1:1THE LORD called to Moses, and spoke
to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, 1:2"Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When anyone of you offers an
offering to THE LORD, you shall offer your offering of the cattle, from the
herd and from the flock.
1:3"'If his offering is a burnt
offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall
offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted
before THE LORD. 1:4He shall lay his hand on the head
of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement
for him. 1:5He shall kill the bull before
THE LORD. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle
the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
1:6He shall flay the burnt offering,
and cut it into pieces. 1:7The sons of Aaron the priest shall
put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; 1:8and Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is
on the fire which is on the altar; 1:9but its
innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the
whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor to THE LORD.
1:10"'If his offering is from
the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he
shall offer a male without blemish. 1:11He shall
kill it on the north side of the altar before THE LORD. Aaron's sons, the
priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 1:12He shall cut it into its pieces,
with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood
that is on the fire which is on the altar, 1:13but the
innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the
whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor to THE LORD.
1:14"'If his offering to THE LORD
is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of
turtledoves, or of young pigeons. 1:15The priest
shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the
altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; 1:16and he shall take away its crop
with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the
place of the ashes. 1:17He shall tear it by its wings,
but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on
the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savor to THE LORD.
2:1"'When anyone offers an
offering of a meal offering to THE LORD, his offering shall be of fine
flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. 2:2He shall bring it to Aaron's sons
the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its
oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of
it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to THE LORD. 2:3That which is left of the meal
offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a most holy thing of the
offerings of THE LORD made by fire.
2:4"'When you offer an offering
of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine
flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 2:5If your offering is a meal
offering of the baking pan, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed
with oil. 2:6You shall cut it in pieces, and
pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. 2:7If your
offering is a meal offering of the frying pan, it shall be made of fine
flour with oil. 2:8You shall bring the meal offering
that is made of these things to THE LORD: and it shall be presented to the
priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. 2:9The priest
shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the
altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to THE LORD. 2:10That which is left of the meal
offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the
offerings of THE LORD made by fire.
2:11"'No meal offering, which
you shall offer to THE LORD, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no
yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to THE LORD. 2:12As an offering of firstfruits you
shall offer them to THE LORD: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor
on the altar. 2:13Every offering of your meal
offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of
the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all
your offerings you shall offer salt.
2:14"'If you offer a meal
offering of first fruits to THE LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering
of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of
the fresh ear. 2:15You shall put oil on it, and lay
frankincense on it: it is a meal offering. 2:16The priest
shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its
oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to
THE LORD.
3:1"'If his offering is a
sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male
or female, he shall offer it without blemish before THE LORD. 3:2He shall lay his hand on the head
of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and
Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round
about. 3:3He shall offer of the sacrifice of
peace offerings an offering made by fire to THE LORD; the fat that covers
the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:4and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:5Aaron's sons
shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood
that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to
THE LORD.
3:6"'If his offering for a
sacrifice of peace offerings to THE LORD is from the flock; male or female,
he shall offer it without blemish. 3:7If he offers
a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before THE LORD; 3:8and he shall lay his hand on the
head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's
sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. 3:9He shall offer from the sacrifice
of peace offerings an offering made by fire to THE LORD; its fat, the entire
tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that
covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, 3:10and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with
the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:11The priest
shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to
THE LORD.
3:12"'If his offering is a goat,
then he shall offer it before THE LORD: 3:13and he
shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting;
and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.
3:14He shall offer from it as his
offering, an offering made by fire to THE LORD; the fat that covers the
innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:15and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:16The priest
shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire,
for a sweet savor; all the fat is THE LORD's.
3:17"'It shall be a perpetual
statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall
eat neither fat nor blood.'"
4:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 4:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things
which THE LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: 4:3if the anointed priest sins so as
to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has
sinned, a young bull without blemish to THE LORD for a sin offering. 4:4He shall bring the bull to the
door of the Tent of Meeting before THE LORD; and he shall lay his hand on
the head of the bull, and kill the bull before THE LORD. 4:5The anointed priest shall take
some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. 4:6The priest shall dip his finger in
the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before THE LORD,
before the veil of the sanctuary. 4:7The priest
shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense
before THE LORD, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all
the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering,
which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4:8He shall
take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that
covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 4:9and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with
the kidneys, he shall take away, 4:10as it is
taken off of the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall
burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 4:11The bull's
skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and
its dung, 4:12even the whole bull shall he
carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured
out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it
shall be burned.
4:13"'If the whole congregation
of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and
they have done any of the things which THE LORD has commanded not to be
done, and are guilty; 4:14when the sin in which they have
sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin
offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting. 4:15The elders
of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before
THE LORD; and the bull shall be killed before THE LORD. 4:16The
anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of
Meeting: 4:17and the priest shall dip his
finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before THE LORD, before the
veil. 4:18He shall put some of the blood on
the horns of the altar which is before THE LORD, that is in the Tent of
Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the
altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4:19All its fat he shall take from
it, and burn it on the altar. 4:20Thus shall he do with the bull;
as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and
the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. 4:21He shall carry forth the bull
outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin
offering for the assembly.
4:22"'When a ruler sins, and
unwittingly does any one of all the things which THE LORD his God has
commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:23if his sin,
in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his
offering a goat, a male without blemish. 4:24He shall
lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they
kill the burnt offering before THE LORD. It is a sin offering. 4:25The priest shall take some of the
blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the
altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the
base of the altar of burnt offering. 4:26All its fat
he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin,
and he will be forgiven.
4:27"'If anyone of the common
people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which THE LORD has
commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:28if his sin,
which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his
offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has
sinned. 4:29He shall lay his hand on the head
of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt
offering. 4:30The priest shall take some of its
blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt
offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the
altar. 4:31All its fat he shall take away,
like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor to THE LORD; and
the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
4:32"'If he brings a lamb as his
offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish. 4:33He shall lay his hand on the head
of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where
they kill the burnt offering. 4:34The priest shall take some of the
blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the
altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out
at the base of the altar. 4:35All its fat he shall take away,
like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings
of THE LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
5:1"'If anyone sins, in that he
hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or
known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2"'Or if anyone touches any
unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the
carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and
it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
5:3"'Or if he touches the
uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean,
and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
5:4"'Or if anyone swears rashly
with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might
utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it,
then he shall be guilty of one of these. 5:5It shall be,
when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has
sinned: 5:6and he shall bring his trespass
offering to THE LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the
flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him concerning his sin.
5:7"'If he can't afford a lamb,
then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned,
two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to THE LORD; one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering. 5:8He shall
bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the
sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it
completely. 5:9He shall sprinkle some of the
blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the
blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
5:10He shall offer the second for a
burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make
atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be
forgiven.
