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Introduction to Leviticus:
Author: Moses (Matt. 8:4, referring to Lev. 14:10-32; Rom. 10:5, quoting Lev. 18:5), the author of the five books of the Law (Deut. 31:9, 24; Luke 24:27, 44; John 1:45; 5:46; Acts 28:23; 2 Cor. 3:15).Time of Writing: Approximately 1490 B.C. (cf. 1 Kings 6:1) in the second year after the exodus, after the tabernacle was erected (1:1).Place of Writing: In the wilderness, near Mt. Sinai (1:1; Exo. 19:2).Time Period Covered: One month, from the erection of the tabernacle on the first day of the first month in the second year after the exodus from Egypt (Exo. 40:17) to the first day of the second month of the same year (Num. 1:1), 1490 B.C.

Subject of Leviticus:
Christ is Everything in the Fellowship, Service, and Life
of God's Redeemed

Leviticus

Chapter 1 of 27

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I.  Ordinances concerning offerings — 1:1-7:38

A.  The burnt offering — 1:1-17
Lev 1:1 - 1Then Jehovah acalled to Moses and 2spoke to him out of the 3bTent of Meeting, saying,
Lev 1:2 - Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When any one of you presents an 1offering to Jehovah, you shall present your offering from the 2cattle, of the herd or of the flock.
Lev 1:3 - If his offering is a 1aburnt offering from the herd, he shall present it, a 2male bwithout 2blemish; he shall present it at the 3entrance of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.
Lev 1:4 - And he shall alay his 1hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him, to make 2bexpiation for him.
Lev 1:5 - And he shall 1slaughter the young bull before Jehovah; and Aaron’s sons the 2priests shall present the 3blood and asprinkle the blood on and around the altar that is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 1:6 - And he shall 1skin the burnt offering and 2cut it into its pieces.
Lev 1:7 - And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange the wood in order on the fire.
Lev 1:8 - Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the 1head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
Lev 1:9 - But its inward parts and its legs he shall 1wash with water. Then the priest shall 2burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by 3fire, a satisfying 4afragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 1:10 - And if his offering is from the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall present it, a male without blemish.
Lev 1:11 - And he shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.
Lev 1:12 - And he shall 1cut it into its pieces with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
Lev 1:13 - But the inward parts and the legs he shall wash with water. Then the priest shall present the whole and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 1:14 - And if his offering to Jehovah is a burnt offering of 1birds, then he shall present his offering of aturtledoves or of young pigeons.
Lev 1:15 - And the priest shall present it at 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.
Lev 1:16 - And he shall take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar toward the east, in the aplace of the 1ashes.
Lev 1:17 - Then he shall tear it open by its wings awithout dividing it, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 2 of 27

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B.  The meal offering — 2:1-16
Lev 2:1 - And when anyone presents an offering of a 1ameal offering to Jehovah, his offering shall be of 2bfine flour; and he shall pour 3oil on it and put 4frankincense on it.
Lev 2:2 - Then he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests, and ahe shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as its 1memorial portion on the altar, an offering by 2fire, a satisfying bfragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 2:3 - And what is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a thing most holy of Jehovah’s offerings by fire.
Lev 2:4 - And when you present an offering of a meal offering baked in the 1oven, it shall be of fine flour, aunleavened 2cakes 3mingled with oil or unleavened 4wafers anointed with oil.
Lev 2:5 - And if your offering is a meal offering baked on a flat plate, it shall be of 1fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened.
Lev 2:6 - You shall 1break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a meal offering.
Lev 2:7 - And if your offering is a meal offering made in a pot, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
Lev 2:8 - And you shall bring to Jehovah the meal offering that is made of these things and present it to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
Lev 2:9 - And the priest shall take up from the meal offering its memorial portion and shall burn it on the altar, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 2:10 - And that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a thing most holy of Jehovah’s offerings by fire.
Lev 2:11 - No meal offering that you present to Jehovah shall be made with 1aleaven, for you shall not burn any leaven or any 2honey as an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 2:12 - You may present them to Jehovah, as an offering of firstfruits, but they shall not be offered up for a satisfying fragrance on the altar.
Lev 2:13 - And every offering of your meal offering you shall season with 1asalt, and you shall not omit the salt of the 2bcovenant of your God from your meal offering; with all your offerings you shall present salt.
Lev 2:14 - And if you present a meal offering of firstfruits to Jehovah, you shall present for the meal offering of your 1firstfruits new grain roasted with fire, crushed grain of the fresh ear.
Lev 2:15 - And you shall put oil on it and place frankincense on it; it is a meal offering.
Lev 2:16 - And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of its crushed grain and some of its oil, with all its frankincense, as an offering by fire to Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 3 of 27

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C.  The peace offering — 3:1-17
Lev 3:1 - And if his offering is a sacrifice of 1apeace offerings, if he presents it from the 2herd, whether male or female, he shall present it 3bwithout blemish before Jehovah.
Lev 3:2 - And he shall 1alay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the 2entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bsprinkle the 3blood on and around the altar.
Lev 3:3 - And from the sacrifice of peace offerings he shall present an offering by fire to 1Jehovah, the 2afat that covers the 2inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts;
Lev 3:4 - And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and the appendage on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Lev 3:5 - And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the aaltar upon the 1burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 3:6 - And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah is from the flock, he shall present it, male or female, without blemish.
Lev 3:7 - If he presents a 1lamb for his offering, then he shall present it before Jehovah.
Lev 3:8 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.
Lev 3:9 - And from the sacrifice of peace offerings he shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah, its afat, the entire fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts;
Lev 3:10 - And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and the appendage on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Lev 3:11 - And the priest shall 1burn it on the altar; it is the afood of the offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 3:12 - And if his offering is a goat, then he shall present it before Jehovah.
Lev 3:13 - And he shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on and around the altar.
Lev 3:14 - And from it he shall present his offering, as an offering by fire to Jehovah, the fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is on the inward parts;
Lev 3:15 - And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins; and the appendage on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Lev 3:16 - And the priest shall burn them on the altar; it is the food of the offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah’s.
Lev 3:17 - It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places that you shall not eat any 1afat or any bblood.

Leviticus

Chapter 4 of 27

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D.  The sin offering — 4:1-35
Lev 4:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 4:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If anyone 1asins without intent, in any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
Lev 4:3 - If the aanointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him present a 1bull of the herd bwithout 2blemish to Jehovah 3for a 4csin offering for his sin that he committed.
Lev 4:4 - And he shall bring the bull to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, and he shall 1lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull 2before Jehovah.
Lev 4:5 - And the anointed priest shall take some of the 1blood of the bull and bring it ainto the Tent of Meeting,
Lev 4:6 - And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and asprinkle some of the blood seven times before Jehovah in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
Lev 4:7 - And the priest shall aput some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Jehovah, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the bbase of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 4:8 - And all the 1afat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take off from it: the fat that covers the inward parts and all the fat that is upon the inward parts,
Lev 4:9 - And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage upon the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys,
Lev 4:10 - As it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall 1burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
Lev 4:11 - And the 1skin of the bull and all its flesh with its head and with its legs, and the rest of its inward parts and its dung,
Lev 4:12 - That is, all the rest of the bull he shall bring out to a clean place aoutside the camp, where the 1ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
Lev 4:13 - Now if the whole assembly of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the congregation, and they have done any of the things which Jehovah commanded not to be done and become guilty,
Lev 4:14 - And when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the congregation shall present a bull of the herd for a asin offering and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 4:15 - And the 1elders of the assembly shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Jehovah, and one shall slaughter the bull before Jehovah.
Lev 4:16 - And the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting,
Lev 4:17 - And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah in front of the veil.
Lev 4:18 - And some of the blood he shall put upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is, in the Tent of Meeting; and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 4:19 - And all its fat he shall take off from it and burn it on the altar.
Lev 4:20 - Thus shall he do with the bull; just as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make aexpiation for them, and they will be bforgiven.
Lev 4:21 - And he shall bring the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the congregation.
Lev 4:22 - When a ruler asins and does without intent any one of all the things which Jehovah his God has commanded not to be done and becomes guilty,
Lev 4:23 - If his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a amale goat, without blemish.
Lev 4:24 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering before Jehovah; it is a sin offering.
Lev 4:25 - And 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 the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
Lev 4:26 - And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin, and he will be aforgiven.
Lev 4:27 - And if any one of the common people asins without intent by doing any one of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done and becomes guilty,
Lev 4:28 - If his sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a afemale goat, without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
Lev 4:29 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Lev 4:30 - 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 all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
Lev 4:31 - And all its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah. And the priest shall make expiation for him, and he will be forgiven.
Lev 4:32 - And if he brings a alamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring it, a female without blemish.
Lev 4:33 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering.
Lev 4:34 - And 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 all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
Lev 4:35 - And all its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar upon Jehovah’s offerings by fire. And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning his sin that he has committed, and he will be aforgiven.

