Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.

When a man has sexual intercourse with another man as with a woman, both men are doing something disgusting and must be put to death. They deserve to die!

Do not seek revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am Jehovah.

Tell the Israelites: 'When you bring an offering to Jehovah, bring your offering of animals from the herd or the flock.

This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.'

One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.

You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you.

If a man has sexual intercourse with a female slave who is engaged to another man and if her freedom was never bought or given to her, they should not be put to death. He will only pay a fine because she is a slave.

Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.

Obey my laws. Never crossbreed different kinds of animals. Do not plant two kinds of crops in your field. Never wear clothes made from two kinds of material.

If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me,

Every creature in the water without fins or scales is offensive to you.

The sons of the priest Aaron will start a fire on the altar and lay the wood on the fire.

Slaughter the bull in Jehovah's presence. Aaron's sons, the priests, will offer the blood. They will throw it against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

He should lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering. It may then be accepted for him to make atonement with Jehovah on his behalf.

Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.

Wash the internal organs and legs. The priest will then burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

He who marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.

No one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron enters the holy place to do this until he comes out. Aaron will pay compensation for wrongdoing and peace with Jehovah for his own sins, his family's sins, and the sins of the entire assembly of Israel.

He must bring a ram for his guilt offering to Jehovah at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.

Should you are offer one of your sheep or goats; it must be a male without any defects.

Aaron's sons, the priests, will also lay the pieces, the head, and the fat on top of the wood burning on the altar.

Slaughter it on the north side of the altar. The priests should throw its blood on all four sides of the altar.

Finally, he will take the bird by its wings, tear it partially open, and send it up in smoke with a smell that pleases Jehovah.

Wash the internal organs and the hind legs. The priest will present the sacrifice to Jehovah and burn all of it on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to Jehovah.

He will take a bowl of the blood inside the tent,

He put the turban on Aaron's head and fastened the gold medallion, the holy crown, to the front of the turban as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

After you cut it up, the officiating priest will lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire.

Bring your guilt offering to Jehovah for the sin you committed. It must be a female sheep or goat as an offering for sin. Then the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for what you did wrong.

You must also teach the people of Israel everything that I commanded Moses to say to them.

A priest will take the bird to the copper altar. He will wring its neck and put its head on the fire. Then he will drain out its blood on one side of the altar,

If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it,

The priest will pay compensation for your wrong and make peace with Jehovah. Then you will be forgiven for whatever you did that made you guilty.

Moses took the anointing oil to anoint the tent and everything in it and dedicate them.

all types of crows,

The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.

The skin of the burnt offering belongs to the priest who sacrifices it.

Moses spoke to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar. He said: Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offered to Jehovah. Bake unleavened bread with it and eat it beside the altar. This is because this offering is very holy.

I will resist you with great fury. I will discipline you seven times for your sins.

He may eat the food of his God, what is holy and what is very holy.

If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

The moment an open sore appears you are unclean.

You may use a bull or a sheep with a deformity or one that is stunted in growth as a freewill offering. However, it will not be accepted for a vow.

Also use the lower part of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat.

Present a food offering to Jehovah. Do not do your daily work.

kites, all types of buzzards,

On the altar he burned the fat, kidneys, and lobe of the liver from the offering for sin as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

dip a finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of it seven times toward the sacred chest behind the curtain.

The rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is most holy and set apart from Jehovah's offering by fire.

In Jehovah's presence the priest will use them to pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for this sin. The man will be forgiven for this sin.

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Bring them to the priest. He will sacrifice the offering for sin first. He will break the bird's neck without pulling its head off.

swans, pelicans, ospreys,

However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground.

If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.

If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening.

In my presence, he will smear some of the blood on each of the four corners of the incense altar, before pouring out the rest at the foot of the copper altar near the entrance to the tent.

Eat it in a holy place. It is the part that belongs to you and your sons from the food offered to Jehovah. That is what Jehovah commanded me.

Aaron will place both hands on its head. He will confess over it all the sins, all the rebellious acts, and all the things the Israelites did wrong. He will transfer them to the goat's head. A man will be appointed to release the goat in the desert.

The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses,

He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to set him apart for his holy duties.

All four-legged animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in Jehovah's presence.

Next, Moses dressed the sons of Aaron. He put shirts on them; put sashes around their waists, and tied caps on their heads, just as Jehovah commanded.