5:11"'But if he can't afford two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for
that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for
a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any
frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 5:12He shall
bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the
memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of THE LORD
made by fire. It is a sin offering. 5:13The priest
shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any
of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the
priest's, as the meal offering.'"
5:14THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:15"If anyone commits a
trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of THE LORD; then he
shall bring his trespass offering to THE LORD, a ram without blemish from
the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 5:16He shall
make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and
shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest
shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he
will be forgiven.
5:17"If anyone sins, and does
any of the things which THE LORD has commanded not to be done; though he
didn't know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 5:18He shall bring a ram without
blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass
offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be
forgiven. 5:19It is a trespass offering. He is
certainly guilty before THE LORD."
6:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:2"If anyone sins, and commits
a trespass against THE LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter
of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
6:3or has found that which was lost,
and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these
things that a man does, sinning therein; 6:4then it
shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he
took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the
deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 6:5or any thing about which he has
sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth
part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of
his being found guilty. 6:6He shall bring his trespass
offering to THE LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to
your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. 6:7The priest shall make atonement
for him before THE LORD, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does
to become guilty."
6:8THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:9"Command Aaron and his sons,
saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall
be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of
the altar shall be kept burning on it. 6:10The priest
shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches
upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has
consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the
altar. 6:11He shall take off his garments,
and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean
place. 6:12The fire on the altar shall be
kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on
it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it,
and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 6:13Fire shall
be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:14"'This is the law of the
meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before THE LORD, before the
altar. 6:15He shall take from there his
handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all
the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the
altar for a sweet savor, as its memorial, to THE LORD. 6:16That which
is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without
yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of
Meeting 6:17It shall not be baked with yeast.
I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most
holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. 6:18Every male among the children of
Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your
generations, from the offerings of THE LORD made by fire. Whoever touches
them shall be holy.'"
6:19THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:20"This is the offering of
Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to THE LORD in the day when he
is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. 6:21It shall be made with oil in a
baking pan. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the
meal offering in baked pieces for a sweet savor to THE LORD. 6:22The anointed priest that will be
in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it
shall be wholly burnt to THE LORD. 6:23Every meal
offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
6:24THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:25"Speak to Aaron and to his
sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the
burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before THE LORD.
It is most holy. 6:26The priest who offers it for sin
shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent
of Meeting. 6:27Whatever shall touch its flesh
shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you
shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. 6:28But the earthen vessel in which
it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a brazen vessel, it
shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 6:29Every male
among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy. 6:30No sin
offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to
make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with
fire.
7:1"'This is the law of the
trespass offering. It is most holy. 7:2In the place
where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering;
and its blood he shall sprinkle on the altar round about. 7:3He shall offer all of its fat: the
fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 7:4and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; 7:5and the
priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to
THE LORD: it is a trespass offering. 7:6Every male
among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is
most holy.
7:7"'As is the sin offering, so
is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes
atonement with them shall have it. 7:8The priest
who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 7:9Every meal offering that is baked
in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying pan, and on the baking
pan, shall be the priest's who offers it. 7:10Every meal
offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as
well as another.
7:11"'This is the law of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to THE LORD. 7:12If he offers it for a
thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil,
and cakes mixed with oil. 7:13With cakes of leavened bread he
shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving. 7:14Of it he shall offer one out of
each offering for a heave offering to THE LORD. It shall be the priest's who
sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. 7:15The flesh
of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on
the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
7:16"'But if the sacrifice of
his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the
day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it
shall be eaten: 7:17but what remains of the flesh of
the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. 7:18If any of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be
accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an
abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
7:19"'The flesh that touches any
unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the
flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it; 7:20but the
soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that
belongs to THE LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut
off from his people. 7:21When anyone touches any unclean
thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean
abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which belong to THE LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his
people.'"
7:22THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:23"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. 7:24The fat of that which dies of
itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any
other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. 7:25For whoever
eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to
THE LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 7:26You shall not eat any blood,
whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. 7:27Whoever it is who eats any blood,
that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"
7:28THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:29"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to
THE LORD shall bring his offering to THE LORD out of the sacrifice of his
peace offerings. 7:30With his own hands he shall bring
the offerings of THE LORD made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the
breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before THE LORD. 7:31The priest shall burn the fat on
the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 7:32The right thigh you shall give to
the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace
offerings. 7:33He among the sons of Aaron who
offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right
thigh for a portion. 7:34For the waved breast and the
heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the
priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of
Israel.'"
7:35This is the anointing portion of
Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of
THE LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to
THE LORD in the priest's office; 7:36which THE LORD commanded to be
given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It
is their portion forever throughout their generations. 7:37This is the law of the burnt
offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the
trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; 7:38which THE LORD commanded Moses in
Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer
their offerings to THE LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
8:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8:2"Take Aaron and his sons with
him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin
offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 8:3and assemble all the congregation
at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
8:4Moses did as THE LORD commanded him;
and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 8:5Moses said to the congregation,
"This is the thing which THE LORD has commanded to be done." 8:6Moses brought Aaron and his sons,
and washed them with water. 8:7He put the coat on him, tied the
sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied
the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with
it. 8:8He placed the breastplate on him;
and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 8:9He set the turban on his head; and
on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as
THE LORD commanded Moses. 8:10Moses took the anointing oil, and
anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 8:11He sprinkled it on the altar
seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and
its base, to sanctify them. 8:12He poured some of the anointing
oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 8:13Moses brought Aaron's sons, and
clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on
them; as THE LORD commanded Moses.
8:14He brought the bull of the sin
offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull
of the sin offering. 8:15He killed it; and Moses took the
blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger,
and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar,
and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 8:16He took all
the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar. 8:17But the bull, and its skin, and
its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as THE LORD
commanded Moses. 8:18He presented the ram of the burnt
offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
8:19He killed it; and Moses sprinkled
the blood on the altar round about. 8:20He cut the
ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the
fat. 8:21He washed the innards and the
legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a
burnt offering for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to
THE LORD; as THE LORD commanded Moses. 8:22He
presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on the head of the ram. 8:23He killed
it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's
right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his
right foot. 8:24He brought Aaron's sons; and
Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the
thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and
Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about. 8:25He took the
fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the
cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right
thigh; 8:26and out of the basket of
unleavened bread, that was before THE LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and
one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on
the right thigh. 8:27He put all these in Aaron's hands
and in his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before THE LORD.
8:28Moses took them from their hands,
and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a
consecration for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to THE LORD.
8:29Moses took the breast, and waved
it for a wave offering before THE LORD. It was Moses' portion of the ram of
consecration, as THE LORD commanded Moses. 8:30Moses took
some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar,
and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his
sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons,
and his sons' garments with him.
