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Leviticus
Chapter 1
1 And the LORD called
unto Moses, and spake unto him
out of the tabernacle of the
congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them, If
any man of you bring an offering
unto the LORD, ye shall bring
your offering of the cattle, even
of the herd, and of the
flock.
3 If his offering be a
burnt sacrifice of the herd, let
him offer a male without blemish:
he shall offer it of his own
voluntary will at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD.
4 And he shall put his
hand upon the head of the burnt
offering; and it shall be
accepted for him to make
atonement for him.
5 And he shall kill the
bullock before the LORD: and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall
bring the blood, and sprinkle the
blood round about upon the altar
that is by the door of the
tabernacle of the
congregation.
6 And he shall flay the
burnt offering, and cut it into
his pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron
the priest shall put fire upon
the altar, and lay the wood in
order upon the fire:
8 And the priests, Aaron's
sons, shall lay the parts, the
head, and the fat, in order upon
the wood that is on the fire
which is upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his
legs shall he wash in water: and
the priest shall burn all on the
altar, to be a burnt sacrifice,
an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And if his offering be
of the flocks, namely, of the
sheep, or of the goats, for a
burnt sacrifice; he shall bring
it a male without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on
the side of the altar northward
before the LORD: and the priests,
Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his
blood round about upon the
altar.
12 And he shall cut it
into his pieces, with his head
and his fat: and the priest shall
lay them in order on the wood
that is on the fire which is upon
the altar:
13 But he shall wash the
inwards and the legs with water:
and the priest shall bring it
all, and burn it upon the altar:
it is a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
14 And if the burnt
sacrifice for his offering to the
LORD be of fowls, then he shall
bring his offering of
turtledoves, or of young
pigeons.
15 And the priest shall
bring it unto the altar, and
wring off his head, and burn it
on the altar; and the blood
thereof shall be wrung out at the
side of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away
his crop with his feathers, and
cast it beside the altar on the
east part, by the place of the
ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it
with the wings thereof, but shall
not divide it asunder: and the
priest shall burn it upon the
altar, upon the wood that is upon
the fire: it is a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
Chapter 2
1 And when any will
offer a meat offering unto the
LORD, his offering shall be of
fine flour; and he shall pour oil
upon it, and put frankincense
thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to
Aaron's sons the priests: and he
shall take thereout his handful
of the flour thereof, and of the
oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof; and the
priest shall burn the memorial of
it upon the altar, to be an
offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD:
3 And the remnant of the
meat offering shall be Aaron's
and his sons': it is a thing most
holy of the offerings of the LORD
made by fire.
4 And if thou bring an
oblation of a meat offering baken
in the oven, it shall be
unleavened cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened
wafers anointed with oil.
5 And if thy oblation be a
meat offering baken in a pan, it
shall be of fine flour
unleavened, mingled with oil.
6 Thou shalt part it in
pieces, and pour oil thereon: it
is a meat offering.
7 And if thy oblation be a
meat offering baken in the
fryingpan, it shall be made of
fine flour with oil.
8 And thou shalt bring the
meat offering that is made of
these things unto the LORD: and
when it is presented unto the
priest, he shall bring it unto
the altar.
9 And the priest shall
take from the meat offering a
memorial thereof, and shall burn
it upon the altar: it is an
offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
10 And that which is left
of the meat offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a
thing most holy of the offerings
of the LORD made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which
ye shall bring unto the LORD,
shall be made with leaven: for ye
shall burn no leaven, nor any
honey, in any offering of the
LORD made by fire.
12 As for the oblation of
the firstfruits, ye shall offer
them unto the LORD: but they
shall not be burnt on the altar
for a sweet savour.
13 And every oblation of
thy meat offering shalt thou
season with salt; neither shalt
thou suffer the salt of the
covenant of thy God to be lacking
from thy meat offering: with all
thine offerings thou shalt offer
salt.
14 And if thou offer a
meat offering of thy firstfruits
unto the LORD, thou shalt offer
for the meat offering of thy
firstfruits green ears of corn
dried by the fire, even corn
beaten out of full ears.
15 And thou shalt put oil
upon it, and lay frankincense
thereon: it is a meat
offering.
16 And the priest shall
burn the memorial of it, part of
the beaten corn thereof, and part
of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
Chapter 3
1 And if his oblation
be a sacrifice of peace offering,
if he offer it of the herd;
whether it be a male or female,
he shall offer it without blemish
before the LORD.
2 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his
offering, and kill it at the door
of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron's sons
the priests shall sprinkle the
blood upon the altar round
about.
3 And he shall offer of
the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire
unto the LORD; the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and
the fat that is on them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above
the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
5 And Aaron's sons shall
burn it on the altar upon the
burnt sacrifice, which is upon
the wood that is on the fire: it
is an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
6 And if his offering for
a sacrifice of peace offering
unto the LORD be of the flock;
male or female, he shall offer it
without blemish.
7 If he offer a lamb for
his offering, then shall he offer
it before the LORD.
8 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his
offering, and kill it before the
tabernacle of the congregation:
and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle
the blood thereof round about
upon the altar.
9 And he shall offer of
the sacrifice of the peace
offering an offering made by fire
unto the LORD; the fat thereof,
and the whole rump, it shall he
take off hard by the backbone;
and the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is
upon the inwards,
10 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks, and the
caul above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take
away.
11 And the priest shall
burn it upon the altar: it is the
food of the offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
12 And if his offering be
a goat, then he shall offer it
before the LORD.
13 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of it, and
kill it before the tabernacle of
the congregation: and the sons of
Aaron shall sprinkle the blood
thereof upon the altar round
about.
14 And he shall offer
thereof his offering, even an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is
upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks, and the
caul above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take
away.
16 And the priest shall
burn them upon the altar: it is
the food of the offering made by
fire for a sweet savour: all the
fat is the LORD's.
17 It shall be a perpetual
statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings,
that ye eat neither fat nor
blood.
Chapter 4
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, If a soul
shall sin through ignorance
against any of the commandments
of the LORD concerning things
which ought not to be done, and
shall do against any of them:
3 If the priest that is
anointed do sin according to the
sin of the people; then let him
bring for his sin, which he hath
sinned, a young bullock without
blemish unto the LORD for a sin
offering.
4 And he shall bring the
bullock unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD; and shall lay
his hand upon the bullock's head,
and kill the bullock before the
LORD.
5 And the priest that is
anointed shall take of the
bullock's blood, and bring it to
the tabernacle of the
congregation:
6 And the priest shall dip
his finger in the blood, and
sprinkle of the blood seven times
before the LORD, before the vail
of the sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put
some of the blood upon the horns
of the altar of sweet incense
before the LORD, which is in the
tabernacle of the congregation:
and shall pour all the blood of
the bullock at the bottom of the
altar of the burnt offering,
which is at the door of the
tabernacle of the
congregation.
8 And he shall take off
from it all the fat of the
bullock for the sin offering; the
fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the
inwards,
9 And the two kidneys, and
the fat that is upon them, which
is by the flanks, and the caul
above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take
away,
10 As it was taken off
from the bullock of the sacrifice
of peace offerings: and the
priest shall burn them upon the
altar of the burnt offering.
11 And the skin of the
bullock, and all his flesh, with
his head, and with his legs, and
his inwards, and his dung,
12 Even the whole bullock
shall he carry forth without the
camp unto a clean place, where
the ashes are poured out, and
burn him on the wood with fire:
where the ashes are poured out
shall he be burnt.
13 And if the whole
congregation of Israel sin
through ignorance, and the thing
be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done
somewhat against any of the
commandments of the LORD
concerning things which should
not be done, and are guilty;
14 When the sin, which
they have sinned against it, is
known, then the congregation
shall offer a young bullock for
the sin, and bring him before the
tabernacle of the
congregation.
15 And the elders of the
congregation shall lay their
hands upon the head of the
bullock before the LORD: and the
bullock shall be killed before
the LORD.
16 And the priest that is
anointed shall bring of the
bullock's blood to the tabernacle
of the congregation:
17 And the priest shall
dip his finger in some of the
blood, and sprinkle it seven
times before the LORD, even
before the vail.
18 And he shall put some
of the blood upon the horns of
the altar which is before the
LORD, that is in the tabernacle
of the congregation, and shall
pour out all the blood at the
bottom of the altar of the burnt
offering, which is at the door of
the tabernacle of the
congregation.
19 And he shall take all
his fat from him, and burn it
upon the altar.
20 And he shall do with
the bullock as he did with the
bullock for a sin offering, so
shall he do with this: and the
priest shall make an atonement
for them, and it shall be
forgiven them.
21 And he shall carry
forth the bullock without the
camp, and burn him as he burned
the first bullock: it is a sin
offering for the
congregation.
22 When a ruler hath
sinned, and done somewhat through
ignorance against any of the
commandments of the LORD his God
concerning things which should
not be done, and is guilty;
23 Or if his sin, wherein
he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge; he shall bring his
offering, a kid of the goats, a
male without blemish:
24 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the goat,
and kill it in the place where
they kill the burnt offering
before the LORD: it is a sin
offering.
25 And the priest shall
take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put
it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour
out his blood at the bottom of
the altar of burnt offering.
26 And he shall burn all
his fat upon the altar, as the
fat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him as
concerning his sin, and it shall
be forgiven him.
27 And if any one of the
common people sin through
ignorance, while he doeth
somewhat against any of the
commandments of the LORD
concerning things which ought not
to be done, and be guilty;
28 Or if his sin, which he
hath sinned, come to his
knowledge: then he shall bring
his offering, a kid of the goats,
a female without blemish, for his
sin which he hath sinned.
29 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay the sin
offering in the place of the
burnt offering.
30 And the priest shall
take of the blood thereof with
his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all
the blood thereof at the bottom
of the altar.
31 And he shall take away
all the fat thereof, as the fat
is taken away from off the
sacrifice of peace offerings; and
the priest shall burn it upon the
altar for a sweet savour unto the
LORD; and the priest shall make
an atonement for him, and it
shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he bring a lamb
for a sin offering, he shall
bring it a female without
blemish.
33 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay it for a sin
offering in the place where they
kill the burnt offering
34 And the priest shall
take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put
it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour
out all the blood thereof at the
bottom of the altar:
35 And he shall take away
all the fat thereof, as the fat
of the lamb is taken away from
the sacrifice of the peace
offerings; and the priest shall
burn them upon the altar,
according to the offerings made
by fire unto the LORD: and the
priest shall make an atonement
for his sin that he hath
committed, and it shall be
forgiven him.
Chapter 5
1 And if a soul sin,
and hear the voice of swearing,
and is a witness, whether he hath
seen or known of it; if he do not
utter it, then he shall bear his
iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touch any
unclean thing, whether it be a
carcase of an unclean beast, or a
carcase of unclean cattle, or the
carcase of unclean creeping
things, and if it be hidden from
him; he also shall be unclean,
and guilty.
3 Or if he touch the
uncleanness of man, whatsoever
uncleanness it be that a man
shall be defiled withal, and it
be hid from him; when he knoweth
of it, then he shall be
guilty.
4 Or if a soul swear,
pronouncing with his lips to do
evil, or to do good, whatsoever
it be that a man shall pronounce
with an oath, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth of it, then
he shall be guilty in one of
these.
5 And it shall be, when he
shall be guilty in one of these
things, that he shall confess
that he hath sinned in that
thing:
6 And he shall bring his
trespass offering unto the LORD
for his sin which he hath sinned,
a female from the flock, a lamb
or a kid of the goats, for a sin
offering; and the priest shall
make an atonement for him
concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to
bring a lamb, then he shall bring
for his trespass, which he hath
committed, two turtledoves, or
two young pigeons, unto the LORD;
one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering.
