{N}BURNT OFFERING{/}

{1}1{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh called Moses, and from the Tent of Meeting 
addressed him, saying,
{R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the people of Israel; say to them: When anyone 
brings an offering of an animal to Yahweh it can be from either 
his cattle or sheep and goats.
{I}3_{/}If the offering is a burnt offering of one of his cattle, he 
is to offer a bull without any defect. He shall offer it at the 
entrance to the Tent of Meeting, so that his offering may be 
accepted before Yahweh. {R}_{I}4_{/}He is to lay his hand on the bull's 
head, and it shall be accepted as a sacrifice to take away his 
sins. {R}_{I}5_{/}Then he shall kill the bull before Yahweh, and the sons 
of Aaron, the priests, shall offer the blood. They will pour it 
out on the sides of the altar which stands at the entrance to the 
Tent of Meeting. {I}6_{/}Then he shall skin the victim and quarter it. 
{R}_{I}7_{/}The sons of Aaron, the priests, must put fire on the altar 
and arrange wood on this fire. {R}_{I}8_{/}Then the sons of Aaron, the 
priests, are to put the pieces, the head and the fat on the wood 
on the altar fire. {R}_{I}9_{/}The man shall wash the internal organs and 
legs in water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. 
This will be a burnt offering and its sweet-smelling odor will 
please Yahweh.
{I}10_{/}If his offering is an animal out of the flock, a lamb or a 
goat offered as a burnt offering, he is to offer a male without 
any defect. {R}_{I}11_{/}He shall kill it on the north side of the altar 
before Yahweh, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall pour out 
the blood on the sides of the altar. {R}_{I}12_{/}Then he is to quarter 
it, and the priest is to arrange the quarters, as well as the head 
and the fat on the wood on the altar fire. {R}_{I}13_{/}The man shall 
wash the internal organs and legs in water, and the priest shall 
burn all of it on the altar. This will be a burnt offering and its 
sweet-smelling odor will please Yahweh.
{R}_{I}14_{/}If the man is offering a bird as a burnt offering, he is to 
offer a turtledove or a young pigeon. {R}_{I}15_{/}The priest shall offer 
it at the altar and wring off its head, which he is to burn on the 
altar; then its blood is to be drained out on the side of the 
altar. {R}_{I}16_{/}Then he shall remove the crop and the feathers: these 
he is to throw on the eastern side of the altar, where the ashes 
from the fat are placed. [=]_{R}_{I}17_{/}He is to divide it in two 
halves with a wing on each side, but without separating the two 
parts. Then the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood 
that is on the fire. This will be a burnt offering and its sweet-
smelling odor will please Yahweh.

{N}THE GRAIN OFFERING{/}

{1}2{/}

[=]_{I}1_{/}If anyone offers Yahweh a grain offering, his offering is 
to be fine flour on which he is to pour wine and put incense. 
{R}_{I}2_{/}He shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests; he is to 
take a handful of the fine flour and oil and all the incense, and 
the priest shall burn it on the altar as a memorial, a burnt 
offering whose sweet-smelling odor will please Yahweh. {I}3_{/}The 
remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; 
this is a most holy share for it comes from the burnt offerings of 
Yahweh.
{I}4_{/}When you are going to offer a grain offering of bread baked in 
the oven, the fine flour is to be prepared either in the form of 
unleavened cakes mixed with oil, or in the form of unleavened 
wafers spread with oil.
{I}5_{/}If your offering is a grain offering fried on the griddle, the 
fine flour mixed with oil is to have no leavening. {I}6_{/}You must 
break it in pieces and pour oil over it. It is a grain offering. 
{I}7_{/}If your offering is a grain offering cooked in the pan, the 
fine flour is to be prepared in oil. {R}_{I}8_{/}You must bring to Yahweh 
the grain offering that has been thus prepared, presenting it to 
the priest, who is to bring it to the altar. {R}_{I}9_{/}The priest shall 
take part of this offering and burn it on the altar to recall 
before Yahweh the person who is offering it. And it will be an 
offering whose sweet-smelling odor will please Yahweh. {I}10_{/}The 
remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; 
this is a most holy share of Yahweh's burnt offering. 
[=]_{I}11_{/}None of the grain offering that you offer to Yahweh is to 
be prepared with yeast for you must never burn yeast or honey as a 
burnt offering for Yahweh. {I}12_{/}You may offer them up to Yahweh, 
as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up as a sweet-
smelling odor to please Yahweh. [=]_{R}_{I}13_{/}You must salt every 
grain offering that you offer, and you must never fail to put on 
your grain offering the salt of the Covenant with your God: to 
every offering you are to join an offering of salt to Yahweh your 
God. [=]_{I}14_{/}If you offer Yahweh a grain offering of firstfruits, 
it may be from either roasted corn or bread made from ground corn. 
{I}15_{/}You are to add oil to it and put incense on it; it is a grain 
offering {I}16_{/}and the priest is to burn part of the bread and oil 
(together with all the incense) as a burnt offering for Yahweh. 

{N}THE PEACE OFFERING{/}

{1}3{/}

[=]_{R}_{I}1_{/}If anyone offers a peace sacrifice, offering from his 
cattle, male or female, whatever he offers before Yahweh must be 
without any defect. {R}_{I}2_{/}He is to lay his hand on the victim's 
head and kill it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then the 
sons of Aaron, the priests, shall pour out the blood on the sides 
of the altar. {I}3_{/}Then he is to offer the following as a burnt 
offering for Yahweh: the fat that covers the internal organs, all 
the fat that is on the internal organs, {I}4_{/}the two kidneys, the 
fat on them and on the loins, the best part which he is to remove 
from the liver and kidneys. {R}_{I}5_{/}The sons of Aaron shall burn all 
this on the altar along with the burnt offering, on the wood on 
the fire. It will be a burnt offering and its sweet-smelling odor 
will please Yahweh.
{I}6_{/}If he offers a sheep or goat as a peace offering for Yahweh, 
he is to offer a male or female without any defect. {I}7_{/}If he 
offers a sheep, he is to offer it before Yahweh; {R}_{I}8_{/}he is to lay 
his hand on the sheep's head and kill it in front of the Tent of 
Meeting; then the sons of Aaron shall pour out its blood on the 
sides of the altar. {I}9_{/}Of the peace offering he is to offer the 
following as a burnt offering for Yahweh: the fat, all the tail 
taken off near the backbone, the fat that covers the internal 
organs, all the fat that is on the internal organs, {I}10_{/}the two 
kidneys, the fat that is on them and on the loins, the best part 
which he will remove from the liver and kidneys. {R}_{I}11_{/}The priest 
shall burn this part on the altar as food, as a burnt offering for 
Yahweh.
{I}12_{/}If his offering is a goat, he is to offer it before Yahweh: 
{R}_{I}13_{/}he is to lay his hand on the goat's head and kill it in 
front of the Tent of Meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall pour out 
its blood on the sides of the altar. {I}14_{/}Then he is to offer the 
following as a burnt offering for Yahweh: the fat that covers the 
internal organs, all the fat that is on the internal organs, 
{I}15_{/}the two kidneys, the fat that is on them and on the loins, 
the best part which he will remove from the liver and kidneys. 
{R}_{I}16_{/}The priest shall burn these pieces on the altar as food, as 
a burnt offering for Yahweh.
[=]_{R}_{I}17_{/}All the fat belongs to Yahweh. This is a law forever for 
all your descendants, wherever they may live: never eat either fat 
or blood."

{N}OFFERING FOR AN UNINTENTIONAL SIN{/}

{1}4{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the people 
of Israel and say: Anyone may sin without intending to do so 
against any of the commandments of Yahweh and do one of the 
forbidden things; in such a case:
{R}_{I}3_{/}If the one who sins is the anointed priest, his sin defiles 
the people. Then, for the sin which he has committed, he is to 
offer to Yahweh a young bull, an animal from the herd without any 
defect, as a sacrifice for sin. {I}4_{/}He is to bring the bull before 
Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and lay his hand on 
its head and kill it before Yahweh. {I}5_{/}Then the anointed priest 
shall take a little of the blood of the bull and take it into the 
Tent of Meeting. [=]_{I}6_{/}He shall dip his finger in the blood and 
sprinkle it over the veil of the sanctuary seven times, before 
Yahweh. [=]_{R}_{I}7_{/}Then the priest shall put a little of the blood 
of the bull on the corners of the altar of incense that sends up 
smoke before Yahweh in the Tent of Meeting and he is to pour all 
the rest of the bull's blood at the foot of the altar for burnt 
offerings that is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
{R}_{I}8_{/}From this bull offered as a sacrifice for sin, the priest 
will remove all the fat: the fat that covers the internal organs, 
all the fat that is on the internal organs, {I}9_{/}the two kidneys, 
the fat that is on them and on the loins, the best part which he 
will remove from the liver and kidneys, [=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}exactly as was 
done with what was set apart in the peace offering, and the priest 
shall burn these on the altar for burnt offerings.
{I}11_{/}The bull's skin, all its flesh, its head, legs, internal 
organs and intestines, {I}12_{/}the whole of the bull, must be carried 
outside the camp to a place that is clean, the place where the 
ashes from the fat are thrown away, and the bull must be burnt 
there.
{R}_{I}13_{/}If the whole community of Israel has sinned without 
intending to do so, and, without being aware of it, has done 
something that is forbidden by the commandments of Yahweh, 
{R}_{I}14_{/}the community is to offer a young bull as sacrifice for sin, 
an animal of the herd without any defect, as soon as the sin of 
which they have been guilty is discovered. The animal must be 
brought before the Tent of Meeting; {I}15_{/}the elders of the 
community shall lay their hands on the bull's head before Yahweh, 
and it must be killed before Yahweh.
{I}16_{/}Then the anointed priest is to carry a little of the blood of 
the bull into the Tent of Meeting. {I}17_{/}He is to dip his finger in 
the blood and sprinkle it on the veil before Yahweh seven times. 
{R}_{I}18_{/}Then he shall put a little of the blood on the corners of 
the altar that stands before Yahweh inside the Tent of Meeting, 
and pour out all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar 
for burnt offerings at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
{R}_{I}19_{/}Then the priest shall remove all the fat from the animal and 
burn it on the altar. {R}_{I}20_{/}He shall do the same thing with this 
bull as he did with the bull for the sacrifice of sin. When the 
priest has performed the sacrifice for the people's sin, they will 
be forgiven. {R}_{I}21_{/}The priest must have the bull taken out of the 
camp and burn it as he burned the first one. This is the sacrifice 
for the sin of the community.
{R}_{I}22_{/}When a leader sins and without intending to do so does one 
of the things forbidden by the commandments of Yahweh his God, 
thus becoming guilty, {I}23_{/}and after that he recalls it, or anyone 
calls his attention to the sin thus committed, he is to bring a 
goat as an offering, a male without any defect. {R}_{I}24_{/}He is to lay 
his hand on the goat's head and kill it in the place where the 
animals for the burnt offerings are killed. This is a sacrifice 
for sin: {R}_{I}25_{/}the priest shall take a little of the goat's blood 
on his finger and put it on the corners of the altar for burnt 
offerings. Then he shall pour out its blood at the foot of the 
altar for burnt offering {R}_{I}26_{/}and burn all the fat on the altar, 
as with the fat in the peace offering. This is how the priest is 
to offer the sacrifice for the sin of this leader to free him from 
his sin, and he will be forgiven.
[=]_{I}27_{/}If one of the people sins without intending to do so and 
makes himself guilty by doing something forbidden by the 
commandments of Yahweh, {I}28_{/}and after that he recalls it or 
anyone calls his attention to the sin he has committed, he is to 
bring a goat as an offering, a female without any defect. {I}29_{/}He 
is to lay his hand on the goat's head and kill it in the place 
where the animals for the burnt offerings are killed. {R}_{I}30_{/}The 
priest shall take a little of the goat's blood on his finger and 
put it on the corners of the altar for burnt offerings. Then he 
shall pour out all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar. 
{R}_{I}31_{/}He shall remove all the fat, as the fat was removed for the 
peace offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as a 
sweet-smelling sacrifice pleasing to Yahweh. This is how the 
priest is to offer the sacrifice for the man's sin, and he will be 
forgiven.
{R}_{I}32_{/}If anyone wishes to bring a lamb as an offering for this 
kind of sacrifice, he is to bring a female without any defect. 
{R}_{I}33_{/}He is to lay his hand on the lamb's head and kill it as a 
sacrifice for sin in the place where the animals for the burnt 
offerings are killed. {R}_{I}34_{/}The priest shall take a little of the 
blood of this sacrifice on his finger and put it on the corners of 
the altar for burnt offerings. Then he shall pour out all the rest 
of the blood at the foot of the altar. {R}_{I}35_{/}He shall remove its 
fat as was done for the sheep in the peace offering, and the 
priest shall burn it all on the altar, in addition to the burnt 
offering for Yahweh. This is how the priest is to offer the 
sacrifice for the man's sin, and he will be forgiven. 