8:31Moses said to Aaron and to his
sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there
eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I
commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.' 8:32What remains of the flesh and of
the bread you shall burn with fire. 8:33You shall
not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days
of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven
days. 8:34What has been done this day, so
THE LORD has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 8:35At the door of the Tent of
Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of
THE LORD, that you don't die: for so I am commanded." 8:36Aaron and his sons did all the
things which THE LORD commanded by Moses.
9:1It happened on the eighth day,
that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; 9:2and he said to Aaron, "Take a
calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering,
without blemish, and offer them before THE LORD. 9:3You shall
speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin
offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a
burnt offering; 9:4and an ox and a ram for peace
offerings, to sacrifice before THE LORD; and a meal offering mixed with oil:
for today THE LORD appears to you.'"
9:5They brought what Moses commanded
before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood
before THE LORD. 9:6Moses said, "This is the
thing which THE LORD commanded that you should do: and the glory of THE LORD
shall appear to you." 9:7Moses said to Aaron, "Draw
near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering,
and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the
offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as THE LORD
commanded."
9:8So Aaron drew near to the altar,
and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9:9The sons of Aaron presented the
blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the
horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar: 9:10but the fat, and the kidneys, and
the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as
THE LORD commanded Moses. 9:11The flesh and the skin he burned
with fire outside the camp. 9:12He killed the burnt offering; and
Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar
round about. 9:13They delivered the burnt offering
to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.
9:14He washed the innards and the
legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar. 9:15He presented the people's
offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people,
and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 9:16He presented the burnt offering,
and offered it according to the ordinance. 9:17He
presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it
upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning. 9:18He also killed the ox and the
ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and
Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar
round about, 9:19and the fat of the ox and of the
ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and
the cover of the liver: 9:20and they put the fat upon the
breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: 9:21and the
breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before THE LORD,
as Moses commanded. 9:22Aaron lifted up his hands toward
the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
9:23Moses and Aaron went into the
Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of
THE LORD appeared to all the people. 9:24There came
forth fire from before THE LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat
upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on
their faces.
10:1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it,
and offered strange fire before THE LORD, which he had not commanded them.
10:2And fire came forth from before
THE LORD, and devoured them, and they died before THE LORD.
10:3Then Moses said to Aaron,
"This is what THE LORD spoke of, saying,
"'I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
And before all the people I will be
glorified.'"
Aaron held his peace. 10:4Moses called Mishael and
Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them,
"Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the
camp." 10:5So they drew near, and carried
them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
10:6Moses said to Aaron, and to
Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads
go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not
be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house
of Israel, bewail the burning which THE LORD has kindled. 10:7You shall not go out from the
door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of THE LORD
is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.
10:8THE LORD spoke to Aaron, saying, 10:9"Drink no wine nor strong
drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting,
that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations: 10:10and that you are to make a
distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and
the clean; 10:11and that you are to teach the
children of Israel all the statutes which THE LORD has spoken to them by
Moses."
10:12Moses spoke to Aaron, and to
Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal
offering that remains of the offerings of THE LORD made by fire, and eat it
without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 10:13and you shall eat it in a holy
place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the
offerings of THE LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded. 10:14The waved breast and the heaved
thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your
daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons'
portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of
Israel. 10:15The heaved thigh and the waved
breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to
wave it for a wave offering before THE LORD: and it shall be yours, and your
sons' with you, as a portion forever; as THE LORD has commanded."
10:16Moses diligently inquired about
the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry
with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, 10:17"Why haven't you eaten the
sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he
has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make
atonement for them before THE LORD? 10:18Behold,
its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you
certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."
10:19Aaron spoke to Moses,
"Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their
burnt offering before THE LORD; and such things as these have happend to me:
and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in
the sight of THE LORD?"
10:20When Moses heard that, it was
pleasing in his sight.
11:1THE LORD spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying to them, 11:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all
the animals that are on the earth. 11:3Whatever
parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals,
that you may eat.
11:4"'Nevertheless these you
shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof:
the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is
unclean to you. 11:5The coney, because he chews the
cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. 11:6The hare, because she chews the
cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you. 11:7The pig, because he has a split
hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to
you. 11:8Of their flesh you shall not eat,
and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
11:9These you may eat of all that are
in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas,
and in the rivers, that you may eat. 11:10All that
don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that
move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the
waters, they are an abomination to you, 11:11and you
detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their
carcasses. 11:12Whatever has no fins nor scales
in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
11:13"'These you shall detest
among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the
eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture, 11:14and the
red kite, any kind of black kite, 11:15any kind
of raven, 11:16the horned owl, the screech owl,
and the gull, any kind of hawk, 11:17the little
owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 11:18the white
owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 11:19the stork,
any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20"'All flying insects that
walk on all fours are an abomination to you. 11:21Yet you
may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which
have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth. 11:22Even of these you may eat: any
kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of
grasshopper. 11:23But all winged creeping things
which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
11:24"'By these you will become
unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the
evening. 11:25Whoever carries any part of
their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
11:26"'Every animal which parts
the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you.
Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 11:27Whatever
goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean
to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
11:28He who carries their carcass
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean
to you.
11:29"'These are they which are
unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the
weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, 11:30the gecko,
and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon. 11:31These are they which are unclean
to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead,
shall be unclean until the evening. 11:32On
whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean;
whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever
vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and
it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean. 11:33Every earthen vessel, into which
any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break
it. 11:34All food which may be eaten,
that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be
drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 11:35Everything
whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or
range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall
be unclean to you. 11:36Nevertheless a spring or a
cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which
touches their carcass shall be unclean. 11:37If part of
their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
11:38But if water is put on the seed,
and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
11:39"'If any animal, of which
you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. 11:40He who eats of its carcass shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries
its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
11:41"'Every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. 11:42Whatever goes on its belly, and
whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping
things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an
abomination. 11:43You shall not make yourselves
abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make
yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby. 11:44For I am THE LORD your God.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall
you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the
earth. 11:45For I am THE LORD who brought you
up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy,
for I am holy.
11:46"'This is the law of the
animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the
waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 11:47to make a distinction between
the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten
and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"
12:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she
shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she
shall be unclean. 12:3In the eighth day the flesh of
his foreskin shall be circumcised. 12:4She shall
continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not
touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her
purifying are completed. 12:5But if she bears a female child,
then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall
continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
12:6"'When the days of her
purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring
to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a
burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
12:7and he shall offer it before
THE LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the
fountain of her blood.
