Chapter 1
1: The LORD
called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
2: "Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them,
When any man of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall
bring your offering of cattle from the herd or from the flock.
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;
4: he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt
offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for
him.
5: Then he shall kill the bull before the LORD; and
Aaron's sons the priests shall present the blood, and throw the
blood round about against the altar that is at the door of the
tent of meeting.
6: And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into
pieces;
7: and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the
altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;
8: and Aaron's sons the priests shall lay the pieces, the
head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire
upon the altar;
9: but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with
water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a
burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the
LORD.
10: "If his gift for a burnt offering is from the
flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall offer a male without
blemish;
11: and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar
before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw its
blood against the altar round about.
12: And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and
its fat, and the priest shall lay them in order upon the wood
that is on the fire upon the altar;
13: but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with
water. And the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the
altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing
odor to the LORD.
14: "If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering
of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or of
young pigeons.
15: And the 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;
16: and he shall take away its crop with the feathers,
and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for
ashes;
17: he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide
it asunder. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the
wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by
fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.
Chapter 2
1: "When
any one brings a cereal offering as an offering to the LORD, his
offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil upon it, and
put frankincense on it,
2: and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he shall
take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of
its frankincense; and the priest shall burn this as its memorial
portion upon the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to
the LORD.
3: And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for
Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by
fire to the LORD.
4: "When you bring a cereal offering baked in the
oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour
mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
5: And if your offering is a cereal offering baked on a
griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil;
6: you shall break it in pieces, and pour oil on it; it
is a cereal offering.
7: And if your offering is a cereal offering cooked in a
pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8: And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made
of these things to the LORD; and when it is presented to the
priest, he shall bring it to the altar.
9: And the priest shall take from the cereal offering its
memorial portion and burn this on the altar, an offering by
fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.
10: And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for
Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by
fire to the LORD.
11: "No cereal offering which you bring to the LORD
shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven nor any
honey as an offering by fire to the LORD.
12: As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to
the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a
pleasing odor.
13: You shall season all your cereal offerings with salt;
you shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be
lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you
shall offer salt.
14: "If you offer a cereal offering of first fruits
to the LORD, you shall offer for the cereal offering of your
first fruits crushed new grain from fresh ears, parched with
fire.
15: And you shall put oil upon it, and lay frankincense
on it; it is a cereal offering.
16: And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion
part of the crushed grain and of the oil with all of its
frankincense; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.
Chapter 3
1: "If a
man's offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an
animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish before the LORD.
2: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his
offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting; and
Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar
round about.
3: And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as an
offering by fire to the LORD, he shall offer the fat covering
the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
4: and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at
the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take
away with the kidneys.
5: Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the
burnt offering, which is upon the wood on the fire; it is an
offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.
6: "If his offering for a sacrifice of peace
offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or
female, he shall offer it without blemish.
7: If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall
offer it before the LORD,
8: laying his hand upon the head of his offering and
killing it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall
throw its blood against the altar round about.
9: Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering as an
offering by fire to the LORD he shall offer its fat, the fat
tail entire, taking it away close by the backbone, and the fat
that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the
entrails,
10: and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at
the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take
away with the kidneys.
11: And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food
offered by fire to the LORD.
12: "If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer
it before the LORD,
13: and lay his hand upon its head, and kill it before
the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood
against the altar round about.
14: Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for an
offering by fire to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails, and
all the fat that is on the entrails,
15: and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at
the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take
away with the kidneys.
16: And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food
offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the LORD's.
17: It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither
fat nor blood."
Chapter 4
1: And the
LORD said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins
unwittingly in any of the things which the LORD has commanded
not to be done, and does any one of them,
3: if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing
guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has
committed a young bull without blemish to the LORD for a sin
offering.
4: He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of
meeting before the LORD, and lay his hand on the head of the
bull, and kill the bull before the LORD.
5: And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood
of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting;
6: and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front
of the veil of the sanctuary.
7: And the priest shall put some of the blood on the
horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD which is
in the tent of meeting, and the rest of the blood of the bull he
shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which
is at the door of the tent of meeting.
8: And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he
shall take from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the
fat that is on the entrails,
9: and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at
the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take
away with the kidneys
10: (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice
of the peace offerings), and the priest shall burn them upon the
altar of burnt offering.
11: But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its
head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung,
12: the whole bull he shall carry forth outside the camp
to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and shall burn
it on a fire of wood; where the ashes are poured out it shall be
burned.
13: "If the whole congregation of Israel commits a
sin unwittingly and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the
assembly, and they do any one of the things which the LORD has
commanded not to be done and are guilty;
14: when the sin which they have committed becomes known,
the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering and
bring it before the tent of meeting;
15: and the elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands upon the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull
shall be killed before the LORD.
16: Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the
blood of the bull to the tent of meeting,
17: and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
18: And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of
the altar which is in the tent of meeting before the LORD; 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.
19: And all its fat he shall take from it and burn upon
the altar.
20: Thus 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.
21: And he 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.
22: "When a ruler sins, doing unwittingly any one of
all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be
done, and is guilty,
23: if the sin which he has committed is made known to
him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without
blemish,
24: and shall lay his hand upon 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.
25: Then the 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 pour out the rest of its blood at
the base of the altar of burnt offering.
26: And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the
fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; so the priest shall
make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
27: "If any one of the common people sins
unwittingly in doing any one of the things which the LORD has
commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
28: when the sin which he has committed is made known to
him he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without
blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
29: And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt
offering.
30: And the priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
31: And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is
removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it
upon the altar for a pleasing odor to the LORD; and the priest
shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
32: "If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin
offering, he shall bring a female without blemish,
33: and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the
burnt offering.
34: Then the 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 pour out the rest of its blood at
the base of the altar.
35: And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the
lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the
priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to
the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the
sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Chapter 5
1: "If
any one sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify and
though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the
matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.
2: Or if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the
carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle or a
carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him,
and he has become unclean, he shall be guilty.
3: Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort
the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is
hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall be guilty.
4: Or if any one utters with his lips a rash oath to do
evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that men swear, and it
is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall in any of
these be guilty.
5: When a man is guilty in any of these, he shall confess
the sin he has committed,
6: and he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD for
the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb
or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him for his sin.
7: "But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall
bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin which he
has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a
sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
8: He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer
first the one for the sin offering; he shall wring its head from
its neck, but shall not sever it,
9: and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin
offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood
shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin
offering.
10: Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering
according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement
for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be
forgiven.
11: "But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two
young pigeons, then he shall bring, as his offering for the sin
which he has committed, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a
sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, and shall put no
frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
12: And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest
shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this
on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the LORD; it is a
sin offering.
13: Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the
sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he
shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as
in the cereal offering."
14: The LORD said to Moses,
15: "If any one commits a breach of faith and sins
unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall
bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish
out of the flock, valued by you in shekels of silver, according
to the shekel of the sanctuary; it is a guilt offering.
16: He shall also make restitution for what he has done
amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth to it and give it
to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with
the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
17: "If any one sins, doing any of the things which
the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he does not know
it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
18: He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish
out of the flock, valued by you at the price for a guilt
offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the
error which he committed unwittingly, and he shall be forgiven.
19: It is a guilt offering; he is guilty before the
LORD."
Chapter 6
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "If any one sins and commits a breach of faith
against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of
deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed
his neighbor
3: or has found what was lost and lied about it, swearing
falsely -- in any of all the things which men do and sin
therein,
4: when one has sinned and become guilty, he shall
restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by oppression,
or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing
which he found,
5: or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall
restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to
him to whom it belongs, on the day of his guilt offering.
6: And he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to
the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you
at the price for a guilt offering;
7: and the priest shall make atonement for him before the
LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things which one
may do and thereby become guilty."
8: The LORD said to Moses,
9: "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the
law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the
hearth upon the altar all night until the morning, and the fire
of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
10: And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and
put his linen breeches upon his body, and he shall take up the
ashes to which the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the
altar, and put them beside the altar.
11: Then he shall put off his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean
place.
12: The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it
shall not go out; 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.
13: Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar
continually; it shall not go out.
14: "And this is the law of the cereal offering. The
sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, in front of the
altar.
15: And one shall take from it a handful of the fine
flour of the cereal offering with its oil and all the
frankincense which is on the cereal offering, and burn this as
its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing odor to the LORD.
16: And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it
shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the
tent of meeting they shall eat it.
17: It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as
their portion of my offerings by fire; it is a thing most holy,
like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
18: Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it,
as decreed for ever throughout your generations, from the LORD's
offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall become holy."
19: The LORD said to Moses,
20: "This is the offering which Aaron and his sons
shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth
of an ephah of fine flour as a regular cereal offering, half of
it in the morning and half in the evening.
21: It shall be made with oil on a griddle; you shall
bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a cereal offering, and
offer it for a pleasing odor to the LORD.
22: The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed
to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed for ever;
the whole of it shall be burned.
23: Every cereal offering of a priest shall be wholly
burned; it shall not be eaten."
24: The LORD said to Moses,
25: "Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law of
the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is
killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is
most holy.
26: The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; in a
holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of
meeting.
27: Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy; and when
any of its blood is sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that
on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
28: And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be
broken; but if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be
scoured, and rinsed in water.
29: Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is
most holy.
30: But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any
blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in
the holy place; it shall be burned with fire.
Chapter 7
1: "This
is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy;
2: in the place where they kill the burnt offering they
shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown on
the altar round about.
3: And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the
fat that covers the entrails,
4: the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the
loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away
with the kidneys;
5: the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering
by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.
6: Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall
be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7: The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is
one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall
have it.
8: And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering
shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he
has offered.
9: And every cereal offering baked in the oven and all
that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the
priest who offers it.
10: And every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry,
shall be for all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
11: "And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings which one may offer to the LORD.
12: If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall
offer with the thank offering unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well
mixed with oil.
13: With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with cakes of leavened
bread.
14: And of such he shall offer one cake from each
offering, as an offering to the LORD; it shall belong to the
priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.
15: And the 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.
16: But if the sacrifice of his offering is a votive
offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day
that he offers his sacrifice, and on the morrow what remains of
it shall be eaten,
17: but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day shall be burned with fire.
18: If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not
be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him; it shall be an
abomination, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
19: "Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not
be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. All who are clean may
eat flesh,
20: but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice
of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him,
that person shall be cut off from his people.
21: And if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the
uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or any unclean
abomination, and then eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the
LORD's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his
people."
22: The LORD said to Moses,
23: "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no
fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
24: The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat
of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use, but
on no account shall you eat it.
25: For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of
which an offering by fire is made to the LORD shall be cut off
from his people.
26: Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of
fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
27: Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off
from his people."
28: The LORD said to Moses,
29: "Say to the people of Israel, He that offers the
sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his
offering to the LORD; from the sacrifice of his peace offerings
30: he shall bring with his own hands the offerings by
fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat with the breast, that
the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.
31: The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the
breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.
32: And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as
an offering from the sacrifice of your peace offerings;
33: he among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of
the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a
portion.
34: For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is
offered I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to
Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the
people of Israel.
35: This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the
offerings made by fire to the LORD, consecrated to them on the
day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD;
36: the LORD commanded this to be given them by the
people of Israel, on the day that they were anointed; it is a
perpetual due throughout their generations."
37: This is the law of the burnt offering, of the cereal
offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the
consecration, and of the peace offerings,
38: which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the
day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their
offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
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;
3: and assemble all the congregation at the door of the
tent of meeting."
4: And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the
congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.
5: And Moses said to the congregation, "This is the
thing which the LORD has commanded to be done."
6: And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them
with water.
7: And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the
girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon
him, and girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod,
binding it to him therewith.
8: And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the
breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.
9: And he set the turban upon his head, and on the
turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
10: Then Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
11: And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and
its base, to consecrate them.
12: And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's
head, and anointed him, to consecrate him.
13: And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with
coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound caps on them, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
14: Then he brought the bull of the sin offering; and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull of
the sin offering.
15: And Moses killed it, and took the blood, and with his
finger put it on the horns of the altar round about, and
purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the
altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.
16: And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and
the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat,
and Moses burned them on the altar.
17: But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its
dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
18: Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering; and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
19: And Moses killed it, and threw the blood upon the
altar round about.
20: And when the ram was cut into pieces, Moses burned
the head and the pieces and the fat.
21: And when the entrails and the legs were washed with
water, Moses burned the whole ram on the altar, as a burnt
offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
22: Then he presented the other ram, the ram of
ordination; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head
of the ram.
23: And Moses killed it, and 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.
24: And Aaron's sons were brought, and Moses put some of
the blood on the tips of their right ears and on the thumbs of
their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet; and
Moses threw the blood upon the altar round about.
25: Then he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the
fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage of the liver,
and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh;
26: and out of the basket of unleavened bread which was
before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of
bread with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on
the right thigh;
27: and he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the
hands of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before the
LORD.
28: Then Moses took them from their hands, and burned
them on the altar with the burnt offering, as an ordination
offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.