{N}SOME CASES REQUIRING SACRIFICE FOR SIN{/}

{1}5{/}

[=]_{R}_{I}1_{/}Sacrifice for sin is required in the following cases:
A man should have come forward to give evidence in court when 
officially summoned; but he did not speak and give information 
about something he had seen or heard; and so he is guilty.
[=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}Or else he accidentally touches something unclean, 
whatever it may be - the dead body of an unclean animal, wild or 
tame; or the dead body of one of the unclean beings that swarm - 
and so without realizing it, he becomes unclean, and guilty.
{I}3_{/}Or else he accidentally touches some human uncleanness, 
whatever it may be, and contact with it makes him unclean; so he 
becomes guilty as soon as he realizes what he has done.
{R}_{I}4_{/}Or else a man makes a careless vow to do either evil or good 
in any of those matters on which a man may swear unthinkingly; he 
does not notice it, then, but when he realizes it later, he 
becomes guilty.
{I}5_{/}He who is guilty in any of these cases, shall confess the sin 
committed, {R}_{I}6_{/}and bring to Yahweh as a sacrifice for the sin 
committed a female of the flock (sheep or goat); and the priest 
shall offer the sacrifice for the man's sin to free him from his 
sin.
{R}_{I}7_{/}If a man cannot afford a sheep or a goat, he shall offer to 
Yahweh, as payment for the sin he has committed, two turtledoves 
or two young pigeons, one for a sacrifice for sin and the other 
for a burnt offering. {R}_{I}8_{/}He will bring them to the priest who is 
to offer first the one intended for the sacrifice for sin. The 
priest shall wring its neck, without removing the head. {R}_{I}9_{/}He 
shall sprinkle the side of the altar with the victim's blood, and 
then drain out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar. 
This is a sacrifice for sin. {R}_{I}10_{/}Of the other bird he is to make 
a burnt offering according to the regulations. When the priest 
offers the sacrifice for the man's sin, he will be forgiven.
{R}_{I}11_{/}If this man cannot afford two turtledoves or two young 
pigeons, he is to bring two pounds of flour as an offering for the 
sin committed; but he shall not mix oil with it or put incense on 
it, for it is a sacrifice for sin. {R}_{I}12_{/}He is to bring it to the 
priest, who is to take a handful of it to be put on the burnt 
offering for Yahweh in order to recall this man to Yahweh. This is 
a sacrifice for sin. {R}_{I}13_{/}This is how the priest is to offer the 
sacrifice for the sin the man committed in any of these cases, and 
he will be forgiven. In this case, as in the case of a grain 
offering, the rest of the flour belongs to the priest."
{I}14_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
{R}_{I}15_{/}"If anyone is guilty of unintentionally cheating by failing 
to hand over the payments that are sacred to Yahweh, he is to 
bring to Yahweh as a sacrifice of payment a ram with no defects. 
This ram is to be valued according to the official standard. This 
is a sacrifice of repayment. {R}_{I}16_{/}He must make the payments he 
has failed to hand over, pay an extra fifth as well, and give it 
to the priest. The priest shall offer the ram as a sacrifice for 
the man's sin and he will be forgiven.
{I}17_{/}If anyone sins and does one of the things forbidden by the 
commandments of Yahweh without realizing it, he is guilty and must 
pay the penalty for his fault. {R}_{I}18_{/}As a sacrifice of repayment 
he is to bring to the priest a ram without any defect. Its value 
will be according to the official standard. The priest shall offer 
the sacrifice for the sin he has committed without realizing it 
and he will be forgiven. {R}_{I}19_{/}This is a sacrifice of repayment 
for the man was guilty in the eyes of Yahweh."

{N}SACRIFICES FOR EVILDOING{/}

{I}20_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
{R}_{I}21_{/}"This refers to the man who sins against Yahweh by not 
returning to his neighbor a deposit or a security, or withholding 
something due to him or cheating him; {R}_{I}22_{/}and also to the one 
who finds lost property and swears he has not found it; and also 
to the man who swears falsely in one of the cases in which people 
usually swear. {R}_{I}23_{/}In all these cases the man who sins and 
becomes guilty is to give back what he has taken or demanded that 
does not belong to him: the deposit entrusted to him, the lost 
property that he found, {I}24_{/}or any object about which he has 
sworn untruthfully. He must repay the owner in full and give an 
extra fifth as well on the day when he is found guilty. {R}_{I}25_{/}Then 
he is to bring a ram without any defect to Yahweh as a sacrifice 
of repayment. {R}_{I}26_{/}The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the 
man's sin and he will be forgiven, whatever the act of which he 
became guilty."

{N}PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE{/}

{1}6{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {R}_{I}2_{/}"Give these 
regulations to Aaron and his sons. This is the regulation for 
burnt offerings: the burnt offering shall stay on the altar all 
night until morning and the fire is to be kept burning.
{R}_{I}3_{/}The priest is to put on his linen shirt and his linen 
drawers. Then he must remove the greasy ashes of the sacrifice 
consumed by the altar fire and place them at the side of the 
altar. {I}4_{/}Then he is to change his clothes and carry the ashes to 
some place that is clean, outside the camp.
[=]_{R}_{I}5_{/}The fire that consumes the burnt offering on the altar 
must not be allowed to go out. Every morning the priest must put 
firewood on it, arrange the burnt offering on it and burn the fat 
from the peace offerings. {R}_{I}6_{/}An undying fire is always to burn 
on the altar; it must not go out.
{R}_{I}7_{/}This is the regulation for the grain offering: One of the 
priests, a son of Aaron, is to bring it into the presence of 
Yahweh in front of the altar; {R}_{I}8_{/}he is to take a handful of the 
fine flour (with the oil and incense which have been added to it) 
and burn it on the altar as a memorial, to recall to Yahweh the 
person making the offering so that it becomes a sweet-smelling 
odor pleasing to Yahweh. {I}9_{/}After that, the remainder is to be 
given to Aaron and his sons; they shall eat it in the form of 
unleavened loaves. They are to eat it in a sacred place within the 
courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. {R}_{I}10_{/}The share I give them of 
my burnt offering must not be baked with yeast. It is most holy, 
like the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice of repayment. 
{R}_{I}11_{/}All the males of Aaron's family may eat this part of 
Yahweh's burnt offering - this is a law forever for all your 
descendants. Everything that touches the offering becomes 
consecrated as well." 
{I}12_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
{R}_{I}13_{/}"This is the offering that Aaron and his sons are to make to 
Yahweh on the day of their anointing as priests: two pounds of 
flour as a daily offering, half in the morning and half in the 
evening. {I}14_{/}It must be fried on the griddle and mixed with oil; 
you must bring the paste as a grain offering in several pieces, 
offering them as a sweet-smelling odor pleasing to Yahweh. 
{R}_{I}15_{/}Every descendant of Aaron who succeeds him as high priest 
shall do the same. This is a law forever. This grain offering 
shall be completely burned as a sacrifice for Yahweh. {R}_{I}16_{/}Every 
grain offering made by a priest must be a total sacrifice; none of 
it is to be eaten."
{I}17_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said, {R}_{I}18_{/}"Say to Aaron and his 
sons: This is the regulation for the sacrifice for sin:
The victim for the sacrifice is to be killed before Yahweh in the 
place where the animals for the burnt offerings are killed. It is 
a most holy offering. {R}_{I}19_{/}The priest who offers this sacrifice 
is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place within the 
courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. [=]_{I}20_{/}Everything that touches 
the flesh of this animal will become consecrated; if any of the 
blood splashes on clothing, the stain must be cleaned in some holy 
place. {R}_{I}21_{/}The clay pot in which the meat is cooked must be 
broken; if a bronze pot has been used for the cooking, it must be 
scrubbed and thoroughly rinsed with water. {I}22_{/}Any male who is a 
priest may eat the meat. It is a most holy thing. {R}_{I}23_{/}But no one 
may eat any part of the animals offered for sin, whenever any of 
the blood is brought into the Tent and used in the sacrifice to 
take away sin. The meat must be thrown on the fire.

{N}THE SACRIFICE OF REPAYMENT{/}

{1}7{/}

{R}_{I}1_{/}This is the regulation for the sacrifice of repayment:
{R}_{I}2_{/}It is a most holy offering. The animal for this offering is 
to be killed in the place where the animals for the burnt 
offerings are killed, and the priest must pour out the blood on 
the sides of the altar. {I}3_{/}Then he is to offer all the fat: the 
tail, the fat that covers the internal organs, {I}4_{/}the two 
kidneys, the fat that is on them and on the loins, and the best 
part which he will remove from the liver and kidneys. {R}_{I}5_{/}The 
priest must burn these pieces on the altar as a burnt offering for 
Yahweh. This is a sacrifice of repayment. {I}6_{/}Any male who is a 
priest may eat it, but it must be eaten in a holy place because it 
is a most holy thing.
{R}_{I}7_{/}As with the sacrifice for sin, so with the sacrifice of 
repayment; the regulation is the same for both. The offering which 
he has used in the sacrifice for sin belongs to the priest. 
{R}_{I}8_{/}The skin of the animal presented by a man to the priest to be 
offered as a burnt offering belongs to the priest. {I}9_{/}Every grain 
offering baked in the oven, every grain offering fried in the pan 
or on the griddle shall belong to the priest who offered it. 
{I}10_{/}Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, is to belong to 
all the sons of Aaron equally.

{N}THE PEACE OFFERING{/}

{I}11_{/}This is the regulation for the peace offering presented to 
Yahweh:
[=]_{I}12_{/}If it is offered as a thanksgiving offering, there must 
be added to it an offering of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, 
unleavened wafers spread with oil, and fine flour in the form of 
cakes mixed with oil. {I}13_{/}This offering, then, must be added to 
the loaves of leavened bread and to the thanksgiving offering. 
{I}14_{/}One of the cakes of this offering is to be presented as an 
offering to Yahweh; it shall belong to the priest who pours out 
the blood of the peace offering. {I}15_{/}The flesh of the animal must 
be eaten on the day when the offering is made; nothing must remain 
until the next morning.
[=]_{R}_{I}16_{/}If the animal is presented before Yahweh as a sacrifice 
freely offered, it is to be eaten on the day it is offered and 
also on the following day; {I}17_{/}but on the third day whatever 
remains of the animal's flesh must be thrown on the fire. {R}_{I}18_{/}If 
the meat offered as a peace offering is eaten on the third day, 
the man who has offered it shall not be accepted nor receive 
credit for it, for it is defiled meat, and the man who eats it 
should suffer the penalty of his fault.
{I}19_{/}If this meat has touched anything unclean, it cannot be 
eaten; and must be thrown on the fire.
{I}20_{/}Anyone who is clean may eat meat of the peace offering, but 
whoever eats the meat of a peace offering presented to Yahweh even 
though he is unclean shall be cut off from his people. {I}21_{/}If 
anyone touches anything unclean, whether human or animal, or any 
crawling creature, and then eats the meat of a peace offering 
presented to Yahweh, this man shall be cut off from his people.
{I}22_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said, {R}_{I}23_{/}"Speak to the people of 
Israel and say to them:
You must not eat the fat of ox, sheep or goat. [=]_{R}_{I}24_{/}The fat 
of an animal that has died a natural death or been killed by a 
wild animal may be used for any other purpose, but you must not 
eat it. {I}25_{/}Anyone who eats the fat of an animal offered as a 
burnt offering to Yahweh shall be cut off from his people.
[=]_{I}26_{/}Wherever you live, you must not eat blood, whether it be 
of bird or animal. {I}27_{/}Anyone who eats blood, whoever he may be, 
shall be cut off from his people."

{N}THE PRIESTS' SHARE{/}

{I}28_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said, {R}_{I}29_{/}"Speak to the people of 
Israel and say to them:
Anyone who offers a peace offering to Yahweh is to bring himself 
the part of his sacrifice that is offered to Yahweh. {I}30_{/}He is to 
bring Yahweh's burnt offering, that is, the fat that is near the 
breast and also the breast, with his own hands. Then he will make 
the gesture of offering before Yahweh. {R}_{I}31_{/}The priest shall burn 
the fat on the altar, and the breast shall belong to Aaron and his 
sons. {I}32_{/}You must set aside and give to the priest the right 
hind leg from your peace offering. {I}33_{/}The right hind leg shall 
be the share of the son of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of 
the peace offering. [=]_{R}_{I}34_{/}Thus, I keep back this breast and 
hind leg out of every peace offering presented by the sons of 
Israel, and give these to Aaron the priest and to his sons: this 
is a law for the sons of Israel forever."
{R}_{I}35_{/}This is the share of Aaron and his sons in Yahweh's burnt 
offerings since the day he called them to be his priests. 
{R}_{I}36_{/}This is what Yahweh commands the sons of Israel to give them 
from the day they are ordained as priests: this is a law for all 
their descendants for all time to come.
{I}37_{/}Such is the regulation for burnt offerings, grain offerings, 
sacrifices for sin, sacrifices of repayment, ordination and peace 
offerings. {R}_{I}38_{/}This is what Yahweh commanded Moses on Mount 
Sinai when he told the people of Israel to make their offerings to 
Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai.