8 And he shall bring them
unto the priest, who shall offer
that which is for the sin
offering first, and wring off his
head from his neck, but shall not
divide it asunder:
9 And he shall sprinkle of
the blood of the sin offering
upon the side of the altar; and
the rest of the blood shall be
wrung out at the bottom of the
altar: it is a sin offering.
10 And he shall offer the
second for a burnt offering,
according to the manner: and the
priest shall make an atonement
for him for his sin which he hath
sinned, and it shall be forgiven
him.
11 But if he be not able
to bring two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, then he that
sinned shall bring for his
offering the tenth part of an
ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering; he shall put no oil
upon it, neither shall he put any
frankincense thereon: for it is a
sin offering.
12 Then shall he bring it
to the priest, and the priest
shall take his handful of it,
even a memorial thereof, and burn
it on the altar, according to the
offerings made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
13 And the priest shall
make an atonement for him as
touching his sin that he hath
sinned in one of these, and it
shall be forgiven him: and the
remnant shall be the priest's, as
a meat offering.
14 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
15 If a soul commit a
trespass, and sin through
ignorance, in the holy things of
the LORD; then he shall bring for
his trespass unto the LORD a ram
without blemish out of the
flocks, with thy estimation by
shekels of silver, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for a
trespass offering:
16 And he shall make
amends for the harm that he hath
done in the holy thing, and shall
add the fifth part thereto, and
give it unto the priest: and the
priest shall make an atonement
for him with the ram of the
trespass offering, and it shall
be forgiven him.
17 And if a soul sin, and
commit any of these things which
are forbidden to be done by the
commandments of the LORD; though
he wist it not, yet is he guilty,
and shall bear his iniquity.
18 And he shall bring a
ram without blemish out of the
flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the
priest: and the priest shall make
an atonement for him concerning
his ignorance wherein he erred
and wist it not, and it shall be
forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass
offering: he hath certainly
trespassed against the LORD.
Chapter 6
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and
commit a trespass against the
LORD, and lie unto his neighbour
in that which was delivered him
to keep, or in fellowship, or in
a thing taken away by violence,
or hath deceived his
neighbour;
3 Or have found that which
was lost, and lieth concerning
it, and sweareth falsely; in any
of all these that a man doeth,
sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be,
because he hath sinned, and is
guilty, that he shall restore
that which he took violently
away, or the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten, or that which
was delivered him to keep, or the
lost thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which
he hath sworn falsely; he shall
even restore it in the principal,
and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to
whom it appertaineth, in the day
of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his
trespass offering unto the LORD,
a ram without blemish out of the
flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the
priest:
7 And the priest shall
make an atonement for him before
the LORD: and it shall be
forgiven him for any thing of all
that he hath done in trespassing
therein.
8 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his
sons, saying, This is the law of
the burnt offering: It is the
burnt offering, because of the
burning upon the altar all night
unto the morning, and the fire of
the altar shall be burning in
it.
10 And the priest shall
put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon
his flesh, and take up the ashes
which the fire hath consumed with
the burnt offering on the altar,
and he shall put them beside the
altar.
11 And he shall put off
his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry forth the
ashes without the camp unto a
clean place.
12 And the fire upon the
altar shall be burning in it; it
shall not be put out: and the
priest shall burn wood on it
every morning, and lay the burnt
offering in order upon it; and he
shall burn thereon the fat of the
peace offerings.
13 The fire shall ever be
burning upon the altar; it shall
never go out.
14 And this is the law of
the meat offering: the sons of
Aaron shall offer it before the
LORD, before the altar.
15 And he shall take of it
his handful, of the flour of the
meat offering, and of the oil
thereof, and all the frankincense
which is upon the meat offering,
and shall burn it upon the altar
for a sweet savour, even the
memorial of it, unto the
LORD.
16 And the remainder
thereof shall Aaron and his sons
eat: with unleavened bread shall
it be eaten in the holy place; in
the court of the tabernacle of
the congregation they shall eat
it.
17 It shall not be baken
with leaven. I have given it unto
them for their portion of my
offerings made by fire; it is
most holy, as is the sin
offering, and as the trespass
offering.
18 All the males among the
children of Aaron shall eat of
it. It shall be a statute for
ever in your generations
concerning the offerings of the
LORD made by fire: every one that
toucheth them shall be holy.
19 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
20 This is the offering of
Aaron and of his sons, which they
shall offer unto the LORD in the
day when he is anointed; the
tenth part of an ephah of fine
flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the
morning, and half thereof at
night.
21 In a pan it shall be
made with oil; and when it is
baken, thou shalt bring it in:
and the baken pieces of the meat
offering shalt thou offer for a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
22 And the priest of his
sons that is anointed in his
stead shall offer it: it is a
statute for ever unto the LORD,
it shall be wholly burnt.
23 For every meat offering
for the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten.
24 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
25 Speak unto Aaron and to
his sons, saying, This is the law
of the sin offering: In the place
where the burnt offering is
killed shall the sin offering be
killed before the LORD: it is
most holy.
26 The priest that
offereth it for sin shall eat it:
in the holy place shall it be
eaten, in the court of the
tabernacle of the
congregation.
27 Whatsoever shall touch
the flesh thereof shall be holy:
and when there is sprinkled of
the blood thereof upon any
garment, thou shalt wash that
whereon it was sprinkled in the
holy place.
28 But the earthen vessel
wherein it is sodden shall be
broken: and if it be sodden in a
brasen pot, it shall be both
scoured, and rinsed in water.
29 All the males among the
priests shall eat thereof: it is
most holy.
30 And no sin offering,
whereof any of the blood is
brought into the tabernacle of
the congregation to reconcile
withal in the holy place, shall
be eaten: it shall be burnt in
the fire.
Chapter 7
1 Likewise this is the
law of the trespass offering: it
is most holy.
2 In the place where they
kill the burnt offering shall
they kill the trespass offering:
and the blood thereof shall he
sprinkle round about upon the
altar.
3 And he shall offer of it
all the fat thereof; the rump,
and the fat that covereth the
inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and
the fat that is on them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul that
is above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take
away:
5 And the priest shall
burn them upon the altar for an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a trespass
offering.
6 Every male among the
priests shall eat thereof: it
shall be eaten in the holy place:
it is most holy.
7 As the sin offering is,
so is the trespass offering:
there is one law for them: the
priest that maketh atonement
therewith shall have it.
8 And the priest that
offereth any man's burnt
offering, even the priest shall
have to himself the skin of the
burnt offering which he hath
offered.
9 And all the meat
offering that is baken in the
oven, and all that is dressed in
the fryingpan, and in the pan,
shall be the priest's that
offereth it.
10 And every meat
offering, mingled with oil, and
dry, shall all the sons of Aaron
have, one as much as another.
11 And this is the law of
the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he shall offer unto the
LORD.
12 If he offer it for a
thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes
mingled with oil, and unleavened
wafers anointed with oil, and
cakes mingled with oil, of fine
flour, fried.
13 Besides the cakes, he
shall offer for his offering
leavened bread with the sacrifice
of thanksgiving of his peace
offerings.
14 And of it he shall
offer one out of the whole
oblation for an heave offering
unto the LORD, and it shall be
the priest's that sprinkleth the
blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings
for thanksgiving shall be eaten
the same day that it is offered;
he shall not leave any of it
until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of
his offering be a vow, or a
voluntary offering, it shall be
eaten the same day that he
offereth his sacrifice: and on
the morrow also the remainder of
it shall be eaten:
17 But the remainder of
the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day shall be burnt with
fire.
18 And if any of the flesh
of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the
third day, it shall not be
accepted, neither shall it be
imputed unto him that offereth
it: it shall be an abomination,
and the soul that eateth of it
shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that
toucheth any unclean thing shall
not be eaten; it shall be burnt
with fire: and as for the flesh,
all that be clean shall eat
thereof.
20 But the soul that
eateth of the flesh of the
sacrifice of peace offerings,
that pertain unto the LORD,
having his uncleanness upon him,
even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that
shall touch any unclean thing, as
the uncleanness of man, or any
unclean beast, or any abominable
unclean thing, and eat of the
flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which pertain unto the
LORD, even that soul shall be cut
off from his people.
22 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat
no manner of fat, of ox, or of
sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of the
beast that dieth of itself, and
the fat of that which is torn
with beasts, may be used in any
other use: but ye shall in no
wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth
the fat of the beast, of which
men offer an offering made by
fire unto the LORD, even the soul
that eateth it shall be cut off
from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat
no manner of blood, whether it be
of fowl or of beast, in any of
your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul it be
that eateth any manner of blood,
even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
28 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
29 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, He that
offereth the sacrifice of his
peace offerings unto the LORD
shall bring his oblation unto the
LORD of the sacrifice of his
peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall
bring the offerings of the LORD
made by fire, the fat with the
breast, it shall he bring, that
the breast may be waved for a
wave offering before the
LORD.
31 And the priest shall
burn the fat upon the altar: but
the breast shall be Aaron's and
his sons'.
32 And the right shoulder
shall ye give unto the priest for
an heave offering of the
sacrifices of your peace
offerings.
33 He among the sons of
Aaron, that offereth the blood of
the peace offerings, and the fat,
shall have the right shoulder for
his part.
34 For the wave breast and
the heave shoulder have I taken
of the children of Israel from
off the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and have given them
unto Aaron the priest and unto
his sons by a statute for ever
from among the children of
Israel.
35 This is the portion of
the anointing of Aaron, and of
the anointing of his sons, out of
the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, in the day when he
presented them to minister unto
the LORD in the priest's
office;
36 Which the LORD
commanded to be given them of the
children of Israel, in the day
that he anointed them, by a
statute for ever throughout their
generations.
37 This is the law of the
burnt offering, of the meat
offering, and of the sin
offering, and of the trespass
offering, and of the
consecrations, and of the
sacrifice of the peace
offerings;
38 Which the LORD
commanded Moses in mount Sinai,
in the day that he commanded the
children of Israel to offer their
oblations unto the LORD, in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons
with him, and the garments, and
the anointing oil, and a bullock
for the sin offering, and two
rams, and a basket of unleavened
bread;
3 And gather thou all the
congregation together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
4 And Moses did as the
LORD commanded him; and the
assembly was gathered together
unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
5 And Moses said unto the
congregation, This is the thing
which the LORD commanded to be
done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron
and his sons, and washed them
with water.
7 And he put upon him the
coat, and girded him with the
girdle, and clothed him with the
robe, and put the ephod upon him,
and he girded him with the
curious girdle of the ephod, and
bound it unto him therewith.
8 And he put the
breastplate upon him: also he put
in the breastplate the Urim and
the Thummim.
9 And he put the mitre
upon his head; also upon the
mitre, even upon his forefront,
did he put the golden plate, the
holy crown; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
10 And Moses took the
anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was
therein, and sanctified them.
11 And he sprinkled
thereof upon the altar seven
times, and anointed the altar and
all his vessels, both the laver
and his foot, to sanctify
them.
12 And he poured of the
anointing oil upon Aaron's head,
and anointed him, to sanctify
him.
13 And Moses brought
Aaron's sons, and put coats upon
them, and girded them with
girdles, and put bonnets upon
them; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
14 And he brought the
bullock for the sin offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their
hands upon the head of the
bullock for the sin offering.
15 And he slew it; and
Moses took the blood, and put it
upon the horns of the altar round
about with his finger, and
purified the altar, and poured
the blood at the bottom of the
altar, and sanctified it, to make
reconciliation upon it.
16 And he took all the fat
that was upon the inwards, and
caul above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat, and Moses
burned it upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and
his hide, his flesh, and his
dung, he burnt with fire without
the camp; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
18 And he brought the ram
for the burnt offering: and Aaron
and his sons laid their hands
upon the head of the ram.
