelis to be presented alive before theLordto make purification with it by sending it into the wildernessfor azazel.

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.

12 Then he must take a firepan full of fiery coals from the altar before theLordand two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense,and bring them inside the veil.

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

14 He is to take some of the bull’s bloodand 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 veil, he must 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.

16 He will purify 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.

17 No 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.

18 Then he will go out to the altar that is before theLordand 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.

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

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

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

22 The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land,and he will release it there.

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

24 He will bathe his body with water in a holy placeand 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.

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

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

27 The 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 campand their hide,flesh, and dung burned up.

28 The 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 statutefor you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denialand do no work,both the native and the foreignerwho resides among you.

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

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

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

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

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

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Forbidden Sacrifices

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

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

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

4 instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to theLordbefore His tabernacle — that person will be considered guilty.He has shed bloodand must be cut off from his people.

5 This is so the Israelites will bring to theLordthe sacrificesthey 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 sacrificesto theLord.

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

7 They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demonsthat they have prostitutedthemselves with. This will be a permanent statutefor them throughout their generations.

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

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

Eating Blood and Carcasses Prohibited

10 “Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood,I will turnagainst that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.

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

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

13 “Any Israelite or foreigner living among them, who huntsdown a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its bloodand cover it with dirt.

14 Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You must not 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 foreigner,who eats an animal that died a natural death or was mauled by wild beastsis to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

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

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Prohibited Pagan Practices

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses:

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

3 Do 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.

4 You are to practice My ordinancesand you are to keep My statutesby following them; I am Yahweh your God.

5 Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will liveif he does them.I am Yahweh.

6 “You are not to come nearany close relativefor sexual intercourse;I am Yahweh.

7 You are not to shame your fatherby having sex with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her.

8 You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;it will shame your father.

9 You 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.

10 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, because it will shame your family.

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

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

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

14 You are not to shame your father’s brother by coming near his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.

15 You 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.

16 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; it will shame your brother.

17 You 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.

18 You 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 come neara woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

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

21 “You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech.Do not profane the nameof your God; I am Yahweh.

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

23 You are not to have sexual intercourse withany 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.

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

26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things — not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.

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

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

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

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

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Laws of Holiness

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

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

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

4 Do not turn to idolsor make cast imagesof gods for yourselves;I am Yahweh your God.

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

6 It 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 up.

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

8 Anyone who eats it will bear his punishment, for he has profaned what is holy to theLord. That person must 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 gleaningsof your harvest.

10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poorand the foreign resident;I am Yahweh your God.

11 “You must not steal.You must not act deceptivelyor lieto one another.

12 You must not swear falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God;I am Yahweh.

13 “You must not oppressyour neighbor or robhim. The wages due a hired handmust not remain with you until morning.

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

15 “You must not act unjustlywhen deciding a case. Do not be partialto the poor or give preference to the rich;judge your neighbor fairly.

16 You must not go about spreading slanderamong your people; you must not jeopardizeyour neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.

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

18 Do not take revengeor bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself;I am Yahweh.

19 “You are to keep My statutes. You must 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 redeemedor given her freedom, there must be punishment.They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

21 However, he must bring a ram as his restitution offering to theLordat the entrance to the tent of meeting.

22 The priest will make atonement on his behalf before theLordwith the ram of the restitution 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.

24 In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offeringto theLord.

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

26 “You are not to eat anything with blood in it.You are not to practice divinationor sorcery.

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

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

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

30 You must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary;I am Yahweh.

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

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

33 “When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppresshim.

34 You must regard the foreigner who lives with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself,for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt;I am Yahweh your God.

35 “You must not be unfairin measurements of length, weight, or volume.

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

37 You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am Yahweh.”

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Molech Worship and Spiritism

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

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

3 I will turnagainst that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuaryand profaning My holy name.

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

5 then I will turnagainst that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who followhim in prostitutingthemselves with Molech.

6 “Whoever turns to mediumsor spiritistsand prostitutes himself with them, I will turnagainst that person and cut him off from his people.

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

8 Keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who sets you apart.

Family and Sexual Offenses

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

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

11 If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father.Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

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

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

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

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

16 If a woman comes near any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal.They must be put to death; their own blood is on them.

17 If 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 must be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his punishment.

18 If 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 must be cut off from their people.

19 You 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 punishment.

20 If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle;they will bear their guilt and die childless.

21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity.He has shamed his brother;they will be childless.

Holiness in the Land

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.

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

24 And 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 Yahweh your God who set you apart from the peoples.

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

26 You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

27 A man or a woman who isa medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood is on their own hands.”

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