Do not have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.

Those who carry the dead body of any of these animals must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.

Moses asked about the goat for the sin offering and learned that it had already been burned. This made him angry with Eleazar and Ithamar. He demanded:

You and your families may eat the breast and the hind leg that are presented as the special gift and the special contribution to Jehovah for the priests. You may eat them in any ritually clean place. These offerings have been given to you and your children as the part that belongs to you from the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.

Moses brought the young bull for the sin offering. Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.

Following the proper procedures he will sacrifice the second bird as a burnt offering. The priest will pay compensation and make peace with Jehovah for what you did wrong.

When you come into the land and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you must not eat the fruit for the first three years.

Command Aaron and his sons: 'These are the instructions for the burnt offering that stays on the altar overnight while the altar fire is kept burning.

Every grain offering, whether baked in an oven or prepared in a skillet or a frying pan, belongs to the priest who offers it.

All the fruit will be a holy offering of praise to Jehovah in the fourth year.

All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that do not chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean.

Do not bring Jehovah an animal that has bruised, crushed, torn out, or cut out testicles. Never do any of these things to an animal in your land.

Some of the priests will lay these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me, together with the sacrifice that is offered to Jehovah.

However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah.

Moses killed it and took some of the blood. Using his finger he put it on the projections at the corners of the altar, in order to dedicate it. He then poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. In this way he dedicated it and purified it.

The priest must put on his linen clothes. This includes linen undergarments. Then he will remove the ashes left on the altar from the fire that consumed the burnt offering and will put them next to the altar.

The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.

However, he must never come up to the canopy or to the altar, since he has a physical defect. He must never dishonor the holy places because I, Jehovah, set them apart as holy.'

Moses took all the fat on the internal organs. He took the best part of the liver, and the kidneys with the fat on them, and burned it all on the altar.

Moses led out the ram for the sacrifice to please Jehovah. After Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head,

On the other hand, you must consider all swarming creatures living in the seas or the streams that have no fins or scales disgusting.

They shall bring the hind leg and the breast at the time the fat is presented as a food offering to Jehovah. These parts belong to you and your children from generation to generation, just as Jehovah commanded.

You must never eat rabbits. Rabbits are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs.

He sprinkled the altar seven times. He anointed the altar; it's utensils, the washbasin and its pedestal. This made them holy.

I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices.

The fire must always be burning on the altar. It must never go out. The priest will burn wood on it every morning. He will lay the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offering.

Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things. I hated them for it! So do not follow their example.

With his finger he will sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times. Because the Israelites made it unclean, he will cleanse it and declare it holy.

If your grain offering has been baked in an oven, it must be rings of unleavened bread made of flour mixed with olive oil or wafers of unleavened bread brushed with oil.

If any of you sin against Jehovah by failing to do your duty, if you lie to your neighbor about something you were supposed to take care of or if you lie about something stolen or seized from your neighbor, you are sinning and will be guilty.

These are the instructions for the fellowship offering that you must bring to Jehovah.

The fire must always be burning on the altar. It must never go out.

If your grain offering is prepared in a frying pan, it, too, will be unleavened bread made of flour mixed with oil.

Why did you not eat the sin offering in a sacred place? It is very holy! Jehovah gave it to you in order to take away the sin of the community.

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

One of them will lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering. Using its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he will offer it up in smoke on the altar. It will be a soothing aroma and a memorial offering to Jehovah.

He will sprinkle some of the blood from the offering for sin on the side of the altar. The rest of the blood will be drained at the bottom of the altar. It is an offering for sin.

He must remove from it all the fat of the bull of the sin offering: the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat which is on the entrails,

Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: When you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until evening.

Here are the kinds of creatures that live in the water that you may eat. You may eat anything in the seas and streams that have fins and scales.

He burned the meat and the skin outside the camp.

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

Since its blood was not brought into the sacred Tent, you should have eaten the sacrifice there, as I commanded.

Tell the Israelites: 'When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period.

The goat will take all their sins away to a deserted place. The man must release the goat in the desert.

However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,

When he finishes making peace with Jehovah at the holy place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he will bring the living goat forward.

Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, will be shared equally by all of Aaron's sons.

you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.

The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for that person in Jehovah's presence.

Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.

Aaron will go to the Tent of Meeting. He will take off the linen clothes he put on to go into the holy place, and leave them there.

Aaron answered: If I had eaten the sin offering today, would Jehovah have approved? The people presented their sin offering to Jehovah today. They brought their burnt offering, but still these terrible things have happened to me.

If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.

This is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. Never eat any fat or blood.'

If your sacrifice is a fellowship offering of sheep to Jehovah, you must bring a male or female animal that has no defects.

The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you: the weasels, mole rats, mice, and all types of lizards,

Prepare it with oil on a griddle. Stir it well and bring it. Present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

He will wash his body in the holy place and put on his other clothes. Then he will come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and for the people to make peace with Jehovah for his own sins and the sins of the people.

Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.

If your offering is a lamb, you must bring it to Jehovah.

When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.

Tell the Israelites: 'Here are the kinds of land animals you may eat:

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses:

He will burn the fat of the offering for sin on the altar.

When you present an offering of grain to Jehovah, you must first grind it into flour. You must put oil and incense on it.

The anointed priest who will be in his place among his sons will offer it. By a long lasting ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to Jehovah.

If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.

and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.

Place your hand on the animal's head. Slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron's sons will throw the blood against the altar on all sides.

Moses said to Aaron: This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: 'All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.' But Aaron remained silent.

Never drink beer or wine when you or your sons enter the sacred tent. If you do, you will die right there! This is a long lasting law from generation to generation.

When the dead body of one of these creatures falls on something, that thing will be unclean. It may be a wooden article, clothing, leather, a sack, or anything used for any purpose. It should be put in water and will be unclean until evening. It will then be clean again.

You may eat all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud.

Break it into pieces and pour oil over it. It is a grain offering.

Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

If the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil,

Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.

Bring Jehovah the grain offering prepared in any of these ways. Offer it to the priest who will bring it to the altar.

On that day the ritual is to be performed to purify them from all their sins, so that they will be ritually clean.

geckos, monitors, lizards, skinks, and chameleons.

He will take off these clothes and put on some others. He will take the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.

The priest will examine you again. If he sees an open sore, he will pronounce you unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease. You are unclean.

To show that the whole offering belongs to me, the priest will lay part of it on the altar. He will send it up in smoke and fire with a smell that pleases Jehovah.

The boy must be circumcised when he is eight days old.

People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death.

Jehovah continued: If you are a witness under oath who refuses to tell what you saw or what you know, you are sinning and will be punished.

Every grain offering you bring to Jehovah must be made without yeast. Do not use yeast or honey in food offered to Jehovah.

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys

Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron:

If you offer it as a thank offering, you must also bring rings of unleavened bread mixed with oil, wafers of unleavened bread brushed with oil, and loaves made from flour mixed well with oil.

You must not eat those that either chew their cud or have divided hoofs. These are the kinds you must never eat: You must never eat camels. Camels are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs.

If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'

When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Never eat rock badgers. Rock badgers are unclean because they chew their cud but do not have divided hoofs.

Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar: Do not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes to show that you are in mourning. If you do you will die. For Jehovah will be angry with the whole community. But all other Israelites are allowed to mourn this death caused by the fire Jehovah sent.

That day is to be a very holy day, one on which they fast and do no work at all. These regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come.

If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.

When you carry any part of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes. You will be unclean until evening.

The eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in Jehovah's presence.

He slaughtered the animal for the burnt offering. Aaron's sons gave him the blood. He threw it against the altar on all sides.

The rest of the offering belongs to the priests. It is very holy, since it is taken from the food offered to Jehovah.

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse,

Take the fat from the fellowship offering and offer it by fire to Jehovah. Remove all the fat from the tail and the fat that covers the internal organs.

They must remain disgusting to you. Never eat their meat. Consider their dead bodies repulsive.

If your sacrifice is a fellowship offering of cattle in Jehovah's presence, it must be a male or female animal that has no defects.

When your grain offering is prepared in a skillet, it will be made of flour with oil.

and perform the ritual to purify the Most Holy Place, the rest of the Tent of Jehovah's presence, the altar, the priests, and all the people of the community.

Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

These regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come. This ritual must be performed once a year to purify the people of Israel from all their sins. So Moses did as Jehovah commanded.

If the whole congregation of Israel commits error and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they commit any of the things that Jehovah commands not to be done they become guilty.

Jehovah commanded Moses

A fire flashed from Jehovah and burned them. They died in the presence of Jehovah.

Jehovah gave the following regulations to Moses:

Bring them to Jehovah as an offering of first fruits. Do not offer them on the altar as a soothing aroma.

In Jehovah's presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him.

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses.

Never bring any kind of castrated animal received from a foreigner as a food offering for your God. A castrated animal will not be accepted on your behalf because castration is a physical defect.'

It is to be removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

If any of you fail to do your duty by unintentionally doing something wrong with any of Jehovah's holy things, bring a guilt offering to Jehovah. It must be a ram that has no defects or its value in silver weighed according to the official standards of the holy place.

The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand.

I am Jehovah your God. I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people.

They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.

High Priest, properly ordained and consecrated to succeed his father, is to perform the ritual of purification. He must dress in priestly garments

If it is the High Priest who sins and brings guilt on the people, he should present a young bull without any defects and sacrifice it to Jehovah for his sin.

In Jehovah's presence he will sprinkle some of the oil with his right finger seven times.

Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle. He said: Come here and carry your cousins' bodies away from the sacred tent and put them outside the camp.

Remove the two kidneys with the fat on them along with the lobe of the liver.

When a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean as in her monthly period. She will be unclean for two weeks. Then she must stay at home for sixty-six days in order to be made clean from her bleeding.

The one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons, the one he can afford,

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

The priest must burn the offering on the altar. It is food, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

In addition to these rings of bread, you must bring leavened bread (with yeast) along with your fellowship offering of thanksgiving.

Whoever has sexual intercourse with his uncle's wife violates his uncle's marriage. That man and woman are guilty of sin. They will die without children.

You must learn the difference (distinction) between what is holy and what is not holy and between the clean and the unclean.

This is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it in the presence of Jehovah in front of the altar.

He is to bring the rest of the bull to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out. There he will burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,

Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.

If any of you sin unintentionally by breaking any of Jehovah's commandments, you are guilty and must pay the penalty.

The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the quart of olive oil and present them to Jehovah.

She must stay at home for thirty-three days in order to be made clean from her bleeding. She must not touch anything holy or go into the holy place until the days needed to make her clean are over.

Give it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest will take a handful of the flour and oil and all of the incense and burn it on the altar as a memorial. It is all offered by fire to Jehovah. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to Jehovah.

The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.

and sacrifice it as an offering for sin. He will take the other and sacrifice it as a burnt offering together with the grain offering. So in Jehovah's presence the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed.

He will present one of every offering as a contribution to Jehovah. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

Jehovah said to Aaron:

These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing.

Bring it to the priest. The priest will take a handful of it. He will burn it as a reminder on top of the offering by fire to Jehovah on the altar. It is an offering for sin.

The priest will burn them on the altar. It is food, an offering by fire to Jehovah. It is a soothing aroma. All the fat belongs to Jehovah.

He will do the same thing with this bull that he did with the bull used as the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the people. They will be forgiven.

The priest will burn the flour, oil, and all the incense as a reminder. It is an offering by fire to Jehovah.

When you bring a grain offering of early-ripened things to Jehovah, you should bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, grits of new growth, for the grain offering of your early-ripened things.

Offer all of the fat on the animal's insides.

Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

Offer all of the fat on the animal's insides as a sacrifice of the peace offering made by fire to Jehovah.

You are Jehovah's chosen priests. You must not leave the sacred tent, or you will die. Aaron and his two sons obeyed Moses.

Put oil and incense on it. It is a grain offering.

So they came and took hold of the clothing on the corpses. They carried them outside the camp just as Moses had commanded.

Do not do any work that day. It is a special day for the payment for sins. It is a time when you pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah your God.

The priest will offer them in Jehovah's presence to pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

He washed the internal organs and the legs. Then Moses burned the whole ram on the altar as Jehovah commanded him. It was a burnt offering, a pleasant aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

The priest will pay compensation and make peace with Jehovah for your sin (what you did wrong). You will be forgiven. The offering will belong to the priest like the grain offering.

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses:

When you offer a goat, offer it before Jehovah.

to tell the people of Israel: If a person sins unintentionally and does not keep Jehovah's commandments he would have to observe the following rules:

Put your hand on the head of the animal and kill it at the entrance of the Tent of Jehovah's presence. Then Aaron's sons the priests must throw the blood against all four sides of the altar.

Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young the same day.

The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.

They also gave him the burnt offering. It was cut in pieces and included the head. He burned it on the altar.

Also the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys.

The elders of the congregation will place their hands on the bull's head in Jehovah's presence. One of them will slaughter it in Jehovah's presence.

I am Jehovah, the Holy God. You have been chosen to be my people, and so you must be holy too.

Finally, he took the skin and the flesh of the bull, together with the food still in its stomach, and burned them outside the camp, just as Jehovah commanded.

When the sin they have committed becomes known the assembly shall offer a bull of the herd. This is for a sin offering. Bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

Those who do not humble themselves on that day will be excluded from the people.

Never dishonor my holy name. I will show my holiness among the Israelites. I am Jehovah, who sets you apart as holy.

Moses slaughtered the ram and splattered its blood against the four sides of the altar.

When a ruler sins and becomes guilty of breaking one of Jehovah's commands without intending to,

Put your hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent. The priests will throw its blood against all four sides of the altar.

That is why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean. This will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted. It will not be considered for his benefit. It will be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

When a common person unintentionally does something wrong, even one thing forbidden by Jehovah's commandments, he will be guilty.

Jehovah (YHWH) called to Moses. He spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, He said:

The flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings will be eaten on the day of his offering. He should not leave any of it over until morning.

This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to present to Jehovah on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

If you touch anything unclean such as an unclean dead body of a wild or tame animal or the body of an unclean, swarming creature and then ignore what you did, you are unclean and will be guilty.

He clothed Aaron with the embroidered tunic and tied the sash around him. He also dressed him in the linen robe that is worn with the ephod. He fastened the ephod to it.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took an incense burner. They put burning coals and incense in it. Then in Jehovah's presence they offered this unauthorized fire.

Anything left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned.

Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.

You must make the payments you have failed to hand over and must pay an additional twenty percent. Give it to the priest. The priest will offer the animal as a sacrifice for your sin. You will be forgiven.

The priest will dip his finger in some of the blood and sprinkle it seven times in Jehovah's presence in front of the veil.

He will put some blood on the horns of the altar in Jehovah's presence in the Tent of Meeting. He will pour the remaining blood at the bottom of the altar. This is for burnt offerings at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Moses slaughtered it. He took some of the blood, and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a long lasting ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to Jehovah. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.'

He washed the internal organs and the legs and laid them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

He will take the bull outside the camp and burn it the same way he burned the first bull. It is an offering for sin for the community.

Tell the entire congregation of Israel: 'Be holy because I, Jehovah your God, am holy.

Jehovah spoke to Moses after Aaron's two sons came into Jehovah's presence and died.

Obey them and you will live. I am Jehovah.

The ram was cut into pieces. Moses burned the head with the other pieces and the fat.

He will place his hand on the goat's head. He will slaughter it in Jehovah's presence where he slaughters animals for burnt offerings. It is an offering for sin.

I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.

When someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.'

When you pledge a vow in haste about what you will or will not do, as some people do, and then ignore it; although you know what you said, you will be guilty.

Then the anointed priest will bring some of the bull's blood into the Tent of Meeting.

Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

Then he placed the breastplate on him and he placed the Urim and Thummim.

It is a day of worship (sabbath), a day when you do not work. Humble yourselves starting on the evening of the ninth day of the month. From that evening to the next, observe the day of worship.

He placed all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Moses presented all these things to Jehovah as an offering.

If the sacrifice of his offering is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice as well as on the next day.

So if you are guilty of any of these sins, you must confess it.

Carefully obey my commandments. Conform your life to them. I am Jehovah.

Any thing left is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It will be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place. They must eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

The priest must lead the bull to the entrance of the sacred tent. He must lay his hand on its head and kill it there.

Any clothes or any leather with semen on it must be washed. It will be unclean until evening.

Bring Aaron and his sons, the priests' clothes, the anointing oil, the bull that will be the offered for sin, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.

In this way you will set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold must be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves may return to their families.

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from my offerings by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

He brought the second ram for the ordination offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head.

Moses had Aaron and his sons come forward. Then he washed them with water.

These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is very holy.