19 And he killed it; and
Moses sprinkled the blood upon
the altar round about.
20 And he cut the ram into
pieces; and Moses burnt the head,
and the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the
inwards and the legs in water;
and Moses burnt the whole ram
upon the altar: it was a burnt
sacrifice for a sweet savour, and
an offering made by fire unto the
LORD; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
22 And he brought the
other ram, the ram of
consecration: and Aaron and his
sons laid their hands upon the
head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and
Moses took of the blood of it,
and put it upon the tip of
Aaron's right ear, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon
the great toe of his right
foot.
24 And he brought Aaron's
sons, and Moses put of the blood
upon the tip of their right ear,
and upon the thumbs of their
right hands, and upon the great
toes of their right feet: and
Moses sprinkled the blood upon
the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat,
and the rump, and all the fat
that was upon the inwards, and
the caul above the liver, and the
two kidneys, and their fat, and
the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket
of unleavened bread, that was
before the LORD, he took one
unleavened cake, and a cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer, and
put them on the fat, and upon the
right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon
Aaron's hands, and upon his sons'
hands, and waved them for a wave
offering before the LORD.
28 And Moses took them
from off their hands, and burnt
them on the altar upon the burnt
offering: they were consecrations
for a sweet savour: it is an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
29 And Moses took the
breast, and waved it for a wave
offering before the LORD: for of
the ram of consecration it was
Moses' part; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the
anointing oil, and of the blood
which was upon the altar, and
sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon
his garments, and upon his sons,
and upon his sons' garments with
him; and sanctified Aaron, and
his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him.
31 And Moses said unto
Aaron and to his sons, Boil the
flesh at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
and there eat it with the bread
that is in the basket of
consecrations, as I commanded,
saying, Aaron and his sons shall
eat it.
32 And that which
remaineth of the flesh and of the
bread shall ye burn with
fire.
33 And ye shall not go out
of the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation in seven days,
until the days of your
consecration be at an end: for
seven days shall he consecrate
you.
34 As he hath done this
day, so the LORD hath commanded
to do, to make an atonement for
you.
35 Therefore shall ye
abide at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation
day and night seven days, and
keep the charge of the LORD, that
ye die not: for so I am
commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons
did all things which the LORD
commanded by the hand of
Moses.
Chapter 9
1 And it came to pass
on the eighth day, that Moses
called Aaron and his sons, and
the elders of Israel;
2 And he said unto Aaron,
Take thee a young calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering, without blemish, and
offer them before the LORD.
3 And unto the children of
Israel thou shalt speak, saying,
Take ye a kid of the goats for a
sin offering; and a calf and a
lamb, both of the first year,
without blemish, for a burnt
offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram
for peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD; and a meat
offering mingled with oil: for to
day the LORD will appear unto
you.
5 And they brought that
which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation:
and all the congregation drew
near and stood before the
LORD.
6 And Moses said, This is
the thing which the LORD
commanded that ye should do: and
the glory of the LORD shall
appear unto you.
7 And Moses said unto
Aaron, Go unto the altar, and
offer thy sin offering, and thy
burnt offering, and make an
atonement for thyself, and for
the people: and offer the
offering of the people, and make
an atonement for them; as the
LORD commanded.
8 Aaron therefore went
unto the altar, and slew the calf
of the sin offering, which was
for himself.
9 And the sons of Aaron
brought the blood unto him: and
he dipped his finger in the
blood, and put it upon the horns
of the altar, and poured out the
blood at the bottom of the
altar:
10 But the fat, and the
kidneys, and the caul above the
liver of the sin offering, he
burnt upon the altar; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
11 And the flesh and the
hide he burnt with fire without
the camp.
12 And he slew the burnt
offering; and Aaron's sons
presented unto him the blood,
which he sprinkled round about
upon the altar.
13 And they presented the
burnt offering unto him, with the
pieces thereof, and the head: and
he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the
inwards and the legs, and burnt
them upon the burnt offering on
the altar.
15 And he brought the
people's offering, and took the
goat, which was the sin offering
for the people, and slew it, and
offered it for sin, as the
first.
16 And he brought the
burnt offering, and offered it
according to the manner.
17 And he brought the meat
offering, and took an handful
thereof, and burnt it upon the
altar, beside the burnt sacrifice
of the morning.
18 He slew also the
bullock and the ram for a
sacrifice of peace offerings,
which was for the people: and
Aaron's sons presented unto him
the blood, which he sprinkled
upon the altar round about,
19 And the fat of the
bullock and of the ram, the rump,
and that which covereth the
inwards, and the kidneys, and the
caul above the liver:
20 And they put the fat
upon the breasts, and he burnt
the fat upon the altar:
21 And the breasts and the
right shoulder Aaron waved for a
wave offering before the LORD; as
Moses commanded.
22 And Aaron lifted up his
hand toward the people, and
blessed them, and came down from
offering of the sin offering, and
the burnt offering, and peace
offerings.
23 And Moses and Aaron
went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and
blessed the people: and the glory
of the LORD appeared unto all the
people.
24 And there came a fire
out from before the LORD, and
consumed upon the altar the burnt
offering and the fat: which when
all the people saw, they shouted,
and fell on their faces.
Chapter 10
1 And Nadab and Abihu,
the sons of Aaron, took either of
them his censer, and put fire
therein, and put incense thereon,
and offered strange fire before
the LORD, which he commanded them
not.
2 And there went out fire
from the LORD, and devoured them,
and they died before the
LORD.
3 Then Moses said unto
Aaron, This is it that the LORD
spake, saying, I will be
sanctified in them that come nigh
me, and before all the people I
will be glorified. And Aaron held
his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael
and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel
the uncle of Aaron, and said unto
them, Come near, carry your
brethren from before the
sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and
carried them in their coats out
of the camp; as Moses had
said.
6 And Moses said unto
Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not
your heads, neither rend your
clothes; lest ye die, and lest
wrath come upon all the people:
but let your brethren, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the
burning which the LORD hath
kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out
from the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, lest ye die:
for the anointing oil of the LORD
is upon you. And they did
according to the word of
Moses.
8 And the LORD spake unto
Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
with thee, when ye go into the
tabernacle of the congregation,
lest ye die: it shall be a
statute for ever throughout your
generations:
10 And that ye may put
difference between holy and
unholy, and between unclean and
clean;
11 And that ye may teach
the children of Israel all the
statutes which the LORD hath
spoken unto them by the hand of
Moses.
12 And Moses spake unto
Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons that were left,
Take the meat offering that
remaineth of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, and eat it
without leaven beside the altar:
for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in
the holy place, because it is thy
due, and thy sons' due, of the
sacrifices of the LORD made by
fire: for so I am commanded.
14 And the wave breast and
heave shoulder shall ye eat in a
clean place; thou, and thy sons,
and thy daughters with thee: for
they be thy due, and thy sons'
due, which are given out of the
sacrifices of peace offerings of
the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and
the wave breast shall they bring
with the offerings made by fire
of the fat, to wave it for a wave
offering before the LORD; and it
shall be thine, and thy sons'
with thee, by a statute for ever;
as the LORD hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently
sought the goat of the sin
offering, and, behold, it was
burnt: and he was angry with
Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of
Aaron which were left alive,
saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not
eaten the sin offering in the
holy place, seeing it is most
holy, and God hath given it you
to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement
for them before the LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it
was not brought in within the
holy place: ye should indeed have
eaten it in the holy place, as I
commanded.
19 And Aaron said unto
Moses, Behold, this day have they
offered their sin offering and
their burnt offering before the
LORD; and such things have
befallen me: and if I had eaten
the sin offering to day, should
it have been accepted in the
sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard
that, he was content.
Chapter 11
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses and to Aaron, saying
unto them,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, These are the
beasts which ye shall eat among
all the beasts that are on the
earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the
hoof, and is clovenfooted, and
cheweth the cud, among the
beasts, that shall ye eat.
4 Nevertheless these shall
ye not eat of them that chew the
cud, or of them that divide the
hoof: as the camel, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
5 And the coney, because
he cheweth the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
6 And the hare, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
7 And the swine, though he
divide the hoof, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not
the cud; he is unclean to
you.
8 Of their flesh shall ye
not eat, and their carcase shall
ye not touch; they are unclean to
you.
9 These shall ye eat of
all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales
in the waters, in the seas, and
in the rivers, them shall ye
eat.
10 And all that have not
fins and scales in the seas, and
in the rivers, of all that move
in the waters, and of any living
thing which is in the waters,
they shall be an abomination unto
you:
11 They shall be even an
abomination unto you; ye shall
not eat of their flesh, but ye
shall have their carcases in
abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins
nor scales in the waters, that
shall be an abomination unto
you.
13 And these are they
which ye shall have in
abomination among the fowls; they
shall not be eaten, they are an
abomination: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and
the kite after his kind;
15 Every raven after his
kind;
16 And the owl, and the
night hawk, and the cuckow, and
the hawk after his kind,
17 And the little owl, and
the cormorant, and the great
owl,
18 And the swan, and the
pelican, and the gier eagle,
19 And the stork, the
heron after her kind, and the
lapwing, and the bat.
20 All fowls that creep,
going upon all four, shall be an
abomination unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of
every flying creeping thing that
goeth upon all four, which have
legs above their feet, to leap
withal upon the earth;
22 Even these of them ye
may eat; the locust after his
kind, and the bald locust after
his kind, and the beetle after
his kind, and the grasshopper
after his kind.
23 But all other flying
creeping things, which have four
feet, shall be an abomination
unto you.
24 And for these ye shall
be unclean: whosoever toucheth
the carcase of them shall be
unclean until the even.
25 And whosoever beareth
ought of the carcase of them
shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even.
26 The carcases of every
beast which divideth the hoof,
and is not clovenfooted, nor
cheweth the cud, are unclean unto
you: every one that toucheth them
shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth
upon his paws, among all manner
of beasts that go on all four,
those are unclean unto you: whoso
toucheth their carcase shall be
unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the
carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the
even: they are unclean unto
you.
29 These also shall be
unclean unto you among the
creeping things that creep upon
the earth; the weasel, and the
mouse, and the tortoise after his
kind,
30 And the ferret, and the
chameleon, and the lizard, and
the snail, and the mole.
31 These are unclean to
you among all that creep:
whosoever doth touch them, when
they be dead, shall be unclean
until the even.
32 And upon whatsoever any
of them, when they are dead, doth
fall, it shall be unclean;
whether it be any vessel of wood,
or raiment, or skin, or sack,
whatsoever vessel it be, wherein
any work is done, it must be put
into water, and it shall be
unclean until the even; so it
shall be cleansed.
33 And every earthen
vessel, whereinto any of them
falleth, whatsoever is in it
shall be unclean; and ye shall
break it.
34 Of all meat which may
be eaten, that on which such
water cometh shall be unclean:
and all drink that may be drunk
in every such vessel shall be
unclean.
35 And every thing
whereupon any part of their
carcase falleth shall be unclean;
whether it be oven, or ranges for
pots, they shall be broken down:
for they are unclean, and shall
be unclean unto you.
36 Nevertheless a fountain
or pit, wherein there is plenty
of water, shall be clean: but
that which toucheth their carcase
shall be unclean.
37 And if any part of
their carcase fall upon any
sowing seed which is to be sown,
it shall be clean.
38 But if any water be put
upon the seed, and any part of
their carcase fall thereon, it
shall be unclean unto you.
39 And if any beast, of
which ye may eat, die; he that
toucheth the carcase thereof
shall be unclean until the
even.
40 And he that eateth of
the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the
even: he also that beareth the
carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the
even.