"'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
12:8If she cannot afford a lamb, then
she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt
offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make
atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
13:1THE LORD spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, 13:2"When a man shall have a
rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in
the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to
Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests: 13:3and the
priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair
in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper
than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall
examine him, and pronounce him unclean. 13:4If the
bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and the appearance of it
isn't deeper than the skin, and the hair of it hasn't turned white, then
the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. 13:5The priest shall examine him on
the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and
the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him
for seven more days. 13:6The priest shall examine him
again on the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague has faded, and the
plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 13:7But if the scab spreads on the
skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall
show himself to the priest again. 13:8The priest
shall examine him; and, behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
13:9"When the plague of leprosy
is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; 13:10and the priest shall examine
him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the
hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising, 13:11it is a
chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce
him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
13:12"If the leprosy breaks out
all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected
person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;
13:13then the priest shall examine
him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall
pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
13:14But whenever raw flesh appears
in him, he shall be unclean. 13:15The priest shall examine the raw
flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
13:16Or if the raw flesh turns again,
and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest; 13:17and the priest shall examine
him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall
pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
13:18"When the body has a boil
on its skin, and it has healed, 13:19and in the
place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot,
reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest; 13:20and the priest shall examine it;
and, behold, if the appearance of it is lower than the skin, and the hair
of it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is
the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. 13:21But if the priest examines it,
and, behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the
skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. 13:22If it spreads in the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. 13:23But if the bright spot stays in
its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.
13:24"Or when the body has a
burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright
spot, reddish-white, or white, 13:25then the
priest shall examine it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot has
turned white, and the appearance of it is deeper than the skin; it is
leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce
him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 13:26But if the
priest examines it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright
spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest
shall isolate him seven days. 13:27The priest shall examine him on
the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 13:28If the
bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is
faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce
him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.
13:29"When a man or woman has a
plague on the head or on the beard, 13:30then the
priest shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the appearance of it is
deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the
head or of the beard. 13:31If the priest examines the
plague of itching, and, behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin,
and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the
person infected with itching seven days. 13:32On the
seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the itch
hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of
the itch isn't deeper than the skin, 13:33then he
shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall
shut him up who has the itch seven more days. 13:34On the
seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and, behold, if the itch
hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and
be clean. 13:35But if the itch spreads in the
skin after his cleansing, 13:36then the priest shall examine
him; and, behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not
look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. 13:37But if in
his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is
healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:38"When a man or a woman has
bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots; 13:39then the priest shall examine
them; and, behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a
dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is
clean.
13:40"If a man's hair has fallen
from his head, he is bald. He is clean. 13:41If his
hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald.
He is clean. 13:42But if there is in the bald
head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking
out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 13:43Then the
priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is
reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the
appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 13:44he is a
leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean.
His plague is on his head.
13:45"The leper in whom the
plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang
loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' 13:46All the days in which the plague
is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone.
Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.
13:47"The garment also that the
plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen
garment; 13:48whether it is in warp, or woof;
of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 13:49if the plague is greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or
in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown
to the priest. 13:50The priest shall examine the
plague, and isolate the plague seven days. 13:51He shall
examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use
the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
13:52He shall burn the garment,
whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in
which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in
the fire.
13:53"If the priest examines it,
and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp,
or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 13:54then the
priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and
he shall isolate it seven more days. 13:55Then the
priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and, behold, if the
plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is
unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the
bareness is inside or outside. 13:56If the
priest looks, and, behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then
he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the
warp, or out of the woof: 13:57and if it appears again in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is
spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is. 13:58The garment, either the warp, or
the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the
plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time,
and it will be clean."
13:59This is the law of the plague of
mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or
in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
14:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2"This shall be the law of
the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,
14:3and the priest shall go forth out
of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of
leprosy is healed in the leper, 14:4then the
priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living
clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 14:5The priest shall command them to
kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 14:6As for the living bird, he shall
take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall
dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over
the running water. 14:7He shall sprinkle on him who is
to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him
clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
14:8"He who is to be cleansed
shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in
water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but
shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 14:9It shall be
on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his
beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall
wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be
clean.
14:10"On the eighth day he shall
take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without
blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 14:11The priest
who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those
things, before THE LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
14:12"The priest shall take one
of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of
oil, and wave them for a wave offering before THE LORD. 14:13He shall kill the male lamb in
the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the
place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the
trespass offering. It is most holy. 14:14The priest
shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest
shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and
on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 14:15The priest shall take some of
the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. 14:16The priest shall dip his right
finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the
oil with his finger seven times before THE LORD. 14:17The priest
shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of
the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right
hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass
offering. 14:18The rest of the oil that is in
the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed,
and the priest shall make atonement for him before THE LORD.
14:19"The priest shall offer the
sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of
his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; 14:20and the priest shall offer the
burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21"If he is poor, and can't
afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering
to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; 14:22and two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin
offering, and the other a burnt offering.
14:23"On the eighth day he shall
bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, before THE LORD. 14:24The priest shall take the lamb
of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave
them for a wave offering before THE LORD. 14:25He shall
kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the
blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of
him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the
big toe of his right foot. 14:26The priest shall pour some of
the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 14:27and the
priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his
left hand seven times before THE LORD. 14:28Then the
priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the
right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right
hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of
the trespass offering. 14:29The rest of the oil that is in
the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed,
to make atonement for him before THE LORD. 14:30He shall
offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able
to afford, 14:31even such as he is able to
afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to
be cleansed before THE LORD."
14:32This is the law for him in whom
is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his
cleansing.
14:33THE LORD spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, 14:34"When you have come into
the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a
spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, 14:35then he who owns the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of
plague in the house.' 14:36The priest shall command that
they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague,
that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the
priest shall go in to inspect the house. 14:37He shall
examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be
deeper than the wall; 14:38then the priest shall go out of
the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 14:39The priest shall come again on
the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the
house, 14:40then the priest shall command
that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into
an unclean place outside of the city: 14:41and he
shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they
shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into
an unclean place. 14:42They shall take other stones,
and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar,
and shall plaster the house.
14:43"If the plague comes again,
and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after
he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered; 14:44then the priest shall come in
and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a
destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean. 14:45He shall
break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's
mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
14:46"Moreover he who goes into
the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. 14:47He who lies down in the house
shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his
clothes.
14:48"If the priest shall come
in, and examine it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house,
after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house
clean, because the plague is healed. 14:49To cleanse
the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop. 14:50He shall kill one of the birds
in an earthen vessel over running water. 14:51He shall
take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,
and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and
sprinkle the house seven times. 14:52He shall
cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water,
with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the
scarlet; 14:53but he shall let the living bird
go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the
house; and it shall be clean."
14:54This is the law for any plague
of leprosy, and for an itch, 14:55and for the destructive mildew
of a garment, and for a house, 14:56and for a
rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 14:57to teach
when it is unclean, and when it is clean.
This is the law of leprosy.
15:1THE LORD spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, saying, 15:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body,
because of his discharge he is unclean. 15:3This shall
be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his
discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his
uncleanness.
15:4"'Every bed whereon he who
has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall
be unclean. 15:5Whoever touches his bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:6He who sits on anything whereon
the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:7"'He who touches the body of
him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:8"'If he who has the
discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:9"'Whatever saddle he who has
the discharge rides on shall be unclean. 15:10Whoever
touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He
who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:11"'Whoever he who has the
discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:12"'The earthen vessel, which
he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of
wood shall be rinsed in water.
15:13"'When he who has a
discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself
seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his
flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
15:14"'On the eighth day he
shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before THE LORD
to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest: 15:15and the priest shall offer them,
the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest
shall make atonement for him before THE LORD for his discharge.
15:16"'If any man has an
emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be
unclean until the evening. 15:17Every garment, and every skin,
whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:18If a man lies with a woman and
there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
15:19"'If a woman has a
discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her
impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the
evening.
15:20"'Everything that she lies
on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on
shall be unclean. 15:21Whoever touches her bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. 15:22Whoever touches anything that
she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening. 15:23If it is on the bed, or on
anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until
the evening.
15:24"'If any man lies with her,
and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every
bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
15:25"'If a woman has a
discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she
has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the
discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is
unclean. 15:26Every bed whereon she lies all
the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and
everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
period. 15:27Whoever touches these things
shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
15:28"'But if she is cleansed of
her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that
she shall be clean. 15:29On the eighth day she shall take
two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to
the door of the Tent of Meeting. 15:30The priest
shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before THE LORD for
the uncleanness of her discharge.
15:31"'Thus you shall separate
the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in
their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their
midst.'"
15:32This is the law of him who has a
discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean
thereby; 15:33and of her who has her period,
and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her
who is unclean.
16:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, after the
death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before THE LORD, and
died; 16:2and THE LORD said to Moses,
"Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy
Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he
die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
16:3"Herewith shall Aaron come
into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a
burnt offering. 16:4He shall put on the holy linen
coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on
the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are
the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. 16:5He shall take from the
congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering,
and one ram for a burnt offering
16:6"Aaron shall offer the bull
of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself
and for his house. 16:7He shall take the two goats, and
set them before THE LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 16:8Aaron shall cast lots for the two
goats; one lot for THE LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 16:9Aaron shall present the goat on
which the lot fell for THE LORD, and offer him for a sin offering. 16:10But the goat, on which the lot
fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before THE LORD, to make
atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
16:11"Aaron shall present the
bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement
for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering
which is for himself. 16:12He shall take a censer full of
coals of fire from off the altar before THE LORD, and two handfuls of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: 16:13and he
shall put the incense on the fire before THE LORD, that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will
not die. 16:14He shall take some of the blood
of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the
east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with
his finger seven times.
16:15"Then he shall kill the
goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood
within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the
bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16:16and he shall make atonement for
the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and
because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do
for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their
uncleanness. 16:17There shall be no one in the
Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until
he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household,
and for all the assembly of Israel.
16:18"He shall go out to the
altar that is before THE LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some
of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns
of the altar round about. 16:19He shall sprinkle some of the
blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy
from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
16:20"When he has made an end of
atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall
present the live goat. 16:21Aaron shall lay both his hands
on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins;
and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away
into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. 16:22The goat shall carry all their
iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in
the wilderness.
16:23"Aaron shall come into the
Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on
when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. 16:24Then he shall bathe himself in
water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his
burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement
for himself and for the people. 16:25The fat of
the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
16:26"He who lets the goat go
for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water,
and afterward he shall come into the camp. 16:27The bull
for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was
brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth
outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their
dung with fire. 16:28He who burns them shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp.
16:29"It shall be a statute to
you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you
shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born,
or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: 16:30for on
this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your
sins you shall be clean before THE LORD. 16:31It is a
Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a
statute forever. 16:32The priest, who is anointed and
who is consecrated to be priest in his father's place, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. 16:33Then he shall make atonement for
the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting
and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all
the people of the assembly.
16:34"This shall be an
everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel
once in the year because of all their sins."
It was done as THE LORD commanded Moses.
17:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17:2"Speak to Aaron, and to his
sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the
thing which THE LORD has commanded, 17:3Whatever
man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in
the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, 17:4and hasn't
brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering
to THE LORD before the tabernacle of THE LORD: blood shall be imputed to that
man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his
people. 17:5This is to the end that the
children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the
open field, that they may bring them to THE LORD, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace
offerings to THE LORD. 17:6The priest shall sprinkle the
blood on the altar of THE LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn
the fat for a sweet savor to THE LORD. 17:7They shall
no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they
play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout
their generations.'
17:8"You shall say to them, 'Any
man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9and doesn't bring it to the door
of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to THE LORD; that man shall be cut
off from his people.
17:10"'Any man of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats
any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood,
and will cut him off from among his people. 17:11For the
life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar
to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement
by reason of the life. 17:12Therefore I have said to the
children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither
shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."
17:13"'Whatever man there is of
the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among
them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall
pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 17:14For as to
the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the
children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of
flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be
cut off."
17:15"'Every person that eats
what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is
native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean. 17:16But if he doesn't wash them, or
bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
18:1THE LORD said to Moses, 18:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, and say to them, 'I am THE LORD your God. 18:3You shall
not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not
do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither
shall you walk in their statutes. 18:4You shall
do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am
THE LORD your God. 18:5You shall therefore keep my
statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I
am THE LORD.
18:6"'None of you shall approach
anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am
THE LORD.
18:7"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your
mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:8"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
18:9"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of
your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
18:10"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even
their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
18:11"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father,
since she is your sister.
"'18:12You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.
18:13"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
18:14"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she
is your aunt.
18:15"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not
uncover her nakedness.
18:16"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
18:17"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's
daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are
near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18:18"'You shall not take a wife
to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister
is yet alive.
18:19"'You shall not approach a
woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her
uncleanness.
18:20"'You shall not lie
carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
18:21"'You shall not give any of
your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name
of your God: I am THE LORD.
18:22"'You shall not lie with a
man, as with a woman. That is detestible.
18:23"'You shall not lie with
any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give
herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
18:24"'Don't defile yourselves
in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting
out before you were defiled. 18:25The land was defiled: therefore
I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants. 18:26You therefore shall keep my
statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations;
neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
you; 18:27(for all these abominations have
the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became
defiled); 18:28that the land not vomit you out
also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
18:29"'For whoever shall do any
of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from
among their people. 18:30Therefore you shall keep my
charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which
were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with
them: I am THE LORD your God.'"
19:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 19:2"Speak to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy;
for I THE LORD your God am holy.
19:3"'Each one of you shall
respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am THE LORD
your God.
19:4"'Don't turn to idols, nor
make molten gods for yourselves. I am THE LORD your God.
19:5"'When you offer a sacrifice
of peace offerings to THE LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be
accepted. 19:6It shall be eaten the same day
you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third
day, it shall be burned with fire. 19:7If it is
eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be
accepted; 19:8but everyone who eats it shall
bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of THE LORD, and
that soul shall be cut off from his people.
19:9"'When you reap the harvest
of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither
shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 19:10You shall
not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of
your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I
am THE LORD your God.
19:11"'You shall not steal;
neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
19:12"'You shall not swear by my
name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am THE LORD.
19:13"'You shall not oppress
your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain
with you all night until the morning.
19:14"'You shall not curse the
deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your
God. I am THE LORD.
19:15"'You shall do no injustice
in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to
the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
19:16"'You shall not go up and
down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the
life of your neighbor. I am THE LORD.
19:17"'You shall not hate your
brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear
sin because of him.
19:18You shall not take vengeance,
nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall
love your neighbor as yourself. I am THE LORD.
19:19"'You shall keep my
statutes.
"'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals.
"'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
"'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds
of material.
19:20"'If a man lies carnally
with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man,
and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall
not be put to death, because she was not free. 19:21He shall
bring his trespass offering to THE LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
even a ram for a trespass offering. 19:22The priest
shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before
THE LORD for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has
committed shall be forgiven him.
19:23"'When you come into the
land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count
their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be
forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. 19:24But in the
fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to THE LORD. 19:25In the fifth year you shall eat
its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am THE LORD your God.
19:26"'You shall not eat any
meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor
practice sorcery.
19:27You shall not cut the hair on
the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
19:28"'You shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am
THE LORD.
19:29Don't profane your daughter, to
make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land
become full of wickedness.
19:30"'You shall keep my
Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am THE LORD.
19:31"'Don't turn to those who
are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by
them. I am THE LORD your God.
19:32You shall rise up before the
gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God.
I am THE LORD.
19:33"'If a stranger lives as a
foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 19:34The stranger who lives as a
foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you
shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of
Egypt. I am THE LORD your God.
19:35"'You shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of
quantity. 19:36Just balances, just weights, a
just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am THE LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt. 19:37You shall
observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am
THE LORD.'"
20:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 20:2"Moreover, you shall tell
the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the
strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to
Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall
stone him with stones. 20:3I also will set my face against
that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has
given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my
holy name. 20:4If the people of the land all
hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and
don't put him to death; 20:5then I will set my face against
that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play
the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among
their people.
20:6"'The person that turns to
those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after
them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off
from among his people.
20:7"'Sanctify yourselves
therefore, and be holy; for I am THE LORD your God. 20:8You shall
keep my statutes, and do them. I am THE LORD who sanctifies you.
20:9"'For everyone who curses
his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his
father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
20:10"'The man who commits
adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his
neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
death. 20:11The man who lies with his
father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:12"'If a man lies with his
daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have
committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
20:13If a man lies with a male, as
with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:14"'If a man takes a wife and
her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and
they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
20:15"'If a man lies with an
animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
20:16"'If a woman approaches any
animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal:
they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:17"'If a man takes his
sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her
nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they
shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has
uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
20:18"'If a man lies with a
woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made
naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and
both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
20:19"'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has
made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity. 20:20If a man lies with his uncle's
wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
they shall die childless.
20:21"'If a man takes his
brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's
nakedness; they shall be childless.
20:22"'You shall therefore keep
all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where
I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out. 20:23You shall
not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you:
for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 20:24But I have said to you,
"You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess
it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am THE LORD your God, who
has separated you from the peoples.
20:25"'You shall therefore make
a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the
unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable
by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I
have separated from you as unclean for you. 20:26You shall
be holy to me: for I, THE LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the
peoples, that you should be mine.
20:27"'A man or a woman that is
a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone
them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
21:1THE LORD said to Moses, "Speak
to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not
defile himself for the dead among his people; 21:2except for
his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for
his son, for his daughter, for his brother, 21:3and for his
virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may
defile himself. 21:4He shall not defile himself,
being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
21:5"'They shall not shave their
heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make
any cuttings in their flesh. 21:6They shall be holy to their God,
and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of
THE LORD made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
21:7"'They shall not marry a
woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman
divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God. 21:8You shall sanctify him therefore;
for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I
THE LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
21:9"'The daughter of any
priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes
her father: she shall be burned with fire.
21:10"'He who is the high priest
among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that
is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head
hang loose, nor tear his clothes; 21:11neither
shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for
his mother; 21:12neither shall he go out of the
sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am THE LORD.
21:13"'He shall take a wife in
her virginity. 21:14A widow, or one divorced, or a
woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but
a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. 21:15He shall
not profane his seed among his people: for I am THE LORD who sanctifies
him.'"
21:16THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
21:17"Say to Aaron, 'None of
your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to
offer the bread of his God. 21:18For whatever man he is that has
a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a
flat nose, or any deformity, 21:19or a man who has an injured
foot, or an injured hand, 21:20or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or
one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who
has damaged testicles; 21:21no man of the seed of Aaron the
priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of
THE LORD made by fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer
the bread of his God. 21:22He shall eat the bread of his
God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 21:23He shall
not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a
blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am THE LORD who
sanctifies them.'"
21:24So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to
his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
22:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 22:2"Tell Aaron and his sons to
separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which
they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am THE LORD.
22:3Tell them, 'If anyone of all your
seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the
children of Israel make holy to THE LORD, having his uncleanness on him,
that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am THE LORD.
22:4"'Whoever of the seed of
Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things,
until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead,
or a man whose seed goes from him; 22:5or whoever
touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of
whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; 22:6the person that touches any such
shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things,
unless he bathe his body in water. 22:7When the
sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy
things, because it is his bread. 22:8That which
dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself
by it. I am THE LORD.
22:9"'They shall therefore keep
my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it.
I am THE LORD who sanctifies them.
22:10"'No stranger shall eat of
the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant,
shall not eat of the holy thing. 22:11But if a
priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such
as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. 22:12If a priest's daughter is
married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the
holy things. 22:13But if a priest's daughter is a
widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's
house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger
shall eat any of it.
22:14"'If a man eats something
holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and
shall give the holy thing to the priest. 22:15The
priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which
they offer to THE LORD, 22:16and so cause them to bear the
iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am
THE LORD who sanctifies them.'"
22:17THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22:18"Speak to Aaron, and to his
sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of
the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his
offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill
offerings, which they offer to THE LORD for a burnt offering; 22:19that you may be accepted, you
shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the
goats. 22:20But whatever has a blemish, that
you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 22:21Whoever offers a sacrifice of
peace offerings to THE LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering,
of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there
shall be no blemish therein. 22:22Blind, injured, maimed, having a
wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these to
THE LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to THE LORD. 22:23Either a bull or a lamb that has
any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill
offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 22:24That which
has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to
THE LORD; neither shall you do thus in your land. 22:25Neither
from the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread of your God of any
of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them.
They shall not be accepted for you.'"
22:26THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
22:27"When a bull, or a sheep,
or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and
from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering
of an offering made by fire to THE LORD. 22:28Whether it
is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
22:29"When you sacrifice a
sacrifice of thanksgiving to THE LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you
may be accepted. 22:30It shall be eaten on the same
day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am THE LORD.
22:31"Therefore you shall keep
my commandments, and do them. I am THE LORD. 22:32You shall
not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of
Israel. I am THE LORD who makes you holy, 22:33who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am THE LORD."
23:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of THE LORD, which you shall proclaim
to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
23:3"'Six days shall work be
done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy
convocation; you shall do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to THE LORD in
all your dwellings.
23:4"'These are the set feasts
of THE LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their
appointed season. 23:5In the first month, on the
fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is THE LORD's Passover. 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same
month is the feast of unleavened bread to THE LORD. Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread. 23:7In the first day you shall have a
holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. 23:8But you
shall offer an offering made by fire to THE LORD seven days. In the seventh
day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"
23:9THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:10"Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to
you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the
first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 23:11and he
shall wave the sheaf before THE LORD, to be accepted for you. On the next
day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 23:12On the day
when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a
year old for a burnt offering to THE LORD. 23:13The meal
offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to THE LORD for a sweet savor;
and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
23:14You shall eat neither bread, nor
roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have
brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
23:15"'You shall count from the
next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the
wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 23:16even to
the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and
you shall offer a new meal offering to THE LORD. 23:17You shall
bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an
ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with yeast, for
first fruits to THE LORD. 23:18You shall present with the bread
seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey
shall be a burnt offering to THE LORD, with their meal offering, and their
drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to
THE LORD. 23:19You shall offer one male goat
for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace
offerings. 23:20The priest shall wave them with
the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before THE LORD, with the
two lambs. They shall be holy to THE LORD for the priest. 23:21You shall make proclamation on
the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no
regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout
your generations.
23:22"'When you reap the harvest
of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field,
neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave
them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am THE LORD your God.'"
23:23THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:24"Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy
convocation. 23:25You shall do no regular work;
and you shall offer an offering made by fire to THE LORD.'"
23:26THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:27"However on the tenth day
of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy
convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer
an offering made by fire to THE LORD. 23:28You shall
do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to
make atonement for you before THE LORD your God. 23:29For
whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut
off from his people. 23:30Whoever it is who does any
manner of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his
people. 23:31You shall do no manner of work:
it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:32It shall be a Sabbath of solemn
rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month
at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
23:33THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23:34"Speak to the children of
Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast
of tents for seven days to THE LORD. 23:35On the
first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work. 23:36Seven days you shall offer an
offering made by fire to THE LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy
convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to
THE LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
23:37"'These are the appointed
feasts of THE LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to
offer an offering made by fire to THE LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; 23:38besides the Sabbaths of THE LORD,
and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your
freewill offerings, which you give to THE LORD.
23:39"'So on the fifteenth day
of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land,
you shall keep the feast of THE LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a
solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 23:40You shall take on the first day
the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick
trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before THE LORD your
God seven days. 23:41You shall keep it a feast to
THE LORD seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. 23:42You shall dwell in booths seven
days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths, 23:43that your generations may know
that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them
out of the land of Egypt. I am THE LORD your God.'"
23:44Moses declared to the children
of Israel the appointed feasts of THE LORD.
24:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24:2"Command the children of
Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to
cause a lamp to burn continually. 24:3Outside of
the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in
order from evening to morning before THE LORD continually: it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations. 24:4He shall
keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before THE LORD
continually.
24:5"You shall take fine flour,
and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one
cake. 24:6You shall set them in two rows,
six on a row, on the pure gold table before THE LORD. 24:7You shall
put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a
memorial, even an offering made by fire to THE LORD. 24:8Every
Sabbath day he shall set it in order before THE LORD continually. It is on
the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant. 24:9It shall be for Aaron and his
sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of
the offerings of THE LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute."
24:10The son of an Israelite woman,
whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and
the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the
camp. 24:11The son of the Israelite woman
blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
24:12They put him in custody, until
the will of THE LORD should be declared to them.
24:13THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24:14"Bring out of the camp him
who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let
all the congregation stone him. 24:15You shall
speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall
bear his sin. 24:16He who blasphemes the name of
THE LORD, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall
certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he
blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
24:17"'He who strikes any man
mortally shall surely be put to death. 24:18He who
strikes a animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. 24:19If anyone injures his neighbor;
as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20fracture
for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so
shall it be done to him. 24:21He who kills an animal shall
make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. 24:22You shall have one kind of law,
for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am THE LORD your
God.'"
24:23Moses spoke to the children of
Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and
stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as THE LORD commanded
Moses.
25:1THE LORD said to Moses in Mount
Sinai, 25:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then
the land shall keep a Sabbath to THE LORD. 25:3Six years
you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and
gather in its fruits; 25:4but in the seventh year there
shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to THE LORD. You
shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 25:5What grows
of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your
undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for
the land. 25:6The Sabbath of the land shall be
for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your
hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
25:7For your cattle also, and for the
animals that are in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.
25:8"'You shall count off seven
Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the
days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. 25:9Then you shall sound the loud
trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you
shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 25:10You shall
make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to
all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall
return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 25:11That fiftieth year shall be a
jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of
itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. 25:12For it is
a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of
the field.
25:13"'In this Year of Jubilee
each of you shall return to his property.
25:14"'If you sell anything to
your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
25:15According to the number of years
after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the
number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. 25:16According
to the length of the years you shall increase the price of it, and
according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish the price of
it; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. 25:17You shall not wrong one another;
but you shall fear your God: for I am THE LORD your God.
25:18"'Therefore you shall do my
statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the
land in safety. 25:19The land shall yield its fruit,
and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 25:20If you said, "What shall we
eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our
increase;" 25:21then I will command my blessing
on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three
years. 25:22You shall sow the eighth year,
and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its
fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
25:23"'The land shall not be
sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live
as foreigners with me. 25:24In all the land of your
possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25"'If your brother becomes
poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to
him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. 25:26If a man has no one to redeem
it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; 25:27then let him reckon the years
since the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold
it; and he shall return to his property. 25:28But if he
isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain
in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the
Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his propery.
25:29"'If a man sells a dwelling
house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it
has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 25:30If it isn't redeemed within the
space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be
made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations.
It shall not be released in the Jubilee. 25:31But the
houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be
reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they
shall be released in the Jubilee.
25:32"'Nevertheless the cities
of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites
may redeem at any time. 25:33The Levites may redeem the house
that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in
the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their
possession among the children of Israel. 25:34But the
field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their
perpetual possession.
25:35"'If your brother has
become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall
uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. 25:36Take no interest from him or
profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you. 25:37You shall not lend him your
money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 25:38I am THE LORD your God, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, and to be your God.
25:39"'If your brother has grown
poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve
as a slave. 25:40As a hired servant, and as a
sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of
Jubilee: 25:41then he shall go out from you,
he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to
the possession of his fathers. 25:42For they
are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall
not be sold as slaves. 25:43You shall not rule over him with
harshness, but shall fear your God.
25:44"'As for your male and your
female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from
them you may buy male and female slaves. 25:45Moreover
of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may
buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in
your land; and they will be your property. 25:46You may
make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a
possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your
brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with
harshness.
25:47"'If a stranger or
sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown
poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or
to a member of the stranger's family; 25:48after he
is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 25:49or his uncle, or his uncle's
son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family
may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. 25:50He shall reckon with him who
bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of
Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of
years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. 25:51If there are yet many years,
according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of
the money that he was bought for. 25:52If there
remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with
him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his
redemption. 25:53As a servant hired year by year
shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your
sight. 25:54"'If he isn't redeemed by
these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his
children with him. 25:55For to me the children of Israel
are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt. I am THE LORD your God.
26:1"'You shall make for
yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a
pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow
down to it: for I am THE LORD your God.
26:2"'You shall keep my
Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am THE LORD.
26:3"'If you walk in my
statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 26:4then I will
give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its
increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 26:5Your threshing shall reach to the
vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6"'I will give peace in the
land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will
remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through
your land. 26:7You shall chase your enemies, and
they shall fall before you by the sword. 26:8Five of you
shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and
your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
26:9"'I will have respect for
you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my
covenant with you. 26:10You shall eat old store long
kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. 26:11I will set my tent among you:
and my soul won't abhor you. 26:12I will walk among you, and will
be your God, and you will be my people. 26:13I am
THE LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you
should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and
made you go upright.
26:14"'But if you will not
listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; 26:15and if you shall reject my
statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do
all my commandments, but break my covenant; 26:16I also
will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and
fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and
you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. 26:17I will set my face against you,
and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule
over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
26:18"'If you in spite of these
things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more
for your sins. 26:19I will break the pride of your
power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; 26:20and your strength will be spent
in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of
the land yield their fruit.
26:21"'If you walk contrary to
me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on
you according to your sins. 26:22I will send the wild animals
among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
26:23"'If by these things you
won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; 26:24then I will also walk contrary
to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. 26:25I will bring a sword upon you,
that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered
together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and
you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26:26When I
break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and
not be satisfied.
26:27"'If you in spite of this
won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 26:28then I
will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven
times for your sins. 26:29You will eat the flesh of your
sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 26:30I will
destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your
dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. 26:31I will lay your cities waste,
and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight
in the sweet fragrence of your offerings. 26:32I will
bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will
be astonished at it. 26:33I will scatter you among the
nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a
desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 26:34Then the
land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in
your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
26:35As long as it lies desolate it
shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when
you lived on it.
26:36"'As for those of you who
are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they
shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one
pursues. 26:37They will stumble over one
another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will
have no power to stand before your enemies. 26:38You will
perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up. 26:39Those of you who are left will
pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
26:40"'If they confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
26:41I also walked contrary to them,
and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their
uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of
their iniquity; 26:42then I will remember my covenant
with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham; and I will remember the land. 26:43The land
also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies
desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their
iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their
soul abhorred my statutes. 26:44Yet for all that, when they are
in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I
am THE LORD their God; 26:45but I will for their sake
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am
THE LORD.'"
26:46These are the statutes,
ordinances and laws, which THE LORD made between him and the children of
Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
27:1THE LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27:2"Speak to the children of
Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for
THE LORD by your valuation. 27:3Your valuation shall be of a male
from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall
be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 27:4If it is a female, then your
valuation shall be thirty shekels. 27:5If the
person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your
valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten
shekels. 27:6If the person is from a month old
even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five
shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels
of silver. 27:7If the person is from sixty years
old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen
shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 27:8But if he
is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and
the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed
shall the priest value him.
27:9"'If it is an animal, of
which men offer an offering to THE LORD, all that any man gives of such to
THE LORD becomes holy. 27:10He shall not alter it, nor
change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all
change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed
shall be holy. 27:11If it is any unclean animal, of
which they do not offer as an offering to THE LORD, then he shall set the
animal before the priest; 27:12and the priest shall value it,
whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be. 27:13But if he will indeed redeem it,
then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
27:14"'When a man dedicates his
house to be holy to THE LORD, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it
is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. 27:15If he who dedicates it will
redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall be his.
27:16"'If a man dedicates to
THE LORD part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be
according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be
valued at fifty shekels of silver. 27:17If he
dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation
it shall stand. 27:18But if he dedicates his field
after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according
to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be
made from your valuation. 27:19If he who dedicated the field
will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of
your valuation to it, and it shall remain his. 27:20If he will
not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall
not be redeemed any more; 27:21but the field, when it goes out
in the Jubilee, shall be holy to THE LORD, as a field devoted; it shall be
owned by the priests.
27:22"'If he dedicates to THE LORD
a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
27:23then the priest shall reckon to
him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall
give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to THE LORD. 27:24In the Year of Jubilee the field
shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the
possession of the land belongs. 27:25All your
valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty
gerahs to the shekel.
27:26"'Only the firstborn among
animals, which is made a firstborn to THE LORD, no man may dedicate it;
whether an ox or sheep, it is THE LORD's. 27:27If it is
an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation,
and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it
shall be sold according to your valuation.
27:28"'Notwithstanding, no
devoted thing, that a man shall devote to THE LORD of all that he has,
whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold
or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to THE LORD.
27:29"'No one devoted, who shall
be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to
death.
27:30"'All the tithe of the
land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is
THE LORD's. It is holy to THE LORD. 27:31If a man
redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. 27:32All the tithe of the herds or
the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to
THE LORD. 27:33He shall not search whether it
is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all,
then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not
be redeemed.'"
27:34These are the commandments which
THE LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Notes:
[1]
19:16 literally, "blood"
[2] 19:23 literally, "uncircumcised"
