Leviticus Translation

Leviticus

1:1 And the LORD addressed Moses, speaking from the tabernacle of meeting, thus:
1:2 “Convey to the children of Israel and say: If anyone among you wishes to present an offering to the LORD, let them bring cattle, either from the herds or the flocks.
1:3 Should the offering be a burnt sacrifice from the herd, it must be a male without defect. It should be offered willingly at the entrance to the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD.
1:4 The individual shall lay a hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on their behalf to make atonement for them.
1:5 They must then slaughter the bull in the presence of the LORD, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood by sprinkling it around the altar at the entrance to the tabernacle of meeting.
1:6 The offerer must skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
1:7 The sons of Aaron, the priest, shall prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.
1:8 The priests, Aaron’s sons, shall arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar.
1:9 The entrails and the legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
1:10 If the offering is from the flocks, either sheep or goats, as a burnt sacrifice, it must be a male without defect.
1:11 It must be slaughtered on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle its blood around the altar.
1:12 The offerer shall cut it into pieces, along with its head and fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is burning on the altar.
1:13 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring and burn the whole lot on the altar. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
1:14 If one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt sacrifice of birds, then one shall bring turtledoves or young pigeons.
1:15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar.
1:16 He shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.
1:17 He shall split it open by the wings, but shall not divide it completely. Then the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
2:1 When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, their offering shall be of fine flour. They shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
2:2 They shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and oil with all its frankincense. The priest shall burn this as a memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
2:3 The rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons. It is most holy, part of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.
2:4 When you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
2:5 If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil.
2:6 You shall break it into pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
2:7 If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
2:8 You shall bring the grain offering that is made of these to the LORD. When it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.
2:9 The priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
2:10 The remainder of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons. It is most holy, part of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.
2:11 Every grain offering you bring to the LORD shall be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in an offering to the LORD made by fire.
2:12 You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
2:13 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.
2:14 If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.
2:15 Put oil and incense on it; it is a grain offering.
2:16 The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
3:1 If one’s offering is a fellowship offering, and they offer it from the herd, whether male or female, they are to present before the LORD an animal without defect.
3:2 They are to lay their hand on the head of their offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall splash the blood against the altar on all sides.
3:3 From the fellowship offering, they are to bring a food offering to the LORD: the internal fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,
3:4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which they will remove with the kidneys.
3:5 Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is burning on the wood on the fire. It is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
3:6 If one’s offering for a fellowship offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, they are to present before the LORD an animal without defect.
3:7 If they offer a lamb, they are to present it before the LORD.
3:8 They are to lay their hand on the head of their offering and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting. Aaron’s sons shall splash its blood against the altar on all sides.
3:9 From the fellowship offering, they are to bring a food offering to the LORD: its internal fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the internal fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,
3:10 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which they will remove with the kidneys.
3:11 The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
3:12 If one’s offering is a goat, they are to present it before the LORD.
3:13 They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the tent of meeting. Aaron’s sons shall splash its blood against the altar on all sides.
3:14 From what they offer, they are to present part of the food offering to the LORD: the internal fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,
3:15 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which they will remove with the kidneys.
3:16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.
3:17 This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.
4:1 The LORD said to Moses,
4:2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands—
4:3 If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
4:4 He is to present the bull at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the LORD. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the LORD.
4:5 The anointed priest shall then take some of the bull’s blood and carry it into the tent of meeting.
4:6 He is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
4:7 The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull’s blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
4:8 He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering—all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,
4:9 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys—
4:10 As the bull for peace offerings is sacrificed, the priest shall burn its parts on the altar of burnt offering.
4:11 The skin of the bull, its flesh, its head, legs, entrails, and dung,
4:12 in entirety shall be taken outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and there it shall be burnt on the wood with fire.
4:13 Should the entire assembly of Israel err unintentionally, and the matter escapes the notice of the congregation, resulting in a violation of any of the LORD’s commandments, and they become guilty;
4:14 when such sin becomes known, the congregation shall offer a young bull for the sin and present it before the tabernacle of the congregation.
4:15 The elders of the congregation are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
4:16 The anointed priest is to bring some of the bull’s blood into the tabernacle of the congregation;
4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, sprinkling it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.
4:18 He shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar before the LORD in the tabernacle of the congregation, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, located at the entrance of the tabernacle.
4:19 All the bull’s fat shall be removed and burnt on the altar.
4:20 This bull shall be treated as the bull for a sin offering; the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.
4:21 The bull shall then be taken outside the camp and burnt as the first bull; it is a sin offering for the congregation.
4:22 If a ruler sins unintentionally by violating any of the LORD’s commandments, and is guilty;
4:23 or if he becomes aware of his sin, he shall bring a male goat without blemish as his offering;
4:24 he shall lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it at the place where burnt offerings are killed before the LORD; it is a sin offering.
4:25 The priest shall take some of the sin offering’s blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the blood at the base of the altar.
4:26 He shall burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings, and the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his sin, and it will be forgiven.
4:27 If any member of the community sins unintentionally by doing something prohibited by the LORD’s commandments and is guilty;
4:28 or if his sin becomes known to him, he shall bring a female goat without blemish for the sin he committed.
4:29 He shall lay his hand on the sin offering’s head and slaughter it where the burnt offering is killed.
4:30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
4:31 All its fat shall be removed, as the fat of the peace offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, making atonement for the individual, and he will be forgiven.
4:32 If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
4:33 He shall lay his hand on the sin offering’s head and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where they kill the burnt offering.
4:34 The priest shall take some of the sin offering’s blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, then pour out all the blood at the base of the altar;
4:35 and remove all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn them on the altar on top of the offerings made by fire to the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for the sin he has committed, and it will be forgiven.
5:1 If anyone sins in that they hear a public adjuration to testify and, being a witness, either he has seen or knows the matter—if he does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2 Or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of unclean wildlife or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;
5:3 or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;
5:4 or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;
5:5 when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,
5:6 he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
5:7 But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
5:8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,
5:9 and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
5:10 Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
5:11 But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
5:12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the offerings by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.
