14‘On the eighth day he shall take for himself itwo turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest.
15‘Then the priest shall offer them, jthe one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. kSo the priest shall make 2atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.
16l‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.
17‘And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
18‘Also, when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and mbe unclean until evening.
19n‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be 3set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
20‘Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean.
21‘Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
22‘And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
23‘If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.
24‘And oif any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be 4unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
25‘If pa woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.
26‘Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.
27‘Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
28‘But qif she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29‘And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
30‘Then the priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a rburnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.
31‘Thus you shall sseparate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they tdefile My tabernacle that is among them.
32u‘This is the law for one who has a discharge, vand for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby,
33w‘and for her who is indisposed because of her customary impurity, and for one who has a discharge, either man xor woman, yand for him who lies with her who is unclean.’ ”
Leviticus 16
The Day of Atonement
1Now the LORD spoke to Moses after athe death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the LORD, and died;
2and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother bnot to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for cI will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
31“Thus Aaron shall dcome into the Holy Place: ewith the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
4“He shall put the fholy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore ghe shall wash his body in water, and put them on.
5“And he shall take from hthe congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
6“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and imake atonement for himself and for his house.
7“He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
8“Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9“And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering.
10“But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make jatonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
11“And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for khimself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself.
12“Then he shall take la censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, with his hands full of msweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.
13n“And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the omercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he pdie.
14q“He shall take some of the blood of the bull and rsprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
15s“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood tinside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
16“So he shall umake atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17“There shall be vno man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
18“And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make atonement for wit, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
19“Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse it, and xconsecrate2 it from the 3uncleanness of the children of Israel.
20“And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
21“Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, yconfess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, zputting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.
22“The goat 4shall abear on itself all their iniquities to an 5uninhabited land; and he shall brelease the goat in the wilderness.
23“Then Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of meeting, cshall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
24“And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, put on his garments, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make 6atonement for himself and for the people.
25d“The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
26“And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes eand bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
27f“The 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 outside the camp. And they shall burn in the fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal.
28“Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
29“This shall be a statute forever for you: gIn the seventh mont
h, on the tenth day of the month, you shall 7afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who 8dwells among you.
30“For on that day the priest shall make 9atonement for you, to hcleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
31i“It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
32j“And the priest, who is anointed and kconsecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments;
33“then he shall make 10atonement for 11the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
34l“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, monce a year.” And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 17
The Sanctity of Blood
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying:
3“Whatever man of the house of Israel who akills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
4“and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, the guilt of bloodshed shall be bimputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be 1cut off from among his people,
5“to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices cwhich they offer in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to the priest, and offer them as peace offerings to the LORD.
6“And the priest dshall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eburn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD.
7“They shall no more offer their sacrifices fto 2demons, after whom they ghave played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’
8“Also you shall say to them: ‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, hwho offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
9‘and does not ibring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be 3cut off from among his people.
10j‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, kI will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
11‘For the llife of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar mto make atonement for your souls; for nit is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’
12“Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.’
13“Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who ohunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall ppour out its blood and qcover it with dust;
14r“for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’
15s“And every person who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, whether he is a native of your own country or a stranger, the shall both wash his clothes and ubathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean.
16“But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then vhe shall bear his 4guilt.”
Leviticus 18
Laws of Sexual Morality
1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: a‘I am the LORD your God.
3b‘According to 1the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and caccording to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their 2ordinances.
4d‘You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
5‘You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
6‘None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the LORD.
7‘The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
8‘The nakedness of your efather’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.
9f‘The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
10‘The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for theirs is your own nakedness.
11‘The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten by your father—she is your sister—you shall not uncover her nakedness.
12g‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is near of kin to your father.
13‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is near of kin to your mother.
14h‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
15‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law—she is your son’s wife—you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
17‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her idaughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near of kin to her. It is wickedness.
18‘Nor shall you take a woman jas a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.
19‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as klong as she is in her lcustomary impurity.
20m‘Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your nneighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.
21‘And you shall not let any of your descendants opass through pthe fire to qMolech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
22‘You shall not lie with ra male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
23‘Nor shall you mate with any sanimal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.
24t‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ufor by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
25‘For vthe land is defiled; therefore I wvisit3 the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land xvomits out its inhabitants.
26y‘You shall therefore 4keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you
27‘(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),
28‘lest zthe land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29‘For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be 5cut off from among their people.
30‘Therefore you shall keep My 6ordinance, so athat you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: bI am the LORD your God.’ ”
Leviticus 19
Moral and Ceremonial Laws
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: a‘You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
> 3b‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and ckeep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
4d‘Do not turn to idols, enor make for yourselves 1molded gods: I am the LORD your God.
5‘And fif you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it of your own free will.
6‘It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.
7‘And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It shall not be accepted.
8‘Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed offering of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9g‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10‘And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
11h‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, inor lie to one another.
12‘And you shall not jswear by My name falsely, knor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
13l‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. mThe wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.
14‘You shall not curse the deaf, nnor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
15‘You shall do no injustice in ojudgment. You shall not pbe partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
16‘You shall not go about as a qtalebearer among your people; nor shall you rtake a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
17s‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. tYou shall surely 2rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
18u‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, vbut you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
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