Leviticus

Chapter 5 of 27

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E.  The trespass offering — 5:1-6:7
Lev 5:1 - And if anyone 1sins when he hears the voice of aadjuration and he is a witness, either seeing or knowing about a matter, if he 2does not speak up, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Lev 5:2 - Or if anyone touches any aunclean thing, whether the 1carcass of an unclean animal or the carcass of unclean cattle or the carcass of unclean 2swarming things, and it escapes his notice, and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.
Lev 5:3 - Or if he touches the uncleanness of 1man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he becomes unclean, and it escapes his notice, when he comes to know it, then he will be guilty.
Lev 5:4 - Or if anyone aswears 1rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man utters rashly with an oath, and it escapes his notice, when he comes to know it, then he shall be guilty in one of these things.
Lev 5:5 - And when he is guilty in one of these things, he shall aconfess that in which he has sinned;
Lev 5:6 - And he shall bring his 1atrespass offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has committed, a 2female from the flock, a sheep or a goat, as a 3sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin.
Lev 5:7 - And if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring as his trespass offering to Jehovah for that in which he has sinned atwo turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a 1sin offering and the other for a 1burnt offering.
Lev 5:8 - aAnd he shall bring them to the priest, who shall present first that which is for the sin offering; and the 1priest shall wring off its head at the front of its neck but shall not sever it;
Lev 5:9 - And he shall sprinkle some of the 1blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the abase of the altar; it is a sin offering.
Lev 5:10 - And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin which he has committed, and he will be aforgiven.
Lev 5:11 - But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that which he has sinned, the atenth of an ephah of 1fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no 2oil upon it nor put any 2frankincense upon it, for it is a sin offering.
Lev 5:12 - And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take 1a handful of it as its memorial portion and 2burn it on the altar, upon Jehovah’s offerings by fire; it is a sin offering.
Lev 5:13 - And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning his sin that he has committed in any one of these things, and he will be forgiven. And the 1rest shall be the priest’s, like the meal offering.
Lev 5:14 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 5:15 - If anyone acts unfaithfully and sins without intent in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a 1aram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation in silver by bshekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
Lev 5:16 - And he shall make 1restitution for the holy thing in which he has sinned, and he shall add to it a afifth part of it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make expiation for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
Lev 5:17 - And if anyone sins and does any one of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, though he did not aknow, he is still guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
Lev 5:18 - And he shall bring to the priest a aram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make expiation for him concerning the matter in which he erred without intent and did not know, and he will be forgiven.
Lev 5:19 - It is a trespass offering; he is certainly guilty before Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 6 of 27

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Lev 6:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 6:2 - If anyone sins and aacts unfaithfully against Jehovah and deceives his associate in regard to a bdeposit or a security, or by robbery, or has extorted from his associate,
Lev 6:3 - Or has afound a lost item and lied about it, if he has sworn falsely in any one of all these things a man may do, and sins thereby;
Lev 6:4 - Then if he has sinned and is guilty, he shall 1restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost item which he found,
Lev 6:5 - Or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in full, and shall add to it a afifth part of it. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs, on the day 1he is found guilty.
Lev 6:6 - And he shall bring to Jehovah his trespass offering, a aram without blemish out of the flock according to your valuation for a trespass offering; to the priest he shall bring it.
Lev 6:7 - And the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah, and he will be aforgiven for any of the things which he may have done so as to be guilty.
F.  The law of the burnt offering — 6:8-13
Lev 6:8 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 6:9 - Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the 1law of the aburnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the 2hearth on the altar 3all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be 4kept burning on it.
Lev 6:10 - And the priest shall put on his alinen garment, and his linen trousers he shall put on his flesh; and he shall take up the 1ashes to which the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
Lev 6:11 - Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes aoutside the camp to a clean place.
Lev 6:12 - And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it must not go out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every 1morning, and he shall lay the 2burnt offering in order upon it and shall burn the afat of the 2peace offerings on it.
Lev 6:13 - Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
G.  The law of the meal offering — 6:14-23
Lev 6:14 - And this is the law of the ameal offering: The sons of Aaron shall present it 1before Jehovah before the altar.
Lev 6:15 - 1And one shall take up from it his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering and of its oil and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and he shall burn it on the altar for a satisfying fragrance as its memorial portion to Jehovah.
Lev 6:16 - And what is aleft of it 1Aaron and his sons may beat; it shall be eaten 2without leaven in a holy place; in the 2court of the Tent of Meeting they shall eat it.
Lev 6:17 - It shall not be baked with 1aleaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the 2sin offering and like the 2trespass offering.
Lev 6:18 - Every 1male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations from Jehovah’s offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall be holy.
Lev 6:19 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 6:20 - This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall present to Jehovah in the 1day when he is anointed: the 2atenth of an ephah of fine flour for a continual meal offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
Lev 6:21 - On a flat plate it shall be prepared with oil; when it is mixed, you shall bring it; as a meal offering of baked pieces you shall present it as a satisfying afragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 6:22 - And the priest anointed to be in his place from among his sons shall prepare it. It shall be a perpetual statute; it shall be wholly burned to Jehovah.
Lev 6:23 - And every meal offering of the priest shall be wholly burned; it must not be eaten.
H.  The law of the sin offering — 6:24-30
Lev 6:24 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 6:25 - Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the asin offering: In the bplace where the 1burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering shall be slaughtered before Jehovah; it is 2most holy.
Lev 6:26 - The 1priest who offers it for sin shall aeat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:27 - Whatever touches its flesh shall be 1holy. And when any of its blood splashes on a garment, you shall 2awash whatever was splashed in a holy place.
Lev 6:28 - But the aearthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be 1broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be 2scoured and rinsed in water.
Lev 6:29 - Every 1male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.
Lev 6:30 - And any sin offering of which some of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make 1expiation in the Holy Place shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.

Leviticus

Chapter 7 of 27

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I.  The law of the trespass offering — 7:1-10
Lev 7:1 - And this is the law of the atrespass offering; it is most 1holy;
Lev 7:2 - In the 1place where they slaughter the aburnt offering they shall slaughter the trespass offering, and its 2blood he shall sprinkle on and around the altar.
Lev 7:3 - And he shall present from it all its 1afat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inward parts,
Lev 7:4 - And the two akidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage upon the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Lev 7:5 - And the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to Jehovah; it is a trespass offering.
Lev 7:6 - Every 1male among the priests may aeat of it; it shall be eaten in a 1holy place; it is most holy.
Lev 7:7 - The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is 1one law for them: The 2apriest who makes expiation with it shall have it.
Lev 7:8 - And the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the 1askin of the burnt offering which he has presented.
Lev 7:9 - And every meal offering that is baked in an oven and everything that is made in a pot or on a flat plate shall belong to the 1priest who presents it.
Lev 7:10 - And every other meal offering, mingled with oil or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, to each alike.
J.  The law of the peace offering — 7:11-38
Lev 7:11 - Now this is the law of the sacrifice of apeace offerings that one shall present to 1Jehovah:
Lev 7:12 - If he presents it for a thanksgiving, then he shall present with the 1sacrifice of thanksgiving aunleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and saturated cakes of fine flour mingled with oil.
Lev 7:13 - With cakes of 1aleavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.
Lev 7:14 - And from 1it he shall present one out of each offering as a aheave offering to Jehovah; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
Lev 7:15 - And the flesh of the asacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall 1not leave any of it until the morning.
Lev 7:16 - aBut if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten;
Lev 7:17 - But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
Lev 7:18 - And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten at all on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither will it be reckoned to the one who presents it; it will be an 1abomination, and the person who eats of it shall bear his own 1iniquity.
Lev 7:19 - And flesh that touches any 1unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. And as for other flesh, anyone who is 1clean may eat such flesh.
Lev 7:20 - But the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Jehovah, with his uncleanness upon him, that person shall be 1cut off from his people.
Lev 7:21 - And when anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or any unclean abomination, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:22 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 7:23 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any 1afat of an ox or of a sheep or of a goat.
Lev 7:24 - And the fat of an animal that dies and the fat of an animal which is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but 1ayou shall by no means eat it.
Lev 7:25 - For whoever eats the 1fat of a beast from which someone presents an offering by fire to Jehovah, indeed the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:26 - And you shall not eat any 1blood, either of bird or of beast, in any of your dwelling places.
Lev 7:27 - Any person who eats any ablood, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:28 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 7:29 - 1Speak to the children of Israel, saying, He who presents the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah shall bring his offering to Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Lev 7:30 - His own hands shall bring Jehovah’s offerings by fire; the fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a 1awave offering before Jehovah.
Lev 7:31 - And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the abreast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.
Lev 7:32 - And the right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Lev 7:33 - The one among the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as his portion.
Lev 7:34 - For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons for a perpetual statute to be observed by the children of Israel.
Lev 7:35 - This is the 1aanointing portion of Aaron and the anointing portion of his sons, from Jehovah’s offerings by fire, in the day when he presented them to serve Jehovah as priests,
Lev 7:36 - Which Jehovah commanded to be given them from the children of Israel in the day that He anointed them. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations.
Lev 7:37 - This is the alaw of the burnt offering and of the meal offering and of the sin offering and of the trespass offering and of the 1consecration and of the sacrifice of 2peace offerings,
Lev 7:38 - Which Jehovah commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that He commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings to Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus

Chapter 8 of 27

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II.  Ordinances concerning service — 8:1-10:20

