Leviticus:21-24

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* And the LORD said unto Moses , Speak unto the priests , the sons of Aaron , and tell them to not be defiled for the dead among his people . * But for his kin , that is near unto him , [that is ], for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother * and for his virgin sister , that is near unto him , who has had no husband ; for her he may be defiled . * He shall not defile himself for the prince among his people , to profane himself . * They shall not make baldness upon their head , neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard , nor make any cuttings in their flesh . * They shall be holy unto their God and not profane the name of their God ; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire [and ] the bread of their God they do offer ; therefore , they shall be holy . * They shall not take a wife [that is ] a whore or profane ; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband ; for he [is ] holy unto his God . * Thou shalt sanctify him , therefore , for he offers the bread of thy God ; he shall be holy unto thee ; for I the LORD , who sanctify you , [am ] holy . * And the daughter of the man [who is a ] priest , if she begins to fornicate , she profanes her father ; she shall be burnt with fire . * And [he that is ] the high priest among his brethren , upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and that is consecrated to put on the garments , shall not uncover his head nor rend his clothes ; * neither shall he go in to any dead body , nor defile himself for his father or for his mother ; * neither shall he go out of the sanctuary , nor profane the sanctuary of his God , for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him . I [am ] the LORD . * And he shall take a wife in her virginity . * A widow or a divorced woman or profane [or ] a harlot , these he shall not take , but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife . * Neither shall he profane his seed among his people , for I AM he that sanctifies him . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto Aaron , saying , The man of thy seed in their generations that has [any ] blemish , let him not approach to offer the bread of his God . * For no man in whom there is a blemish , shall approach : a blind man or a lame or he that lacks any thing or has any thing superfluous * or a man that is brokenfooted or brokenhanded * or crookbacked or a dwarf or that has a blemish in his eye or has scurvy or [is ] scabbed or has his stones broken . * No man that has a blemish of the seed of Aaron , the priest , shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire . He has a blemish ; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God . * He shall eat the bread of his God , [both ] of the most holy and of the sanctified things . * Only he shall not go inside the veil nor come near unto the altar because he has a blemish , that he not profane my sanctuary ; for I AM he that sanctifies them . * And Moses told [it ] unto Aaron and to his sons and unto all the sons of Israel .: * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto Aaron and to his sons that they abstain from the holy things of the sons of Israel and that they not profane my holy name [in those things ] which they sanctify unto me . I [am ] the LORD . * Say unto them , Any man of all your seed among your generations that goes in unto the holy things , which the children of Israel sanctify unto the LORD , having his uncleanness upon him , that soul shall be cut off from my presence . I [am ] the LORD . * Whatever man of the seed of Aaron who [is ] a leper or has a running issue shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean . And whosoever touches any thing [that is ] unclean [by ] the dead or a man whose seed has gone out from him * or the man who has touched any reptile , by which he shall be unclean , or a man of whom he shall become unclean , according to whatever uncleanness he has , * the person who has touched any such shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the holy things until he has washed his flesh with water . * And when the sun is down , he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the holy things , because it is his bread . * That which dies of itself or is torn [by beasts ], he shall not eat to defile himself therewith . I [am ] the LORD . * They shall therefore keep my ordinance lest they bear sin for it and die therefore , if they profane it . I AM he who sanctifies them . * No stranger shall eat [of ] the holy thing ; a guest of the priest or a hired servant shall not eat [of ] the holy thing . * But when the priest shall buy [any ] soul with his money , he shall eat of it , and he that is born in his house , they shall eat of his bread . * If the priest 's daughter becomes married unto a stranger , she may not eat of that which is set apart of the holy things . * But if the priest 's daughter becomes a widow or divorced and has no child and is returned unto her father 's house as in her youth , she shall eat of her father 's bread ; but no stranger shall eat thereof . * And if a man eats [of ] the holy thing by error , then he shall add the fifth [part ] thereof unto it and shall give [it ] unto the priest with the offering that he ate . * And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel , which they set apart unto the LORD , * or suffer them to bear the iniquity of their guilt , when they eat their holy things . For I AM he who sanctifies them . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto Aaron and to his sons and unto all the sons of Israel and say unto them , Any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel that will offer his oblation for all his vows and for all his freewill offerings , which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering , * [ye shall offer ] of your own free will a male without blemish of the bovine cattle of the sheep or of the goats . * [But ye ] shall not offer any thing that has a blemish , for it shall not be acceptable for you . * Likewise when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace unto the LORD to present [his ] vow or a freewill offering in bovine cattle or sheep , it must be perfect to be accepted ; there shall be no blemish therein . * Blind or broken or maimed or having a running sore or scurvy or scabbed , ye shall not offer these unto the LORD , nor make an offering on fire of them upon the altar of the LORD . * A bullock or a lamb that has any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts , [thou may ] offer for a freewill offering ; but for a vow it shall not be accepted . * Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut ; neither shall ye do thus in [all ] your land . * Neither from the son of a stranger 's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these because their corruption [is ] in them [and ] blemishes [are ] in them ; they shall not be accepted for you . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * When a bullock or a sheep or a goat is born , then it shall be seven days under the dam ; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering on fire unto the LORD . * And [whether it is ] cow or ewe , ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day . * And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD , offer [it ] of your own free will . * On the same day it shall be eaten up ; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow . I [am ] the LORD . * Keep , therefore , my commandments and do them . I am the LORD . * Profane ye not my holy name , and I will sanctify myself in the midst of the sons of Israel . I AM he who sanctifies you * and who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God . I [am ] the LORD .: * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them , The feasts of the LORD , unto which ye shall make a general convocation of all the people , these shall be my feasts . * Six days shall work be done , but the seventh day shall be a sabbath of rest , a holy convocation ; ye shall do no work [therein ]; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings . * These are the feasts of the LORD , the holy convocations , which ye shall proclaim in their appointed times . * On the fourteenth of the first month between the two evenings [is ] the LORD 'S passover . * And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is ] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD ; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread . * The first day ye shall have a holy convocation ; ye shall do no servile work therein . * And ye shall offer an offering on fire unto the LORD seven days ; the seventh day [shall be ] a holy convocation ; ye shall do no servile work [therein ]. * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them , When ye have entered into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof , then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest ; * and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD that ye shall be accepted ; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it . * And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf a he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD . * And the present thereof [shall be ] two-tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil in an offering on fire unto the LORD [for ] an acceptable aroma ; and the drink offering thereof [shall be ] of wine , the fourth [part ] of a hin . * And ye shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor green ears until this same day until ye have offered the offering of your God ; [it shall be ] a statute for ever throughout your ages in all your dwellings . * And ye shall count unto you from the day after the sabbath , from the day that ye offered the sheaf of the wave offering ; seven sabbaths shall be complete ; * unto the day after the seventh sabbath , ye shall number fifty days ; then ye shall offer a new present unto the LORD . * Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two-tenth deals ; they shall be of fine flour , they shall be baked with leaven , [they are ] the firstfruits unto the LORD . * And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year and one young bullock and two rams ; they shall be [for ] a burnt offering unto the LORD , with their presents and their drink offerings in an offering on fire , of a [very ] acceptable aroma unto the LORD . * Then ye shall also sacrifice one he goat as the sin and two lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of peace . * And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for ] a wave offering before the LORD , with the two lambs ; they shall be holiness of the LORD for the priest . * And ye shall be summoned on that same day ; it shall be a holy convocation unto you ; ye shall do no servile work : a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your ages . * And when ye reap the harvest of your land , thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest , neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger . I AM your God . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the sons of Israel , saying , In the seventh month in the first [day ] of the month , ye shall have a rest , an alarm for a reminder , and a holy convocation . * Ye shall do no servile work [therein ]; but ye shall offer an offering on fire unto the LORD . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * But the tenth [day ] of this seventh month [shall be ] the day of reconciliations ; it shall be a holy convocation unto you ; and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made on fire unto the LORD . * And ye shall do no work in this same day ; for it [is ] a day of reconciliations , to reconcile you before the LORD your God . * For every person that shall not afflict themselves in that same day , shall be cut off from among his people . * And any person that does any work in that same day , the same person will I destroy from among his people . * Ye shall do no manner of work ; [it shall be ] a perpetual statute throughout your ages in all your dwellings . * It [shall be ] unto you a sabbath of sabbaths , and ye shall afflict your souls , beginning in the ninth [day ] of the month in the evening , from evening unto evening , shall ye rest [on ] your sabbath . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the sons of Israel , saying , The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be ] the feast of tabernacles unto the LORD [for ] seven days . * The first day [shall be ] a holy convocation : ye shall do no servile work [therein ]. * Seven days ye shall offer an offering on fire unto the LORD ; the eighth day ye shall have a holy convocation and offer an offering on fire unto the LORD ; it is a feast ; [and ] ye shall do no servile work [therein ]. * These [are ] the feasts of the LORD , unto which ye shall be summoned : holy convocations to offer an offering on fire unto the LORD , a burnt offering and a present , a sacrifice and drink offerings , every thing in its [proper ] time ; * in addition the sabbaths of the LORD and in addition to your gifts and in addition to all your vows , and in addition to all your freewill offerings , which ye shall give unto the LORD . * But in the fifteenth day of the seventh month , when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land , ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days ; the first day shall be a sabbath , and on the eighth day shall also be a sabbath . * And on the first day ye shall take [branches ] with fruit of a beautiful tree , palm branches and the boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook ; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days . * And ye shall keep this feast unto the LORD for seven days each year . [It shall be ] a perpetual statute for your ages ; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month . * Ye shall dwell in tabernacles seven days ; all that are natural of Israel shall dwell in booths , * that your descendants may know that I made the sons of Israel to dwell in tabernacles when I brought them out of the land of Egypt . I AM your God . * [Thus ] Moses declared unto the sons of Israel the feasts of the LORD .: * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Command the sons of Israel that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light , to cause the lamps to burn continually . * Outside the veil of the testimony , in the tabernacle of the testimony , shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually ; [it shall be ] a perpetual statute for [all ] your ages . * He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually . * And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof ; each cake shall be of two-tenth deals . * And thou shalt set them in two orders , six [in each ] order , upon the clean table before the LORD . * And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each ] order , that it may be on the bread for an aroma and incense unto the LORD . * Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually : everlasting covenant of the sons of Israel . * And it shall belong to Aaron and his sons , and they shall eat it in the holy place , for it [is ] most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD on fire , by a perpetual statute . * In that season the son of an Israelite woman , whose father [was ] an Egyptian , went out among the sons of Israel ; and this son of the Israelite [woman ] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp ; * and the Israelite woman 's son pronounced the Name and cursed ; and they brought him unto Moses . And his mother 's name [was ] Shelomith , the daughter of Dibri , of the tribe of Daniel . * And they put him in ward that the mind of the LORD might be showed them . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Bring forth the one that has blasphemed outside the camp and let all that heard [him ] lay their hands upon his head , and let all the congregation stone him . * And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel , saying , The man that speaks evil of his God shall bear his sin . * And he that pronounces the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death ; all the congregation shall certainly stone him ; the same with the stranger as with the natural , if he pronounces the Name , he shall be put to death . * Likewise he that kills any man shall surely be put to death . * And he that kills an animal shall make it good : animal for animal . * And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbour ; as he has done , so shall it be done to him ; * breach for breach , eye for eye , tooth for tooth : as he has caused a blemish in a man , so shall it be done to him [again ]. * He that kills an animal shall restore it , but he that kills a man shall be put to death . * Ye shall have one manner of law : as for the stranger , so shall it be for the natural ; for I [am ] the LORD your God . * And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should bring forth the one that had blasphemed out of the camp and stone him with stones . And the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses .: * And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai , saying ,

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