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## Vayikra

### Chapter 1

1YHWH called to Moshe, and spoke to him from the Ohel Mo'ed, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to YHWH, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. 3“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, that he may be accepted before YHWH. 4He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5He shall kill the bull before YHWH. Aharon’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 6He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. 7The sons of Aharon the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; 8and Aharon’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; 9but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 10“‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect. 11He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before YHWH. Aharon’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 12He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, 13but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 14“‘If his offering to YHWH is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons. 15The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; 16and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. 17He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH.

### Chapter 2

1“‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. 2He shall bring it to Aharon’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 3That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aharon’s and his sons’. It is a most kodesh part of the offerings of YHWH made by fire. 4“‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. 6You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. 7If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to YHWH. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. 9The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 10That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aharon’s and his sons’. It is a most kodesh part of the offerings of YHWH made by fire. 11“‘No meal offering which you shall offer to YHWH shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to YHWH. 12As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to YHWH, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar. 13Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the Brit of your Elohim to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 14“‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to YHWH, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed. 15You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. 16The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to YHWH.

### Chapter 3

1“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before YHWH. 2He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. Aharon’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar. 3He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to YHWH. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 4and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 5Aharon’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 6“‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect. 7If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before YHWH; 8and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Ohel Mo'ed. Aharon’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 9He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to YHWH; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails, 10and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 11The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to YHWH. 12“‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before YHWH. 13He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Ohel Mo'ed; and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 14He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to YHWH; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 15and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 16The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is YHWH’s. 17“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

### Chapter 4

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which YHWH has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, 3if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to YHWH for a sin offering. 4He shall bring the bull to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed before YHWH; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before YHWH. 5The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Ohel Mo'ed. 6The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before YHWH, before the veil of the Mishkan. 7The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before YHWH, which is in the Ohel Mo'ed; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 8He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 9and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove, 10as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 11He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung 12—all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burnt where the ashes are poured out. 13“‘If the whole congregation of Yisrael sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which YHWH has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; 14when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Ohel Mo'ed. 15The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before YHWH; and the bull shall be killed before YHWH. 16The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Ohel Mo'ed. 17The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before YHWH, before the veil. 18He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before YHWH, that is in the Ohel Mo'ed; 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 Ohel Mo'ed. 19All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar. 20He shall do this with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so he shall do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. 21He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burnt the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly. 22“‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which YHWH his Elohim has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, 23if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect. 24He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before YHWH. It is a sin offering. 25The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. 26All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven. 27“‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which YHWH has commanded not to be done, and is guilty, 28if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned. 29He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 30The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 31All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to YHWH; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 32“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect. 33He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 34The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 35He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of YHWH made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

### Chapter 5

1“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 2“‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. 3“‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. 4“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these. 5It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned; 6and he shall bring his trespass offering to YHWH for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin. 7“‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to YHWH; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. 9He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven. 11“‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of YHWH made by fire. It is a sin offering. 13The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’” 14YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 15“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding YHWH’s kodesh things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to YHWH: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, for a trespass offering. 16He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the kodesh thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven. 17“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which YHWH has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 18He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven. 19It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before YHWH.”

### Chapter 6

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against YHWH, and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbour, 3or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions— 4then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. 6He shall bring his trespass offering to YHWH: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. 7The priest shall make atonement for him before YHWH, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.” 8YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 9“Command Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 12The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 13Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. 14“‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aharon shall offer it before YHWH, before the altar. 15He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to YHWH. 16That which is left of it Aharon and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a kodesh place. They shall eat it in the court of the Ohel Mo'ed. 17It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most kodesh, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. 18Every male amongst the children of Aharon shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of YHWH made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be kodesh.’” 19YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 20“This is the offering of Aharon and of his sons, which they shall offer to YHWH in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. 21It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 22The anointed priest that will be in his place from amongst his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to YHWH. 23Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burnt. It shall not be eaten.” 24YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 25“Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before YHWH. It is most kodesh. 26The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a kodesh place, in the court of the Ohel Mo'ed. 27Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be kodesh. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a kodesh place. 28But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 29Every male amongst the priests shall eat of it. It is most kodesh. 30No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Ohel Mo'ed to make atonement in the Kodesh Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire.

### Chapter 7

1“‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most kodesh. 2In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. 3He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 4and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys; 5and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to YHWH: it is a trespass offering. 6Every male amongst the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a kodesh place. It is most kodesh. 7“‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. 8The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 9Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. 10Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aharon, one as well as another. 11“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to YHWH: 12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. 13He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. 14Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to YHWH. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. 15The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten, 17but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. 18If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. 19“‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burnt with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; 20but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to YHWH, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to YHWH, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’” 22YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 23“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. 24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. 25For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to YHWH, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. 27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’” 28YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 29“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to YHWH shall bring his offering to YHWH out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of YHWH made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before YHWH. 31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aharon’s and his sons’. 32The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33He amongst the sons of Aharon who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Yisrael out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aharon the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Yisrael.’” 35This is the consecrated portion of Aharon, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of YHWH made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to YHWH in the priest’s office; 36which YHWH commanded to be given them of the children of Yisrael, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. 37This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings 38which YHWH commanded Moshe in Har Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Yisrael to offer their offerings to YHWH, in the wilderness of Sinai.

### Chapter 8

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Take Aharon 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; 3and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed.” 4Moshe did as YHWH commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 5Moshe said to the congregation, “This is the thing which YHWH has commanded to be done.” 6Moshe brought Aharon and his sons, and washed them with water. 7He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skilfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it. 8He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate. 9He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the kodesh crown, on the front of the turban, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 10Moshe took the anointing oil, and anointed the Mishkan and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 11He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them. 12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aharon’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13Moshe brought Aharon’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 14He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 15He killed it; and Moshe took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 16He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moshe burnt it on the altar. 17But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 18He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 19He killed it; and Moshe sprinkled the blood around on the altar. 20He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moshe burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. 21He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moshe burnt the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to YHWH, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 22He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 23He killed it; and Moshe took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aharon’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. 24He brought Aharon’s sons; and Moshe put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moshe sprinkled the blood around on the altar. 25He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; 26and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before YHWH, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh. 27He put all these in Aharon’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before YHWH. 28Moshe took them from their hands, and burnt them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to YHWH. 29Moshe took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before YHWH. It was Moshe’s portion of the ram of consecration, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 30Moshe took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aharon, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aharon, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. 31Moshe said to Aharon and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aharon and his sons shall eat it.’ 32What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. 33You shall not go out from the door of the Ohel Mo'ed for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. 34What has been done today, so YHWH has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35You shall stay at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed day and night seven days, and keep YHWH’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.” 36Aharon and his sons did all the things which YHWH commanded by Moshe.

### Chapter 9

1On the eighth day, Moshe called Aharon and his sons, and the elders of Yisrael; 2and he said to Aharon, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before YHWH. 3You shall speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering; 4and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before YHWH; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today YHWH appears to you.’” 5They brought what Moshe commanded before the Ohel Mo'ed. All the congregation came near and stood before YHWH. 6Moshe said, “This is the thing which YHWH commanded that you should do; and YHWH’s kavod shall appear to you.” 7Moshe said to Aharon, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as YHWH commanded.” 8So Aharon came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9The sons of Aharon 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; 10but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar, as YHWH commanded Moshe. 11The meat and the skin he burnt with fire outside the camp. 12He killed the burnt offering; and Aharon’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. 13They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burnt them upon the altar. 14He washed the innards and the legs, and burnt them on the burnt offering on the altar. 15He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 16He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. 17He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burnt it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning. 18He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aharon’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar; 19and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver; 20and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat on the altar. 21Aharon waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before YHWH, as Moshe commanded. 22Aharon lifted up his hands towards the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. 23Moshe and Aharon went into the Ohel Mo'ed, and came out, and blessed the people; and YHWH’s kavod appeared to all the people. 24Fire came out from before YHWH, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

### Chapter 10

1Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before YHWH, which he had not commanded them. 2Fire came out from before YHWH, and devoured them, and they died before YHWH. 3Then Moshe said to Aharon, “This is what YHWH spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself kodesh to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aharon held his peace. 4Moshe called Misha'el and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzi'el the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the Mishkan out of the camp.” 5So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moshe had said. 6Moshe said to Aharon, and to El'azar and to Itamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Yisrael, bewail the burning which YHWH has kindled. 7You shall not go out from the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, lest you die; for the anointing oil of YHWH is on you.” They did according to the word of Moshe. 8Then YHWH said to Aharon, 9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Ohel Mo'ed, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 10You are to make a distinction between the kodesh and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. 11You are to teach the children of Yisrael all the statutes which YHWH has spoken to them by Moshe.” 12Moshe spoke to Aharon, and to El'azar and to Itamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of YHWH made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most kodesh; 13and you shall eat it in a kodesh place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of YHWH made by fire; for so I am commanded. 14The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Yisrael. 15They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before YHWH. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as YHWH has commanded.” 16Moshe diligently enquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt. He was angry with El'azar and with Itamar, the sons of Aharon who were left, saying, 17“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the Mishkan, since it is most kodesh, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before YHWH? 18Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the Mishkan. You certainly should have eaten it in the Mishkan, as I commanded.” 19Aharon spoke to Moshe, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before YHWH; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in YHWH’s sight?” 20When Moshe heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.

### Chapter 11

1YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying to them, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat amongst all the animals that are on the earth. 3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud amongst the animals, that you may eat. 4“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. 5The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. 6The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. 7The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you. 9“‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. 10All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, 11and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses. 12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you. 13“‘You shall detest these amongst the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 14the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15any kind of raven, 16the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you. 21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth. 22Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper. 23But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you. 24“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. 26“‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 27Whatever goes on its paws, amongst all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. 29“‘These are they which are unclean to you amongst the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, 30the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon. 31These are they which are unclean to you amongst all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. 32Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean. 33Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it. 34All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. 36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. 37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. 38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. 39“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. 41“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. 42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination. 43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. 44For I am YHWH your Elohim. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be kodesh; for I am kodesh. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. 45For I am YHWH who brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your Elohim. You shall therefore be kodesh, for I am kodesh. 46“‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”

### Chapter 12

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. 3In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any kodesh thing, nor come into the Mishkan, until the days of her purifying are completed. 5But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. 6“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering. 7He shall offer it before YHWH, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. 8If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

### Chapter 13

1YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 2“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aharon the priest or to one of his sons, the priests. 3The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean. 4If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. 5The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. 6The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 7But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. 8The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy. 9“When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; 10and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 11it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean. 12“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest, 13then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. 14But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. 15The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy. 16Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest. 17The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean. 18“When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, 19and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. 20The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. 21But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. 22If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. 23But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 24“Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, 25then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 26But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. 27The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 28If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn. 29“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, 30then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days. 32On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, 33then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days. 34On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, 36then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. 37But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean. 38“When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots, 39then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean. 40“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. 41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, his forehead is bald. He is clean. 42But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead. 43Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body, 44he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head. 45“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp. 47“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woollen garment, or a linen garment; 48whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in leather, or in anything made of leather; 49if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest. 50The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. 51He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean. 52He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burnt in the fire. 53“If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 54then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days. 55Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its colour, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. 56If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof; 57and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn what the plague is in with fire. 58The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.” 59This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

### Chapter 14

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, 3and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, 4then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. 5The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. 7He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field. 8“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 9It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean. 10“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 11The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before YHWH, at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 12“The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before YHWH. 13He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the Mishkan; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most kodesh. 14The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 15The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. 16The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before YHWH. 17The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering. 18The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before YHWH. 19“The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; 20then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. 21“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; 22and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. 23“On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, before YHWH. 24The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before YHWH. 25He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 26The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 27and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before YHWH. 28Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. 29The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before YHWH. 30He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford, 31of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before YHWH.” 32This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing. 33YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 34“When you have come into the land of Kna'an, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, 35then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’ 36The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. 37He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall, 38then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 39The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, 40then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city. 41He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place. 42They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. 43“If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered, 44then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean. 45He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place. 46“Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. 47He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. 48“If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 49To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. 50He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 51He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; 53but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.” 54This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch, 55and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, 56and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 57to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.