29: And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave
offering before the LORD; it was Moses' portion of the ram of
ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses.
30: Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the
blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and
his garments, and also upon his sons and his sons' garments; so
he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his
sons' garments with him.
31: And Moses said to Aaron and 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 ordination offerings, as I
commanded, saying, `Aaron and his sons shall eat it';
32: and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall
burn with fire.
33: And you shall not go out from the door of the tent of
meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are
completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
34: As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be
done to make atonement for you.
35: At the door of the tent of meeting you shall remain
day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has
charged, lest you die; for so I am commanded."
36: And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the
LORD commanded by Moses.
Chapter 9
1: On the
eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of
Israel;
2: and he said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish,
and offer them before the LORD.
3: And say to the people of Israel, `Take a male goat for
a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without
blemish, for a burnt offering,
4: and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD, and a cereal offering mixed with oil; for today
the LORD will appear to you.'"
5: And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent
of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before
the LORD.
6: And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD
commanded you to do; and the glory of the LORD will appear to
you."
7: Then Moses 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 bring the
offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD
has commanded."
8: So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf
of the sin offering, which was for himself.
9: And the 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;
10: but the fat and the kidneys and the appendage of the
liver from the sin offering he burned upon the altar, as the
LORD commanded Moses.
11: The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside
the camp.
12: And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons
delivered to him the blood, and he threw it on the altar round
about.
13: And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece
by piece, and the head; and he burned them upon the altar.
14: And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned
them with the burnt offering on the altar.
15: Then he 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 sin offering.
16: And he presented the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the ordinance.
17: And he presented the cereal offering, and filled his
hand from it, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt
offering of the morning.
18: He killed the ox also and the ram, the sacrifice of
peace offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons delivered to
him the blood, which he threw upon the altar round about,
19: and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail,
and that which covers the entrails, and the kidneys, and the
appendage of the liver;
20: and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned
the fat upon the altar,
21: but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a
wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
22: Then Aaron 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.
23: And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting;
and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of
the LORD appeared to all the people.
24: And fire came forth 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.
Chapter 10
1: Now Nadab
and Abi'hu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put
fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered unholy fire
before the LORD, such as he had not commanded them.
2: And fire came forth from the presence of the LORD and
devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
3: Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD
has said, `I will show myself holy among those who are near me,
and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron
held his peace.
4: And Moses called Mish'a-el and Elza'phan, the sons of
Uz'ziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near,
carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the
camp."
5: So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out
of the camp, as Moses had said.
6: And Moses said to Aaron and to Elea'zar and Ith'amar,
his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose,
and do not rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come
upon all the congregation; but your brethren, the whole house of
Israel, may bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.
7: And do not go out from the door of the tent of
meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon
you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
8: And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying,
9: "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your
sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you
die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
10: You are to distinguish between the holy and the
common, and between the unclean and the clean;
11: and you are to teach the people of Israel all the
statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses."
12: And Moses said to Aaron and to Elea'zar and Ith'amar,
his sons who were left, "Take the cereal offering that
remains of the offerings by fire to the LORD, and eat it
unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy;
13: you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your
due and your sons' due, from the offerings by fire to the LORD;
for so I am commanded.
14: But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is
offered you shall eat in any clean place, you and your sons and
your daughters with you; for they are given as your due and your
sons' due, from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the
people of Israel.
15: The thigh that is offered and the breast that is
waved they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat, to
wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours,
and your sons' with you, as a due for ever; as the LORD has
commanded."
16: Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the
sin offering, and behold, it was burned! And he was angry with
Elea'zar and Ith'amar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
17: "Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the
place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has
been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
18: Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part
of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the
sanctuary, as I commanded."
19: And Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, today they
have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before
the LORD; and yet such things as these have befallen me! If I
had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable
in the sight of the LORD?"
20: And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Chapter 11
1: And the
LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, These are the
living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on
the earth.
3: Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews
the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
4: Nevertheless among those that chew the cud or part the
hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the
cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
5: And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does
not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
6: And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not
part the hoof, is unclean to you.
7: And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is
cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
8: Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses
you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
9: "These you may eat, of all that are in the
waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales,
whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
10: But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not
fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of
the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination
to you.
11: They shall remain an abomination to you; of their
flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall have in
abomination.
12: Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales
is an abomination to you.
13: "And these you shall have in abomination among
the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the
eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
14: the kite, the falcon according to its kind,
15: every raven according to its kind,
16: the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk
according to its kind,
17: the owl, the cormorant, the ibis,
18: the water hen, the pelican, the carrion vulture,
19: the stork, the heron according to its kind, the
hoopoe, and the bat.
20: "All winged insects that go upon all fours are
an abomination to you.
21: Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you
may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to
leap on the earth.
22: Of them you may eat: the locust according to its
kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket
according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its
kind.
23: But all other winged insects which have four feet are
an abomination to you.
24: "And by these you shall become unclean; whoever
touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
25: and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall
wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
26: Every animal which parts the hoof but is not
cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; every
one who touches them shall be unclean.
27: And all that go on their paws, among the animals that
go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their
carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
28: and he who carries their carcass shall wash his
clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to
you.
29: "And these are unclean to you among the swarming
things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the
great lizard according to its kind,
30: the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand
lizard, and the chameleon.
31: These are unclean to you among all that swarm;
whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until
the evening.
32: And anything upon which any of them falls when they
are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a
garment or a skin or a sack, any vessel that is used for any
purpose; it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean
until the evening; then it shall be clean.
33: And if any of them falls into any earthen vessel, all
that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
34: Any food in it which may be eaten, upon which water
may come, shall be unclean; and all drink which may be drunk
from every such vessel shall be unclean.
35: And everything upon which any part of their carcass
falls shall be unclean; whether oven or stove, it shall be
broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36: Nevertheless a spring or a cistern holding water
shall be clean; but whatever touches their carcass shall be
unclean.
37: And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed
for sowing that is to be sown, it is clean;
38: but if water is put on the seed and any part of their
carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39: "And if any animal of which you may eat dies, he
who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
40: and he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes
and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the
carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41: "Every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth
is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42: Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all
fours, or whatever has many feet, all the swarming things that
swarm upon the earth, you shall not eat; for they are an
abomination.
43: You shall not make yourselves abominable with any
swarming thing that swarms; and you shall not defile yourselves
with them, lest you become unclean.
44: For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves
therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile
yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth.
45: For 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."
46: This is the law pertaining to beast and bird and
every living creature that moves through the waters and every
creature that swarms upon the earth,
47: to make a distinction between the unclean and the
clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the
living creature that may not be eaten.
Chapter 12
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, If a woman
conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean
seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be
unclean.
3: And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall
be circumcised.
4: Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the
blood of her purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing,
nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are
completed.
5: But if she bears a female child, then she shall be
unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall
continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
6: "And when the days of her purifying are
completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring
to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting a lamb a year
old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for
a sin offering,
7: and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make
atonement for her; then she shall be clean from the flow of her
blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or
female.
8: And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take
two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 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."
Chapter 13
1: The LORD
said to Moses and Aaron,
2: "When a man has on the skin of his body a
swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous
disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to
Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,
3: and the priest shall examine the diseased spot on the
skin of his body; and if the hair in the diseased spot has
turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin
of his body, it is a leprous disease; when the priest has
examined him he shall pronounce him unclean.
4: But if the spot is white in the skin of his body, and
appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not
turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for
seven days;
5: and the priest shall examine him on the seventh day,
and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has
not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven
days more;
6: and the priest shall examine him again on the seventh
day, and if the diseased spot is dim and the disease has not
spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean;
it is only an eruption; and he shall wash his clothes, and be
clean.
7: But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has
shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear
again before the priest;
8: and the priest shall make an examination, and if the
eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean; it is leprosy.
9: "When a man is afflicted with leprosy, he shall
be brought to the priest;
10: and the priest shall make an examination, and if
there is a white swelling in the skin, which has turned the hair
white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,
11: it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and
the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him
up, for he is unclean.
12: And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that
the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head
to foot, so far as the priest can see,
13: then the priest shall make an examination, and if the
leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean
of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.
14: But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be
unclean.
15: And the priest shall examine the raw flesh, and
pronounce him unclean; raw flesh is unclean, for it is leprosy.
16: But if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to
white, then he shall come to the priest,
17: and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease
has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased
person clean; he is clean.
18: "And when there is in the skin of one's body a
boil that has healed,
19: and in the place of the boil there comes a white
swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the
priest;
20: and the priest shall make an examination, and if it
appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of
leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.
21: But if the priest examines it, and the hair on it is
not white and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim, then
the priest shall shut him up seven days;
22: and if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean; it is diseased.
23: But if the spot remains in one place and does not
spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
24: "Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and
the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or
white,
25: the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the
spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then
it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest
shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.
26: But if the priest examines it, and the hair in the
spot is not white and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim,
the priest shall shut him up seven days,
27: and the priest shall examine him the seventh day; if
it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean; it is a leprous disease.
28: But if the spot remains in one place and does not
spread in the skin, but is dim, it is a swelling from the burn,
and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of
the burn.
29: "When a man or woman has a disease on the head
or the beard,
30: the priest shall examine the disease; and if it
appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and
thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an
itch, a leprosy of the head or the beard.
31: And if the priest examines the itching disease, and
it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in
it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching
disease for seven days,
32: and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the
disease; and if the itch has not spread, and there is in it no
yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,
33: then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall
not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the
itching disease for seven days more;
34: and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the
itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears
to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
35: But if the itch spreads in the skin after his
cleansing,
36: then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch
has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow
hair; he is unclean.
37: But if in his eyes the itch is checked, and black
hair has grown in it, the itch is healed, he is clean; and the
priest shall pronounce him clean.
38: "When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of
the body, white spots,
39: the priest shall make an examination, and if the
spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is tetter
that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
40: "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is
bald but he is clean.
41: And if a man's hair has fallen from his forehead and
temples, he has baldness of the forehead but he is clean.
42: But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead
a reddish-white diseased spot, it is leprosy breaking out on his
bald head or his bald forehead.
43: Then the priest shall examine him, and if the
diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his
bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the
body,
44: he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must
pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
45: "The leper who has the disease shall wear torn
clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall
cover his upper lip and cry, `Unclean, unclean.'
46: He shall remain unclean as long as he has the
disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation
outside the camp.
47: "When there is a leprous disease in a garment,
whether a woolen or a linen garment,
48: in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in
anything made of skin,
49: if the disease shows greenish or reddish in the
garment, whether in warp or woof or in skin or in anything made
of skin, it is a leprous disease and shall be shown to the
priest.
50: And the priest shall examine the disease, and shut up
that which has the disease for seven days;
51: then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day.
If the disease has spread in the garment, in warp or woof, or in
the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a
malignant leprosy; it is unclean.
52: And he shall burn the garment, whether diseased in
warp or woof, woolen or linen, or anything of skin, for it is a
malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.
53: "And if the priest examines, and the disease has
not spread in the garment in warp or woof or in anything of
skin,
54: then the priest shall command that they wash the
thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up seven
days more;
55: and the priest shall examine the diseased thing after
it has been washed. And if the diseased spot has not changed
color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you
shall burn it in the fire, whether the leprous spot is on the
back or on the front.
56: "But if the priest examines, and the disease is
dim after it is washed, he shall tear the spot out of the
garment or the skin or the warp or woof;
57: then if it appears again in the garment, in warp or
woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading; you shall burn
with fire that in which is the disease.
58: But the garment, warp or woof, or anything of skin
from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall
then be washed a second time, and be clean."
59: This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of
wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin,
to decide whether it is clean or unclean.
Chapter 14
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "This shall be the law of the leper for the day
of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest;
3: and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the
priest shall make an examination. Then, if the leprous disease
is healed in the leper,
4: the priest shall command them to take for him who is
to be cleansed two living clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet
stuff and hyssop;
5: and the priest shall command them to kill one of the
birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
6: He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and
the scarlet stuff and the hyssop, and dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running
water;
7: and he shall sprinkle it seven times upon him who is
to be cleansed of leprosy; then he shall pronounce him clean,
and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
8: And 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; and after that he shall come into the camp, but
shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
9: And on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off
his head; he shall shave off his beard and his eyebrows, all his
hair. Then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in
water, and he shall be clean.
10: "And on the eighth day he shall take two male
lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without
blemish, and a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of
fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
11: And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who
is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the door
of the tent of meeting.
12: And the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and
offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and
wave them for a wave offering before the LORD;
13: and he shall kill the lamb in the place where they
kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place;
for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the
priest; it is most holy.
14: The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt
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 great toe of his right foot.
15: Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil,
and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,
16: and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his
left hand, and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times
before the LORD.
17: And some of the oil that remains in his hand the
priest shall put 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 great
toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering;
18: and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the
priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.
19: The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make
atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness.
And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
20: and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
cereal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21: "But if he is poor and cannot afford so much,
then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be
waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of
fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and a log of
oil;
22: also two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he
can afford; the one shall be a sin offering and the other a
burnt offering.
23: And 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;
24: and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt
offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for
a wave offering before the LORD.
25: And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and
the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt 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 great
toe of his right foot.
26: And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the
palm of his own left hand;
27: and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the
oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD;
28: and 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 the great toe
of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt
offering was put;
29: and the 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.
30: And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or young
pigeons such as he can afford,
31: one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt
offering, along with a cereal offering; and the priest shall
make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.
32: This is the law for him in whom is a leprous disease,
who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing."
33: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
34: "When you come into the land of Canaan, which I
give you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a
house in the land of your possession,
35: then he who owns the house shall come and tell the
priest, `There seems to me to be some sort of disease in my
house.'
36: Then the priest shall command that they empty the
house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all
that is in the house be declared unclean; and afterward the
priest shall go in to see the house.
37: And he shall examine the disease; and if the disease
is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and
if it appears to be deeper than the surface,
38: then the priest shall go out of the house to the door
of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39: And the priest shall come again on the seventh day,
and look; and if the disease has spread in the walls of the
house,
40: then the priest shall command that they take out the
stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean
place outside the city;
41: and he shall cause the inside of the house to be
scraped round about, and the plaster that they scrape off they
shall pour into an unclean place outside the city;
42: then they shall take other stones and put them in the
place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and
plaster the house.
43: "If the disease breaks out again in the house,
after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and
plastered it,
44: then the priest shall go and look; and if the disease
has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house;
it is unclean.
45: And he shall break down the house, its stones and
timber and all the plaster of the house; and he shall carry them
forth out of the city to an unclean place.
46: Moreover he who enters the house while it is shut up
shall be unclean until the evening;
47: and he who lies down in the house shall wash his
clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48: "But if the priest comes and makes an
examination, and the disease has not spread in the house after
the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the
house clean, for the disease is healed.
49: And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two
small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop,
50: and shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water,
51: and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the
scarlet stuff, along with the living bird, and dip them in the
blood of the bird that was killed and in the running water, and
sprinkle the house seven times.
52: Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and
with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff;
53: and he shall let the living bird go out of the city
into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house,
and it shall be clean."
54: This is the law for any leprous disease: for an itch,
55: for leprosy in a garment or in a house,
56: and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,
57: to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This
is the law for leprosy.
Chapter 15
1: The LORD
said to Moses and Aaron,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, When any man has a
discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
3: And this is the law of his uncleanness for a
discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body
is stopped from discharge, it is uncleanness in him.
4: Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall
be unclean; and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
5: And any one who touches his bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening.
6: And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the
discharge has sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
7: And whoever touches the body of him who has the
discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
8: And if he who has the discharge spits on one who is
clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
9: And any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides
shall be unclean.
10: And whoever touches anything that was under him shall
be unclean until the evening; and he who carries such a thing
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
11: Any one whom he that has the discharge touches
without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
12: And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge
touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be
rinsed in water.
13: "And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of
his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for
his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his body
in running water, and shall be clean.
14: And 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: and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin
offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest
shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.
16: "And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall
bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.
17: And every garment and every skin on which the semen
comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the
evening.
18: If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of
semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
19: "When a woman has a discharge of blood which is
her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her
impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be
unclean until the evening.
20: And everything upon which she lies during her
impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits
shall be unclean.
21: And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
22: And whoever touches anything upon which she sits
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening;
23: whether it is the bed or anything upon which she
sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.
24: And if any man lies with her, and her impurity is on
him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he
lies shall be unclean.
25: "If a woman has a discharge of blood for many
days, not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge
beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge
she shall continue in uncleanness; as in the days of her
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
everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the
uncleanness of her impurity.
27: And whoever touches these things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
28: But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall
count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29: And on 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.
30: And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and
the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
31: "Thus you shall keep the people of Israel
separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their
uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their
midst."
32: This is the law for him who has a discharge and for
him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;
33: also for her who is sick with her impurity; that is,
for any one, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the
man who lies with a woman who is unclean.
Chapter 16
1: The LORD
spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when
they drew near before the LORD and died;
2: and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your
brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the
veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark, lest he die;
for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
3: But thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a
young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4: He shall put on the holy linen coat, and shall have
the linen breeches on his body, be girded with the linen girdle,
and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall
bathe his body in water, and then put them on.
5: And he shall take from the congregation of the people
of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a
burnt offering.
6: "And Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering
for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his
house.
7: Then he shall take the two goats, and set them before
the LORD at the door of the tent of meeting;
8: and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot
for the LORD and the other lot for Aza'zel.
9: And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell
for the LORD, and offer it as a sin offering;
10: but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza'zel shall
be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it,
that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza'zel.
11: "Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering
for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his
house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.
12: And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from
the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense
beaten small; and he shall bring it within the veil
13: and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that
the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon
the testimony, lest he die;
14: and he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and
sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, and
before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood with his
finger seven times.
15: "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering
which is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil,
and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull,
sprinkling it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat;
16: thus he shall make atonement for the holy place,
because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and
because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall
do for the tent of meeting, which abides with them in the midst
of their uncleannesses.
17: There shall be no man 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 house and for all
the assembly of Israel.
18: Then he shall go out to the altar which is before the
LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood
of the bull and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the
horns of the altar round about.
19: And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it with
his finger seven times, and cleanse it and hallow it from the
uncleannesses of the people of Israel.
20: "And when he has made an end of atoning for the
holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall
present the live goat;
21: and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the
people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins;
and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him
away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in
readiness.
22: The goat shall bear all their iniquities upon him to
a solitary land; and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
23: "Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting,
and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he
went into the holy place, and shall leave them there;
24: and he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place,
and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make
atonement for himself and for the people.
25: And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon
the altar.
26: And he who lets the goat go to Aza'zel shall wash his
clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come
into the camp.
27: And 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 forth outside the camp;
their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned with
fire.
28: And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and
bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the
camp.
29: "And it shall be a statute to you for ever that
in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall
afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or
the stranger who sojourns among you;
30: for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to
cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the
LORD.
31: It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall
afflict yourselves; it is a statute for ever.
32: And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as
priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the
holy linen garments;
33: he shall make atonement for the 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.
34: And this shall be an everlasting statute for you,
that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the
year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD
commanded him.
Chapter 17
1: And the
LORD said to Moses,
2: "Say to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people
of Israel, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.
3: If any man of the house of Israel kills an ox or a
lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,
4: and does not bring it to the door of the tent of
meeting, to offer it as a gift to the LORD before the tabernacle
of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man; he has
shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
5: This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring
their sacrifices which they slay in the open field, that they
may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the door of the
tent of meeting, and slay them as sacrifices of peace offerings
to the LORD;
6: and the 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 pleasing odor to the LORD.
7: So they shall no more slay their sacrifices for
satyrs, after whom they play the harlot. This shall be a statute
for ever to them throughout their generations.
8: "And you shall say to them, Any man of the house
of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who
offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
9: and does not 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.
10: "If any man of the house of Israel or of the
strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my
face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off
from among his people.
11: For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have
given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your
souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of
the life.
12: Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No
person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who
sojourns among you eat blood.
13: Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any
beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and
cover it with dust.
14: "For the life of every creature is the blood of
it; therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not
eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is
its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15: And every person that eats what dies of itself or
what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner,
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.
16: But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he
shall bear his iniquity."
Chapter 18
1: And the
LORD said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, I am the LORD your
God.
3: You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt,
where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of
Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their
statutes.
4: You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and
walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
5: You shall therefore keep my statutes and my
ordinances, by doing which a man shall live: I am the LORD.
6: "None of you shall approach any one near of kin
to him to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.
7: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father,
which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you
shall not uncover her nakedness.
8: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's
wife; it is your father's nakedness.
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.
10: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's
daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is
your own nakedness.
11: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's
wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your
sister.
12: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's
sister; she is your father's near kinswoman.
13: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's
sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
14: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's
brother, that is, 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; she is your brother's nakedness.
17: You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of
her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her
daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near
kinswomen; it is wickedness.
18: And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her
sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.
19: "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her
nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
20: And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's
wife, and defile yourself with her.
21: You shall not give any of your children to devote
them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I
am the LORD.
22: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is
an abomination.
23: And you shall not lie with any beast and defile
yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a
beast to lie with it: it is perversion.
24: "Do not defile yourselves by any of these
things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you
defiled themselves;
25: and the land became defiled, so that I punished its
iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26: But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and
do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger
who sojourns among you
27: (for all of these abominations the men of the land
did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);
28: lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as
it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29: For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the
persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30: So keep my charge never to practice any of these
abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to
defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."
Chapter 19
1: And the
LORD said to Moses,
2: "Say to all the congregation of the people of
Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.
3: Every one of you shall revere his mother and his
father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
4: Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten
gods: I am the LORD your God.
5: "When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to
the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
6: It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the
morrow; and anything left over until the third day shall be
burned with fire.
7: If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an
abomination; it will not be accepted,
8: and every one who eats it shall bear his iniquity,
because he has profaned a holy thing of the LORD; and that
person shall be cut off from his people.
9: "When you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you
gather the gleanings after your harvest.
10: And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither
shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall
leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD
your God.
11: "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie
to one another.
12: And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so
profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
13: "You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him.
The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night
until the morning.
14: You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block
before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
15: "You shall do no injustice in judgment; you
shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in
righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
16: You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among
your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of
your neighbor: I am the LORD.
17: "You shall not hate your brother in your heart,
but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin
because of him.
18: You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge
against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your
neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
19: "You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let
your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your
field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a
garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.
20: "If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a
slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given
her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to
death, because she was not free;
21: but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to
the LORD, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt
offering.
22: And the priest shall make atonement for him with the
ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he
has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be
forgiven him.
23: "When you come into the land and plant all kinds
of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as
forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not
be eaten.
24: And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy,
an offering of praise to the LORD.
25: But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit,
that they may yield more richly for you: I am the LORD your God.
26: "You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in
it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
27: You shall not round off the hair on your temples or
mar the edges of your beard.
28: You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on
account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
29: "Do not profane your daughter by making her a
harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become
full of wickedness.
30: You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
31: "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek
them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
32: "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and
honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am
the LORD.
33: "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land,
you shall not do him wrong.
34: The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as
the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for
you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35: "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures
of length or weight or quantity.
36: You shall have just balances, just weights, a just
ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt.
37: And you shall observe all my statutes and all my
ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD."
Chapter 20
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the
people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel,
who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death;
the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3: I myself will set my face against that man, and will
cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of
his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my
holy name.
4: And if the people of the land do at all hide their
eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech,
and do not put him to death,
5: then I will set my face against that man and against
his family, and will cut them off from among their people, him
and all who follow him in playing the harlot after Molech.
6: "If a person turns to mediums and wizards,
playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that
person, and will cut him off from among his people.
7: Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am
the LORD your God.
8: Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the LORD who
sanctify you.
9: For every one who curses his father or his mother
shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother,
his blood is upon him.
10: "If a man commits adultery with the wife of his
neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to
death.
11: The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered
his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death,
their blood is upon them.
12: If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them
shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood
is upon them.
13: If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of
them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death,
their blood is upon them.
14: If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is
wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they,
that there may be no wickedness among you.
15: If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death;
and you shall kill the beast.
16: If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you
shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death,
their blood is upon them.
17: "If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his
father or a daughter of his mother, 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.
18: If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and
uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she
has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be
cut off from among their people.
19: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's
sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked
one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.
20: 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.
21: If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he
has uncovered his brother's nakedness, they shall be childless.
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.
23: And 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.
24: But I have said to you, `You shall inherit their
land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with
milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have separated you
from the peoples.
25: You shall therefore make a distinction between the
clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and
the clean; you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or
by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have
set apart for you to hold unclean.
26: You shall be holy to me; for I the LORD am holy, and
have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
27: "A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard
shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their
blood shall be upon them."
Chapter 21
1: And the
LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of
Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself
for the dead among his people,
2: except for his nearest of kin, his mother, his father,
his son, his daughter, his brother,
3: or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she
has had no husband; for her he may defile himself).
4: He shall not defile himself as a husband among his
people and so profane himself.
5: They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor
shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in
their flesh.
6: They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the
name of their God; for they offer the offerings by fire to the
LORD, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
7: They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been
defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her
husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
8: You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of
your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify
you, am holy.
9: And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes
herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be
burned with fire.
10: "The priest who is chief among his brethren,
upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been
consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his
head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;
11: he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile
himself, even for his father or for his mother;
12: neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing
oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13: And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14: A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been
defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall
take to wife a virgin of his own people,
15: that he may not profane his children among his
people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him."
16: And the LORD said to Moses,
17: "Say to Aaron, None of your descendants
throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to
offer the bread of his God.
18: For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man
blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too
long,
19: or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
20: or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in
his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;
21: no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has
a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD's offerings by fire;
since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the
bread of his God.
22: He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy and of the holy things,
23: but he shall not come near the veil or approach the
altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my
sanctuaries; for I am the LORD who sanctify them."
24: So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all
the people of Israel.
