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I am the Lord, the God who halloweth them, therefore none of another family shall eat the holy things, nor shall he, who sojourneth with a priest, or who is hired by him, eat of them. 11 But if the priest shall have a person bought with money, this person may eat of his food. And they who are born in his fa12 mily may eat of his food. But if the daughter of a priest be married to a man of another family, she shall not eat of the 13 dedications of the sanctuary. But if the daughter of a priest become a widow, or be divorced, and have no issue, she may return to her father's house as in her youth, and eat of her fa14 ther's food: But none of another family shall eat thereof. And whoever shall eat of the holy things through inadvertence, he shall add a fifth to it, and give the holy thing to the priest. 15 Thus the priests will not profane the holy things of the chil16 dren of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, nor bring upon themselves the guilt of a trespass, when they eat their holy things, for I am the Lord who hallow them.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to the whole congregation of Israel, and thou 18 shalt say unto them, Be the man who he may of the children of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among them in Israel, who shall bring his gifts according to any vow they may have made, or according to any determination they may have come 19 to, whatever they bring for a whole burnt offering to God, must, in order to be accepted for you, be males without blem20 ish, from the herd, or from the sheep, or from the goats. What

hath any blemish in it they shall not bring to the Lord; for it 21 will not be accepted for you. And whoever shall bring a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, either in discharge of a vow, or as a free will offering, or at your festivals, from the herd or from the flock, it must, in order to its being accepted, be 22 without blemish. There must be no blemish in it. That which is blind, or bruised, or which hath its tongue cut, or hath been eaten by ants, or is infected with scurvy or mange-these they shall not bring to the Lord, nor shall you give any such for an 23 offering of homage on the altar to the Lord. A young bull, or

a sheep which hath its ear cropped, or its tail cut, these thou mayst slaughter for thyself; but in discharge of thy vow they 24 will not be accepted. What are castrated by crushing, bruis

ing, cutting or extracting-these thou shalt not bring to the 25 Lord, nor shall you make an offering of them in your land, nor from the hand of a stranger bring any such forward as gifts for your God. Because there is a defect in them-a blemish in them; they will not be accepted for you.

26 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, With respect 27 to a young bull, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, it must be seven days under its dam, and on the eighth day, and thenceforward, it will be accepted as a gift for an homage 28 offering to the Lord. But whether it be a young bull, or a lamb, thou must not kill the dam and the young on the same day. 29 And if thou wilt offer a sacrifice-a vow of joy, to the Lord,

in order that you may offer it acceptably, it must be eaten on 30 the same day. You shall not leave any of the flesh of it till the 31 next morning. I am the Lord, therefore you shall keep these 32 my commands, and do them; And you shall not profane the name of the Holy One; so shall I be hallowed in the midst of 33 the children of Israel. I am the Lord, who am hallowing you, who am bringing you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord.

XXIII. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 2 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set 3 days, these are my festivals. Six days thou shalt perform works, but on the seventh day are sabbaths, a solemn rest dedicated to the Lord, thou shalt not do any work. Sabbaths are 4 for the Lord in all your dwellings. These are the festivals for the Lord-holy, set days, which you shall proclaim in their set 5 times. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, 6 between the two evenings, is the passover for the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of this month beginneth the festival of un7 leavened bread for the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for 8 you. You shall do no sacrificial service, but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap

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harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of 11 your harvest, to the priest, and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you-On the morrow after 12 the first day, the priest shall offer this up. And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish, of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, and 13 for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord-and for 14 the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine. You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains of the new corn, till this day—until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings, 15 That from the morrow of these sabbaths-from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, even till the morrow after the 16 last week, you shall reckon fifty days, and then offer a sacri17 fice of new corn to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwell

ing two loaves, as loaves of dedication. They shall consist of two tenths of fine flour. Being of the first fruits for the Lord, 18 they shall be baked with leaven. And with the loaves you shall present seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, and one young bull from the herd, and two rams without blemish; and they shall be a whole burnt offering for the Lord; and their sacrifices, and their libations, shall be a sacrifice, a smell of fra19 grance for the Lord. They shall also prepare one kid of the

goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year, for a 20 sacrifice of thanksgiving, with the loaves of the first fruits.

And the priest shall dedicate these, with the loaves of the first fruits, as a dedication before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be dedicated to the Lord; they shall be for the priest 21 who offereth them. And you shall call this day, a set day. It

shall be hallowed for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwell22 ings. And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make a clean riddance of the harvest of thy field when thou reapest, nor shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the

24 children of Israel, and say, In the seventh month, on the first

day of the month, there shall be a rest for you-a memorial of 25 trumpets. It shall be a holy set day for you. You shall not do

any sacrificial service, but offer a whole burnt offering to the 26 Lord. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, On the 27 tenth day of the seventh month is the day of Atonement. It

shall be a holy set day for you; and you shall humble your 28 souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord. On this day you shall not do any kind of work: for it is the day of Atonement for you, to make atonement for you before the 29 Lord your God. Every soul who shall not humble himself on 30 that day, shall be cut off from among his people. And every

person who shall do any work on that day, shall be destroyed 31 from among the people. You shall not do any kind of work.

It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your 32 dwellings. They shall be sabbaths of sabbaths for you, that you may humble your souls. From the ninth of the month, from evening till evening, you shall keep these sabbaths of yours.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 34 children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh

month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days 35 for the Lord. The first day shall be proclaimed holy. You shall 36 do no sacrificial work; seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service.

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'These are the festivals for the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, in order that you may offer homage offerings to the Lord-whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations-that allotted for each day on its day, over and above 38 the sabbaths of the Lord, and over and above your gifts, even besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, 39 which you may give to the Lord. Now on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you have finished the ingathering of the products of the land, you shall begin this festival of se40 ven days for the Lord. On the first day there shall be a rest; and on the eighth day, a rest. And on the first day you shall take the ripe fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and

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bushy boughs of trees and willows, and branches of the willow of the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days 41 of the year. It shall be an everlasting statute for your genera

tions. In the seventh month you shall celebrate this festival. 42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, that your posterity may see that I 43 caused the children of Israel to dwell in tents when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

44 And when Moses had mentioned these festivals of the Lord XXIV. to the Israelites, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Give 2 orders to the children of Israel, and let them bring the oil, 3 pure expressed oil for light, that a lamp may burn continually, without the veil, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning, from evening till morning, continually, before the Lord. It is an everlasting 4 statute for your generations. You shall keep the lamps burning

on the pure candlestick before the Lord, until the morning. 5 And you shall take fine flour, and make it into twelve loaves, 6 every loaf shall consist of two tenths; and you shall lay them in two piles, six loaves in each pile, on the pure table before 7 the Lord. And on each pile you shall lay pure frankincense, and salt. They shall be set before the Lord for loaves of re8 membrance. On the day of the sabbaths they shall be set continually before the Lord, in the sight of the children of Israel, as an everlasting covenant; and they shall be for Aaron and his 9 sons. And they shall eat them in a holy place; for they are most holy. This shall be their peculiar due, for ever, from those things sacrificed to the Lord.

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Now there had come out among the Israelites a son of an Israelitish woman, but his father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite, 11 quarrelled in the camp. And the son of the Israelitish woman having named the name, cursed it. Upon which they brought him before Moses. Now his mother's name was Salomith, she 12 was a daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan. And when they had committed him to custody, to pass sentence on him by the 13 decree of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Lead 14 out him who cursed, without the camp, and all who heard

shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall

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