### Chapter 15

1YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean. 3This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. 4“‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean. 5Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 6He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 7“‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 8“‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 9“‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean. 10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 11“‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 12“‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. 13“‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. 14“‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before YHWH to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, and give them to the priest. 15The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before YHWH for his discharge. 16“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. 17Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. 18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening. 19“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 20“‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. 21Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 22Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 23If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening. 24“‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean. 25“‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean. 26Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period. 27Whoever 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, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 30The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before YHWH for the uncleanness of her discharge. 31“‘Thus you shall separate the children of Yisrael from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my Mishkan that is amongst them.’” 32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it; 33and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.

### Chapter 16

1YHWH spoke to Moshe after the death of the two sons of Aharon, when they came near before YHWH, and died; 2and YHWH said to Moshe, “Tell Aharon your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Kodesh Place within the veil, before the chesed seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the chesed seat. 3“Aharon shall come into the Mishkan with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4He shall put on the kodesh linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the kodesh garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. 5He shall take from the congregation of the children of Yisrael two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6“Aharon shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. 7He shall take the two goats, and set them before YHWH at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. 8Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for YHWH, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 9Aharon shall present the goat on which the lot fell for YHWH, and offer him for a sin offering. 10But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before YHWH, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness. 11“Aharon shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself. 12He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before YHWH, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. 13He shall put the incense on the fire before YHWH, that the cloud of the incense may cover the chesed seat that is on the Brit, so that he will not die. 14He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the chesed seat on the east; and before the chesed seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. 15“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the chesed seat and before the chesed seat. 16He shall make atonement for the Kodesh Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Ohel Mo'ed that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness. 17No one shall be in the Ohel Mo'ed when he enters to make atonement in the Kodesh Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisrael. 18“He shall go out to the altar that is before YHWH and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar. 19He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it kodesh from the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael. 20“When he has finished atoning for the Kodesh Place, the Ohel Mo'ed, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. 21Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Yisrael, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready. 22The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. 23“Aharon shall come into the Ohel Mo'ed, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Kodesh Place, and shall leave them there. 24Then he shall bathe himself in water in a kodesh place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. 25The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar. 26“He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 27The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Kodesh Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire. 28He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 29“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you; 30for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before YHWH. 31It is a Shabbat of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. 32The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the kodesh garments. 33Then he shall make atonement for the Kodesh Mishkan; and he shall make atonement for the Ohel Mo'ed and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. 34“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Yisrael once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as YHWH commanded Moshe.

### Chapter 17

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all the children of Yisrael, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which YHWH has commanded: 3Whatever man there is of the house of Yisrael who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, 4and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed to offer it as an offering to YHWH before YHWH’s Mishkan: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from amongst his people. 5This is to the end that the children of Yisrael may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to YHWH, to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to YHWH. 6The priest shall sprinkle the blood on YHWH’s altar at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to YHWH. 7They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’ 8“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed to sacrifice it to YHWH, that man shall be cut off from his people. 10“‘Any man of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from amongst his people. 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12Therefore I have said to the children of Yisrael, “No person amongst you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you eat blood.” 13“‘Whatever man there is of the children of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners amongst them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Yisrael, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.” 15“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean. 16But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

### Chapter 18

1YHWH said to Moshe, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to them, ‘I am YHWH your Elohim. 3You shall not do as they do in the land of Mitzrayim, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Kna'an, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes. 4You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am YHWH your Elohim. 5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am YHWH. 6“‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am YHWH. 7“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 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, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness. 11“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived 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. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt. 15“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 16“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness. 17“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness. 18“‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive. 19“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. 20“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, and defile yourself with her. 21“‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molekh. You shall not profane the name of your Elohim. I am YHWH. 22“‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable. 23“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion. 24“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 25The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. 26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you 27(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), 28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from amongst their people. 30Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practise any of these abominable customs which were practised before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am YHWH your Elohim.’”

### Chapter 19

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘You shall be kodesh; for I, YHWH your Elohim, am kodesh. 3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Shabbats. I am YHWH your Elohim. 4“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am YHWH your Elohim. 5“‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. 7If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted; 8but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the kodesh thing of YHWH, and that soul shall be cut off from his people. 9“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am YHWH your Elohim. 11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another. 12“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your Elohim. I am YHWH. 13“‘You shall not oppress your neighbour, nor 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, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your Elohim. I am YHWH. 15“‘You shall do no injustice in judgement. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness. 16“‘You shall not go around as a slanderer amongst your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbour. I am YHWH. 17“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbour, and not bear sin because of him. 18“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am YHWH. 19“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material. 20“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21He shall bring his trespass offering to YHWH, to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, even a ram for a trespass offering. 22The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before YHWH 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 have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. 24But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be kodesh, for giving praise to YHWH. 25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am YHWH your Elohim. 26“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practise sorcery. 27“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard. 28“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am YHWH. 29“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness. 30“‘You shall keep my Shabbats, and reverence my Mishkan; I am YHWH. 31“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am YHWH your Elohim. 32“‘You shall rise up before the grey head and honour the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your Elohim. I am YHWH. 33“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born amongst you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Mitzrayim. I am YHWH your Elohim. 35“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim. 37“‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am YHWH.’”

### Chapter 20

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Yisrael, ‘Anyone of the children of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Yisrael, who gives any of his offspring to Molekh shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones. 3I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molekh, to defile my Mishkan, and to profane my kodesh name. 4If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molekh, and don’t put him to death, 5then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molekh, from amongst their people. 6“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people. 7“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be kodesh; for I am YHWH your Elohim. 8You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am YHWH who sanctifies you. 9“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself. 10“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11“‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. 12“‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves. 13“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. 14“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness amongst you. 15“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. 16“‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. 17“‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. 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 monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from amongst their people. 19“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity. 20If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless. 21“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an 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. 23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am YHWH your Elohim, who has separated you from the peoples. 25“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. 26You shall be kodesh to me, for I, YHWH, am kodesh, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. 27“‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”

### Chapter 21

1YHWH said to Moshe, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead amongst his people, 2except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, 3and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4He shall not defile himself, being a chief man amongst his people, to profane himself. 5“‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh. 6They shall be kodesh to their Elohim, and not profane the name of their Elohim, for they offer the offerings of YHWH made by fire, the bread of their Elohim. Therefore they shall be kodesh. 7“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is kodesh to his Elohim. 8Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your Elohim. He shall be kodesh to you, for I YHWH, who sanctify you, am kodesh. 9“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burnt with fire. 10“‘He who is the high priest amongst his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes. 11He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother. 12He shall not go out of the Mishkan, nor profane the Mishkan of his Elohim; for the crown of the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him. I am YHWH. 13“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. 14He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. 15He shall not profane his offspring amongst his people, for I am YHWH who sanctifies him.’” 16YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 17“Say to Aharon, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his Elohim. 18For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, 19or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand, 20or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles. 21No man of the offspring of Aharon the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of YHWH made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his Elohim. 22He shall eat the bread of his Elohim, both of the most kodesh, and of the kodesh. 23He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am YHWH who sanctifies them.’” 24So Moshe spoke to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all the children of Yisrael.

### Chapter 22

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Tell Aharon and his sons to separate themselves from the kodesh things of the children of Yisrael, which they make kodesh to me, and that they not profane my kodesh name. I am YHWH. 3“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the kodesh things which the children of Yisrael make kodesh to YHWH, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am YHWH. 4“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aharon is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the kodesh things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission, 5or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has— 6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the kodesh things unless he bathes his body in water. 7When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the kodesh things, because it is his bread. 8He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am YHWH. 9“‘They shall therefore follow my mitzvah, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am YHWH who sanctifies them. 10“‘No stranger shall eat of the kodesh thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the kodesh thing. 11But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread. 12If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the kodesh things. 13But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it. 14“‘If a man eats something kodesh unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the kodesh thing to the priest. 15The priests shall not profane the kodesh things of the children of Yisrael, which they offer to YHWH, 16and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their kodesh things; for I am YHWH who sanctifies them.’” 17YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 18“Speak to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all the children of Yisrael, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Yisrael, or of the foreigners in Yisrael, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to YHWH for a burnt offering: 19that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect. 22You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to YHWH, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to YHWH. 23Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24You must not offer to YHWH that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land. 25You must not offer any of these as the bread of your Elohim from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’” 26YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 27“When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to YHWH. 28Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day. 29“When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 30It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am YHWH. 31“Therefore you shall keep my mitzvot, and do them. I am YHWH. 32You shall not profane my kodesh name, but I will be made kodesh amongst the children of Yisrael. I am YHWH who makes you kodesh, 33who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your Elohim. I am YHWH.”

### Chapter 23

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of YHWH, which you shall proclaim to be kodesh convocations, even these are my set feasts. 3“‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, a kodesh convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Shabbat to YHWH in all your dwellings. 4“‘These are the set feasts of YHWH, even kodesh convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is YHWH’s Pesach. 6On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Chag HaMatzot to YHWH. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7In the first day you shall have a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work. 8But you shall offer an offering made by fire to YHWH seven days. In the seventh day is a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work.’” 9YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 10“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11He shall wave the sheaf before YHWH, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it. 12On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to YHWH. 13The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to YHWH for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15“‘You shall count from the next day after the Shabbat, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Shabbats shall be completed. 16The next day after the seventh Shabbat you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to YHWH. 17You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to YHWH. 18You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to YHWH, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to YHWH. 19You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before YHWH, with the two lambs. They shall be kodesh to YHWH for the priest. 21You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a kodesh convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field. You must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am YHWH your Elohim.’” 23YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 24“Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of Yom Teruah, a kodesh convocation. 25You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to YHWH.’” 26YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 27“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Yom Kippur. It shall be a kodesh convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to YHWH. 28You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a Yom Kippur, to make atonement for you before YHWH your Elohim. 29For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. 30Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from amongst his people. 31You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32It shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Shabbat.” 33YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 34“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Chag HaSukkot for seven days to YHWH. 35On the first day shall be a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work. 36Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to YHWH. On the eighth day shall be a kodesh convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to YHWH. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work. 37“‘These are the appointed feasts of YHWH which you shall proclaim to be kodesh convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to YHWH, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day— 38in addition to the Shabbats of YHWH, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to YHWH. 39“‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of YHWH seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim seven days. 41You shall keep it as a feast to YHWH seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month. 42You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Yisrael shall dwell in temporary shelters, 43that your generations may know that I made the children of Yisrael to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim. I am YHWH your Elohim.’” 44So Moshe declared to the children of Yisrael the appointed feasts of YHWH.

### Chapter 24

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Command the children of Yisrael, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Ohel Mo'ed, Aharon shall keep it in order from evening to morning before YHWH continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before YHWH continually. 5“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. 6You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before YHWH. 7You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to YHWH. 8Every Shabbat day he shall set it in order before YHWH continually. It is an everlasting Brit on the behalf of the children of Yisrael. 9It shall be for Aharon and his sons. They shall eat it in a kodesh place; for it is most kodesh to him of the offerings of YHWH made by fire by a perpetual statute.” 10The son of an Yisra'eli woman, whose father was an Mitzri, went out amongst the children of Yisrael; and the son of the Yisra'eli woman and a man of Yisrael strove together in the camp. 11The son of the Yisra'eli woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moshe. His mother’s name was Shelomit, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12They put him in custody until YHWH’s will should be declared to them. 13YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 14“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15You shall speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘Whoever curses his Elohim shall bear his sin. 16He who blasphemes YHWH’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name. 17“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. 18He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. 19If anyone injures his neighbour, it shall be done to him as he has done: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. 21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death. 22You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am YHWH your Elohim.’” 23Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Yisrael did as YHWH commanded Moshe.

