if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the Lord a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

“Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name; I am the Lord.

‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,