Bring to the priest as a repayment offering a male sheep or goat without any defects. Its value is to be determined according to the official standard. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the sin that you committed unintentionally. You will be forgiven.

He will remove all the fat and burn it on the altar.

as soon as the sin is called to his attention, the priest will bring as his offering a male goat without any defects.

A man, whose mother was Shelomith (daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan in Israel) and whose father was from Egypt, got into a quarrel with an Israelite in the camp.

The person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belong to Jehovah, in his uncleanness, that person will be cut off from his people.

Tell the Israelites: 'Never eat any fat from bulls, sheep, or goats.

He took the fat from the tail, all the fat on the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.

If you become unclean by touching human uncleanness of any kind and then ignore it knowing what you did you will be guilty.

He brought the people's offerings. He took the male goat for the people's offering for sin and slaughtered it. Then he sacrificed it to take away sins as he had done before.

He will burn all the fat on the altar the same way the fat of the fellowship offering is burned. The priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace for what the leader did wrong. The leader will be forgiven.

If a man has sexual intercourse with her while she has her period, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will become unclean.

Moses also brought Aaron's sons forward. He put some of the blood on their right ear lobes, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes of their right feet. Moses threw the rest of the blood against all the sides of the altar.

The priest will then take some of the blood of the offering for sin with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar for burnt offerings.

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

When he learns what he has done wrong, he must bring a female goat that has no defects as his offering for what he has done wrong.

Then he took them from their hands and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar. These were ordination offerings, offerings by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you should not reap to the very corners of your field. You should not gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Gather the entire congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

The flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten. It should be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.

Then bring your guilt offering to Jehovah. Bring a ram that has no defects or its value in money. Bring it to the priest.

He took a loaf of unleavened bread, a ring of bread made with olive oil. He took a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread in Jehovah's presence. He put them on the fat and the right thigh.

Moses told Aaron and his sons: Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Take the meat and the bread in the basket of the ordination offering. Eat them there as I commanded when I said: 'Aaron and his sons will eat it.'

Everything that touches its meat will be holy. If blood gets on someone's clothes, he must wash them in a holy place.

The following regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come. On the tenth day of the seventh month the Israelites and the foreigners living among them must fast and must not do any work.

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

He also brought the grain offering. He took a handful of grain and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.

It is a repayment offering for the sin you committed against Jehovah.

or whatever it was that you swore falsely about. Pay it back in full plus one-fifth more. Give it back to its owner on the day you bring your guilt offering.

He will place his hand on the animal's head and slaughter it where animals for burnt offerings are slaughtered.

He slaughtered the bull and the ram for the people's fellowship offering. Aaron's sons gave him the blood. He threw it against the altar on all sides.

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.

Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses:

Fire came out from Jehovah's presence and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar. As soon as all the people saw this, they shouted and bowed with their faces touching the ground.

Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar. He sprinkled it on Aaron and his clothes and on his sons and their clothes. In this way he dedicated Aaron, his clothes, his sons, and their clothes.

The priest will take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour the rest of the blood out at the bottom of the altar.

The reason is because I am Jehovah your God. You must live holy lives. Consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. Never become unclean by touching anything that swarms or crawls on the ground.

The fat from an animal that dies naturally or is killed by wild animals you may use for any other purpose. However, you must not eat it.

Moses did as Jehovah commanded him. All the people gathered (assembled) at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

He followed the proper procedures and brought forward the burnt offering and sacrificed it.

Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land.

If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.

When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.

you have sinned and are guilty. Return what you stole or seized, what you were supposed to take care of, the lost item you found,

If you find something that someone lost and lie about it under oath, or commit any other sin like this,

Those who eat any blood must be excluded from the people.'

Moses announced to the congregation: Jehovah has commanded that this is what you must do!

When the sore heals and becomes white again, you should go to the priest.

Bring the sacrifices by fire made to Jehovah. Bring the fat with the breast. Take the breast and present it to Jehovah.

Moses also took the breast from the ram of the ordination offering and presented it to Jehovah. It was Moses' share, as Jehovah commanded.

Every grain offering made by a priest must be completely burned. It must not be eaten.

Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

Tell Aaron and his sons: 'These are the instructions for the offering for sin. The offering for sin must be slaughtered in Jehovah's presence. It is very holy.

Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover, the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to Jehovah

I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.