41 And every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the
earth shall be an abomination; it
shall not be eaten.
42 Whatsoever goeth upon
the belly, and whatsoever goeth
upon all four, or whatsoever hath
more feet among all creeping
things that creep upon the earth,
them ye shall not eat; for they
are an abomination.
43 Ye shall not make
yourselves abominable with any
creeping thing that creepeth,
neither shall ye make yourselves
unclean with them, that ye should
be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the LORD your
God: ye shall therefore sanctify
yourselves, and ye shall be holy;
for I am holy: neither shall ye
defile yourselves with any manner
of creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
45 For I am the LORD that
bringeth you up out of the land
of Egypt, to be your God: ye
shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy.
46 This is the law of the
beasts, and of the fowl, and of
every living creature that moveth
in the waters, and of every
creature that creepeth upon the
earth:
47 To make a difference
between the unclean and the
clean, and between the beast that
may be eaten and the beast that
may not be eaten.
Chapter 12
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, If a woman
have conceived seed, and born a
man child: then she shall be
unclean seven days; according to
the days of the separation for
her infirmity shall she be
unclean.
3 And in the eighth day
the flesh of his foreskin shall
be circumcised.
4 And she shall then
continue in the blood of her
purifying three and thirty days;
she shall touch no hallowed
thing, nor come into the
sanctuary, until the days of her
purifying be fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid
child, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as in her separation:
and she shall continue in the
blood of her purifying threescore
and six days.
6 And when the days of her
purifying are fulfilled, for a
son, or for a daughter, she shall
bring a lamb of the first year
for a burnt offering, and a young
pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
sin offering, unto the door of
the tabernacle of the
congregation, unto the
priest:
7 Who shall offer it
before the LORD, and make an
atonement for her; and she shall
be cleansed from the issue of her
blood. This is the law for her
that hath born a male or a
female.
8 And if she be not able
to bring a lamb, then she shall
bring two turtles, or two young
pigeons; the one for the burnt
offering, and the other for a sin
offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for her, and
she shall be clean.
Chapter 13
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 When a man shall have in
the skin of his flesh a rising, a
scab, or a bright spot, and it be
in the skin of his flesh like the
plague of leprosy; then he shall
be brought unto Aaron the priest,
or unto one of his sons the
priests:
3 And the priest shall
look on the plague in the skin of
the flesh: and when the hair in
the plague is turned white, and
the plague in sight be deeper
than the skin of his flesh, it is
a plague of leprosy: and the
priest shall look on him, and
pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be
white in the skin of his flesh,
and in sight be not deeper than
the skin, and the hair thereof be
not turned white; then the priest
shall shut up him that hath the
plague seven days:
5 And the priest shall
look on him the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague in his
sight be at a stay, and the
plague spread not in the skin;
then the priest shall shut him up
seven days more:
6 And the priest shall
look on him again the seventh
day: and, behold, if the plague
be somewhat dark, and the plague
spread not in the skin, the
priest shall pronounce him clean:
it is but a scab: and he shall
wash his clothes, and be
clean.
7 But if the scab spread
much abroad in the skin, after
that he hath been seen of the
priest for his cleansing, he
shall be seen of the priest
again:
8 And if the priest see
that, behold, the scab spreadeth
in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it
is a leprosy.
9 When the plague of
leprosy is in a man, then he
shall be brought unto the
priest;
10 And the priest shall
see him: and, behold, if the
rising be white in the skin, and
it have turned the hair white,
and there be quick raw flesh in
the rising;
11 It is an old leprosy in
the skin of his flesh, and the
priest shall pronounce him
unclean, and shall not shut him
up: for he is unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break
out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of him
that hath the plague from his
head even to his foot,
wheresoever the priest
looketh;
13 Then the priest shall
consider: and, behold, if the
leprosy have covered all his
flesh, he shall pronounce him
clean that hath the plague: it is
all turned white: he is
clean.
14 But when raw flesh
appeareth in him, he shall be
unclean.
15 And the priest shall
see the raw flesh, and pronounce
him to be unclean: for the raw
flesh is unclean: it is a
leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh
turn again, and be changed unto
white, he shall come unto the
priest;
17 And the priest shall
see him: and, behold, if the
plague be turned into white; then
the priest shall pronounce him
clean that hath the plague: he is
clean.
18 The flesh also, in
which, even in the skin thereof,
was a boil, and is healed,
19 And in the place of the
boil there be a white rising, or
a bright spot, white, and
somewhat reddish, and it be
shewed to the priest;
20 And if, when the priest
seeth it, behold, it be in sight
lower than the skin, and the hair
thereof be turned white; the
priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a plague of
leprosy broken out of the
boil.
21 But if the priest look
on it, and, behold, there be no
white hairs therein, and if it be
not lower than the skin, but be
somewhat dark; then the priest
shall shut him up seven days:
22 And if it spread much
abroad in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a plague.
23 But if the bright spot
stay in his place, and spread
not, it is a burning boil; and
the priest shall pronounce him
clean.
24 Or if there be any
flesh, in the skin whereof there
is a hot burning, and the quick
flesh that burneth have a white
bright spot, somewhat reddish, or
white;
25 Then the priest shall
look upon it: and, behold, if the
hair in the bright spot be turned
white, and it be in sight deeper
than the skin; it is a leprosy
broken out of the burning:
wherefore the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is the
plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest look
on it, and, behold, there be no
white hair in the bright spot,
and it be no lower than the other
skin, but be somewhat dark; then
the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
27 And the priest shall
look upon him the seventh day:
and if it be spread much abroad
in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it
is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot
stay in his place, and spread not
in the skin, but it be somewhat
dark; it is a rising of the
burning, and the priest shall
pronounce him clean: for it is an
inflammation of the burning.
29 If a man or woman have
a plague upon the head or the
beard;
30 Then the priest shall
see the plague: and, behold, if
it be in sight deeper than the
skin; and there be in it a yellow
thin hair; then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is a
dry scall, even a leprosy upon
the head or beard.
31 And if the priest look
on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, it be not in sight deeper
than the skin, and that there is
no black hair in it; then the
priest shall shut up him that
hath the plague of the scall
seven days:
32 And in the seventh day
the priest shall look on the
plague: and, behold, if the scall
spread not, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the scall be not
in sight deeper than the
skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but
the scall shall he not shave; and
the priest shall shut up him that
hath the scall seven days
more:
34 And in the seventh day
the priest shall look on the
scall: and, behold, if the scall
be not spread in the skin, nor be
in sight deeper than the skin;
then the priest shall pronounce
him clean: and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread
much in the skin after his
cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall
look on him: and, behold, if the
scall be spread in the skin, the
priest shall not seek for yellow
hair; he is unclean.
37 But if the scall be in
his sight at a stay, and that
there is black hair grown up
therein; the scall is healed, he
is clean: and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
38 If a man also or a
woman have in the skin of their
flesh bright spots, even white
bright spots;
39 Then the priest shall
look: and, behold, if the bright
spots in the skin of their flesh
be darkish white; it is a
freckled spot that groweth in the
skin; he is clean.
40 And the man whose hair
is fallen off his head, he is
bald; yet is he clean.
41 And he that hath his
hair fallen off from the part of
his head toward his face, he is
forehead bald: yet is he
clean.
42 And if there be in the
bald head, or bald forehead, a
white reddish sore; it is a
leprosy sprung up in his bald
head, or his bald forehead.
43 Then the priest shall
look upon it: and, behold, if the
rising of the sore be white
reddish in his bald head, or in
his bald forehead, as the leprosy
appeareth in the skin of the
flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he
is unclean: the priest shall
pronounce him utterly unclean;
his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper in whom
the plague is, his clothes shall
be rent, and his head bare, and
he shall put a covering upon his
upper lip, and shall cry,
Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein
the plague shall be in him he
shall be defiled; he is unclean:
he shall dwell alone; without the
camp shall his habitation be.
47 The garment also that
the plague of leprosy is in,
whether it be a woollen garment,
or a linen garment;
48 Whether it be in the
warp, or woof; of linen, or of
woollen; whether in a skin, or in
any thing made of skin;
49 And if the plague be
greenish or reddish in the
garment, or in the skin, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin; it is a
plague of leprosy, and shall be
shewed unto the priest:
50 And the priest shall
look upon the plague, and shut up
it that hath the plague seven
days:
51 And he shall look on
the plague on the seventh day: if
the plague be spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or
in the woof, or in a skin, or in
any work that is made of skin;
the plague is a fretting leprosy;
it is unclean.
52 He shall therefore burn
that garment, whether warp or
woof, in woollen or in linen, or
any thing of skin, wherein the
plague is: for it is a fretting
leprosy; it shall be burnt in the
fire.
53 And if the priest shall
look, and, behold, the plague be
not spread in the garment, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin;
54 Then the priest shall
command that they wash the thing
wherein the plague is, and he
shall shut it up seven days
more:
55 And the priest shall
look on the plague, after that it
is washed: and, behold, if the
plague have not changed his
colour, and the plague be not
spread; it is unclean; thou shalt
burn it in the fire; it is fret
inward, whether it be bare within
or without.
56 And if the priest look,
and, behold, the plague be
somewhat dark after the washing
of it; then he shall rend it out
of the garment, or out of the
skin, or out of the warp, or out
of the woof:
57 And if it appear still
in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in any
thing of skin; it is a spreading
plague: thou shalt burn that
wherein the plague is with
fire.
58 And the garment, either
warp, or woof, or whatsoever
thing of skin it be, which thou
shalt wash, if the plague be
departed from them, then it shall
be washed the second time, and
shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the
plague of leprosy in a garment of
woollen or linen, either in the
warp, or woof, or any thing of
skins, to pronounce it clean, or
to pronounce it unclean.
Chapter 14
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of
the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought
unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go
forth out of the camp; and the
priest shall look, and, behold,
if the plague of leprosy be
healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest
command to take for him that is
to be cleansed two birds alive
and clean, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall
command that one of the birds be
killed in an earthen vessel over
running water:
6 As for the living bird,
he shall take it, and the cedar
wood, and the scarlet, and the
hyssop, and shall dip them and
the living bird in the blood of
the bird that was killed over the
running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle
upon him that is to be cleansed
from the leprosy seven times, and
shall pronounce him clean, and
shall let the living bird loose
into the open field.
8 And he that is to be
cleansed shall wash his clothes,
and shave off all his hair, and
wash himself in water, that he
may be clean: and after that he
shall come into the camp, and
shall tarry abroad out of his
tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the
seventh day, that he shall shave
all his hair off his head and his
beard and his eyebrows, even all
his hair he shall shave off: and
he shall wash his clothes, also
he shall wash his flesh in water,
and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day
he shall take two he lambs
without blemish, and one ewe lamb
of the first year without
blemish, and three tenth deals of
fine flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of
oil.
11 And the priest that
maketh him clean shall present
the man that is to be made clean,
and those things, before the
LORD, at the door of the
tabernacle of the
congregation:
12 And the priest shall
take one he lamb, and offer him
for a trespass offering, and the
log of oil, and wave them for a
wave offering before the
LORD:
13 And he shall slay the
lamb in the place where he shall
kill the sin offering and the
burnt offering, in the holy
place: for as the sin offering is
the priest's, so is the trespass
offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall
take some of the blood of the
trespass offering, and the priest
shall put it upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall
take some of the log of oil, and
pour it into the palm of his own
left hand:
16 And the priest shall
dip his right finger in the oil
that is in his left hand, and
shall sprinkle of the oil with
his finger seven times before the
LORD:
17 And of the rest of the
oil that is in his hand shall the
priest put upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon
the blood of the trespass
offering:
18 And the remnant of the
oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall pour upon the head of
him that is to be cleansed: and
the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the
LORD.