5:13 Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”
5:14 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:15 “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
5:16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
5:17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
5:18 He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.
5:19 It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD.”
6:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6:2 “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor
6:3 or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—
6:4 if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found
6:5 or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.
6:6 And he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering to the priest.
6:7 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”
6:8 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6:9 Instruct Aaron and his sons thus: ‘The law of the burnt offering is as follows: The burnt offering shall remain on the hearth of the altar all night until the morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.
6:10 The priest shall dress in his linen robe, with linen undergarments next to his body, and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.
6:11 Then he shall remove his garments, put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
6:12 The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest shall add wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat of the peace offerings.
6:13 Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.
6:14 This is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall offer it before the LORD, in front of the altar.
6:15 The priest shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil of the grain offering, together with all its frankincense, and turn this token portion into smoke on the altar, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
6:16 And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
6:17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as their perpetual due throughout your generations from the LORD’s offerings by fire. Whatever touches them shall become holy.
6:19 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
6:20 This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day he is anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour as a regular grain offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.
6:21 It shall be prepared with oil on a griddle; you shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and present it as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
6:22 The priest among Aaron’s sons who is anointed to succeed him shall offer it. It is a perpetual due to be turned entirely into smoke before the LORD.
6:23 Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.
6:24 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
6:25 Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
6:26 The priest who offers it as a sin offering shall eat it; in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
6:27 Whatever touches its flesh shall become holy; and when any of its blood is spattered on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was spattered in a holy place.
6:28 An earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water.
6:29 Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.
6:30 But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting for atonement in the holy place; it shall be burned with fire.
7:1 This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.
7:2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering, they shall slaughter the guilt offering, and its blood shall be dashed against all sides of the altar.
7:3 All its fat shall be offered: the broad tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
7:4 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
7:5 The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.
7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7:7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
7:8 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.
7:9 All grain offerings that are baked in an oven and all that are prepared on a griddle or on a pan shall belong to the priest who offers them.
7:10 And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.
7:11 This is the law of the sacrifice of well-being that one may offer to the LORD.
7:12 If you offer it for thanksgiving, then you shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and loaves of choice flour well mixed with oil.
7:13 You shall present with the thanksgiving sacrifice of your well-being leavened loaves.
7:14 You shall offer one loaf from each offering as a gift to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest who dashes the blood of the well-being offerings.
7:15 The flesh of your thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being shall be eaten on the day it is offered; you shall not leave any of it until morning.
7:16 If your offering is a votive offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that you offer your sacrifice, and what remains of it shall be eaten on the next day;
7:17 but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
7:18 If any of the flesh of your sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day, it will not be acceptable, and it will not be credited to the one who offers it. It shall be an abomination, and the person who eats of it shall bear iniquity.
7:19 Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh.
7:20 But the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of well-being that belongs to the LORD, while in a state of uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the people.
7:21 Likewise the person who touches any unclean thing, be it human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean creature, and then eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of well-being that belongs to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from the people.
7:22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
7:23 Speak to the people of Israel, saying: You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat.
7:24 The fat of an animal that died or was torn by wild animals may be put to any use, but you shall by no means eat it.
7:25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which an offering by fire is made to the LORD shall be cut off from the people.
7:26 You shall eat no blood whatever, whether of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.
7:27 Anyone who eats any blood shall be cut off from the people.
7:28 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
7:29 Speak to the people of Israel, saying: Any one of you who offers a sacrifice of well-being to the LORD shall bring to the LORD the offering from the sacrifice of well-being.
7:30 You own hands shall bring the LORD’s offerings by fire; you shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be presented as a wave offering before the LORD.
7:31 The priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.
7:32 And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as an elevation offering from the sacrifices of your well-being.
7:33 The one among Aaron’s sons who offers the blood and the fat of the well-being offerings shall have the right thigh as a portion.
7:34 For I have taken the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh of the offering from the people of Israel, from their sacrifices of well-being, and given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
7:35 This is the portion allotted to Aaron and his sons from the offerings by fire to the LORD, on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
7:36 The LORD commanded this to be given them by the Israelites, on the day they were anointed; it is a perpetual due throughout their generations.
7:37 This is the ritual of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the offering of ordination, and the sacrifice of well-being,
7:38 which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the vestments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.
8:3 Assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
8:4 Moses acted as the LORD had instructed; the assembly was summoned to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
8:5 Moses addressed the assembly: “This is the command the LORD has given.”
8:6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward, bathing them in water.
8:7 He dressed Aaron in the tunic, tied the sash around him, robed him in the ceremonial gown, placed the ephod on him, fastened the artistically woven band of the ephod securely around him,
8:8 and placed the breastpiece on him, inserting the Urim and Thummim into it.
8:9 He set the turban on Aaron’s head and on the front of the turban, affixed the golden plate, the sacred emblem, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:10 Moses anointed the Tabernacle and everything in it, thus consecrating them.
8:11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar, all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.
8:12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, anointing him to consecrate him.
8:13 Moses then brought Aaron’s sons forward, clothed them in tunics, tied sashes around them, and placed caps on their heads, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:14 He presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
8:15 After slaughtering the bull, Moses took the blood and applied it to all sides of the altar with his finger, purifying the altar. He poured the remaining blood at the base of the altar, thus sanctifying it to atone for it.
8:16 Moses took all the fat around the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with their fat, and burned them on the altar.
8:17 But he burned the bull’s hide, flesh, and offal outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:18 He then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
8:19 After slaughtering the ram, Moses splashed its blood against all sides of the altar.
8:20 He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, pieces, and fat.
8:21 He washed the internal organs and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:22 Next, he presented the second ram, the ram for ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
8:23 After slaughtering the ram, Moses took some of its blood and applied it to the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot.
8:24 He also brought Aaron’s sons forward and applied some of the blood to the lobes of their right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses splashed blood against all sides of the altar.
8:25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.
8:26 From the basket of unleavened bread before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, one cake made with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the portions of fat and on the right thigh.
8:27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands and waved them before the LORD as a wave offering.
8:28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8:29 Moses also took the breast, Aaron’s portion of the ordination ram, and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8:30 He then took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and their garments.
8:31 Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’
8:32 Burn up any meat or bread that is left over.
8:33 Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.
8:34 What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for you.
8:35 Stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and do what the LORD requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded.”
8:36 So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD commanded through Moses.
9:1 On the eighth day, Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
9:2 He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the LORD.
9:3 Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering,
9:4 as well as a bull and a ram for fellowship offerings to sacrifice before the LORD, together with a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.'”
9:5 They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the LORD.
9:6 Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
9:7 Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering. Make atonement for yourself and for the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
9:8 So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
9:9 His sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
9:10 He burned the fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.
9:11 The flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.
9:12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar.
9:13 They handed him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar.
9:14 He washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.
9:15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it and offered it for sin, just like the first one.
9:16 He brought the burnt offering and offered it in the prescribed way.
9:17 He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar, in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.
9:18 He slaughtered the bull and the ram as a fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar.
9:19 But the fat portions of the bull and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver—
9:20 these they laid on the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
9:21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the LORD as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.
9:22 Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. Having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.
9:23 Moses and Aaron then went into the Tent of Meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
9:24 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
10:1 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
10:2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
10:3 Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: ‘Among those who approach me I will show myself holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.'” Aaron remained silent.
10:4 Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
10:5 So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.
10:6 And Moses instructed Aaron, Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, “Do not bare your heads nor tear your garments, lest you perish and wrath strike the entire community. But let your relatives, the entire house of Israel, mourn the conflagration the LORD has ignited.
10:7 Do not depart from the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for the LORD’s anointing oil is upon you.” And they acted according to Moses’ directive.
10:8 Then the LORD addressed Aaron, stating,
10:9 “Consume no wine nor strong drink, you or your sons with you, when entering the tent of meeting, lest you die. It is an everlasting statute throughout your generations,
10:10 to distinguish between the sacred and the profane, between the unclean and the clean,
10:11 and to instruct the Israelites in all the decrees the LORD has communicated through Moses.”
10:12 Moses spoke to Aaron and to his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering left over from the LORD’s offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.
10:13 You shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is your due and your sons’ due from the LORD’s offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded.
10:14 The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daughters with you; for they are given as your due and your sons’ due from the sacrifices of the Israelites’ peace offerings.
10:15 The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, along with the offerings by fire of the fat, shall be brought to wave as a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you as a perpetual due, as the LORD has commanded.”
10:16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering and discovered it was burnt. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, asking,
10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sacred area, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the LORD?
10:18 See, its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary. You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
10:19 Aaron responded to Moses, “Today they presented their sin offering and burnt offering before the LORD, and such things have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the LORD’s sight?”
10:20 Hearing this, Moses was satisfied.
11:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,
11:2 “Speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘These are the creatures you may eat from all the animals on the earth.
11:3 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and chews the cud.
11:4 However, among the cud-chewing, hoofed animals, you shall not eat these: the camel, for although it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
11:5 The rock badger, for although it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
11:6 The hare, for although it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
11:7 The pig, for although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
11:8 You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
11:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
11:10 But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, all that move in the waters, and any living thing which is in the waters, is an abomination to you.
11:11 They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, and you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination.
11:12 Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is an abomination to you.
11:13 And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
11:14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
11:15 every kind of raven,
11:16 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20 All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.
11:21 Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have jointed legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.
11:22 Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
11:23 But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.
11:24 By these you shall become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,
11:25 and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
11:26 Every animal that has a hoof that is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
11:27 All that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
11:28 and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
11:29 These also shall be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
11:31 These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
11:32 And anything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
11:33 And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break the vessel.
11:34 Any food that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean, and all drink that could be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
11:35 And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean and shall be unclean to you.
11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
11:37 And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean;
11:38 but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
11:39 And if any animal of which you may eat dies; whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
11:40 And he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
11:41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable; it shall not be eaten.
11:42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.
11:43 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, nor shall you defile yourselves with them, becoming unclean through them.
11:44 For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of swarming thing that moves on the earth.
11:45 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.
11:46 This is the law about animals, birds, every living creature that moves in the waters, and every creature that swarms on the earth,
11:47 To distinguish the unclean from the clean, and the edible beasts from those not to be eaten.
12:1 The Lord addressed Moses, saying,
12:2 “Speak to the Israelites: If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, she shall be ceremonially unclean for seven days, as she is during her menstrual period.
12:3 On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised.
12:4 She shall then continue in the purification period for thirty-three days; she must not touch any sacred object or enter the sanctuary until her purification period is complete.
12:5 But if she bears a female child, she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her menstrual period, and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
12:6 Upon completing the purification period for either a son or daughter, she shall bring a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest.
12:7 The priest shall offer them before the Lord to make atonement for her, and she will be cleansed from her blood loss. This is the law for a woman who has given birth to either a male or female child.
12:8 If she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for the burnt offering and the other for the sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.
13:1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
13:2 “When a person has a swelling, rash, or discoloured spot on their skin that might develop into a skin disease, they shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons.
13:3 The priest shall examine the affected area of skin. If the hair has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin deep, it is a skin disease. After examining the person, the priest shall declare them unclean.
13:4 If the spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the affected person for seven days.
13:5 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the person again. If he sees that the condition is unchanged and has not spread, he shall isolate them for another seven days.
13:6 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine them again. If the affected area has faded and not spread, the priest shall declare them clean; it is only a rash. The person shall wash their clothes and be clean.
13:7 However, if the rash spreads after the priest has declared the person clean, they must appear before the priest again.
13:8 If the priest sees that the rash has spread, he shall declare the person unclean; it is a skin disease.
13:9 When someone has a skin disease, they shall be brought to the priest.
13:10 The priest shall examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
13:11 it is a chronic skin disease. The priest shall declare the person unclean without isolating them, for they are unclean.
13:12 If the skin disease breaks out and covers the entire skin from head to foot, wherever the priest looks,
13:13 the priest shall examine them. If the disease has covered the entire body, the priest shall declare the person clean; it has all turned white, and they are clean.
13:14 But if raw flesh appears, they will be unclean.
13:15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh and declare the person unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, and it is a skin disease.
13:16 If the raw flesh turns white again, the person must return to the priest.
13:17 The priest shall examine them, and if the disease has turned white, the priest shall declare the person clean; they are clean.
13:18 When a boil on the skin heals,
13:19 and in its place there is a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, it must be shown to the priest.
13:20 If the priest sees that it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair has turned white, he shall declare the person unclean; it is a skin disease that has broken out in the boil.
13:21 But if the priest examines it and there are no white hairs in it, and it is not more than skin deep but has faded, the priest shall isolate the person for seven days.
13:22 If it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare the person unclean; it is a disease.
13:23 If the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall declare the person clean.
13:24 If there is a burn on someone’s skin and a reddish-white or white bright spot appears in the burned area,
13:25 the priest shall examine it. If the hair in the bright spot has turned white and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a skin disease broken out in the burn. The priest shall declare the person unclean; it is a skin disease.
13:26 But if the priest examines it and there are no white hairs in the bright spot and it is not more than skin deep but has faded, the priest shall isolate the person for seven days.
13:27 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine them, and if it has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare the person unclean; it is a skin disease.
13:28 If the bright spot stays in one place and does not spread in the skin but has faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall declare the person clean; it is the scar from the burn.
13:29 If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin,
13:30 the priest shall examine the sore. If it appears to be more than skin deep and there is thin yellow hair in it, the priest shall declare the person unclean; it is a scaly disease, a leprosy of the head or chin.
13:31 If the priest examines the scaly disease and it does not appear to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the person with the scaly disease for seven days.
13:32 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the disease. If the scaly disease has not spread, there is no yellow hair in it, and the scaly disease does not appear to be more than skin deep,
13:33 the person shall shave themselves, but not the scaly area. The priest shall isolate them for another seven days.
13:34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the scaly disease. If it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall declare the person clean. They shall wash their clothes and be clean.
13:35 But if the scaly disease spreads in the skin after they have been declared clean,
13:36 the priest shall examine them. If the scaly disease has spread in the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
13:37 If the scaly disease is at a standstill and black hair has grown in it, the scaly disease is healed. The person is clean, and the priest shall declare them clean.
13:38 If a man or woman has bright spots on the skin of their body, specifically white bright spots,
13:39 the priest shall examine them. If the bright spots on their skin are dull white, it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin; they are clean.
13:40 A man whose hair has fallen out and is bald is still clean.
13:41 If his hair has fallen out from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald, but he is still clean.
13:42 However, if there is a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a leprosy that has broken out on his head or forehead.
13:43 The priest shall examine him, and if the raised sore is reddish-white on his bald head or forehead, similar to the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,
13:44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest must declare him unclean; his disease is on his head.
13:45 The person with the leprous disease must wear torn clothes, leave their hair uncombed, cover their upper lip, and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’
13:46 As long as they have the disease, they are unclean. They must live alone and reside outside the camp.
13:47 If the leprous disease appears in a garment, whether it is a woolen or linen garment,
13:48 in the warp or weft of linen or wool, or in a skin or anything made of skin,
13:49 and the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, in the skin, in the warp, in the weft, or in any article made of skin, it is a leprous disease and shall be shown to the priest.
13:50 The priest shall examine the disease and isolate the article with the disease for seven days.
13:51 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the affliction. Should the contagion have spread in the garment, whether in the weave or in the weft, or in a skin article, or in any object made of skin, the affliction is malignant leprosy and is unclean.
13:52 Thus, the garment, whether weave or weft, of wool or linen, or any skin object where the contagion exists, shall be incinerated. It is malignant leprosy and must be burnt in fire.
13:53 However, if upon inspection, the priest finds that the contagion has not spread in the garment, in the weave, in the weft, or in any skin object,
13:54 he shall order the contaminated item to be washed and isolated for a further seven days.
13:55 After washing, the priest shall re-examine the contagion: if its appearance hasn’t altered and hasn’t spread, it remains unclean; you shall burn it in fire. It is an internal malignancy, whether it appears faded externally or internally.
13:56 If, upon re-inspection, the priest observes the contagion to be fainter post-washing, he shall tear it from the garment, skin, weave, or weft.
13:57 If it is still visible in the garment, in the weave, in the weft, or in any skin object, it is a spreading contagion; you must burn the contaminated object in fire.
13:58 If a garment, weave, weft, or any skin object is washed and the contagion disappears, then it shall be washed a second time and will be clean.
13:59 This is the statute for a leprous contagion in a woolen or linen garment, in the weave, in the weft, or in any object made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.
14:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2 “This is the statute for the leper on the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest.
14:3 The priest shall go outside the camp. The priest shall examine, and if the leprous affliction is healed in the leper,
14:4 the priest shall command that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be taken for the one to be cleansed.
14:5 The priest shall command one bird to be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over fresh water.
14:6 As for the live bird, he shall take it with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water.
14:7 He shall sprinkle seven times on the one to be cleansed from leprosy and pronounce him clean, and shall release the live bird into the open field.
14:8 The one to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water; then he will be clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but shall stay outside his tent for seven days.
14:9 On the seventh day, he shall shave off all his hair, including his head, beard, and eyebrows; all his hair shall be shaved off. He shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.
14:10 On the eighth day, he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.
14:11 The priest who cleanses shall set the man to be cleansed and these things before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
14:12 The priest shall take one male lamb and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
14:13 He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the sanctuary. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
14:14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand
14:16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.
14:17 Of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
14:18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.
14:19 The priest shall offer the sin offering to make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward, he shall kill the burnt offering.
14:20 The priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21 If he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;
14:22 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
14:23 And on the eighth day, he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.
14:24 The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
14:25 He shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand
14:27 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.
14:28 The priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood of the guilt offering.
14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
14:30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,
14:31 even what he can afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.
14:32 This is the law for the one who has a leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.
14:33 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
14:34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,
14:35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘It seems to me that there is some sort of disease in the house.’
