Leviticus 1

"'When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it {2} and take it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. {3} The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the LORD by fire. {4} "'If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of fine flour: cakes made without yeast and mixed with oil, or wafers made without yeast and spread with oil. {5} If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of fine flour mixed with oil, and without yeast. {6} Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. {7} If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it is to be made of fine flour and oil. {8} Bring the grain offering made of these things to the LORD; present it to the priest, who shall take it to the altar. {9} He shall take out the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. {10} The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the LORD by fire. {11} "'Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in an offering made to the LORD by fire. {12} You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of the firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma. {13} Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. {14} "'If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire. {15} Put oil and incense on it; it is a grain offering. {16} The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus 3

"'If someone's offering is a fellowship offering, and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present before the LORD an animal without defect. {2} He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood against the altar on all sides. {3} From the fellowship offering he is to bring a sacrifice made to the LORD by fire: all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, {4} both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys. {5} Then Aaron's sons are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. {6} "'If he offers an animal from the flock as a fellowship offering to the LORD, he is to offer a male or female without defect. {7} If he offers a lamb, he is to present it before the LORD. {8} He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides. {9} From the fellowship offering he is to bring a sacrifice made to the LORD by fire: its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, {10} both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys. {11} The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made to the LORD by fire. {12} "'If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD. {13} He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides. {14} From what he offers he is to make this offering to the LORD by fire: all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, {15} both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys. {16} The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord's. {17} "'This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Leviticus 4

"'If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible. {2} "'Or if a person touches anything ceremonially unclean--whether the carcasses of unclean wild animals or of unclean livestock or of unclean creatures that move along the ground--even though he is unaware of it, he has become unclean and is guilty. {3} "'Or if he touches human uncleanness--anything that would make him unclean--even though he is unaware of it, when he learns of it he will be guilty. {4} "'Or if a person thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil--in any matter one might carelessly swear about--even though he is unaware of it, in any case when he learns of it he will be guilty. {5} "'When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what way he has sinned {6} and, as a penalty for the sin he has committed, he must bring to the LORD a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin. {7} "'If he cannot afford a lamb, he is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the LORD as a penalty for his sin--one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. {8} He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck, not severing it completely, {9} and is to sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. {10} The priest shall then offer the other as a burnt offering in the prescribed way and make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven. {11} "'If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering. {12} He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the offerings made to the LORD by fire. It is a sin offering. {13} In this way the priest will make atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The rest of the offering will belong to the priest, as in the case of the grain offering.'" {14} The LORD said to Moses: {15} "When a person commits a violation and sins unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord's holy things, he is to bring to the LORD as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering. {16} He must make restitution for what he has failed to do in regard to the holy things, add a fifth of the value to that and give it all to the priest, who will make atonement for him with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. {17} "If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord's commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. {18} He is to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the wrong he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven. {19} It is a guilt offering; he has been guilty of wrongdoing against the LORD."

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, {2} "Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: {3} You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. {4} "'There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. {5} The coney, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. {6} The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. {7} And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. {8} You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. {9} "'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. {10} But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest. {11} And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. {12} Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you. {13} "'These are the birds you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, {14} the red kite, any kind of black kite, {15} any kind of raven, {16} the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, {17} the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, {18} the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, {19} the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. {20} "'All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. {21} There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. {22} Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. {23} But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest. {24} "'You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. {25} Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. {26} "'Every animal that has a split hoof not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean. {27} Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. {28} Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. They are unclean for you. {29} "'Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, {30} the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon. {31} Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. {32} When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth. Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean. {33} If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot. {34} Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean. {35} Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean. {36} A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean. {37} If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. {38} But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you. {39} "'If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean till evening. {40} Anyone who eats some of the carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. {41} "'Every creature that moves about on the ground is detestable; it is not to be eaten. {42} You are not to eat any creature that moves about on the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is detestable. {43} Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. {44} I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground. {45} I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy. {46} "'These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves in the water and every creature that moves about on the ground. {47} You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.'"

