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