 肋:1.(lv)   [肋未紀]    [Levi]   [Leviticus]    [共 27 章]    [思高聖經]
 　
            獻祭的禮儀(1-7)

 肋:1.1      [全燔祭禮儀]  上主叫了梅瑟來，由會幕中訓示他說：
 肋:1.2      「你告訴以色列子民說：你們中若有人願意由家畜中給上主奉獻祭品。應以牛羊作你們的祭品。
 肋:1.3      若有人獻牛作全燔祭，該獻一條無瑕的公牛，牽到會幕門口，為在上主面前蒙受納悅；
 肋:1.4      先按手在全燔祭牲的頭上，使祭牲蒙受納悅，代自己贖罪。
 肋:1.5      以後在上主面前宰了那牛，亞郎的兒子司祭們，應奉獻牲血，將血灑在會幕門口的祭壇的四周。
 肋:1.6      奉獻者剝去祭牲的皮，將犧牲切成塊。
 肋:1.7      亞郎的兒子司祭們先將火放在祭壇上，火上擺上木柴；
 肋:1.8      然後亞郎的兒子司祭們，將成塊的肉、頭和脂肪，擺在祭壇火上的木柴上。
 肋:1.9      奉獻者應用水將內臟和小腿洗淨；司祭將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，作為全燔祭，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 肋:1.10     若有人獻羊作全燔祭，不論是綿羊，或是山羊，該獻一頭無瑕的公羊。
 肋:1.11     應在上主面前，祭壇的北邊將牠宰了；亞郎的兒子司祭們，應將血灑在祭壇的四週。
 肋:1.12     然後奉獻者應將祭牲切成塊，司祭將成塊的肉、頭和脂肪，擺在祭壇火上的木柴上。
 肋:1.13     那人應用水將內臟和小腿洗淨；司祭將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，作為全燔祭，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 肋:1.14     若有人給上主獻飛禽作全燔祭，該獻班鳩或雛鴿作祭品。
 肋:1.15     司祭應將牠帶到祭壇前，扭斷他的頭，放在祭壇上焚燒；先把牠的血靠在祭壇的旁邊擠盡，
 肋:1.16     然後那人將嗉囊和羽毛拔去，丟在祭壇東邊倒灰的地方。
 肋:1.17     然後司祭將犧牲由兩翼的中間撕開，但不可分離；放在祭壇火上的木柴上焚燒，作為全燔祭，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
  
 肋:2.1      [素祭禮儀]  若有人願意給上主奉獻素祭為祭品，他的祭品應用細麵，倒上油，放上乳香，
 肋:2.2      拿來交給亞郎的兒子司祭們；司祭取出一把細麵和一些油，同所有的乳香，放在祭壇上焚燒，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭，為獲得記念。
 肋:2.3      剩下的素祭祭品，應歸亞郎和他的兒子們，因為是獻與上主火祭中的至聖之物。
 肋:2.4      如果你願意奉獻爐烤的祭品作素祭，應以油調的細麵作成的無酵餅，或抹油的無酵薄餅。
 肋:2.5      若你的祭品是用烤盤做的素祭，該用油調的無酵細麵作成，
 肋:2.6      擘成塊，倒上油：這是素祭。
 肋:2.7      若你的祭品是用鍋煎的素祭，該用細麵和油製成。
 肋:2.8      當你把這樣做的素祭祭品獻給上主時，應交給司祭帶到祭壇前。
 肋:2.9      司祭由素祭祭品中取出一份，放在祭壇上焚燒，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭，為獲得記念。
 肋:2.10     剩下的素祭祭品，應歸亞郎和他的兒子們，因為是獻與上主火祭中的至聖之物。
 肋:2.11     你們獻給上主的素祭，都應是無酵做的，因凡是有酵有蜜的，都不應焚燒作為獻給上主的火祭；
 肋:2.12     但可當作初熟祭品獻給上主，只是不可獻在祭壇上，當作悅意馨香的祭品。
 肋:2.13     此外，凡你獻的素祭祭品都應加上鹽，總不可讓你的素祭，缺少與你的天主結約的鹽；在你的一切祭品上，都應加上鹽奉獻。
 肋:2.14     若你給上主奉獻初熟之物作素祭，應奉獻火焙的新麥穗，或去殼的新穀粒，當作你初熟之物的素祭，
 肋:2.15     再倒上油，放上乳香：這是素祭。
 肋:2.16     司祭取出一些麥粒和油並所有乳香來焚燒，作為獻給上主的火祭，為獲得記念。
  
 肋:3.1      [和平祭祭儀]  若有人奉獻和平祭，如所獻的是牛，應在上主面前獻一頭無瑕的公牛或母牛，
 肋:3.2      先按手在犧牲頭上，後在會幕門口宰了；亞郎的兒子司祭們，將血灑在祭壇四週。
 肋:3.3      由和平祭犧牲中，應取出獻與上主做火祭的是：遮蓋內臟的脂肪，和貼在內臟上所有的脂肪，
 肋:3.4      左右兩腎和兩腎靠腰部的脂肪，以及兩腎一起取出的肝葉。
 肋:3.5      亞郎的兒子們應將這一切放在祭壇上的柴火上，同全燔祭犧牲一起焚燒，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 肋:3.6      若有人給上主奉獻一隻羊作和平祭犧牲，應奉獻一隻無瑕的公羊或母羊。
 肋:3.7      如果奉獻一隻綿羊作犧牲，應將他牽到上主面前，
 肋:3.8      先按手在犧牲頭上，後在會幕前宰了；亞郎的兒子將血灑在祭壇四周。
 肋:3.9      那人由和平祭犧牲中應取出脂肪作獻與上主的火祭：即靠脊骨割下的整個肥尾，遮蓋內臟的脂肪，貼在內臟上所有的脂肪，
 肋:3.10     左右兩腎和兩腎靠腰部的脂肪，以及同兩腎一起取出的肝葉。
 肋:3.11     司祭應將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，有如食物，作為獻與上主的火祭。
 肋:3.12     如果奉獻的祭品是一隻山羊，應將牠牽到上主前，
 肋:3.13     先按手在犧牲頭上，後在會幕前宰了；亞郎的兒子們將血灑在祭壇四周。
 肋:3.14     那人由這犧牲中應取出獻與上主作火祭的是：遮蓋內臟的脂肪，貼在內臟上所有的脂肪，
 肋:3.15     左右兩腎和兩腎靠腰部的脂肪，以及同兩腎一起取出的肝葉。
 肋:3.16     司祭應將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，有如食物，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 肋:3.17     一切脂肪應歸於上主。凡是脂肪和血，你們都不可吃：這為你們世世代代，在你們任何所居之地，是一條永久的法令。
  
 肋:4.1      [贖罪祭祭儀]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:4.2      「你告訴以色列子民說：若有人不慎，誤犯了上主的禁令，做了一件不許做的事：
 肋:4.3      [為大司祭贖罪]  如果是一位受傅的司祭犯了罪，連累了人民，他為這罪，應獻給上主一頭無瑕的公牛贖，作贖罪祭。
 肋:4.4      將牛牽到會幕門口，到上主前，先按手在牛頭上，在上主前宰了。
 肋:4.5      然後受傅的司祭取些牛血，帶進會幕，
 肋:4.6      將手指浸在牲血裏，在上主面前向聖所帳幔灑血七次；
 肋:4.7      再將一些牲血，塗在會幕內上主面前的香壇四角上；其餘的牛血都應倒在會幕門口全幡祭壇腳旁。
 肋:4.8      以後取出作贖罪的公牛犢所有的脂肪：即遮蓋內臟的脂肪，貼再內臟上所有的脂肪，
 肋:4.9      左右兩腎和兩腎上靠腰部的脂肪，以及同兩腎一起取出的肝葉，
 肋:4.10     全照從和平祭犧牲的公牛內所取出的一樣；司祭應將這一切放在全幡祭上焚燒。
 肋:4.11     至於公牛犢的皮，所有的肉、頭、腿、內臟和糞，
 肋:4.12     即整個公牛犢，應運到營外倒壇灰的清潔地方，放在木柴上用火焚燒：即在倒壇灰的地方將牠燃燒。
 肋:4.13     [為全會眾贖罪]  如果是全以色列會眾誤犯了過失，而會眾又沒有發覺做了上主誡命所不許做的事，因而有罪。
 肋:4.14     當他們一發覺自己所犯的罪，會眾就應獻一頭公牛犢作贖罪祭，牽到會幕前；
 肋:4.15     會眾的長老在上主前，按手在牛頭上，在上主前宰了；
 肋:4.16     然後受傅的司祭取些牛血帶進會幕，
 肋:4.17     將手指浸在牲血裏，在上主面前向帳幔灑血七次。
 肋:4.18     再將一些牲血塗在會幕內上主面前的祭壇四角上；其餘的血，都應倒在會幕門口的全燔祭壇腳旁。
 肋:4.19     至於脂肪應完全取出，放在祭壇上焚燒。
 肋:4.20     處置這牛，應如處置贖罪祭的公牛犢一樣處置。司祭如此為他們贖了罪，他們方可獲得罪赦。
 肋:4.21     以後應將這公牛犢運到營外焚燒，如焚燒上述的公牛犢一樣：這是為會眾的贖罪祭。
 肋:4.22     [為首長贖罪]  如果是一位首長犯了罪，不慎做了上主他的天主的誡命所不許做的事，因而有罪。
 肋:4.23     當他一發覺自己犯了罪，就奉獻一隻無瑕的公山羊做祭品，
 肋:4.24     先按手在羊頭上，後在宰殺全燔祭犧牲的地方，在上主前將牠宰了：這是贖罪祭。
 肋:4.25     然後司祭用手指蘸些贖罪祭犧牲的血，塗在全燔祭壇四角上；其餘的血，都倒在全燔祭壇的腳旁。
 肋:4.26     所有的脂肪，如同和平祭犧牲的脂肪一樣，都應放在祭壇上焚燒。司祭如此為他的罪行了贖罪禮，他方可獲得罪赦。
 肋:4.27     [為平民贖罪]  如果是一個平民不慎犯了罪，做了上主的誡命所不許做的事，因而有罪。
 肋:4.28     當他一發覺自己犯了罪，就應為自己所犯的罪，奉獻一隻無瑕的母山羊作祭品；
 肋:4.29     先按手在贖罪祭犧牲的頭上，後在宰殺全燔祭犧牲的地方，將贖罪祭犧牲宰了。
 肋:4.30     然後司祭用手指蘸些牲血，塗在全燔祭壇四角上；其餘的血，都應倒在祭壇腳旁。
 肋:4.31     所有的脂肪像和平祭犧牲一樣，都應取出；司祭應將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，化為中悅上主的馨香。司祭如此為他贖了罪，他方可獲得罪赦。
 肋:4.32     如果是奉獻一隻小綿羊做為贖罪祭犧牲，應獻一隻無瑕的母羊。
 肋:4.33     先按手在贖罪祭犧牲的頭上，後在宰殺全燔祭犧牲的地方宰了，作為贖罪祭。
 肋:4.34     司祭用手指蘸些贖罪祭犧牲的血，塗在全燔祭壇四角上；其餘的血，都應倒在祭壇腳旁。
 肋:4.35     所有的脂肪都應取出，有如由和平祭犧牲的小羊所取出的脂肪一樣。司祭應將這一切放在祭壇上，與獻給上主的火祭一同焚燒。司祭如此為他的罪行了贖罪禮，他方可獲得罪赦。
  
 肋:5.1      [特殊贖罪祭]  若有人聽了詛咒的誓言，能為所見所知的事作證而不肯聲明，就犯了罪，應負罪咎；
 肋:5.2      或有人誤觸了什麼不潔之物，不論是不潔野獸的屍體，或是不潔家畜的屍體，或是不潔昆蟲的屍體，而未發覺，以後發覺自己成為不潔的，因而有罪；
 肋:5.3      或有人誤摸了人的不潔，任何能玷污人的不潔，而未發覺，以後發覺，就有了罪；
 肋:5.4      或有人出言輕易發了誓，或懷惡意，或懷善意，人無論在什麼事上輕易發了誓，當時未發覺，而以後發覺自己在某些事上有了罪；
 肋:5.5      那麼幾時他發覺自己在上述某件事上有了罪，就該承認自己所犯的罪，
 肋:5.6      為賠補所犯的罪，應由羊群中取一隻母羊或綿羊，或山羊，獻給上主作贖罪祭，司祭應為他的罪行贖罪禮。
 肋:5.7      如果他的財力不足備辦一隻羊，為賠補所犯的罪，應獻給上主兩隻班鳩或兩隻雛鴿：一隻做為贖罪祭，一隻做為全燔祭。
 肋:5.8      將牠們交給司祭；司祭應先奉獻那作贖罪祭的一隻，掐住脖子扭斷牠的頭，卻不可分離；
 肋:5.9      然後取些贖罪祭犧牲的血，灑在祭壇壁上，其餘的血都擠在祭壇腳旁：這是贖罪祭。
 肋:5.10     至於第二隻：照全燔祭的儀式獻作全墦祭。司祭這樣為他所犯的罪行贖罪禮，他方可獲得罪赦。
 肋:5.11     如果他的財力連兩隻班鳩或兩隻雛鴿也不能備辦，為賠補所犯的罪，應獻十分之一「厄法」細麵，作贖罪祭祭品，上面不可倒油，也不可放乳香，因為是贖罪祭。
 肋:5.12     將祭品交給司祭，司祭就取出一把麵，放在祭壇上與獻給上主的火祭一同焚燒，為獲得記念：這是贖罪祭。
 肋:5.13     司祭這樣為他所犯的罪過行贖罪禮，他方可獲得罪赦。剩下的，如素祭一樣，應歸於司祭。」
 肋:5.14     [贖過祭祭儀]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:5.15     「若有人有了過犯，不慎冒犯了上主的聖物，為賠補自己的過失，應從羊群中取一隻無瑕的公綿羊，依照你的估價，按聖所的幣制折合銀子，獻與上主作贖過祭。
 肋:5.16     為賠償他對聖物所犯的過失，應還另加五分之一，交給司祭。司祭應用贖過祭的公綿羊為他行贖罪禮，他方可獲得罪赦。
 肋:5.17     若有人犯了罪，不慎做了上主誡命所不許做的事，有了過犯，應負罪債，
 肋:5.18     他應照你的估價，從羊群中取一隻無瑕的公綿羊，交給司祭做贖過祭。司祭這樣為他不慎而誤犯的過失，替他行贖罪禮，他才可獲得罪赦：
 肋:5.19     這是贖過祭，是他應向上主獻的贖過祭。」
 肋:5.20     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:5.21     「若有人犯了罪，冒犯了上主，因為在寄託物上，或抵押品上，或劫掠物上欺騙了自己的同胞，或剝削了自己的同胞，
 肋:5.22     或對拾得的遺物，加以否認，或對常人慣犯的罪發了虛誓；
 肋:5.23     如果他犯了這樣的罪，而自知有過，應歸還劫掠所得，或剝削所得，或人寄存之物，或拾得的遺物，
 肋:5.24     或以虛誓所佔奪的任何物件，應全部償還；此外還另加五分之一。他那一天認錯，那一天應歸還物主。
 肋:5.25     為賠補自己的過犯，應照你的估價，從羊群裡取出一隻無瑕的公綿羊，交給司祭獻與上主作贖過祭。
 肋:5.26     司祭應為他在上主面前為他行贖罪禮。不論他犯的是什麼過犯，他都可獲得罪赦。」
  
 肋:6.1      [日夜全燔祭]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:6.2      「你吩咐亞郎和他的兒子們說：全燔祭的法律如下：全燔祭應徹夜至早晨留在祭壇的火上，火應在祭壇上常燃不熄。
 肋:6.3      司祭應穿上亞麻衣，著亞麻褲遮蓋身體，除去祭壇上焚燒全燔祭的灰燼，倒在祭壇旁邊；
 肋:6.4      然後脫去這些衣服，穿上別的衣服，將灰燼運到營外的清潔地方。
 肋:6.5      祭壇上的火應常燃不熄；司祭每天早晨應添柴，放上全燔祭祭品，焚燒和平祭犧牲的脂肪。
 肋:6.6      祭壇上的火應常燃不熄。
 肋:6.7      [司祭對素祭的權利]  素祭的法律如下：亞郎的兒子應將素祭帶到祭壇前，獻給上主；
 肋:6.8      然後由素祭祭品取出一把細麵和一些油，以及所有乳香，放在祭壇上焚燒，獻給上主作悅意的馨香，為獲得紀念。
 肋:6.9      剩下的，亞郎和他的兒子們應該吃，應吃死麵的，並且應在聖處，即在會幕庭院內吃。
 肋:6.10     烤時不可加酵。這是我由火祭祭品中，劃歸給他們的一份，是至聖之物，有如贖罪祭和贖過祭祭品。
 肋:6.11     亞郎的子孫中，凡是男人，都可以吃：這是他們在你們世世代代中，由上主的火祭中得享的永久權利。凡與這些祭品接觸的，即成為聖。」
 肋:6.12     [祝聖司祭的祭獻]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:6.13     「亞郎和他的兒子們在受傅之日，應給上主獻的祭品是：十分之一「厄法」細麵，當作日常的素祭：早上獻一半，晚上獻一半；
 肋:6.14     應在鐵盤上用油調製；調好後，分成塊，將成塊的祭品，獻給上主作悅意的馨香。
 肋:6.15     亞郎的子孫中，繼他位受傅為司祭的，都應奉獻此祭品：這是一條永久的法令。這祭品應全焚燒，獻給上主。
 肋:6.16     凡司祭自獻的素祭祭品應全焚燒，決不可吃。」
 肋:6.17     [司祭對贖罪祭的權利]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:6.18     「你告訴亞郎和他的兒子們說：關於贖罪祭的法律如下：贖罪祭應在宰殺全燔祭犧牲的地方，在上主面前宰殺：這是至聖之物。
 肋:6.19     奉獻贖罪祭犧牲的司祭，應吃這犧牲，應在聖處，即在會幕庭院內吃。
 肋:6.20     凡與這祭肉接觸的，即成為聖；若血濺在衣服上，濺有血跡的衣服，該在聖處洗淨。
 肋:6.21     用為煮祭肉的陶器應打破；但若是在銅器內煮，銅器該擦光，用水洗淨。
 肋:6.22     司祭家中，凡是男人都可以吃：這是至聖之物。
 肋:6.23     但是，任何贖罪祭犧牲，如果牲血帶進了會幕，為在聖所內行贖罪禮，決不可吃，應在火裡燒盡。
  
 肋:7.1      [司祭對贖罪祭的權利]  贖罪祭的法律如下：這是至聖之祭。
 肋:7.2      贖過祭犧牲應在宰殺全燔祭犧牲的地方宰殺，血應灑在祭壇的四周。
 肋:7.3      攜牲所有的一切脂肪都應獻上，即油尾和遮蓋內臟的脂肪，
 肋:7.4      兩腎和兩腎上靠腰部的脂肪，以及同兩腎一起取出的肝葉。
 肋:7.5      司祭應將這一切放在祭壇上焚燒，獻與上主當作火祭：這是贖過祭。
 肋:7.6      至於祭肉，司祭家中，凡是男人都可以吃，應在聖處吃：這是至聖之物。
 肋:7.7      關於贖過祭犧牲，像贖罪祭犧牲有同樣的法律：應全歸舉行贖罪禮的司祭。
 肋:7.8      代人奉獻全燔祭的司祭，得享獻作全燔祭犧牲的皮；
 肋:7.9      凡在爐裏烤的，或在鍋裏，或在烤盤上預備的素祭祭品，應歸獻此祭的司祭。
 肋:7.10     一切素祭祭品無論是調油的，或是乾製的，全歸亞郎的子孫彼此平分。
 肋:7.11     [司祭對和平祭的權利和義務]  獻與上主和平祭的法律如下：
 肋:7.12     若有人為感恩而祭獻，除感恩祭祭品外，還應獻上油調的無酵餅，抹油的無酵薄餅，以及用油和好細麵做成的油餅。
 肋:7.13     除這些餅以外，還應奉獻發酵的餅作祭品，與感恩的和平祭品一同奉獻。
 肋:7.14     由這些祭品中，每樣應取出一份，獻與上主作獻儀：這一份應歸那灑和平祭牲血的司祭。
 肋:7.15     為感恩所獻的和平祭的祭肉，應在奉獻的當日吃盡；不可留到次日早晨。
 肋:7.16     如所獻的犧牲是還願祭或是自願祭，在奉獻的那天應該吃；如有剩下的，第二天也可吃；
 肋:7.17     如還有剩下的祭肉，到第三天應用火燒了。
 肋:7.18     若在第三天還吃和平祭祭肉，祭獻必不被悅納；為奉獻的人，也不算作祭獻，因為肉已不潔；吃的人，必負罪債。
 肋:7.19     祭肉若接觸了不潔之物，不許再吃，應用火焚燒；凡潔淨的人可吃祭肉；
 肋:7.20     但是染有不潔的人，若吃了獻與上主和平祭肉，這人應由民間剷除。
 肋:7.21     若有人接觸了任何不潔，或不潔的人，或不潔的禽獸，或任何不潔之物，而吃了獻與上主和平祭的祭肉，這人應由民間剷除。」
 肋:7.22     [祭牲不可吃的部份]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:7.23     「你告訴以色列子民說：凡是牛、綿羊和山羊的脂肪，你們都不可吃。
 肋:7.24     自死或被野獸撕裂的走獸的脂肪，可用作任何用途，但決不可吃。
 肋:7.25     不論誰，若吃了能獻與上主作火祭的牲畜的脂肪，吃的人就應由民間剷除。
 肋:7.26     在你們任何所居之地，凡是血，不論是鳥血或獸血，決不可吃。
 肋:7.27     不論誰，若吃了什麼血，這人應由民間剷除。」
 肋:7.28     [司祭對和平祭的權利]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:7.29     「你告訴以色列子民說：凡向上主奉獻和平祭祭品的，應由和平祭祭品取出一部份，作為獻於上主的供物。
 肋:7.30     親手帶來獻與上主的火祭，即帶來脂肪和胸脯；胸脯應在上主前行奉獻的搖禮。
 肋:7.31     司祭將脂肪放在祭壇上焚燒，胸脯歸於亞郎和他的兒子。
 肋:7.32     和平祭犧牲後右腿，你們應送給司祭作獻儀。
 肋:7.33     亞郎子孫中誰奉獻了和平祭犧牲的血和脂肪，右後腿應歸於他，是他的一分。
 肋:7.34     因為我由以色列子民所獻的和平祭中，取出當搖獻的胸脯和當舉獻的右後腿，給了亞郎司祭和他的兒子，作為他們在以色列子民中永享的權利。」
 肋:7.35     這是亞郎和他的兒子，在受命為上主盡司祭職的那一天，因受傅由獻與上主火祭中應得的一分；
 肋:7.36     是上主在他們受傅的那一天，吩附以色列子民應交給他們的一分：這是他們世世代代永享的權利。
 肋:7.37     以上是關於全燔祭、素祭、贖罪祭、贖過祭、祝聖祭及和平祭的法律。
 肋:7.38     這些法律是上主在他命令以色列子民，於西乃曠野給上主奉獻祭品的那天，在西乃山上向梅瑟所吩附的。
  
           司祭受職禮(8-10)
  
 肋:8.1      [祝聖司祭禮]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:8.2      「你領亞郎和他的兒子一同前來，帶著祭衣、聖油、作贖罪祭的公牛犢，兩隻公綿羊和一筐無酵餅；
 肋:8.3      並召集全體會眾到會幕門口。」
 肋:8.4      梅瑟便依照上主所吩附的做了。當會眾集合在會幕門口後，
 肋:8.5      梅瑟就對會眾說：「這是上主吩附應做的事。」
 肋:8.6      梅瑟遂叫亞郎和他的兒子前來，用水洗了他們；
 肋:8.7      然後給亞郎穿上長衣，束上帶子，穿上無袖長袍，套上「厄弗得」，束上「厄弗得」帶子，將「厄弗得」繫緊。
 肋:8.8      再給他安上胸牌，在胸牌內放上「烏陵」和「突明」。
 肋:8.9      以後將禮冠戴在他頭上，在禮冠前面安上金牌，即聖牌。全照上主對梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:8.10     以後梅瑟拿了聖油，傅了會幕和其中所有的一切，祝聖了這一切；
 肋:8.11     又將一些油七次灑在祭壇上，又傅了祭壇和祭壇的一切用具，盆和盆座，祝聖了這一切；
 肋:8.12     然後把聖油倒在亞郎頭上，傅了他，祝聖了他。
 肋:8.13     此後梅瑟叫亞郎的兒子前來，給他們穿上長衣，束上帶子，給他們纏上頭巾：全照上主對梅瑟所吩附。
 肋:8.14     隨後梅瑟把作贖罪祭的公牛犢牽來，亞郎和他的兒子按手在贖罪祭公牛犢頭上，
 肋:8.15     把牛宰了，梅瑟取了血，用手指抹在祭壇四周的角上，潔淨了祭壇；將剩下的血倒在祭壇腳旁：這樣就祝聖了祭壇，為祭壇行了潔淨禮。
 肋:8.16     此後，梅瑟將貼在內臟上所有的脂肪、肝葉、兩腎和兩腎上的脂肪，放在祭壇上焚燒；
 肋:8.17     牛犢的皮、肉和糞，都在營外用火燒了：全照上主對梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:8.18     此後，梅瑟把作全燔祭的公綿羊牽來，亞郎和他的兒子按手在羊頭上，
 肋:8.19     把羊宰了，梅瑟把血灑在祭壇四周；
 肋:8.20     然後把羊切成碎塊，將頭和碎塊以及板油全焚燒，
 肋:8.21     內臟和腿，用水洗淨；梅瑟將整個公綿羊放在祭壇上焚燒：這是全燔祭，是中悅上主的馨香火祭，全照上主對梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:8.22     此後，梅瑟將第二隻公綿羊，即作祝聖祭的公綿羊牽來，亞郎和他的兒子按手在羊頭上。
 肋:8.23     把羊宰了，梅瑟取些血抹在亞郎的右耳垂，右手姆指和右腳大趾上。
 肋:8.24     梅瑟又叫亞郎的兒子前來，把血也抹在他們的右耳垂，右手姆指和右腳大趾上；剩下的血，梅瑟都灑在祭壇的四周。
 肋:8.25     隨後取出脂肪、肥尾、貼在內臟上所有脂肪、肝葉、兩腎和兩腎上的脂肪，以及右後腿；
 肋:8.26     又由上主面前的無酵餅筐內，取出一塊無酵餅，一塊油餅和一塊薄餅，放在脂肪和右後腿上；
 肋:8.27     將這一切放在亞郎和他的兒子們的手上，在上主前行奉獻的搖禮。
 肋:8.28     然後梅瑟由他們手中接過來，放在祭壇的全燔祭品上焚燒：這是祝聖祭，是中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 肋:8.29     以後，梅瑟拿了犧牲的胸脯，在上主前行了奉獻的搖禮，這是由祝聖祭的公綿羊中，梅瑟應得的一份，有如上主對梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:8.30     以後，梅瑟拿了些聖油和祭壇上的血，灑在亞郎和他的衣服上，他的兒子和他兒子衣服上：這樣就祝聖了亞郎和他的衣服，他的兒子和他兒子的衣服。
 肋:8.31     梅瑟又對亞郎和他的兒子說：「你們應在會幕門口煮祭肉，也在那裡吃這肉和筐內放的祝聖祭的餅，有如上主會吩附我的：亞郎和他的兒子應當吃。
 肋:8.32     剩下的肉和餅，你們應用火燒了。
 肋:8.33     七天的工夫，你們不可出會幕門口，直到你們的受職禮滿期的那一天，因為你們的受職禮是七天。
 肋:8.34     照今天所做的，上主還叫照樣去做，好為你們贖罪。
 肋:8.35     七天七夜，你們應住在會幕門口，遵守上主的禮規，以免死亡因為上主這樣吩附了我。」
 肋:8.36     凡上主藉梅瑟所吩附的事，亞郎和他的兒子都做了。
  