Chapter 22
1: And the
LORD said to Moses,
2: "Tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the
holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me,
so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.
3: Say to them, `If any one of all your descendants
throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which
the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an
uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am
the LORD.
4: None of the line of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a
discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever
touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead
or a man who has had an emission of semen,
5: and whoever touches a creeping thing by which he may
be made unclean or a man from whom he may take uncleanness,
whatever his uncleanness may be --
6: the person who touches any such shall be unclean until
the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has
bathed his body in water.
7: When the sun is down he shall be clean; and afterward
he may eat of the holy things, because such are his food.
8: That which dies of itself or is torn by beasts he
shall not eat, defiling himself by it: I am the LORD.'
9: They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear
sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD
who sanctify them.
10: "An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing. A
sojourner of the priest's or a hired servant shall not eat of a
holy thing;
11: but if a priest buys a slave as his property for
money, the slave may eat of it; and those that are born in his
house may eat of his food.
12: If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider she
shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.
13: But if a priest's daughter is a widow or divorced,
and has no child, and returns to her father's house, as in her
youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no outsider shall
eat of it.
14: And if a man eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he
shall add the fifth of its value to it, and give the holy thing
to the priest.
15: The priests shall not profane the holy things of the
people of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,
16: and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by
eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctify
them."
17: And the LORD said to Moses,
18: "Say to Aaron and his sons and all the people of
Israel, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners
in Israel presents his offering, whether in payment of a vow or
as a freewill offering which is offered to the LORD as a burnt
offering,
19: to be accepted you shall offer a male without
blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
20: You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for
it will not be acceptable for you.
21: And when any one offers a sacrifice of peace
offerings to the LORD, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill
offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it
must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.
22: Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a
discharge or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD
or make of them an offering by fire upon the altar to the LORD.
23: A bull or a lamb which has a part too long or too
short you may present for a freewill offering; but for a votive
offering it cannot be accepted.
24: Any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed
or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD or sacrifice
within your land;
25: neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any
such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish
in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted
for you."
26: And the LORD said to Moses,
27: "When a bull or sheep or goat is born, it shall
remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it
shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the LORD.
28: And whether the mother is a cow or a ewe, you shall
not kill both her and her young in one day.
29: And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to
the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
30: It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave
none of it until morning: I am the LORD.
31: "So you shall keep my commandments and do them:
I am the LORD.
32: And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be
hallowed among the people of Israel; I am the LORD who sanctify
you,
33: who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your
God: I am the LORD."
Chapter 23
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, The appointed
feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim as holy
convocations, my appointed feasts, are these.
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
work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.
4: "These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the
holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time
appointed for them.
5: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
in the evening, is the LORD's passover.
6: And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the
feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread.
7: On the first day you shall have a holy convocation;
you shall do no laborious work.
8: But you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD
seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall
do no laborious work."
9: And the LORD said to Moses,
10: "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into
the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring
the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest;
11: and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, that you
may find acceptance; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
12: And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall
offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering
to the LORD.
13: And the cereal offering with it shall be two tenths
of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, to be offered by fire
to the LORD, a pleasing odor; and the drink offering with it
shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
14: And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or
fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering
of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
15: "And you shall count from the morrow after the
sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave
offering; seven full weeks shall they be,
16: counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh
sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain
to the LORD.
17: You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of
bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah; they shall be
of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, as first fruits
to the LORD.
18: And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a
year old without blemish, and one young bull, and two rams; they
shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their cereal
offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire, a
pleasing odor to the LORD.
19: And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering,
and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20: And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
first fruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two
lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21: And you shall make proclamation on the same day; you
shall hold a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work:
it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
22: "And when you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not reap your field to its very border, nor shall you
gather the gleanings after your harvest; you shall leave them
for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God."
23: And the LORD said to Moses,
24: "Say to the people of Israel, In the seventh
month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of
solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a
holy convocation.
25: You shall do no laborious work; and you shall present
an offering by fire to the LORD."
26: And the LORD said to Moses,
27: "On the tenth day of this seventh month is the
day of atonement; it shall be for you a time of holy
convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present an
offering by fire to the LORD.
28: And you shall do no work on this same day; for it is
a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD
your God.
29: For whoever is not afflicted on this same day shall
be cut off from his people.
30: And whoever does any work on this same day, that
person I will destroy from among his people.
31: You shall do no work: it is a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32: It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you
shall afflict yourselves; on the ninth day of the month
beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep
your sabbath."
33: And the LORD said to Moses,
34: "Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth
day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of
booths to the LORD.
35: On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you
shall do no laborious work.
36: Seven days you shall present offerings by fire to the
LORD; on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and
present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a solemn
assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
37: "These are the appointed feasts of the LORD,
which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for
presenting to the LORD offerings by fire, burnt offerings and
cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its
proper day;
38: besides the sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your
gifts, and besides all your votive offerings, and besides all
your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.
39: "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when
you have gathered in the produce 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.
40: And you shall take on the first day the fruit of
goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees,
and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God seven days.
41: You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD seven days
in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your
generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
42: You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all that
are native in Israel shall dwell in booths,
43: that your generations may know that I made the people
of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt: I am the LORD your God."
44: Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the
appointed feasts of the LORD.
Chapter 24
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "Command the people of Israel to bring you pure
oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept
burning continually.
3: Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of
meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning
before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations.
4: He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of
pure gold before the LORD continually.
5: "And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve
cakes of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
6: And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon
the table of pure gold.
7: And you shall put pure frankincense with each row,
that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be
offered by fire to the LORD.
8: Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before
the LORD continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a
covenant for ever.
9: And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall
eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion
out of the offerings by fire to the LORD, a perpetual due."
10: Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an
Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite
woman's son and a man of Israel quarreled in the camp,
11: and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name,
and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was
Shelo'mith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12: And they put him in custody, till the will of the
LORD should be declared to them.
13: And the LORD said to Moses,
14: "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let
all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
congregation stone him.
15: And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his
God shall bear his sin.
16: He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put
to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as
well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to
death.
17: He who kills a man shall be put to death.
18: He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for
life.
19: When a man causes a disfigurement in his neighbor, as
he has done it shall be done to him,
20: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth;
as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.
21: He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who
kills a man shall be put to death.
22: You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the
native; for I am the LORD your God."
23: So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they
brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with
stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Chapter 25
1: The LORD
said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into
the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the
LORD.
3: Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you
shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
4: but 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.
5: What 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.
6: The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you,
for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your
hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;
7: for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in
your land all its yield shall be for food.
8: "And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven
times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years
shall be to you forty-nine years.