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. {3} On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. {4} Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. {5} If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding. {6} "'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. {7} He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. "'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. {8} If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, {2} "When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a bright spot on his skin that may become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. {3} The priest is to examine the sore on his skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious skin disease. When the priest examines him, he shall pronounce him ceremonially unclean. {4} If the spot on his skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to put the infected person in isolation for seven days. {5} On the seventh day the priest is to examine him, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to keep him in isolation another seven days. {6} On the seventh day the priest is to examine him again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a rash. The man must wash his clothes, and he will be clean. {7} But if the rash does spread in his skin after he has shown himself to the priest to be pronounced clean, he must appear before the priest again. {8} The priest is to examine him, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious disease. {9} "When anyone has an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to the priest. {10} The priest is to examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling, {11} it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He is not to put him in isolation, because he is already unclean. {12} "If the disease breaks out all over his skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, {13} the priest is to examine him, and if the disease has covered his whole body, he shall pronounce that person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean. {14} But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean. {15} When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; he has an infectious disease. {16} Should the raw flesh change and turn white, he must go to the priest. {17} The priest is to examine him, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the infected person clean; then he will be clean. {18} "When someone has a boil on his skin and it heals, {19} and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, he must present himself to the priest. {20} The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious skin disease that has broken out where the boil was. {21} But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to put him in isolation for seven days. {22} If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is infectious. {23} But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. {24} "When someone has a burn on his skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn, {25} the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious skin disease. {26} But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to put him in isolation for seven days. {27} On the seventh day the priest is to examine him, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious skin disease. {28} If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scar from the burn. {29} "If a man or woman has a sore on the head or on the chin, {30} the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean; it is an itch, an infectious disease of the head or chin. {31} But if, when the priest examines this kind of sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to put the infected person in isolation for seven days. {32} On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if the itch has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep, {33} he must be shaved except for the diseased area, and the priest is to keep him in isolation another seven days. {34} On the seventh day the priest is to examine the itch, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean. {35} But if the itch does spread in the skin after he is pronounced clean, {36} the priest is to examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean. {37} If, however, in his judgment it is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. {38} "When a man or woman has white spots on the skin, {39} the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; that person is clean. {40} "When a man has lost his hair and is bald, he is clean. {41} If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean. {42} But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on his head or forehead. {43} The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like an infectious skin disease, {44} the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head. {45} "The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!' {46} As long as he has the infection he remains unclean. He must live alone; he must live outside the camp. {47} "If any clothing is contaminated with mildew--any woolen or linen clothing, {48} any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather-- {49} and if the contamination in the clothing, or leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. {50} The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected article for seven days. {51} On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mildew has spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a destructive mildew; the article is unclean. {52} He must burn up the clothing, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has the contamination in it, because the mildew is destructive; the article must be burned up. {53} "But if, when the priest examines it, the mildew has not spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather article, {54} he shall order that the contaminated article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days. {55} After the affected article has been washed, the priest is to examine it, and if the mildew has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it with fire, whether the mildew has affected one side or the other. {56} If, when the priest examines it, the mildew has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the contaminated part out of the clothing, or the leather, or the woven or knitted material. {57} But if it reappears in the clothing, or in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is spreading, and whatever has the mildew must be burned with fire. {58} The clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and is rid of the mildew, must be washed again, and it will be clean." {59} These are the regulations concerning contamination by mildew in woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted material, or any leather article, for pronouncing them clean or unclean.