14:36 The priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
14:37 And he shall examine the disease. If the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish depressions and appears to be deeper than the surface,
14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house for seven days.
14:39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house,
14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the disease is and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
14:41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.
14:42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
14:43 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped and plastered the house,
14:44 When the priest arrives and observes the situation, should he find the infection has spread within the dwelling, it must be declared a malignant leprosy, rendering the house impure.
14:45 The house, along with its stones, timber, and all the plaster, must be demolished and the debris transported to an unclean location outside the city.
14:46 Anyone entering the house during its closure will be deemed unclean until evening.
14:47 One who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their garments.
14:48 If the priest, upon re-examination, finds the infection has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall declare the house clean, as the infection has healed.
14:49 To purify the house, the priest shall use two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop:
14:50 One bird is to be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
14:51 He shall then take the cedar, hyssop, scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dipping them in the slain bird’s blood and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
14:52 He shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, fresh water, the live bird, cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn.
14:53 Finally, the live bird is to be released outside the city into open fields, thus atoning for the house, which shall then be clean.
14:54 This prescribes the law for all types of leprosy and scall,
14:55 including garment and house leprosy,
14:56 and for a swelling, a rash, or a bright spot.
14:57 It determines when something is unclean or clean. This is the law of leprosy.
15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and say: ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
15:3 This defilement from his discharge continues whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it.
15:4 Any bed or seat he uses during this time is unclean.
15:5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:6 Whoever sits on anything the man with the discharge sat on must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:7 Anyone who touches the man’s body must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:8 If the man with the discharge spits on a clean person, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:9 Any saddle the man rides on will be unclean.
15:10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening. Anyone carrying such items must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:11 If the man with the discharge touches someone without rinsing his hands in water, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:12 A clay pot touched by the man must be broken, and any wooden article must be rinsed with water.
15:13 When the man with the discharge is cleansed of it, he must count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; then he will be clean.
15:14 On the eighth day, he is to take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.
15:15 The priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. The priest will make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.
15:16 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening.
15:17 Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water and will be unclean until evening.
15:18 When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they must both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
15:19 When a woman has her regular flow of blood, she shall be in ceremonial impurity for seven days. Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
15:20 Anything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean.
15:21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:22 Anyone who touches anything she sat on must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
15:23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean until evening.
15:24 If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
15:25 If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual period, or if it runs beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge she shall be as during her period—she is unclean.
15:26 Any bed she lies on during that time will be as the bed of her period; anything she sits on will be unclean as during her period.
15:27 Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe in water, and they will be unclean until evening.
15:28 When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
15:29 On the eighth day she is to take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
15:30 The priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Through this, the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
15:31 “Thus you shall keep the Israelites separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.”
15:32 This is the law for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,
15:33 for a woman in her menstrual period, any man or woman with a discharge, and for a man who lies with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.
16:1 The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons, who died when they approached the LORD.
16:2 The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is 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. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
16:3 “Aaron shall enter the Most Holy Place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
16:4 He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie a 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.
16:5 From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
16:6 “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.
16:7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
16:8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat.
16:9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering.
16:10 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 wilderness as a scapegoat.
16:11 “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.
16:12 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.
16:13 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.
16:14 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 is to sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.
16:15 “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.
16:16 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.
16:17 No one shall enter the tabernacle of assembly while he enters to atone in the sanctuary, until he exits, having atoned for himself, his household, and all Israel.
16:18 He shall then approach the altar before the LORD, to perform atonement; taking blood from both the bullock and the goat, he shall anoint the altar’s horns all around.
16:19 With his finger, he shall sprinkle the blood upon it seven times, purifying and sanctifying it from the impurities of Israel’s children.
16:20 Having completed the reconciliation of the sanctuary, the assembly’s tabernacle, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
16:21 Aaron shall lay both hands upon the live goat’s head, confessing over it all the iniquities and transgressions of Israel’s children, transferring them onto the goat, which shall be sent into the wilderness by a suitable man.
16:22 The goat shall bear all their iniquities to an uninhabited land, and there, be released into the wilderness.
16:23 Aaron shall return to the assembly’s tabernacle, remove the linen garments worn upon entering the sanctuary, and leave them there.
16:24 He shall wash his body with water in the sanctuary, don his garments, come out, and offer his and the people’s burnt offerings, atoning for himself and the people.
16:25 The sin offering’s fat shall be incinerated on the altar.
16:26 The individual who releases the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe, then reenter the camp.
16:27 The sin offering’s bullock and goat, whose blood was used for atonement in the sanctuary, shall be carried outside the camp and burnt, including their skins, flesh, and dung.
16:28 The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe, then return to the camp.
16:29 This shall be a perpetual decree: on the seventh month’s tenth day, you shall humble yourselves and refrain from work, be you native or foreigner within Israel.
16:30 On this day, the priest shall atone for you, purifying you from all sins before the LORD.
16:31 It shall be a day of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves – a perpetual statute.
16:32 The priest, anointed and consecrated to serve in his father’s stead, shall perform the atonement, wearing the sacred linen garments.
16:33 He shall atone for the holy sanctuary, the assembly’s tabernacle, the altar, the priests, and all the congregation.
16:34 This everlasting statute requires atonement for Israel’s children for all their sins once annually. This was done as the LORD instructed Moses.
17:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
17:2 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all Israel’s children;
17:3 If anyone from Israel’s house slaughters an ox, lamb, or goat in or outside the camp,
17:4 and fails to bring it to the tabernacle’s entrance as an offering to the LORD; that person shall be held accountable for shedding blood and cut off from the community.
17:5 This ensures that Israel’s children bring their sacrifices, previously offered in open fields, to the LORD at the tabernacle’s entrance, offering them to the priest as peace offerings to the LORD.
17:6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the LORD’s altar at the tabernacle’s entrance and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
17:7 They shall no longer sacrifice to idols, which led them astray. This is a perpetual statute for them and their descendants.
17:8 Tell them: Anyone from Israel or residing foreigners offering a burnt or other sacrifice
17:9 but not bringing it to the tabernacle’s entrance shall be cut off from the community.
17:10 Any Israelite or residing foreigner who consumes any blood shall face the LORD’s opposition and be cut off from the community.
17:11 Life resides in the blood, given to you for atonement on the altar. It is the blood that atones.
17:12 Thus, no Israelite or resident foreigner shall consume blood.
17:13 Any Israelite or resident foreigner who hunts edible animals or birds must drain the blood and cover it with earth.
17:14 As the life of every creature is in its blood, no Israelite shall consume it. Anyone who does shall be cut off.
17:15 Anyone eating an animal that died naturally or was killed by beasts, whether a native or foreigner, must wash and be unclean until evening, then they shall be clean.
17:16 Failure to wash and bathe will result in bearing their iniquity.
18:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
18:2 “Speak to Israel’s children, and say to them: I am the LORD your God.
18:3 Do not follow the practices of Egypt where you lived, nor of Canaan where I am bringing you. Do not follow their customs.
18:4 Obey my laws and judgments. If a man does, he shall live by them. I am the LORD your God.
18:5 Therefore, observe my statutes and judgments. If a man does, he shall live by them. I am the LORD.
18:6 No one shall approach close relatives to uncover their nakedness. I am the LORD.
18:7 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father or mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:8 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
18:9 Do not uncover the nakedness of your sister, born of your father or mother, whether raised at home or elsewhere.
18:10 Do not uncover the nakedness of your son’s or daughter’s daughter. Their nakedness is yours.
18:11 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, born to your father. She is your sister.
18:12 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s close relative.
18:13 Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister. She is your mother’s close relative.
18:14 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. Do not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
18:15 Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:16 Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
18:17 Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness. They are close relatives; it is wicked.
18:18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife, uncovering her nakedness while the other is alive.
18:19 Do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.
18:20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.
18:21 Do not give your offspring to be passed through the fire to Molech, nor profane your God’s name. I am the LORD.
18:22 Do not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.
18:23 Do not have sexual relations with any animal, defiling yourself. A woman must not present herself to an animal; it is perversion.
18:24 Do not defile yourself with any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have become defiled by them.
18:25 The land became defiled, so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
18:26 But you shall keep my statutes and judgments and not commit any of these abominations, neither any native nor foreigner residing among you.
18:27 The previous inhabitants committed these abominations, defiling the land.
18:28 Do not let the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations before you.
18:29 Whoever commits these abominations shall be cut off from their people.
18:30 Keep my ordinance so that you do not practice these detestable customs practiced before you, and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.
19:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
19:2 “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel’s children, and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
19:3 Each of you shall respect your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
19:4 Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
19:5 If you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, do it willingly.
19:6 It shall be eaten on the day of offering or the next day. If any remains until the third day, it must be burnt.
19:7 If eaten on the third day, it is impure and unacceptable.
19:8 Anyone who eats it shall bear their iniquity, for they have profaned the sacred offering of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from their people.
19:9 When you reap your land’s harvest, do not reap the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
19:10 Do not fully harvest your vineyard nor gather every grape; leave some for the poor and the foreigner: I am the LORD your God.
19:11 You must not steal, deceive, or lie to one another.
19:12 Do not falsely swear by my name, nor profane your God’s name: I am the LORD.
19:13 You shall not defraud or rob your neighbour; do not withhold a labourer’s wages overnight.
19:14 Do not curse the deaf or place obstacles before the blind, but fear your God: I am the LORD.
19:15 In judgment, show no bias; do not favour the poor or defer to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly.
19:16 Do not spread slander among your people nor stand against your neighbour’s life: I am the LORD.
19:17 Do not harbour hatred towards your brother; rebuke your neighbour frankly and do not share in his guilt.
19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against your people, but love your neighbour as yourself: I am the LORD.
19:19 Observe my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals; do not plant your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
19:20 If a man sleeps with a female slave promised to another man but not redeemed or given her freedom, punishment shall be meted out, but they are not to be put to death, as she was not free.
19:21 He must bring a guilt offering to the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.
19:22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin, and his sin will be forgiven.
19:23 When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, regard their fruit as forbidden. For three years it is to be uncircumcised to you; it must not be eaten.
19:24 In the fourth year, all the fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.
19:25 In the fifth year, you may eat the fruit so that it will produce more for you: I am the LORD your God.
19:26 Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor practice divination or sorcery.
19:27 Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
19:28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
19:29 Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
19:30 Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
19:31 Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
19:32 Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly, and revere your God: I am the LORD.
19:33 When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
19:34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
19:35 Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or quantity.
19:36 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.
19:37 Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them: I am the LORD.
20:1 The LORD said to Moses,
20:2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The community shall stone him.
20:3 I will set my face against anyone who turns to Molek and will cut them off from their people for defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
20:4 If the community turns a blind eye to those sacrificing to Molek and fails to put them to death,
20:5 I will set my face against that person and their family and will cut off from their people both them and all who follow them in prostituting themselves to Molek.
20:6 I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.
20:7 Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
20:8 Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
20:9 Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
20:10 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with his neighbour’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
20:11 If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonoured his father. Both of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
20:12 If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with another man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
20:14 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They are to be burned in the fire, both he and they, so that no wickedness will be among you.
20:15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
20:16 If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
20:17 If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they see each other’s nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be publicly cut off from their people. He has dishonoured his sister and will be held responsible.
20:18 If a man lies with a woman during her monthly period and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
20:19 Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or father, for that would dishonour a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.
20:20 If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonoured his uncle. They will bear the penalty for their sin; they will die childless.
20:21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an impurity; he has dishonoured his brother. They will be childless.
20:22 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.
20:23 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.
20:24 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.
20:25 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 that I have set apart as unclean for you.
20:26 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.
20:27 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.
21:1 The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘No one shall defile themselves for a dead person among their people,
21:2 except for a close relative, such as their mother or father, son or daughter, brother,
21:3 or unmarried sister who is close to them because she has had no husband—for her they may defile themselves.
21:4 They must not make themselves ceremonially unclean for people who are not close relatives and so profane themselves.
21:5 Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.
21:6 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.
21:7 They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.