{N}ORDINATION CEREMONIES{/}

{1}8{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {R}_{I}2_{/}"Take Aaron, his sons 
with him, and the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for the 
sacrifice for sin, the two rams and the basket of unleavened 
bread. [=]_{I}3_{/}Then call the whole community together at the 
entrance to the Tent of Meeting."
{I}4_{/}Moses did as Yahweh commanded; the community gathered at the 
entrance to the Tent of Meeting, {I}5_{/}and Moses said to them, "This 
is what Yahweh has commanded."
{R}_{I}6_{/}He made Aaron and his sons come forward, and washed them with 
water. {I}7_{/}He put the shirt on Aaron, passed the sash around his 
waist, dressed him in the robe and put the Ephod on him. Then he 
tied around his waist the woven band of the Ephod with which he 
clothed him. {I}8_{/}He put the embroidered linen Breastpiece on him, 
and placed the Urim and Thummim in it. {R}_{I}9_{/}He put the turban on 
his head, with the golden ornament on the front; this is the 
sacred sign of dedication as Yahweh commanded Moses to do.
[*]_{I}10_{/}Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Holy 
Tent and everything in it, to consecrate them. {R}_{I}11_{/}He sprinkled 
the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and its furnishings, 
the basin and its stand, to dedicate them all to Yahweh. {I}12_{/}Then 
he ordained Aaron by pouring the anointing oil on his head.
{I}13_{/}Then Moses made Aaron's sons come forward; he put the shirts 
on them, tied the sashes around their waists and put on their 
headdresses, as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
{R}_{I}14_{/}Then he had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought 
forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the bull's head 
{R}_{I}15_{/}and Moses slaughtered it. Then he took the blood and with 
his finger put some of it on the corners around the altar, to take 
away its sin. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the foot 
of the altar, which he dedicated to Yahweh by performing the 
atonement over it. {R}_{I}16_{/}Then he took all the fat that covers the 
internal organs, the best part of the liver, the two kidneys and 
their fat; and he burned them all on the altar. {I}17_{/}After that he 
burned outside the camp the bull's skin, its flesh and its 
intestines as Yahweh had commanded him to do.
{I}18_{/}Then he had the ram for the burnt offering brought forward. 
Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head {R}_{I}19_{/}and Moses 
slaughtered it. He poured its blood out on the sides of the altar. 
{I}20_{/}Then he quartered the ram and burned the head, the pieces and 
the fat. {R}_{I}21_{/}He washed the internal organs and legs, and burned 
the whole ram on the altar. This was a burnt offering, a sweet-
smelling offering to Yahweh, a burnt offering by fire for Yahweh, 
as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
{R}_{I}22_{/}Then he had the other ram brought forward, for the sacrifice 
of ordination of priests. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on 
the ram's head {I}23_{/}and Moses slaughtered it. He took some of its 
blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, the thumb of 
his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot. {R}_{I}24_{/}Then he 
made the sons of Aaron come forward and he put some of the blood 
on the lobes of their right ears, the thumbs of their right hands 
and the big toes of their right feet. Next Moses poured the rest 
of the blood on the sides of the altar. {I}25_{/}Then he took the fat: 
the tail, all the fat that is on the internal organs, the best 
part of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right 
hind leg. {I}26_{/}From the basket of unleavened bread placed before 
Yahweh, he took an unleavened cake, a loaf of bread made with oil, 
and a wafer; he placed these on the fat and the right hind leg, 
{I}27_{/}put it all into Aaron's hands and those of his sons, who 
waved them before Yahweh. {R}_{I}28_{/}Then Moses took them back and 
burned them on the altar in addition to the burnt offering. This 
was the sacrifice for ordination of priests, a sweet-smelling 
offering to Yahweh, an offering by fire to Yahweh. {I}29_{/}Then Moses 
took the breast and made the gesture of offering before Yahweh. 
This was the share of the ram of ordination for Moses, as Yahweh 
had commanded.
{R}_{I}30_{/}Then Moses took the anointing oil and the blood that was on 
the altar and sprinkled Aaron and his vestments with it, and his 
sons and their vestments. In this way he consecrated Aaron and his 
vestments, and his sons and their vestments to Yahweh.
{R}_{I}31_{/}Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Cook the meat at the 
entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there, and also the 
bread for the sacrifice of priestly ordination that is in the 
basket, as I commanded, when I said: Aaron and his sons are to eat 
it. {I}32_{/}What remains of the meat and bread you will burn. 
{I}33_{/}For seven days you must not leave the entrance to the Tent of 
Meeting, until the time of your ordination is over, for your hands 
will be consecrated for seven days. {I}34_{/}All that we have done 
today is the rite of atonement for you as Yahweh has commanded us 
to do {I}35_{/}and for seven days, day and night, you must remain at 
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, doing what Yahweh has 
commanded, lest you die. For this is the commandment I received." 
{I}36_{/}And Aaron and his sons did everything that Yahweh had 
commanded through Moses.

{N}THE PRIESTS OFFER SACRIFICES{/}

{1}9{/}

{R}_{I}1_{/}On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the 
elders of Israel. {R}_{I}2_{/}He said to Aaron, "Take a calf to offer a 
sacrifice for sin, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without 
any defect, and bring them before Yahweh. {R}_{I}3_{/}Then say to the 
people of Israel, 'Take a goat to be offered as a sacrifice for 
sin, and as burnt offering a calf and a lamb both one year old and 
without any defect, {I}4_{/}and for peace offering an ox and a ram to 
be slaughtered before Yahweh; and finally a grain offering mixed 
with oil. For Yahweh will appear to you today."
{I}5_{/}They brought what Moses had commanded in front of the Tent of 
Meeting; then the whole community gathered and stood before 
Yahweh. {I}6_{/}Moses said, "This is what Yahweh has commanded to be 
done, so that his glory may appear to you." [=]_{R}_{I}7_{/}Moses then 
said to Aaron, "Go to the altar and offer your sacrifice for sin 
and your burnt offering to take away your sins. Then present the 
people's offering to take away their sins as Yahweh has 
commanded."
{R}_{I}8_{/}Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a 
sacrifice for his own sin. {R}_{I}9_{/}Then the sons of Aaron presented 
the blood to him; he dipped his finger in it and put some on the 
corners of the altar, and then poured out the rest of the blood at 
the foot of the altar. {R}_{I}10_{/}The fat of the sacrifice for sin and 
the kidneys and the best part of the liver, he burned on the 
altar, as Yahweh had commanded Moses; {I}11_{/}the flesh and the skin 
he burned outside the camp.
{R}_{I}12_{/}Next Aaron slaughtered the animal which was for his own 
burnt offering; his sons handed him the blood and he poured it on 
the sides of the altar. {R}_{I}13_{/}Then they handed him the quartered 
animal and its head too, and he burned these on the altar. 
{R}_{I}14_{/}He washed the internal organs and legs and burned them on 
the altar in addition to the burnt offering.
{R}_{I}15_{/}He then presented the people's offering. He took the goat 
for the people's sacrifice for sin, killed it and offered it as a 
sacrifice for sin in the same way as the first. {I}16_{/}Then he had 
the animal for the burnt offering brought forward and offered it 
according to the regulations. {R}_{I}17_{/}Next he had the grain offering 
brought forward, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar 
in addition to the morning burnt offering.
{R}_{I}18_{/}Finally, he slaughtered the ox and the ram as a peace 
offering for the people. Aaron's sons handed him the blood and he 
poured it out on the sides of the altar. {I}19_{/}The fat of the ox 
and of the ram - the tail, the fatty covering, the kidneys, the 
best part of the liver - {R}_{I}20_{/}all of this he laid on the breasts 
and burned it all on the altar. {I}21_{/}With the breasts and the 
right hind leg Aaron made the gesture of offering by waving them 
as Yahweh had commanded.
[=]_{R}_{I}22_{/}Then Aaron raised his hands toward the people and 
blessed them. Having thus performed the sacrifice for sin, the 
burnt offering and the peace offering, [=]_{I}23_{/}he came down and 
entered the Tent of Meeting with Moses. Then they came out 
together to bless the people and the Glory of Yahweh appeared to 
the whole people - {R}_{I}24_{/}a flame leaped forth from before Yahweh 
and consumed the burnt offering and the fat that was on the altar. 
At this sight the people shouted for joy and fell on their faces.

{N}THE STORY OF NADAB AND ABIHU{/}

{1}10{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, each took his censer, put 
fire in it and incense on the fire, and presented unlawful fire 
before Yahweh, fire which he had not commanded them to present. 
[=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}Then from Yahweh's presence a flame leaped out and burned 
them to death in the presence of Yahweh. [*]_{I}3_{/}And Moses said to 
Aaron, "That is what Yahweh meant when he said:
'I will show my holiness through those who approach me, and before 
all the people I will show my glory."
And Aaron had to remain silent.
{I}4_{/}Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle 
Uzziel, and said to them, "Come and take the corpses of your 
brothers far away from the sanctuary, out of the camp." {I}5_{/}They 
came and carried them away, still in their shirts, out of the camp 
as Moses had commanded.
[=]_{R}_{I}6_{/}Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do 
not leave your hair uncombed nor tear your clothes to show that 
you are mourning; lest you die and the punishment extend to the 
whole community. All the people of Israel shall mourn the death of 
your brothers, who died because of Yahweh's fire. {I}7_{/}But you 
shall not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; 
for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." And they obeyed Moses.
{I}8_{/}Yahweh spoke to Aaron; he said:
[=]_{R}_{I}9_{/}"Before coming to the Tent of Meeting, you and your sons 
with you, do not drink wine or strong drink; lest you die. This is 
a law for all your descendants for all time to come, [=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}so 
that you may be able to recognize the difference between what 
belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is clean 
and what is unclean. {R}_{I}11_{/}For you must teach the people of Israel 
all the laws that Yahweh has given for them through Moses."
{R}_{I}12_{/}Moses said to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and 
Ithamar, "Take the grain offering that is left over from Yahweh's 
burnt offering, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, 
because it is a most holy thing. {I}13_{/}Eat it in a holy place for 
it is the share of Yahweh's burnt offering which belongs to you 
and your sons. This is what Yahweh commanded me.
{R}_{I}14_{/}The breast that was offered up and the hind leg that was set 
aside you will eat in some place that is clean, you and your sons 
and your daughters with you; this is the share of the peace 
offerings of the people of Israel that belongs to you and your 
sons. {I}15_{/}The hind leg that was set aside and the breast that was 
offered up, when the fat was burned, belong to you, to you and 
your sons with you, after they have been presented before Yahweh 
by the gesture of offering, because Yahweh has commanded this 
forever."
{R}_{I}16_{/}Then Moses inquired about the goat offered as a sacrifice 
for sin, and found that they had burned it. He was angry with 
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's two remaining sons. {I}17_{/}"Why," he 
asked, "did you not eat this goat in the holy place? For it is a 
most holy thing given to you to bear and take away the fault of 
the community. {I}18_{/}Since its blood was not taken inside the 
sanctuary, you should have eaten its flesh there, as I commanded 
you." {R}_{I}19_{/}Aaron said to Moses, "They have offered their 
sacrifice for sin and their burnt offering before Yahweh on this 
day of mourning. If I had eaten the goat offered in sacrifice for 
sin today, would that have seemed good to Yahweh?" {I}20_{/}And when 
Moses heard this, he was satisfied.

{N}CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS{/}

{1}11{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said to them, 
{R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the people of Israel and say:
'Of all the animals on the earth these are the animals you may 
eat. {I}3_{/}You may eat any animal that has divided hoofs, divided 
into two parts, and that also chews the cud. {I}4_{/}You may not eat: 
the camel, because though it chews the cud, it does not have 
divided hoofs; {I}5_{/}the rabbit, because though it chews the cud, it 
does not have divided hoofs; {I}6__{/}the hare, as well; {I}7_{/}the pig, 
because though it has divided hoofs, it does not chew the cud. 
{R}_{I}8_{/}You must not eat the meat of such animals nor their dead 
bodies; they are unclean for you.
{R}_{I}9_{/}Of all that lives in water you may eat anything that has fins 
and scales, and lives in sea or river. [=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}But anything 
living in sea or river that does not have both fins and scales 
must not be eaten. {R}_{I}11_{/}They are unclean for you; you shall not 
eat their flesh nor even touch their dead bodies. {R}_{I}12_{/}Anything 
that lives in water, but does not have fins and scales, is unclean 
for you.
{I}13_{/}Among the birds, here are those you must consider unclean and 
not eat:
{I}14_{/}the vulture, the eagle, the osprey, the hawk, the several 
kinds of buzzards, {I}15_{/}all kinds of ravens, {I}16_{/}the ostrich, the 
screech owl, the seagull, {I}17_{/}the horned owl, the night owl, the 
seabird, the barn owl, {I}18_{/}the ibis, the pelican, the white 
vulture, {I}19_{/}the stork, the several kinds of heron, and the bat.
{I}20_{/}All winged insects that move on four feet shall be unclean 
for you. {I}21_{/}Of all the winged insects you may eat only the 
following: those that have legs above their feet so that they can 
leap over the ground. {I}22_{/}These are the ones you may eat: the 
several kinds of locusts, crickets and grasshoppers. {I}23_{/}But all 
other winged insects that have four legs you are to consider 
unclean. {I}24_{/}Anyone who touches {R}_{I}25_{/}or picks up the dead bodies 
of one of these animals will be unclean until evening. {I}26_{/}The 
same with animals that have hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided 
and they chew the cud; {I}27_{/}and also four-footed animals which 
walk on the flat of their feet. {R}_{I}28_{/}Anyone who picks up their 
dead bodies must wash his clothing and will be unclean until 
evening.
{I}29_{/}These are the small animals crawling on the ground that shall 
be unclean for you: rats, mice and several kinds of lizards: 
{I}30_{/}the gecko, the chameleon, the agama, the skink and the mole. 
{R}_{I}31_{/}Anyone who touches them when they are dead will be unclean 
until evening.
{R}_{I}32_{/}Anything on which the dead body of any of these creatures 
falls becomes unclean: wooden utensil, clothing, skin, sackcloth - 
any utensil at all. It must be dipped in water and will remain 
unclean until evening: then it will be clean. {I}33_{/}If the creature 
falls into a clay pot, the pot must be broken; whatever the pot 
contains is unclean. {R}_{I}34_{/}Any food on which water from such a pot 
has poured will be unclean. {R}_{I}35_{/}Anything on which the dead body 
of such a creature may fall will be unclean: if it is a clay stove 
or oven, this must be broken; for they are unclean and you must 
treat them as unclean. {R}_{I}36_{/}A spring or cistern for collecting 
water remains clean; but whoever touches the dead body becomes 
unclean. {R}_{I}37_{/}If one of their dead bodies falls on any seed 
whatever, the seed will remain clean; {R}_{I}38_{/}but if the seed has 
been wet, and such a dead body falls on it, then you must consider 
it unclean.
{R}_{I}39_{/}If one of the animals that you use as food dies, then anyone 
who touches the dead body will be unclean until evening; 
{R}_{I}40_{/}anyone who eats the meat of the dead animal must wash his 
clothing and will be unclean until the evening. And anyone who 
picks up the dead body will also be unclean until the evening and 
has to wash his clothing.
{I}41_{/}All the creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean and 
may not be eaten. {I}42_{/}Everything that crawls on its belly or goes 
on four legs, or has many legs, may not be eaten. {I}43_{/}Do not 
defile yourselves with any swarming creature that might defile 
you, [=]_{R}_{I}44_{/}for I am Yahweh your God. Take the way of holiness 
and be holy, for I am holy.
Do not make yourselves unclean with any of the creatures that 
swarm on the ground, [=]_{R}_{I}45_{/}for I am Yahweh who brought you 
from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Be holy because 
I am holy.
{R}_{I}46_{/}This is the law for animals and birds and for every living 
creature that moves in the water or that crawls on the ground. 
{I}47_{/}Let everyone distinguish between the clean and the unclean, 
between creatures that may be eaten and creatures that may not."

