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Leviticus: AESV
Chapter 1
1:1 Mar-Yah called to Mosha, and spoke to him out of the Tabernacle, saying,
1:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an
offering to Mar-Yah, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the
herd and from the flock.
1:3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male
without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tabernacle, that he may
be accepted before Mar-Yah. 1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt
offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 1:5 He
shall kill the bull before Mar-Yah. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present
the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the
Tabernacle. 1:6 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. 1:7
The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order
on the fire; 1:8 and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head,
and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; 1:9
but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn
the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a
pleasant fragrance to Mar-Yah.
1:10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats,
for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish. 1:11 He shall kill
it on the north side of the altar before Mar-Yah. Aaron’s sons, the priests,
shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 1:12 He shall cut it into its
pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the
wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, 1:13 but the innards and the
legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on
the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Mar-Yah.
1:14 “‘If his offering to Mar-Yah is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall
offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. 1:15 The priest shall
bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and
its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; 1:16 and he shall take
away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in
the place of the ashes. 1:17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not
divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on
the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma
to Mar-Yah.
Chapter 2
2:1 “‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to
Mar-Yah, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and
put frankincense on it. 2:2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests; and
he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its
frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 2:3 That which is left of the
meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the
offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire.
2:4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall
be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed
with oil. 2:5 If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be
of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. 2:6 You shall cut it in pieces, and
pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. 2:7 If your offering is a meal offering
of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 2:8 You shall bring the
meal offering that is made of these things to Mar-Yah: and it shall be
presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. 2:9 The priest
shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 2:10 That which is
left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a thing most
holy of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire.
2:11 “‘No meal offering, which you shall offer to Mar-Yah, shall be made with
yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire
to Mar-Yah. 2:12 As an offering of first-fruits you shall offer them to
Mar-Yah: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on the altar. 2:13
Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall
you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal
offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
2:14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Mar-Yah, you shall offer
for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire,
bruised grain of the fresh ear. 2:15 You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense
on it: it is a meal offering. 2:16 The priest shall burn as its memorial, part
of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it
is an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah.
Chapter 3
3:1 “‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from
the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before
Mar-Yah. 3:2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at
the door of the Tabernacle: and Aaron’s sons, the priests shall sprinkle the
blood around on the altar. 3:3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah; the fat that covers the innards,
and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the
kidneys, he shall take away. 3:5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the
burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah.
3:6 “‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Mar-Yah is from the
flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 3:7 If he offers a
lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Mar-Yah; 3:8 and he shall
lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tabernacle:
and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 3:9 He shall
offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to
Mar-Yah; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the
backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the
inwards, 3:10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the
loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:11
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by
fire to Mar-Yah.
3:12 “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Mar-Yah: 3:13
and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tabernacle; and
the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 3:14 He shall
offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah; the fat
that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:15 and the
two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 3:16 The priest shall burn
them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant
aroma; all the fat is Mar-Yah’s.
3:17 “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your
dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
Chapter 4
4:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 4:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying,
‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Mar-Yah has
commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: 4:3 if the anointed priest
sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which
he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Mar-Yah for a sin offering. 4:4
He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tabernacle before Mar-Yah; and he
shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Mar-Yah.
4:5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to
the Tabernacle. 4:6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle
some of the blood seven times before Mar-Yah, before the veil of the sanctuary.
4:7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet
incense before Mar-Yah, which is in the Tabernacle; and he shall pour out all
of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering,
which is at the door of the Tabernacle. 4:8 He shall take all the fat of the
bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all
the fat that is on the innards, 4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he
shall take away, 4:10 as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace
offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 4:11 The
bull’s skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and
its dung, 4:12 even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean
place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the
ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
4:13 “‘If the whole congregation of Yisrael sins, and the thing is hidden from
the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Mar-Yah
has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; 4:14 when the sin in which they
have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin
offering, and bring it before the Tabernacle. 4:15 The elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Mar-Yah; and the bull
shall be killed before Mar-Yah. 4:16 The anointed priest shall bring of the
blood of the bull to the Tabernacle: 4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Mar-Yah, before the veil. 4:18
He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before
Mar-Yah, that is in the Tabernacle; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out
at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the
Tabernacle. 4:19 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.
4:20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin
offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them,
and they shall be forgiven. 4:21 He shall carry forth the bull outside the
camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the
assembly.
4:22 “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which
Mar-Yah his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:23 if his sin,
in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a
goat, a male without blemish. 4:24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the
goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before
Mar-Yah. It is a sin offering. 4:25 The priest shall take some of the blood of
the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt
offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of
burnt offering. 4:26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of
the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
4:27 “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the
things which Mar-Yah has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:28 if his
sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his
offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.
4:29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin
offering in the place of burnt offering. 4:30 The priest shall take some of its
blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and
the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 4:31 All its
fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of
peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma
to Mar-Yah; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be
forgiven.
4:32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a
female without blemish. 4:33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt
offering. 4:34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with
his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the
rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. 4:35 All its fat
he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice
of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the
offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
Chapter 5
5:1 “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a
witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not report it, then he shall
bear his iniquity.
5:2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an
unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean
creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be
guilty.
5:3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with
which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he
shall be guilty.