### Chapter 25

1YHWH said to Moshe on Har Sinai, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Shabbat to YHWH. 3You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits; 4but in the seventh year there shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for the land, a Shabbat to YHWH. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6The Shabbat of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. 7For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food. 8“‘You shall count off seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Shabbats of years, even forty-nine years. 9Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Yom Kippur you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10You shall make the fiftieth year kodesh, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. 12For it is a jubilee; it shall be kodesh to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. 13“‘In this Year of Yovel each of you shall return to his property. 14“‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you shall not wrong one another. 15According to the number of years after the Yovel you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. 16According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. 17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your Elohim; for I am YHWH your Elohim. 18“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 19The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;” 21then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years. 22You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store. 23“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. 24In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. 25“‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. 26If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. 28But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Yovel. In the Yovel it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. 29“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Yovel. 31But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Yovel. 32“‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levi'im, the Levi'im may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time. 33The Levi'im may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Yovel; for the houses of the cities of the Levi'im are their possession amongst the children of Yisrael. 34But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. 35“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself amongst you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. 36Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your Elohim, that your brother may live amongst you. 37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to give you the land of Kna'an, and to be your Elohim. 39“‘If your brother has grown poor amongst you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Yovel. 41Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. 42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitzrayim. They shall not be sold as slaves. 43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your Elohim. 44“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live amongst you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Yisrael you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. 47“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living amongst you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, 48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. 50He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Yovel. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant. 51If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. 53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. 54If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Yovel: he and his children with him. 55For to me the children of Yisrael are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitzrayim. I am YHWH your Elohim.

### Chapter 26

1“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am YHWH your Elohim. 2“‘You shall keep my Shabbats, and have reverence for my Mishkan. I am YHWH. 3“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my mitzvot, and do them, 4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9“‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my Brit with you. 10You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. 11I will set my tent amongst you, and my soul won’t abhor you. 12I will walk amongst you, and will be your Elohim, and you will be my people. 13I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright. 14“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these mitzvot, 15and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my mitzvot, but break my Brit, 16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. 17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. 18“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. 19I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. 20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit. 21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. 22I will send the wild animals amongst you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate. 23“‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, 24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. 25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the Brit. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence amongst you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins. 29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. 31I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. 32I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it. 33I will scatter you amongst the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34Then the land will enjoy its Shabbats as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Shabbats. 35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Shabbats when you lived on it. 36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues. 37They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies. 38You will perish amongst the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. 39Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them. 40“‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, 41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, 42then I will remember my Brit with Yaakov, my Brit with Yitzhak, and also my Brit with Avraham; and I will remember the land. 43The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Shabbats while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my Brit with them; for I am YHWH their Elohim. 45But I will for their sake remember the Brit of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Mitzrayim in the sight of the nations, that I might be their Elohim. I am YHWH.’” 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which YHWH made between him and the children of Yisrael in Har Sinai by Moshe.

### Chapter 27

1YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to YHWH in a vow, according to your valuation, 3your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the Mishkan. 4If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay. 9“‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to YHWH, all that any man gives of such to YHWH becomes kodesh. 10He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be kodesh. 11If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to YHWH, then he shall set the animal before the priest; 12and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be. 13But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation. 14“‘When a man dedicates his house to be kodesh to YHWH, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand. 15If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. 16“‘If a man dedicates to YHWH part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he dedicates his field from the Year of Yovel, according to your valuation it shall stand. 18But if he dedicates his field after the Yovel, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Yovel; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation. 19If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his. 20If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; 21but the field, when it goes out in the Yovel, shall be kodesh to YHWH, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests. 22“‘If he dedicates a field to YHWH which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, 23then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Yovel; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a kodesh thing to YHWH. 24In the Year of Yovel the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the Mishkan: twenty gerahs to the shekel. 26“‘However the firstborn amongst animals, which belongs to YHWH as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is YHWH’s. 27If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. 28“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to YHWH of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most kodesh to YHWH. 29“‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from amongst men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely 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 YHWH’s. It is kodesh to YHWH. 31If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. 32All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be kodesh to YHWH. 33He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be kodesh. It shall not be redeemed.’” 34These are the mitzvot which YHWH commanded Moshe for the children of Yisrael on Har Sinai.

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