19 And the priest shall
offer the sin offering, and make
an atonement for him that is to
be cleansed from his uncleanness;
and afterward he shall kill the
burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall
offer the burnt offering and the
meat offering upon the altar: and
the priest shall make an
atonement for him, and he shall
be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and
cannot get so much; then he shall
take one lamb for a trespass
offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth
deal of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering, and a
log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or
two young pigeons, such as he is
able to get; and the one shall be
a sin offering, and the other a
burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them
on the eighth day for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, before the
LORD.
24 And the priest shall
take the lamb of the trespass
offering, and the log of oil, and
the priest shall wave them for a
wave offering before the
LORD:
25 And he shall kill the
lamb of the trespass offering,
and the priest shall take some of
the blood of the trespass
offering, and put it upon the tip
of the right ear of him that is
to be cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon
the great toe of his right
foot:
26 And the priest shall
pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall
sprinkle with his right finger
some of the oil that is in his
left hand seven times before the
LORD:
28 And the priest shall
put of the oil that is in his
hand upon the tip of the right
ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon
the place of the blood of the
trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil
that is in the priest's hand he
shall put upon the head of him
that is to be cleansed, to make
an atonement for him before the
LORD.
30 And he shall offer the
one of the turtledoves, or of the
young pigeons, such as he can
get;
31 Even such as he is able
to get, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a
burnt offering, with the meat
offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him that is
to be cleansed before the
LORD.
32 This is the law of him
in whom is the plague of leprosy,
whose hand is not able to get
that which pertaineth to his
cleansing.
33 And the LORD spake unto
Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into
the land of Canaan, which I give
to you for a possession, and I
put the plague of leprosy in a
house of the land of your
possession;
35 And he that owneth the
house shall come and tell the
priest, saying, It seemeth to me
there is as it were a plague in
the house:
36 Then the priest shall
command that they empty the
house, before the priest go into
it to see the plague, that all
that is in the house be not made
unclean: and afterward the priest
shall go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on
the plague, and, behold, if the
plague be in the walls of the
house with hollow strakes,
greenish or reddish, which in
sight are lower than the
wall;
38 Then the priest shall
go out of the house to the door
of the house, and shut up the
house seven days:
39 And the priest shall
come again the seventh day, and
shall look: and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the walls of
the house;
40 Then the priest shall
command that they take away the
stones in which the plague is,
and they shall cast them into an
unclean place without the
city:
41 And he shall cause the
house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out
the dust that they scrape off
without the city into an unclean
place:
42 And they shall take
other stones, and put them in the
place of those stones; and he
shall take other morter, and
shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come
again, and break out in the
house, after that he hath taken
away the stones, and after he
hath scraped the house, and after
it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall
come and look, and, behold, if
the plague be spread in the
house, it is a fretting leprosy
in the house: it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down
the house, the stones of it, and
the timber thereof, and all the
morter of the house; and he shall
carry them forth out of the city
into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth
into the house all the while that
it is shut up shall be unclean
until the even.
47 And he that lieth in
the house shall wash his clothes;
and he that eateth in the house
shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall
come in, and look upon it, and,
behold, the plague hath not
spread in the house, after the
house was plaistered: then the
priest shall pronounce the house
clean, because the plague is
healed.
49 And he shall take to
cleanse the house two birds, and
cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the
one of the birds in an earthen
vessel over running water:
51 And he shall take the
cedar wood, and the hyssop, and
the scarlet, and the living bird,
and dip them in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running
water, and sprinkle the house
seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse
the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water,
and with the living bird, and
with the cedar wood, and with the
hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the
living bird out of the city into
the open fields, and make an
atonement for the house: and it
shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all
manner of plague of leprosy, and
scall,
55 And for the leprosy of
a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and
for a scab, and for a bright
spot:
57 To teach when it is
unclean, and when it is clean:
this is the law of leprosy.
Chapter 15
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man hath a running issue
out of his flesh, because of his
issue he is unclean.
3 And this shall be his
uncleanness in his issue: whether
his flesh run with his issue, or
his flesh be stopped from his
issue, it is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he
lieth that hath the issue, is
unclean: and every thing, whereon
he sitteth, shall be unclean.
5 And whosoever toucheth
his bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
6 And he that sitteth on
any thing whereon he sat that
hath the issue shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the
even.
7 And he that toucheth the
flesh of him that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
8 And if he that hath the
issue spit upon him that is
clean; then he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the
even.
9 And what saddle soever
he rideth upon that hath the
issue shall be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth
any thing that was under him
shall be unclean until the even:
and he that beareth any of those
things shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
11 And whomsoever he
toucheth that hath the issue, and
hath not rinsed his hands in
water, he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of
earth, that he toucheth which
hath the issue, shall be broken:
and every vessel of wood shall be
rinsed in water.
13 And when he that hath
an issue is cleansed of his
issue; then he shall number to
himself seven days for his
cleansing, and wash his clothes,
and bathe his flesh in running
water, and shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day
he shall take to him two
turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, and come before the LORD
unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and give
them unto the priest:
15 And the priest shall
offer them, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a
burnt offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him
before the LORD for his
issue.
16 And if any man's seed
of copulation go out from him,
then he shall wash all his flesh
in water, and be unclean until
the even.
17 And every garment, and
every skin, whereon is the seed
of copulation, shall be washed
with water, and be unclean until
the even.
18 The woman also with
whom man shall lie with seed of
copulation, they shall both bathe
themselves in water, and be
unclean until the even.
19 And if a woman have an
issue, and her issue in her flesh
be blood, she shall be put apart
seven days: and whosoever
toucheth her shall be unclean
until the even.
20 And every thing that
she lieth upon in her separation
shall be unclean: every thing
also that she sitteth upon shall
be unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth
her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
22 And whosoever toucheth
any thing that she sat upon shall
wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
23 And if it be on her
bed, or on any thing whereon she
sitteth, when he toucheth it, he
shall be unclean until the
even.
24 And if any man lie with
her at all, and her flowers be
upon him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and all the bed
whereon he lieth shall be
unclean.
25 And if a woman have an
issue of her blood many days out
of the time of her separation, or
if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the
issue of her uncleanness shall be
as the days of her separation:
she shall be unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she
lieth all the days of her issue
shall be unto her as the bed of
her separation: and whatsoever
she sitteth upon shall be
unclean, as the uncleanness of
her separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth
those things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed
of her issue, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and
after that she shall be
clean.
29 And on the eighth day
she shall take unto her two
turtles, or two young pigeons,
and bring them unto the priest,
to the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
30 And the priest shall
offer the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt
offering; and the priest shall
make an atonement for her before
the LORD for the issue of her
uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate
the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in
their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is
among them.
32 This is the law of him
that hath an issue, and of him
whose seed goeth from him, and is
defiled therewith;
33 And of her that is sick
of her flowers, and of him that
hath an issue, of the man, and of
the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.
Chapter 16
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses after the death of the
two sons of Aaron, when they
offered before the LORD, and
died;
2 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy
brother, that he come not at all
times into the holy place within
the vail before the mercy seat,
which is upon the ark; that he
die not: for I will appear in the
cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come
into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a
ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy
linen coat, and he shall have the
linen breeches upon his flesh,
and shall be girded with a linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre
shall he be attired: these are
holy garments; therefore shall he
wash his flesh in water, and so
put them on.
5 And he shall take of the
congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for
a sin offering, and one ram for a
burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer
his bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make an
atonement for himself, and for
his house.
7 And he shall take the
two goats, and present them
before the LORD at the door of
the tabernacle of the
congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast
lots upon the two goats; one lot
for the LORD, and the other lot
for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring
the goat upon which the LORD's
lot fell, and offer him for a sin
offering.
10 But the goat, on which
the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be presented alive before
the LORD, to make an atonement
with him, and to let him go for a
scapegoat into the
wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring
the bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and shall
make an atonement for himself,
and for his house, and shall kill
the bullock of the sin offering
which is for himself:
12 And he shall take a
censer full of burning coals of
fire from off the altar before
the LORD, and his hands full of
sweet incense beaten small, and
bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the
incense upon the fire before the
LORD, that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy seat
that is upon the testimony, that
he die not:
14 And he shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it with his finger upon
the mercy seat eastward; and
before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his
finger seven times.
15 Then shall he kill the
goat of the sin offering, that is
for the people, and bring his
blood within the vail, and do
with that blood as he did with
the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat,
and before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an
atonement for the holy place,
because of the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, and because
of their transgressions in all
their sins: and so shall he do
for the tabernacle of the
congregation, that remaineth
among them in the midst of their
uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no
man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to
make an atonement in the holy
place, until he come out, and
have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household,
and for all the congregation of
Israel.
18 And he shall go out
unto the altar that is before the
LORD, and make an atonement for
it; and shall take of the blood
of the bullock, and of the blood
of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round
about.
19 And he shall sprinkle
of the blood upon it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse
it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of
Israel.
20 And when he hath made
an end of reconciling the holy
place, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the altar, he
shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay
both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over
him all the iniquities of the
children of Israel, and all their
transgressions in all their sins,
putting them upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by
the hand of a fit man into the
wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear
upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited: and he
shall let go the goat in the
wilderness.
23 And Aaron shall come
into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall put off
the linen garments, which he put
on when he went into the holy
place, and shall leave them
there:
24 And he shall wash his
flesh with water in the holy
place, and put on his garments,
and come forth, and offer his
burnt offering, and the burnt
offering of the people, and make
an atonement for himself, and for
the people.
25 And the fat of the sin
offering shall he burn upon the
altar.
26 And he that let go the
goat for the scapegoat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh
in water, and afterward come into
the camp.
27 And the bullock for the
sin offering, and the goat for
the sin offering, whose blood was
brought in to make atonement in
the holy place, shall one carry
forth without the camp; and they
shall burn in the fire their
skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
28 And he that burneth
them shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the
camp.
29 And this shall be a
statute for ever unto you: that
in the seventh month, on the
tenth day of the month, ye shall
afflict your souls, and do no
work at all, whether it be one of
your own country, or a stranger
that sojourneth among you:
30 For on that day shall
the priest make an atonement for
you, to cleanse you, that ye may
be clean from all your sins
before the LORD.
31 It shall be a sabbath
of rest unto you, and ye shall
afflict your souls, by a statute
for ever.
32 And the priest, whom he
shall anoint, and whom he shall
consecrate to minister in the
priest's office in his father's
stead, shall make the atonement,
and shall put on the linen
clothes, even the holy
garments:
33 And he shall make an
atonement for the holy sanctuary,
and he shall make an atonement
for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar,
and he shall make an atonement
for the priests, and for all the
people of the congregation.
34 And this shall be an
everlasting statute unto you, to
make an atonement for the
children of Israel for all their
sins once a year. And he did as
the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter 17
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron, and
unto his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto
them; This is the thing which the
LORD hath commanded, saying,
3 What man soever there be
of the house of Israel, that
killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat,
in the camp, or that killeth it
out of the camp,
4 And bringeth it not unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer an
offering unto the LORD before the
tabernacle of the LORD; blood
shall be imputed unto that man;
he hath shed blood; and that man
shall be cut off from among his
people:
5 To the end that the
children of Israel may bring
their sacrifices, which they
offer in the open field, even
that they may bring them unto the
LORD, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest, and offer them
for peace offerings unto the
LORD.
6 And the priest shall
sprinkle the blood upon the altar
of the LORD at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
and burn the fat for a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
7 And they shall no more
offer their sacrifices unto
devils, after whom they have gone
a whoring. This shall be a
statute for ever unto them
throughout their generations.