 肋:9.1      [司祭就職儀式]  到了第八天，梅瑟召集亞郎和他的兒子以及以色列的長老，
 肋:9.2      然後對亞郎說：「你牽一條公牛犢來，作為贖罪祭，一隻公綿羊來，作為全燔祭，都應是無瑕的，牽到上主前。」
 肋:9.3      又吩咐以色列子民說：「你們應牽一隻公山羊來，作為贖罪祭；一頭公牛犢和一隻一歲的公羔羊來，都應是無瑕的，作為全燔祭；
 肋:9.4      再牽一頭公牛和一隻公綿羊來，作為和平祭，祭獻在上主面前；再帶些油調的素祭祭品來，因為今天上主要顯現給你們。」
 肋:9.5      他們遂將梅瑟所吩附的，都帶到會幕前；全會眾都前來，站在上主面前。
 肋:9.6      梅瑟遂說：「這是上主命你們做的事，好使上主的榮耀顯現給你們。」
 肋:9.7      以後，梅瑟對亞郎說：「你走近祭壇，奉獻你的贖罪祭和全燔祭，為你自己和你的家族贖罪；然後奉獻人民的祭品，為他們贖罪，如上主所吩附的。」
 肋:9.8      亞郎於是走近祭壇，宰殺了那為自己作贖罪祭的公牛犢。
 肋:9.9      亞郎的兒子將血遞給他，他把手指浸在血裏，抹在祭壇的四角上，剩下的血都倒在祭壇腳旁。
 肋:9.10     贖罪祭犧牲的脂肪、兩腎和肝葉，都放在祭壇上焚燒，照上主對梅瑟的吩附。
 肋:9.11     至於肉和皮，都在營外用火燒了。
 肋:9.12     然後亞郎宰殺了全燔祭犧牲，亞郎的兒子將血遞給他，他將血灑在祭壇四周。
 肋:9.13     以後，他們將切成塊的全燔祭犧牲和頭遞給他，他就放在祭壇上焚燒。
 肋:9.14     內臟和腿洗淨後，也放在祭壇上同全燔祭犧牲一起焚燒。
 肋:9.15     隨後他奉獻了人民的祭品：將那為人民作贖罪祭的公山羊牽來，宰殺了，獻作贖罪祭，如前一犧牲一樣。
 肋:9.16     又奉獻了全燔祭，全按禮儀進行；
 肋:9.17     又奉獻了素祭，由其中取了一滿把，放在祭壇上焚燒，這是早晨全燔祭以外的祭獻。
 肋:9.18     最後，他宰殺了為人民作和平祭的公牛和公綿羊；亞郎的兒子將血遞給他，他就將血灑在祭壇四週。
 肋:9.19     至於牛羊的脂肪、肥尾、遮蓋內臟的脂肪、兩腎和肝葉，
 肋:9.20     他們都放在犧牲的胸脯上；亞郎遂將脂肪放在祭壇上焚燒，
 肋:9.21     胸脯和右後腿，拿來在上主前行了奉獻的搖禮，照梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:9.22     以後亞郎向人民舉起手來，祝福了他們。當他獻完了贖罪祭、全燔祭及和平祭以後，就由祭壇上下來了。
 肋:9.23     以後，梅瑟和亞郎走進了會幕，兩人出來，祝福百姓時，上主的榮耀顯現給全體百姓。
 肋:9.24     由上主前出來了火，吞噬了祭壇上的全燔祭祭品和脂肪。全體百姓見了，齊聲歡呼，俯伏在地。
  
 肋:10.1     [司祭瀆職的嚴罰]  亞郎的兒子納達布和阿彼胡，各自取了火盤，放上火，加上乳香，在上主面前奉獻了上主所禁止的凡火。
 肋:10.2     那時由上主面前噴出火來，將他們燒死在上主面前。
 肋:10.3     梅瑟對亞郎說：「這就是上主所說：對親近我的人，我要顯我為聖；在全民眾前我要以我為尊。」亞郎默不作聲。
 肋:10.4     梅瑟遂叫了亞郎的叔父烏齊耳的兒子米沙耳和厄耳匝番來，對他們說：「前來，將你們的兄弟由聖所前抬到營外去!」
 肋:10.5     他們就前去，抓住死者的衣服，將死者抬到營外，照梅瑟所吩附的。
 肋:10.6     以後，梅瑟對亞郎和他的兒子厄肋阿匝爾及依塔瑪爾說：「不要散開你們的頭髮，不要撕裂你們的衣服，免得你們死亡，也免得上主對全會眾發怒；讓你們的弟兄以色列全家，去為上主燃起的火哀悼。
 肋:10.7     你們也不要走出會幕門口，免得你們死亡，因為上主的傅油還在你們身上。」他們就照梅瑟說的做了。
 肋:10.8     上主訓示亞郎說：
 肋:10.9     「你或你的兒子進入會幕時，清酒或醇酒都不可飲，免得你們死亡：這為你們世世代代是一條永久的法令。
 肋:10.10    因為在聖與俗，潔與不潔之間，你們應分辨清楚，
 肋:10.11    並應教訓以色列子民，上主藉梅瑟吩附他們的一切法令。」
 肋:10.12    [重申司祭的權利]  以後，梅瑟對亞郎和他尚存的兒子厄肋阿匝爾及依塔瑪爾說：「獻與上主的火祭中所剩下的素祭祭品，你們應拿來在祭壇旁吃，應吃死麵的，因為這是至聖之物，
 肋:10.13    你們在聖處吃，因為這是你和你的兒子，由獻與上主的火祭中，所獲得的權利；上主曾這樣吩附了我。
 肋:10.14    至於搖過的胸脯和舉過的後腿，你和你的兒子以及與你尚在一起的女兒，可在一清潔地方吃；這原是由以色列子民獻的和平祭中，給予你和你子女的權利。
 肋:10.15    與獻作火祭的脂肪一起所舉過的後腿和搖過的胸脯，上上主面前行過奉獻搖禮之後，都歸你和與你在一起的子女：這是你們永久的權利，照上主所吩附的。」
 肋:10.16    梅瑟尋找那作贖罪祭的公山羊的時後，發現已經燒了；於是對亞郎尚存的兒子厄肋阿匝爾及依塔瑪爾發怒說：
 肋:10.17    「為什麼你們沒有在聖處吃這贖罪祭祭肉﹖這原是至聖之物；上主所以給了你們，是為消除會眾的罪過，在上主面前為他們贖罪。
 肋:10.18    這犧牲的血既然沒有帶到聖所裏去，你們應照我所吩附的，在聖處吃這祭肉。」
 肋:10.19    亞郎對梅瑟說：「你看，他們今天在上主面前奉獻了贖罪祭和全燔祭，竟有這樣的事發生在我身上!我今天若吃贖罪祭祭肉，上主豈能滿意﹖」
 肋:10.20    梅瑟聽了這話，也頗為滿意。
  
           潔與不潔的規定(11-16)
  
 肋:11.1     [潔與不潔的動物]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 肋:11.2     「你們應告訴以色列子民說：地上的一切走獸中，你們可吃的獸類如下：
 肋:11.3     凡走獸中偶蹄，有趾及反芻的，你們都可以吃。
 肋:11.4     但在反芻或有偶蹄的走獸中，你們不可吃的是駱駝，因為駱駝雖反芻，但偶蹄無趾，對你們仍是不潔的；
 肋:11.5     岩貍，牠雖反芻，但偶蹄無趾，對你們仍是不潔的；
 肋:11.6     兔子雖反芻，偶蹄無趾，對你們仍是不潔的；
 肋:11.7     豬，牠雖有偶蹄，蹄雖有趾，卻不反芻，對你們仍是不潔的。
 肋:11.8     這些走獸的肉，你們不可吃；牠們的屍體，也不可觸摸，因為對你們都是不潔的。
 肋:11.9     水族中你們可吃的如下：凡是水中有鰭有鱗的，不論是海裡的，或河裡的，都可以吃；
 肋:11.10    但凡在水中蠕動，和在水中生存的生物，若沒有鰭和鱗，不論是海裡，或河裡的，都是你們所當憎惡的。
 肋:11.11    這些水族，都是你們所當憎惡的：牠們的肉不可吃；牠們的屍體，你們當視為可憎惡之物。
 肋:11.12    水族中凡沒有鰭和鱗的，都是你們所當憎惡的。
 肋:11.13    飛禽中，你們應視為可憎而不可吃，應視為可憎之物的是：鷹、鶚、鷲、
 肋:11.14    鳶及隼之類；
 肋:11.15    凡烏鴉之類；
 肋:11.16    駝鳥、夜鷹、海鷗和蒼鷹之類；
 肋:11.17    小梟、鸕鶿和鴟鵂，
 肋:11.18    白鷺、塘鵝和白鷲，
 肋:11.19    鸛鷺類、戴勝和蝙蝠。
 肋:11.20    是有翅，四足爬行的昆蟲，都是你們所當憎惡的；
 肋:11.21    但凡在有翅，四足爬行的昆蟲中，凡有腳以外，還有大腿，在地上能跳的，你們可以吃。
 肋:11.22    你們可吃的是：飛蝗之類，蚱蜢之類，蟋蟀之類和螽斯之類；
 肋:11.23    其他凡有翅，四足爬行的昆蟲，都是你們所當憎惡的。
 肋:11.24    遇到以下的光景也能使你們不潔：凡觸摸這些昆蟲屍體的人，直到晚上不潔；
 肋:11.25    凡移動牠們屍體的人，應洗滌自己的衣服，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:11.26    凡有偶蹄而無趾的，或不反芻的走獸，為你們都是不潔的；誰觸摸了就染上了不潔。
 肋:11.27    一切四足動物中，凡用腳掌行走的，為你們都是不潔的；誰觸摸了牠們的屍體，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:11.28    誰移動了牠們的屍體，應洗滌自己的衣服，直到晚上是不潔的。這些動物為你們都是不潔的。
 肋:11.29    在地上爬行的動物中，為你們不潔的是：鼴鼠、老鼠和蜥蜴之類；
 肋:11.30    壁虎、避役、蛇舅母、烏龜和伶鼬。
 肋:11.31    這些爬行的動物，為你們都是不潔的；牠們死後，誰處摸了，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:11.32    其中死了的，掉在什麼物件上，不論是木器，或衣服，或皮具，或囊袋，凡能用的器具，即成為不潔，應放入水內，直到晚上是不潔的；，以後才算潔淨；
 肋:11.33    一切陶器，如有牠們中一個掉在裡面，裡面所有的一切即成為不潔，陶器應該打破；
 肋:11.34    如裡面的水滴在任何食物上，食物即成為不潔的；在這種陶器內裝了任何飲料，飲料也成為不潔的。
 肋:11.35    牠們的屍體無論掉在什麼東西上，那東西即成為不潔的：不拘爐或灶都應打碎，因為是不潔的，你們也應視為不潔。
 肋:11.36    水泉和蓄水池雖是潔淨的，但是那接觸屍體的，即成為不潔。
 肋:11.37    如果他們中一個屍體掉在要播種的種籽上，種籽仍是潔淨的；
 肋:11.38    但若種籽已浸了水，而屍體掉在上面，這種籽對你們便成了不潔的。
 肋:11.39    若你們可吃的一隻走獸死了，誰觸摸了牠的屍體，直到晚上是的不潔的；
 肋:11.40    誰吃了這屍體的肉，應洗滌自己的衣服，並且直到晚上是不潔的。 誰移動了這屍體，也應洗滌自己的衣服，而且直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:11.41    凡地上的爬蟲，都是當憎惡的，都不可吃。
 肋:11.42    無論是用腹部爬行的，或用四足爬行的，或多足的，凡是地上的爬蟲，你們都不可吃，因為都是可憎惡的。
 肋:11.43    你們不要因任何爬蟲而使你們成為可憎惡的；你們不要因牠們而成為不潔的，或染上不潔，
 肋:11.44    因為我上主是你們的天主：你們該表現為聖潔的，你們應是聖的，因為我是聖的。你們不要因地上任何爬蟲，而使自己成為不潔的，
 肋:11.45    因為是我上主領你們由埃及地上來，為作你們的天主：你們應是聖的，因為我是聖的。
 肋:11.46    天上是有關走獸飛禽，一切水中游行和地上一切爬行動物的法律，
 肋:11.47    以便分辨潔與不潔，可吃與不可吃的生物。」
  
 肋:12.1      [產婦取潔儀式]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:12.2      「你告訴以色列子民說：若一婦人分娩，生一男孩，七天之久，她是不潔的；她不潔有如經期不潔一樣。
 肋:12.3      第八天，應給孩子割損。
 肋:12.4      此外，她還要守度三十三天的潔血期。在未滿取潔的日期以前，不可接觸任何聖物，不可走近聖所。
 肋:12.5      若生一女孩，兩星期是不潔的，有如經期一樣。此外，還要守度六十六天的潔血期。
 肋:12.6      一滿了取潔的日期，不拘為兒子或女兒，她應在會幕門口交給司祭一隻一歲的羔羊，做全燔祭；一隻雛鴿或一隻斑鳩，獻作贖罪祭。
 肋:12.7      司祭將祭品奉獻在上主面前，為她行贖罪禮，她纔算由流血的狀況中潔淨了：以上是關於生男或生女的婦人的法律。
 肋:12.8      但若她的財力不夠備辦一隻羔羊，可帶兩隻斑鳩或兩隻雛鴿：一隻獻作全燔祭，一隻獻作贖罪祭。司祭為他行贖罪禮，她就潔淨了。
  
 肋:13.1     [癩病：瘡節]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 肋:13.2     「若人在肉皮上生了腫瘤或瘡癤或斑痕，他肉皮上有了這種癩病的症象，就應把他帶到亞郎司祭，或他作司祭的一個兒子前。
 肋:13.3     司祭應查看肉皮上的症象；若患處的毛變白，若患處似乎已深過肉皮，這便是癩病的症候。司祭一看出，就應聲明他是不潔的。
 肋:13.4     但若他肉皮上的斑痕發白，而不見得深過肉皮，毛又沒有變白，司祭應將患者隔離七天。
 肋:13.5     到第七天，司祭再查看他，如見患處顏色未變，皮上的患處沒有蔓延，司祭應將他再隔離七天。
 肋:13.6     到第七天，司祭再查看他，如見患處顏色已淡，皮上的患處也沒有蔓延，司祭應聲明他是潔淨的，這不過是一種瘡癤；他洗過衣服就潔淨了。
 肋:13.7     但在司祭查看，聲明他潔淨以後，如瘡癤又在皮膚上蔓延開，應再去叫司祭查看。
 肋:13.8     司祭應查看他，若見他皮膚上的瘡癤蔓延開了，應聲明他是不潔的，已成為癩病。
 肋:13.9     [慢性癩病]  若人身上有了癩病的症象，應帶他去見司祭；
 肋:13.10    司祭應查看他，若見皮膚上白腫，毛已變白，腫處出現贅疣，
 肋:13.11    這是他肉皮上的慢性癩病；司祭應聲明他是不潔的，不必將他隔離，因為他已是不潔的。
 肋:13.12    但若癩瘡在皮上蔓延，凡司祭能看見的地方，從頭到腳，癩瘡遮蓋了患者全身皮膚，
 肋:13.13    司祭查看他，若見癩瘡遮蓋了他全身，就應聲明患者是潔淨的；因為全身變白，便是潔淨的。
 肋:13.14    但他身上一出現贅疣，就成了不潔淨的；
 肋:13.15    司祭一見這贅疣，就應聲明他是不潔的；因為這贅疣是不潔的，分明是癩病。
 肋:13.16    但若贅疣再變白，他應再去見司祭；
 肋:13.17    司祭查看他，若見患處變白，司祭應聲明患者是潔淨的；他便是潔淨的。
 肋:13.18    [生瘡]  若人肉皮上生了瘡，已醫好了；
 肋:13.19    但在瘡處又起了白腫，或白中帶紅的斑痕，就應去叫司祭查看。
 肋:13.20    司祭查看他，若見患處似乎已深過皮膚，且毛已變白，就應聲明他是不潔的：這是由瘡轉成癩病的症象。
 肋:13.21    但若司祭查看，見上面沒有白毛，也未深過皮膚，顏色已淡，司祭就應將他隔離七天。
 肋:13.22    若病在皮膚上蔓延開了，司祭就應聲明他是不潔的：這是癩病的症象。
 肋:13.23    但是，如果斑痕留在原處，沒有蔓延，這是瘡痕；司祭應聲明他是潔淨的。
 肋:13.24    [火傷]  若人肉皮上生了火傷，傷處的贅疣生了白裡帶紅，或純白的斑痕，
 肋:13.25    司祭就應查看他：若見斑痕上的毛已變白，似乎深過皮膚，這是由火傷轉成的癩病，司祭應聲明他為不潔：這是癩病的症候。
 肋:13.26    但若司祭查看，見斑痕上沒有白毛，並未深過皮膚，而且顏色已淡，司祭應將他隔離七天。
 肋:13.27    到第七天，司祭再查看他，若斑痕在皮膚上蔓延開了，司祭就應聲明他是不潔的：這是癩病的症候。
 肋:13.28    但若斑痕留在原處，沒有在皮膚上蔓延，顏色已淡，這只是火傷的腫脹，司祭應聲明他是潔淨的，因為這只是火傷疤痕。
 肋:13.29    [癬疥]  不拘男女，若在頭上或嘴上有瘡痕，
 肋:13.30    司祭應查看瘡痕，若見患處似乎深過皮膚，而且長了黃色細毛，司祭應聲明他是不潔的：這是癬疥，是頭上或嘴上的癩病。
 肋:13.31    但若司祭查看癬疥患處不見得深過皮膚，上面也沒有黑毛，司祭就應將這患癬疥的人隔離七天，
 肋:13.32    到第七天，司祭再查看患處，若見癬疥沒有蔓延，上面也沒有黑毛，且也不見得深過皮膚，
 肋:13.33    這人就應剃去鬚髮，只不剃生癬疥處；司祭應將他再隔離七天。
 肋:13.34    到第七天，司祭再查看癬疥，如果癬疥在皮膚上沒有蔓延，不見得深過皮膚，司祭就應聲明他是潔淨的；洗過衣服，就潔淨了。
 肋:13.35    但若在他聲明潔淨以後，癬疥在皮膚上又蔓延開了，
 肋:13.36    司祭應再查看，若見癬疥在皮膚上蔓延了，司祭不必再檢查黃毛，患者已是不潔淨的。
 肋:13.37    但若癬疥的顏色未變，上面又生有黑毛，癬疥已治好，患者已潔淨，司祭應證明患者是潔淨的。
 肋:13.38    不拘男女，若肉皮上起了一些斑痕，即白色斑痕，
 肋:13.39    司祭就應查看；如見肉皮上的斑痕呈灰白色，那是皮膚上起的皮疹，患者是潔淨的。
 肋:13.40    [禿瘡]  若人頭髮掉了，成了禿頭，他是潔淨的；
 肋:13.41    若人頭頂上的頭髮掉了，成了前腦禿的人，他是潔淨的。
 肋:13.42    但是，如果在腦後或腦前的禿處，起了白中帶紅的瘡痕，這是他腦前或腦後的禿處起的癩病。
 肋:13.43    司祭應查看，若見他腦前或腦後禿處腫起的地方白中帶紅，看來彷彿肉皮上生的癩病，
 肋:13.44    這人即是癩病人，已是不潔，司祭應聲明他是不潔的，因為他頭上有了癩病的症象。
 肋:13.45    [對癩病人的管制]  凡身患癩病的人，應穿撕裂的衣服，披頭散髮，將口唇遮住，且喊說：「不潔! 不潔! 」
 肋:13.46    在他患癩病的時日內，常是不潔的，他既是不潔的，就應獨居；他的住處應在營外。
 肋:13.47    [衣服的癩病]  若衣服上有了癩病的跡象，不拘是毛衣或麻衣，
 肋:13.48    或用麻及毛紡織或編織的布，或皮革，或任何皮製的物品上，有了癩病跡象；
 肋:13.49    若衣服或皮革，或紡織或編織的布，或任何皮製的器具上，有了發綠或發紅的斑痕：這就是癩病的跡象，應交由司祭查看。
 肋:13.50    司祭查看斑痕以後，應將帶有斑痕的物品收藏七天。
 肋:13.51    到第七天，司祭再查看那斑痕，如果斑痕在衣服上，或紡織或編織的布上，或皮革上，或任何皮製的物品上蔓延開了，這就是惡性癩病的跡象，物品即是不潔的。
 肋:13.52    凡帶有這斑痕的衣服，用毛或麻紡織或編織的布，或任何皮製的器具，都應焚燒；因為這是惡性的癩病，應用火燒毀。
 肋:13.53    但若司祭查看時，見斑痕在衣服上，或紡織或編織的布上，或任何皮製的器具上，沒有蔓延，
 肋:13.54    司祭當吩咐人將帶有斑痕的物品洗滌，再收藏七天。
 肋:13.55    司祭查看洗過的物品以後，若見斑痕沒有變色，也沒有蔓延，物品即是不潔的，應用火燒掉，因為裡外都腐蝕了。
 肋:13.56    但若司祭查看時，見斑痕在洗滌後已變暗淡，應從衣服，或皮革，或紡織或編織的布上，將那塊撕去；
 肋:13.57    以後，如果在衣服上，或紡織或編織的布上，或任何皮製的器具上，在出現斑痕，即是舊病復發：帶有斑痕的物品，就應用火燒了。
 肋:13.58    如果衣服，或紡織或編織的布，或任何皮製的器具，一經洗滌，上面的斑痕就不見了；再洗一次就潔淨了。
 肋:13.59    這是關於毛衣或麻衣，或紡織的布，或編織的布，或任何皮製的器具的癩病跡象，聲明潔淨與不潔的法律。」
  
 肋:14.1     [癩病取潔儀式]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:14.2     「關於癩病人取潔之日應守的法律如下：應引他去見司祭，
 肋:14.3     司祭應到營外查看，如見癩病人的病症痊愈了，
 肋:14.4     就吩咐人為那取潔者，拿兩隻潔淨的活鳥、香柏木、朱紅線和牛膝草來；
 肋:14.5     然後吩咐人在盛著活水的陶器上，宰殺一隻鳥。
 肋:14.6     司祭拿另外一隻活鳥同香柏木、朱紅線和牛膝草，連活鳥一起浸在殺於活水上的鳥血內，
 肋:14.7     向那取潔的癩病人灑血七次，使他潔淨；然後放那隻活鳥飛向田野，
 肋:14.8     那取潔的人洗滌自己的衣服，剃去身上所有的毛，用水洗澡，這樣就算潔淨了。此後，他方可入營內，但仍應在自己的帳幕外居住七天。
 肋:14.9     到了第七天，他應剃去身上所有的毛：頭髮、鬍鬚和眉毛；身上所有的毛都應剃去，然後洗滌衣服，用水洗身，就算完全潔淨了。
 肋:14.10    到第八天，他應帶兩隻無瑕的公羔羊，一隻一歲的無瑕母羔羊，作素祭用的十分之三」厄法「油調的細麵」，和一「羅格」油。
 肋:14.11    取潔禮的司祭，應叫取潔的人拿著這一切，站在會幕門口，上主面前。
 肋:14.12    司祭取一隻公羔羊同一「羅格」油，一起獻作贖過祭，在上主前行奉獻的搖禮。
 肋:14.13    然後在宰殺贖罪祭和全燔祭犧牲的聖地方，宰殺這隻公羔羊，因為贖過祭犧牲，如贖罪祭犧牲一樣，應歸司祭：這是至聖之物。
 肋:14.14    司祭取些贖過祭犧牲的血，抹在取潔者的右耳垂，右手拇指和右腳大趾上；
 肋:14.15    再由那一「羅格」油中，取些油倒在自己的左手掌中，
 肋:14.16    將自己的一個右手指，浸在左手掌的油內，用手指在上主前灑油七次；
 肋:14.17    然後將掌中剩下的油，抹在取潔者的右耳垂，右手拇指和右腳大趾上，即在抹贖過祭犧牲血的地方。
 肋:14.18    以後將掌中剩下的油，都抹在取潔者的頭上：如此司祭在上主面前為那人行了贖罪禮。
 肋:14.19    此後，司祭應奉獻贖罪祭，為取潔者贖罪除去不潔；最後應宰殺全燔祭犧牲，
 肋:14.20    在祭壇上奉獻全燔祭和素祭。司祭這樣為他行了贖罪禮，他就潔淨了。
 肋:14.21    但是，如果他貧窮，手中財力不足，可拿一隻公羔羊作贖過祭，行搖禮為他贖罪；十分之一「厄法」油調的細麵作素祭，一「羅格」油，
 肋:14.22    和財力所能備辦的兩隻斑鳩或兩之雛鴿：一隻做贖罪祭，一隻做全燔祭。
 肋:14.23    他應在第八天，將這一切送交司祭，再會幕門口於上主面前為自己取潔。
 肋:14.24    司祭便取那隻作贖過祭的公羔羊和一「羅格」油，在上主面前行奉獻的搖禮；
 肋:14.25    然後宰殺作贖過祭的公羔羊，取些贖過祭犧牲的血，抹在取潔者的右耳垂，右手拇指和右腳大趾上；
 肋:14.26    然後倒些油在自己的左手掌中，
 肋:14.27    用一隻右手指蘸些左手掌中的油，在上主面前灑七次；
 肋:14.28    再將掌中的油抹在取潔者的右耳垂，右手拇指和右腳大趾上，即在抹贖過祭犧牲血的地方；
 肋:14.29    掌中還有剩下的油，都抹在取潔者的頭上，為他在上主面前行贖罪禮。
 肋:14.30    取潔的人按自己的財力，所能備辦的兩隻斑鳩或兩隻雛鴿，
 肋:14.31    按他的財力所能獻的，其中一隻獻作贖罪祭，一隻獻作全燔祭，同素祭一起獻上。司祭應這樣為取潔的人在上主面前行贖罪禮。
 肋:14.32    這是關於身患癩病而財力不足備辦取潔祭品者的法律。
 肋:14.33    [屋癩]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 肋:14.34    「當你們進入了我賜給你們作產業的客納罕地，在你們佔有的地方，我令房屋發生癩病跡象時，
 肋:14.35    屋主應去告訴司祭說：我看在我房屋內出現了一些相似癩病的斑痕。
 肋:14.36    司祭進去查看斑痕以前，應吩咐人先搬空房屋，免得屋內的一切染上不潔；然後司祭進去查看房屋。
 肋:14.37    司祭查看斑痕時，如見屋內牆上的斑痕帶些發綠或發紅的小孔，似乎深過牆皮，
 肋:14.38    就應由屋內出來，到房門口，將房屋封鎖七天。
 肋:14.39    到第七天，司祭再來查看，如見斑痕在屋內牆上蔓延開了，
 肋:14.40    就應命人拔出有斑痕的石頭，丟在城外不潔的地方；
 肋:14.41    且叫人刮淨屋內四周，將刮下的灰土，倒在城外不潔的地方，
 肋:14.42    再拿別的石頭嵌進拔出的石頭處，拿別的灰土，粉刷房屋。
 肋:14.43    在拔出石頭，刮掃，粉刷房屋以後，如斑痕又在屋內出現，
 肋:14.44    司祭還應來查看，如見斑痕在屋內蔓延開了，這就是房屋上的腐蝕性癩病；這房屋即是不潔的，
 肋:14.45    應拆毀這座房屋；房屋的石頭、木材和所有灰土，都應運到城外不潔的地方。
 肋:14.46    整個封鎖日期內，如有人進屋內，直到晚上成為不潔的；
 肋:14.47    如有人在這屋內睡覺，應洗滌自己的衣服；如有人在這屋內吃飯，應洗滌自己的衣服。
 肋:14.48    但是，如果司祭來查看，見房屋刷新以後，斑痕沒有在屋內蔓延，司祭就應聲明房屋是潔淨的，因為患處已經好了。
 肋:14.49    司祭應拿兩隻飛鳥、香柏木、朱紅線和牛膝草來為房屋取潔；
 肋:14.50    一隻飛鳥，應在盛有活水的陶器上宰殺，
 肋:14.51    然後拿香柏木、牛膝草、朱紅線和那隻活鳥，一同浸在那已殺的鳥血及活水內，向房屋連灑七次。
 肋:14.52    用鳥血、活鳥、香柏木、牛膝草、朱紅線為房屋取潔以後，
 肋:14.53    司祭應放那隻活鳥飛向城外的田野：他這樣為房屋行取潔禮，房屋就潔淨了。
 肋:14.54    這是關於各種癩病症象、癬疥、
 肋:14.55    衣癩、`屋癩、
 肋:14.56    腫瘤、瘡癤和斑痕，
 肋:14.57    使人知道幾時不潔，幾時潔淨的法律。這是關於癩病所定的法律。」
  
 肋:15.1     [男人的不潔]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 肋:15.2     「你們告訴以色列子民說：幾時一個男人身患淋病，淋病使他不潔。
 肋:15.3     淋病使人不潔的光景是這樣：不論他身體常流淋液，或有時止住，他總是不潔的。
 肋:15.4     凡有淋病的人睡過的床，即染上不潔；凡他坐過之物，即染上不潔。
 肋:15.5     凡人摸了他的床，這人應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:15.6     誰坐了淋病人坐過之物，該洗自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:15.7     誰摸了淋病人的身體，應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.8     若有淋病的人，在潔淨人身上吐了唾沫，這人就應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.9     凡有淋病的人坐過的鞍子，即染上不潔。
 肋:15.10    誰摸了他身下的任何東西，直到晚上是不潔的；誰攜帶了這些東西，該洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.11    若有淋病的人，沒有用水洗手接觸了人，這人就應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.12    凡有淋病的人摸過的陶器，都應打破，任何木具，都應用水洗淨。
 肋:15.13    幾時有淋病的人治好不流了，他應計算七天為取潔期，洗滌自己的衣服，用活水洗身，然後就潔淨了。
 肋:15.14    到第八天，應拿兩隻斑鳩或兩隻雛鴿，來到上主面前，再會幕門口，交給司祭。
 肋:15.15    司祭應奉獻一隻作贖罪祭，另一隻作全燔祭。這樣司祭就替他在上主面前，為他的淋病行了贖罪禮。
 肋:15.16    人若遺精，應用水洗淨全身，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.17    凡沾有精液的衣服或皮物，應用水洗淨，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.18    男女同房媾精，兩人都應用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.19    [女人的不潔]  女人幾時行經，有血由她體內流出，她的不潔期應為七天；誰接觸了她，直到晚上不潔。
 肋:15.20    她不潔期內，凡她臥過之處，都染上不潔，凡她坐過之處，也染上不潔；
 肋:15.21    凡摸過她床榻的，應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:15.22    凡摸過她坐過之物的，應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:15.23    誰若摸了她床上，或她坐過之物上的東西，直到晚上是不潔的；
 肋:15.24    若男人與她同房，也沾染上她的不潔，七天之久，是不潔的；凡他臥過的床，也染上不潔。
 肋:15.25    女人若在經期外，多日流血；或者，她流血超過了她月經的日期，在流不潔之物的整個時期內，她如在經期內一樣不潔。
 肋:15.26    凡她流血期內所臥過的床，就如在經期臥過的床一樣染上不潔；凡她坐過之物，就如她經期內所坐過之物一樣，染上不潔。
 肋:15.27    誰若摸了，就染上不潔，應洗滌自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的。
 肋:15.28    幾時她治好不流了，她應計算七天，為取潔期。
 肋:15.29    到第八天，應拿兩隻斑鳩或兩隻雛鴿，來到會幕門口交給司祭；
 肋:15.30    司祭應奉獻一隻作贖罪祭，另一隻作全燔祭：這樣司祭就替她在上主面前，為她所流的不潔之物行了贖罪禮。
 肋:15.31    你們應叫以色列子民戒避他們的不潔，免得他們因不潔，玷污了我在他們中的住所，而遭受死亡。
 肋:15.32    這是有關因淋病，或遺精沾染不潔的人，
 肋:15.33    和行經的婦女，即有關任何遺漏的男女，以及與不潔的女人同房的男人的法律。」
  
 肋:16.1     [贖罪節的禮儀]  亞郎的兩個兒子，因擅自走近上主面前而遭受死亡；他們死後，上主訓示梅瑟，
 肋:16.2     對他這樣說：「你告訴你的哥哥亞郎，不可隨時進入帳幔後的聖所，到約櫃上的贖罪蓋前去，免得在我乘雲顯現在贖罪蓋上時，遭受死亡。
 肋:16.3     亞郎應這樣進入聖所：帶上一隻公牛犢作贖罪祭，一隻公綿羊作全燔祭；
 肋:16.4     應穿上亞麻聖長衣，身著亞麻短褲，束上一亞麻腰帶，戴上亞麻頭巾；這些都是聖衣，他用水洗身後才能穿上。
 肋:16.5     此外，還應由以色列子民會眾，取兩隻公山羊作贖罪祭，一隻公綿羊作全燔祭。
 肋:16.6     亞郎先要奉獻為自己作贖罪祭的公牛犢，替自己和家人贖罪；
 肋:16.7     以後牽那兩隻公山羊來，放在會幕門口上主面前，
 肋:16.8     為這兩隻公羊抽籤：一籤為上主，一籤為「阿匝則耳」。
 肋:16.9     亞郎將那為上主抽到的公山羊，獻作贖罪祭；
 肋:16.10    至於那為「阿匝則耳」抽到的公山羊，應讓牠活著，立在上主面前，用牠行贖罪禮，放入曠野，歸於「阿匝則耳。」
 肋:16.11    於是亞郎先奉獻為自己作贖罪祭的公牛犢，替自己和家人贖罪，宰殺為自己作贖罪祭的公牛犢；
 肋:16.12    隨後由上主面前的祭壇上，拿下盛滿紅炭的火盤，再拿一滿捧細乳香，帶進帳幔內，
 肋:16.13    在上主面前將乳香放在火上，使乳香的煙遮住約櫃上的贖罪蓋，免得遭受死亡。
 肋:16.14    以後，取些牛血，用手指灑在贖罪蓋東面；又用手指在贖罪蓋前，灑血七次。
 肋:16.15    此後，宰殺了為人民作贖罪祭的公山羊，將羊血帶進帳幔內，照灑牛血的方式，將羊血灑在贖罪蓋上和贖罪蓋的前面，
 肋:16.16    為以色列子民得不潔，和他們犯的種種罪過，給聖所取潔；給存留在他們中，為他們不潔玷污的會幕，也舉行同樣的禮儀。
 肋:16.17    當他走近聖所行贖罪禮時，直到他出來，任何人不許在會幕內。幾時他為自己，為家人，為以色列全會眾贖罪完畢，
 肋:16.18    就出來，回到上主面前的祭壇前，為祭壇行取潔禮；取些牛血和羊血，抹在祭壇四周的角上；
 肋:16.19    再用手指向祭壇灑血七次：這樣使祭壇免於以色列子民的不潔，而獲潔淨和祝聖。
 肋:16.20    為聖所、會幕及祭壇行完取潔禮後，便將那隻活公山羊牽來，
 肋:16.21    亞郎將雙手按在牠的頭上，明認以色列子民的一切罪惡，和所犯的種種過犯和罪過，全放在這公山羊頭上；然後命派定的人將牠送到曠野。
 肋:16.22    這羊負著他們種種罪惡到了荒野地方，那人應在曠野裡釋放這隻羊。
 肋:16.23    然後亞郎進入會幕，脫下他在聖所時穿的亞麻衣服，放在那裡，
 肋:16.24    在聖地方用水洗身，在穿上自己的衣服，出來奉獻自己的全燔祭和人民的全燔祭，為自己和人民行贖罪禮。
 肋:16.25    贖罪祭犧牲的脂肪，應放在祭壇上焚燒。
 肋:16.26    那送公山羊給「阿匝則耳」的，應先洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後方可進入營幕。
 肋:16.27    作贖罪祭的公牛犢和做贖罪祭的公山羊，牠們的血既帶到聖所內贖罪，皮、肉及糞，都應運到營外，用火燒了。
 肋:16.28    那燒的人，應先洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後方可進入營幕。
 肋:16.29    這為你們是一條永久的法令：七月初十，你們應先克己苦身，不論是本地人，或僑居在你們中間的外方人，任何勞工都不許做，
 肋:16.30    因為這一天，你們應為自己贖罪，使自己潔淨，應除去自己的種種過犯，在上主面前再成為潔淨的。
 肋:16.31    這是你們全休息日的安息日，應克己苦身：這是永久的法令。
 肋:16.32    那位受傅，被委任繼承他父親執行司祭職務的大司祭，應舉行贖罪禮。他應穿上亞麻聖衣，
 肋:16.33    為至聖所，為會幕和祭壇行取潔禮，為眾司祭和全會眾人民行贖罪禮。
 肋:16.34    每年一次，應為以色列子民，為他們種種罪過行贖罪禮：這為你們是永久的法令。」人就依照上主吩咐梅瑟的做了。
  
           聖潔的法律(17-26)
  
 肋:17.1     [宰牲為祭的條例]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:17.2     「你告訴亞郎和他的兒子以及全體以色列子民說：上主這樣吩咐說：
 肋:17.3     「以色列家中任何人，在營內或在營外，宰殺牛或綿羊或山羊，
 肋:17.4     而不牽到會幕門口，在上主住所前，奉獻給上主作祭品，這人就應負流血的罪債；他既使血流出，就應由民間剷除。
 肋:17.5     為此，以色列子民應將他們平素在野外宰殺的犧牲，牽到上主前，在會幕門口交與司祭宰殺這些犧牲，獻給上主作和平祭。
 肋:17.6     司祭將牲血灑在會幕門口上主的祭壇上，焚燒脂肪，化為中悅上主的馨香。
 肋:17.7     從此以後，他們不應再宰殺犧牲，獻給他們非法敬拜的一些山羊神：這為他們世世代代是一項永久的法令。
 肋:17.8     此外，你們應吩咐他們說：以色列家及僑居在他們中間的外方人，誰若願意獻全燔祭或祭獻，
 肋:17.9     而不牽到會幕門口，奉獻給上主，這人就應由民間剷除。
 肋:17.10    以色列家及僑居在他們中間的外方人，有人吃了什麼血，我必怒容而視，與這吃血的人作對，由民間將他剷除。
 肋:17.11    因為肉軀的生命是在血內，我為你們指定了血，在祭壇上為你們的生命贖罪，因為血具有生命，故能贖罪。
 肋:17.12    為此，我吩咐以色列子民說：你們中任何人都不可吃血；僑居在你們中間的外方人，也不可吃血。
 肋:17.13    以色列子民和僑居在他們中間的外方人，誰若獵取了可食的野獸或飛禽，該放盡牠的血，用泥土蓋上。
 肋:17.14    因為一切肉軀的生命都繫於血，為此，我吩咐以色列子民說：任何肉上的血，你們都不可吃，因為一切肉軀的生命，都繫於血，誰吃了，應被剷除。
 肋:17.15    不論是本地人或外方人，吃了自死或被猛獸撕裂的禽獸，應洗自己的衣服，用水洗澡，直到晚上是不潔的；以後他才潔淨。
 肋:17.16    但是，如果他不洗衣，也不洗身，應負罪債。」
  
