Septuagint Complete Greek and English Edition

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  [31] And ye shall cause the children of Israel to beware of their uncleannesses; so they shall not die for their uncleanness, in polluting my tabernacle that is among them. [32] This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it. [33] And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.

  Chapter 16

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses after the two sons of Aaron died in bringing strange fire before the Lord, so they died. [2] And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory. [3] Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place; with a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and having a ram for a whole-burnt-offering. [4] And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on. [5] And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering, and one lamb for a whole-burnt-offering. [6] And Aaron shall bring the calf for his own sin-offering, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. [7] And he shall take the two goats, and place them before the Lord by the door of the tabernacle of witness. [8] and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scape-goat. [9] And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering. [10] and the goat upon which the lot of the scape-goat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scape-goat, and he shall send him into the wilderness. [11] And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin-offering. [12] And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil. [13] And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat over the tables of testimony, and he shall not die. [14] And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger on the mercy-seat eastward: before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.

  [15] And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy-seat, in front of the mercy-seat. [16] and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness. [17] and there shall be no man in the tabernacle of witness, when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he shall have come out; and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the congregation of the children of Israel. [18] And he shall come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, and he shall make atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the calf, and of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of the altar round about. [19] And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. [20] And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and for the tabernacle of witness, and for the altar; and he shall make a cleansing for the priests, and he shall bring the living goat; [21] and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and he shall declare over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their unrighteousness, and all their sins; and he shall lay them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him by the hand of a ready man into the wilderness. [22] And the goat shall bear their unrighteousnesses upon him into a desert land; and Aaron shall send away the goat into the wilderness. [23] And Aaron shall enter into the tabernacle of witness, and shall put off the linen garment, which he had put on, as he entered into the holy place, and shall lay it by there. [24] And he shall bathe his body in water in the holy place, and shall put on his raiment, and shall go out and offer the whole-burnt-offering for himself and the whole-burnt-offering for the people: and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and for the people, as for the priests. [25] And he shall offer the fat for the sin-offering on the altar.

  [26] And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards shall enter into the camp. [27] And the calf for the sin-offering, and the goat for the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, they shall carry forth out of the camp, and burn them with fire, even their skins and their flesh and their dung. [28] And he that burns them shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall enter into the camp.

  [29] And this shall be a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall humble your souls, and shall do no work, the native and the stranger who abides among you. [30] For in this day he shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord, and ye shall be purged. [31] This shall be to you a most holy sabbath, a rest, and ye shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance. [32] The priest whomsoever they shall anoint shall make atonement, and whomsoever they shall consecrate to exercise the priestly office after his father; and he shall put on the linen robe, the holy garment. [33] And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and the tabernacle of witness; and he shall make atonement for the altar, and for the priests; and he shall make atonement for all the congregation. [34] And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.

  Chapter 17

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, This is the word which the Lord has commanded, saying, [3] Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp, [4] and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to sacrifice it for a whole-burnt-offering or peace-offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a sweet-smelling savour: and whosoever shall slay it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people. [5] That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall slay in the fields, and bring them to the Lord unto the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace-offering to the Lord. [6] And the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the fat for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

  [7] And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain gods after which they go a whoring; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your generations. [8] And thou shalt say to them, Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the sons of the proselytes abiding among you, shall offer a whole-burnt-offering or a sacrifice, [9] and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from among his people. [10] And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and wil
l destroy it from its people. [11] For the life of flesh is its blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for its blood shall make atonement for the soul. [12] Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood. [13] And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you shall take any animal in hunting, beast, or bird, which is eaten, then shall he pour out the blood, and cover it in the dust. [14] For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood: every one that eats it shall be destroyed. [15] And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening: then shall he be clean. [16] But if he do not wash his garments, and do not bathe his body in water, then shall he bear his iniquity.

  Chapter 18

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, I am the Lord your God. [3] Ye shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which ye dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, ye shall not do; and ye shall not walk in their ordinances. [4] Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God. [5] So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God. [6] No man shall draw nigh to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord. [7] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, for she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. [8] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife; it is thy father’s nakedness. [9] The nakedness of thy sister by thy father or by thy mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. [10] The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or thy daughter’s daughter, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; because it is thy nakedness. [11] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of thy father’s wife; she is thy sister by the same father: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. [12] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister, for she is near akin to thy father. [13] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, for she is near akin to thy mother. [14] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, and thou shalt not go in to his wife; for she is thy relation. [15] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law, for she is thy son’s wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. [16] Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness. [17] The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; her son’s daughter, and her daughter’s daughter, shalt thou not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are thy kinswomen: it is impiety. [18] Thou shalt not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.

  [19] And thou shalt not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness. [20] And thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her. [21] And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord. [22] And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination. [23] Neither shalt thou lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion with it; for it is an abomination. [24] Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you, [25] and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it. [26] And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you: [27] (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,) [28] and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you. [29] For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people. [30] And ye shall keep mine ordinances, that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

  Chapter 19

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy. [3] Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. [4] Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God. [5] And if ye will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it acceptable from yourselves. [6] In what day soever ye shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire. [7] And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted. [8] And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.

  [9] And when ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping. [10] And thou shalt not go over the gathering of thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the remaining grapes of thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God. [11] Ye shall not steal, ye shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbour. [12] And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God. [13] Thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

  [14] Thou shalt not revile the deaf, neither shalt thou put a stumbling-block in the way of the blind; and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord your God. [15] Thou shalt not act unjustly in judgment: thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shalt thou judge thy neighbour. [16] Thou shalt not walk deceitfully among thy people; thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord your God. [17] Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, so thou shalt not bear sin on his account. [18] And thy hand shall not avenge thee; and thou shalt not be angry with the children of thy people; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord.

  [19] Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials. [20] And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty. [21] And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering. [22] And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him. [23] And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit-tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten. [24] And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord. [25] And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

  [26] Eat not on the mountains, nor shall ye employ auguries, nor
divine by inspection of birds. [27] Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard. [28] And ye shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead body, and ye shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God. [29] Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity. [30] Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord. [31] Ye shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God. [32] Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord your God. [33] And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, ye shall not afflict him. [34] The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. [35] Ye shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales. [36] There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. [37] And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.

  Chapter 20

  [1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, If there shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones. [3] And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me. [4] And if the natives of the land should in anywise overlook that man in giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death; [5] then will I set my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to the princes, from their people.