8 And thou shalt say unto
them, Whatsoever man there be of
the house of Israel, or of the
strangers which sojourn among
you, that offereth a burnt
offering of sacrifice,
9 And bringeth it not unto
the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer it unto
the LORD; even that man shall be
cut off from among his
people.
10 And whatsoever man
there be of the house of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn
among you, that eateth any manner
of blood; I will even set my face
against that soul that eateth
blood, and will cut him off from
among his people.
11 For the life of the
flesh is in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to
make an atonement for your souls:
for it is the blood that maketh
an atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said unto
the children of Israel, No soul
of you shall eat blood, neither
shall any stranger that
sojourneth among you eat
blood.
13 And whatsoever man
there be of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn among you, which hunteth
and catcheth any beast or fowl
that may be eaten; he shall even
pour out the blood thereof, and
cover it with dust.
14 For it is the life of
all flesh; the blood of it is for
the life thereof: therefore I
said unto the children of Israel,
Ye shall eat the blood of no
manner of flesh: for the life of
all flesh is the blood thereof:
whosoever eateth it shall be cut
off.
15 And every soul that
eateth that which died of itself,
or that which was torn with
beasts, whether it be one of your
own country, or a stranger, he
shall both wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even: then
shall he be clean.
16 But if he wash them
not, nor bathe his flesh; then he
shall bear his iniquity.
Chapter 18
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them, I
am the LORD your God.
3 After the doings of the
land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt,
shall ye not do: and after the
doings of the land of Canaan,
whither I bring you, shall ye not
do: neither shall ye walk in
their ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my
judgments, and keep mine
ordinances, to walk therein: I am
the LORD your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep
my statutes, and my judgments:
which if a man do, he shall live
in them: I am the LORD.
6 None of you shall
approach to any that is near of
kin to him, to uncover their
nakedness: I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of thy
father, or the nakedness of thy
mother, shalt thou not uncover:
she is thy mother; thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy
father's wife shalt thou not
uncover: it is thy father's
nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy
sister, the daughter of thy
father, or daughter of thy
mother, whether she be born at
home, or born abroad, even their
nakedness thou shalt not
uncover.
10 The nakedness of thy
son's daughter, or of thy
daughter's daughter, even their
nakedness thou shalt not uncover:
for theirs is thine own
nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy
father's wife's daughter,
begotten of thy father, she is
thy sister, thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy father's
sister: she is thy father's near
kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy mother's
sister: for she is thy mother's
near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy father's
brother, thou shalt not approach
to his wife: she is thine
aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy daughter in
law: she is thy son's wife; thou
shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy brother's
wife: it is thy brother's
nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take
her son's daughter, or her
daughter's daughter, to uncover
her nakedness; for they are her
near kinswomen: it is
wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take
a wife to her sister, to vex her,
to uncover her nakedness, beside
the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not
approach unto a woman to uncover
her nakedness, as long as she is
put apart for her
uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not
lie carnally with thy neighbour's
wife, to defile thyself with
her.
21 And thou shalt not let
any of thy seed pass through the
fire to Molech, neither shalt
thou profane the name of thy God:
I am the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with
mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie
with any beast to defile thyself
therewith: neither shall any
woman stand before a beast to lie
down thereto: it is
confusion.
24 Defile not ye
yourselves in any of these
things: for in all these the
nations are defiled which I cast
out before you:
25 And the land is
defiled: therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it, and the
land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep
my statutes and my judgments, and
shall not commit any of these
abominations; neither any of your
own nation, nor any stranger that
sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these
abominations have the men of the
land done, which were before you,
and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not
you out also, when ye defile it,
as it spued out the nations that
were before you.
29 For whosoever shall
commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit them
shall be cut off from among their
people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep
mine ordinance, that ye commit
not any one of these abominable
customs, which were committed
before you, and that ye defile
not yourselves therein: I am the
LORD your God.
Chapter 19
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto all the
congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye
shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God am holy.
3 Ye shall fear every man
his mother, and his father, and
keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD
your God.
4 Turn ye not unto idols,
nor make to yourselves molten
gods: I am the LORD your God.
5 And if ye offer a
sacrifice of peace offerings unto
the LORD, ye shall offer it at
your own will.
6 It shall be eaten the
same day ye offer it, and on the
morrow: and if ought remain until
the third day, it shall be burnt
in the fire.
7 And if it be eaten at
all on the third day, it is
abominable; it shall not be
accepted.
8 Therefore every one that
eateth it shall bear his
iniquity, because he hath
profaned the hallowed thing of
the LORD: and that soul shall be
cut off from among his
people.
9 And when ye reap the
harvest of your land, thou shalt
not wholly reap the corners of
thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy
harvest.
10 And thou shalt not
glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather every grape of thy
vineyard; thou shalt leave them
for the poor and stranger: I am
the LORD your God.
11 Ye shall not steal,
neither deal falsely, neither lie
one to another.
12 And ye shall not swear
by my name falsely, neither shalt
thou profane the name of thy God:
I am the LORD.
13 Thou shalt not defraud
thy neighbour, neither rob him:
the wages of him that is hired
shall not abide with thee all
night until the morning.
14 Thou shalt not curse
the deaf, nor put a
stumblingblock before the blind,
but shalt fear thy God: I am the
LORD.
15 Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment: thou
shalt not respect the person of
the poor, nor honour the person
of the mighty: but in
righteousness shalt thou judge
thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up
and down as a talebearer among
thy people: neither shalt thou
stand against the blood of thy
neighbour: I am the LORD.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy
brother in thine heart: thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy
neighbour, and not suffer sin
upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge,
nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou
shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself: I am the LORD.
19 Ye shall keep my
statutes. Thou shalt not let thy
cattle gender with a diverse
kind: thou shalt not sow thy
field with mingled seed: neither
shall a garment mingled of linen
and woollen come upon thee.
20 And whosoever lieth
carnally with a woman, that is a
bondmaid, betrothed to an
husband, and not at all redeemed,
nor freedom given her; she shall
be scourged; they shall not be
put to death, because she was not
free.
21 And he shall bring his
trespass offering unto the LORD,
unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, even a ram
for a trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall
make an atonement for him with
the ram of the trespass offering
before the LORD for his sin which
he hath done: and the sin which
he hath done shall be forgiven
him.
23 And when ye shall come
into the land, and shall have
planted all manner of trees for
food, then ye shall count the
fruit thereof as uncircumcised:
three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall
not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year
all the fruit thereof shall be
holy to praise the LORD
withal.
25 And in the fifth year
shall ye eat of the fruit
thereof, that it may yield unto
you the increase thereof: I am
the LORD your God.
26 Ye shall not eat any
thing with the blood: neither
shall ye use enchantment, nor
observe times.
27 Ye shall not round the
corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy
beard.
28 Ye shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon
you: I am the LORD.
29 Do not prostitute thy
daughter, to cause her to be a
whore; lest the land fall to
whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my
sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
31 Regard not them that
have familiar spirits, neither
seek after wizards, to be defiled
by them: I am the LORD your
God.
32 Thou shalt rise up
before the hoary head, and honour
the face of the old man, and fear
thy God: I am the LORD.
33 And if a stranger
sojourn with thee in your land,
ye shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that
dwelleth with you shall be unto
you as one born among you, and
thou shalt love him as thyself;
for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.
35 Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, or in
measure.
36 Just balances, just
weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD
your God, which brought you out
of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye
observe all my statutes, and all
my judgments, and do them: I am
the LORD.
Chapter 20
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Again, thou shalt say to
the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn
in Israel, that giveth any of his
seed unto Molech; he shall surely
be put to death: the people of
the land shall stone him with
stones.
3 And I will set my face
against that man, and will cut
him off from among his people;
because he hath given of his seed
unto Molech, to defile my
sanctuary, and to profane my holy
name.
4 And if the people of the
land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of
his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
5 Then I will set my face
against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and
all that go a whoring after him,
to commit whoredom with Molech,
from among their people.
6 And the soul that
turneth after such as have
familiar spirits, and after
wizards, to go a whoring after
them, I will even set my face
against that soul, and will cut
him off from among his
people.
7 Sanctify yourselves
therefore, and be ye holy: for I
am the LORD your God.
8 And ye shall keep my
statutes, and do them: I am the
LORD which sanctify you.
9 For every one that
curseth his father or his mother
shall be surely put to death: he
hath cursed his father or his
mother; his blood shall be upon
him.
10 And the man that
committeth adultery with another
man's wife, even he that
committeth adultery with his
neighbour's wife, the adulterer
and the adulteress shall surely
be put to death.
11 And the man that lieth
with his father's wife hath
uncovered his father's nakedness:
both of them shall surely be put
to death; their blood shall be
upon them.
12 And if a man lie with
his daughter in law, both of them
shall surely be put to death:
they have wrought confusion;
their blood shall be upon
them.
13 If a man also lie with
mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have
committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon
them.
14 And if a man take a
wife and her mother, it is
wickedness: they shall be burnt
with fire, both he and they; that
there be no wickedness among
you.
15 And if a man lie with a
beast, he shall surely be put to
death: and ye shall slay the
beast.
16 And if a woman approach
unto any beast, and lie down
thereto, thou shalt kill the
woman, and the beast: they shall
surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them.
17 And if a man shall take
his sister, his father's
daughter, or his mother's
daughter, and see her nakedness,
and she see his nakedness; it is
a wicked thing; and they shall be
cut off in the sight of their
people: he hath uncovered his
sister's nakedness; he shall bear
his iniquity.
18 And if a man shall lie
with a woman having her sickness,
and shall uncover her nakedness;
he hath discovered her fountain,
and she hath uncovered the
fountain of her blood: and both
of them shall be cut off from
among their people.
19 And thou shalt not
uncover the nakedness of thy
mother's sister, nor of thy
father's sister: for he
uncovereth his near kin: they
shall bear their iniquity.
20 And if a man shall lie
with his uncle's wife, he hath
uncovered his uncle's nakedness:
they shall bear their sin; they
shall die childless.
21 And if a man shall take
his brother's wife, it is an
unclean thing: he hath uncovered
his brother's nakedness; they
shall be childless.
22 Ye shall therefore keep
all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: that the
land, whither I bring you to
dwell therein, spue you not
out.
23 And ye shall not walk
in the manners of the nation,
which I cast out before you: for
they committed all these things,
and therefore I abhorred
them.
24 But I have said unto
you, Ye shall inherit their land,
and I will give it unto you to
possess it, a land that floweth
with milk and honey: I am the
LORD your God, which have
separated you from other
people.
25 Ye shall therefore put
difference between clean beasts
and unclean, and between unclean
fowls and clean: and ye shall not
make your souls abominable by
beast, or by fowl, or by any
manner of living thing that
creepeth on the ground, which I
have separated from you as
unclean.
26 And ye shall be holy
unto me: for I the LORD am holy,
and have severed you from other
people, that ye should be
mine.
27 A man also or woman
that hath a familiar spirit, or
that is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death: they shall stone
them with stones: their blood
shall be upon them.
Chapter 21
1 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Speak unto the
priests the sons of Aaron, and
say unto them, There shall none
be defiled for the dead among his
people:
2 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,
3 And for his sister a
virgin, that is nigh unto him,
which hath had no husband; for
her may he be defiled.
4 But he shall not defile
himself, being a chief man among
his people, to profane
himself.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him
therefore; for he offereth the
bread of thy God: he shall be
holy unto thee: for I the LORD,
which sanctify you, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any
priest, if she profane herself by
playing the whore, she profaneth
her father: she shall be burnt
with fire.
10 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;
11 Neither shall he go in
to any dead body, nor defile
himself for his father, or for
his mother;
12 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.
13 And he shall take a
wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced
woman, or profane, or an harlot,
these shall he not take: but he
shall take a virgin of his own
people to wife.
15 Neither shall he
profane his seed among his
people: for I the LORD do
sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron,
saying, Whosoever he be of thy
seed in their generations that
hath any blemish, let him not
approach to offer the bread of
his God.
18 For whatsoever man he
be that hath a blemish, he shall
not approach: a blind man, or a
lame, or he that hath a flat
nose, or any thing
superfluous,
19 Or a man that is
brokenfooted, or
brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a
dwarf, or that hath a blemish in
his eye, or be scurvy, or
scabbed, or hath his stones
broken;
21 No man that hath a
blemish of the seed of Aaron the
priest shall come nigh to offer
the offerings of the LORD made by
fire: he hath a blemish; he shall
not come nigh to offer the bread
of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread
of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy.
23 Only he shall not go in
unto the vail, nor come nigh unto
the altar, because he hath a
blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do
sanctify them.
24 And Moses told it unto
Aaron, and to his sons, and unto
all the children of Israel.
Chapter 22
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto Aaron and to
his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things
of the children of Israel, and
that they profane not my holy
name in those things which they
hallow unto me: I am the
LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever
he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goeth unto the
holy things, which the children
of Israel hallow unto the LORD,
having his uncleanness upon him,
that soul shall be cut off from
my presence: I am the LORD.
4 What man soever of the
seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath
a running issue; he shall not eat
of the holy things, until he be
clean. And whoso toucheth any
thing that is unclean by the
dead, or a man whose seed goeth
from him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth
any creeping thing, whereby he
may be made unclean, or a man of
whom he may take uncleanness,
whatsoever uncleanness he
hath;
6 The soul which hath
touched any such shall be unclean
until even, and shall not eat of
the holy things, unless he wash
his flesh with water.
7 And when the sun is
down, he shall be clean, and
shall afterward eat of the holy
things; because it is his
food.
8 That which dieth of
itself, or is torn with beasts,
he shall not eat to defile
himself therewith: I am the
LORD.
9 They shall therefore
keep mine ordinance, lest they
bear sin for it, and die
therefore, if they profane it: I
the LORD do sanctify them.
10 There shall no stranger
eat of the holy thing: a
sojourner of the priest, or an
hired servant, shall not eat of
the holy thing.
11 But if the priest buy
any soul with his money, he shall
eat of it, and he that is born in
his house: they shall eat of his
meat.
12 If the priest's
daughter also be married unto a
stranger, she may not eat of an
offering of the holy things.
13 But if the priest's
daughter be a widow, or divorced,
and have no child, and is
returned unto her father's house,
as in her youth, she shall eat of
her father's meat: but there
shall no stranger eat
thereof.
14 And if a man eat of the
holy thing unwittingly, then he
shall put the fifth part thereof
unto it, and shall give it unto
the priest with the holy
thing.
15 And they shall not
profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they
offer unto the LORD;
16 Or suffer them to bear
the iniquity of trespass, when
they eat their holy things: for I
the LORD do sanctify them.
17 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto Aaron, and
to his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto
them, Whatsoever he be 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;
19 Ye shall offer at your
own will a male without blemish,
of the beeves, of the sheep, or
of the goats.
20 But whatsoever hath a
blemish, that shall ye not offer:
for it shall not be acceptable
for you.
21 And whosoever offereth
a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD to accomplish his
vow, or a freewill offering in
beeves or sheep, it shall be
perfect to be accepted; there
shall be no blemish therein.
22 Blind, or broken, or
maimed, or having a wen, or
scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not
offer these unto the LORD, nor
make an offering by fire of them
upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a
lamb that hath any thing
superfluous or lacking in his
parts, that mayest thou offer for
a freewill offering; but for a
vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto
the LORD that which is bruised,
or crushed, or broken, or cut;
neither shall ye make any
offering thereof in your
land.
25 Neither from a
stranger's hand shall ye offer
the bread of your God of any of
these; because their corruption
is in them, and blemishes be in
them: they shall not be accepted
for you.
26 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
27 When a bullock, or a
sheep, or a goat, is brought
forth, then it shall be seven
days under the dam; and from the
eighth day and thenceforth it
shall be accepted for an offering
made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And whether it be cow
or ewe, ye shall not kill it and
her young both in one day.
29 And when ye will offer
a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto
the LORD, offer it at your own
will.
30 On the same day it
shall be eaten up; ye shall leave
none of it until the morrow: I am
the LORD.
31 Therefore shall ye keep
my commandments, and do them: I
am the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye
profane my holy name; but I will
be hallowed among the children of
Israel: I am the LORD which
hallow you,
33 That brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to be your
God: I am the LORD.
Chapter 23
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the
LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
be holy convocations, even these
are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be
done: but the seventh day is the
sabbath of rest, an holy
convocation; ye shall do no work
therein: it is the sabbath of the
LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of
the LORD, even holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their
seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of
the first month at even is the
LORD's passover.
6 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.
7 In the first day ye
shall have an holy convocation:
ye shall do no servile work
therein.
8 But ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD seven days: in the seventh
day is an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work
therein.
9 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come 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:
11 And he shall wave the
sheaf before the LORD, to be
accepted for you: on the morrow
after the sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that
day when ye wave the sheaf an he
lamb without blemish of the first
year for a burnt offering unto
the LORD.
13 And the meat offering
thereof shall be two tenth deals
of fine flour mingled with oil,
an offering made by fire unto the
LORD for a sweet savour: and the
drink offering thereof shall be
of wine, the fourth part of an
hin.
14 And ye shall eat
neither bread, nor parched corn,
nor green ears, until the
selfsame day that ye have brought
an offering unto your God: it
shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto
you from the morrow after the
sabbath, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the wave
offering; seven sabbaths shall be
complete:
16 Even unto the morrow
after the seventh sabbath shall
ye number fifty days; and ye
shall offer a new meat offering
unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of
your habitations two wave loaves
of two tenth deals: they shall be
of fine flour; they shall be
baken with leaven; they are the
firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 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 meat offering, and their
drink offerings, even an offering
made by fire, of sweet savour
unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice
one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the
first year for a sacrifice of
peace offerings.
20 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 holy to the
LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim
on the selfsame day, that it may
be an holy convocation unto you:
ye shall do no servile work
therein: it shall be a statute
for ever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
22 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
unto the poor, and to the
stranger: I am the LORD your
God.
23 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, In the seventh
month, in the first day of the
month, shall ye have a sabbath, a
memorial of blowing of trumpets,
an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile
work therein: but ye shall offer
an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day
of this seventh month there shall
be a day of atonement: it shall
be an holy convocation unto you;
and ye shall afflict your souls,
and offer an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work
in that same day: for it is a day
of atonement, to make an
atonement for you before the LORD
your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it
be that shall not be afflicted in
that same day, he shall be cut
off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it
be that doeth any work in that
same day, the same soul will I
destroy from among his
people.
31 Ye shall do no manner
of work: it shall be a statute
for ever throughout your
generations in all your
dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a
sabbath of rest, and ye shall
afflict your souls: in the ninth
day of the month at even, from
even unto even, shall ye
celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, The fifteenth
day of this seventh month shall
be the feast of tabernacles for
seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day shall
be an holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall
offer an offering made by fire
unto the LORD: on the eighth day
shall be an holy convocation unto
you; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a solemn assembly;
and ye shall do no servile work
therein.
37 These are the feasts of
the LORD, which ye shall proclaim
to be holy convocations, to offer
an offering made by fire unto the
LORD, a burnt offering, and a
meat offering, a sacrifice, and
drink offerings, every thing upon
his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of
the LORD, and beside your gifts,
and beside all your vows, and
beside all your freewill
offerings, which ye give unto the
LORD.
39 Also 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: on the first
day shall be a sabbath, and on
the eighth day shall be a
sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you
on the first day the boughs of
goodly trees, branches of palm
trees, and the boughs of thick
trees, and willows of the brook;
and ye shall rejoice before the
LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a
feast unto the LORD seven days in
the year. It shall be a statute
for ever in your generations: ye
shall celebrate it in the seventh
month.
42 Ye shall dwell in
booths seven days; all that are
Israelites born shall dwell in
booths:
43 That your generations
may know that I made the children
of Israel to dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the
land of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.
44 And Moses declared unto
the children of Israel the feasts
of the LORD.
Chapter 24
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of
Israel, that they bring unto thee
pure oil olive beaten for the
light, to cause the lamps to burn
continually.
3 Without the vail of the
testimony, in the tabernacle of
the congregation, shall Aaron
order it from the evening unto
the morning before the LORD
continually: it shall be a
statute for ever in your
generations.
4 He shall order the lamps
upon the pure candlestick before
the LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine
flour, and bake twelve cakes
thereof: two tenth deals shall be
in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them
in two rows, six on a row, upon
the pure table before the
LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure
frankincense upon each row, that
it may be on the bread for a
memorial, even an offering made
by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall
set it in order before the LORD
continually, being taken from the
children of Israel by an
everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's
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 made by
fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an
Israelitish woman, whose father
was an Egyptian, went out among
the children of Israel: and this
son of the Israelitish woman and
a man of Israel strove together
in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish
woman's son blasphemed the name
of the LORD, and cursed. And they
brought him unto Moses: (and his
mother's name was Shelomith, the
daughter of Dibri, of the tribe
of Dan:)
12 And they put him in
ward, that the mind of the LORD
might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth him that
hath cursed without the camp; and
let all that heard him lay their
hands upon his head, and let all
the congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel,
saying, Whosoever curseth his God
shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth
the name of the LORD, he shall
surely be put to death, and all
the congregation shall certainly
stone him: as well the stranger,
as he that is born in the land,
when he blasphemeth the name of
the LORD, shall be put to
death.
17 And he that killeth any
man shall surely be put to
death.
18 And he that killeth a
beast shall make it good; beast
for beast.
19 And if a man cause a
blemish in his neighbour; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to
him;
20 Breach for breach, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth: as he
hath caused a blemish in a man,
so shall it be done to him
again.
21 And he that killeth a
beast, he shall restore it: and
he that killeth a man, he shall
be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one
manner of law, as well for the
stranger, as for one of your own
country: for I am the LORD your
God.
23 And Moses spake to the
children of Israel, that they
should bring forth him that had
cursed out of the camp, and stone
him with stones. And the children
of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Chapter 25
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses in mount Sinai,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land which
I give you, then shall the land
keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow
thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and
gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year
shall be a sabbath of rest unto
the land, a sabbath for the LORD:
thou shalt neither sow thy field,
nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of
its own accord of thy harvest
thou shalt not reap, neither
gather the grapes of thy vine
undressed: for it is a year of
rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the
land shall be meat for you; for
thee, and for thy servant, and
for thy maid, and for thy hired
servant, and for thy stranger
that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and
for the beast that are in thy
land, shall all the increase
thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number
seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, seven times seven years;
and the space of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be unto
thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause
the trumpet of the jubile to
sound on the tenth day of the
seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall ye make the
trumpet sound throughout all your
land.
10 And ye shall hallow the
fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof:
it shall be a jubile unto you;
and ye shall return every man
unto his possession, and ye shall
return every man unto his
family.
11 A jubile shall that
fiftieth year be unto you: ye
shall not sow, neither reap that
which groweth of itself in it,
nor gather the grapes in it of
thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile;
it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof
out of the field.
13 In the year of this
jubile ye shall return every man
unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought
unto thy neighbour, or buyest
ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye
shall not oppress one
another:
15 According to the number
of years after the jubile thou
shalt buy of thy neighbour, and
according unto the number of
years of the fruits he shall sell
unto thee:
16 According to the
multitude of years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and
according to the fewness of years
thou shalt diminish the price of
it: for according to the number
of the years of the fruits doth
he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore
oppress one another; but thou
shalt fear thy God: for I am the
LORD your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do
my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and ye
shall dwell in the land in
safety.