5:4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good,
whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden
from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. 5:5 It
shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he
has sinned: 5:6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Mar-Yah for his sin
which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin
offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
5:7 “‘If he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for
that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Mar-Yah;
one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 5:8 He shall bring
them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering,
and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely. 5:9 He
shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar;
and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is
a sin offering. 5:10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according
to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his
sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
5:11 “‘But if he cannot afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he
shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an
efah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall
he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 5:12 He shall bring it
to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial
portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire. It
is a sin offering. 5:13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his
sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the
rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”
5:14 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 5:15 “If anyone commits
a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Mar-Yah; then he shall
bring his trespass offering to Mar-Yah, a ram without blemish from the flock,
according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 5:16 He shall make restitution for that
which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it,
and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the
ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
5:17 “If anyone sins, and does any of the things which
Mar-Yah has commanded not to be done; though he did not know it, yet he is
guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. 5:18 He shall bring a ram without blemish
from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to
the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in
which he sinned and did not know it, and he will be forgiven. 5:19 It is a
trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Mar-Yah.”
Chapter 6
6:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:2 “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass
against Mar-Yah, and deals falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit,
or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbour, 6:3 or has found
that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any
of all these things that a man does, sinning therein; 6:4 then it shall be, if
he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery,
or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was
committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 6:5 or any thing about
which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a
fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day
of his being found guilty. 6:6 He shall bring his trespass offering to Mar-Yah,
a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, for a
trespass offering, to the priest. 6:7 The priest shall make atonement for him
before Mar-Yah, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become
guilty.”
6:8 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the
hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar
shall be kept burning on it. 6:10 The priest shall put on his linen garment,
and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the
ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he
shall put them beside the altar. 6:11 He shall take off his garments, and put
on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 6:12
The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the
priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering
in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 6:13
Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:14 “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it
before Mar-Yah, before the altar. 6:15 He shall take from there his handful of
the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense
which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant
aroma, as its memorial, to Mar-Yah. 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his
sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat
it in the court of the Tabernacle 6:17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have
given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the
sin offering, and as the trespass offering. 6:18 Every male among the children
of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations,
from the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”
6:19 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:20 “This is the offering of Aaron and of
his sons, which they shall offer to Mar-Yah in the day when he is anointed: the
tenth part of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it
in the morning, and half of it in the evening. 6:21 It shall be made with oil
in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the
meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Mar-Yah. 6:22 The
anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it.
By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to Mar-Yah. 6:23 Every meal
offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
6:24 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 6:25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt
offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Mar-Yah. It is most
holy. 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in
a holy place, in the court of the Tabernacle. 6:27 Whatever shall touch its
flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you
shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. 6:28 But the earthen
vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze
vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 6:29 Every male among the
priests shall eat of it: it is most holy. 6:30 No sin offering, of which any of
the blood is brought into the Tabernacle to make atonement in the Holy Place,
shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
Chapter 7
7:1 “‘This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy. 7:2 In the
place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering;
and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. 7:3 He shall offer all of
its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 7:4 and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on
the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; 7:5 and the priest shall burn
them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah: it is a trespass
offering. 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in
a holy place. It is most holy.
7:7 “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for
them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. 7:8 The priest
who offers any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the
skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. 7:9 Every meal offering that
is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle,
shall be the priest’s who offers it. 7:10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil
or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
7:11 “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall
offer to Mar-Yah. 7:12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. 7:13 With cakes
of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace
offerings for thanksgiving. 7:14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering
for a heave offering to Mar-Yah. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the
blood of the peace offerings. 7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall
not leave any of it until the morning.
7:16 “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering,
it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day
what remains of it shall be eaten: 7:17 but what remains of the flesh of the
sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. 7:18 If any of the flesh
of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not
be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an
abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
7:19 “‘The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be
burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it; 7:20 but
the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that
belongs to Mar-Yah, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off
from his people. 7:21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of
man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the
flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Mar-Yah, that soul
shall be cut off from his people.’”
7:22 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 7:23 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying,
‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. 7:24 The fat of that which
dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for
any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. 7:25 For whoever eats the
fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah, even
the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. 7:26 You shall not eat
any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. 7:27
Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
7:28 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 7:29 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying,
‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Mar-Yah shall bring his
offering to Mar-Yah out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 7:30 With his
own hands he shall bring the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire. He shall bring
the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering
before Mar-Yah. 7:31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast
shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. 7:32 The right thigh you shall give to the
priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 7:33
He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the
fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. 7:34 For the waved breast and
the heaved thigh I have taken from the B’nai Yisrael out of the sacrifices of
their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons
as their portion forever from the B’nai Yisrael.’”
7:35 This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his
sons, out of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire, in the day when he
presented them to minister to Mar-Yah in the priest’s office; 7:36 which
Mar-Yah commanded to be given them of the B’nai Yisrael, in the day that he
anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. 7:37
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin
offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the
sacrifice of peace offerings; 7:38 which Mar-Yah commanded Mosha in Mount
Sinai, in the day that he commanded the B’nai Yisrael to offer their offerings
to Mar-Yah, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
8:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 8:2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and
the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the
two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 8:3 and assemble all the
congregation at the door of the Tabernacle.”
8:4 Mosha did as Mar-Yah commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at
the door of the Tabernacle. 8:5 Mosha said to the congregation, “This is the
thing which Mar-Yah has commanded to be done.” 8:6 Mosha brought Aaron and his
sons, and washed them with water. 8:7 He put the coat on him, tied the sash on
him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skilfully
woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it. 8:8 He placed
the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.
8:9 He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the
golden plate, the holy crown; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha. 8:10 Mosha took the
anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and
sanctified them. 8:11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed
the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
8:12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to
sanctify him. 8:13 Mosha brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and
tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
8:14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 8:15 He killed it; and Mosha
took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and
purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 8:16 He took all the fat that was on
the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat;
and Mosha burned it on the altar. 8:17 But the bull, and its skin, and its
flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Mar-Yah commanded
Mosha. 8:18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands on the head of the ram. 8:19 He killed it; and Mosha sprinkled
the blood around on the altar. 8:20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Mosha
burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat. 8:21 He washed the innards and
the legs with water; and Mosha burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a
burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to
Mar-Yah; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha. 8:22 He presented the other ram, the ram
of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the
ram. 8:23 He killed it; and Mosha took some of its blood, and put it on the tip
of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe
of his right foot. 8:24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Mosha put some of the
blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and
on the great toe of their right foot; and Mosha sprinkled the blood around on
the altar. 8:25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on
the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat,
and the right thigh; 8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was
before Mar-Yah, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and
one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh. 8:27 He put all
these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave
offering before Mar-Yah. 8:28 Mosha took them from their hands, and burned them
on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant
aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah. 8:29 Mosha took the breast,
and waved it for a wave offering before Mar-Yah. It was Mosha’s portion of the
ram of consecration, as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha. 8:30 Mosha took some of the
anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it
on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him,
and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with
him.
8:31 Mosha said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the door of the
Tabernacle, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of
consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’ 8:32
What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire. 8:33 You
shall not go out from the door of the Tabernacle seven days, until the days of
your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. 8:34
What has been done this day, so Mar-Yah has commanded to do, to make atonement
for you. 8:35 You shall stay at the door of the Tabernacle day and night seven
days, and keep Mar-Yah’s command, that you do not die: for so I am commanded.”
8:36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Mar-Yah commanded by Mosha.
Chapter 9
9:1 It happened on the eighth day, that Mosha called Aaron and his sons, and
the elders of Yisrael; 9:2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for
a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them
before Mar-Yah. 9:3 You shall speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying, ‘Take a male
goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without
blemish, for a burnt offering; 9:4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to
sacrifice before Mar-Yah; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Mar-Yah
appears to you.’”
9:5 They brought what Mosha commanded before the Tabernacle: and all the
congregation drew near and stood before Mar-Yah. 9:6 Mosha said, “This is the
thing which Mar-Yah commanded that you should do: and the glory of Mar-Yah
shall appear to you.” 9:7 Mosha said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and
offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for
yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make
atonement for them; as Mar-Yah commanded.”
9:8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering,
which was for himself. 9:9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and
poured out the blood at the base of the altar: 9:10 but the fat, and the
kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the
altar; as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha. 9:11 The flesh and the skin he burned with
fire outside the camp. 9:12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons
delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. 9:13 They
delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he
burned them upon the altar. 9:14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned
them on the burnt offering on the altar. 9:15 He presented the offering of the
people, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and
killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 9:16 He presented the burnt
offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. 9:17 He presented the meal
offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides
the burnt offering of the morning. 9:18 He also killed the bull and the ram,
the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons
delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar, 9:19 and
the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the
innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver: 9:20 and they put the fat
upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: 9:21 and the breasts and
the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Mar-Yah, as Mosha
commanded. 9:22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them;
and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and
the peace offerings.
9:23 Mosha and Aaron went into the Tabernacle, and came out, and blessed the
people: and the glory of Mar-Yah appeared to all the people. 9:24 There came
forth fire from before Mar-Yah, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat
upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their
faces.
Chapter 10
10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in
it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Mar-Yah, which he
had not commanded them. 10:2 And fire came forth from before Mar-Yah, and
devoured them, and they died before Mar-Yah.
10:3 Then Mosha said to Aaron, “This is what Mar-Yah spoke of, saying,
‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
and before all the people I will be glorified.’”
Aaron held his peace. 10:4 Mosha called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of
Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers
from before the sanctuary out of the camp.” 10:5 So they drew near, and carried
them in their coats out of the camp, as Mosha had said.
10:6 Mosha said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let
the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you do not
die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers,
the whole house of Yisrael, bewail the burning which Mar-Yah has kindled. 10:7
You shall not go out from the door of the Tabernacle, lest you die; for the
anointing oil of Mar-Yah is on you.” They did according to the word of Mosha.
10:8 Mar-Yah spoke to Aaron, saying, 10:9 “Drink no wine nor strong drink, you,
nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tabernacle, that you do not die:
it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: 10:10 and that you
are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the
unclean and the clean; 10:11 and that you are to teach the B’nai Yisrael all
the statutes which Mar-Yah has spoken to them by Mosha.”
10:12 Mosha spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were
left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by
fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 10:13 and
you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’
portion, of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire: for so I am commanded. 10:14
The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and
your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and
your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the B’nai
Yisrael. 10:15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the
offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before
Mar-Yah: and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever;
as Mar-Yah has commanded.”
10:16 Mosha diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and,
behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons
of Aaron who were left, saying, 10:17 “Why have you not eaten the sin offering
in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you
to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before
Mar-Yah? 10:18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the
sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I
commanded.”
10:19 Aaron spoke to Mosha, “Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering
and their burnt offering before Mar-Yah; and such things as these have happened
to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing
in the sight of Mar-Yah?”
10:20 When Mosha heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.