21:8 Treat them as holy because they offer the food of your God. They are to be holy to you because I, the LORD, who makes you holy, am holy.
21:9 If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
21:10 The chief priest among his brethren, whose head has received the anointing oil and who has been dedicated to don the sacred vestments, must not dishevel his hair nor tear his clothes.
21:11 He shall not approach any corpse nor defile himself, even for his father or mother;
21:12 Nor shall he leave the sanctuary or desecrate his God’s holy place, for the divine anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
21:13 He is to marry a woman in her virginity.
21:14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, one who is defiled, or a prostitute; instead, he shall take a virgin from his own people as wife.
21:15 He shall not dishonour his offspring among his people, for I, the LORD, sanctify him.
21:16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
21:17 “Speak to Aaron: Any of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect must not approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For anyone who has a defect shall not approach: a blind man, a lame, one with a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,
21:19 A man with a broken foot or hand,
21:20 A hunchback, a dwarf, one with a defect in his eye, eczema, scabs, or crushed testicles;
21:21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the LORD’s offerings by fire. Having a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
21:22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,
21:23 Only he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I, the LORD, sanctify them.”
21:24 And Moses relayed this to Aaron, his sons, and all the children of Israel.
22:1 The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying,
22:2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they abstain from the holy gifts of the children of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name: I am the LORD.
22:3 Say to them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy gifts, which the children of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD.
22:4 Any descendant of Aaron who is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if anyone touches anything made unclean by the dead, or a man from whom semen goes out,
22:5 Or anyone who touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may become unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
22:6 The person who touches any such thing shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he bathes his body in water.
22:7 When the sun sets, he shall be clean, and afterward, he may eat of the holy gifts, for they are his food.
22:8 That which dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.
22:9 They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby if they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
22:10 No outsider shall eat the holy thing; a sojourner with the priest or a hired worker shall not eat the holy thing.
22:11 But if a priest buys a person with his money, he may eat of it; and those born in his house may eat of his food.
22:12 If the priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy offerings.
22:13 But if the priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, without children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no outsider shall eat of it.
22:14 If anyone eats the holy thing unintentionally, then he shall add one-fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.
22:15 They shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,
22:16 Or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy things; for I, the LORD, sanctify them.”
22:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22:18 “Speak to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘Anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his offering for any of his vows or for any of his freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD for a burnt offering—
22:19 You shall offer of your own free will a male without defect from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
22:20 Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be acceptable on your behalf.
22:21 And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.
22:22 Those that are blind or broken or maimed, or have a wart or scaly skin or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.
22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in its parts, you may offer as a freewill offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
22:24 You shall not offer to the LORD what is bruised, crushed, broken, or cut; nor shall you make any offering of them in your land.
22:25 Nor from a foreigner’s hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, and defects are in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf.'”
22:26 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22:27 “When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days under its mother; and from the eighth day and thereafter, it shall be accepted as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
22:28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, do not kill both her and her young on the same day.
22:29 When you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, offer it of your own free will.
22:30 On the same day it must be eaten; you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the LORD.
22:31 Therefore you shall keep My commandments and do them: I am the LORD.
22:32 You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,
22:33 Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.”
23:1 The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying,
23:2 “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.
23:3 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
23:5 On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD’s Passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.
23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'”
23:9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
23:11 He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
23:12 And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.
23:13 Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.
23:14 You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
23:16 “Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then present a new grain offering to the LORD.
23:17 From your homes bring two loaves of bread made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the LORD.
23:18 Alongside the bread, present seven year-old lambs without defect, one young bull, and two rams as a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, pleasing to the LORD.
23:19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two year-old lambs for a fellowship offering.
23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, along with the two lambs. They are sacred to the LORD and belong to the priest.
23:21 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.
23:22 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 foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.”
23:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:24 “Communicate to the children of Israel, thus: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of rest, a remembrance with trumpet blasts, a sacred assembly.
23:25 You shall not engage in ordinary labour, and you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.
23:26 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:27 “Moreover, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a sacred assembly for you; you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD.
23:28 You shall not perform any work on this very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God.
23:29 For any person who is not humbled on this very day shall be cut off from his people.
23:30 And any person who does any work on this very day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
23:31 You shall do no kind of work. It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall observe your Sabbath.
23:33 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:34 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days to the LORD.
23:35 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly; you shall do no ordinary work.
23:36 For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a sacred assembly and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a solemn gathering; you shall do no ordinary work.
23:37 These are the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as sacred assemblies, for presenting an offering by fire to the LORD—the burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and drink offerings, each on its proper day.
23:38 These shall be in addition to the LORD’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts, all your vowed offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.
23:39 Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the festival of the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day shall be a day of rest.
23:40 And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
23:41 You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
23:42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all natives in Israel shall dwell in booths,
23:43 So that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
23:44 Thus Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed festivals of the LORD.
24:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24:2 “Command the children of Israel to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
24:3 Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
24:4 He shall arrange the lamps on the pure lampstand before the LORD continually.
24:5 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before the LORD.
24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the LORD.
24:8 Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel as an everlasting covenant.
24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD’s offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.”
24:10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp.
24:11 The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
24:12 And they put him in custody, that the will of the LORD might be revealed to them.
24:13 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24:14 “Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
24:15 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
24:16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The stranger as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
24:17 “‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.
24:18 Whoever kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.
24:19 If a man causes a disfigurement in his neighbour; as he has done, so shall it be done to him.
24:20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a disfigurement in a man, so shall it be done to him.
24:21 And he who kills a beast shall restore it; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
24:22 You shall have one law for the alien and for the native; for I am the LORD your God.”
24:23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring out of the camp him who had cursed, and stone him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
25:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
25:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.
25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its fruit.
25:4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
25:6 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
25:7 For your livestock and the wild animals that are in your land—all its increase shall be for food.
25:8 ‘You shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
25:9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
25:10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from your unpruned vine.
25:12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.
25:13 ‘In this year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
25:14 And if you sell anything to your neighbour or buy from your neighbour’s hand, you shall not oppress one another.
25:15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.
25:16 According to the greater number of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
25:17 Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
25:18 ‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.
25:19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell there in safety.
25:20 Should you ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our crops?”
25:21 I shall command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
25:22 You shall sow in the eighth year, eating from the old crop until the ninth year; until its harvest comes, you shall eat the old produce.
25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, for the land is mine; you are but aliens and my tenants.
25:24 Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25:25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his brother has sold.
25:26 If a man has no one to redeem it and he himself prospers and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
25:27 let him calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, so he can return to his property.
25:28 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 return to his property.
25:29 If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, he has a year to redeem it; within a full year he may redeem it.
25:30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city becomes the permanent property of the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
25:31 However, houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.
25:32 The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.
25:33 So if a Levite redeems his house, then in the Jubilee it must be returned, for the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.
25:34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.
25:35 If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you.
25:36 Do not take interest or any profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may continue to live among you.
25:37 You must not lend him your money at interest or sell him food at a profit.
25:38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
25:39 If your brother who lives near you becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave.
25:40 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.
25:41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he shall return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
25:42 For the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt; they must not be sold as slaves.
25:43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.
25:44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
25:45 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.
25:46 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.
25:47 If a foreigner or temporary resident among you becomes rich and your brother who lives near him becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,
25:48 he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his relatives may redeem him:
25:49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
25:50 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 for a hired worker for that number of years.
25:51 If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption a larger share of the price paid for him.
25:52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to compute that and pay for his redemption accordingly.
25:53 He is to be treated as a worker hired year by year; you must see to it that his owner does not rule over him ruthlessly.
25:54 Even if he is not redeemed in these years, he and his children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee.
25:55 For the Israelites belong to me as servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
26:1 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.
26:2 Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
26:3 If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
26:4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
26:5 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.
26:6 I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
26:7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
26:8 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.
26:9 I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
26:10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
26:11 I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
26:12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
26:13 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.
26:14 But if you do not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
26:15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
26:16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
26:17 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.
26:18 If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
26:19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
26:20 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.
26:21 If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over as your sins deserve.
26:22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
26:23 If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
26:24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
26:25 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.
26:26 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.
26:27 If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,
26:28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and daughters.
26:30 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.
26:31 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.
26:32 I shall render the land desolate, and your foes residing therein shall stand agape at its ruin.
26:33 I will scatter you amongst the nations, and unsheathe a sword in pursuit of you; your land shall lie in ruins, your cities forsaken.
26:34 The land shall then relish its sabbaths during the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; thus, the land shall rest and delight in its sabbaths.
26:35 As it lies in desolation, the land shall enjoy its rest, for it did not rest during your sabbaths when you inhabited it.
26:36 To those of you who survive, I will cast a pall of faint-heartedness in your enemies’ lands; a rustling leaf shall drive them to flight, and they shall flee as though from a sword, and tumble even when no one pursues.
26:37 They will stumble over one another as if fleeing a sword, though no one is in pursuit; you shall be powerless to withstand your enemies.
26:38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
26:39 Those of you who are left shall waste away in your iniquities in your enemies’ lands, and also in the sins of their forebears, they shall wither away with them.
26:40 Should they acknowledge their sin and the iniquity of their ancestors—their betrayal and opposition to me,
26:41 and that I too have opposed them and brought them to their enemies’ land—if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they accept the penalty for their iniquity,
26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will remember the land.
26:43 The land, abandoned by them, shall enjoy its sabbaths while lying desolate; and they shall pay for their iniquity, because they rejected my decrees and their souls detested my statutes.
26:44 Yet, even in their enemies’ land, I will not spurn them, nor will I loathe them enough to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.
26:45 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.
26:46 These are the statutes, decrees, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.
27:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
27:2 “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man makes a special vow, the persons shall belong to the LORD by your valuation.’
27:3 Your valuation of a male from twenty to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
27:4 If it is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
27:5 If the age is from five to twenty years, your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
27:6 If the age is from one month to five years, your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female, three shekels of silver.
27:7 If the age is sixty years and above, your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
27:8 If one is too poor to pay the valuation, they shall present themselves before the priest, who shall assign a value according to the individual’s ability to pay.
27:9 If it is an animal that is offered as a sacrifice to the LORD, whatever is given to the LORD shall be holy.
27:10 One shall not substitute or exchange it; a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If one does exchange an animal for another, both the original and the substitute shall be holy.
27:11 If it is any unclean animal that cannot be offered as a sacrifice to the LORD, then it shall be presented before the priest;
27:12 the priest shall set a value for it, whether good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
27:13 But if one wishes to redeem it, one shall add a fifth to your valuation.
27:14 When a man consecrates his house to be holy to the LORD, the priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
27:15 If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the money of your valuation, and it shall be his.
27:16 If a man consecrates to the LORD part of his field of possession, your valuation shall be proportional to its seed; a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
27:17 If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand at your valuation.
27:18 But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the next Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
27:19 If the one who consecrated the field wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the money of your valuation, and it shall be assured to him.
27:20 But if he does not redeem the field, or if he sells the field to someone else, it cannot be redeemed anymore.
27:21 When the field is released in the Jubilee, it shall be holy to the LORD, like a field that is devoted; it shall become the priest’s property.
27:22 If he consecrates to the LORD a field he has bought, which is not part of his ancestral property,
27:23 the priest shall calculate the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall pay the valuation on that day, a holy offering to the LORD.
27:24 In the Year of Jubilee, the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.
27:25 All your valuations shall be according to the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
27:26 Only the firstborn of animals, which are already the LORD’s as firstborn, no one may consecrate; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
27:27 If it is an unclean animal, one may redeem it at your valuation, and add a fifth to it. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at your valuation.
27:28 However, anything devoted to the LORD by a man, whether of his people, animals, or fields, shall not be sold or redeemed; anything devoted is most holy to the LORD.
27:29 No person devoted to destruction may be redeemed; they must be put to death.
27:30 All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or the fruit of the tree, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
27:31 If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add a fifth part to it.
27:32 Concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, a tenth shall be holy to the LORD.
27:33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, nor shall one substitute it; but if one does substitute it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel at Mount Sinai.

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