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Do not deal basely with * deal basely with Others "go about as a talebearer among"; meaning of Heb. idiom halakh rakhil be- uncertain. members of your people. Do not profit by * profit by Lit. "stand upon"; precise meaning of Heb. idiom โ€˜amad โ€˜al uncertain. the blood of your fellow [Israelite]: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart. Reprove your kin but * but Exact force of we- uncertain. incur no guilt on their account.
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You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against members of your people. Love your fellow [Israelite] as yourself: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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You shall observe My laws. You shall not let your cattle mate with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; you shall not put on cloth from a mixture of two kinds of material.
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If a man has carnal relations with a woman who is a slave and has been designated for another man, but has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there shall be an indemnity; they shall not, however, be put to death, since she has not been freed.
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But he must bring to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, as his guilt offering to ื™ื”ื•ื”, a ram of guilt offering.
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With the ram of guilt offering the priest shall make expiation for him before ื™ื”ื•ื” for the sin that he committed; and the sin that he committed will be forgiven him.
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When you enter the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden * forbidden Heb. root โ€˜-r-l , commonly "to be uncircumcised." for you, not to be eaten.
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In the fourth year all its fruit shall be set aside for jubilation before ื™ื”ื•ื”;
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and only in the fifth year may you use its fruitโ€”that its yield to you may be increased: I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God.
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You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying.
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You [men] shall not round off the side-growth on your head, or destroy the side-growth of your beard.
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You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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Do not degrade your daughter and make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land be filled with depravity.
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You shall keep My sabbaths and venerate My sanctuary: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of familiar spirits, to be defiled by them: I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God.
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You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old; you shall fear your God: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them.
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The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God.
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You shall not falsify measures of length, weight, or capacity.
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You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest ephah , and an honest hin . I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God who freed you from the land of Egypt.
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You shall faithfully observe all My laws and all My rules: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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And ื™ื”ื•ื” spoke to Moses:
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Say further to the Israelite people: Anyone among the Israelites, or among the strangers residing in Israel, who gives any offspring to Molech, shall be put to death; the people of the land shall pelt the person with stones.
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And I will set My face against that party, whom I will cut off from among the people for having given offspring to Molech and so defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
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And if the people of the land should shut their eyes to that party's giving offspring to Molech, and should not put the person to death,
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I Myself will set My face against that party's kin as well; and I will cut off from among their people both that person and all who follow in going astray after Molech.
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And if any person turns to ghosts and familiar spirits and goes astray after them, I will set My face against that person, whom I will cut off from among the people.
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You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God.
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You shall faithfully observe My laws: I ื™ื”ื•ื” make you holy.
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If anyone insults either father or mother, that person shall be put to death; that person has insulted father and motherโ€”and retains the bloodguilt.
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If a man commits adultery with a married womanโ€”committing adultery with another man's wifeโ€”the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
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If a man lies with his father's wife, it is the nakedness of his father that he has uncovered; the two shall be put to deathโ€”and they retain the bloodguilt.
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If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incestโ€”and they retain the bloodguilt.
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If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to deathโ€”and they retain the bloodguilt.
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If a man takes a woman and her mother [into his household as his wives], it is depravity; both he and they shall be put to the fire, that there be no depravity among you.
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If a man has carnal relations with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.
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If a woman approaches any beast to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to deathโ€”and they retain the bloodguilt.
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If a man takes his sister [into his household as a wife], the daughter of either his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; they shall be excommunicated * excommunicated Lit. "cut off." in the sight of their kinsfolk. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister, he shall bear the guilt.
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If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual condition and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow and she has exposed her blood flow; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
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You [males] shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is laying bare one's own flesh; they shall bear their guilt.
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If a man lies with his uncle's wife, it is his uncle's nakedness that he has uncovered. They shall bear their guilt: they shall die childless.
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If a man takes the wife of his brother [into his household as a wife], it is indecency. It is the nakedness of his brother that he has uncovered; they shall remain childless.
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You shall faithfully observe all My laws and all My regulations, lest the land to which I bring you to settle in spew you out.
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You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. For it is because they did all these things that I abhorred them
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and said to you: You shall possess their land, for I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I ื™ื”ื•ื” am your God who has set you apart from other peoples.
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So you shall set apart the pure beast from the impure, the impure bird from the pure. You shall not draw abomination upon yourselves through beast or bird or anything with which the ground is alive, which I have set apart for you to treat as impure.
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You shall be holy to Me, for I ื™ื”ื•ื” am holy, and I have set you apart from other peoples to be Mine.
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A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stonesโ€”and they shall retain the bloodguilt.
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ื™ื”ื•ื” said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin,
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except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;
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also for a virgin sister, close to him because she has not become someone's [wife], for her he may defile himself.
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But he shall not defile himself as a kinsman by marriage, * as a kinsman by marriage Lit. "as a husband among his kin"; meaning uncertain. and so profane himself.
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They shall not shave smooth any part of their heads, or cut the side-growth of their beards, or make gashes in their flesh.
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They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer ื™ื”ื•ื”'s offerings by fire, the food of their God, and so must be holy.
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They shall not take [into their household as their wife] a woman defiled by harlotry, nor shall they take one divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God
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and you must treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I ื™ื”ื•ื” who sanctify you am holy.
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When the daughter of a priest defiles herself through harlotry, it is her father whom she defiles; she shall be put to the fire.
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The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the vestments, shall not bare his head * bare his head See note at 10.6. or rend his vestments.
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He shall not go in where there is any dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
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He shall not go outside the sanctuary and profane the sanctuary of his God, for upon him is the distinction of the anointing oil of his God, Mine ื™ื”ื•ื”'s.
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He may take [into his household as his wife] only a woman who is a virgin.
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A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is degraded by harlotryโ€”such he may not take. Only a virgin of his own kin may he take as his wifeโ€”
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that he may not profane his offspring among his kin, for I ื™ื”ื•ื” have sanctified him.
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ื™ื”ื•ื” spoke further to Moses:
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Speak to Aaron and say: No man of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall be qualified to offer the food of his God.
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No one at all who has a defect shall be qualified: no man who is blind, or lame, or has a limb too short or too long; * has a limb too short or too long Or "mutilated or has a limb too long."
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no man who has a broken leg or a broken arm;
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or who is a hunchback, or a dwarf, or who has a growth in his eye, or who has a boil-scar, or scurvy, or crushed testes.
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No man among the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall be qualified to offer ื™ื”ื•ื”'s offering by fire; having a defect, he shall not be qualified to offer the food of his God.
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He may eat of the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy;
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but he shall not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar, for he has a defect. He shall not profane these places sacred to Me, for I ื™ื”ื•ื” have sanctified them.
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Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
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ื™ื”ื•ื” spoke to Moses, saying:
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Instruct Aaron and his sons to be scrupulous about the sacred donations that the Israelite people consecrate to Me, lest they profane My holy name, Mine, ื™ื”ื•ื”'s.
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Say to them: Throughout the ages, if any man among your offspring, while in a state of impurity, partakes of any sacred donation that the Israelite people may consecrate to ื™ื”ื•ื”, that person shall be cut off from before Me: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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No man of Aaron's offspring who has an eruption or a discharge * an eruption or a discharge See chapters 13 and 15, respectively. shall eat of the sacred donations until he is pure. If one touches anything made impure by a corpse, or if a man has an emission of semen, * semen See note at 15.16.
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or if a man touches any swarming thing by which he is made impure or any human being by whom he is made impureโ€”whatever his impurityโ€”
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the person who touches such shall be impure until evening and shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in water.
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As soon as the sun sets, he shall be pure; and afterward he may eat of the sacred donations, for they are his food.
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He shall not eat anything that died or was torn by beasts, thereby becoming impure: I am ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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They shall keep My charge, lest they incur guilt thereby and die for it, having committed profanation: I ื™ื”ื•ื” consecrate them.
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No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired laborer of a priest shall eat of the sacred donations;
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but a person who is a priest's property by purchase may eat of them; and those that are born into his household may eat of his food.
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If a priest's daughter becomes a layman's [wife], she may not eat of the sacred gifts;
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but if the priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and without offspring, and is back in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No lay person may eat of it:
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but if any such party eats of a sacred donation unwittingly, the priest shall be paid for the sacred donation, adding one-fifth of its value.
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But [the priests] must not allow the Israelites to profane the sacred donations that they set aside for ื™ื”ื•ื”,
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or to incur guilt requiring a penalty payment, by eating such sacred donations: for it is I ื™ื”ื•ื” who make them sacred.
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ื™ื”ื•ื” spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelite people, and say to them: When any person of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel presents a burnt offering as the offering for any of the votive or any of the freewill offerings that they offer to ื™ื”ื•ื”,
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it must, to be acceptable in your favor, be a male without blemish, from cattle or sheep or goats.
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You shall not offer any that has a defect, for it will not be accepted in your favor.
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And when any party offers, from the herd or the flock, a sacrifice of well-being to ื™ื”ื•ื” for an explicit * explicit Or "unspecified" or "extraordinary"; meaning of Heb. lephalle uncertain. vow or as a freewill offering, it must, to be acceptable, be without blemish; there must be no defect in it.
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Anything blind, or injured, or maimed, or with a wen, boil-scar, or scurvyโ€”such you shall not offer to ื™ื”ื•ื”; you shall not put any of them on the altar as offerings by fire to ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep with a limb extended or contracted; but it will not be accepted for a vow.
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You shall not offer to ื™ื”ื•ื” anything [with its testes] bruised or crushed or torn or cut. You shall have no such practices * practices I.e., mutilations. in your own land,
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nor shall you accept such [animals] from a foreigner for offering as food for your God, for they are mutilated, they have a defect; they shall not be accepted in your favor.
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ื™ื”ื•ื” spoke to Moses, saying:
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When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to ื™ื”ื•ื”.
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