And the Lord said to Moses, [2] "The following instructions must be followed by those seeking purification from a contagious skin disease. Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest, [3] who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of the skin disease, [4] he will perform a purification ceremony, using two wild birds of a kind permitted for food, along with some cedarwood, a scarlet cloth, and a hyssop branch. [5] The priest will order one of the birds to be slaughtered over a clay pot that is filled with fresh springwater. [6] He will then dip the living bird, along with the cedarwood, the scarlet cloth, and the hyssop branch, into the blood of the slaughtered bird. [7] The priest will also sprinkle the dead bird's blood seven times over the person being purified, and the priest will pronounce that person to be ceremonially clean. At the end of the ceremony, the priest will set the living bird free so it can fly away into the open fields.
[8] "The people being purified must complete the cleansing ceremony by washing their clothes, shaving off all their hair, and bathing themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean and may return to live inside the camp. However, they must still remain outside their tents for seven days. [9] On the seventh day, they must again shave off all their hair, including the hair of the beard and eyebrows, and wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be pronounced ceremonially clean.
[10] "On the next day, the eighth day, each person cured of the skin disease must bring two male lambs and one female year-old lamb with no physical defects, along with five quarts of choice flour mixed with olive oil and three-fifths of a pint of olive oil. [11] Then the officiating priest will present that person for cleansing, along with the offerings, before the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle. [12] The priest will take one of the lambs and the olive oil and offer them as a guilt offering by lifting them up before the Lord. [13] He will then slaughter the lamb there in the sacred area at the place where sin offerings and burnt offerings are slaughtered. As with the sin offering, the guilt offering will be given to the priest. It is a most holy offering. [14] The priest will then take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the healed person's right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot.
[15] "Then the priest will pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand. [16] He will dip his right finger into the oil and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord. [17] The priest will then put some of the oil remaining in his left hand on the tip of the healed person's right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot, in addition to the blood of the guilt offering. [18] The oil remaining in the priest's hand will then be poured over the healed person's head. In this way, the priest will make atonement before the Lord for the person being cleansed.
[19] "Then the priest must offer the sin offering and again perform the atonement ceremony for the person cured of the skin disease. After that, the priest will slaughter the whole burnt offering [20] and offer it on the altar along with the grain offering. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the person being cleansed, and the healed person will be ceremonially clean.
[21] "But anyone who cannot afford two lambs must bring one male lamb for a guilt offering, along with two quarts of choice flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering and three-fifths of a pint of olive oil. The guilt offering will be presented by lifting it up, thus making atonement for the person being cleansed. [22] The person being cleansed must also bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford. One of the pair must be used for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. [23] On the eighth day, the person being cleansed must bring the offerings to the priest for the cleansing ceremony to be performed in the Lord's presence at the Tabernacle entrance. [24] The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the olive oil, and lift them up before the Lord as an offering to him. [25] Then the priest will slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and put some of its blood on the tip of the person's right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot.
[26] "The priest will also pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand. [27] He will dip his right finger into the oil and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord. [28] The priest will then put some of the olive oil from his hand on the lobe of the person's right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot, in addition to the blood of the guilt offering. [29] The oil that is still in the priest's hand will then be poured over the person's head. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the person being cleansed.
[30] "Then the priest will offer the two turtledoves or the two young pigeons, whichever the person was able to afford. [31] One of them is for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering, to be presented along with the grain offering. In this way, the priest will make atonement before the Lord for the person being cleansed. [32] These are the instructions for cleansing those who have recovered from a contagious skin disease but who cannot afford to bring the sacrifices normally required for the ceremony of cleansing."
[33] Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, [34] "When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as an inheritance, I may contaminate some of your houses with an infectious mildew. [35] The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, 'It looks like my house has some kind of disease.' [36] Before the priest examines the house, he must have the house emptied so everything inside will not be pronounced unclean. Then the priest will go in and inspect the house. [37] If he finds bright green or reddish streaks on the walls of the house and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface, [38] he will leave the house and lock it up for seven days. [39] On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If the mildew on the walls of the house has spread, [40] the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be thrown into an area outside the town designated as ceremonially unclean. [41] Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town. [42] Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered.
[43] "But if the mildew reappears after all these things have been done, [44] the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he sees that the affected areas have spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with an infectious mildew, and the house is defiled. [45] It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean. [46] Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be considered ceremonially unclean until evening. [47] All who sleep or eat in the house must wash their clothing.
[48] "But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the affected areas have not reappeared after the fresh plastering, then he will pronounce the house clean because the infectious mildew is clearly gone. [49] To purify the house the priest will need two birds, some cedarwood, a scarlet cloth, and a hyssop branch. [50] He will slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot that is filled with fresh springwater. [51] Then he will dip the cedarwood, the hyssop branch, the scarlet cloth, and the living bird into the blood of the slaughtered bird, and he will sprinkle the house seven times. [52] After he has purified the house in this way, [53] he will release the living bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the house, and it will be ceremonially clean.
[54] "These are the instructions for dealing with the various kinds of contagious skin disease and infectious mildew, [55] whether in clothing, in a house, [56] in a swollen area of skin, in a skin rash, or in a shiny patch of skin. [57] These instructions must be followed when dealing with any contagious skin disease or infectious mildew, to determine when something is ceremonially clean or unclean."

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, {2} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. {3} Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness: {4} "'Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. {5} Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {6} Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {7} "'Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {8} "'If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {9} "'Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean, {10} and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {11} "'Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {12} "'A clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water. {13} "'When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. {14} On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest. {15} The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the LORD for the man because of his discharge. {16} "'When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {17} Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening. {18} When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. {19} "'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. {20} "'Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. {21} Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {22} Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {23} Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening. {24} "'If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean. {25} "'When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. {26} Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period. {27} Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. {28} "'When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. {29} On the eighth day she must take two doves 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 for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge. {31} "'You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.'" {32} These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen, {33} for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who lies with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.

The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD. {2} The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover. {3} "This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. {4} He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. {5} From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. {6} "Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. {7} Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. {8} He is to cast lots for the two goats--one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat. {9} Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. {10} But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat. {11} "Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. {12} He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. {13} He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die. {14} He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover. {15} "He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. {16} In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness. {17} No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel. {18} "Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar. {19} He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites. {20} "When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. {21} He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites--all their sins--and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task. {22} The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert. {23} "Then Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there. {24} He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people. {25} He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar. {26} "The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. {27} The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up. {28} The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. {29} "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work--whether native-born or an alien living among you-- {30} because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. {31} It is a sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. {32} The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments {33} and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community. {34} "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites." And it was done, as the LORD commanded Moses.

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'This is what the LORD has commanded: {3} Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it {4} instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD--that man shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood and must be cut off from his people. {5} This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the LORD, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings. {6} The priest is to sprinkle the blood against the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. {7} They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.' {8} "Say to them: 'Any Israelite or any alien living among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice {9} and does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD--that man must be cut off from his people. {10} "'Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood--I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people. {11} For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. {12} Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood." {13} "'Any Israelite or any alien living among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, {14} because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off." {15} "'Anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean. {16} But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will be held responsible.'"

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God. {3} You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. {4} You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. {5} Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD. {6} "'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. {7} "'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her. {8} "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. {9} "'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. {10} "'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you. {11} "'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister. {12} "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. {13} "'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. {14} "'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. {15} "'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her. {16} "'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother. {17} "'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. {18} "'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. {19} "'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period. {20} "'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. {21} "'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. {22} "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. {23} "'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. {24} "'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. {25} Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. {26} But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, {27} for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. {28} And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. {29} "'Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people. {30} Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'"

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy. {3} "'Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. {4} "'Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. {5} "'When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. {6} It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up. {7} If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted. {8} Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has desecrated what is holy to the LORD; that person must be cut off from his people. {9} "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. {10} Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God. {11} "'Do not steal. "'Do not lie. "'Do not deceive one another. {12} "'Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. {13} "'Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. "'Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight. {14} "'Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD. {15} "'Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. {16} "'Do not go about spreading slander among your people. "'Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD. {17} "'Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. {18} "'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. {19} "'Keep my decrees. "'Do not mate different kinds of animals. "'Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. "'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. {20} "'If a man sleeps with a woman who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. {21} The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for a guilt offering to the LORD. {22} With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven. {23} "'When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden ; it must not be eaten. {24} In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. {25} But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God. {26} "'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. "'Do not practice divination or sorcery. {27} "'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. {28} "'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. {29} "'Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. {30} "'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. {31} "'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. {32} "'Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD. {33} "'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. {34} The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. {35} "'Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. {36} Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt. {37} "'Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the LORD.'"