It should be slaughtered in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. A priest will throw the blood against all sides of the altar.

The priest who makes the offering for sin will eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. This is in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Do not turn to psychics or mediums to get help. That will make you unclean. I am Jehovah your God.

The piece of pottery in which the offering for sin is cooked must be broken into pieces. The copper kettle in which the offering for sin is cooked must be scoured and rinsed with water.

Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Remove the bird's crop with its feathers, and throw them on the ash heap at the east side of the altar.

He will sacrifice the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for that person. The person who had the skin disease will be clean.

Do not shave the hair on your foreheads. Do not cut the edges of your beard.

Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

Jehovah told Moses:

However those who curse Jehovah's name must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them to death. It makes no difference whether they are Israelites or foreigners. Whoever curses (abuses) Jehovah's name must die.

Never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man.

Jehovah continued to speak to Moses:

Aaron raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. He sacrificed the offering for sin, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering. Then he came down from the altar.

Tell the Israelites: 'Anyone who offers Jehovah a fellowship offering must bring a part of that sacrifice as a gift to Jehovah.

Every male among the priests may eat the offering for sin. It is very holy.

Those who eat the fat from an animal they sacrificed by fire to Jehovah must be excluded from the people.

The offering for sin must not be eaten if some of the blood was brought into the holy place in the Tent of Meeting to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah. It must be burned.

Never hate your brother in your heart. Be sure to correct your neighbor so that you will not be guilty of sinning along with him.

The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire.

The priest will burn them on the altar. It is a guilt offering by fire to Jehovah.

You may eat the fruit in the fifth year. Do this to make the trees produce more for you. I am Jehovah your God.

Every male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy.

The same instructions apply to the offering for sin and the guilt offering. Both offerings belong to the priest to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah.

Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and commanded:

That includes the two kidneys with the fat on them. He will also remove the lobe of the liver along with the kidneys.

Do not have sex with any of your close relatives,

The fat from the bull and the ram, the fat from the tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

If you will not listen to me and obey all these commandments,

If you live according to my laws and obey my commands,

Observe my days of worship and respect my holy tent. I am Jehovah.

Do not dishonor your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the country will turn to prostitution and be filled with people who are perverted.

If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening.

He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy.

Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting. As soon as they came out, they blessed the people. Then Jehovah's glory appeared to all the people.

He will offer all the fat, the fat from the tail, the fat covering the internal organs.

they placed on the breasts. Aaron burned them all on the altar.

The priest will burn the fat on the altar. However, the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, you should help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home.

Never eat pigs. Pigs have completely divided hoofs but do not chew their cud. They are also unclean.

Do not steal. Do not deal falsely. Do not lie to one another.

Count seven times seven years (seven sabbaths of years), a total of forty-nine years.

Keep (consecrate) yourselves holy, because I am Jehovah your God!

Jehovah gave Moses

Moses told Aaron: Come to the altar and sacrifice an offering for sin and a burnt offering to pay compensation for your sins and the sins of the people and make peace with Jehovah. Then make an offering for the people that they may pay compensation for their wrongdoing and to make peace with Jehovah just as Jehovah has commanded.

If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.

Do not oppress your neighbor and do not rob him. Do not fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!

Inform the Israelites: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to Jehovah. It will last seven days.

He will examine you again. If the sore has turned white you are ritually clean. The priest will pronounce you clean.

Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound.

If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, it should be a male without defect. He shall offer it at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

You must wash your clothes, shave off all your hair, and take a bath. You will then be ritually clean. You may enter the camp. You must live outside your tent for seven days.

Do no injustice in judgment. Do not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great. Judge your neighbor fairly.

who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.

Tell the Israelites: 'Take a male goat as an offering for sin, a calf and a lamb, each one-year-old and without defects, as a burnt offering,

Jehovah gave Moses these instructions for Aaron's sons, the priests: Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So do not go near a dead relative,

When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening.

If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

He told Aaron: Take a calf that has no defects for an offering for sin and a ram that has no defects as a burnt offering. Sacrifice them in Jehovah's presence.

Do not curse a deaf man. Do not place a stumbling block before the blind. You must deeply respect your God. I am Jehovah.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Moses said: Jehovah commanded you to offer these sacrifices so that you may see Jehovah's glory.

Never gossip. Never endanger your neighbor's life. I am Jehovah.

The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering.