You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of fabric.

"'When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

"'When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.

"'You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.

You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.

If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

"'You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground -- creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.

"'They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord's gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.'"

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord's gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

but he must not go into the veil-canopy or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.'"

"Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.

the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

If a priest's daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord,

You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

"'You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord.

As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.

Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.'"

You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.

On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord.

You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

"'Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.'"

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

"'On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.

When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.'"

You must not do any regular work, but you must present a gift to the Lord.'"

You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

For seven days you must present a gift to the Lord. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.

but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest -- a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?'

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

"'If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

"'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

"'I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.

"'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments --

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant --

"'If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

"'If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

"'If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

"'If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal and its substitute will be holy.

If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the Lord, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

"'If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.

Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.

The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. It must not be redeemed.'"

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

"Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony."

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohathites with the tent of meeting.

"Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;

but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die."

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live."

and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled --

then the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, a grain offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, "If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband's authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

"'All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.