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him. {3} I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. {4} If the people of the community close their eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put him to death, {5} I will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech. {6} "'I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people. {7} "'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. {8} Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the LORD, who makes you holy. {9} "'If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head. {10} "'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. {11} "'If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. {12} "'If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads. {13} "'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. {14} "'If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you. {15} "'If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. {16} "'If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. {17} "'If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible. {18} "'If a man lies with a woman during her monthly period and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them must be cut off from their people. {19} "'Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible. {20} "'If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless. {21} "'If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless. {22} "'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. {23} You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. {24} But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations. {25} "'You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground--those which I have set apart as unclean for you. {26} You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. {27} "'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.'"

The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die, {2} except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother, {3} or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband--for her he may make himself unclean. {4} He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself. {5} "'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. {6} They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the LORD by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy. {7} "'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. {8} Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy. {9} "'If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire. {10} "'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes. {11} He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, {12} nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD. {13} "'The woman he marries must be a virgin. {14} He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people, {15} so he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.'" {16} The LORD said to Moses, {17} "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. {18} No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; {19} no man with a crippled foot or hand, {20} or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. {21} No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. {22} He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; {23} yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'" {24} So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the LORD. {3} "Say to them: 'For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD. {4} "'If a descendant of Aaron has an infectious skin disease or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen, {5} or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. {6} The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. {7} When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food. {8} He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD. {9} "'The priests are to keep my requirements so that they do not become guilty and die for treating them with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy. {10} "'No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it. {11} But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. {12} If a priest's daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. {13} But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No unauthorised person, however, may eat any of it. {14} "'If anyone eats a sacred offering by mistake, he must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it. {15} The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the LORD {16} by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'" {17} The LORD said to Moses, {18} "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'If any of you--either an Israelite or an alien living in Israel--presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, {19} you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf. {20} Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. {21} When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable. {22} Do not offer to the LORD the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as an offering made to the LORD by fire. {23} You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. {24} You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, {25} and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.'" {26} The LORD said to Moses, {27} "When a calf, a lamb or a 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 made to the LORD by fire. {28} Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day. {29} "When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. {30} It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the LORD. {31} "Keep my commands and follow them. I am the LORD. {32} Do not profane my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who makes you holy {33} and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD."

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. {3} "'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD. {4} "'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: {5} The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. {6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. {7} On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. {8} For seven days present an offering made to the LORD by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.'" {9} The LORD said to Moses, {10} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. {11} He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. {12} On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, {13} together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil--an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma--and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. {14} You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. {15} "'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. {16} Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. {17} From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD. {18} Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings--an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. {19} Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. {20} The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. {21} On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. {22} "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'" {23} The LORD said to Moses, {24} "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. {25} Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire.'" {26} The LORD said to Moses, {27} "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. {28} Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God. {29} Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people. {30} I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day. {31} You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. {32} It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath." {33} The LORD said to Moses, {34} "Say to the Israelites: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. {35} The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. {36} For seven days present offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work. {37} ("'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the LORD by fire--the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. {38} These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord's Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.) {39} "'So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest. {40} On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. {41} Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. {42} Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths {43} so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'" {44} So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. {3} Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. {4} The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually. {5} "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf. {6} Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD. {7} Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire. {8} This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. {9} It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire." {10} Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. {11} The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) {12} They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them. {13} Then the LORD said to Moses: {14} "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. {15} Say to the Israelites: 'If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; {16} anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. {17} "'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death. {18} Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution--life for life. {19} If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: {20} fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. {21} Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. {22} You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'" {23} Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, {2} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD. {3} For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. {4} But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. {5} Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. {6} Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you--for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, {7} as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten. {8} "'Count off seven sabbaths of years--seven times seven years--so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. {9} Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. {10} Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan. {11} The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. {12} For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields. {13} "'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property. {14} "'If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take advantage of each other. {15} You are to buy from your countryman on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And he is to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. {16} When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what he is really selling you is the number of crops. {17} Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God. {18} "'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. {19} Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. {20} You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?" {21} I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. {22} While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. {23} "'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. {24} Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land. {25} "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and sells some of his property, his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his countryman has sold. {26} If, however, a man has no one to redeem it for him but he himself prospers and acquires sufficient means to redeem it, {27} he is to determine the value for the years since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own property. {28} But if he does not acquire the means to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and he can then go back to his property. {29} "'If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time he may redeem it. {30} If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. {31} But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee. {32} "'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess. {33} So the property of the Levites is redeemable--that is, a house sold in any town they hold--and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. {34} But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession. {35} "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you. {36} Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you. {37} You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit. {38} I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. {39} "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave. {40} He is to be treated as a hired worker or a temporary resident among you; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. {41} Then he and his children are to be released, and he will go back to his own clan and to the property of his forefathers. {42} Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. {43} Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God. {44} "'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. {45} You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. {46} You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly. {47} "'If an alien or a temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your countrymen becomes poor and sells himself to the alien living among you or to a member of the alien's clan, {48} he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his relatives may redeem him: {49} An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself. {50} He and his buyer are to count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for his release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired man for that number of years. {51} If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption a larger share of the price paid for him. {52} If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to compute that and pay for his redemption accordingly. {53} He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year; you must see to it that his owner does not rule over him ruthlessly. {54} "'Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, {55} for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

"'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. {2} "'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. {3} "'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, {4} I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. {5} Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land. {6} "'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. {7} You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. {8} Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. {9} "'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. {10} You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. {11} I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. {12} I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. {13} I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high. {14} "'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, {15} and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, {16} then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. {17} I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you. {18} "'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. {19} I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. {20} Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit. {21} "'If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. {22} I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. {23} "'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, {24} I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. {25} And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. {26} When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. {27} "'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, {28} then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. {29} You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. {30} I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. {31} I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. {32} I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. {33} I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. {34} Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. {35} All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. {36} "'As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. {37} They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. {38} You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. {39} Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers' sins they will waste away. {40} "'But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers--their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, {41} which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies--then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, {42} I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. {43} For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. {44} Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. {45} But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.'" {46} These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

The LORD said to Moses, {2} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate persons to the LORD by giving equivalent values, {3} set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel ; {4} and if it is a female, set her value at thirty shekels. {5} If it is a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels. {6} If it is a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver. {7} If it is a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels. {8} If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, he is to present the person to the priest, who will set the value for him according to what the man making the vow can afford. {9} "'If what he vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, such an animal given to the LORD becomes holy. {10} He must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if he should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy. {11} If what he vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal--one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD--the animal must be presented to the priest, {12} who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be. {13} If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value. {14} "'If a man dedicates his house as something holy to the LORD, the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain. {15} If the man who dedicates his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become his. {16} "'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of his family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it--fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. {17} If he dedicates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains. {18} But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced. {19} If the man who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become his. {20} If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed. {21} When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become the property of the priests. {22} "'If a man dedicates to the LORD a field he has bought, which is not part of his family land, {23} the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD. {24} In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom he bought it, the one whose land it was. {25} Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. {26} "'No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord's. {27} If it is one of the unclean animals, he may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value. {28} "'But nothing that a man owns and devotes to the LORD--whether man or animal or family land--may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD. {29} "'No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death. {30} "'A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. {31} If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth of the value to it. {32} The entire tithe of the herd and flock--every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod--will be holy to the LORD. {33} He must not pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.'" {34} These are the commands the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.