A.  The consecration of Aaron and his sons — 8:1-36
Lev 8:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 8:2 - Take 1aAaron and his sons with him, and the bgarments and the canointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread;
Lev 8:3 - And gather all the assembly at the 1entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 8:4 - And Moses did just as Jehovah had commanded him, and the assembly was gathered at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 8:5 - And Moses said to the assembly, This is what Jehovah has commanded to be done.
Lev 8:6 - aAnd Moses brought Aaron and his sons near and 1washed them with water.
Lev 8:7 - aAnd he 1put the btunic upon him and girded him with the girding sash and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and with it he bound it to him.
Lev 8:8 - And he placed the breastplate upon him, and in the breastplate he put the aUrim and the Thummim.
Lev 8:9 - And he placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, on its front, he placed the agolden plate, the holy crown, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 8:10 - And Moses took the anointing oil and 1aanointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and 2sanctified them.
Lev 8:11 - And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.
Lev 8:12 - And he poured some of the aanointing oil on 1Aaron’s head and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Lev 8:13 - And Moses abrought Aaron’s sons near, and 1clothed them with tunics and girded them with girding sashes and bound high hats on them, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 8:14 - aAnd he brought the 1bull of the 2sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
Lev 8:15 - And he slaughtered it; and Moses took the blood and put some of it on and around the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and sanctified it, to make expiation for it.
Lev 8:16 - And he took all the fat that was on the inward parts and the appendage of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.
Lev 8:17 - But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned with fire aoutside the camp, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 8:18 - aAnd he presented the 1ram of the 2burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Lev 8:19 - And he slaughtered it, and Moses sprinkled the blood on and around the altar.
Lev 8:20 - And he cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.
Lev 8:21 - And the inward parts and the legs he washed with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a satisfying fragrance; it was an offering by fire to Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 8:22 - aAnd he presented the other ram, the 1ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Lev 8:23 - And he slaughtered it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the alobe of Aaron’s right 1ear and on the thumb of his right 1hand and on the big toe of his right 1foot.
Lev 8:24 - And he brought Aaron’s sons near, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the rest of the blood on and around the altar.
Lev 8:25 - And he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the inward parts, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
Lev 8:26 - And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
Lev 8:27 - And he put all these in the palms of Aaron and in the palms of his sons, and he waved them as a wave offering before Jehovah.
Lev 8:28 - And Moses took them from their palms and burned them on the altar upon the burnt offering. They were an offering of consecration for a satisfying fragrance; it was an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 8:29 - And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before Jehovah; it was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 8:30 - aAnd Moses took some of the 1anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; and he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
Lev 8:31 - And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, aBoil the flesh at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration, just as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Lev 8:32 - And what is left of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
Lev 8:33 - And you shall not go out from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for 1aseven days, until the days of your bconsecration are fulfilled, for it will take 2seven days to consecrate you.
Lev 8:34 - As has been done this day, so Jehovah has commanded to do, to make expiation for you.
Lev 8:35 - And at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that you may not 1die; for so I have been commanded.
Lev 8:36 - And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah had commanded through Moses.

Leviticus

Chapter 9 of 27

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B.  The initiation of the priestly service of Aaron and his sons — 9:1-21
Lev 9:1 - Now on the 1aeighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;
Lev 9:2 - And he said to Aaron, Take for 1yourself a calf of the herd for a asin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and present them before Jehovah.
Lev 9:3 - Then to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take a amale goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Lev 9:4 - And an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a ameal offering mingled with oil; for today Jehovah will bappear to you.
Lev 9:5 - So they brought what Moses had commanded before the Tent of Meeting, and all the assembly came near and stood before Jehovah.
Lev 9:6 - And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded you to do, and the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you.
Lev 9:7 - Then Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and offer your asin offering and your burnt offering, and make expiation for byourself and for the people; and make the offering of the people and make expiation for them, just as Jehovah has commanded.
Lev 9:8 - So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
Lev 9:9 - And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the ahorns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.
Lev 9:10 - But the afat and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver of the sin offering he burned on the altar, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Lev 9:11 - And the aflesh and the skin he burned with fire boutside the camp.
Lev 9:12 - aThen he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on and around the altar.
Lev 9:13 - And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.
Lev 9:14 - And he washed the inward parts and the legs and burned them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
Lev 9:15 - Then he presented the 1people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people and slaughtered it and aoffered it for sin, like the first.
Lev 9:16 - And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.
Lev 9:17 - Then he presented the ameal offering and filled his hand with some of it and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
Lev 9:18 - Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of 1apeace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him, which he sprinkled on and around the altar.
Lev 9:19 - And the fat portions of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and the fat which covers the inward parts and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver—
Lev 9:20 - These fat portions they then put on the breasts; and he burned the fat portions on the altar.
Lev 9:21 - And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a awave offering before Jehovah, just as Moses had commanded.
C.  The issue of the priestly service — 9:22-24
Lev 9:22 - And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and 1ablessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.
Lev 9:23 - And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting. And they came out and 1blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah 2aappeared to all the people.
Lev 9:24 - Then 1afire came forth from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they gave a ringing shout and fell on their faces.

Leviticus

Chapter 10 of 27

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D.  The lesson and regulations for the priests — 10:1-20
1.  The lesson of Nadab and Abihu — 10:1-11
Lev 10:1 - And 1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in them and laid incense on it, and they presented 2strange afire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.
Lev 10:2 - And 1afire came out from before Jehovah and consumed them, and they died before Jehovah.
Lev 10:3 - Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying,aIn those who come near to Me I will be 1sanctified,And before all the people I will be 1glorified.And Aaron was silent.Lev 10:4 - And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near; carry your brothers from before the sanctuary to the 1outside of the camp.
Lev 10:5 - So they came near and carried them in their tunics to the outside of the camp, just as Moses had said.
Lev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, Do not 1dishevel the hair of your heads, and do not 1tear your garments, that you may not die and that He may not be angry with all the assembly. But let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, 2weep for the burning which Jehovah has kindled.
Lev 10:7 - And you shall not go out from the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the aanointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Lev 10:8 - Then Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying,
Lev 10:9 - 1Drink no awine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the Tent of Meeting, that you may not die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,
Lev 10:10 - Both to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Lev 10:11 - And to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them through Moses.
2.  Regulations for the priests — 10:12-20
Lev 10:12 - Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, Take the 1meal offering which aremains of Jehovah’s offerings by fire, and eat it unleavened beside the altar; for it is most holy.
Lev 10:13 - And you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is ayour due and your sons’ due of Jehovah’s offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded.
Lev 10:14 - And the 1breast of the wave offering and the 1thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your due and your sons’ due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Lev 10:15 - The thigh of the heave offering and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat portions to wave as a wave offering before Jehovah, and it shall become a perpetual statute for you and for your sons with you, just as Jehovah has commanded.
Lev 10:16 - Then Moses diligently inquired about the agoat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned. So he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
Lev 10:17 - Why have you not aeaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary? For it is most holy, and He gave it to you to 1bear the iniquity of the assembly, to make 2expiation for them before Jehovah.
Lev 10:18 - Now its ablood was not brought inside, into the sanctuary; you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded.
Lev 10:19 - But Aaron spoke to Moses, See, today they have presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah, and such things as these have befallen me! And if I had 1eaten the sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of Jehovah?
Lev 10:20 - And when Moses heard that, it seemed good in his sight.

Leviticus

Chapter 11 of 27

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III.  Ordinances concerning living — 11:1-22:33

A.  Discernment in diet and abstaining from death — 11:1-47
Lev 11:1 - 1Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
Lev 11:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you may 1aeat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Lev 11:3 - Whatever 1has a divided hoof, that is, has its hoof split in two, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you may eat.
Lev 11:4 - However these you shall not eat: of those that only chew the cud or of those that only have a divided hoof: the acamel, for though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Lev 11:5 - And the hyrax, for though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Lev 11:6 - And the hare, for though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Lev 11:7 - And the apig, for though it has a divided hoof, that is, it has its hoof split in two, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.
Lev 11:8 - You shall not eat of their flesh, nor shall you touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
Lev 11:9 - These you may eat of all that are in the water: anything in the water that has 1fins and scales, in the seas or in the rivers; these you may eat.
Lev 11:10 - But anything that does not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of anything that swarms in the waters and of any living animal which is in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
Lev 11:11 - And they shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall regard as an abomination.
Lev 11:12 - Anything in the water that does not have fins or scales is an abomination to you.
Lev 11:13 - And these you shall regard as an abomination among the 1birds; they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the great avulture and the bearded vulture and the black vulture
Lev 11:14 - And the kite and the falcon of every kind,
Lev 11:15 - Every araven of every kind,
Lev 11:16 - And the ostrich and the nighthawk and the sea gull and the hawk of every kind,
Lev 11:17 - And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl
Lev 11:18 - And the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture
Lev 11:19 - And the stork; the heron of every kind and the hoopoe and the bat;
Lev 11:20 - All 1flying insects that go on all fours are an abomination to you.
Lev 11:21 - Yet these you may eat of all flying insects that go on all fours, which have 1legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth;
Lev 11:22 - These of them you may eat: the swarming alocust of every kind and the swallowing locust of every kind and the cricket of every kind and the grasshopper of every kind.
Lev 11:23 - But all the other flying insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.
Lev 11:24 - And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
Lev 11:25 - And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall 1wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 11:26 - For every beast which has a divided hoof but does not have its hoof split in two or chew the cud is unclean to you; everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
Lev 11:27 - And whatever goes on its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Lev 11:28 - And the one who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
Lev 11:29 - And these are unclean to you among the 1swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard of every kind,
Lev 11:30 - And the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon.
Lev 11:31 - These are unclean to you among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are 1dead shall be unclean 2until the evening.
Lev 11:32 - And anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is any article of wood or clothing or skin or sackcloth; any article which is used for any work must be put into 1water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
Lev 11:33 - And any earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean, and the 1vessel you shall break.
Lev 11:34 - Any 1food that could be eaten shall be unclean if water from such a vessel comes upon it, and any 1liquid that may be drunk shall be unclean if it was in any such vessel.
Lev 11:35 - And everything on which part of their carcass falls shall be unclean—an oven or a stove shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean and shall continue to be unclean to you.
Lev 11:36 - Nevertheless a 1spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
Lev 11:37 - And if any part of their carcass falls on any 1seed for sowing, which is to be sown, it is clean.
Lev 11:38 - But if water is put on the seed, and any part of their carcass fall on it, it is unclean to you.
Lev 11:39 - And if any beast which you have for food dies, the one who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Lev 11:40 - And he who eats some of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; the one who carries its carcass shall also wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 11:41 - Now every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Lev 11:42 - Whatever goes on its stomach and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are an abomination.
Lev 11:43 - You shall not make yourselves abominable with any swarming thing that swarms, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, and so become defiled by them.
Lev 11:44 - For I am Jehovah your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and abe holy, for bI am holy. And you shall not defile yourselves with any of the swarming things that move upon the earth.
Lev 11:45 - For I am Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; ayou shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Lev 11:46 - This is the law of the beast and of the bird, and of every living animal that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms upon the earth;
Lev 11:47 - To make a distinction between the unclean and the 1clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

Leviticus

Chapter 12 of 27

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B.  Uncleanness in human birth — 12:1-8
Lev 12:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 12:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a 1woman conceives seed and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean 2seven days; as in the days of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.
Lev 12:3 - And on the 1eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be 1acircumcised.
Lev 12:4 - And she shall remain in the blood of her purifying 1thirty-three days; she shall not touch any 2sanctified thing, nor come into the 2sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.
Lev 12:5 - But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall remain in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.
Lev 12:6 - And when the days of her apurifying are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a year old blamb for a 1burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a 1sin offering to the priest to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 12:7 - And he shall present it before Jehovah and make expiation for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether male or female.
Lev 12:8 - And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take atwo turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make expiation for her, and she shall be clean.

Leviticus

Chapter 13 of 27

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C.  Uncleanness issuing from within man (leprosy) — 13:1-59
Lev 13:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Lev 13:2 - When a man has a 1aswelling or an eruption or a bright spot on the skin of his 2body, and it becomes an infection of 1bleprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to 3Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.
Lev 13:3 - And the priest shall look at the infection in the skin of the body; and if the hair in the infection has turned 1awhite and the appearance of the infection is 2deeper than the skin of his body, it is the infection of leprosy. When the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean.
Lev 13:4 - And if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the infection seven days.
Lev 13:5 - And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day; and if in his eyes the infection remains, and the infection has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him seven more days.
Lev 13:6 - And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day; and if the infection has 1faded, and the infection has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Lev 13:7 - But if the scab spreads further on the skin after he has showed himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself again to the priest.
Lev 13:8 - And the priest shall look; and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
Lev 13:9 - When the infection of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
Lev 13:10 - And the priest shall look; and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is living 1raw flesh in the swelling,
Lev 13:11 - It is a chronic leprosy on the skin of his body; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
Lev 13:12 - And if the leprosy breaks out further on the skin, and the leprosy 1covers all the skin of the one who has the infection, from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see,
Lev 13:13 - Then the priest shall look; and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him who has the infection clean. It has all turned white; he is clean.
Lev 13:14 - But whenever 1raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.
Lev 13:15 - And the priest shall look at the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.
Lev 13:16 - But if the raw flesh again turns white, then he shall come to the priest.
Lev 13:17 - And the priest shall look at him; and if the infection has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him who has the infection clean; he is clean.
Lev 13:18 - And when the body has a 1boil on its skin, and it has healed,
Lev 13:19 - And in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.
Lev 13:20 - And the priest shall look; and if its appearance is below the surface of the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the infection of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil.
Lev 13:21 - But if the priest looks at it, and if there is no white hair in it, and it is not below the surface of the skin, but it has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
Lev 13:22 - And if it spreads further in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.
Lev 13:23 - But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Lev 13:24 - Or when the 1flesh has on its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white,
Lev 13:25 - Then the priest shall look at it; and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy.
Lev 13:26 - But if the priest looks at it, and if there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is not below the surface of the skin, but it has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
Lev 13:27 - And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads further in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy.
Lev 13:28 - And if the bright spot remains in its place, and it has not spread in the skin, but it has faded, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burning.
Lev 13:29 - And if a man or woman has an infection on the 1head or on the 1beard,
Lev 13:30 - Then the priest shall look at the infection; and if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and there is in it 1thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a scale; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
Lev 13:31 - And if the priest looks at the infection of the scale, and if its appearance is 1not deeper than the skin, and there is 1no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the infection of the scale seven days.
Lev 13:32 - And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection; and if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the scale is not deeper than the skin,
Lev 13:33 - Then he shall 1shave himself, but the scale he shall not shave. And the priest shall isolate the one who has the scale seven days more.
Lev 13:34 - And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale; and if the scale has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall 1wash his clothes and be clean.
Lev 13:35 - But if the scale spreads further in the skin after his cleansing,
Lev 13:36 - Then the priest shall look at him; and if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellowish hair; he is unclean.
Lev 13:37 - But if, in 1the priest’s eyes, the scale has remained, and 2black hair has grown up in it, the scale is healed; he is clean. And the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Lev 13:38 - And when a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of their body, 1white bright spots,
Lev 13:39 - Then the priest shall look; and if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a rash that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.
Lev 13:40 - And if a man 1loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.
Lev 13:41 - And if he loses hair from his forehead and his temples, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.
Lev 13:42 - But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there is a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.
Lev 13:43 - Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
Lev 13:44 - He is a aleprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.
Lev 13:45 - And as for the leper in whom the infection is, his 1clothes shall be torn, and the 1hair of his head shall be let loose, and he shall 1cover his upper lip and cry, 1Unclean, unclean!
Lev 13:46 - He shall be unclean all the days during which the infection is in him; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be aoutside the camp.
Lev 13:47 - The 1agarment also that the infection of leprosy is in, whether it is a 2woolen garment or a 2linen garment,
Lev 13:48 - Whether it is in 1warp or 1woof, of linen or of wool, whether in a skin or in anything made of skin,
Lev 13:49 - If the infection is 1greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is the infection of leprosy and shall be ashown to the priest.
Lev 13:50 - And the priest shall look at the infection and isolate the article which has the infection for seven days.
Lev 13:51 - Then he shall look at the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever the purpose the skin is used for, the infection is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.
Lev 13:52 - And he shall 1burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin in which the infection occurs, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.
Lev 13:53 - And if the priest shall look, and if the infection has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin,
Lev 13:54 - Then the priest shall command that they 1wash the thing in which the infection is; and he shall isolate it for seven more days.
Lev 13:55 - And after the article with the infection has been washed, the priest shall look at it; and if the infection has not changed its appearance, even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire; it is a 1leprous decay, whether the bareness is on the inside or on the outside.
Lev 13:56 - And if the priest looks, and if the infection has faded after it was washed, then he shall 1tear it out of the garment or out of the skin, whether from the warp or from the woof.
Lev 13:57 - But if it appears again in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn the article that the infection is in, in the fire.
Lev 13:58 - And the garment, whether the warp or the woof, or any article of skin, which you shall wash, if the infection has departed from them, shall be washed a 1second time and shall be clean.
Lev 13:59 - This is the law of the infection of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or in the woof, or anything of skin, for pronouncing it clean or for pronouncing it unclean.

Leviticus

Chapter 14 of 27

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D.  The cleansing of the leper — 14:1-32
Lev 14:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 14:2 - This shall be the law of the leper on the day of his 1cleansing: He shall be 2abrought to the priest,
Lev 14:3 - And the priest shall go forth 1aoutside the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been 2healed in the leper,
Lev 14:4 - Then the priest shall command that two living clean 1birds and 2acedar wood and 2bscarlet strands and 2chyssop be taken for the one who is to be 3cleansed.
Lev 14:5 - And the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over 1running water.
Lev 14:6 - As for the 1living bird, he shall take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet strands and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the running water.
Lev 14:7 - And he shall 1sprinkle it on the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy aseven times and shall pronounce him clean. Then he shall 2blet the living bird go into the open field.
Lev 14:8 - And the one who is to be cleansed shall 1wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but he shall 2dwell outside his tent aseven days.
Lev 14:9 - And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his 1hair; he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. Then he shall 2wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be aclean.
Lev 14:10 - 1And on the 2eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a ameal offering mingled with oil and one 3log of oil.
Lev 14:11 - And the priest who makes him clean shall set the man to be cleansed and those things before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 14:12 - And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and present it as a atrespass offering and the log of oil, and wave them as a 1bwave offering before Jehovah.
Lev 14:13 - Then he shall slaughter the male lamb in the 1place where they aslaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for the trespass offering, like the sin offering, is the 2priest’s; it is most holy.
Lev 14:14 - And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the aright 1ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right 1hand and on the big toe of his right 1foot.
Lev 14:15 - And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of the priest’s left hand,
Lev 14:16 - And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.
Lev 14:17 - And from the rest of the oil that is in the palm of his hand the priest shall put some on the lobe of the right 1ear of the one who is to be cleansed and some on the thumb of his right 1hand and some on the big toe of his right 1foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
Lev 14:18 - And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest’s hand he shall put on the 1head of the one who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make 2expiation for him before Jehovah.
Lev 14:19 - And the priest shall offer the 1sin offering and make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
Lev 14:20 - And the priest shall offer the 1burnt offering and the 1meal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make expiation for him, and he shall be clean.
Lev 14:21 - But if he is 1poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved to make expiation for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil,
Lev 14:22 - And two aturtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford; and the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
Lev 14:23 - And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before Jehovah.
Lev 14:24 - Then the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah;
Lev 14:25 - And he shall slaughter the lamb of the trespass offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Lev 14:26 - And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of the priest’s left hand,
Lev 14:27 - And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in the palm of his left hand seven times before Jehovah.
Lev 14:28 - And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in the palm of his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
Lev 14:29 - And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one who is to be cleansed, to make expiation for him before Jehovah.
Lev 14:30 - And he shall offer one of the aturtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford,
Lev 14:31 - Even such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering; and the priest shall make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.
Lev 14:32 - This is the law for the one in whom there is the infection of leprosy, who cannot afford what is prescribed for his cleansing.
E.  The leprosy in a house — 14:33-57
Lev 14:33 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Lev 14:34 - When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put the infection of 1leprosy in a house in the land of your possession,
Lev 14:35 - Then he to whom the house belongs shall come and tell the 1priest, saying, It seems to me that there is something like an infection in the house.
Lev 14:36 - And the priest shall command that they 1empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the infection, so that everything which is in the house does not become unclean; and afterward the 2priest shall go in to look at the house.
Lev 14:37 - And he shall look at the infection; and if the infection is on the walls of the house with greenish or reddish depressions, and its appearance is 1deeper than the surface of the wall,
Lev 14:38 - Then the priest shall come out of the house to the entrance of the house and shut up the house aseven days.
Lev 14:39 - And the priest shall return on the seventh day and inspect it. And if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,
Lev 14:40 - Then the priest shall command that they 1take out the stones on which the infection is and throw them away outside the city into an unclean place.
Lev 14:41 - And he shall have the house 1scraped inside all around, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place.
Lev 14:42 - And they shall take other 1stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and 2replaster the house.
Lev 14:43 - And if the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it has been replastered,
Lev 14:44 - Then the priest shall come in and look; and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
Lev 14:45 - And he shall 1break down the house, its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city into an unclean place.
Lev 14:46 - Moreover, whoever goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the 1evening.
Lev 14:47 - And whoever 1lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever 1eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
Lev 14:48 - But if on the other hand the priest comes in and looks, and if the infection has 1not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.
Lev 14:49 - 1And he shall take two birds and cedar wood and scarlet strands and hyssop to purify the house,
Lev 14:50 - And he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
Lev 14:51 - And he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet strands and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
Lev 14:52 - And he shall 1purify the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet strands.
Lev 14:53 - And he shall 1let the living bird go, outside the city into the open field. So he shall make expiation for the house, and it shall be 2clean.
Lev 14:54 - This is the law for any kind of infection of leprosy and for a ascale
Lev 14:55 - And for the leprosy of a agarment and for a bhouse
Lev 14:56 - And for a aswelling and for an eruption and for a bright spot,
Lev 14:57 - To teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.

Leviticus

Chapter 15 of 27

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F.  The cleansing of the discharges from the body — 15:1-33
Lev 15:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Lev 15:2 - Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his 1body, his discharge is unclean.
Lev 15:3 - And this shall be his uncleanness of his discharge: Whether 1there is a discharge from his body, or the discharge is blocked in his body, it is his uncleanness.
Lev 15:4 - Every 1bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
Lev 15:5 - And whoever touches his bed shall 1awash his clothes and 1bathe in water and be unclean 2until the evening.
Lev 15:6 - And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:7 - And whoever touches the flesh of the one who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:8 - And if the one who has the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he who has been spat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:9 - And every saddle on which the one who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.
Lev 15:10 - And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:11 - And whomever the one who has the discharge touches without having 1rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:12 - And the earthen vessel that the one who has the discharge touches shall be 1abroken, and every vessel of wood shall be 1rinsed in water.
Lev 15:13 - And when one who has the discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count 1seven days for himself for his cleansing; then he shall 1wash his clothes and 1bathe his body in running water, and he shall be clean.
Lev 15:14 - And on the 1eighth day he shall take for himself two aturtledoves or two young pigeons and come before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.
Lev 15:15 - And the priest shall offer them, one for a 1sin offering and the other for a 1burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah for his discharge.
Lev 15:16 - And if any man’s seed of copulation goes out from him, then he shall bathe his entire body in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:17 - And any garment and any article made of skin on which the seed of copulation comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:18 - If there is a woman with whom a man lies and there is a discharge of seed of copulation, both of them shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:19 - And if a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:20 - And everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean; everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
Lev 15:21 - And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:22 - And whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:23 - And if it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, when anyone touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:24 - And if any man actually lies with her and her impurity comes on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
Lev 15:25 - And if a woman has a adischarge of her blood for many days not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, during all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as if in the days of her impurity; she is unclean.
Lev 15:26 - Any bed on which she lies during all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity.
Lev 15:27 - And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Lev 15:28 - But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count seven days for herself; and afterward she shall be clean.
Lev 15:29 - And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two aturtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 15:30 - And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and the priest shall make expiation for her before Jehovah for the discharge of her uncleanness.
Lev 15:31 - Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not 1die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
Lev 15:32 - This is the law for the one who has a discharge and for the one whose seed of copulation goes out from him and becomes unclean by it,
Lev 15:33 - And for the one who is sick with her impurity, and for anyone who has a discharge, male or female, and for a man who lies with a woman who is unclean.

Leviticus

Chapter 16 of 27

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G.  The expiation — 16:1-34
Lev 16:1 - 1Then Jehovah spoke to Moses after the adeath of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah and died.
Lev 16:2 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Tell Aaron your brother that he shall 1not enter at just any time into the Holy of Holies inside the veil before the expiation cover, which is upon the Ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud over the expiation cover.
Lev 16:3 - In this way Aaron shall acome into the Holy of Holies: with a bbull of the herd for a sin offering and a cram for a burnt offering.
Lev 16:4 - He shall put on the 1holy alinen tunic, and linen trousers shall be upon his body, and he shall gird himself with the linen girdle and be attired with the linen turban; these are the holy garments. And he shall 2bbathe his flesh in water and put them on.
Lev 16:5 - And he shall take from the 1assembly of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
Lev 16:6 - And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for ahimself, and make 1expiation for himself and for his household.
Lev 16:7 - And he shall take the two goats and set them before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 16:8 - And Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats: one lot for Jehovah and the other lot for 1Azazel.
Lev 16:9 - And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot for Jehovah fell, and offer it as a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 - But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell shall be made to stand alive before Jehovah to make expiation over it, that it may be sent away 1for Azazel into the awilderness.
Lev 16:11 - And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for ahimself, and shall make expiation for himself and for his household, and shall slaughter the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself.
Lev 16:12 - And he shall take a acenser full of coals of fire from the altar before Jehovah, with his hands full of finely ground sweet 1incense, and bring it inside the veil.
Lev 16:13 - And he shall put the aincense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the bexpiation cover that is over the Testimony, so that he does not die.
Lev 16:14 - And he shall take some of the 1ablood of the bull and bsprinkle it with his finger upon the 2expiation cover toward the east, and before the expiation cover he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Lev 16:15 - Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and bring its ablood binside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it upon the expiation cover and before the expiation cover.
Lev 16:16 - And he shall make expiation for the 1Holy of Holies because of the uncleannesses of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions, for all their sins. And so he shall do for the 1Tent of Meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Lev 16:17 - And 1no one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make expiation in the Holy of Holies until he comes out and has made expiation for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of Israel.
Lev 16:18 - Then he shall go out to the altar that is before Jehovah and make expiation for it, and he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and aput it on and around the 1horns of the altar.
Lev 16:19 - And he shall 1sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times; thus he will 2cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.
Lev 16:20 - And when he has finished making aexpiation for the 1Holy of Holies and the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall present the 2live goat.
Lev 16:21 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by means of the man who has been appointed.
Lev 16:22 - Thus the goat shall bear away all their iniquities on itself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
Lev 16:23 - And Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy of Holies, and leave them there.
Lev 16:24 - And he shall 1bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments. Then he shall come out and 1offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make expiation for himself and for the people.
Lev 16:25 - And the fat of the sin offering he shall 1burn on the altar.
Lev 16:26 - And he who lets the goat go for Azazel shall 1wash his clothes and 1bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
Lev 16:27 - And the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make expiation in the Holy of Holies, shall be carried forth 1aoutside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.
Lev 16:28 - And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
Lev 16:29 - And this shall become a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month on the atenth day of the month you shall 1afflict your souls and 2not do any work, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you.
Lev 16:30 - For on this day expiation shall be made for you, in order to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Jehovah.
Lev 16:31 - It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It shall be a perpetual statute.
Lev 16:32 - And the priest who is anointed and who is consecrated to serve as a priest in his father’s place shall make expiation; thus he shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
Lev 16:33 - And he shall make aexpiation for the 1holy sanctuary, and he shall make expiation for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and he shall make expiation for the priests and for all the people of the congregation.
Lev 16:34 - And this shall become a perpetual statute for you, in order to make expiation for the children of Israel because of all their sins, 1aonce in the year. And just as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he did.

Leviticus

Chapter 17 of 27

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H.  Taking care of the sacrifices and of the blood — 17:1-16
Lev 17:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 17:2 - Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,
Lev 17:3 - Anyone of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat within the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,
Lev 17:4 - And has not abrought it to the 1entrance of the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, that man shall be accounted as guilty of bloodshed. He has shed blood, and that man shall be 2cut off from among his people.
Lev 17:5 - This is so that the children of Israel will bring their sacrifices which they sacrifice in the open field, that they will bring them to Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to the priest and sacrifice them as sacrifices of 1apeace offerings to Jehovah.
Lev 17:6 - And the priest shall 1asprinkle the blood on the altar of Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and 1burn the fat for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 17:7 - And they shall 1no more sacrifice their asacrifices to the goat demons, to whom they 2prostitute themselves. This shall become a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
Lev 17:8 - And you shall say to them, Anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice
Lev 17:9 - And does not abring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Jehovah, that man shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 17:10 - And anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who eats any 1ablood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and cut him off from among his people.
Lev 17:11 - For the alife of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you to make expiation for your souls on the altar, for it is the bblood, by reason of the life, that makes expiation.
Lev 17:12 - Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No person among you shall eat ablood, nor shall any sojourner who sojourns among you eat blood.
Lev 17:13 - And anyone of the children of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn among them, who in hunting takes an animal or bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and 1cover it with dust.
Lev 17:14 - For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is 1its very life; therefore I have said to the children of Israel, You shall not aeat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
Lev 17:15 - And every person who eats that which 1dies of itself or is 2torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall 3awash his clothes and 3bathe in water and be unclean until the 4evening; then he shall be clean.
Lev 17:16 - But if he does not wash them or bathe his 1body, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus

Chapter 18 of 27

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I.  The holy living of the holy people — 18:1-20:27
Lev 18:1 - Then Jehovah 1spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 18:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 18:3 - You shall not do as they do in the land of 1aEgypt, in which you dwelt; and you shall not do as they do in the land of 1bCanaan, where I am bringing you, nor shall you walk in their statutes.
Lev 18:4 - You shall observe My 1ordinances, and you shall keep My 1statutes to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 18:5 - So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, by which, aif a man does them, he will 1live; I am Jehovah.
Lev 18:6 - None of you shall approach to any of 1his aclose relatives to uncover their nakedness; I am Jehovah.
Lev 18:7 - The nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:8 - The nakedness of your afather’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.
Lev 18:9 - The nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter, or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
Lev 18:10 - The nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
Lev 18:11 - The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of your father—she is your sister—you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:12 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.
Lev 18:13 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s flesh.
Lev 18:14 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Lev 18:15 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:16 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your abrother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Lev 18:17 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are her flesh; it is wickedness.
Lev 18:18 - And you shall not take a woman as wife in addition to her sister, as a rival to uncover her nakedness while she is alive.
Lev 18:19 - And you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
Lev 18:20 - And you shall not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow countryman to become defiled with her.
Lev 18:21 - And you shall not give any of your offspring to pass through the fire to aMolech, and so profane the name of your God; I am Jehovah.
Lev 18:22 - You shall not lie with a amale as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination.
Lev 18:23 - And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it; it is confusion.
Lev 18:24 - Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.
Lev 18:25 - Because the land has become defiled, I 1visited its iniquity upon it, and the aland 2vomited out its inhabitants.
Lev 18:26 - You therefore shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you
Lev 18:27 - (For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
Lev 18:28 - That the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation which was before you.
Lev 18:29 - For all who do any of these abominations, those persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 18:30 - Therefore you shall keep My charge, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Jehovah your God.

Leviticus

Chapter 19 of 27

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Lev 19:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 19:2 - Speak to all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be 1aholy, for I, Jehovah your God, am holy.
Lev 19:3 - Each one of you shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:4 - Do not turn to aidols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:5 - aAnd when you offer a sacrifice of 1peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Lev 19:6 - It shall be eaten on the 1day you sacrifice it, or on the next day, but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire.
Lev 19:7 - But if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted.
Lev 19:8 - And whoever eats it will bear his own iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to Jehovah; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 19:9 - And when you 1areap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest.
Lev 19:10 - And you shall not glean your vineyard nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:11 - You shall not steal; neither shall you deceive nor deal falsely with one another.
Lev 19:12 - And you shall not aswear falsely by My name, thus profaning the name of your God; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:13 - You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The awages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Lev 19:14 - You shall not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:15 - You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the great, but in righteousness you shall judge your fellow countryman.
Lev 19:16 - You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you 1profit by the blood of your neighbor; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:17 - You shall not hate your brother in your heart; but you shall surely areprove your fellow countryman, so that you do not bring sin upon yourself because of him.
Lev 19:18 - You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall alove your neighbor as yourself; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:19 - You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your 1cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of 1seed, nor shall a 1garment made of two kinds of material come upon you.
Lev 19:20 - And if a man lies down and has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but not at all redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be an inquiry; they shall not be put to death, because she was not freed.
Lev 19:21 - And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a trespass offering.
Lev 19:22 - And the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah with the ram of the trespass offering for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.
Lev 19:23 - And when you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as 1unharvestable. Three years it shall be 1unharvestable to you; it shall not be eaten.
Lev 19:24 - But in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Jehovah.
Lev 19:25 - And in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their produce may increase for you; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:26 - You shall not eat anything with blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.
Lev 19:27 - You shall not round the corners of your heads, nor shall you mar the edges of your beard.
Lev 19:28 - You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor inscribe any marks upon you; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:29 - Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land does not fall to harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
Lev 19:30 - aYou shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:31 - Do not turn to amediums or to spiritists; do not seek after them to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:32 - You shall arise up before the grayheaded and honor the face of the old man. And you shall fear your God; I am Jehovah.
Lev 19:33 - And if a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Lev 19:34 - The asojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 19:35 - You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Lev 19:36 - aYou shall have just bbalances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Lev 19:37 - And you shall observe all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 20 of 27

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Lev 20:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 20:2 - Moreover you shall say to the children of Israel, Anyone of the children of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his offspring to aMolech shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Lev 20:3 - I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given one of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name.
Lev 20:4 - And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes from that man when he gives some of his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,
Lev 20:5 - Then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people him and all who prostitute themselves after him, to prostitute themselves after Molech.
Lev 20:6 - And the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists to prostitute himself after them, I will even set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Lev 20:7 - aSanctify yourselves therefore, and be 1holy; for I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 20:8 - And you shall keep My statutes and do them; I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.
Lev 20:9 - If there is anyone who acurses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his bblood is upon him.
Lev 20:10 - If there is a man who commits aadultery with another man’s wife, even one who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Lev 20:11 - If there is a man who alies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:12 - If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have brought about confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:13 - If there is a man who lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Lev 20:14 - If there is a man who takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness among you.
Lev 20:15 - If there is a man who lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall slaughter the beast.
Lev 20:16 - If there is a woman who approaches any beast to lie down with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. They shall surely be put to death; their ablood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:17 - If there is a man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a reproach, 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.
Lev 20:18 - If there is a man who lies with a woman having her sickness, and he uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 20:19 - And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister nor of your father’s sister, for he has made naked his flesh; they shall bear their iniquity.
Lev 20:20 - If there is a man who lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Lev 20:21 - If there is a man who takes his abrother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Lev 20:22 - You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the aland into which I am bringing you to dwell in does not 1vomit you out.
Lev 20:23 - And you shall not walk in the acustoms of the nation, which I am about to send away before you. Because they did all these things, so I abhorred them.
Lev 20:24 - But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a 1land flowing with amilk and honey. I am Jehovah your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
Lev 20:25 - You shall therefore make a distinction between the 1clean beast and the 1unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you shall not make your souls abominable by any beast or by any bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.
Lev 20:26 - And you shall be aholy to Me, because I Jehovah am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.
Lev 20:27 - If there is a man or a woman who is a amedium or a spiritist, they shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones; their bblood shall be upon them.

Leviticus

Chapter 21 of 27

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J.  The holy living for the priesthood — 21:1-15
Lev 21:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, aNo one shall 1defile himself for a dead person among his people,
Lev 21:2 - Except for his relative who is near to him, for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother
Lev 21:3 - And for his virgin sister, who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
Lev 21:4 - He shall not defile himself, as a 1leader among his people, so as to profane himself.
Lev 21:5 - They shall not make any 1baldness on their head or 1shave off the edges of their beard or make any 1cuttings in their flesh.
Lev 21:6 - They shall be 1holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for they present Jehovah’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
Lev 21:7 - They shall not take a 1woman who is a harlot or profaned, nor shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for the 2priest is holy to his God.
Lev 21:8 - You shall sanctify him therefore, for he presents the food of your God. He shall be aholy to you, for I Jehovah, who sanctifies you, am holy.
Lev 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burnt with fire.
Lev 21:10 - And he who is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the 1aanointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to 1put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go 1loose nor 1tear his clothes.
Lev 21:11 - Neither shall he approach any dead person nor 1defile himself even for his father or for his mother.
Lev 21:12 - Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the 1consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him; I am Jehovah.
Lev 21:13 - And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev 21:14 - aA widow or a divorced woman or a profaned woman, a harlot, these he shall not take; but rather a virgin of his own people he shall take as wife.
Lev 21:15 - And he shall not profane his seed among his people, for I am Jehovah who sanctifies him.
K.  Disqualifications from the priesthood — 21:16-24
Lev 21:16 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 21:17 - Speak to Aaron, saying, No one of your seed throughout their generations who has a 1defect shall approach to present the food of his God.
Lev 21:18 - For no one who has a 1defect shall approach: one who is blind or lame or with a disfigured nose or with an extended limb,
Lev 21:19 - Or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
Lev 21:20 - Or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scale or crushed testicles.
Lev 21:21 - No one of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to present Jehovah’s offerings by fire. He has a defect; he shall not come near to present the food of his God.
Lev 21:22 - He may 1eat the food of his God, both of the amost holy and of the bholy,
Lev 21:23 - But he shall not go in unto the aveil or come near to the altar, because he has a defect, so that he does not profane My holy places; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
Lev 21:24 - So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

Leviticus

Chapter 22 of 27

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L.  Holiness in enjoying the holy things — 22:1-16
Lev 22:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 22:2 - Tell Aaron and his sons to 1be careful with the 2holy things of the children of Israel, which they sanctify to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name; I am Jehovah.
Lev 22:3 - Say to them, If anyone among all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel sanctify to Jehovah, and his 1uncleanness is upon him, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.
Lev 22:4 - No one of the seed of Aaron who is a aleper or who has a bdischarge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean because of contact with a cdead person, or a man whose seed of copulation has gone from him,
Lev 22:5 - Or whoever touches any acreeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may be made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
Lev 22:6 - The person who touches any such thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has abathed his 1body in water.
Lev 22:7 - And when the sun sets, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his afood.
Lev 22:8 - He shall not eat an animal which has died or is torn by beasts to become unclean by it; I am Jehovah.
Lev 22:9 - They shall therefore keep My charge, so that they do not bring sin upon themselves because of it and die by it because they profane it; I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
Lev 22:10 - No 1stranger may aeat any holy thing; a sojourner with a priest or a hired servant shall not eat any holy thing.
Lev 22:11 - But if a priest acquires anyone through a purchase with his money, that one may eat of it; and those who are born in his house may aeat of his food.
Lev 22:12 - And if a priest’s 1daughter is married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Lev 22:13 - But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced and has no child, and she returns to her afather’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no stranger may eat of it.
Lev 22:14 - And if a man eats the holy thing in ignorance, then he shall add aone-fifth of its value to it and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
Lev 22:15 - And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel that they offer to Jehovah,
Lev 22:16 - And so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
M.  The acceptable way to offer a vow and a freewill offering — 22:17-33
Lev 22:17 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 22:18 - Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, When anyone of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents his aoffering, whether it is any of their 1bvows or any of their 1freewill offerings which they present to Jehovah for a burnt offering;
Lev 22:19 - It shall be a male without ablemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats, for you to be accepted.
Lev 22:20 - But whatever has a blemish, you shall not present, for it will not be acceptable for you.
Lev 22:21 - And whoever presents a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to 1make a special avow or for a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish in it.
Lev 22:22 - You shall not present these to Jehovah: anything blind or injured or maimed or having a suppuration or eczema or scale; nor shall you make an offering by fire from them on the altar to Jehovah.
Lev 22:23 - An ox or a lamb that has anything 1superfluous or lacking in its parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but it shall not be accepted for a vow.
Lev 22:24 - And anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or broken or cut, you shall not present to Jehovah; you shall not do this in your land.
Lev 22:25 - And from the hand of a 1foreigner you shall not present the food of your God from any of these, because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.
Lev 22:26 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 22:27 - When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the 1aeighth day and onward it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 22:28 - But whether cow or sheep, you shall not slaughter both it and its young on one day.
Lev 22:29 - And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Lev 22:30 - On the 1asame day it shall be eaten; you shall leave none of it until the bmorning; I am Jehovah.
Lev 22:31 - Therefore you shall keep My commandments and do them; I am Jehovah.
Lev 22:32 - And you shall not profane My holy name, but I will be sanctified among the children of Israel; I am Jehovah who sanctifies you,
Lev 22:33 - Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your aGod; I am Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 23 of 27

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IV.  Ordinances concerning feasts — 23:1-44

A.  The weekly feasts—the Sabbath — vv. 1-3
Lev 23:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, As to the appointed 1afeasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy 2convocations, these are My appointed feasts.
Lev 23:3 - aSix days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a 1Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work; it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwelling places.
B.  The annual feasts — vv. 4-44
1.  The Feast of Passover — vv. 4-5
Lev 23:4 - These are the appointed 1afeasts of Jehovah, even the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time:
Lev 23:5 - aIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month 1at twilight, is Jehovah’s 2bPassover,
2.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread — vv. 6-8
Lev 23:6 - And on the fifteenth day of this month is the aFeast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 - aOn the 1first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.
Lev 23:8 - But you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah 1seven days. On the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.
3.  The Feast of Firstfruits — vv. 9-14
Lev 23:9 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:10 - Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring the 1sheaf of the afirstfruits of your harvest to the priest;
Lev 23:11 - And he shall awave the sheaf before Jehovah for your 1acceptance; on the bday after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12 - And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a 1aburnt offering to Jehovah.
Lev 23:13 - And its 1meal offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance. And its 2adrink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
Lev 23:14 - And you shall eat 1no bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
4.  The Feast of Pentecost — vv. 15-22
Lev 23:15 - And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath; from the day that you brought the asheaf of the wave offering there shall be bseven complete 1Sabbaths.
Lev 23:16 - You shall count 1afifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a bnew meal offering to Jehovah.
Lev 23:17 - You shall bring out of your dwelling places 1two loaves as a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with aleaven, as firstfruits to Jehovah.
Lev 23:18 - And you shall present with the bread seven lambs, a year old without blemish, and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a 1burnt offering to Jehovah with their 1meal offering and their 1drink offerings, an offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
Lev 23:19 - And you shall offer one male goat for a 1sin offering and two male lambs, a year old, for a sacrifice of 1peace offerings.
Lev 23:20 - And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Jehovah with the two lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.
Lev 23:21 - And you shall make a proclamation on that same day; you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do 1no work of labor. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
Lev 23:22 - And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field, nor shall you agather the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the 1poor and for the 1sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.
5.  The Feast of the Blowing of Trumpets — vv. 23-25
Lev 23:23 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:24 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, aIn the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a complete rest, a memorial commemorated by the 1bblowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev 23:25 - You shall do no work of labor, but you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah.
6.  The Feast of Expiation — vv. 26-32
Lev 23:26 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:27 - aAnd on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of 1Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall 2afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 23:28 - And you shall do 1no work on that same day, because it is a Day of Expiation, to make expiation on your behalf before Jehovah your God.
Lev 23:29 - If there is any person who does not afflict himself on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30 - And if any person does any work on that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
Lev 23:31 - You shall do no work; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:32 - It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.
7.  The Feast of Tabernacles — vv. 33-44
Lev 23:33 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:34 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, aOn the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the 1bFeast of 2Tabernacles for 3seven days to Jehovah.
Lev 23:35 - On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.
Lev 23:36 - 1Seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. On the 2aeighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no work of labor.
Lev 23:37 - These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, burnt offerings and meal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day,
Lev 23:38 - Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah and besides your gifts and besides all your vows and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to Jehovah.
Lev 23:39 - Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have 1agathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day shall be a complete rest, and on the eighth day shall be a complete rest.
Lev 23:40 - And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the 1product of stately trees, branches of 2apalm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God for seven days.
Lev 23:41 - And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42 - You shall dwell in 1booths seven days—all who are native in Israel shall dwell in abooths—
Lev 23:43 - So that your 1descendants may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 23:44 - And Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed 1feasts of Jehovah.

Leviticus

Chapter 24 of 27

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V.  Other ordinances and warnings — 24:1-27:34

A.  The arrangement of the lampstand and the bread of the Presence — 24:1-9
Lev 24:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, 1saying,
Lev 24:2 - aCommand the children of Israel to bring to you 1pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to 2make the lamps burn continually.
Lev 24:3 - Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting Aaron shall 1set it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
Lev 24:4 - He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure alampstand before Jehovah continually.
Lev 24:5 - And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve 1acakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
Lev 24:6 - And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the atable of pure gold before Jehovah.
Lev 24:7 - And you shall put pure 1afrankincense on each row, so that it may be a memorial for the bread, an 2offering by fire to Jehovah.
Lev 24:8 - Every 1Sabbath day continually he shall set it in order before Jehovah; it is an everlasting covenant for the children of Israel.
Lev 24:9 - And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall aeat it in a 1holy place, for it is most holy to him of Jehovah’s offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.
B.  The death judgment for blaspheming the holy name — 24:10-23
Lev 24:10 - 1Now the son of an Israelite woman, who was also the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a certain Israelite struggled together in the camp.
Lev 24:11 - And the son of the Israelite woman 1ablasphemed the Name and cursed, and they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
Lev 24:12 - And they put him in custody so that it might be declared to them by the mouth of Jehovah.
Lev 24:13 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 24:14 - Bring forth the one who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the assembly stone him.
Lev 24:15 - And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Anyone who curses his God shall bear his sin.
Lev 24:16 - And the one who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall surely be put to adeath; all the assembly shall surely stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Lev 24:17 - And anyone who 1atakes the life of any human being shall surely be put to death.
Lev 24:18 - And the one who 1takes the life of a beast shall make restitution for it, 2life for life.
Lev 24:19 - And anyone who causes an injury to his fellow countryman, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
Lev 24:20 - A fracture for a fracture, an aeye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; just as he has caused an injury to a man, so it will be inflicted on him.
Lev 24:21 - And one who kills a beast shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.
Lev 24:22 - You shall have one judgment for the sojourner as well as for the native, for I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 24:23 - And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Leviticus

Chapter 25 of 27

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C.  The sabbatical years — 25:1-55
1.  The Sabbath year — vv. 1-7
Lev 25:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
Lev 25:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, the land shall observe a 1aSabbath to Jehovah.
Lev 25:3 - aSix years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce;
Lev 25:4 - But in the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to Jehovah; you shall 1not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
Lev 25:5 - The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; the land shall have a year of complete rest.
Lev 25:6 - And the Sabbath produce of the land shall be for 1food for you; for you and for your male slaves and for your female slaves, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who sojourns with you,
Lev 25:7 - And for your cattle and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its produce be for food.
2.  The jubilee (the pentecostal year) — vv. 8-17
Lev 25:8 - And you shall count off 1seven Sabbaths of years to yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of seven Sabbaths of years, that is, forty-nine years.
Lev 25:9 - Then you shall sound aloud the ram’s horn in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month; on the 1aDay of Expiation you shall sound the btrumpet throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 - And you shall sanctify the 1fiftieth year, and proclaim 2liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a 3ajubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his 2possession, and each of you shall return to his 2family.
Lev 25:11 - The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall 1not sow nor reap its aftergrowth nor gather from its unpruned vines.
Lev 25:12 - For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce out of the field.
Lev 25:13 - In this year of jubilee each one of you shall return to his possession.
Lev 25:14 - And if you sell anything to your fellow countryman or buy from the hand of your fellow countryman, you shall not wrong one another.
Lev 25:15 - aAccording to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your fellow countryman; according to the number of crop years remaining he shall sell to you.
Lev 25:16 - According to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price; for it is the number of crop years that he sells to you.
Lev 25:17 - And you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Jehovah your God.
3.  Regulations regarding the sabbatical years — vv. 18-55
Lev 25:18 - Thus you shall observe My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances and observe them, so that you dwell securely in the land.
Lev 25:19 - Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat to be satisfied and dwell securely in it.
Lev 25:20 - And if you should say, What shall we eat the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our produce?
Lev 25:21 - Then I will command My blessing for you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for 1three years.
Lev 25:22 - When you sow in the eighth year you will eat of the old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old produce.
Lev 25:23 - And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, because the aland is 1Mine; for you are bstrangers and sojourners with Me.
Lev 25:24 - And in all the land of your possession you shall provide for the 1redemption of the land.
Lev 25:25 - If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his redeemer, the nearest arelative, shall come and bredeem what his brother has sold.
Lev 25:26 - But if a man does not have anyone to redeem it, but he obtains the means and finds it sufficient to redeem it,
Lev 25:27 - Then let him calculate the ayears since its sale and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his possession.
Lev 25:28 - But if he has not found sufficient means to restore it for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of the one who has purchased it until the year of ajubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
Lev 25:29 - And if anyone sells a dwelling 1house in a walled city, then he may redeem it until the end of a year from its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
Lev 25:30 - But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the one who purchased it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.
Lev 25:31 - But the 1houses of the villages which have no wall all around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
Lev 25:32 - As for the acities of the Levites, that is, the 1houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have the permanent right of redemption.
Lev 25:33 - And what can be redeemed from the Levites, that is, a house that was sold in a city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Lev 25:34 - But the 1field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
Lev 25:35 - And if your 1brother becomes apoor, and 2he is unable to support himself as he lives beside you, then you shall support him, like a stranger and a sojourner, so that he may live beside you.
Lev 25:36 - Do not take any interest or gain from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live beside you.
Lev 25:37 - You shall not give him your money at interest nor give him your food for gain.
Lev 25:38 - aI am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
Lev 25:39 - And if your brother beside you becomes poor, and he 1sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave.
Lev 25:40 - He shall be beside you as a hired servant, as a sojourner; he shall serve beside you until the year of jubilee.
Lev 25:41 - Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and return to his own family, and he shall return to the possession of his forefathers.
Lev 25:42 - For they are My aservants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.
Lev 25:43 - You shall not rule over him with aseverity, but you shall fear your God.
Lev 25:44 - And as for your male slaves and female slaves whom you may have, they shall come from the 1nations that are around you; from them you may buy male slaves and female slaves.
Lev 25:45 - Moreover from the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, from them you may buy, and from their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land; they also may be your possession.
Lev 25:46 - And you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to receive as a possession; you may use them as permanent slaves. But you shall not rule over your brothers the children of Israel, one over another, with severity.
Lev 25:47 - And if a stranger or sojourner with you can afford it, and your 1brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to the descendants of the stranger’s family;
Lev 25:48 - After he has sold himself, he may be redeemed; one of his abrothers may redeem him,
Lev 25:49 - Or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or any of his close relatives of his family may redeem him; or if he can afford it, he may redeem himself.
Lev 25:50 - And he shall reckon with the one who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. The time he shall be with him shall be calculated like the time of a hired servant.
Lev 25:51 - If there are still many years, in proportion to them he shall give back the amount for his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Lev 25:52 - And if there are only a few years remaining until the year of jubilee, so he shall reckon with him. In proportion to his years he shall give back the amount for his redemption.
Lev 25:53 - Like a servant hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule with severity over him in your sight.
Lev 25:54 - And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
Lev 25:55 - For the children of Israel are My servants; they are My aservants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

Leviticus

Chapter 26 of 27

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D.  The word of warning — 26:1-46
1.  Not to make idols, to keep God's Sabbath, and to reverence God's sanctuary — vv. 1-2
Lev 26:1 - You shall not make for yourselves 1aidols, nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar, nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Lev 26:2 - You shall keep My 1aSabbaths and reverence My 2sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
2.  The blessings upon those who obey — vv. 3-13
Lev 26:3 - If you 1walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,
Lev 26:4 - Then I will give you your 1arains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.
Lev 26:5 - Indeed your threshing will overtake the vintage, and the vintage will overtake the sowing time. Thus you will eat your bread unto satisfaction and dwell securely in your land.
Lev 26:6 - And I will give you peace in the land, so that you will lie down and no one will make you afraid; and I will cause wild beasts to cease out of the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
Lev 26:7 - And you will chase your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
Lev 26:8 - And five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will achase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
Lev 26:9 - And I will turn My face toward you and make you fruitful and amultiply you, and I will establish My bcovenant with you.
Lev 26:10 - And you will eat the old supply long stored and will have to clear out the old because of the new.
Lev 26:11 - And I will set My atabernacle among you; and My soul will not abhor you.
Lev 26:12 - And I will walk aamong you and be your bGod, and you will be My people.
Lev 26:13 - I am Jehovah your God, who brought you aout of the land of Egypt so that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
3.  The chastisements upon those who disobey — vv. 14-39
Lev 26:14 - aBut if you will not 1listen to Me and will not do all these commandments,
Lev 26:15 - And if you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so that you will not do all My commandments, so as to break My acovenant;
Lev 26:16 - I also will do this to you: I will appoint 1sudden terror over you, even consumption and fever, that will cause the eyes to fail and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Lev 26:17 - And I will set My face against you, and you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
Lev 26:18 - And if after these things you will not listen to Me, then I will 1chastise you aseven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:19 - And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Lev 26:20 - And your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will anot yield its produce, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Lev 26:21 - And if you walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, I will bring aseven times more 1plagues upon you according to your sins.
Lev 26:22 - And I will send 1wild animals among you, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in number, so that your roads will be deserted.
Lev 26:23 - And if by these things you will not be corrected by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
Lev 26:24 - Then I also will walk contrary to you; and I will 1strike you, I Myself, aseven times for your sins.
Lev 26:25 - And I will bring a 1sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you gather together within your cities, I will send 1pestilence among you, and you will be 1delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Lev 26:26 - When I 1cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; and they will return your bread 2by aweight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Lev 26:27 - And if in spite of this you will not listen to Me, but walk contrary to Me,
Lev 26:28 - Then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I will 1chastise you, I Myself, aseven times for your sins.
Lev 26:29 - And you will 1eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
Lev 26:30 - And I will destroy your ahigh places and cut down your altars to the sun and heap up your 1dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.
Lev 26:31 - And I will make your acities a 1waste and will make your bholy places desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your satisfying fragrances.
Lev 26:32 - And I will make the land 1adesolate, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.
Lev 26:33 - You however I will 1ascatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land will become a desolation, and your cities will become a waste.
Lev 26:34 - Then the land will enjoy its 1aSabbaths during all the days of desolation while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Lev 26:35 - During all the days of desolation it will have the rest, which it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling upon it.
Lev 26:36 - And as for those who remain among you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will 1put them to flight; and they will flee as one flees from the sword; and they will fall though ano one pursues.
Lev 26:37 - And they will stumble over one another, as if fleeing before the sword, though no one pursues; and you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
Lev 26:38 - And you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
Lev 26:39 - And those who are remaining among you will rot away because of their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.
4.  The people's repentance in captivity and God's remembrance — vv. 40-46
Lev 26:40 - But if they 1aconfess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also that they walked contrary to Me,
Lev 26:41 - So that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their auncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity;
Lev 26:42 - Then I will 1aremember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and also My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Lev 26:43 - For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its aSabbaths while it is desolate without them. And they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because, even because, they rejected My ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes.
Lev 26:44 - And yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will anot 1reject them, nor will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.
Lev 26:45 - But for their sakes I will aremember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations so that I might be their God; I am Jehovah.
Lev 26:46 - These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between Himself and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.

Leviticus

Chapter 27 of 27

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E.  Devotions for a vow — 27:1-34
1.  The devotion of a person to God — vv. 1-8
Lev 27:1 - Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 27:2 - Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man 1makes a special avow to Jehovah, it shall be according to your 2valuation of persons.
Lev 27:3 - If your valuation is for the 1male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver according to the ashekel of the sanctuary.
Lev 27:4 - And if it is for a 1female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Lev 27:5 - And if it is for one aged from 1five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.
Lev 27:6 - And if it is for one aged from a 1month old even to five years old, then your valuation for the male shall be afive shekels of silver, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
Lev 27:7 - And if it is for one aged from 1sixty years old and upward, if it is for a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Lev 27:8 - But if it is for him who is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the 1means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.
2.  The devotion of an animal to God — vv. 9-13
Lev 27:9 - And if it is for an animal which may be presented to Jehovah as an offering, anything which may be given to Jehovah shall be 1holy.
Lev 27:10 - He may not exchange it or asubstitute it, either a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one; but if he does indeed substitute animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.
Lev 27:11 - And if his vow is for any 1aunclean animal, which may not be presented as an offering to Jehovah, then he shall set the animal before the priest,
Lev 27:12 - And the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so shall it be.
Lev 27:13 - But if he ever redeems it, then he shall add 1aone-fifth of it to your valuation.
3.  The devotion of a house — vv. 14-15
Lev 27:14 - And if anyone 1consecrates his house to be holy to Jehovah, then the 2priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; just as the priest values it, so shall it stand.
Lev 27:15 - And if the one who consecrated it redeems his house, then he shall add 1aone-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall become his.
4.  The devotion of a field — vv. 16-25
Lev 27:16 - And if a man consecrates to Jehovah part of a 1field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the 2seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.
Lev 27:17 - If he consecrates his field from the 1year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
Lev 27:18 - But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the money 1for him according to the ayears which remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
Lev 27:19 - And if the one who consecrated the field ever redeems it, then he shall aadd one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall revert to him.
Lev 27:20 - But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.
Lev 27:21 - But the 1field, when it goes out in the ajubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah as a bdevoted field; its possession shall be the priest’s.
Lev 27:22 - And if he consecrates to Jehovah a field which he has bought that is not part of the field of his possession,
Lev 27:23 - Then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation until the year of jubilee, and on that day he shall give your valuation as holy to Jehovah.
Lev 27:24 - In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, even to the one to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Lev 27:25 - And every valuation of yours shall be according to the ashekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
5.  The regulations for devotion — vv. 26-34
Lev 27:26 - However no one shall consecrate the 1firstborn among animals, which as a afirstborn already belongs to Jehovah; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is Jehovah’s.
Lev 27:27 - But if it is consecrated from among 1aunclean animals, then he shall ransom it according to your valuation and shall add to it bone-fifth of it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
Lev 27:28 - Nevertheless anything which someone devotes to Jehovah out of all that he has, whether a human or an animal or a field of his possession, it shall not be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing is 1most holy to Jehovah.
Lev 27:29 - No human beings who are devoted to destruction shall be ransomed; they shall surely be put to death.
Lev 27:30 - And all the atithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is 1Jehovah’s; it is holy to Jehovah.
Lev 27:31 - And if anyone redeems any of his tithe, he shall add to it aone-fifth of it.
Lev 27:32 - And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd’s rod, the tenth one shall be holy to Jehovah.
Lev 27:33 - He shall not search whether it is good or bad, nor shall he asubstitute it; but if he does substitute it at all, then both it and that for which it is substituted shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
Lev 27:34 - These are the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses on Mount Sinai for the children of Israel.
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