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Eternal One: ² Moses, I want you to go talk with the Israelites and tell them how to perform ritual offerings: Any time one of you brings an offering to Me, you must bring the offering from the animals of either the herd or the flock. ³ If you are bringing a burnt offering from your herd, then you are to pick an unblemished bull. No diseased, weak, or injured animals are allowed. Offer it at the entrance to the congregation tent so that I can accept it. ⁴ The person offering the sacrifice shall place his hand on the head of the living animal, and the offering will be accepted to atone for the person’s sins. ⁵ You shall slaughter the young bull in My presence. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will offer the blood and splatter it around the altar at the entrance of the congregation tent. ⁶ You shall then skin the burnt offering and cut the animal up into pieces. ⁷ The sons of Aaron the priest will place fire on the altar and arrange the pieces of wood. ⁸ Aaron’s sons, the priests, will place the head, the fat, and individual pieces of the sacrifice on the altar as the wood burns. ⁹ Wash the animal’s organs and legs with water so that unclean elements are not included in the offering. The priest will offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

¹⁰ If you give a burnt offering from the flock, either of sheep or goats, you are only to offer an unblemished male. No diseased, weak, or injured animals are allowed. ¹¹ Slaughter it on the north side of the altar before Me. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splatter the blood all around the altar. ¹² Cut the sacrifice up into pieces. The priests will take the head, fat, and rest of the pieces and place them all on the altar as the fire burns. ¹³ Wash the animal’s organs and legs with water. The priest will offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

¹⁴ But if you have no flock or herd of your own, then you may offer Me birds; your offering is to be turtledoves or young pigeons. ¹⁵ The priest will take it to the altar, pull off its head, and offer up the sacrifice as smoke on the altar. Its blood will be drained onto the side of the altar. ¹⁶ The priest will remove the crop and feathers and toss them on the eastern side of the altar in the ash pile. ¹⁷ Then the priest will tear the bird open by its wings without separating them completely from its body. The priest will offer up the burnt offering as smoke on the wood-fire of the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

2 Eternal One: Any time one of you brings a grain offering to Me, it should be the finest flour mixed with olive oil and frankincense. ² Give it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. One of the priests will take a handful of the fine flour mixed with olive oil and frankincense and offer up a memorial portion on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. ³ The rest of the grain offering is for Aaron and his sons. It is a most holy part of the fire-offerings dedicated to Me. No one other than the priests may eat it.

Eternal One: ⁴ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared in an oven, it should be bread made without yeast from the finest flour mixed with oil or a wafer made without yeast spread with oil. ⁵ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared on a griddle, it should be made without yeast from the finest flour mixed with oil. ⁶ Separate it into pieces, pour oil on it, and present it as a grain offering. ⁷ Any time one of you brings a grain offering that was prepared in a pan, it should be made from the finest flour and mixed with oil. ⁸ Whenever you bring any of these grain offerings to Me, it should be given to the priest who will then take it to the altar. ⁹ The priest will offer up the memorial portion on the altar, and the smoke of the offering will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. ¹⁰ The rest of the grain offering is for Aaron and his sons. It is a most holy part of the fire-offerings dedicated to Me. No one other than the priests may eat it.

¹¹ Every grain offering that is presented before Me must be made without yeast because it is forbidden to offer up any yeast or honey to Me by means of the fire-offering. ¹² When you bring an offering of the first and finest part of the harvest to Me, you may bring yeast and honey but they must not be offered up in smoke as a pleasant aroma. ¹³ You must salt every grain offering you bring so that the salt of your covenant with God^[a] will not be missing. You will season all of the offerings you present with salt.

Eternal One: ¹⁴ If you present a grain offering from the first ripe grain of your harvest to Me, bring fresh new grain, crushed and roasted in the fire. ¹⁵ Also mix it with oil and frankincense because it is presented as a grain offering. ¹⁶ The priests will then offer up a memorial portion of the grain mixed with oil and all of the frankincense as a fire-offering to Me.

3 Eternal One: Any time one of you presents a sacrifice from the herd as a peace offering, you must offer only an unblemished cow or bull before Me.

Eternal One: ² You will put your hand on the animal’s head and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splatter its blood against the sides of the altar. ³ From the sacrifice of the peace offerings, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering the fat covering and surrounding the animal’s organs, ⁴ the two kidneys and also the fat on them from the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which will be removed along with the kidneys). ⁵ Aaron’s sons will offer this peace offering on top of the burnt offering on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me.

⁶ If the animal sacrifice for the peace offering to Me is of the flock, then you must offer an unblemished male or female. ⁷ If you bring a lamb as your offering before Me, ⁸ you must place your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons will then splatter the blood of the lamb against the sides of the altar. ⁹ From the peace offering, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering its fat, the tail (which is to be cut off near the backbone), the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ¹⁰ the two kidneys and the fat on them from the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed along with the kidneys). ¹¹ The priest will then offer all these on the altar as a fire-offering to Me.

¹² If you bring a goat as your offering before Me, ¹³ you must place your hand on its head and slaughter it at the entrance of the congregation tent. Aaron’s sons will then splatter its blood against the sides of the altar. ¹⁴ From this offering, you must bring to Me as a fire-offering the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ¹⁵ the two kidneys and the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed along with the kidneys). ¹⁶ The priest will then offer all these on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma. All the fat belongs to Me.

¹⁷ Do not eat any fat or blood. This directive stands throughout all generations regardless of where you live.

Eternal One: ² Moses, go, talk with the Israelites, and tell them that if someone unwittingly commits a sin that violates any of the directives I have given, this is what you should do.

Eternal One: ³ If the person anointed as priest commits a sin, he brings guilt on the people and they suffer the consequences. So the priest must offer the most valuable animal—an unblemished, young bull—to Me as a purification offering for sin. ⁴ He must bring the bull to the entrance of the congregation tent, place his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it in My presence. ⁵ The anointed priest must then carry some of the bull’s blood inside the congregation tent. ⁶ While in the tent, he is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Me in front of the veil of the sanctuary. ⁷ He must then approach the altar of fragrant incense and place some of the blood on its horns before Me. He must then pour the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering located near the entrance of the congregation tent. ⁸ The priest must remove all of the fat from the bull being offered as a purification offering for sin, the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ⁹ the two kidneys and the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which must be removed with the kidneys). ¹⁰ He should remove these portions in the same manner that they are removed from the ox sacrificed as a peace offering. The priest should then offer them on the altar of burnt offering. ¹¹ As for the bull’s skin and the rest of its meat, head, legs, intestines, and excrement— ¹² basically, the rest of the bull’s body—the priest must move it to a ritually clean space where ashes are dumped outside the community, and he must burn it there on the wood-fire. It must be burned in the place where the ashes are dumped.

¹³ If the entire community of Israel unintentionally commits a sin and, for a time at least, the sin goes unnoticed by the community, and they have violated any one of the directives I gave them, and they are guilty, ¹⁴ then later when the sin is realized, the community must offer a young bull as a purification offering for sin. They must bring the bull to the entrance of the congregation tent. ¹⁵ The community elders are to place their hands on the bull’s head and then slaughter the bull in My presence. ¹⁶ The one anointed as high priest must then carry some of the bull’s blood into the congregation tent, ¹⁷ where he is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times in My presence in front of the veil of the sanctuary. ¹⁸ The priest must also approach the altar, which is before Me in the congregation tent, and place some of the blood on its horns. He is to pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering located at the entrance to the congregation tent. ¹⁹ The priest must remove all the bull’s fat and offer it up in smoke on the altar. ²⁰ He is to do the same thing with this bull that he did with the bull of the purification offering for sin. This is how the priest will cover the sin of the community of Israel, and the entire community will be forgiven. ²¹ Then the priest must carry the rest of the bull’s body outside the camp and burn it in the same manner that he burned the first purification-offering bull. This is the purification offering for sin when the entire community is involved.

^22-23 The following are instructions for what to do when a leader unwittingly commits a sin by violating any of My directives: When he realizes his guilt or the sin he committed is brought to his attention, then he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

²⁴ He is to place his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered in My presence. The goat is to be presented as a purification offering for sin. ²⁵ The officiating priest must dip his finger into the blood of the sin offering, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ²⁶ The priest is to offer up all of its fat as smoke in the same way that the fat of the peace offering is offered up. This is how the priest will cover the leader’s sin, and the leader will be forgiven.

^27-28 If a common person among you unwittingly commits a sin by violating any of My directives, once he realizes his guilt or the sin he committed is brought to his attention, then he should offer an unblemished female goat for his wrong. ²⁹ He must place his hand on the head of the purification offering for sin and slaughter it in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. ³⁰ The priest will then dip his finger in some of its blood, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³¹ The priest is then to remove its fat in the same manner that the fat is removed from the peace offerings. The priest must offer up the fat on the altar, and the smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. This is how the priest will cover the sins of common people and how they will be forgiven.

³² If a person presents a lamb for the purification offering for sin, then he must bring an unblemished female. ³³ He is to place his hand on the lamb’s head and slaughter it as a purification offering for sin in the same spot where the burnt offerings are slaughtered. ³⁴ The priest must then dip his finger into the blood of the purification offering for sin, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and then pour the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³⁵ The priest is to remove all of its fat in the same manner that the fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offerings, and the priest will offer it up on the altar on top of the fire-offering to Me. This is how the priest will make atonement for the sin this person committed, and this is how he will be forgiven.

5 Eternal One: When anyone sins by hearing a public call to testify about a matter he has seen or knows something about, yet he does not speak up, then he is considered guilty and must be punished. ² If anyone has physical contact with some impure thing such as the carcass of a ritually unclean wild animal, domestic animal, or even an insect—even if he is unaware of the incident—he has become ritually unclean and must accept the consequences. ³ If anyone has physical contact with some kind of human impurity, regardless of the form of impurity it is—even if he was unaware of it at the time—once he realizes it, he must accept the consequences. ⁴ If anyone speaks a careless vow to do something bad or something good or any careless vow for that matter—even if he was unaware of it at the time—once he realizes what he has done, he must accept the consequences. ⁵ Regarding any of these situations, when the guilty party realizes the offense, he must confess it. ⁶ He must present to Me an offering for his guilt as a remedy for the sin he has committed. This purification offering for sin must be a female lamb or goat from the flock. The priest will make atonement for the guilty person’s sin.

Eternal One: ⁷ But if the guilty person is poor and cannot afford to offer a lamb, then he must bring to Me two turtledoves or two pigeons as a purification offering for sin. One of these will act as the purification offering and the other will be a burnt offering. ⁸ The guilty person must take them to the priest, and the priest will offer the purification offering for sin first. He will wring the bird’s neck but not separate its head from its body. ⁹ He will sprinkle some of its blood on the side of the altar and drain the remaining blood out at the base of the altar. This will be the ritual for the purification offering for sin. ¹⁰ Then the priest will conduct the ritual for the second sacrifice, the burnt offering, in accordance with the regulations. The priest is to make atonement to cover the sin of the guilty, and the guilty will be forgiven.

¹¹ If a person cannot afford to offer two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he must offer four pints of his finest flour as the purification offering for sin. He should not mix it with oil or frankincense because it is an offering for the purification of sin. ¹² He will give it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of the flour as a memorial portion and offer it up as smoke along with the other fire-offerings presented to Me. The flour is a purification offering for sin. ¹³ This is how the priest will make atonement to cover the sin of anyone guilty of these things, and the guilty will be forgiven. The leftover flour belongs to the priest as in the grain offering.

Eternal One: ¹⁵ If anyone violates his covenant duties and unwittingly commits a sin against any of My sacred objects, then that person must bring Me an unblemished ram from the flock or its value in silver (according to the sanctuary standards) for a guilt offering.

¹⁶ The guilty person must offer restitution for the wrong he has committed against the sacred thing, add ⅕ of its value, and then give it to the priest. The priest will then make atonement for him by offering the ram to cover his guilt; and the guilty will be forgiven.

¹⁷ If anyone commits a sin by violating the directives I have given you—even if he was unaware of it—once he realizes it, he bears the guilt and must still accept the consequences. ¹⁸ He must bring to the priest an unblemished ram from the flock or its equivalent value as a guilt offering. The priest will then make atonement to cover the guilty person’s wrong, which he unwittingly committed, and the guilty will be forgiven. ¹⁹ This is a guilt offering because the person was guilty in My eyes.

Eternal One: ² The following are instructions regarding liars and cheaters: Anytime someone commits a sin and violates his covenant duties to Me by deceiving his neighbor in financial or security matters, by stealing or by extortion, ³ or if a person finds something that is lost and lies about it and makes a false claim, or in anything that someone does, ⁴ and if he has sinned and comes to realize it, he will give back what he has stolen or extorted, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost object he found, ⁵ or any other object he lied about. He will repay it entirely plus ⅕ of its value. He must give it to its rightful owner the very day he gives his guilt offering. ⁶ He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram or its equivalent value as his guilt offering to Me. ⁷ The priest will make atonement and cover the guilty person’s wrong before Me, and the guilty will be forgiven for anything that he did wrong.

Eternal One: ⁹ Give Aaron and his sons these instructions regarding the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering must stay on the wood-fire all night until morning arrives. The fire on the altar is to be tended and kept burning during the night. ¹⁰ The priest must dress in his ritual linen clothes and undergarments, and he must take the ashes from the burnt offering on top of the altar and place them next to the altar. ¹¹ Then the priest must remove his ritual clothes and dress in other clothes to transport the ashes to a ritually clean space outside the camp. ¹² The fire on the altar must burn continually; it must not be allowed to go out. The priests are to feed wood to the fire every morning, arrange the burnt offering on the fire, and offer up the fat portions of the peace offerings. ¹³ The fire on the altar must burn continually; it must not be allowed to go out.

¹⁴ Here are the instructions for the ritual of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons must offer it to Me in front of the altar. ¹⁵ A priest is to take a handful of the finest flour from the grain offering, together with the oil and frankincense that are part of the grain offering, and offer it as a memorial portion on the altar. The smoke of the sacrifice will rise and be a pleasant aroma to Me. ¹⁶ Aaron and his sons get to eat whatever is left over. They must eat it without yeast in the holy place or in the courtyard around the sanctuary. ¹⁷ It must not be baked with yeast. I am assigning this as their portion of the fire-offerings. Their portion is most sacred in the same way that the purification offering and guilt offering are sacred. ¹⁸ All of Aaron’s male descendants are allowed to eat of it. It will be their portion of the fire-offerings presented to Me. This directive stands throughout all generations. Anything that touches them will become holy.

Eternal One: ²⁰ Here are instructions for the ritual sacrifice which Aaron and his sons are to offer Me on the day Aaron is anointed high priest: bring four pints of the finest flour as a grain offering. Offer half of it in the morning and the other half in the evening. ²¹ Prepare it with oil and bake it on a griddle. After it has been mixed with the oil and thoroughly cooked,^[b] offer it as a pleasant aroma to Me. ²² This directive stands for all time. The priest from Aaron’s line who is selected to be his successor must bring this same offering when he is anointed, and all of it must be burned. ²³ The grain offering from the priest is not to be eaten; all of it must be consumed on the altar.

Eternal One: ²⁵ Go, talk with Aaron and his sons, and give them these commands for the ritual of the purification offering for sin: The purification offering is to be slaughtered in My presence in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is most sacred. ²⁶ The priest who presents the purification offering is to eat his portion of it in a sacred place inside the courtyard around the sanctuary. ²⁷ Anything that comes in contact with the flesh of the sacrifice will be made holy. When the blood of the sacrifice gets on any clothing, you must wash the bloodstain out in a sacred place. ²⁸ If a clay pot is used to boil the sacrifice, it must be shattered and discarded. If it was boiled in a bronze bowl, however, then it must be scrubbed and rinsed with water. ²⁹ Every man who is a priest may eat it; it is most sacred. ³⁰ But none of the offerings from which blood is brought inside the congregation tent as a covering for sin may be eaten. All of it must be consumed on the altar.

7 Eternal One (to Moses): Here are the instructions for the ritual of the guilt offering; it is most sacred. ² The slaughter of the guilt offering must take place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest must splatter its blood against the sides of the altar. ³ Then the priest is to offer all of its fat, the fat tail, the fat covering and surrounding the organs, ⁴ the two kidneys and the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver (which he is to remove along with the kidneys). ⁵ The priest must offer it all up on the altar as a fire-offering to Me. It is a guilt offering. ⁶ Every man who is a priest may eat of it, as long as he eats in a holy place; it is most sacred.

⁷ The guilt offering is similar to the purification offering for sin. The instructions are the same for both rituals. The priest who makes the atoning sacrifice is allowed to have some of it. ⁸ Also, the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering gets to keep the skin from what he has offered for himself. ⁹ In the same way, any grain offering that is oven-baked or cooked in a pan or griddle belongs to the priest who offered it. ¹⁰ Any other grain offering—whether it is dry or mixed with oil—is to be shared equally among Aaron’s sons after the ritual is completed.

Eternal One (to Moses): ¹¹ Here are the instructions for the various kinds of the peace offerings that one may offer to Me. ¹² If someone offers a sacrifice out of thanksgiving, then in addition to the sacrifice he must offer loaves of unleavened bread mixed with oil, unleavened wafers topped with oil, and loaves of the finest flour mixed with oil. ¹³ Along with the peace offerings for thanksgiving, a person must include loaves of leavened bread. ¹⁴ He must present one of each kind of bread as a gift to Me; it will belong to the priest who officiates the sacrifice and splatters the blood of the peace offerings against the sides of the altar.

¹⁵ The meat of the sacrifice for the thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day it is offered. None of it is to be left over for the next day. ¹⁶ If the sacrifice for a peace offering accompanies a vow or comes simply as an act of free will, it is to be eaten on the day it is offered; but if any remains on the next day, it may still be eaten. ¹⁷ But all the meat from the sacrifice left over on the third day is to be burned completely so that none is left. ¹⁸ If any of the leftover meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, then the person who offered it will not be accepted and will receive no benefit from the sacrifice. By then it has become foul, and the person who eats from it will bear his guilt and suffer the consequences.

¹⁹ Do not eat meat that comes in contact with any impure thing. Burn it up completely. As for any remaining meat that is pure, people who are ritually clean may eat it. ²⁰ Any person who eats meat from the sacrifice of My peace offering during a time when he is impure must be cut off from his people. ²¹ Also a person who comes into contact with something impure—whether it pertains to human or animal impurity or some totally detestable creatures—and then eats some of the meat from the sacrifice of My peace offerings must be cut off from his people.

Eternal One: ²³ Go, talk with the Israelites, and tell them not to eat any fat from an ox, sheep, or goat. ²⁴ If an animal dies a natural death or is killed by another animal, then you are allowed to make use of its fat, but under no condition are you allowed to eat any of it. ²⁵ Whoever eats animal fat from a fire-offering to Me must be cut off from his people. ²⁶ Be sure not to consume any animal or bird blood regardless of where you live. ²⁷ Anyone who consumes animal or bird blood must be cut off from his people.

Eternal One: ²⁹ Go, talk with the Israelites, and tell them that anyone who offers a peace offering to Me must bring it from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ³⁰ He is to present the fire-offerings to Me with his own hands. Bring the fat along with the breast so that the breast can be lifted up as a wave offering to Me. ³¹ The officiating priest is to offer the fat as smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. ³² The right thigh from the sacrifice of your peace offerings is to go to the priest as your contribution to his service. ³³ The right thigh will be the portion set aside for the son of Aaron who officiates at the sacrifice and presents the fat and blood of the peace offerings. ³⁴ For I, the Eternal One, have taken the breast from the wave offering and the thigh as a gift from the sacrifices brought by the people of Israel as peace offerings, and I have handed them over to Aaron the priest and his sons. This is for all time their rightful portion of the offering from the people of Israel. ³⁵ From the first day they are brought forward as priests in My service, this is the portion set aside for Aaron and his sons taken from the fire-offerings presented to Me. ³⁶ From the day when I anointed and consecrated them as priests, I directed this gift be made to them by the people of Israel. This is their rightful portion for all time and throughout all generations.

Eternal One: ² Moses, take Aaron and his sons together with their sacred garments, the specially prepared anointing oil, the bull set aside for the purification offering for sin, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread. ³ Then gather the entire community at the entrance of the congregation tent.

Moses (to Aaron and his sons): ³¹ Boil the meat at the entrance to the congregation tent, and feast on it together with bread from the basket of the ordination offering, in accordance with the instructions I gave: “Aaron and his sons may eat it.” ³² Burn the rest of the meat and bread in the fire. ³³ You are not allowed to go beyond the entrance of the congregation tent for seven days when your ordination period is complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you. ³⁴ Everything we have done today the Eternal commanded us to do in order to cover your impurity. ³⁵ Stay here at the entrance of the congregation tent all day and all night for the seven days. Do whatever the Eternal requires, or else you will die, for this is the command He has given me.

Moses (to Aaron): ² Take a young unblemished calf for a purification offering and an unblemished ram for a burnt offering and offer them to the Eternal One. ³ Then go instruct the Israelites, “Take a male goat for a purification offering and an unblemished calf and lamb, both a year old, for a burnt offering. ⁴ Take also an ox and a ram for a peace offering and a grain offering mixed with oil, and offer them to the Eternal One for He will reveal Himself to you today.

Moses: ⁶ The Eternal One has told us to conduct this ceremony so that His glory will be revealed to you.

⁷ (to Aaron) Approach the altar, and present your purification offering and burnt offering. Do this first to cover the impurity of your own life so that you will be fit to cover the impurity of all the people. Then present the offering of the people so that the impurity of their lives may be covered. Do exactly as the Eternal has commanded.

Moses (to Aaron): ³ This is what the Eternal One was talking about when He said,

Moses: Make your way forward. Gather the dead bodies of your relatives from the front of the sanctuary, and carry them outside the camp.

Moses: Do not let your hair go unkempt or rip your garments in customary acts of mourning, or else you will die. Follow this instruction so that the Eternal One does not grow angry toward the entire community. Everyone else—our relatives, the entire community of Israel—can lament the great fire the Eternal One has produced that killed your sons. ⁷ Do not go beyond the entrance of the congregation tent. If you do, you will meet a quick death, for the Eternal’s anointing oil covers you.

Eternal One: ⁹ You and your sons must not drink wine or any alcoholic drink before entering the congregation tent, lest you die. This directive stands for all time throughout your generations. ¹⁰ You must know the difference between the sacred and the profane, the ritually pure and the impure, ¹¹ and teach the people of Israel the directives, which I have revealed to them through Moses.

Moses (to Aaron and his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar): ¹² You may take whatever grain is left from the fire-offerings devoted to the Eternal and eat it unleavened next to the altar; this is most sacred. ¹³ You are to eat it in a sacred space; it is your and your sons’ portion of the Eternal One’s fire-offerings, according to the commands I have given. ¹⁴ You, your sons, and your daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh presented to God in some ritually pure place. The breast and thigh are your portion and your children’s portion from the sacrifices of the peace offerings brought by the people of Israel. ¹⁵ Have them bring the thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved, along with the fire-offerings of fat, to present as a wave offering before the Eternal One. This will be your and your children’s portion for all time; it is your due as the Eternal has commanded.

Moses (to Aaron’s sons): ¹⁷ Why did you disobey my instructions and not eat the purification offering in the area of the sanctuary? It is most sacred. God has given it to you so that you can take on the guilt of the community and cover their wrongs before the Eternal. ¹⁸ Look, its blood was never taken inside the sanctuary; therefore the rightful place for you to eat it was in the sanctuary as I commanded.

Aaron (to Moses): ¹⁹ Look, my sons offered their purification offering and their burnt offering to the Eternal One today. But think of all that has happened to me. Given the tragedy I have seen, would the Eternal have approved if I had eaten a purification offering today?

Eternal One: ² Go talk to the Israelites and explain to them which animals of the earth you may and may not eat. ³ You are allowed to eat any animals with split hooves divided into two parts or that chew the cud. ⁴ But from those animals with split hooves or that chew the cud, you are not allowed to eat camels. Because they only chew the cud and do not have split hooves, camels are impure to you. ⁵ In the same way, the rock badger chews the cud but does not have split hooves. Therefore, rock badgers are impure to you. ⁶ Also the hare chews the cud, but it does not have split hooves. Therefore, they are impure to you. ⁷ The pig has split hooves divided into two parts, but it does not chew the cud. Therefore pigs are impure to you. ⁸ Do not eat their meat or touch their dead bodies, for they are impure to you.

⁹ You are certainly allowed to eat these creatures of the water: any fish with fins and scales that swim in the seas or rivers. ¹⁰ But any finless or scaleless fish that comes from the abundance of water-life in the seas or rivers, and any other creatures living in the water, are detestable to you. ¹¹ Recognize and treat them for what they are: detestable. You are not allowed to eat their meat, and their dead bodies are repulsive to you. ¹² Any finless or scaleless fish or animal or insect in the seas or rivers is detestable to you.

¹³ Also among the creatures of the air, there are some you should detest as well. Do not eat the eagle, the bearded vulture, or the black vulture, ¹⁴ the kite and all kinds of buzzards, ¹⁵ any sort of crow, ¹⁶ the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, all kinds of hawks, ¹⁷ the little owl, the cormorant, the screech owl, ¹⁸ the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, ¹⁹ the stork, all kinds of herons, the hoopoe, and the bat.

²⁰ Also, any insect that can fly and move around on four legs is detestable. ²¹ But you are allowed to eat any flying, four-legged insect that has joints above its feet for jumping. ²² You may eat the following insects: locusts, destructive locusts, desert locusts, and grasshoppers. ²³ But any other flying, four-legged insects are detestable.

Eternal One: ²⁴ Also you will become impure until dusk if you touch the carcass of any creature. ²⁵ A person who picks up any part of its carcass must wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk. ²⁶ All animals that do not chew cud or have split hooves that are not in two parts are impure to you. Anyone who has contact with them becomes impure. ²⁷ Also, any four-legged animals that walk on paws are impure to you. Anyone who has contact with their carcasses will be impure until dusk. ²⁸ And anyone who carries their carcass is to wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk. They are impure to you as well.

²⁹ These small creatures that scamper about the earth are impure to you: small rodents, great lizards, ³⁰ geckos, monitor lizards, other lizards, sand reptiles, and chameleons. ³¹ These small creatures of the earth are impure to you. Anyone who touches their remains will be impure until dusk. ³² If one of the carcasses touches an object you intend to use—such as a piece of wood, an article of clothing, an animal hide, or a sack—then that item is impure and should soak in water until dusk. After that, it will be pure again. ³³ If one of the carcasses falls into any container made of clay, the substance within the container will become impure and you should destroy the container. ³⁴ If any food in the container that is ready to eat is touched by water, then the food becomes impure. Any drink from a contaminated container will become impure as well. ³⁵ If any part of a dead body touches something—say, an oven or stove—then that oven or stove must be destroyed. They are impure and will always be impure to you. ³⁶ However if a carcass falls into a spring or a container accumulating water, the water will be ritually pure because it is continually renewed. But the person who pulls the carcass out of the water will be ritually impure. ³⁷ If any part of the dead body has contact with a seed that is to be planted, then the seed remains ritually pure because it is dry. ³⁸ But if the seed becomes wet and any part of a dead body touches it, then the seed is ritually impure.

³⁹ If a clean animal dies naturally, whoever touches the carcass will be impure until dusk. ⁴⁰ And if anyone eats some of its meat, then that person is to wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk. Anyone who touches the dead body is to wash his clothes and remain impure until dusk.

⁴¹ Any swarming creature that scurries along the ground is detestable to you and must not be eaten. Do not consume any of them! ⁴² Also do not eat any creature that moves on its belly, walks on four legs, or has multiple pairs of feet, for they are detestable to you. ⁴³ Do not defile yourselves by having contact with any of the swarming creatures. Do not become impure by having contact with any of them. ⁴⁴ For I am the Eternal One, your God. You are to consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy.^[d] Do not cause yourselves to become impure by having contact with any swarming creature that crawls along the ground. ⁴⁵ I am the Eternal One who led you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Therefore, you are to be holy, for I am holy.^[e]

Eternal One: ² Go, talk with the Israelites, and tell them, “If a woman conceives and gives birth to a boy, then she will be ritually unclean for seven days, just like she is unclean when she is menstruating. ³ When the eighth day arrives, the boy will be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ⁴ A woman who gives birth to a boy must not have contact with any holy thing or go into the sanctuary for 33 days. She must wait until her purification is complete and her bleeding from childbirth ends. ⁵ But if the woman gives birth to a girl she will be ritually unclean for 14 days—just like she is unclean when she is menstruating. She must wait 66 days for her purification from bleeding to be complete.

⁶ After her days of purification are over—regardless of whether she had a boy or a girl—she will bring several things to the priest at the entrance of the congregation tent: a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a purification offering. ⁷ Then the priest will present it to Me and cover the woman’s blood impurity, and she will be ritually clean from her flowing of blood. This is My instruction for any woman who gives birth to a child, either a boy or a girl. ⁸ If the woman cannot afford a lamb, then she may instead present two turtledoves or two young pigeons^[f]—one for a burnt offering and the other for a purification offering. The priest will offer them to cover her blood impurity, and she will be ritually clean.

Eternal One: ² Any time a person has an area of swelling or a rash or a white patch of skin, it may be the sign of a serious skin disease; so he must be taken to one of the priests—Aaron or one of Aaron’s sons. ³ The priest must examine the spot on the skin. If the hair on it has turned white, and the affected area appears to go deep beneath the skin, then it is a serious skin disease. After the examination, he will then pronounce the diseased person unclean. ⁴ But if the patch on the skin is white and does not appear to go deep beneath the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest will quarantine the person for seven days. ⁵ When the seventh day arrives, the priest will examine the affected area again; and if the priest thinks it has not grown worse and has not spread to other parts of the skin, then the priest will continue the quarantine for another seven days. ⁶ At the end of the second seven days, the priest will examine the person again; and if the affected area has faded and has not spread to any other part of the body, then the priest will pronounce that he is clean and suffers only some minor skin problem. The person is to wash his garments and must be considered clean again.

⁷ But if the rash spreads to other parts of the skin after the priest examines the person and pronounces him clean, then he must go back to the priest to be examined again. ⁸ The priest will check the person again; and if the rash has grown worse and spread, then the priest must pronounce the person unclean. He does, in fact, have a serious skin disease.

⁹ When a person contracts any serious skin disease, he must be taken to the priest. ¹⁰ The priest will check the skin; and if the priest finds an area of white swelling on the skin where the hair has turned white, and if there is a raw, open sore, ¹¹ then the person has a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. The priest does not have to quarantine the person because it is evident that he is already unclean. ¹² If the disease gets worse, spreads across his body, and involves all of his skin from head to toe—as far as the priest can tell— ¹³ then the priest will check; and if the disease has covered the person’s entire body, then the priest will pronounce the infected man clean because the disease has turned his entire body white. ¹⁴ But if a raw, open sore shows up, then he must be declared unclean. ¹⁵ The priest will examine the raw skin and pronounce the man unclean because the raw skin is unclean. It is definitely a serious skin disease. ¹⁶ If the raw skin changes again and becomes white, then the infected person must go see the priest ¹⁷ to be examined. If the affected area has turned white, then the priest will pronounce the diseased person clean; for he is in fact clean.

¹⁸ If a boil shows up on someone’s skin, and the boil goes away ¹⁹ and is replaced by a swollen white or a reddish-white spot, then he must point this out to the priest. ²⁰ The priest will check; and if the affected area appears to go deep beneath the skin and the hairs on it have turned white, then the priest will pronounce the person unclean. It is a case of serious skin disease that started out as a boil. ²¹ But if the priest examines the person and finds there are no white hairs on it and the condition does not appear to go deep beneath the skin, and is, in fact, improving, then the priest will quarantine the infected person for seven days. ²² If the condition spreads to new places on the skin, the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a serious infection. ²³ However, if the affected area does not get worse or spread to new parts of the skin, it is simply a scar from the boil, and the priest will pronounce him clean.

²⁴ If a person suffers a burn in a fire, and the raw skin from the burn turns shiny white, reddish-white, or white, ²⁵ the priest will examine the affected area. If the hair on it is white and the sore appears to go deep beneath the skin, then the person has a serious skin disease that started out from the burn; the priest will declare him unclean. ²⁶ If the priest examines the affected area and finds no white hair on it, and the condition does not go deep beneath the skin but instead seems to be improving, then the priest will quarantine him for seven days. ²⁷ When the seventh day arrives, the priest will examine him once again. If the condition appears to be spreading, the priest will declare him unclean; the person has a serious skin disease. ²⁸ If the affected area does not get worse and spread to new parts of the skin, but seems to be improving, then it is simply swollen from the burn. The priest will pronounce him clean because it is simply a scar from the burn.

²⁹ If a man or a woman has a spot on the head or chin, ³⁰ the priest must examine it, and if it appears to go deep beneath the skin and has thin, yellowish hairs in it, then the priest must pronounce the infected person to be unclean; it is a scaly skin disease on the head or chin. ³¹ If the priest examines the scaly area and it does not appear to go deep beneath the surface of the skin and there are no dark hairs in it, then the priest will quarantine the infected person for seven days. ³² When the seventh day arrives, the priest will examine the area again. If the scaly area has not gotten worse and there are no yellowish hairs in it, and the scale does not appear to go deep beneath the surface of the skin, ³³ then the infected person should shave the head or beard except where hair is growing in the affected area. The priest will then quarantine the infected person for another seven days. ³⁴ When the seventh days arrives, the priest will examine the scale again; and if it has not gotten worse and does not appear to go deep beneath the skin, the priest will pronounce the person clean. He will wash his clothes and be considered clean again. ³⁵ But if the scale gets worse and shows up on new parts of the skin anytime after the priest declares him clean, ³⁶ the priest must examine the person again. If the condition has spread to new parts of the skin, the priest is not required to look for yellowish hair because it is evident the person is unclean. ³⁷ However, if he inspects the person and the scaly skin has not gotten worse and dark hairs are growing on it, then the condition is healed and the person is once again clean. The priest will declare the person clean.

³⁸ If a man or a woman discovers bright shiny spots on the skin, including bright white ones, ³⁹ the priest must check them out. And if he determines that the bright spots on the skin are pale, this is only a minor skin rash; the person is clean.

⁴⁰ If a man loses his hair and goes bald, he is clean. ⁴¹ If he loses it on his forehead but not on the sides, he is only partially bald on the forehead; he is still clean. ⁴² However, if a reddish-white spot shows up on his bald head or forehead, then a serious skin infection is developing. ⁴³ The priest must examine him; and if the affected area is reddish-white on his bald head or forehead and looks similar to a reddish-white outbreak on the body, ⁴⁴ then that means the man has a serious skin disease and is unclean. The priest has to pronounce him unclean because of the skin disease on his head.

⁴⁵ Anyone with a serious skin disease must wear torn clothing, not comb his hair, and cover his face beneath the nose. He must call out, “Unclean! Unclean!” ⁴⁶ As long as the disease persists, he will be unclean. He must live alone, outside the camp, away from the rest of the community.

^47-48 Now if it ever looks as if an article of clothing has some outbreak like leprosy—whether it is made of wool, linen, or leather— ⁴⁹ and if the affected area in any leather or woven material has turned a greenish or reddish color, it is a sign of a serious problem and should be taken to the priest. ⁵⁰ The priest must examine the article and quarantine it for seven days. ⁵¹ When the seventh day arrives, the priest must check it again; and if the affected area has spread to other parts of the article—whether in the wool, linen, or leather, regardless of what the leather was used for—the article has a serious outbreak which makes it unclean. ⁵² So the priest has to burn the garment—whether it is made of wool, linen or leather—because it has some serious outbreak like leprosy and must be destroyed by fire.

⁵³ But if the priest examines the article, and the affected area has not spread in either the woven or knitted material, or the leather, ⁵⁴ the priest must direct the article be washed, and then quarantined for another seven days. ⁵⁵ After it has been washed, the priest must check it again; and if the affected area looks the same, then the article is still unclean even though the outbreak has not spread. Therefore, you must burn it in the fire; it doesn’t matter whether the affected area is on the front or the back.

⁵⁶ But if the priest examines it, and the affected area has faded after it has been washed, the priest must rip the affected material out of the garment, leather, or woven or knitted material. ⁵⁷ If another spot shows up in the article again—either in the woven or knitted material, or the leather—then the outbreak is spreading, and the article must be burned in the fire. ⁵⁸ But if the spot is gone once the article has been washed—whether it is woven or knitted or leather—you must wash it; then it will be considered clean.

Eternal One: ^2-3 These are the instructions for determining when an infected person has recovered from a skin disease and should be pronounced clean. The priest must go outside the camp and examine the infected person. If the priest determines the skin disease has been healed, ⁴ then he will prescribe that two healthy birds—both ritually pure—some cedar wood, scarlet string, and hyssop be brought for the cleansing ritual. ⁵ The priest will direct that one of the birds be killed in a clay jar over running water. ⁶ He will then take the living bird along with the cedar, the scarlet string, and the hyssop and dip them in the blood of the first bird killed over running water. ⁷ Then the priest will sprinkle the one who is being cleansed from his skin disease seven times with the blood, pronounce that he is once again clean, and set the living bird free in a wide, open field. ⁸ The person who is presented for cleansing will wash his clothes, shave all the hair from his body, and wash himself with water; then he will be clean. After all this is done, he is permitted to enter the community but he must remain outside of his tent for seven days. ⁹ When the seventh day arrives, he must shave all the hair from his body again—his head, beard, and eyebrows—and he has to wash his clothes again and bathe in water. This is how he is to be made clean.

¹⁰ On the eighth day, the person must bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, six quarts of the finest flour mixed with oil to act as a grain offering, and ⅔ pint of oil. ¹¹ The priest who pronounces the person clean will bring the man and his offering into My presence at the entrance of the congregation tent. ¹² The priest is then to take one male lamb as the guilt offering, along with the ⅔ pint of oil, and lift them up as a wave offering in My presence. ¹³ Then he must slaughter the lamb in the same area of the sanctuary where they kill the purification offering for sin and the burnt offering. The guilt offering, like the purification offering, belongs to the priest. They are most sacred. ¹⁴ The priest will then collect some of the blood of the guilt offering and place it on the right ear lobe, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the person who is being cleansed. ¹⁵ The priest will take some of the ⅔ pint of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, ¹⁶ and then he will dip his right finger into the oil in his left hand and sprinkle drops of it with his finger seven times before Me. ¹⁷ He will then take some of the oil from his left hand and place it on the right ear lobe, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the person being cleansed and on top of the blood of the guilt offering. ¹⁸ The priest should take any remaining oil from his left hand and put it on the head of the person being cleansed. Then the priest must perform the atoning sacrifice before Me to cover the person’s sins. ¹⁹ The priest is to offer the purification offering to cover the sin of the one being cleansed. After this, the priest must present the sacrifice for the burnt offering ²⁰ along with the grain offering on the altar. This is how the priest will cover the sin, guilt, and uncleanness of the person seeking to be cleansed; this person must be considered clean once again.

²¹ If the person who comes for cleansing is poor and cannot afford the prescribed offerings, then he may be covered by bringing one male lamb as a guilt offering to be lifted up as a wave offering. He should also present four pints of the finest flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, along with ⅔ pint of oil. ²² He should also bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford. One of the birds will be for the purification offering and the other one will be for the burnt offering. ²³ When the eighth day arrives (which is the day after he shaves the second time), the person must present them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance of the congregation tent in My presence. ²⁴ The priest will receive the lamb for the guilt offering and the ⅔ pint of oil, and lift them as a wave offering before Me. ²⁵ Afterward, he will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, collect some of its blood, and place it on the right ear lobe, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the person being cleansed. ²⁶ The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand ²⁷ and sprinkle drops of it with his right finger seven times in My presence. ²⁸ The priest will then take some of the oil from his left hand and place it on the right ear lobe, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the person being cleansed and on top of the blood from the guilt offering. ²⁹ The priest should take any remaining oil from his left hand and put it on the head of the person being cleansed to cover him before Me. ^30-31 He will then present one of the turtledoves or young pigeons—whichever he can afford—one for the purification offering and the other for the burnt offering that accompanies the grain offering. The priest will cover the sin, guilt, and uncleanness before Me of the person seeking to be cleansed. ³² These instructions explain what to do when someone with a serious skin disease cannot afford all the items for his cleansing.