19 And the land shall
yield her fruit, and he shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in
safety.
20 And if ye shall say,
What shall we eat the seventh
year? behold, we shall not sow,
nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my
blessing upon you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth
fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the
eighth year, and eat yet of old
fruit until the ninth year; until
her fruits come in ye shall eat
of the old store.
23 The land shall not be
sold for ever: for the land is
mine; for ye are strangers and
sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of
your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen
poor, and hath sold away some of
his possession, and if any of his
kin come to redeem it, then shall
he redeem that which his brother
sold.
26 And if the man have
none to redeem it, and himself be
able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the
years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man
to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able
to restore it to him, then that
which is sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it
until the year of jubile: and in
the jubile it shall go out, and
he shall return unto his
possession.
29 And if a man sell a
dwelling house in a walled city,
then he may redeem it within a
whole year after it is sold;
within a full year may he redeem
it.
30 And if it be not
redeemed within the space of a
full year, then the house that is
in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that
bought it throughout his
generations: it shall not go out
in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the
villages which have no wall round
about them shall be counted as
the fields of the country: they
may be redeemed, and they shall
go out in the jubile.
32 Notwithstanding the
cities of the Levites, and the
houses of the cities of their
possession, may the Levites
redeem at any time.
33 And if a man purchase
of the Levites, then the house
that was sold, and the city of
his possession, shall go out in
the year of jubile: for the
houses of the cities of the
Levites are their possession
among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the
suburbs of their cities may not
be sold; for it is their
perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother be
waxen poor, and fallen in decay
with thee; then thou shalt
relieve him: yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner; that he
may live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of
him, or increase: but fear thy
God; that thy brother may live
with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him
thy money upon usury, nor lend
him thy victuals for
increase.
38 I am the LORD your God,
which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, to give you
the land of Canaan, and to be
your God.
39 And if thy brother that
dwelleth by thee be waxen poor,
and be sold unto thee; thou shalt
not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
40 But as an hired
servant, and as a sojourner, he
shall be with thee, and shall
serve thee unto the year of
jubile:
41 And then shall he
depart from thee, both he and his
children with him, and shall
return unto his own family, and
unto the possession of his
fathers shall he return.
42 For they are my
servants, which I brought forth
out of the land of Egypt: they
shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule
over him with rigour; but shalt
fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and
thy bondmaids, which thou shalt
have, shall be of the heathen
that are round about you; of them
shall ye buy bondmen and
bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the
children of the strangers that do
sojourn among you, of them shall
ye buy, and of their families
that are with you, which they
begat in your land: and they
shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them
as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherit
them for a possession; they shall
be your bondmen for ever: but
over your brethren the children
of Israel, ye shall not rule one
over another with rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or
stranger wax rich by thee, and
thy brother that dwelleth by him
wax poor, and sell himself unto
the stranger or sojourner by
thee, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold
he may be redeemed again; one of
his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or
his uncle's son, may redeem him,
or any that is nigh of kin unto
him of his family may redeem him;
or if he be able, he may redeem
himself.
50 And he shall reckon
with him that bought him from the
year that he was sold to him unto
the year of jubile: and the price
of his sale shall be according
unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired
servant shall it be with him.
51 If there be yet many
years behind, according unto them
he shall give again the price of
his redemption out of the money
that he was bought for.
52 And if there remain but
few years unto the year of
jubile, then he shall count with
him, and according unto his years
shall he give him again the price
of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired
servant shall he be with him: and
the other shall not rule with
rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not
redeemed in these years, then he
shall go out in the year of
jubile, both he, and his children
with him.
55 For unto me the
children of Israel are servants;
they are my servants whom I
brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: I am the LORD your
God.
Chapter 26
1 Ye shall make you no
idols nor graven image, neither
rear you up a standing image,
neither shall ye set up any image
of stone in your land, to bow
down unto it: for I am the LORD
your God.
2 Ye shall keep my
sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3 If ye walk in my
statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you
rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the
trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall
reach unto the vintage, and the
vintage shall reach unto the
sowing time: and ye shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell
in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in
the land, and ye shall lie down,
and none shall make you afraid:
and I will rid evil beasts out of
the land, neither shall the sword
go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your
enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall
chase an hundred, and an hundred
of you shall put ten thousand to
flight: and your enemies shall
fall before you by the sword.
9 For I will have respect
unto you, and make you fruitful,
and multiply you, and establish
my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old
store, and bring forth the old
because of the new.
11 And I will set my
tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among
you, and will be your God, and ye
shall be my people.
13 I am the LORD your God,
which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, that ye should
not be their bondmen; and I have
broken the bands of your yoke,
and made you go upright.
14 But if ye will not
hearken unto me, and will not do
all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise
my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye
will not do all my commandments,
but that ye break my
covenant:
16 I also will do this
unto you; I will even appoint
over you terror, consumption, and
the burning ague, that shall
consume the eyes, and cause
sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow
your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face
against you, and ye shall be
slain before your enemies: they
that hate you shall reign over
you; and ye shall flee when none
pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet
for all this hearken unto me,
then I will punish you seven
times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the
pride of your power; and I will
make your heaven as iron, and
your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall
be spent in vain: for your land
shall not yield her increase,
neither shall the trees of the
land yield their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary
unto me, and will not hearken
unto me; I will bring seven times
more plagues upon you according
to your sins.
22 I will also send wild
beasts among you, which shall rob
you of your children, and destroy
your cattle, and make you few in
number; and your highways shall
be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be
reformed by me by these things,
but will walk contrary unto
me;
24 Then will I also walk
contrary unto you, and will
punish you yet seven times for
your sins.
25 And I will bring a
sword upon you, that shall avenge
the quarrel of my covenant: and
when ye are gathered together
within your cities, I will send
the pestilence among you; and ye
shall be delivered into the hand
of the enemy.
26 And when I have broken
the staff of your bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in
one oven, and they shall deliver
you your bread again by weight:
and ye shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for
all this hearken unto me, but
walk contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk
contrary unto you also in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you
seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the
flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye
eat.
30 And I will destroy your
high places, and cut down your
images, and cast your carcases
upon the carcases of your idols,
and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your
cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and
I will not smell the savour of
your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the
land into desolation: and your
enemies which dwell therein shall
be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you
among the heathen, and will draw
out a sword after you: and your
land shall be desolate, and your
cities waste.
34 Then shall the land
enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye be in your
enemies' land; even then shall
the land rest, and enjoy her
sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth
desolate it shall rest; because
it did not rest in your sabbaths,
when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are
left alive of you I will send a
faintness into their hearts in
the lands of their enemies; and
the sound of a shaken leaf shall
chase them; and they shall flee,
as fleeing from a sword; and they
shall fall when none
pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one
upon another, as it were before a
sword, when none pursueth: and ye
shall have no power to stand
before your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish
among the heathen, and the land
of your enemies shall eat you
up.
39 And they that are left
of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands;
and also in the iniquities of
their fathers shall they pine
away with them.
40 If they shall confess
their iniquity, and the iniquity
of their fathers, with their
trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they
have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have
walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land
of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my
covenant with Jacob, and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham will I
remember; and I will remember the
land.
43 The land also shall be
left of them, and shall enjoy her
sabbaths, while she lieth
desolate without them: and they
shall accept of the punishment of
their iniquity: because, even
because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that,
when they be in the land of their
enemies, I will not cast them
away, neither will I abhor them,
to destroy them utterly, and to
break my covenant with them: for
I am the LORD their God.
45 But I will for their
sakes remember the covenant of
their ancestors, whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt in
the sight of the heathen, that I
might be their God: I am the
LORD.
46 These are the statutes
and judgments and laws, which the
LORD made between him and the
children of Israel in mount Sinai
by the hand of Moses.
Chapter 27
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them,
When a man shall make a singular
vow, the persons shall be for the
LORD by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall
be of the male from twenty years
old even unto sixty years old,
even thy estimation shall be
fifty shekels of silver, after
the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female,
then thy estimation shall be
thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five
years old even unto twenty years
old, then thy estimation shall be
of the male twenty shekels, and
for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a
month old even unto five years
old, then thy estimation shall be
of the male five shekels of
silver, and for the female thy
estimation shall be three shekels
of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty
years old and above; if it be a
male, then thy estimation shall
be fifteen shekels, and for the
female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than
thy estimation, then he shall
present himself before the
priest, and the priest shall
value him; according to his
ability that vowed shall the
priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast,
whereof men bring an offering
unto the LORD, all that any man
giveth of such unto the LORD
shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it,
nor change it, a good for a bad,
or a bad for a good: and if he
shall at all change beast for
beast, then it and the exchange
thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any
unclean beast, of which they do
not offer a sacrifice unto the
LORD, then he shall present the
beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall
value it, whether it be good or
bad: as thou valuest it, who art
the priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will at all
redeem it, then he shall add a
fifth part thereof unto thy
estimation.
14 And when a man shall
sanctify his house to be holy
unto the LORD, then the priest
shall estimate it, whether it be
good or bad: as the priest shall
estimate it, so shall it
stand.
15 And if he that
sanctified it will redeem his
house, then he shall add the
fifth part of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall
be his.
16 And if a man shall
sanctify unto the LORD some part
of a field of his possession,
then thy estimation shall be
according to the seed thereof: an
homer of barley seed shall be
valued at fifty shekels of
silver.
17 If he sanctify his
field from the year of jubile,
according to thy estimation it
shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his
field after the jubile, then the
priest shall reckon unto him the
money according to the years that
remain, even unto the year of the
jubile, and it shall be abated
from thy estimation.
19 And if he that
sanctified the field will in any
wise redeem it, then he shall add
the fifth part of the money of
thy estimation unto it, and it
shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not
redeem the field, or if he have
sold the field to another man, it
shall not be redeemed any
more.
21 But the field, when it
goeth out in the jubile, shall be
holy unto the LORD, as a field
devoted; the possession thereof
shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify
unto the LORD a field which he
hath bought, which is not of the
fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall
reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, even unto the year of
the jubile: and he shall give
thine estimation in that day, as
a holy thing unto the LORD.
24 In the year of the
jubile the field shall return
unto him of whom it was bought,
even to him to whom the
possession of the land did
belong.
25 And all thy estimations
shall be according to the shekel
of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs
shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of
the beasts, which should be the
LORD's firstling, no man shall
sanctify it; whether it be ox, or
sheep: it is the LORD's.
27 And if it be of an
unclean beast, then he shall
redeem it according to thine
estimation, and shall add a fifth
part of it thereto: or if it be
not redeemed, then it shall be
sold according to thy
estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no
devoted thing, that a man shall
devote unto the LORD of all that
he hath, both of man and beast,
and of the field of his
possession, shall be sold or
redeemed: every devoted thing is
most holy unto the LORD.
29 None devoted, which
shall be devoted of men, shall be
redeemed; but shall surely be put
to death.
30 And all the tithe of
the land, whether of the seed of
the land, or of the fruit of the
tree, is the LORD's: it is holy
unto the LORD.
31 And if a man will at
all redeem ought of his tithes,
he shall add thereto the fifth
part thereof.
32 And concerning the
tithe of the herd, or of the
flock, even of whatsoever passeth
under the rod, the tenth shall be
holy unto the LORD.
33 He shall not search
whether it be good or bad,
neither shall he change it: and
if he change it at all, then both
it and the change thereof shall
be holy; it shall not be
redeemed.
34 These are the
commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses for the children
of Israel in mount Sinai.
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