016:028 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh
in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
016:029 "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:
016:030 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you;
from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
016:031 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict
your souls; it is a statute forever.
016:032 The 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.
016:033 Then 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.
016:034 "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 Yahweh commanded Moses.
017:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
017:002 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel,
and say to them: 'This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
017:003 Whatever 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,
017:004 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer
it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh:
blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood;
and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
017:005 This 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 Yahweh, to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices
of peace offerings to Yahweh.
017:006 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at
the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet
savor to Yahweh.
017:007 They 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.'
017:008 "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,
017:009 and doesn't bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off
from his people.
017:010 "'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.
017:011 For 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.
017:012 Therefore 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."
017:013 "'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.
017:014 For 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."
017:015 "'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.
017:016 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall
bear his iniquity.'"
018:001 Yahweh said to Moses,
018:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am
Yahweh your God.
018:003 You 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.
018:004 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes,
and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
018:005 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances;
which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
018:006 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives,
to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
018:007 "'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.
018:008 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife:
it is your father's nakedness.
018:009 "'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.
018:010 "'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.
018:011 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's
wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she
is your sister.
018:012 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister:
she is your father's near kinswoman.
018:013 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister:
for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
018:014 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother,
you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
018:015 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law:
she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
018:016 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife:
it is your brother's nakedness.
018:017 "'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.
018:018 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival,
to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
018:019 "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness,
as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
018:020 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife,
and defile yourself with her.
018:021 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech;
neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
018:022 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman.
That is detestable.
018:023 "'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.
018:024 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things:
for in all these the nations which I am casting out before
you were defiled.
018:025 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity,
and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
018:026 You 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;
018:027 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done,
that were before you, and the land became defiled);
018:028 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it,
as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
018:029 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls
that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
018:030 Therefore 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 Yahweh your God.'"
019:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
019:002 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
019:003 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father.
You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
019:004 "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves.
I am Yahweh your God.
019:005 "'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh,
you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
019:006 It 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.
019:007 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination.
It will not be accepted;
019:008 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has
profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut
off from his people.
019:009 "'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.
019:010 You 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 Yahweh your God.
019:011 "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely,
nor lie to one another.
019:012 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name
of your God. I am Yahweh.
019:013 "'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.
019:014 "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling
block before the blind; but you shall fear your God.
I am Yahweh.
019:015 "'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.
019:016 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people;
neither shall you stand against the life{literally,
"blood"} of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
019:017 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart.
You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin
because of him.
019:018 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against
the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor
as yourself. I am Yahweh.
019:019 "'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.
019:020 "'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.
019:021 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door
of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
019:022 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass
offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed:
and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
019:023 "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees
for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.{literally,
"uncircumcised"} Three years shall they be forbidden to you.
It shall not be eaten.
019:024 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving
praise to Yahweh.
019:025 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield
its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
019:026 "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it;
neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
019:027 "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads,
neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
019:028 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,
nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
019:029 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute;
lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become
full of wickedness.
019:030 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary;
I am Yahweh.
019:031 "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards.
Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
019:032 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor
the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God.
I am Yahweh.
019:033 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land,
you shall not do him wrong.
019:034 The 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 Yahweh your God.
019:035 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures
of length, of weight, or of quantity.
019:036 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin,
shall you have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out
of the land of Egypt.
019:037 You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances,
and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
020:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
020:002 "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.
020:003 I 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.
020:004 If 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;
020:005 then 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.
020:006 "'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.
020:007 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am
Yahweh your God.
020:008 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh
who sanctifies you.
020:009 "'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.
020:010 "'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.
020:011 The 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.
020:012 "'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.
020:013 "'If 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.
020:014 "'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.
020:015 "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death;
and you shall kill the animal.
020:016 "'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.
020:017 "'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.
020:018 "'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.
020:019 "'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.
020:020 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered
his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
they shall die childless.
020:021 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity:
he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
020:022 "'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.
020:023 You 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.
020:024 But 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 Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
020:025 "'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.
020:026 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set
you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
020:027 "'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.'"
021:001 Yahweh 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;
021:002 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother,
for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
021:003 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband;
for her he may defile himself.
021:004 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people,
to profane himself.
021:005 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave
off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings
in their flesh.
021:006 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of
their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire,
the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
021:007 "'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.
021:008 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread
of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh,
who sanctify you, am holy.
021:009 "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself
by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father:
she shall be burned with fire.
021:010 "'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;
021:011 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
for his father, or for his mother;
021:012 neither 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 Yahweh.
021:013 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
021:014 A 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.
021:015 He shall not profane his seed among his people:
for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"
021:016 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
021:017 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations
who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
021:018 For 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,
021:019 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
021:020 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye,
or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
021:021 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish,
shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread
of his God.
021:022 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy,
and of the holy.
021:023 He 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 Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
021:024 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the
children of Israel.
022:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
022:002 "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 Yahweh.
022:003 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your
generations approaches the holy things, which the children
of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness
on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me.
I am Yahweh.
022:004 "'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;
022:005 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be
made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness,
whatever uncleanness he has;
022:006 the 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.
022:007 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall
eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
022:008 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall
not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
022:009 "'They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear
sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it.
I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
022:010 "'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.
022:011 But 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.
022:012 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall
not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
022:013 But 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.
022:014 "'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.
022:015 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children
of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
022:016 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt,
when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh
who sanctifies them.'"
022:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
022:018 "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 Yahweh for a burnt offering;
022:019 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish,
of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
022:020 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer:
for it shall not be acceptable for you.
022:021 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh
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.
022:022 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having
a running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make
an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
022:023 Either 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.
022:024 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut,
you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus
in your land.
022:025 Neither 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.'"
022:026 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
022:027 "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall
remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth