LEVITICUS 16
1: The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they drew near before the Lord and died.
2: The Lord said to Moses: Tell your brother Aaron not to come just
at any time into the sanctuary inside the curtain before the mercy seat that is
upon the ark, or he will die; for I appear in the cloud upon the mercy
seat.
3: Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a
sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4: He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and shall have the linen
undergarments next to his body, fasten the linen sash, and wear the linen
turban; these are the holy vestments. He shall bathe his body in water, and
then put them on.
5: He shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two
male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
6: Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself, and
shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
7: He shall take the two goats and set them before the Lord at the
entrance of the tent of meeting;
8: and Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats, one lot for the Lord
and the other lot for Azazel.
9: Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord,
and offer it as a sin offering;
1:0: but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented
alive before the Lord to make atonement over it that it may be sent away into
the wilderness to Azazel.
11: Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for him-self, and shall
make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall slaughter the bull as a
sin offering for himself.
12: He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the
Lord, and two handfuls of crushed sweet incense, and he shall bring it inside
the curtain
13: and put the incense on the fire before the Lord that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the covenant, or he will
die.
14: He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his
finger on the front of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall
sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times.
15: He shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering that is for the
people and bring its blood inside the curtain, and do with its blood as he did
with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it upon the mercy seat and before the
mercy seat.
16: Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, because of the un-cleannesses
of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins;
and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which remains with them in the
midst of their un-cleannesses.
17: No one shall be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to
make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out and has made atonement for
himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.
18: Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make
atonement on its behalf, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of
the blood of the goat, and put it on each of the horns of the altar.
19: He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven
times, and cleanse it and hallow it from the un-cleannesses of the people of
Israel.
20: When he has finished atoning for the holy place and the tent of
meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
21: Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat,
and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their
transgressions, all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and
sending it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the
task.
22: The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a barren
region; and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness.
23: Then Aaron shall enter the tent of meeting, and shall take off the
linen vestments that he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall
leave them there.
24: He shall bathe his body in water in a holy place, and put on his
vestments; then he shall come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt
offering of the people, making atonement for himself and for the people.
25: The fat of the sin offering he shall turn into smoke on the
altar.
2:6: The one who sets the goat free for Azazel shall wash his clothes
and bathe his body in water, and afterward may come into the camp.
27: The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering,
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken
outside the camp; their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be consumed
in fire.
28: The one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body
in water, and afterward may come into the camp.
29: This shall be a statute to you forever: In the seventh month, on
the tenth day of the month, you shall deny yourselves, and shall do no work,
neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you.
30: For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you;
from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord.
31: It is a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall deny yourselves;
it is a statute forever.
32: The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's
place shall make atonement, wearing the linen vestments, the holy
vestments.
33: He shall make atonement for the sanctuary, and he shall make
atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make
atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
34: This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement
for the people of Israel once in the year for all their sins. And Moses did as
the Lord had commanded him.
LEVITICUS 17
1: The Lord spoke to Moses:
2: Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and
say to them: This is what the Lord has commanded.
3: If anyone of the house of Israel slaughters an ox or a lamb or a
goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,
4: and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to
present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, he
shall be held guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood, and he shall be cut off
from the people.
5: This is in order that the people of Israel may bring their
sacrifices that they offer in the open field, that they may bring them to the
Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and offer them as
sacrifices of well-being to the Lord.
6: The priest shall dash the blood against the altar of the Lord at
the entrance of the tent of meeting, and turn the fat into smoke as a pleasing odour
to the Lord,
7: so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons,
to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them
throughout their generations.
8: And say to them further: Anyone of the house of Israel or of the
aliens who reside among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
9: and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to
sacrifice it to the Lord, shall be cut off from the people.
10: If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among
them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and
will cut that person off from the people.
11: For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you
for making atonement for your lives on the altar; for, as life, it is the blood
that makes atonement.
12: Therefore I have said to the people of Israel: No person among you shall
eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.
13: And anyone of the people of Israel, or of the aliens who reside among
them, who hunts down an animal or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its
blood and cover it with earth.
14: For the life of every creature—its blood is its life; therefore I have
said to the people of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the
life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15: All persons, citizens or aliens, who eat what dies of itself or
what has been torn by wild animals, shall wash their clothes, and bathe
themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening; then they shall be
clean.
16: But if they do not wash themselves or bathe their body, they shall
bear their guilt.
LEVITICUS 18
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the Lord your God.
3: You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived,
and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing
you. You shall not follow their statutes.
4: My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep,
following them: I am the Lord your God.
5: You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one
shall live: I am the Lord.
6: None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover
nakedness: I am the Lord.
7: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the
nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her
nakedness.
8: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is
the nakedness of your father.
9: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's
daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad.
10: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of
your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
11: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter,
begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
12: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your
father's flesh.
13: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is
your mother's flesh.
14: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is,
you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
15: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she
is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is
your brother's nakedness.
17: You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter,
and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover
her nakedness; they are your flesh; it is depravity.
18: And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister,
uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
19: You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she
is in her menstrual uncleanness.
20: You shall not have sexual relations with your kinsman's wife, and
defile yourself with her.
21: You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to
Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
22: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an
abomination.
23: You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile
yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual
relations with it: it is perversion.
24: Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these
practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled
themselves.
25: Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the
land vomited out its inhabitants.
26: But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none
of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among
you
27: (for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed
all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);
28: otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it
vomited out the nation that was before you.
29: For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off
from their people.
30: So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that
were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your
God.
LEVITICUS 19
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to
them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3: You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep
my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
4: Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the
Lord your God.
5: When you offer a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, offer it in
such a way that it is acceptable in your behalf.
6: It shall be eaten on the same day you offer it, or on the next
day; and anything left over until the third day shall be consumed in
fire.
7: If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it
will not be acceptable.
8: All who eat it shall be subject to punishment, because they have
profaned what is holy to the Lord; and any such person shall be cut off from
the people.
9: When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the
very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10: You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen
grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am
the Lord your God.
11: You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie
to one another.
12: And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your
God: I am the Lord.
13: You shall not defraud your neighbour; you shall not steal; and you shall
not keep for yourself the wages of a labourer until morning.
14: You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind;
you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
15: You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial
to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbour.
16: You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you
shall not profit by the blood of your neighbour: I am the Lord.
17: You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall
reprove your neighbour, or you will incur guilt yourself.
18: You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your
people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.
19: You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a
different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall
you put on a garment made of two different materials.
20: If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave,
designated for another man but not ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry
shall be held. They shall not be put to death, since she has not been
freed;
21: but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord, at
the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram as guilt offering.
22: And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of guilt
offering before the Lord for his sin that he committed; and the sin he
committed shall be forgiven him.
23: When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then
you shall regard their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to
you, it must not be eaten.
24: In the fourth year all their fruit shall be set apart for
rejoicing in the Lord.
25: But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield
may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.
26: You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice
augury or witchcraft.
27: You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges
of your beard.
28: You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any
marks upon you: I am the Lord.
29: Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the
land not become prostituted and full of depravity.
30: You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
Lord.
31: Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be
defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
32: You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you
shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
33: When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress
the alien.
34: The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen
among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35: You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or
quantity.
36: You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah,
and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt.
37: You shall
keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe them: I am the Lord
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