9: Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the
tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you
shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
10: And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be
a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property
and each of you shall return to his family.
11: A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it
you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather
the grapes from the undressed vines.
12: For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you
shall eat what it yields out of the field.
13: "In this year of jubilee each of you shall
return to his property.
14: And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your
neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
15: According to the number of years after the jubilee,
you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of
years for crops he shall sell to you.
16: If the years are many you shall increase the price,
and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is
the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
17: You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear
your God; for I am the LORD your God.
18: "Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my
ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land
securely.
19: The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your
fill, and dwell in it securely.
20: And if you say, `What shall we eat in the seventh
year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'
21: I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth
year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.
22: When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating
old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in,
you shall eat the old.
23: The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the
land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
24: And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a
redemption of the land.
25: "If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of
his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what
his brother has sold.
26: If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself
becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
27: let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay
back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall
return to his property.
28: But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for
himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who
bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be
released, and he shall return to his property.
29: "If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled
city, he may redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a
full year he shall have the right of redemption.
30: If it is not redeemed within 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.
31: But the houses of the villages which have no wall
around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country;
they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.
32: Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in
the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any
time.
33: And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right
of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their
possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in
the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people
of Israel.
34: But the fields of common land belonging to their
cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
35: "And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot
maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger
and a sojourner he shall live with you.
36: Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your
God; that your brother may live beside you.
37: You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor
give him your food for profit.
38: I 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.
39: "And if your brother becomes poor beside you,
and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a
slave:
40: he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a
sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the
jubilee;
41: then he shall go out from you, he and his children
with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the
possession of his fathers.
42: For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43: You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall
fear your God.
44: As for your male and female slaves whom you may have:
you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that
are round about you.
45: You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn
with you and their families that are with you, who have been
born in your land; and they may be your property.
46: You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to
inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them,
but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule,
one over another, with harshness.
47: "If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes
rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself
to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a member of the
stranger's family,
48: then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his
brothers may redeem him,
49: or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near
kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows
rich he may redeem himself.
50: He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year
when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the
price of his release shall be according to the number of years;
the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a
hired servant.
51: If there are still many years, according to them he
shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his
redemption.
52: If there remain but a few years until the year of
jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the
years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his
redemption.
53: As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him;
he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
54: And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he
shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children
with him.
55: For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are
my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am
the LORD your God.
Chapter 26
1: "You
shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or
pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land,
to bow down to them; for I am the LORD your God.
2: You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary:
I am the LORD.
3: "If you walk in my statutes and observe my
commandments and do them,
4: then 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.
5: And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage,
and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall
eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.
6: And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie
down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will remove evil
beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your
land.
7: And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
8: Five 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.
9: And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful
and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.
10: And you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall
clear out the old to make way for the new.
11: And I will make my abode among you, and my soul shall
not abhor you.
12: And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and
you shall be my people.
13: I 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 walk erect.
14: "But if you will not hearken to me, and will not
do all these commandments,
15: if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my
ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but
break my covenant,
16: I will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden
terror, consumption, and fever that waste the eyes and cause
life to pine away. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it;
17: I will set my face against you, and you shall be
smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over
you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18: And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me,
then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,
19: and I will break the pride of your power, and I will
make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass;
20: and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your
land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land
shall not yield their fruit.
21: "Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not
hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as
many as your sins.
22: And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which
shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.
23: "And if by this discipline you are not turned to
me, but walk contrary to me,
24: then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself
will smite you sevenfold for your sins.
25: And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute
vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities
I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered
into the hand of the enemy.
26: When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver your bread again
by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27: "And if in spite of this you will not hearken to
me, but walk contrary to me,
28: then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and
chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins.
29: You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall
eat the flesh of your daughters.
30: And I will destroy your high places, and cut down
your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the dead
bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
31: And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your
sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.
32: And I will devastate the land, so that your enemies
who settle in it shall be astonished at it.
33: And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will
unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a
desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34: "Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long
as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then
the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
35: As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the
rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.
36: And as for those of you that are left, I will send
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the
sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall
flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none
pursues.
37: They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape
a sword, though none pursues; and you shall have no power to
stand before your enemies.
38: And you shall perish among the nations, and the land
of your enemies shall eat you up.
39: And those of you that are left shall pine away in
your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because
of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like
them.
40: "But if they confess their iniquity and the
iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they
committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,
41: so that I walked contrary to them and brought them
into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised
heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity;
42: then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I
will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with
Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43: But the land shall be left by them, and enjoy its
sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall
make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my
ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
44: Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their
enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as
to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I
am the LORD their God;
45: but I will for their sake remember the covenant with
their forefathers, 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."
46: These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which
the LORD made between him and the people of Israel on Mount
Sinai by Moses.
Chapter 27
1: The LORD
said to Moses,
2: "Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a
special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3: then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up
to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according
to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4: If the person is a female, your valuation shall be
thirty shekels.
5: If the person is from five years old up to twenty
years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels,
and for a female ten shekels.
6: If the person is from a month old up to five years
old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver,
and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of
silver.
7: And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then
your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a
female ten shekels.
8: And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then
he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest
shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the
priest shall value him.
9: "If it is an animal such as men offer as an
offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD
is holy.
10: He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange
it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any
exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it
is exchanged shall be holy.
11: And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered
as an offering to the LORD, then the man shall bring the animal
before the priest,
12: and the priest shall value it as either good or bad;
as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
13: But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth
to the valuation.
14: "When a man dedicates his house to be holy to
the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as
the priest values it, so it shall stand.
15: And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his
house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and
it shall be his.
16: "If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land
which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be
according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley
shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17: If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee,
it shall stand at your full valuation;
18: but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then
the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the
years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction
shall be made from your valuation.
19: And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem
it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it,
and it shall remain his.
20: But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he
has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any
more;
21: but the field, when it is released in the jubilee,
shall be holy to the LORD, as a field that has been devoted; the
priest shall be in possession of it.
22: If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has
bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance,
23: then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up
to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the
valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD.
24: In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him
from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a
possession by inheritance.
25: Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of
the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
26: "But a firstling of animals, which as a
firstling belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox
or sheep, it is the LORD's.
27: And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it
back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not
redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation.
28: "But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the
LORD, of anything that he has, whether of man or beast, or of
his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted
thing is most holy to the LORD.
29: No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from
among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death.
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.
31: If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall
add a fifth to it.
32: And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth
animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be
holy to the LORD.
33: A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad,
neither shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it, then both
it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy; it shall
not be redeemed."
34: These are the commandments which the LORD commanded
Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai. |