{N}PURIFICATION OF A WOMAN AFTER CHILDBIRTH{/}

{1}12{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses: {I}2_{/}"Say to the Israelites: when a 
woman gives birth to a male child, she shall be unclean for seven 
days as in the days of her monthly period. {I}3_{/}On the eighth day 
the child is to be circumcised; {I}4_{/}then she shall wait for 
thirty-three days to be purified of her bleeding. She shall not 
touch anything that is consecrated nor enter the sanctuary until 
the days of her purification are completed.
[*]_{I}5_{/}If she gives birth to a daughter she shall be unclean for 
two weeks as in her menstruation; then she shall wait sixty-six 
days to be purified from her bleeding.
{I}6_{/}And when the days of her purification are completed whether 
for a son or daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door 
of the Tent of Meeting, a lamb born that year for a burnt 
offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. 
{R}_{I}7_{/}The priest shall then offer it to Yahweh to make atonement 
for her and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood.
This is the law for the woman who gives birth to a child, male or 
female. [=]_{I}8_{/}But if she cannot offer a lamb, she shall take two 
turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering, 
the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for 
her and she will be purified."

{N}A REGULATION FOR LEPERS{/}

{1}13{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, {R}_{I}2_{/}"If someone has a 
boil, an inflammation or a sore on his skin which could develop 
into leprosy, he must be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of 
the priests, his descendants. {I}3_{/}The priest shall examine him and 
if the hair on the sore has turned white and the sore appears to 
be deeper than the surrounding skin, then it is indeed the sore of 
leprosy. When the priest sees this, he shall declare that person 
unclean.
{I}4_{/}But if the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than 
the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest 
is to isolate the sick person for seven days. {I}5_{/}On the seventh 
day the priest shall again examine him. If he sees that the sore 
looks the same and has not spread on the skin, he shall isolate 
the sick person for another seven days and once more examine him 
on the seventh day. {I}6_{/}If the sore has faded and has not spread 
on the skin, the priest shall declare that person clean: it was 
only eczema. Let him wash his clothes and he will be clean.
{I}7_{/}But if the sore spreads over the skin after the sick person 
has been examined by the priest and declared clean, then he must 
present himself again to the priest. {I}8_{/}After examining him and 
finding that the sore has spread over the skin, the priest must 
declare him unclean: it is leprosy.
{R}_{I}9_{/}When a leprous disease strikes a man, he must be taken to the 
priest, [=]_{I}10_{/}who must examine him, and if he finds on the skin 
a whitish swelling which turns the hairs white and an ulcer is 
forming, {I}11_{/}then it is leprosy in the skin and the priest must 
declare him unclean. It is useless to isolate him for a time; he 
is unclean.
{I}12_{/}But if the leprosy spreads all through the skin, if it covers 
him entirely from head to foot so far as the priest can see, 
{I}13_{/}then the priest must examine the sick person and, if he finds 
that the leprosy covers his whole body, declare the sick person 
clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean. {I}14_{/}But as 
soon as an open sore appears on him, he will be unclean. 
{I}15_{/}After examining the sore, the priest is to declare him 
unclean: the open sore is leprous. {R}_{I}16_{/}But if the sore becomes 
white again, the man must go to the priest. {I}17_{/}The priest shall 
examine him and if he finds that the disease has turned white, he 
shall declare the sick person clean: he is clean.
{I}18_{/}When an ulcer appears on a person's skin, which, after 
healing, {I}19_{/}leaves a whitish swelling or a shiny spot of reddish 
white, that person must show himself to the priest. {I}20_{/}The 
priest shall examine him, and if he finds a spot deeper than the 
surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white he shall 
declare him unclean: it is a case of leprosy that has broken out 
in a boil. {I}21_{/}But if on examination the priest finds neither 
white hair in it nor a deep spot on the skin, but it is lighter in 
color, he shall isolate the sick person for seven days. {I}22_{/}If 
the disease has indeed spread over the skin, he shall declare him 
unclean: it is a case of leprosy. {R}_{I}23_{/}But if the shiny spot 
remains unchanged and has not spread, then it is only the scar of 
a boil and the priest is to declare the man clean.
{I}24_{/}If someone has had a burn, and on the burn an ulcer forms, a 
shiny spot reddish white or whitish in color, {R}_{I}25_{/}then the 
priest must examine it. If he finds that the hairs in that spot 
have turned white and it seems to be deeper than the surrounding 
skin, this means that leprosy has broken out in the burn. The 
priest shall declare the man unclean: it is a case of leprosy. 
{I}26_{/}If on the other hand the priest on examination does not find 
white hair on the mark and it is not deeper than the surrounding 
skin, but is light in color, then the priest shall isolate him for 
seven days. {I}27_{/}On the seventh day he shall examine him, and if 
the disease has spread on the skin, he shall declare him unclean: 
it is a case of leprosy. {R}_{I}28_{/}If the mark is still unchanged and 
has not spread over the skin, but instead is light in color, this 
means that it is only a swelling due to the burn. The priest shall 
declare the man clean: it is merely a burn scar.
{R}_{I}29_{/}If a man or woman has a sore on the head or chin, {I}30_{/}the 
priest must examine this sore; and if it seems to be deeper than 
the surrounding skin, with the hair on it yellow and thin, he must 
declare the sick person unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease, 
that is to say, leprosy of the head or chin. {I}31_{/}If on examining 
this case the priest finds no spot which seems deeper than the 
surrounding skin, and no yellow hair, he shall isolate the person 
for seven days. {I}32_{/}He shall examine the infected part on the 
seventh day, and if he finds that the disease has not spread, that 
the hair on it is not yellow, and that there is no spot which 
seems deeper than the surrounding skin, {I}33_{/}the sick person will 
shave his hair, all except the part affected with the disease, and 
the priest is to isolate him again for seven days. {I}34_{/}He must 
examine the infected part on the seventh day, and if he finds that 
it has not spread over the skin, and that there is no spot which 
seems deeper than the surrounding skin, the priest shall declare 
the sick person clean. After washing his clothes he will be clean. 
{I}35_{/}But if after this purification the disease does spread over 
the skin, {I}36_{/}the priest must examine him; if he finds that it 
has indeed spread over the skin, this means that the sick person 
is unclean, and there is no need to look and see whether the hair 
is yellow. {I}37_{/}Whereas if, so far as he can see, the disease has 
not spread and dark hair is beginning to grow on it, this means 
that the sick person is cured. He is clean, and the priest is to 
declare him clean.
{R}_{I}38_{/}If shiny spots break out on the skin of a man or woman, and 
if these spots are white, {I}39_{/}the priest must examine them. If he 
finds them to be a dull white, it is a rash that has broken out on 
the skin: the sick person is clean.
{R}_{I}40_{/}If a man loses the hair on top of his head, this is baldness 
of the scalp but the man is clean. {R}_{I}41_{/}If he loses his hair from 
the front of the head, this is baldness of the forehead but the 
man is clean. {I}42_{/}If, however, a reddish white sore appears on 
the top of his head or forehead, this means that leprosy has 
broken out. {I}43_{/}The priest must examine it, and if he finds a 
reddish white swelling on the head or forehead, which looks like 
leprosy of the skin, {R}_{I}44_{/}this means that the man is leprous: he 
is unclean. The priest shall declare him unclean; he is suffering 
from leprosy of the head.
{I}45_{/}A person infected with leprosy must wear torn clothing and 
leave his hair uncombed; he must cover his upper lip and cry, 
"Unclean, unclean." [=]_{I}46_{/}As long as the disease lasts he must 
be unclean; and therefore he must live away from others: he must 
live outside the camp.

{N}MILDEW{/}

{I}47_{/}When a mark of mildew appears on a piece of clothing - woolen 
or linen clothing, {I}48_{/}linen or woolen textile material or 
covering, leather or leatherwork - {I}49_{/}and if this clothing, 
textile material, covering, leather or leather-work appears 
greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew to be shown to the 
priest. {I}50_{/}The priest must examine it and put the object away 
for seven days. {I}51_{/}If on the seventh day he observes that the 
mildew has spread on the garment, textile material, covering, 
leather or leatherwork, whatever it may be, it is a case of 
spreading mildew and the object is unclean. {I}52_{/}The priest will 
burn this clothing, textile material, linen or woolen covering, 
leather article of any kind, on which the mildew has spread and 
which must be destroyed by fire.
{I}53_{/}But if on examination the priest finds that the mildew has 
not spread on the clothing, textile material, covering or leather 
object whatever it may be, {I}54_{/}he is to order the object to be 
washed and is to isolate it again for a period of seven days. 
{I}55_{/}After the cleansing he must examine it again and if he finds 
that the mildew has not changed color, even though it has not 
spread, the article is unclean. It must be destroyed by fire.
{I}56_{/}But if on examination the priest finds that the mildew has 
faded after washing, he is to cut it out of the clothing, leather, 
textile material or covering. {I}57_{/}But if the mildew reappears on 
the same clothing, textile material, covering or leather article 
whatever it may be, this means that the mildew is spreading again 
and the owner must destroy the article by fire. {I}58_{/}The clothing, 
textile material, covering or leather article whatever it may be, 
from which the mildew disappears after washing, is to be clean 
after it has been washed a second time.
{R}_{I}59_{/}Such is the law for a case of leprosy in a linen or woolen 
garment, in textile material, in clothing or in anything of skin - 
for judging whether it is clean or unclean."

{N}PURIFICATION FROM LEPROSY{/}

{1}14{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses: {R}_{I}2_{/}"This shall be the law for the 
leper on the day of his purification.
He shall be brought to the priest [=]_{I}3_{/}and the priest shall 
take him outside the camp and examine him. And if the person has 
been healed from leprosy, {I}4_{/}the priest shall order two live, 
clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop for the one who 
is to be cleansed. {R}_{I}5_{/}The priest shall also give orders that one 
of the birds be slain on an earthenware pot over fresh water. 
[=]_{R}_{I}6_{/}He shall take the live bird and also the cedar wood, the 
crimson yarn and the hyssop, and he will plunge them together, 
including the live bird, in the blood of the bird that was slain 
over fresh water. {I}7_{/}Then he will sprinkle the one to be purified 
seven times. After that he shall declare him clean and he shall 
let the live bird go free over the open fields.
{R}_{I}8_{/}The person to be purified must wash his clothes and shave off 
all his hair and bathe himself in water; then he will be clean. 
After this he may enter the camp but he must stay outside his tent 
for seven days. {R}_{I}9_{/}On the seventh day he shall shave off all the 
hair on his head, chin and eyebrows. He shall wash his clothes, 
bathe himself in water and then he will be clean.
{I}10_{/}On the eighth day he is to take two lambs and a yearling ewe 
lamb, all without defect, and three-tenths of a measure of fine 
flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log of oil. 
{R}_{I}11_{/}The priest who declares him clean shall present the man to 
be purified and his offerings before Yahweh at the entrance to the 
Tent of Meeting. {I}12_{/}The priest will then take the first lamb and 
present it as a guilt offering together with the log of oil. He 
shall wave them before Yahweh. {I}13_{/}He shall slaughter the male 
lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin offering and the 
burnt offering - the holy place. For the guilt offering, like the 
sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
{I}14_{/}The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt 
offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be 
purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his 
right foot. {I}15_{/}The priest shall take the log of oil and pour it 
on the palm of his own left hand.
{I}16_{/}Then, dipping his right forefinger in it, he shall sprinkle 
it seven times before Yahweh.
{R}_{I}17_{/}Then he is to take a little of the oil that remains in the 
palm of his hand and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the 
man who is being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand and 
on the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the sacrifice 
of reparation. {R}_{I}18_{/}The rest of the oil which is in his palm, he 
shall put on the head of the man who is being purified. In this 
way he shall perform over him the rite of atonement before Yahweh.
{R}_{I}19_{/}Then the priest shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and 
perform the rite of atonement for the man who is being purified. 
After this he must slaughter the animal for the burnt offering 
{R}_{I}20_{/}and offer it with the grain offering on the altar. When the 
priest has performed the rite of atonement over him in this way, 
the man will be clean.
{I}21_{/}If the leper is poor and cannot afford all this, he shall 
take only one lamb for the guilt offering to be offered with the 
gesture of offering in the rite of atonement. And for the grain 
offering he will bring only one tenth of wheaten flour mixed with 
oil, and the log of oil, {R}_{I}22_{/}and finally two turtledoves or two 
young pigeons - if he can afford them - one to be used as a 
sacrifice for sin and the other for the burnt offering. {I}23_{/}On 
the eighth day he must bring them to the priest at the entrance to 
the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, for his purification. {I}24_{/}The 
priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of 
oil, and present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering. 
{R}_{I}25_{/}Then he must slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering, take 
some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the 
man who is being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on 
the big toe of his right foot. {I}26_{/}He is to pour the oil into the 
palm of his left hand, {I}27_{/}and with this oil he must make seven 
sprinklings with his finger before Yahweh. {R}_{I}28_{/}He is to put some 
of it on the lobe of the right ear of the man who is being 
purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his 
right foot as he did with the blood of the guilt offering. 
{R}_{I}29_{/}The remainder of the oil in the palm of his hand he must put 
on the head of the man who is being purified, performing the rite 
of atonement over him before Yahweh. {I}30_{/}Of the two turtledoves 
or two young pigeons - if he can afford them - he is to offer 
{R}_{I}31_{/}a sacrifice for sin with one, and with the other a burnt 
offering together with a grain offering - if he can afford them. 
In this way the priest will have performed before Yahweh the rite 
of atonement over the person who is being purified.
{R}_{I}32_{/}Such is the law concerning a person afflicted by leprosy who 
cannot afford the means for his purification."

{N}"LEPROSY" IN HOUSES{/}

{I}33_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron; he said:
{R}_{I}34_{/}"When you reach the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as 
your inheritance, if I strike a house with mildew in the land you 
are to possess, {I}35_{/}the owner must come and warn the priest; he 
must say, 'I have seen something like mildew in the house.' 
{I}36_{/}The priest is to give orders for the house to be emptied 
before he goes to examine the infection; thus nothing in the house 
will be declared unclean. Then the priest must go and look at the 
house; {I}37_{/}and if on examination he finds reddish or greenish 
spots that appear to be eating into the wall, {I}38_{/}the priest is 
to go out of the house, to the door, and shut it up for seven 
days. {I}39_{/}On the seventh day he shall go back again and if on 
examination he finds that the infection has spread over the walls 
of the house, {I}40_{/}he shall give orders for the affected stones to 
be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the town. 
{I}41_{/}Then he shall have all the inside of the house scraped, and 
the plaster that comes off must be emptied out into an unclean 
place outside the town. {I}42_{/}The stones must be replaced by new 
ones and the house given a new coat of plaster.
{I}43_{/}If the infection spreads again after the stones have been 
removed and the house scraped and replastered, {I}44_{/}the priest is 
to come and examine it. If he finds that the infection has spread, 
this means that mildew is affecting the house: it is unclean. 
{I}45_{/}It must be pulled down and the stones, woodwork and all the 
plaster be taken to an unclean place outside the town.
{I}46_{/}Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be 
unclean until evening. {I}47_{/}Anyone who sleeps there must wash his 
clothing. {I}48_{/}But if the priest finds, when he comes to examine 
the infection, that it has not spread in the house since it was 
plastered, he is to declare the house clean, for the infection is 
cured.
{R}_{I}49_{/}As a sacrifice for the sin of the house, he is to take two 
birds, cedar wood, red cord and a sprig of hyssop. {R}_{I}50_{/}He shall 
slaughter one of the birds in an earthenware pot over running 
water. {R}_{I}51_{/}Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the 
red cord and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the 
bird that was slaughtered and into the running water. {R}_{I}52_{/}He 
shall sprinkle the house seven times; and after having offered a 
sacrifice for the sin of the house with the blood of the bird, the 
running water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the 
red cord {I}53_{/}he shall set the live bird free to fly out of the 
town into the open country. When the rite of atonement has been 
performed over the house in this way it will be clean.
{R}_{I}54_{/}Such is the law for all cases {I}55_{/}of dreaded skin diseases, 
mildew of clothing and houses, {I}56_{/}swellings, scabs and shiny 
spots. It defines the cases when things are unclean and when they 
are clean. {R}_{I}57_{/}Such is the law on leprosy."

{N}SEXUAL IMPURITIES{/}

{1}15{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron; he said,
{R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them:
[=]_{R}_{I}3_{/}When a man has a discharge from his body, that discharge 
makes him unclean. The rules about his uncleanness are: 
Whether his body allows the discharge to flow or whether it 
retains it, he is unclean. {R}_{I}4_{/}Any bed the man lies on and any 
seat he sits on shall be unclean. {I}5_{/}Anyone who touches his bed 
must wash his clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until 
evening.
{R}_{I}6_{/}Anyone who sits on a seat where the man has sat must wash his 
clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until evening. 
{R}_{I}7_{/}Anyone who touches the body of a man so affected must wash 
his clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until evening. 
{R}_{I}8_{/}If the sick man spits on someone who is clean, that person 
must wash his clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until 
evening.
{R}_{I}9_{/}Any saddle the sick man travels on will be unclean. {I}10_{/}All 
those who touch any object that may be under him will be unclean 
until evening. Anyone who picks up such an object must wash his 
clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until evening.
{R}_{I}11_{/}All those whom the sick man touches without washing his 
hands must wash their clothing and take a bath and will be unclean 
until evening. {R}_{I}12_{/}Any clay pot the sick man touches must be 
broken and any wooden utensil must be rinsed.
{R}_{I}13_{/}When the man suffering from a discharge is cured, he must 
allow seven days for his purification. He must wash his clothing 
and take a bath in running water and he will be clean. {I}14_{/}On the 
eighth day he must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and 
come before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and 
give them to the priest. {R}_{I}15_{/}The priest is to offer a sacrifice 
for sin with one of them, and with the other a burnt offering. So 
the priest will perform the rite of atonement before Yahweh for 
the man's discharge.
{R}_{I}16_{/}When a man has a seminal discharge, he must bathe his whole 
body with water and he shall be unclean until evening. {I}17_{/}Any 
clothing or leather touched by a seminal discharge must be washed 
and it will be unclean until evening. {I}18_{/}When a woman has slept 
with a man, both of them must take a bath and they will be unclean 
until evening.
{I}19_{/}When a woman has a discharge of blood, and blood flows from 
her body, this uncleanness of her monthly periods shall last for 
seven days. Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 
[=]_{I}20_{/}Any bed she lies on will be unclean; any seat she sits on 
will be unclean.
{I}21_{/}Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothing and take a 
bath and will be unclean until evening. {I}22_{/}Anyone who touches 
any seat she has sat on must wash his clothing and take a bath and 
will be unclean until evening. {I}23_{/}If there is anything on the 
bed or the chair on which she sat, anyone who touches it will be 
unclean until evening.
[=]_{R}_{I}24_{/}If a man sleeps with a woman who is unclean because of 
her monthly period, he shall be unclean for seven days. Any bed he 
lies on will be unclean.
[=]_[*]_{I}25_{/}If a woman has a flow of blood for several days 
outside her period, or if her period is prolonged, during the time 
this flow lasts she shall be unclean as during her monthly 
periods. {I}26_{/}Any bed she lies on during the time this flow lasts 
will be unclean as during her monthly period. Any seat she sits on 
will be unclean; as it would be during her monthly periods. 
{I}27_{/}Anyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his 
clothing and take a bath and will be unclean until evening.
{I}28_{/}When she is cured of her flow, she will let seven days pass; 
then she will be clean. {I}29_{/}On the eighth day she is to take two 
turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at 
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. {R}_{I}30_{/}With one of them the 
priest is to offer a sacrifice for sin and with the other a burnt 
offering. This is the way in which the priest will perform the 
rite of atonement over her before Yahweh for the flow that made 
her unclean.
{R}_{I}31_{/}Make the sons of Israel aware of everything unclean, lest 
they die because of defiling the Tent of my presence among them.
{R}_{I}32_{/}Such is the law concerning a man with a discharge, anyone 
made unclean by a seminal discharge, {I}33_{/}a woman unclean because 
of her monthly periods, a man or a woman with discharge, a man who 
sleeps with an unclean woman."

{N}THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT{/}

{1}16{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of 
Aaron who died when they approached the presence of Yahweh.
[=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell your brother, Aaron, not to 
enter at any time he pleases the Most Holy Place inside the veil, 
before the mercy Seat which is on the ark, lest he die, for I 
appear in the cloud over the mercy Seat.
{I}3_{/}This is how Aaron will enter the Holy Place with a bullock for 
a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. {R}_{I}4_{/}He is to put 
on the sacred linen tunic and linen undergarments next to his 
body; he is to have the linen sash around him and wear the linen 
turban. These are sacred garments, so he must bathe in water 
before he puts them on.
[*]_{R}_{I}5_{/}The assembly of the sons of Israel has to give him two 
male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering. 
{I}6_{/}Then Aaron shall offer the bullock for a sin offering for 
himself to make atonement for himself and for his household. 
{I}7_{/}He shall take the two male goats and present them to Yahweh at 
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. {I}8_{/}He is to cast lots for 
the two goats, one lot for Yahweh and one lot for Azazel. 
{I}9_{/}Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh as 
a sin offering. [=]_{I}10_{/}But the goat on which the lot fell for 
Azazel will be placed alive before Yahweh to make atonement by 
being sent into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
{I}11_{/}Aaron will then bring the bullock as a sin offering for 
himself to make atonement for himself and his household and he 
shall slaughter the bullock for the sin offering which is for 
himself. {R}_{I}12_{/}Then he shall take a censer full of coals from the 
fire above the altar before Yahweh and two handfuls of powdered, 
fragrant incense and take them inside the veil. {R}_{I}13_{/}He shall put 
the incense on the fire before Yahweh and the cloud of incense 
will cover the mercy Seat that is on the ark of the Statement, so 
that he will not die. {I}14_{/}He will take the blood of the bullock 
and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy Seat to the east and 
also in front of the mercy Seat he shall sprinkle blood seven 
times. [=]_{I}15_{/}Then he shall slay the goat for the sin offering 
of the people and take its blood inside the veil and do with its 
blood what he did with the blood of the bullock. He shall sprinkle 
it on the mercy Seat and in front of it. {I}16_{/}In this way he shall 
make atonement for the Holy Place because of the uncleanness of 
the Israelites and because of all their sins. And he shall do the 
same for the Tent of Meeting which stands among them in the midst 
of all their uncleanness.
{R}_{I}17_{/}No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron 
goes to make atonement until he comes out. After he has made 
atonement for himself, for his household and for the whole 
assembly of Israel, {R}_{I}18_{/}he shall go out to the altar before 
Yahweh and make atonement for it. Then he shall take some of the 
bullock's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on the 
horns of the altar on all sides. {I}19_{/}He shall sprinkle it with 
blood seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the 
uncleanness of the Israelites.
{R}_{I}20_{/}When he has finished making atonement for the Holy Place, 
for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, he shall bring forward 
the live goat. {R}_{I}21_{/}He shall lay his hands on the head of the 
goat and confess over it all the wickedness of the sons of Israel 
and all the sins they have committed against me. So he will charge 
them on the head of the goat and the wickedness of the sons of 
Israel and all the sins they have committed against me. So he will 
charge them on the head of the goat and send it away to the 
wilderness by the hand of an assistant. {R}_{I}22_{/}So the goat will 
carry away all their wickedness to an arid land, when the man 
releases it in the wilderness.
{I}23_{/}Then Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the 
linen garments he had put on before he entered the sacred place. 
He shall leave them there, {R}_{I}24_{/}bathe himself with water in a 
sacred place and put on his clothes. After that he will come out 
and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt 
offering for the people to make atonement for himself and the 
people. {R}_{I}25_{/}The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the 
altar.
{R}_{I}26_{/}The man who releases the scapegoat shall wash his clothes 
and bathe himself with water, after which he may re-enter the 
camp. [=]_{I}27_{/}The bullock of the sin offering and the goat of the 
sin offering whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the 
Holy Place, shall be brought outside the camp and they shall burn 
their hides, their flesh and their dung in the fire. {R}_{I}28_{/}The one 
who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, 
after which he may re-enter the camp.
{I}29_{/}This shall be a lasting ordinance for you: on the tenth day 
of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and do no work - 
neither the native nor the stranger living among you - {I}30_{/}for on 
this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you. You shall 
be cleansed of your sins before Yahweh. {I}31_{/}It is a sabbath of 
solemn rest when you must deny yourselves. It is a lasting 
ordinance. {I}32_{/}The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed 
his father will make atonement. He shall put on the linen 
garments, the holy garments, {R}_{I}33_{/}and will make atonement for the 
Holy Place, for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar. He shall 
also make atonement for the priests and all the people of the 
assembly. {R}_{I}34_{/}This shall be for you a lasting ordinance to make 
atonement for the people of Israel once a year, because of all 
their sins."
And Moses did as Yahweh commanded him.

{C}THE LAW OF HOLINESS{/}

{1}17{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh said to Moses, {I}2_{/}"Speak to Aaron, his sons and 
all the Israelites and say to them: This is what Yahweh has 
commanded: {R}_{I}3_{/}Any man from the house of Israel who kills an ox, 
or a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside the camp {R}_{I}4_{/}and does 
not bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to make an 
offering of it to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh - that 
man shall be considered guilty of bloodshed. He has shed blood and 
he shall be cut off from among his people.
{R}_{I}5_{/}The reason for this ordinance is so that the sons of Israel 
may bring the sacrifices that they used to slay in the fields to 
Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, to the priests, and 
sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace to Yahweh.
{R}_{I}6_{/}The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at 
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a sweet-
smelling offering to Yahweh. [=]_{I}7_{/}This way they shall no longer 
slay their sacrifices for the goat idols to whom they prostituted 
themselves.
This is to be a lasting ordinance for them in the generations to 
come.

{N}YOU SHALL NOT EAT BLOOD{/}

{R}_{I}8_{/}Then you shall give them this ordinance: Any man from the 
house of Israel or any alien living among them who offers a burnt 
offering or sacrifice [=]_{R}_{I}9_{/}and does not bring it to the 
entrance of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that 
man shall be cut off from his people.
[=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}If any man from the house of Israel or any alien living 
among them eats blood, I will set my face against that person and 
I will cut him off from among his people. {R}_{I}11_{/}For the life of 
the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to rescue 
your life on the altar. Offered blood makes atonement because of 
the life within it. That is why I said to the sons of Israel: No 
one among you shall eat blood, nor may any alien who lives among 
you eat blood.
[=]_{I}12_{/}If any Israelite or any alien living among you snares in 
hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten, {I}13_{/}he shall pour 
out its blood and cover it with dust. {R}_{I}14_{/}For the blood of every 
creature contains its life and I have therefore said to the people 
of Israel: You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life 
of all flesh is within its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut 
off.
[=]_{R}_{I}15_{/}And every person who eats an animal that dies or that is 
torn by wild beasts, whether he be a native or an alien, shall 
wash his clothes and bathe in water and remain unclean until 
evening; then he will be purified. {I}16_{/}But if he does not wash 
his clothes or bathe his body, he shall carry his guilt."

{N}THE LAW OF HOLINESS{/}

{1}18{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, {R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the sons of 
Israel and say to them: I am Yahweh, your God.
[=]_{R}_{I}3_{/}You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where 
you used to live, nor shall you do what is done in the land of 
Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not follow their 
practices. {R}_{I}4_{/}My practices instead you will follow, and you will 
carry out my ordinances; I am Yahweh your God. [=]_{I}5_{/}Keep my 
practices and ordinances, for whoever keeps them finds life; I am 
Yahweh.
[*]_{I}6_{/}None of you shall have sexual intercourse with a blood 
relative; I am Yahweh.
{I}7_{/}Do not have intercourse with your father or your mother; she 
is your mother, don't have intercourse with her.
[=]_{I}8_{/}Do not have intercourse with your father's wife: Respect 
your father. 
{I}9_{/}Do not have intercourse with your sister or your stepsister, 
whether born in the same house or elsewhere. {I}10_{/}Do not have 
intercourse with your granddaughter; that would dishonor you. 
{I}11_{/}Do not have intercourse with a half sister; she, too, is your 
sister. {I}12_{/}Do not have intercourse with an aunt, whether she is 
your father's sister {I}13_{/}or your mother's sister.
{I}14_{/}Do not have intercourse with your uncle's wife; she, too, is 
your aunt.
{R}_{I}15_{/}Do not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law {I}16_{/}or 
with your brother's wife.
{I}17_{/}Do not have intercourse with both a woman and her daughter or 
her granddaughter; they are blood relatives; that is wickedness.
{I}18_{/}While your wife is living, do not take her sister as a wife 
so that you make her jealous.
{I}19_{/}Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly 
period. 
{I}20_{/}Do not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife and defile 
yourself with her.
[=]_{R}_{I}21_{/}Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to 
Molech and do not profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
[=]_{R}_{I}22_{/}Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; it is an 
abomination.
{I}23_{/}Also do not have sexual relations with an animal; that is 
infamous.
{I}24_{/}Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways for this is how 
the nations I am driving out before you, became defiled. {I}25_{/}As 
the land was defiled I came to punish it, and it has vomited out 
its inhabitants.
{I}26_{/}You shall keep my practices and ordinances, and you shall not 
do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the alien 
living among you. {I}27_{/}Recall the people who did all these things 
before you in these lands and became defiled. {I}28_{/}If you defile 
the land it will vomit you out as it did the nations before you. 
{I}29_{/}The one who does any of these abominations shall be cut off 
from his people.
{R}_{I}30_{/}Keep my laws and do not follow any of these abominable 
customs which were practiced before you, so as not to defile 
yourselves by them; I am Yahweh, your God."

{1}19{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, [=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the entire 
assembly of the people of Israel and say to them: Be holy for I, 
Yahweh, your God, am holy. {R}_{I}3_{/}Each of you must revere his mother 
and father; and you shall keep my sabbaths; I am Yahweh, your God.
{R}_{I}4_{/}Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am 
Yahweh, your God.

{R}_{I}5_{/}When you offer a sacrifice of peace offering to Yahweh, 
sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. {I}6_{/}It shall be eaten on 
the day you offer it or on the next day. And whatever remains 
shall be burned on the third day. {I}7_{/}If it is eaten on the third 
day it is unclean and will not be accepted. {I}8_{/}Whoever eats it 
will pay for his sin, for he has profaned a holy thing of Yahweh 
and this person shall be cut off from his people.

{N}LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{I}9_{/}When you reap the harvest of your land do not reap to 
the extreme limits of your field or gather the gleanings after 
your harvest. {R}_{I}10_{/}Do not strip your vineyard bare and do not 
gather the grapes that have fallen; leave them for the needy and 
the stranger. I am Yahweh, your God.
{I}11_{/}Do not steal or lie or deceive one another. [=]_{R}_{I}12_{/}Do not 
swear falsely by my name so as to profane the name of your God; I 
am Yahweh.
[=]_{R}_{I}13_{/}Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a 
hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning. 
[=]_{R}_{I}14_{/}You shall not curse a deaf man nor put a stumbling block 
in the way of the blind; but you shall fear your God; I am Yahweh.
{I}15_{/}Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor 
nor bow to the great; you are to judge your neighbor fairly so as 
not to share in his guilt. {R}_{I}16_{/}Do not go about as a slanderer of 
your people and do not seek the death of your neighbor; I am 
Yahweh.
[=]_{I}17_{/}Do not hate your brother in your heart; rebuke your 
neighbor frankly so as not to share in his guilt. [=]_{I}18_{/}Do not 
seek revenge or nurture a grudge against one of your people, but 
love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.
[\u0095]_{I}19_{/}Keep my practices. You shall not let your cattle breed 
with another kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of 
seed and you shall not wear clothing made of two different 
materials.
{R}_{I}20_{/}If a man lies with a woman who is a slave promised to 
another man, and she has not been ransomed or given her freedom, 
there shall be punishment. They shall not be put to death because 
she was not free, {I}21_{/}but he shall bring a ram as a guilt 
offering to Yahweh for himself, to the door of the Tent of 
Meeting. {I}22_{/}The priest is to make atonement for him before 
Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering, and the sin he has 
committed will be forgiven.
{I}23_{/}When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for 
food, you shall count the fruit as unclean. For three years it 
shall be unclean for you and it must not be eaten. {I}24_{/}In the 
fourth year all the fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to 
the Lord. {R}_{I}25_{/}But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit, 
that its yield may increase for you. I am Yahweh, your God.
[=]_{I}26_{/}Do not eat anything over the blood nor practice 
divination or astrology. {I}27_{/}Do not round off the side-growth of 
your heads or clip off the edges of your beard. {R}_{I}28_{/}Do not make 
cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or make tattoo marks 
on yourselves. I am Yahweh.
[=]_{I}29_{/}You shall not profane your daughter by making her a 
prostitute, lest the land turn to prostitution and be filled with 
wickedness.
{I}30_{/}Keep my sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
[=]_{R}_{I}31_{/}Do not turn to mediums or spiritists for you will be 
defiled by them. I am Yahweh, your God.
{R}_{I}32_{/}Rise in the presence of the aged and honor the elderly; in 
doing this you honor your God. I am Yahweh.
[=]_{I}33_{/}When a stranger stays with you in your land, do him no 
wrong. {R}_{I}34_{/}He shall be to you as the native among you. Love him 
as yourself for you have been strangers in the land of Egypt. I am 
Yahweh, your God.
{I}35_{/}Do no wrong in judgment or in measure or weight or quantity. 
[=]_{R}_{I}36_{/}Use honest scales and honest weights and exact 
containers. I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out of the land 
of Egypt.
[=]_{I}37_{/}You shall keep all my laws and all my practices and 
follow them. I am Yahweh."

{N}SOME PUNISHMENTS{/}

{1}20{/}

[\u0095]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses {R}_{I}2_{/}saying, "To the sons of Israel 
you shall say this:
Any man from the people of Israel or from among the aliens living 
in Israel who gives any of his children for the Molech sacrifice, 
shall be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him. 
[=]_{R}_{I}3_{/}I shall set my face against that man and cut him off from 
among his people, for by giving his children to Molech he has 
defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. {R}_{I}4_{/}And if the 
people of the land hide their eyes from what that man does and do 
not put him to death, {I}5_{/}then I will set my face against them and 
against their family and cut them off from their people. I will do 
the same to all who follow him in prostituting themselves to 
Molech.
{I}6_{/}I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and 
spiritists and prostitutes himself by following them, and I will 
cut him off from his people.
{R}_{I}7_{/}Take the way of holiness so that you be holy for I am Yahweh, 
your God. {R}_{I}8_{/}You shall keep my laws and practice them. I, 
Yahweh, your God am the one who makes you holy. [=]_{R}_{I}9_{/}The man 
who curses his father or mother shall be put to death. He has 
cursed his father or mother. He himself shall account for his 
blood.
{R}_{I}10_{/}If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, the wife 
of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be 
put to death. [=]_{R}_{I}11_{/}If a man lies with his father's wife, he 
has dishonored his father, both of them shall be put to death. 
They themselves shall account for their blood. {R}_{I}12_{/}If a man 
sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to 
death for they have committed incest. They themselves shall 
account for their blood.
{R}_{I}13_{/}When a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both 
have committed a detestable act and they shall be put to death. 
They themselves shall account for their blood.
{R}_{I}14_{/}It is wicked for a man to marry both a woman and her mother. 
He and they must be burned in the fire so that there may be no 
wickedness among you.
{R}_{I}15_{/}A man who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to 
death and the animal killed. {R}_{I}16_{/}If a woman approaches an animal 
to mate with it, kill the woman and the animal. They shall be put 
to death. They themselves shall account for their blood.
{R}_{I}17_{/}If a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or his 
mother and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful thing and 
they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has 
dishonored his sister and carries his guilt.
{R}_{I}18_{/}A man who lies with a woman during her monthly period and 
has intercourse with her has exposed the source of her flow and 
she has uncovered it. Both of them shall be cut off from among 
their people.
{I}19_{/}You shall not have intercourse with the sister of your father 
or mother, for that would dishonor a close relative. Both would be 
guilty. {R}_{I}20_{/}The man who lies with his aunt dishonors his uncle. 
They will be guilty and die childless. {R}_{I}21_{/}It is a wickedness 
for a man to take his brother's wife. He has dishonored his 
brother and they will be childless.
{I}22_{/}Keep, therefore, all my decrees and laws and act according to 
them so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not 
vomit you out of it. {I}23_{/}You shall not follow the customs of the 
nations I shall drive out before you. I felt hatred for them for 
they did all these things. [=]_{R}_{I}24_{/}Because of this I said to 
you: You will possess their land and it is I who give it to you as 
your possession, a land flowing with milk and honey.
I, Yahweh, your God have set you apart from the nations. {I}25_{/}You 
must therefore set the clean beast apart from the unclean, and the 
clean bird apart from the unclean and you shall not defile 
yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps along 
the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
{R}_{I}26_{/}You are to be holy for me as I am holy, Yahweh, your God, 
and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.
[=]_{R}_{I}27_{/}Now a man or a woman who is a spiritist shall be put to 
death; he or she shall be stoned and they shall account for their 
own blood."

{1}21{/}

{R}_{I}1_{/}Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, sons of Aaron 
and tell them that not one of them shall make himself unclean for 
a dead person among his people {I}2_{/}except for those relatives 
nearest to him, that is for his mother, father, son, daughter or 
brother, {I}3_{/}or for an unmarried sister who is dependent on him 
because she has had no husband. For her, he may make himself 
unclean. {R}_{I}4_{/}As a husband he must not make himself unclean for 
his family-in-law and so profane himself. [=]_{I}5_{/}They shall not 
make tonsures on their heads nor shave off the edges of their 
beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh. {R}_{I}6_{/}They shall be holy 
to their God and not profane the name of their God, for it is they 
who present offerings by fire, the bread of their God, so they 
shall be holy. {R}_{I}7_{/}They must not marry women unclean by 
prostitution or a woman divorced by her husband, for the priest is 
holy to his God. {R}_{I}8_{/}You shall regard the priest as holy for he 
offers up the food of your God. Holy he shall be for you because 
I, Yahweh, am holy who makes you holy.
{I}9_{/}If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a 
prostitute, she profanes her father and shall be burned in the 
fire.
{R}_{I}10_{/}The high priest, the one among his brothers on whose head 
the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to 
wear the garments, shall not uncover his head or tear his clothes. 
{R}_{I}11_{/}He shall not go near any dead person or defile himself 
either for his father or his mother. {R}_{I}12_{/}He shall not leave the 
sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God for he has on him 
the consecration of the anointing oil of his God. I am Yahweh.
{I}13_{/}The woman he marries must be a virgin. {I}14_{/}He shall not take 
as wife a widow or a divorced woman or a woman defiled by 
prostitution, but only a virgin of his own people, {I}15_{/}that he 
may not defile his children among his people. I am Yahweh who 
makes him holy."
{I}16_{/}Yahweh said to Moses, [=]_{R}_{I}17_{/}"Say to Aaron: No man among 
your descendants in future generations who has a defect shall 
approach to offer the bread of his God. {R}_{I}18_{/}No man who has a 
defect may come near, no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or 
deformed {I}19_{/}or who has a broken foot or hand, {I}20_{/}or is a 
hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect or eczema or scabs or 
damaged testicles. {R}_{I}21_{/}The descendant of Aaron the priest who 
has a defect shall not approach to offer the burnt offering to 
Yahweh. He must not approach to offer the bread of his God because 
of the defect he has. {R}_{I}22_{/}He may eat the bread of his God, both 
the most holy and the holy, {R}_{I}23_{/}but he may not go as far as the 
veil or advance towards the altar because he has a defect. Let him 
not defile my sanctuary, for it is I, Yahweh, who make them holy."
{R}_{I}24_{/}Thus spoke Moses to Aaron and to his sons and to all Israel.

{1}22{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {R}_{I}2_{/}"Tell Aaron and his sons 
when they have to abstain from the holy offerings of the people of 
Israel, lest they profane my holy name; for I am the one who makes 
them holy. I am Yahweh. {R}_{I}3_{/}Tell them this:
Anyone of your descendants, in any generation, who in a state of 
uncleanness approaches the holy offerings consecrated to Yahweh by 
the people of Israel, shall be outlawed from my presence. I am 
Yahweh.
{R}_{I}4_{/}Anyone of Aaron's line who is afflicted with leprosy or a 
discharge must not eat holy things until he is clean. Anyone who 
touches something made unclean by a dead body, or has a seminal 
discharge, {R}_{I}5_{/}or is made unclean by touching either some 
creeping thing or some man who has communicated to him his own 
uncleanness of whatever kind, {I}6_{/}in short, anyone who has had any 
such contact shall be unclean until evening, and must not eat holy 
things until he has taken a bath. {I}7_{/}At sunset he will be clean 
and may then eat holy things, for these are his food.
[=]_{R}_{I}8_{/}He must not eat an animal that has died a natural death 
or been killed by wild animals; he would become unclean by doing 
this. I am Yahweh.
{I}9_{/}Let them keep these rules and not burden themselves with sin 
lest they die because of having defiled this food. I am Yahweh who 
makes them holy.
{I}10_{/}No lay person may eat any of the sacred offerings: neither 
the guest of a priest, nor his hired servant. {I}11_{/}But if the 
priest has acquired a slave by purchase, the slave may eat them. 
Likewise anyone born in the house may eat a share of the food.
{I}12_{/}If a priest's daughter marries someone who is not a priest, 
she must not eat the holy portion set aside; {R}_{I}13_{/}but if she is 
widowed or divorced and, being childless, has had to return to her 
father's house as when she was young, she may eat her father's 
food. No lay person may eat it; {I}14_{/}if someone does eat a holy 
thing unintentionally, he shall restore it to the priest with one 
fifth added.
{R}_{I}15_{/}They must not profane the holy offerings which the people of 
Israel have set aside for Yahweh. {I}16_{/}If they ate of them, they 
would have to pay a guilt offering. I am Yahweh, who have 
sanctified these offerings."
{I}17_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
{R}_{I}18_{/}"Tell this to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the people of 
Israel:
{I}19_{/}This rule refers to anyone of the Israelites or to any 
stranger living in Israel who brings anything for a burnt offering 
either in payment of a vow or as a voluntary gift. To be welcomed, 
he must offer a male ox, sheep or goat without any defect, 
[=]_{I}20_{/}You must not offer one that has defects; for it would not 
make you acceptable.
{I}21_{/}If anyone offers to Yahweh a peace offering either to fulfill 
a vow or as a voluntary offering, the animal - from the herd or 
from the flock - will not please Yahweh unless it be without any 
defect. {R}_{I}22_{/}You must not offer to Yahweh an animal that is 
blind, lame, mutilated, ulcerous, or suffering from skin disease 
or a sore. No part of such an animal shall be laid on the altar as 
a burnt offering for Yahweh. {I}23_{/}As a voluntary offering, you may 
offer a bull or a lamb that is underdeveloped or deformed; but 
such will not be accepted in payment of a vow. {I}24_{/}Don't offer to 
Yahweh an animal if its testicles have been bruised, crushed, 
removed or cut. This is not permitted in your land, {R}_{I}25_{/}and you 
are not to accept any such from the hands of a stranger, to offer 
as food for your God. Their deformity is a defect and they would 
not make you acceptable."
{I}26_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
[=]_{R}_{I}27_{/}"A calf, lamb, or kid shall stay with its mother seven 
days after birth. From the eighth day it will be acceptable as a 
burnt offering to Yahweh. {I}28_{/}No animal, whether cow or ewe, 
shall be slaughtered on the same day as its young.
{R}_{I}29_{/}If you offer Yahweh a sacrifice of thanksgiving, do it so 
that Yahweh may be pleased. {I}30_{/}You must eat it the same day, and 
nothing should be left till the morning. I am Yahweh.

{N}FINAL EXHORTATION{/}

{I}31_{/}You must keep my commands and put them into practice. I am 
Yahweh. {R}_{I}32_{/}You must not profane my holy name, so that I may be 
proclaimed holy among the people of Israel, I, Yahweh who sanctify 
you. [=]_{R}_{I}33_{/}I who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be 
your God, I am Yahweh."

{N}THE ANNUAL FEASTS{/}

{1}23{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses, {R}_{I}2_{/}"Speak to the sons of 
Israel and say to them: You proclaim holy assemblies on the 
appointed feasts of Yahweh, which are these:
{I}3_{/}After six days in which work shall be done, there is a sabbath 
of complete rest on the seventh day, a holy assembly when no work 
shall be done; it is a sabbath to Yahweh in all your houses.
{I}4_{/}Then there are the appointed feasts of Yahweh at the times 
fixed for them, when you are to proclaim holy assemblies.
{R}_{I}5_{/}At twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month is 
Yahweh's Passover. {I}6_{/}And on the fifteenth day of this month it 
is Yahweh's feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall 
eat bread without leaven. {I}7_{/}On the first day there will be a 
sacred assembly and no work of a worker shall be done. {I}8_{/}For 
seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Yahweh and on 
the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly and do no work of 
a worker."

{N}OFFERING OF THE FIRST SHEAF{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{I}9_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, [=]_{R}_{I}10_{/}"Speak to 
the sons of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I 
will give you and you reap its harvest, you will bring to the 
priest a sheaf, the firstfruits of your harvest {I}11_{/}and he shall 
wave the sheaf before Yahweh for you to be accepted; on the day 
after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
{R}_{I}12_{/}The day when you wave the sheaf, you shall sacrifice a lamb 
without defect, born that year, as a burnt offering to Yahweh. 
{I}13_{/}And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of a 
measure of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to 
Yahweh, a sweet-smelling offering, with its drink offering of a 
quarter of a measure of wine.
{R}_{I}14_{/}You shall eat neither bread nor grain, whether roasted or 
new, until the very day you bring the offering to your God. This 
is to be an everlasting ordinance for all generations throughout 
your residences.
{I}15_{/}From the day after the sabbath, on which you bring the sheaf 
of offering, you are to count seven full weeks. {I}16_{/}The day after 
the seventh sabbath will be the fiftieth day and then you are to 
offer Yahweh a new offering. {I}17_{/}You must bring bread from your 
houses to present with the gesture of offering - two loaves, made 
of two tenths of wheaten flour baked with leaven; these are 
firstfruits for Yahweh. {I}18_{/}In addition to the bread you must 
offer seven one-year-old lambs without any defect, a young bull 
and two rams, as a burnt offering to Yahweh together with a grain 
offering and drink offering, as a sweet-smelling offering to 
Yahweh.
{R}_{I}19_{/}You are also to offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two 
one-year-old lambs as a peace offering. {I}20_{/}The priest shall 
present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering, in 
addition to the bread of the firstfruits. These, and the two 
lambs, are holy things for Yahweh, and will belong to the priest.
{R}_{I}21_{/}This same day you are to hold an assembly; this shall be a 
sacred assembly for you; you will do no work of a worker. This is 
a perpetual law for your descendants wherever you live.
{R}_{I}22_{/}When you gather the harvest in your country, you are not to 
harvest to the very end of your field, and you are not to gather 
the gleanings of the harvest. You are to leave them for the poor 
and the stranger. I am Yahweh your God."
{I}23_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:
{R}_{I}24_{/}"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: The first day 
of the seventh month shall be a day of rest for you, a sacred 
assembly proclaimed with trumpet call. {I}25_{/}You must not do any 
work of a worker and you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh."
{I}26_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {I}27_{/}"The tenth day of this 
seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a 
sacred assembly. You must fast, and you must offer a burnt 
offering to Yahweh. {R}_{I}28_{/}You are not to do any work that day, for 
it is the Day of Atonement, on which the rite of atonement will be 
performed over you before Yahweh your God. {I}29_{/}Indeed, anyone who 
fails to fast that day shall be outlawed from his people; 
{I}30_{/}anyone who works that day I will remove from his people. 
{R}_{I}31_{/}No work must be done - this is a perpetual law for your 
descendants wherever you live. {I}32_{/}This is to be a day of sabbath 
rest for you. You must fast; on the evening of the ninth day of 
the month, from this to the following evening, you must cease to 
work."
{I}33_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said: {R}_{I}34_{/}"Speak to the sons of 
Israel and say to them:
The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of 
Tents for Yahweh, lasting seven days. {I}35_{/}The first day you shall 
hold an assembly; you must do no work of a worker. {I}36_{/}For seven 
days you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh. On the eighth day 
you are to hold a sacred assembly and you must offer a burnt 
offering to Yahweh. It is a day of solemn assembly in which you 
shall do no work of a worker.
{I}37_{/}These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh in which you are to 
proclaim holy assemblies for the purpose of offering offerings by 
fire, burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings to 
Yahweh, according to the ritual of each day, {I}38_{/}besides the 
sabbaths of Yahweh and the presents, and the votive and voluntary 
gifts that you make to Yahweh.
{I}39_{/}On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have 
harvested the produce of the land, you are to celebrate the feast 
of Yahweh for seven days. On the first and eighth days there shall 
be a complete rest. [=]_{R}_{I}40_{/}On the first day you shall take 
choice fruits, palm branches, boughs of leafy trees and willows 
from the riverbank, and for seven days you shall rejoice in the 
presence of Yahweh your God. {R}_{I}41_{/}You are to celebrate a feast 
for Yahweh in this way for seven days every year. This is a 
perpetual law for your descendants.
{R}_{I}42_{/}You are to keep this feast in the seventh month. For seven 
days you are to live in tents and shelters: all natives of Israel 
must live in tents and shelters, {R}_{I}43_{/}so that your descendants 
may know that I made the sons of Israel live in tents when I 
brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God."
{R}_{I}44_{/}These are the regulations that Moses gave to the sons of 
Israel regarding the feasts of Yahweh.

{1}24{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, [=]_{R}_{I}2_{/}"Command the 
Israelites to bring you oil from pressed olives for the light, 
that a lamp may be kept burning continually. [=]_{I}3_{/}Aaron shall 
keep the flame in order from evening until morning in the Tent of 
Meeting, outside the veil of the Statement. It shall be a lasting 
ordinance for all generations. {I}4_{/}He shall set the lamps on the 
pure gold lampstand to burn continually before Yahweh.
[=]_{I}5_{/}Then you shall take fine flour and make twelve cakes, two-
tenths of a measure in each cake. {I}6_{/}Place them in two rows, six 
in each, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. {I}7_{/}On each row put 
pure frankincense, so that the bread may be a memorial, as an 
offering by fire to Yahweh. {R}_{I}8_{/}Every sabbath Aaron shall set the 
bread in order before Yahweh on behalf of the Israelites as a 
lasting covenant. {R}_{I}9_{/}The bread will be for Aaron and his sons; 
they are to consider it as a most holy portion of the sacrifices 
by fire to Yahweh and they shall eat it in a holy place. This is a 
lasting law."

{N}THE BLASPHEMY{/}

{I}10_{/}The son of an Israelite woman quarreled with a man of Israel 
in the camp and {R}_{I}11_{/}the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed 
the name of Yahweh with a curse, so they brought him to Moses. 
(His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of 
Dan). {I}12_{/}They put him under guard until a decision from Yahweh 
would be made known.
{R}_{I}13_{/}Yahweh said to Moses, "Take the man who has cursed out of 
the camp. {R}_{I}14_{/}All who have heard him curse will lay their hands 
on his head and the entire assembly shall stone him to death. 
{R}_{I}15_{/}Then say this to the sons of Israel: The man who curses God 
shall pay for his sin [=]_{R}_{I}16_{/}and whoever blasphemes the name of 
Yahweh shall be put to death. The whole assembly shall stone him; 
the alien, like the native, shall be put to death when he 
blasphemes the Name.

{N}THE LAW OF RETALIATION{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}17_{/}Whoever kills a man shall be put to death.
{I}18_{/}Whoever kills an animal shall replace the loss, life for 
life. [=]_{R}_{I}19_{/}If a man injures his neighbor, as he has done, so 
shall it be done to him. {I}20_{/}Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, 
tooth for tooth, just as he has injured another, so shall it be 
done to him. {R}_{I}21_{/}He who kills a beast shall make up for it, and 
he who kills a man shall be put to death.
[=]_{R}_{I}22_{/}There shall be one law, the same for the alien and the 
native, for I am Yahweh, your God."
{R}_{I}23_{/}So Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the man 
who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. In this way the 
Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

{N}THE SABBATICAL YEAR AND JUBILEE{/}

{1}25{/}

[\u0095]_[=]_{R}_{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: {I}2_{/}"Speak to 
the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving 
you, let the land rest for Yahweh every seventh year. {I}3_{/}For six 
years you shall sow your field, prune your vineyard and harvest 
the produce, {I}4_{/}but in the seventh year the land shall have a 
rest, or sabbath, a sabbath for Yahweh. You shall not sow your 
field nor prune your vineyard; {I}5_{/}you shall not reap the 
aftergrowth of your harvest nor gather the grapes of your 
uncultivated vines.
This shall be a year of rest for the land, {I}6_{/}but whatever it 
produces of itself will provide food for you, for your male and 
female slaves, for your hired servant and for the stranger who 
lives with you.
{I}7_{/}Its produce will likewise provide food for your livestock and 
for the wild animals on your land.
{I}8_{/}When seven sabbaths of years have passed, that is, seven times 
seven years, there shall be the time of the seven weeks of years, 
that is forty-nine years. {I}9_{/}Then on the tenth day of the seventh 
month sound the trumpet loudly. On this Day of Atonement sound the 
trumpet all through the land. [=]_[*]_{I}10_{/}Keep holy the fiftieth 
year and proclaim freedom for all the inhabitants of the land. It 
shall be a jubilation year for you when each one shall recover his 
property and go back to his family. {I}11_{/}In this fiftieth year, 
your year of Jubilee, you shall neither sow nor reap the 
aftergrowth, nor gather the grapes from the uncultivated vines. 
{I}12_{/}This Jubilee year shall be holy for you, and you shall eat 
what the field yields of itself without cultivation.
{I}13_{/}In this year of Jubilee each of you shall recover his own 
property. {I}14_{/}When you sell something to your neighbor or buy 
something from him, do not wrong one another. {I}15_{/}According to 
the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy it from your 
neighbor and according to the number of years left for harvesting 
crops he shall sell to you. {I}16_{/}When the years are many the price 
shall be greater and when the years are few the price shall be 
less, for it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 
{R}_{I}17_{/}So you shall not wrong one another but you shall fear your 
God, for I am Yahweh, your God.
{I}18_{/}Carry out my precepts and obey my laws. In that way you will 
live securely in the land. {I}19_{/}The land will give its fruit so 
that you may have food in abundance and live securely.
{I}20_{/}But if you ask: What will we eat in the seventh year if we do 
not sow or gather crops?; see that {I}21_{/}I will send you my 
blessing in the sixth year that it may produce enough for three 
years. {I}22_{/}So in the eighth year the remains of the old crop will 
provide you with what to sow and to eat until the harvest of the 
ninth year is ready.
[=]_{I}23_{/}The land shall not be sold forever for the land is mine, 
where you are but strangers and guests of mine. {I}24_{/}In all the 
territory you occupy, the land is to be redeemed.
[=]_{I}25_{/}When your brother becomes poor and sells his property, 
his nearest relative is to come and buy back what his relative has 
sold. {R}_{I}26_{/}If the man has no relatives to buy back his property, 
but later has sufficient means to redeem it, {R}_{I}27_{/}he will 
calculate the value based on the number of years since he sold it 
and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it and in that 
way he shall re-cover his property. {I}28_{/}But if he does not find 
the means to repay him, what has been sold shall remain with the 
buyer until the Jubilee year when it must be given back to its 
original owner.
{R}_{I}29_{/}In the same way, if a man sells a house in a walled city, 
his right of redemption shall last until the end of a year from 
the time of its sale; his right of redemption lasts a whole year. 
{I}30_{/}If it is not redeemed by the end of a complete year, the 
house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the one who 
bought it and to his descendants, and it shall not be released in 
the Jubilee year.
{I}31_{/}Houses in villages which have no surrounding wall are 
considered as fields; they have redemption rights and may be 
released in a Jubilee year.
[=]_{I}32_{/}As for the towns of the Levites, their houses belong to 
the Levites and they have a permanent right to redeem what is 
bought from them. {R}_{I}33_{/}Any house in a town of the Levites can 
return to them at the time of the Jubilee, for the houses in the 
towns of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. 
{I}34_{/}The field also belonging to their towns must not be sold 
forever; it is their permanent possession.

{N}HOW TO SHARE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR{/}

[\u0095]_{I}35_{/}If your brother becomes poor and is unable to support 
himself, help him. Help this stranger or this guest that he may 
live with you. {R}_{I}36_{/}Do not take interest from him, but fear your 
God, so that your brother may live among you. {I}37_{/}Do not give him 
your silver at interest nor your food for gain.
[=]_{R}_{I}38_{/}I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of Egypt to 
give you the land of the Canaanites and to be your God.
{I}39_{/}If your brother becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not 
make him work as a slave, [=]_{I}40_{/}but let him remain with you as 
a hired servant and an alien until the year of Jubilee. {R}_{I}41_{/}He 
shall then leave you, he and his sons with him, and return to his 
own family and to the property of his fathers. {R}_{I}42_{/}For they are 
my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt and they are 
not to be sold as slaves. {R}_{I}43_{/}Do not rule over them harshly, but 
fear your God.
{I}44_{/}As for the male and female slaves, it is from the nations 
around you that you are to buy them. {I}45_{/}You may also buy from 
among the aliens who live with you and from their families, born 
in your land, and they may be your property. {I}46_{/}So you may leave 
them to your children as inherited possessions and make them 
slaves for life. But regarding your Israelite brothers, you must 
not rule over them harshly.
{I}47_{/}If an alien or temporary resident becomes prosperous and one 
of your brothers becomes so poor as to sell himself to a stranger 
who is living with you or to a member of the stranger's family, 
{I}48_{/}he shall have the right of redemption. One of his brothers 
may redeem him, {I}49_{/}or his uncle or the son of his uncle or a 
near relative may redeem him. {I}50_{/}If he becomes rich, let him 
redeem himself. He shall reckon with his buyer from the time he 
sold himself until the year of Jubilee and the price of his sale 
shall correspond to the number of years. If many years remain, he 
shall be reckoned at the price of a hired servant, according to 
the number of years. {I}51_{/}If redeemed when many years remain, he 
shall refund out of the price paid for him, according to the 
remaining time. {I}52_{/}If only a few years remain until the Jubilee 
year, he will calculate and refund accordingly. {I}53_{/}He shall be 
with him as a servant hired year by year and he shall not be 
harshly dealt with.
{I}54_{/}If he is redeemed in any of these ways, he shall be released 
in the Jubilee year, he and his sons with him.
{R}_{I}55_{/}For it is to me that the sons of Israel are servants; they 
are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am 
Yahweh, your God. 

{1}26{/}

[\u0095]_{R}_{I}1_{/}You shall not make for yourselves idols or set up an 
image or pillar or carved stone in your land to bow before it for 
I am Yahweh, your God.
[=]_{I}2_{/}You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I 
am Yahweh.

{N}PROMISES OF GOD{/}

[\u0095]_{I}3_{/}If you walk according to my precepts and obey my 
commandments, if you carry them out, [=]_{I}4_{/}I will give you rain 
in its season and the land will yield its produce, the trees in 
the field their fruit; {I}5_{/}the threshing time will last to vintage 
time and the vintage till sowing time. You will have food in 
abundance and you will live securely in your land.
{I}6_{/}I will give you peace in your country and you will sleep 
without anyone disturbing you. I will banish the wild beast and 
keep the sword of war from passing through the land. {I}7_{/}You will 
rout your enemies and they will fall before your sword; {I}8_{/}five 
of you will pursue a hundred of them and a hundred of you ten 
thousand of them, and they will fall before you by the sword.
{R}_{I}9_{/}I will turn towards you to make your families fruitful and 
your people numerous, and I will confirm my covenant with you. 
{I}10_{/}When you are still eating from the old harvest you will have 
to discard what is stored to make place for the new. {I}11_{/}I will 
make my Dwelling among you and I will not reject you. [=]_{R}_{I}12_{/}I 
will walk among you; I will be your God and you will be my people. 
{R}_{I}13_{/}I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be 
their slaves no longer. I have broken the bars of your yoke 
letting you walk erect.

{N}CURSES{/}

[=]_{I}14_{/}But if you do not heed me and keep my commandments, 
{R}_{I}15_{/}if you reject my precepts and ignore my decrees, refusing to 
obey all my commandments and so break my covenant, {I}16_{/}I, in 
turn, will do this: I will bring upon you a terror, a tuberculosis 
and fever, weakening your eyes and draining your life. In vain 
will you sow, for your enemies will eat it. {I}17_{/}I will turn away 
from you until you are beaten by your enemies. Those who hate you 
shall rule over you and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
{I}18_{/}If after all this you do not obey me, I will continue to 
punish you sevenfold for your sins. [=]_{I}19_{/}I will break the 
pride of your power; I will make your sky like iron and your earth 
like bronze. {I}20_{/}Your strength shall be spent in vain; your land 
will give no produce and the trees no fruit. {I}21_{/}If you defy me 
and are unwilling to obey me, I will bring seven times as many 
plagues on you for your sins. [=]_{I}22_{/}I will let loose the wild 
animals and they will rob you of your children and destroy your 
cattle and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.
{I}23_{/}If, with all this, you do not repent but remain hostile 
towards me, {I}24_{/}then I will be hostile towards you and strike you 
seven times for your sins. [=]_{R}_{I}25_{/}The sword I will bring 
against you, and with the sword I will avenge my covenant with 
you; and when you gather together in your cities I will send 
pestilence on you and you shall be delivered into enemy hands. 
[=]_[*]_{I}26_{/}When I cut off your supply of bread and ten women 
bake bread in one oven and bring back rationed bread, you will eat 
and not be satisfied.
{I}27_{/}But if with all that you do not obey me and remain defiant 
towards me, {I}28_{/}I will go against you in fury and punish you 
sevenfold for your sins. [=]_{I}29_{/}You shall eat the flesh of your 
sons and the flesh of your daughters. {I}30_{/}I will destroy your 
high places and cut down your incense altars; I will cast your 
corpses on those of your idols and I shall hate you. {I}31_{/}I will 
lay waste your cities and make desolate your sanctuaries and no 
longer shall I relish your sweet-smelling offerings. {I}32{/}I will 
make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will 
be astonished. [=]_{I}33_{/}I will scatter you among the nations and 
unsheathe the sword behind you, as your land becomes desolate and 
your cities lie in ruins.
{I}34_{/}Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies 
waste while you are in the land of your enemies; {I}35_{/}then the 
land will rest and observe its sabbaths. As long as the land lies 
desolate it shall have the sabbath rest that it did not have when 
you inhabited it.
{I}36_{/}As for those of you who are left, I will make them faint-
hearted in the land of their enemies. The sound of a wind-blown 
leaf will chase them and even when no one pursues them, {I}37_{/}they 
will flee as from the sword and will fall. They will stumble 
against each other as if running from the sword even when they are 
not pursued, and you will be unable to stand up before your 
enemies. {I}38_{/}You shall perish among the nations and die in the 
land of your enemies.
[=]_{I}39_{/}Those among you who remain will rot away because of their 
wickedness in the land of your enemies and because of the 
wickedness of their fathers they will rot away with them. 
{I}40_{/}Then they will confess their sins and the sins of their 
fathers. They will admit that their treacheries and their 
hostility towards me made me hostile towards them [=]_{I}41_{/}and 
caused me to bring them to the land of their enemies, and then 
their uncircumcised hearts may become humble and they will accept 
the punishment for their sin. {R}_{I}42_{/}Then I will remember my 
covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant 
with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.
{I}43_{/}For the land will be abandoned by them and it shall observe 
its sabbath; it will be desolate without them, while they pay for 
their sin because they spurned my ordinances and ignored my 
statutes.
[=]_{R}_{I}44_{/}Yet even so, when they are in the land of their enemies 
I will not reject them or ignore them to the point of destroying 
them and breaking my covenant with them, for I am Yahweh, their 
God. {R}_{I}45_{/}For their sake I will remember my covenant with their 
forefathers whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight 
of the na-tions, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh."
{R}_{I}46_{/}These are the statutes, the ordinances and the teachings of 
the covenant Yahweh made with the sons of Israel, through Moses, 
on Mount Sinai.

{N}VOWS AND PROMISES{/}

{1}27{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, {R}_{I}2_{/}"Tell the sons of Israel 
about the fixed price for those who have to be ransomed because of 
a vow.
{R}_{I}3_{/}A man between twenty and sixty years of age shall be valued 
at fifty pieces of silver - the official standard; {I}4_{/}a woman 
shall be valued at thirty silver coins; {I}5_{/}between five and 
twenty years, a boy shall be valued at twenty silver coins, a girl 
at ten silver coins; {I}6_{/}between one month and five years, a boy 
shall be valued at five silver coins, a girl at three silver 
coins; {R}_{I}7_{/}at sixty years and over, a man shall be valued at 
fifteen silver coins and a woman at ten silver coins. {I}8_{/}If the 
person who made the vow is too poor to pay the standard price, he 
must present the person concerned to the priest, and the priest 
shall set a value proportionate to the re-sources of the person 
who made the vow.
{I}9_{/}As for an animal suitable for offering to Yahweh, any such 
animal given to Yahweh is holy. {I}10_{/}It cannot be exchanged or a 
substitute offered - good for bad, bad for good. If one animal is 
substituted for another, both of them shall belong to Yahweh. 
{I}11_{/}If it is an unclean animal, and not suitable for offering to 
Yahweh, whatever it may be it must be presented to the priest 
{I}12_{/}and he shall set a price for it, judging it good or bad. 
{I}13_{/}You must abide by his price. The person who wishes to buy it 
back must add one fifth to the price set.
{R}_{I}14_{/}If a man dedicates his house to Yahweh, the priest shall set 
a price for it, judging whether its value is great or little. You 
must abide by the priest's price. {R}_{I}15_{/}If the man who has vowed 
his house wishes to buy it back, he must add one fifth to the 
price and it shall be given back to him.
{R}_{I}16_{/}If a man dedicates one of the fields of his patrimony to 
Yahweh, its value shall be calculated according to its 
productivity, at the rate of fifty silver coins to one bushel of 
barley.
{I}17_{/}If he dedicates the field during the Jubilee year, he must 
stand by this price. {I}18_{/}But if he dedicates it after the 
Jubilee, the priest shall calculate the price on the basis of the 
number of years still to run until the next Jubilee and the price 
shall be reduced accordingly.
{I}19_{/}If he wishes to buy back the field, he shall add one fifth to 
the price, and the field shall be given back to him. {I}20_{/}If he 
does not buy it back but sells it to another, the right of 
redemption ceases; {R}_{I}21_{/}when the buyer has to give it up at the 
Jubilee year, it becomes a thing dedicated to Yahweh, the same as 
a field laid under the ban: the man's property passes to the 
priest.
{I}22_{/}If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, but 
which is not part of his patrimony, {R}_{I}23_{/}the priest shall assess 
the price on the basis of the number of years still to run before 
the Jubilee year; and the man shall pay this sum the same day, as 
for a thing dedicated to Yahweh. {R}_{I}24_{/}In the Jubilee year, the 
field shall return to the seller, to the man to whose patrimony 
the land belongs. [=]_{I}25_{/}All prices must be made according to 
the official sanctuary standards at the rate of twenty gerahs to 
one silver piece.
[=]_{I}26_{/}No one may dedicate the firstborn of his cattle, for it 
belongs to Yahweh by right: whether ox or sheep, it belongs to 
Yahweh. {I}27_{/}But if it is an unclean animal it may be bought back 
at the price with one fifth added; if it is not bought back, the 
animal shall be sold at the price set.
{R}_{I}28_{/}Nothing that is dedicated to Yahweh by anathema may be 
bought back; nothing whether a man, an animal, or a field of 
patrimony. What is dedicated by anathema becomes a most holy thing 
and belongs to Yahweh. {R}_{I}29_{/}A human being dedicated by anathema 
cannot be bought back, he must be put to death.
[=]_{I}30_{/}One tenth of all the produce of the earth or the fruits 
of trees, belongs to Yahweh. {R}_{I}31_{/}If a man wishes to buy back 
part of his tithe, he must add one fifth to its value.
[=]_{I}32_{/}In all tithes of flock or herd, the tenth animal of all 
that pass under the herdsman's staff shall be a thing dedicated to 
Yahweh; {I}33_{/}there must be no picking out of good and bad, no 
substitution. If substitution takes place, both the animal and its 
substitute shall be things dedicated without possibility of buying 
them back."
{R}_{I}34_{/}These are the commandments that Yahweh laid down for Moses 
on Mount Sinai, for the people of Israel.