Chapter 11
11:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying to them, 11:2 “Speak to the
B’nai Yisrael, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all
the animals that are on the earth. 11:3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is
cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
11:4 “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of
those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not have
a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. 11:5 The rock badger, because he chews the
cud but does not have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. 11:6 The hare,
because she chews the cud but does not part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
11:7 The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but does not
chew the cud, he is unclean to you. 11:8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and
their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
11:9 “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and
scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. 11:10
All that do not have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all
that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the
waters, they are an abomination to you, 11:11 and you detest them. You shall
not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. 11:12 Whatever
has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
11:13 “‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they
are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture, 11:14
and the red kite, any kind of black kite, 11:15 any kind of raven, 11:16 the
horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk, 11:17 the little
owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the
osprey, 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
11:21 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all
fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth. 11:22
Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of
cricket, and any kind of grasshopper. 11:23 But all winged creeping things
which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
11:24 “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them
shall be unclean until the evening. 11:25 Whoever carries any part of their
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
11:26 “‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews
the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 11:27
Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are
unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. 11:28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
11:29 “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that
creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, 11:30 the
gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
11:31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever
touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening. 11:32 On
whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it
is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is,
with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean
until the evening; then it will be clean. 11:33 Every earthen vessel, into
which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall
break it. 11:34 All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall
be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be
unclean. 11:35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be
unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they
are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. 11:36 Nevertheless a spring or a
cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches
their carcass shall be unclean. 11:37 If part of their carcass falls on any
sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. 11:38 But if water is put on the
seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
11:39 “‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass
shall be unclean until the evening. 11:40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
11:41 “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It
shall not be eaten. 11:42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all
fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the
earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination. 11:43 You shall not
make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall
you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.
11:44 For I am Mar-Yah your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy;
for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping
thing that moves on the earth. 11:45 For I am Mar-Yah who brought you up out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
11:46 “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living
creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the
earth, 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and
between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be
eaten.’”
Chapter 12
12:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 12:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying,
‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven
days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. 12:3 In the
eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 12:4 She shall
continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch
any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying
are completed. 12:5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of
purification sixty-six days.
12:6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a
daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tabernacle, a year
old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin
offering: 12:7 and he shall offer it before Mar-Yah, and make atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
“‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female. 12:8 If she
cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and
the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”
Chapter 13
13:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 13:2 “When a man shall have a
rising in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the
skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the
priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: 13:3 and the priest shall examine
the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned
white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is
the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him
unclean. 13:4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its
appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then
the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. 13:5 The priest
shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is
arrested, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall
isolate him for seven more days. 13:6 The priest shall examine him again on the
seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague has not spread
in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall
wash his clothes, and be clean. 13:7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after
he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to
the priest again. 13:8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab
has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is
leprosy.
13:9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the
priest; 13:10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white
rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in
the rising, 13:11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the
priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is
unclean.
13:12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all
the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it
appears to the priest; 13:13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if
the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the
plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. 13:14 But whenever raw flesh
appears in him, he shall be unclean. 13:15 The priest shall examine the raw
flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
13:16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall
come to the priest; 13:17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the
plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the
plague. He is clean.
13:18 “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, 13:19 and in
the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white,
then it shall be shown to the priest; 13:20 and the priest shall examine it;
and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned
white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
It has broken out in the boil. 13:21 But if the priest examines it, and behold,
there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim,
then the priest shall isolate him seven days. 13:22 If it spreads in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. 13:23 But if the
bright spot stays in its place, and has not spread, it is the scar from the
boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of
the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, 13:25 then the priest
shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white,
and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in
the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of
leprosy. 13:26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white
hair in the bright spot, and it is not lower than the skin, but is faded; then
the priest shall isolate him seven days. 13:27 The priest shall examine him on
the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 13:28 If the bright spot stays in its
place, and has not spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from
the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the
burn.
13:29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, 13:30 then
the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper
than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the
beard. 13:31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance
is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest
shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days. 13:32 On the
seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch has
not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch
is not deeper than the skin, 13:33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not
shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more
days. 13:34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold,
if the itch has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than
the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes,
and be clean. 13:35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
13:36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in
the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
13:37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the
itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even
white bright spots; 13:39 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if
the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless
rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
13:40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean. 13:41
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead
bald. He is clean. 13:42 But if there is in the bald-head, or the bald
forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head,
or his bald forehead. 13:43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if
the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald
forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 13:44 he is
a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean.
His plague is on his head.
13:45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of
his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry,
‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 13:46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall
be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be
his dwelling.
13:47 “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a
woollen garment, or a linen garment; 13:48 whether it is in warp, or woof; of
linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 13:49 if the
plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp,
or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and
shall be shown to the priest. 13:50 The priest shall examine the plague, and
isolate the plague seven days. 13:51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh
day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a
destructive mildew. It is unclean. 13:52 He shall burn the garment, whether the
warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague
is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
13:53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague has not spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 13:54 then
the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and
he shall isolate it seven more days. 13:55 Then the priest shall examine it,
after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague has not changed its
colour, and the plague has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the
fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. 13:56
If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then
he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or
out of the woof: 13:57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn
with fire that in which the plague is. 13:58 The garment, either the warp, or
the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague
has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be
clean.”
13:59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen,
either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean,
or to pronounce it unclean.
Chapter 14
14:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying,
14:2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall
be brought to the priest, 14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp.
The priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in
the leper, 14:4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be
cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 14:5
The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water. 14:6 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. 14:7 He
shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and
shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open
field.
14:8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his
hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall
come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 14:9 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. He shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.
14:10 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one
ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an efah of fine flour
for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 14:11 The priest who
cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before
Mar-Yah, at the door of the Tabernacle.
14:12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a
trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering
before Mar-Yah. 14:13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill
the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as
the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
14:14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the
priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 14:15
The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his
own left hand. 14:16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is
in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven
times before Mar-Yah. 14:17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil
that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon
the blood of the trespass offering. 14:18 The rest of the oil that is in the
priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the
priest shall make atonement for him before Mar-Yah.
14:19 “The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who
is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the
burnt offering; 14:20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he
shall be clean.
14:21 “If he is poor, and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male
lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one
tenth of an efah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log
of oil; 14:22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to
afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
14:23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest,
to the door of the Tabernacle, before Mar-Yah. 14:24 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 Mar-Yah. 14:25 He shall kill the lamb of the
trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 14:26
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 14:27
and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in
his left hand seven times before Mar-Yah. 14:28 Then the priest shall put some
of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right
foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. 14:29 The rest of the
oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be
cleansed, to make atonement for him before Mar-Yah. 14:30 He shall offer one of
the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, 14:31
even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other
for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement
for him who is to be cleansed before Mar-Yah.”
14:32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able
to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
14:33 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 14:34 “When you have come
into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a
spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, 14:35 then he who
owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be
some sort of plague in the house.’ 14:36 The priest shall command that they
empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that
is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to
inspect the house. 14:37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague
is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it
appears to be deeper than the wall; 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the
house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 14:39 The
priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread
in the walls of the house, 14:40 then the priest shall command that they take
out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place
outside of the city: 14:41 and he shall cause the inside of the house to be
scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off,
outside of the city into an unclean place. 14:42 They shall take other stones,
and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and
shall plaster the house.
14:43 “If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has
taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was
plastered; 14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the
plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is
unclean. 14:45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and
all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
14:46 “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean
until the evening. 14:47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes;
and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
14:48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague has
not spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall
pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 14:49 To cleanse the
house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 14:50
He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 14:51
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. 14:52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood
of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar
wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; 14:53 but he shall let the living
bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the
house; and it shall be clean.”
14:54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch, 14:55 and for
the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, 14:56 and for a rising, and
for a scab, and for a bright spot; 14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when
it is clean.
This is the law concerning leprosy.
Chapter 15
15:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and to Aaron, saying, 15:2 “Speak to the B’nai
Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of
his discharge he is unclean. 15:3 This shall be his uncleanness in his
discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped
from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
15:4 “‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and
everything he sits on shall be unclean. 15:5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 15:6
He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
15:10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the
evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:11 “‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his
hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
15:12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be
broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
15:13 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall
count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he
shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
15:14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons,
and come before Mar-Yah to the door of the Tabernacle, and give them to the
priest: 15:15 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before
Mar-Yah for his discharge.
15:16 “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh
in water, and be unclean until the evening. 15:17 Every garment, and every
skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until
the evening. 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of
semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the
evening.
15:19 “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood,
she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be
unclean until the evening.
15:20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean.
Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. 15:21 Whoever touches her
bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the evening. 15:22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 15:23 If
it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall
be unclean until the evening.
15:24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be
unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
15:25 “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of
her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the
days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period:
she is unclean. 15:26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge
shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall
be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period. 15:27 Whoever touches these
things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
15:28 “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to
herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 15:29 On the eighth day
she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the
priest, to the door of the Tabernacle. 15:30 The priest shall offer the one for
a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for her before Mar-Yah for the uncleanness of her discharge. 15:31 “‘Thus
you shall separate the B’nai Yisrael from their uncleanness, so
they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is
in their midst.’”
15:32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an
emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby; 15:33 and of her who has her
period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her
who is unclean.
Chapter 16
16:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when
they drew near before Mar-Yah, and died; 16:2 and Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Tell
Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within
the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will
appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
16:3 “Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 16:4 He shall put on the holy linen
coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the
linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy
garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. 16:5 He shall take
from the congregation of the B’nai Yisrael two male goats for a sin offering,
and one ram for a burnt offering.
16:6 “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and
make atonement for himself and for his house. 16:7 He shall take the two goats,
and set them before Mar-Yah at the door of the Tabernacle. 16:8 Aaron shall
cast lots for the two goats; one lot for Mar-Yah, and the other lot for the
scapegoat. 16:9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Mar-Yah,
and offer him for a sin offering. 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for
the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Mar-Yah, to make atonement for
him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
16:11 “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull
of the sin offering which is for himself. 16:12 He shall take a censer full of
coals of fire from off the altar before Mar-Yah, and two handfuls of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: 16:13 and he shall put the
incense on the fire before Mar-Yah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the
mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die. 16:14 He shall
take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the
mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the
blood with his finger seven times.
16:15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people,
and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the
blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy
seat: 16:16 and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the
uncleanness of the B’nai Yisrael, and because of their transgressions, even all
their sins; and so he shall do for the Tabernacle, that dwells with them in the
midst of their uncleanness. 16:17 There shall be no one in the Tabernacle when
he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made
atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of
Yisrael.
16:18 “He shall go out to the altar that is before Mar-Yah and make atonement
for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood,
and put it around on the horns of the altar. 16:19 He shall sprinkle some of
the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy
from the uncleanness of the B’nai Yisrael.
16:20 “When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tabernacle,
and the altar, he shall present the live goat. 16:21 Aaron shall lay both his
hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of
the B’nai Yisrael, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he
shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness
by the hand of a man who is in readiness. 16:22 The goat shall carry all their
iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the
wilderness.
16:23 “Aaron shall come into the Tabernacle, and shall take off the linen garments,
which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
16:24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his
garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of
the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. 16:25 The fat of
the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
16:26 “He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 16:27 The
bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was
brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside
the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with
fire. 16:28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
16:29 “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth
day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work,
the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: 16:30 for
on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins
you shall be clean before Mar-Yah. 16:31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you,
and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever. 16:32 The priest,
who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place,
shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy
garments. 16:33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he
shall make atonement for the Tabernacle and for the altar; and he shall make
atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
16:34 “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the
B’nai Yisrael once in the year because of all their sins.”
It was done as Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
Chapter 17
17:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 17:2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and
to all the B’nai Yisrael, and say to them: ‘This is the thing which Mar-Yah has
commanded, 17:3 Whatever man there is of the house of Yisrael, who kills a
bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, 17:4 and
has not brought it to the door of the Tabernacle, to offer it as an offering to
Mar-Yah before the tabernacle of Mar-Yah: blood shall be imputed to that man.
He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 17:5
This is to the end that the B’nai Yisrael may bring their sacrifices, which
they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Mar-Yah, to the
door of the Tabernacle, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of
peace offerings to Mar-Yah. 17:6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the
altar of Mar-Yah at the door of the Tabernacle, and burn the fat for a pleasant
aroma to Mar-Yah. 17:7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the
goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute
forever to them throughout their generations.’
17:8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Yisrael, or of
the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or
sacrifice, 17:9 and does not bring it to the door of the Tabernacle, to
sacrifice it to Mar-Yah; that man shall be cut off from his people.
17:10 “‘Any man of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against
that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 17:11 For
the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar
to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by
reason of the life. 17:12 Therefore I have said to the B’nai Yisrael, “No
person among you shall eat blood, and neither shall any stranger who lives as a
foreigner among you eat blood.”
17:13 “‘Whatever man there is of the B’nai Yisrael, or of the strangers who
live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may
be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 17:14 For as to
the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the
B’nai Yisrael, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life
of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
17:15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by
animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be
clean. 17:16 But if he does not wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall
bear his iniquity.’”
Chapter 18
18:1 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, 18:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and say to them,
‘I am Mar-Yah your God. 18:3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt,
where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I
am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes. 18:4 You shall do my
ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Mar-Yah your
God. 18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a
man does, he shall live in them: I am Mar-Yah.
18:6 “‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to
uncover their nakedness: I am Mar-Yah.
18:7 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of
your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:8 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife: it is your
father’s nakedness.
18:9 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your
father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
18:10 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your
daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
18:11 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter,
conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
18:12 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is
your father’s near kinswoman.
18:13 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is
your mother’s near kinswoman.
18:14 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall
not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
18:15 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is
your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:16 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife: it is your
brother’s nakedness.
18:17 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and
her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18:18 “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a
rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
18:19 “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she
is impure by her uncleanness.
18:20 “‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, and defile
yourself with her.
18:21 “‘You shall not permit any of your semen to be within a foreign woman; neither
shall you profane the name of your God: I am Mar-Yah.
18:22 “‘You shall not lie with a man, while with a woman. That is detestable.
18:23 “‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither
shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a
perversion.
18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the
gentiles which I am casting out before you were defiled. 18:25 The land was
defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her
inhabitants. 18:26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and
shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; 18:27 (for all these abominations
have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became
defiled); 18:28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it
vomited out the nation that was before you.
18:29 “‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do
them shall be cut off from among their people. 18:30 Therefore you shall keep
my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs,
which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with
them: I am Mar-Yah your God.’”
Chapter 19
19:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 19:2 “Speak to all the congregation of the
B’nai Yisrael, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I Mar-Yah your God am
holy.
19:3 “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep
my Sabbaths. I am Mar-Yah your God.
19:4 “‘Do not turn to idols, nor make molten deities for yourselves. I am
Mar-Yah your God.
19:5 “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Mar-Yah, you shall
offer it so that you may be accepted. 19:6 It shall be eaten the same day you
offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it
shall be burned with fire. 19:7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is
an abomination. It will not be accepted; 19:8 but everyone who eats it shall
bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Mar-Yah, and that
soul shall be cut off from his people.
19:9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the
corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
19:10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen
grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the
foreigner. I am Mar-Yah your God.
19:11 “‘You shall not steal.
“‘You shall not lie.
“‘You shall not deceive one another.
19:12 “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your
God. I am Mar-Yah.
19:13 “‘You shall not oppress your neighbour, nor rob him.
“‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the
morning.
19:14 “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the
blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Mar-Yah.
19:15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the
poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in
righteousness.
19:16 “‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people.
“‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbour. I am Mar-Yah.
19:17 “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke
your neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.
19:18 “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children
of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am Mar-Yah.
19:19 “‘You shall keep my statutes.
“‘You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals.
“‘you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
“‘neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
19:20 “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be
married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be
punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 19:21 He
shall bring his trespass offering to Mar-Yah, to the door of the Tabernacle,
even a ram for a trespass offering. 19:22 The priest shall make atonement for
him with the ram of the trespass offering before Mar-Yah for his sin which he
has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
19:23 “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for
food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be
forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. 19:24 But in the fourth year all its
fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Mar-Yah. 19:25 In the fifth year you
shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Mar-Yah your
God.
19:26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall
you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
19:27 “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall
you clip off the edge of your beard.
19:28 “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo
any marks on you. I am Mar-Yah.
19:29 “‘Do not profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land
fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
19:30 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Mar-Yah.
19:31 “‘Do not turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Do not seek
them out, to be defiled by them. I am Mar-Yah your God.
19:32 “‘You shall rise up before the grey head, and honour the face of an old
man, and you shall fear your God. I am Mar-Yah.
19:33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not
do him wrong. 19:34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to
you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you
lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Mar-Yah your God.
19:35 “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of
weight, or of quantity. 19:36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a
just efah, and a just hin. I am Mar-Yah your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt.
19:37 “‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them.
I am Mar-Yah.’”
Chapter 20
20:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 20:2 “Moreover, you shall tell the B’nai
Yisrael, ‘Anyone of the B’nai Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners in Yisrael, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be
put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 20:3 I also
will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his
people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and
to profane my holy name. 20:4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes
from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not put him to
death; 20:5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family,
and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the
prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
20:6 “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to
play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person,
and will cut him off from among his people.
20:7 “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Mar-Yah your God.
20:8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Mar-Yah who sanctifies you.
20:9 “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to
death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
20:10 “‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who
commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress
shall surely be put to death.
20:11 “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s
nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon
them.
20:12 “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be
put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
20:13 “‘If a man lies with a male while with a woman, both of them have
committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall
be upon them.
20:14 “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be
burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
20:15 “‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you
shall kill the animal.
20:16 “‘If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill
the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall
be upon them.
20:17 “‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s
daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful
thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people:
he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
20:18 “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her
nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain
of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
20:19 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of
your father’s sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear
their iniquity. 20:20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his
uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
20:21 “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered
his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
20:22 “‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do
them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
20:23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out
before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 20:24
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to
you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Mar-Yah your God,
who has separated you from the peoples.
20:25 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the
unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make
yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the
ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. 20:26 You
shall be holy to me: for I, Mar-Yah, am holy, and have set you apart from the
peoples, that you should be mine.
20:27 “‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put
to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.’”
Chapter 21
21:1 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say
to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people; 21:2
except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father,
for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, 21:3 and for his virgin sister
who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 21:4
He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane
himself.
21:5 “‘They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the
corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 21:6 They shall
be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the
offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall
be holy.
21:7 “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither
shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he
shall be holy to you: for I Mar-Yah, who sanctify you, am holy.
21:9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the
prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.
21:10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the
anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall
not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes; 21:11 neither
shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his
mother; 21:12 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
Mar-Yah.
21:13 “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. 21:14 A widow, or one divorced,
or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but
a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. 21:15 He shall not profane
his seed among his people: for I am Mar-Yah who sanctifies him.’”
21:16 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 21:17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed
throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread
of his God. 21:18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw
near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
21:19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand, 21:20 or
hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching
disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles; 21:21 no man of the seed of
Aaron the priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of
Mar-Yah made by fire. Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer
the bread of his God. 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy. 21:23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near
to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries,
for I am Mar-Yah who sanctifies them.’”
21:24 So Mosha spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the B’nai Yisrael.
Chapter 22
22:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 22:2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate
themselves from the holy things of the B’nai Yisrael, which they make holy to
me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Mar-Yah.
22:3 “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations
approaches the holy things, which the B’nai Yisrael make holy to Mar-Yah,
having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am
Mar-Yah.
22:4 “‘Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not
eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is
unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him; 22:5 or whoever touches
any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may
take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; 22:6 the person that touches any
such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things,
unless he bathe his body in water. 22:7 When the sun is down, he shall be
clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat,
defiling himself by it. I am Mar-Yah.
22:9 “‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it,
and die therein, if they profane it. I am Mar-Yah who sanctifies them.
22:10 “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the
priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 22:11 But if a
priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as
are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. 22:12 If a priest’s
daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of
the holy things. 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and
has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may
eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
22:14 “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth
part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest. 22:15 The
priests shall not profane the holy things of the B’nai Yisrael, which they
offer to Mar-Yah, 22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings
guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Mar-Yah who sanctifies them.’”
22:17 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 22:18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons,
and to all the B’nai Yisrael, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of
Yisrael, or of the foreigners in Yisrael, who offers his offering, whether it
be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to
Mar-Yah for a burnt offering; 22:19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a
male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. 22:20 But
whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be
acceptable for you. 22:21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to
Mar-Yah to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the
flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
22:22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running
sore, you shall not offer these to Mar-Yah, nor make an offering by fire of
them on the altar to Mar-Yah. 22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any
deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering;
but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 22:24 That which has its testicles
bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to Mar-Yah; neither shall
you do thus in your land. 22:25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God
from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in
them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”
22:26 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 22:27 “When a bull, or a sheep, or a
goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the
eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering
made by fire to Mar-Yah. 22:28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill
it and its young both in one day.
22:29 “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Mar-Yah, you shall
sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 22:30 It shall be eaten on the same
day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Mar-Yah.
22:31 “Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Mar-Yah.
22:32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the
B’nai Yisrael. I am Mar-Yah who makes you holy, 22:33 who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Mar-Yah.”
Chapter 23
23:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 23:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell
them, ‘The set feasts of Mar-Yah, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my set feasts.
23:3 “‘Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of
solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. It is a
Sabbath to Mar-Yah in all your dwellings.
23:4 “‘These are the set feasts of Mar-Yah, even holy convocations, which you
shall proclaim in their appointed season. 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month in the evening, is Mar-Yah’s Passover. 23:6 On the fifteenth
day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Mar-Yah. Seven days
you shall eat unleavened bread. 23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy
convocation. You shall do no regular work. 23:8 But you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Mar-Yah seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation:
you shall do no regular work.’”
23:9 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 23:10 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and tell
them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its
the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest
to the priest: 23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Mar-Yah, to be accepted
for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 23:12 On
the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a
year old for a burnt offering to Mar-Yah. 23:13 The meal offering with it shall
be two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made
by fire to Mar-Yah for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall
be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor
roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the
offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
23:15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that
you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty
days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Mar-Yah. 23:17 You shall bring
out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two
tenth parts of an efah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first
fruits to Mar-Yah. 23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without
blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt
offering to Mar-Yah, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even
an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Mar-Yah. 23:19 You shall offer
one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice
of peace offerings. 23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the
first fruits for a wave offering before Mar-Yah, with the two lambs. They shall
be holy to Mar-Yah for the priest. 23:21 You shall make proclamation on the
same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular
work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
23:22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into
the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your
harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Mar-Yah
your God.’”
23:23 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 23:24 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael,
saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn
rest to you, a memorial of blowing of shofars, a holy convocation. 23:25 You
shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to
Mar-Yah.’”
23:26 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 23:27 “However on the tenth day of this
seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you
shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to
Mar-Yah. 23:28 You shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is Yom
Kippur, to make atonement for you before Mar-Yah your God. 23:29 For whoever it
is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his
people. 23:30 Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same day, that
person I will destroy from among his people. 23:31 You shall do no manner of
work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings. 23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall
deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to
evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
23:33 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 23:34 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael, and
say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for
seven days to Mar-Yah. 23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you
shall do no regular work. 23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Mar-Yah. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you
shall offer an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah. It is a solemn assembly; you
shall do no regular work.
23:37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Mar-Yah, which you shall proclaim to
be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Mar-Yah, a burnt
offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its
own day; 23:38 besides the Sabbaths of Mar-Yah, and besides your gifts, and
besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give
to Mar-Yah.
23:39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in
the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Mar-Yah seven days: on the
first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of
palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall
rejoice before Mar-Yah your God seven days. 23:41 You shall keep it a feast to
Mar-Yah seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. 23:42 You shall dwell in
booths seven days. All who are native-born in Yisrael shall dwell in booths,
23:43 that your generations may know that I made the B’nai Yisrael to dwell in
booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Mar-Yah your God.’”
23:44 Mosha declared to the B’nai Yisrael the appointed feasts of Mar-Yah.
Chapter 24
24:1 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 24:2 “Command the B’nai Yisrael, that they
bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually. 24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tabernacle,
shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Mar-Yah
continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 24:4 He
shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold menorah before Mar-Yah continually.
24:5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts
of an efah shall be in one cake. 24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a
row, on the pure gold table before Mar-Yah. 24:7 You shall put pure
frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an
offering made by fire to Mar-Yah. 24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in
order before Mar-Yah continually. It is on the behalf of the B’nai Yisrael an
everlasting covenant. 24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall
eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Mar-Yah
made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
24:10 The son of an Yisraelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out
among the B’nai Yisrael; and the son of the Yisraelite woman and a man of
Yisrael strove together in the camp. 24:11 The son of the Yisraelite woman
blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Mosha. His mother’s
name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 24:12 They put
him in custody, until the will of Mar-Yah should be declared to them.
24:13 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 24:14 “Bring out of the camp him who
cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the
congregation stone him. 24:15 You shall speak to the B’nai Yisrael, saying,
‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 24:16 He who blasphemes the name of
Mar-Yah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly
stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the
Name, shall be put to death.
24:17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. 24:18 He
who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. 24:19 If
anyone injures his neighbour; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone,
so shall it be done to him. 24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good;
and he who kills a man shall be put to death. 24:22 You shall have one kind of
law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Mar-Yah your God.’”
24:23 Mosha spoke to the B’nai Yisrael; and they brought forth him who had
cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The B’nai Yisrael did as
Mar-Yah commanded Mosha.
Chapter 25
25:1 Mar-Yah said to Mosha in Mount Sinai, 25:2 “Speak to the B’nai Yisrael,
and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land
shall keep a Sabbath to Mar-Yah. 25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and
six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; 25:4 but in
the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a
Sabbath to Mar-Yah. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 25:5 What
grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your
undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the
land. 25:6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for
your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who
lives as a foreigner with you. 25:7 For your livestock also, and for the
animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
25:8 “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years;
and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine
years. 25:9 Then you shall sound the loud shofar on the tenth day of the
seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the shofar throughout all
your land. 25:10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and
each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to
his family. 25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall
not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed
vines. 25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its
increase out of the field.
25:13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
25:14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you
shall not wrong one another. 25:15 According to the number of years after the
Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of
the crops he shall sell to you. 25:16 According to the length of the years you
shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall
diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. 25:17 You
shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Mar-Yah your
God.
25:18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them;
and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 25:19 The land shall yield its
fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 25:20 If you
said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather
in our increase;” 25:21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. 25:22 You shall sow
the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year,
until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
25:23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you
are strangers and live as foreigners with me. 25:24 In all the land of your
possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then
his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother
has sold. 25:26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and
finds sufficient means to redeem it; 25:27 then let him reckon the years since
its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall
return to his property. 25:28 But if he is not capable in getting it back for
himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of the one who has
purchased it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be
released, and he shall return to his property.
25:29 “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it
within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the
right of redemption. 25:30 If it is not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in
perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be
released in the Jubilee. 25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no
wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
25:32 “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of
their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. 25:33 The Levites may
redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be
released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their
possession among the B’nai Yisrael. 25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their
cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
25:35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand cannot support him among
you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live
with you. 25:36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that
your brother may live among you. 25:37 You shall not lend him your money at
interest, nor give him your food for profit. 25:38 I am Mar-Yah your God, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and
to be your God.
25:39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you
shall not make him to serve as a slave. 25:40 As a hired servant, and as a
sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of
Jubilee: 25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and
shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. 25:42 For
they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall
not be sold as slaves. 25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but
shall fear your God.
25:44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the
nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them
you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived
in your land; and they will be your property. 25:46 You may make them an
inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may
you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the B’nai Yisrael you
shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
25:47 “‘If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother
beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner
living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family; 25:48 after he is
sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 25:49 or his
uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to
him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem
himself. 25:50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he
sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be
according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant
shall he be with him. 25:51 If there are yet many years, according to them he
shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought
for. 25:52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he
shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the
price of his redemption. 25:53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with
him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. 25:54 If he is
not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee,
he, and his children with him. 25:55 For to me the B’nai Yisrael are servants;
they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am
Mar-Yah your God.
Chapter 26
26:1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an
engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your
land, to bow down to it: for I am Mar-Yah your God.
26:2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am
Mar-Yah.
26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 26:4
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its
increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 26:5 Your
threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing
time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6 “‘I will give |