 肋:18.1     [道德生活的規勸]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:18.2     「你告訴以色列子民說：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:18.3     你們不要仿效你們住過的埃及地的習慣，也不要仿效我正要領你們去的客納罕地的習慣，不要隨從他們的風俗；
 肋:18.4     應執行我的規定，遵守我的法令，依照遵行：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:18.5     你們應遵守我的法令和規定；遵守的人必因此獲得生命：我是上主。
 肋:18.6     [婚姻的阻礙]  你們中任何人不可親近血親，去揭露她的下體：我是上主。
 肋:18.7     你不可揭露你父親的下體和你母親的下體：她是你的母親，不可揭露她的下體。
 肋:18.8     你父親妻子的下體，你不可揭露，那是你父親的下體。
 肋:18.9     你姊妹的下體，不論她是你父親的女兒，或你母親的女兒，或在家生的，或在外生的，你不可揭露她們的下體。
 肋:18.10    你兒子的女兒，或你女兒的女兒的下體，你不可揭露，因為她們的下體是你們的下體。
 肋:18.11    你不可揭露你父親妻子的女兒的下體，因為她是你父親所生，是你的姊妹，你不可揭露她的下體。
 肋:18.12    你父親姊妹的下體，你不可揭露，因為她是你父親的骨肉。
 肋:18.13    你母親姊妹的下體，你不可揭露，因為她是你母親的骨肉。
 肋:18.14    你父親兄弟的下體，你不可揭露，也不可親近他的妻子；她是你的叔伯母。
 肋:18.15    你兒媳的下體，你不可揭露。她是你兒子的妻子，你不可揭露她的下體。
 肋:18.16    你兄弟妻子的下體，你不可揭露；那是你兄弟的下體。
 肋:18.17    你不可揭露了一女人的下體又揭露她女兒的；不可娶她兒子的女兒，或她女兒的女兒，揭露她的下體，她們都是她的血親：這是醜行。
 肋:18.18    你不可娶一女人又娶他的姊妹，做她的情敵，在她活著的時候，揭露她姊妹的下體。
 肋:18.19    [違犯貞潔的惡行]  女人在月經不潔期中，你不可接近，揭露她的下體。
 肋:18.20    你近人的妻子你不可與她同寢，為她所沾污。
 肋:18.21    你不可使你任何一個子女經火祭獻給摩肋客，亦不可褻瀆你天主的名：我是上主。
 肋:18.22    你不可與男人同寢，如同與女人同寢一樣：這是醜惡行為。
 肋:18.23    你不可與任何獸類同寢，為牠所淫污，女人亦不可委身與走獸，同牠交合：這是逆性邪惡。
 肋:18.24    你們不可以任何這樣的事玷污自己，因為這些民族以這一切事玷污了自己，我正要由你們面前將他們驅逐；
 肋:18.25    甚至連這地也玷污了，所以我必追究這地上的罪惡，使這地吐棄地上的居民。
 肋:18.26    至於你們，應遵守我的法令和規定；不論是本地人，或是寄居在你們中間的外方人，這樣醜惡的事，一件也不許做，
 肋:18.27    因為在你們以前住在這地上的人，做過這一切醜惡的事，玷汙了這地方。
 肋:18.28    希望這地不因你們而再受到玷污，將你們吐棄，如同吐棄了你們之前的民族。
 肋:18.29    因為，凡做任何一件這樣醜惡的事的，這樣的人，都應由民間剷除。
 肋:18.30    所以你們應遵守我的禁令，不可仿效你們以前的人所有的醜惡風俗，免得因此受到玷污：我，上主是你們的天主。
  
 肋:19.1     [宗教與道德的各種規條]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:19.2     「你告訴以色列子民全會眾說：你們應該是聖的，因為我，上主，你們的天主是聖的。
 肋:19.3     你們每人應孝敬母親和父親，應遵守我的安息日。我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.4     你們不要歸依偶像，也不要為自己鑄造神像：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.5     若你們給上主祭獻和平祭，要奉獻可蒙受悅納的。
 肋:19.6     祭肉，應在你們祭獻的當天或第二天吃盡；有剩下的，到第三天應用火燒了。
 肋:19.7     若還有人在第三天吃，這肉已不潔，必不蒙悅納。
 肋:19.8     那吃的人，必負罪債，因為他褻瀆了上主的聖物；這人應由民間剷除。
 肋:19.9     當你們收割田地的莊稼時，你不可割到地邊；收穫後剩下的穗子，不可再拾。
 肋:19.10    葡萄摘後不應去搜；葡萄園內掉下的，不應拾取，應留給窮人和外方人：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.11    你們不要偷竊，不要詐欺，不要彼此哄騙；
 肋:19.12    不要奉我的名妄發虛誓，而褻瀆你天主的名字：我是上主。
 肋:19.13    你不要欺壓剝削你的近人，傭人的工錢不可在你處過夜，留到第二天早晨。
 肋:19.14    不可咒罵聾子；不可將障礙物放在瞎子面前；但應敬畏你的天主：我是上主。
 肋:19.15    審判時，你們不要違背正義；不可袒護窮人，也不可重視有權勢的人，只依正義審判你的同胞。
 肋:19.16    不可去毀謗你本族人，也不可危害人的性命：我是上主。
 肋:19.17    不可心存懷恨你的兄弟，應坦白勸戒你的同胞，免得為了他而負罪債。
 肋:19.18    不可復仇，對你本國人，不可心懷怨恨；但應愛人如己：我是上主。
 肋:19.19    你們應遵守我的法令：不可使你的家畜與不同類的配合；一塊田內，不可播上不同的種子；用兩種線織成的衣服，不可穿在你的身上。
 肋:19.20    若人同已許配於人，尚未贖回，或沒有獲得自由的婢女同寢，應受處罰，但不該死，因為她還沒有自由。
 肋:19.21    但是，這人卻應把一隻贖過祭的公綿羊，牽到會幕門口，獻給上主，作為他的贖過祭。
 肋:19.22    司祭用這贖過祭的公綿羊，上主面前，代他為他所犯的罪行贖罪禮；他犯的罪方可得赦。
 肋:19.23    幾時你們進了那地方，栽種了什麼果樹，樹上的果子，你們應視為不潔；三年以內你們算是不潔，不可以吃；
 肋:19.24    到第四年，結的一切果實，都是聖的，應做讚頌上主的禮品；
 肋:19.25    到第五年，才可以吃樹上結的果實，使樹為你們增加出產；我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.26    你們不可吃任何帶血的食物，不可占卜，不可念咒；
 肋:19.27    不可將兩邊的頭髮剃圓；兩邊的鬍鬚，也不可修剪。
 肋:19.28    不可為死者割傷你們的身體，也不可在你們身上刺花紋：我是上主。
 肋:19.29    不可褻瀆你的女兒，令她賣淫，免得這地方成為淫場，充滿淫亂。
 肋:19.30    應遵守我的安息日，應敬畏我的聖所：我是上主。
 肋:19.31    不可去探詢亡魂，亦不可尋問占卜者，而為他們所玷污：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.32    在白髮老人前，應起立；對老年人要尊敬，應敬畏你的天主：我是上主。
 肋:19.33    若外方人在你們的地域內，與你住在一起，不可欺壓他；
 肋:19.34    對與你們住在一起的外方人，應看作你們中的一個同鄉，愛他如愛你自己，因為你們在埃及地也作過外方人：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:19.35    再審斷度、量、衡上，不可不公平；
 肋:19.36    天平、法碼、升、勺，都應正確。我是領你們出離埃及地的上主你們的天主。
 肋:19.37    你們應遵守我的一切法令和我的一切規定，一一依照執行：我是上主。」
  
 肋:20.1     敬拜邪神之罰]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:20.2     「對以色列子民說：以色列子民和僑居以色列的外方人中，若有人將兒女獻給摩肋客，應處死刑；當地的人應用石頭砸死他。
 肋:20.3     必板起臉來與此人作對，將他由民間剷除，因為他將兒女獻給了摩肋客，玷污了我的聖所，褻瀆了我的聖名。
 肋:20.4     地的人，若在這人奉獻自己的兒女給摩肋客時，竟閉目不看，而不將他處死，
 肋:20.5     自己要板起臉來與這人和他的家族作對，將他和一切隨著他敬拜摩肋客的人，由他們的人民中間一律剷除。
 肋:20.6     有人去求問亡魂和占卜者，跟隨他們行邪法，我必板起臉來與這人作對，將他由民間剷除。
 肋:20.7     們應成聖自己，成為聖的，因為我上主是你們的天主。
 肋:20.8     們應遵守我的法令，一一依照執行，我是要你們成聖的上主。
 肋:20.9     辱罵自己的父母的，應處死刑；他辱罵了父母，應自負血債。
 肋:20.10    [行邪淫之罰]  人與一有夫之婦通姦，即與鄰友之妻通姦，奸夫奸婦應一律處死。
 肋:20.11    人與父親的妻子同寢，是揭露了父親的下體，兩人應一律處死，他們應自負血債。
 肋:20.12    人與兒媳同睡，兩人應處死；他們犯了亂倫的罪，應自負血債。
 肋:20.13    男人同男人同寢，如男之於女，做此醜事的兩人，應一律處死，應自負血債。
 肋:20.14    人娶妻又娶妻的母親，這是淫亂，應將他和她們用火燒死，使你們中間不致存有淫亂。
 肋:20.15    人與走獸同寢，應處死刑；走獸亦應殺死。
 肋:20.16    女人走近任何走獸，與牠交合，應將這女人和這走獸殺死，應處死刑；他們應自負血債。
 肋:20.17    人娶自己的姊妹，不論她是自己父親的女兒，或是母親的女兒，以致他看見了她的下體，她也看見了他的下體：這是可恥的事，應在本國人前將他們剷除，因為他揭露了自己姊妹的下體，應自負血債。
 肋:20.18    人與在月經期內的女人同寢，揭露了她的下體，暴露了她的血源；她也揭露了自己的血源，應將兩人由民間剷除。
 肋:20.19    不可揭露你母親的姊妹，或你父親的姊妹的下體，因為這是暴露自己的肉體；他們應自負罪債。
 肋:20.20    人與自己的叔伯母同睡，這是揭露了叔伯的下體；他們應自負血債，絕嗣而死。
 肋:20.21    人娶自己兄弟之婦為妻，這是可恥的，無益是揭露了自己兄弟的下體，必然絕後。
 肋:20.22    [潔與不潔之分別]  們應遵守我的一切法令和我的一切規定，一一依照執行，免得我領你們去居住的地方將你們吐棄。
 肋:20.23    們不應隨從我由你們面前要驅逐的民族的風俗，因為他們做了這一切事，我才厭惡了他們，
 肋:20.24    對你們說：你們要佔領他們的土地；我將這流奶流蜜的地方，賜給你們作產業。是我上主你們的天主，使你們與萬民分開。
 肋:20.25    以你們應分別潔與不潔的走獸，潔與不潔的飛禽，免得你們為不潔的走獸、飛禽，任何地上爬行的動物，──我已給你們分別清楚，免染不潔，──玷污自己。
 肋:20.26    你們於我應該是聖的，因為我上主是聖的；為此我將你們和萬民分開，好屬於我。
 肋:20.27    召亡魂行巫術或占卜的男女，應一律處死，應用石頭砸死；他們應自負血債。」
  
 肋:21.1     [司祭的聖潔]  上主對梅瑟說：「你當訓示亞郎的兒子司祭說：司祭不應為族人的屍體陷於不潔，
 肋:21.2     除非為骨肉至親，如母親，父親，兒女，兄弟；
 肋:21.3     未出嫁而仍為處女的姊妹，為她的屍體，司祭可陷於不潔；
 肋:21.4     但司祭不可因身為丈夫，而為姻親的屍身，陷於不潔，褻瀆己身。
 肋:21.5     司祭的頭髮不可剃光，鬍鬚的邊緣，不可修剪，也不可紋身割傷。
 肋:21.6     他們對天主應是聖的，不可褻瀆天主的名號，因為是他們奉獻上主的火祭，作為天主的供物，所以應是聖的。
 肋:21.7     司祭不可娶妓女和受玷污的女人為妻，也不可娶為丈夫離棄的女人，因為他是祝聖於天主的人。
 肋:21.8     所以你應以他為聖，因為他把供物奉獻給你的天主，他對於你應是聖的，因為使你們成聖的我上主，是聖的。
 肋:21.9     若司祭的女兒賣淫褻瀆自己，她是褻瀆自己的父親，應用火燒死。
 肋:21.10    [大司祭的聖潔]  兄弟中身分最高的司祭，頭上既倒過聖油，又被祝聖穿了祭衣，不可披頭散髮，不可撕裂自己的衣服。
 肋:21.11    不可走近死人的屍體，也不可為父親或母親的屍體而陷於不潔。
 肋:21.12    也不可走出聖所，免得褻瀆天主的聖所，因為在他頭上有天主傅油的神印：我是上主。
 肋:21.13    他應娶處女為妻；
 肋:21.14    寡婦，棄婦或受玷污的妓女，這樣的女人，決不可娶；只可娶本族中的處女為妻
 肋:21.15    以免褻瀆本族的後裔，因為那使他成聖的是我，上主。」
 肋:21.16    [作司祭的阻礙]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:21.17    「你告訴亞郎說：世世代代你的後裔中，凡身上有缺陷的，不得前去向天主奉獻供物；
 肋:21.18    凡身上有缺陷的，不准前去：不論是眼瞎，腳跛，殘廢，畸形的，
 肋:21.19    或是斷手斷腳的，
 肋:21.20    或是駝背，矮小，眼生白翳，身上有痲疹或癬疥，或是睪丸破碎的人。
 肋:21.21    亞郎司祭的後裔中，凡身上有缺陷的，不得去奉獻上主的火祭；他身上既有缺陷，就不應給天主奉獻供物。
 肋:21.22    天主的供物，不論是至聖的或聖的，他都可以吃；
 肋:21.23    卻不可進入帳幔後，或走近祭壇前，因為他身上有缺陷，免得他褻瀆我的聖所，因為使他們成聖的是我，上主。」
 肋:21.24    梅瑟就這樣訓示了亞郎和他的兒子，以及全體以色列子民。
  
 肋:22.1     [吃祭物的條件]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:22.2     「你告訴亞郎和他的兒子，叫他們對以色列子民獻與我的聖物應謹慎，免得褻瀆了我的聖名：我是上主。
 肋:22.3     你對他們說：世世代代，你們後裔中，若有玷污不潔的，竟敢接近以色列子民獻與上主的聖物，這人應由我面前剷除：我是上主。
 肋:22.4     亞郎的後裔中，凡患癩病或淋病的，在他未取潔之前，不可吃聖物；凡摸過死屍所染不潔之物的，或遺精的人，
 肋:22.5     或摸了任何能染上不潔的爬蟲，或摸了能使自己染上任何不潔的人；
 肋:22.6     凡摸了這些東西的人，直到晚上是不潔的，除非他用水洗身，不准吃聖物。
 肋:22.7     太陽一落，他就潔淨了，以後可吃聖物，因為這是屬他的食物。
 肋:22.8     不可吃自死或被猛獸撕裂的獸肉，免得染上不潔：我是上主。
 肋:22.9     他們應遵守我的訓令，免陷於罪惡；因此褻瀆訓令的，必遭死亡：我是使他們成聖的上主。
 肋:22.10    任何族外人，不准吃聖物；司祭的客人和傭工，也不准吃聖物；
 肋:22.11    但是司祭用銀錢買來的僕人，卻可以吃；凡生在他家的人，也可以吃這食物。
 肋:22.12    司祭的女兒，如嫁給族外人為妻，不准吃作獻儀的聖物；
 肋:22.13    但是司祭的女兒，如成了寡婦或棄婦，因沒有兒子，又回到父家，如同她年輕時一樣，可以吃她父親的食物；但是任何族外人不得吃。
 肋:22.14    如果一人因不慎而吃了聖物，應償還所吃的聖物，還應另加五分之一，交與司祭。
 肋:22.15    司祭不應讓以色列子民褻瀆所獻與上主的聖物，
 肋:22.16    而使他們因吃自己獻的聖物，負起賠償的罪債；因為我是使他們成聖的上主。
 肋:22.17    [祭牲應無瑕疵]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:22.18    「你告訴和亞郎和他的兒子，以及全體以色列子民說：以色列家中或住在以色列中的外方人，任何人如奉獻祭品，不管是為還願，或出於自願，獻給上主作全燔祭的，
 肋:22.19    應是一隻無瑕的公牛，公綿羊，或公山羊，方蒙悅納。
 肋:22.20    凡身上有殘疾的，你們不應奉獻，因為這樣為你們決不會獲得悅納。
 肋:22.21    如有人為還願，或出於自願，給上主奉獻牛羊作和平祭品，應是無瑕的，方蒙悅納；身上不應有任何殘疾。
 肋:22.22    眼瞎的或殘廢的，或斷肢的，或患潰瘍的，或生痲疹的，或長癬疥的：這樣的牲畜，你們不可獻給上主；任何這樣的牲畜，不可放在祭壇上，獻給上主作火祭。
 肋:22.23    一腿太長或太短的牛或羊，你可獻為自願祭祭品；但為還願，必不蒙悅納。
 肋:22.24    此外，凡睪丸傷壞，砸碎，破裂，割去的牲畜，你們不可獻給上主；在你們的地域內，萬不可舉行這樣的祭獻，
 肋:22.25    也不可由外邦人手內接受這樣的牲畜，獻給你們的天主作供物，因為身上殘廢的，有缺陷的，為你們不會獲得悅納。」
 肋:22.26    上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:22.27    「幾時牛或綿羊或山羊一生下，應七天同其母在一起；自第八天，作為上主的火祭祭品，方蒙悅納。
 肋:22.28    牛羊及其幼雛，不可在同一日內宰殺。
 肋:22.29    幾時你們給上主奉獻感恩祭，應這樣奉獻，才獲得悅納：
 肋:22.30    祭肉，應在當天吃完，不應留到次日早晨：我是上主。
 肋:22.31    你們應遵守我的命令，一一依照執行：我是上主。
 肋:22.32    不要褻瀆我的聖名，叫我在以色列子民中常被尊為聖；我是使你們成聖的上主，
 肋:22.33    是我由埃及地領你們出來，為作為你們的天主：我是上主。」
  
 肋:23.1     [應守的節日]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:23.2     「你告訴以色列子民說：以下是我的節日，是你們應召集聖會的上主節日。
 肋:23.3     [安息日]  六天工作，但第七天，應是完全休息的安息日，應召集聖會，任何工作都不可做；在你們任何住處，這日是應為上主守的安息日。
 肋:23.4     以下是上主的節日，你們應依照時期召集聖會：
 肋:23.5     [踰越節]  正月十四日傍晚，應為上主守踰越節。
 肋:23.6     這月十五日，應為上主守無酵節，七天之內，應吃無酵餅。
 肋:23.7     第一日，應召集聖會，任何勞工都不可做；
 肋:23.8     七天內，應給上主奉獻火祭；到第七日，應召集聖會，任何勞工都不可做。」
 肋:23.9     [春季薦新節]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:23.10    「你告訴以色列子民說：幾時你們進入了我賜給你們的地方，在那裡有一收穫，應把你們收穫的第一束交給司祭。
 肋:23.11    司祭應拿這一束行搖禮，獻於上主面前，好為你們獲得悅納；司祭應在安息日的次日行搖禮。
 肋:23.12    在你們拿這一束行搖禮的那一天，還應給上主獻一隻一歲無瑕的公羔羊，作全燔祭；
 肋:23.13    同獻的素祭，應是十分之二「厄法」油調的細麵，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭；再加四分之一「辛」酒，作為奠祭。
 肋:23.14    直到那一天，即直到你們給你們的天主奉獻祭品的一天，你們不可吃新麥做的餅，烤的或新鮮的麥穗：這為你們世世代代，在任何住處，是一永久的法令。
 肋:23.15    [五旬節]  從你們獻麥束行搖禮的安息日的次日，應計算整個七星期，
 肋:23.16    即直到第七個安息日後的次日，共計五十天，那天應給上主奉獻薦新的素祭。
 肋:23.17    由你們的住處帶來兩個行搖禮的餅，每個用十分之二「厄法」的發酵細麵烤成，獻與上主作初熟之祭。
 肋:23.18    餅以外，還應奉獻七隻一歲無瑕的公羔羊，一頭公牛犢和兩隻公綿羊，作獻與上主的全燔祭；還有同奉獻的素祭和奠祭，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭；
 肋:23.19    還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭，兩隻一歲的公羔羊作和平祭。
 肋:23.20    司祭應拿這兩隻公羔羊同初熟祭的餅，在上主面前行奉獻的搖禮；這是屬於上主的聖物，應歸於司祭。
 肋:23.21    在這一日，你們應召集聖會，任何勞工也不可做：這為你們世世代代，在任何住處，是一永久法令。
 肋:23.22    當你們收割你們地內的莊稼時，你不可割到地邊；收穫後剩下的穗子，不可再拾，應留給窮人和外方人：我，上主是你們的天主。
 肋:23.23    [新年節]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:23.24    「你告訴以色列子民說：七月初一，為你是完全休息的日子，應吹號角，召集聖會，
 肋:23.25    任何勞工都不可做，應給上主獻一火祭。」
 肋:23.26    [贖罪節]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:23.27    「還有七月初十是贖罪節，是你們應召集聖會的日子，要克己苦身，並給上主奉獻一火祭。
  
 肋:23.28    這一天，任何工作都不可做，因為是贖罪節，應在上主你們的天主面前，為你們自己行贖罪祭。
 肋:23.29    這一天，凡不克己苦身的人，應由民間剷除；
 肋:23.30    這一天凡做任何工作的人，我必由民間消滅這人；
 肋:23.31    任何工作不可做：這為你們世世代代，在任何住處，是一永久法令。
 肋:23.32    這是你們應完全休息的安息日，應克己苦身。這月初九傍晚，到次日傍晚，你們應守這安息日。」
 肋:23.33    [帳棚節]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:23.34    「你告訴以色列子民說：七月十五是帳棚節，應為上主舉行七天：
 肋:23.35    第一天應召集聖會，任何勞工都不可做，
 肋:23.36    七天之久，應給上主獻火祭；到第八天，又應召集聖會，給上主獻火祭；這天是盛大集會的日子，任何勞工都不可做。
 肋:23.37    以上是上主的節日，你們應召集聖會，照每日的規定應給上主獻火祭、全燔祭、素祭、祭獻和奠祭；
 肋:23.38    此外，還有在上主的安息日，你們獻於上主的禮品、還願祭和自願祭。
 肋:23.39    七月十五日，你們收了那地方的出產，應七天舉行上主的節期：第一天和第八天應完全休息。
 肋:23.40    第一天，你們應拿著樹木結的美果、棕櫚樹枝、葉密的大樹枝和溪邊的柳條；如此七天之久，應在上主你們的天主面前喜樂。
 肋:23.41    你們每年應七天之久舉行這上主的節日，且應在七月舉行這節日：這為你們世世代代是一永久的法令。
 肋:23.42    七天之久，你們應住在帳棚內，凡以色列公民，都應住在帳棚內，
 肋:23.43    好叫你們的後代知道，當我領以色列子民出離埃及國的時候，曾使他們住在帳棚內：我，上主是你們的天主。」
 肋:23.44    梅瑟就這樣給以色列子民宣布了上主的節日。
  
 肋:24.1     [長明燈和供餅]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:24.2     「你吩咐以色列子民給你拿由橄欖榨的清油來，為點燈用，好叫燈光長明不熄。
 肋:24.3     亞郎應將燈放在會幕內，約櫃帳幔外，自晚上到早晨常點在上主面前：這為你們世世代代是永久的法令。
 肋:24.4     亞郎應把這些燈放在純金台上，在上主面前長燃不熄。
 肋:24.5     你應拿細麵，烤成十二個餅，每個是十分之二「厄法」；
 肋:24.6     將餅排成兩行，六個一行，供在上主面前的純金桌上。
 肋:24.7     每行應撒上純乳香，作為食物當獻與上主的火祭，為獲得記念。
 肋:24.8     每安息日，應將餅不斷地供在上主面前，這是以色列子民因永久的盟約而當行的義務。
 肋:24.9     這些應歸亞郎和他的兒子；他們應在聖地方吃，因為這是上主火祭中至聖之物，是他永享的權利。
 肋:24.10    [褻聖的處罰]  當時在以色列子民中有一個人，他的母親是以色列人，父親是埃及人。這以色列女人的兒子在營地內與一個以色列人爭吵；
 肋:24.11    以色列女人的兒子咒罵褻瀆了上主的名，人們就帶他去見梅瑟，──這人的母親叫舍羅米特，是丹支派狄貝黎的女兒，──
 肋:24.12    將他看守起來，等梅瑟依照上主的訓令給他們處理。
 肋:24.13    於是上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:24.14    「你帶這犯褻瀆罪的人營外去，凡聽見他說褻瀆話的人，都按手在他頭上，然後令全體會眾用石頭砸死他。
 肋:24.15    你應這樣告訴以色列子民說：凡褻瀆天主的，應負罪債；
 肋:24.16    那不避諱「雅威」之名的，應處死刑，全體會眾應用石頭砸死他；不論外方人或本地人，若不避諱「雅威」的名，應處死刑。
 肋:24.17    [報復律]  凡打死人的，應處死刑。
 肋:24.18    凡打死牲畜的，應該賠償：以命還命。
 肋:24.19    人若加害自己的同胞，他怎樣待人，人也怎樣待他：
 肋:24.20    以傷還傷，以眼還眼，以牙還牙；他怎樣害了人，人也怎樣害他。
 肋:24.21    凡打死牲畜的，應該賠償；凡打死人的，應處死刑。
 肋:24.22    為你們，不論是外方人或本地人，只有一樣法律；因為我上主是你們的天主。」
 肋:24.23    梅瑟這樣訓示了以色列子民；他們就把這犯褻瀆罪的人帶到營外，用石頭砸死。以色列子民全照上主吩咐梅瑟的做了。
  
 肋:25.1     [安息年]  上主在西乃山訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:25.2     「你告訴以色列子民說：幾時你們進入了我要賜給你們的地方，這地方將為上主守安息。
 肋:25.3     六年之內，你可播種田地；六年之內，你可修剪葡萄園，收穫其中的出產。
 肋:25.4     但到第七年，地應完全休息，是上主的安息年。你不可播種田地，也不可修剪葡萄園；
 肋:25.5     連你收穫後而自然生出的，你也不可收割；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，你也不可採摘；是地完全休息的一年。
 肋:25.6     地在休息期而自然生出的，可供你們吃：即供給你、你的僕婢、傭工和與你同住的客人吃。
 肋:25.7     地自然生的，也可供給你的牲畜和你地中的走獸吃。
 肋:25.8     [喜年]  你應計算七個安息年，即七乘七年；七個安息年的時期，正是四十九年。
 肋:25.9     這年七月初十，你應吹號角，即在贖罪節日，你們應在全國內吹起號角，
 肋:25.10    祝聖第五十年，向全國居民宣布自由；為你們是一喜年，人各歸其祖業，人各返其家庭。
 肋:25.11    第五十年為你們是一喜年，不可播種；自然生出的，不可收穫；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，不可採摘，
 肋:25.12    因為這是喜年，為你們應是聖年；你們只可吃田地自然生的。
 肋:25.13    在這喜年內，人各歸其祖業。
 肋:25.14    為此，如你賣給你的同胞產業，或由你的同胞購買，你們不可彼此欺壓；
 肋:25.15    你應照上次喜年後的年數由你同胞購買，他應照收穫的年數賣給你。
 肋:25.16    年數越多，你越應多付買價；年數越少，越應少付買價，因為他賣給你的是物產的數目。
 肋:25.17    為此，你們不可彼此欺壓，但應敬畏你的天主，因為我上主是你們的天主。
 肋:25.18    你們應遵行我的法令，遵守我的規定，一一依照執行，好叫你們平安地住在這地上，
 肋:25.19    地必供給出產，使你們吃飽，平安住在地上。
 肋:25.20    若你們追問說：到第七年，我們若不能播種，又不能收集我們的出產，我們吃什麼﹖
 肋:25.21    在第六年上，我必決定祝福你們，叫地有三年的出產；
 肋:25.22    你們在第八年上播種時，還吃陳糧；直到第九年，直到收割新糧時，還有陳糧吃。
 肋:25.23    [土地贖回法]  土地不可出賣而無收回權，因為地是我的，你們為我只是旅客或住客。
 肋:25.24    對你們所佔的各地，應承認地有贖回權。
 肋:25.25    如果你的兄弟貧窮，賣了一份家產，他的至親可來作代贖人，贖回他兄弟所賣的家產。
 肋:25.26    人若沒有代贖人，幾時自己富足了，有了足夠的贖價，
 肋:25.27    當計算賣出後的年數，將差額還給買主，收回自己的家產。
 肋:25.28    如果他無法獲得足夠的贖價，他所賣的，應存於買主之手直到喜年；到了喜年，地應退還，賣主收回自己的家產。
 肋:25.29    [房屋贖回法]  若人賣了一所在城牆內的住宅，自賣出後，一年內，他有贖回的權利；他贖回的權利為期一年。
 肋:25.30    如果滿了一年，他沒有贖回，在城牆內的房屋應歸買主與其後代，再無收回權；即使到了喜年，亦不應退還。
 肋:25.31    但房屋在沒有圍牆的村莊內，應算是田產，有贖回的權利；到了喜年應該退還。
 肋:25.32    至於肋未人得為產業的城市中的房屋，肋未人永享有贖回權。
 肋:25.33    如一肋未人在他得為產業的城市出賣的房屋，沒有贖回，在喜年仍可收回，因為肋未城中的房屋，是他們在以色列子民中所得的不動產。
 肋:25.34    但是，他們城外四郊之地，不可變賣，因為是永屬他們的產業。
 肋:25.35    [對同胞不可取利]  如果你的兄弟貧窮，無力向你還債，你應像待外方人一樣或旅客一樣扶持他，叫他能與你一起生活。
 肋:25.36    不應向他索取利息或重利，但應敬畏你的天主，讓他與你一起生活，如你的兄弟。
 肋:25.37    借給他銀錢，不可取利息；借給他糧食，不可索重利。
 肋:25.38    我上主是你們的天主，我領你們離開埃及地，將客納罕地賜給你們，是為做你們的天主。
 肋:25.39    [以色列人為奴的法律]  若你身旁的兄弟窮了，賣身給你，你不可迫他勞作如同奴隸一樣；
 肋:25.40    他在你身旁，應像傭工或外僑，給你工作直到喜年。
 肋:25.41    那時，他和他的子女應離開你，回本家，復歸其祖業；
 肋:25.42    因為他是我的僕役，是我由埃及地領出來的；他們不能賣身，如同出賣奴隸。
 肋:25.43    你不可虐待他，但應敬畏你的天主。
 肋:25.44    你需要的奴婢，應來自四周的民族，由他們中可購買奴婢。
 肋:25.45    此外，可從同你們住在一起的外方人中，或從他們在你們境內所生的後代子孫中，購買奴婢。這些奴婢可成為你們的產業，
 肋:25.46    可將他們留給你們的後代子孫，當作永久的產業，使他們勞作。至於你們的兄弟以色列子民，彼此既是兄弟，不可嚴加虐待。
 肋:25.47    若外方人，或寄居在你處的人成了富翁，你的兄弟反而窮了，欠他的債，而賣身給寄居在你處的外方人，或外方人家中的後代；
 肋:25.48    賣身以後，仍享有贖回的權利；他的任何一個兄弟可以贖他；
 肋:25.49    他的叔伯，或他叔伯的兒子可以贖他；他家中的任何至親骨肉都可以贖他；如他自己致富，亦可自贖。
 肋:25.50    他應同購買自己的人，計算從賣身給他以後到喜年的年數；贖價應依照年數的多少，並按照傭工每日的工價決定；
 肋:25.51    如剩下的年數尚多，他應依照年數的多少，出一部份贖價來贖身。
 肋:25.52    如直到喜年剩下的年數不多，應這樣計算：依照年數的比例交付贖價。
 肋:25.53    買主對他應像每年雇的工人；他不可當著你虐待那人。
 肋:25.54    如果那人不能這樣贖身，到了喜年，他可與兒女自由離去。
 肋:25.55    因為以色列子民只對我是奴隸，他們是我的奴隸，是我領他們離開了埃及地：我，上主是你們的天主。
  
 肋:26.1     [守法的祝福]  你們不可製造神像，亦不可立雕像或石柱；在你們境內，亦不可安置石像，供人朝拜，因為我上主是你們的天主。
 肋:26.2     你們應遵守我的安息日，尊敬我的聖所；我是上主。
 肋:26.3     如果你們履行我得法令，遵守我的命令，一一依照執行，
 肋:26.4     我必按時給你們降下雨露，地必供給出產，田野的樹木必結出果實。
 肋:26.5     你們打禾必打到收葡萄的時期，收葡萄必收到播種的時期；你們必有糧食吃飽，在境內安居樂業。
 肋:26.6     我必賜國內太平，你們睡下，沒有驚擾；我必使境內的猛獸消滅，刀劍也不侵入你們境內。
 肋:26.7     你們追擊仇敵時，他們必在你們面前喪身刀下。
 肋:26.8     你們五人要追擊一百，你們百人要追擊一萬；你們的仇敵必在你們面前喪身刀下。
 肋:26.9     我必眷顧你們，使你們繁殖增多；我必固守我與你們所立的盟約，
 肋:26.10    你們要吃久藏的陳糧，要清出陳糧，為貯藏新糧。
 肋:26.11    我必在你們中間安置我的住所，再不厭惡你們
 肋:26.12    我必住在你們中間，做你們的天主，你們做我的百姓。
 肋:26.13    我上主是你們的天主，是我領你們出離了埃及地，不再做他們的奴隸；是我打斷了你們軛上的橫木，令你們昂首前進。
 肋:26.14    [違法的禍患]  但是，如果你們不聽從我，不執行這一切命令；
 肋:26.15    如果你們棄絕我的法令，厭惡我的制度，不遵行我的一切命令，而破壞我的盟約，
 肋:26.16    我必要這樣與你們作對，使你們恐怖，患肺癆瘧疾，眼目昏花，心靈憔悴；你們的種子，白白播種，因為你們的仇敵要來吃盡。
 肋:26.17    我要板起臉來與你們作對，你們必為仇敵擊潰，那仇恨你們的要壓制你們；雖然沒有人追趕，你們也要望風而逃。
 肋:26.18    如果這樣你們還不聽從我，為了你們的罪惡，我必要加重七倍懲罰你們，
 肋:26.19    粉碎你們矜誇的力量，使你們的蒼天如鐵，使你們的土地像銅，
 肋:26.20    使你們白費氣力，地不供給出產，田野的樹木也不結果實。
 肋:26.21    如果你們還與我作對，不願聽從我，我必按照你們的罪惡，加重七倍打擊你們，
 肋:26.22    使野獸來傷害你們，奪去你們的子女，殘害你們的牲畜，減少你們的人口，使你們的街市變成廢墟。
 肋:26.23    如果我用這些事還不能懲戒你們，你們仍然與我作對，
 肋:26.24    我也要與你們作對，為了你們的罪惡，必要加重七倍打擊你們。
 肋:26.25    我必令刀劍臨於你們，為報復違背盟約的罪；如果你們退入城市，我必使瘟疫來害你們，叫你們落在仇人手內。
 肋:26.26    當我給你們斷絕了糧源時，十個女人要在一口灶上烤餅，按定量給你們配給糧食；你們雖然吃，卻吃不飽。
 肋:26.27    如果這樣，你們還不聽從我，仍然與我作對，
 肋:26.28    我必發怒來與你們作對，為了你們的罪惡，我必加重七倍懲罰你們。
 肋:26.29    你們要吃你們兒子的肉，連你們女兒的肉也要吃。
 肋:26.30    我必破壞你們的丘壇，砍倒你們的香臺，將你們的屍首堆在你們的偶像的屍首上。我必厭惡你們。
 肋:26.31    使你們的城市變為曠野，聖所化為廢墟，不願再聞你們祭品的馨香。
 肋:26.32    我必使你們的地化為廢墟，甚至你的仇人來居住時，還驚奇不已。
 肋:26.33    我必將你們分散在各民族中，我要拔劍追逐你們，使你們的地成為廢墟城市變為曠野。
 肋:26.34    當那地方變成荒野，而你們僑居在仇人的地方時，這整個時期，那地才補上了安息的時候；那時地要休息，補享安息年。
 肋:26.35    那地方荒涼的整個時期內，才得到安息，補享你們居住時，在你們的安息年內，未享到的安息。
 肋:26.36    至於你中殘存的人，我必使他們在仇人的地方膽戰心驚，甚至風吹落葉聲也把他們嚇跑，逃跑有如逃避刀劍；雖然無人追趕，他們也跌倒在地。
 肋:26.37    雖然無人追趕，他們卻一人倒在另一人身上，如面臨刀劍。你們決不能抵擋你們的仇人，
 肋:26.38    只有在各民族中消滅，仇人的土地要把你吞下。
 肋:26.39    你們中殘存的人，必為了自己的罪惡，在仇人的地方，日漸衰弱，還要為了祖先的罪惡，日漸衰弱。
 肋:26.40    [以色列要回頭改過]  他們終必承認自己的罪惡，祖先的罪惡，對我不忠與我作對的叛逆之罪。
 肋:26.41    當我與他們作對，將他們遷送到他們仇人的地方以後，他們未受割損的心，必會謙卑自下，要心甘情願受罰贖罪，
 肋:26.42    我也想起我同雅各伯所結的盟約，想起同依撒格，同亞巴郎所結的盟約，也想起那地方來。
 肋:26.43    但那地方應為他們所放棄，好在他們離去，地方荒蕪時，才能補享安息年，同時他們也補贖自己的罪惡，這是因為他們棄絕了我的制度，厭惡了我的法令。
 肋:26.44    但是，即使這樣，當他們留在仇人的地方時，我仍不棄絕他們，也不厭惡他們，以致消滅他們，廢除我與他們結的盟約，因為我上主是他們的天主。
 肋:26.45    我顧念他們，我還要想起我與他們的祖先所結的盟約；我在各民族的眼前，由埃及地領出他們的祖先來，為做他們的天主：我是上主。」
 肋:26.46    這是上主在西乃山，於自己和以色列子民間，藉梅瑟所立定的法令、制度和法律。」
  
 肋:27.1     [人的估價]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 肋:27.2     「你告訴以色列子民說：若人以人身許願，應將人身的代價獻給上主，
 肋:27.3     由二十歲到六十歲的男人，根據聖所的「協刻耳」，估價應是五十銀「協刻耳」；
 肋:27.4     若是女人，估價應是三十「協刻耳」。
 肋:27.5     由五歲到二十歲，若是男性，估價應是二十「協刻耳」，女性為十「協刻耳」。
 肋:27.6     由一月到五歲，若是男性，估價為五銀「協刻耳」；若是女性，估價為三銀「協刻耳」。
 肋:27.7     六十歲以上的人，若是男性，估價為十五「協刻耳」，女性為十「協刻耳」。
 肋:27.8     但若是人窮，不能支付這估價，應帶他到司祭面前。司祭估定他的價格；司祭要按許願人的財力，估定價格。
 肋:27.9     [獸類的估價]  如所許的是可獻於上主作祭品的獸類，獻於上主的任何走獸，應視為聖的，
 肋:27.10    不可更換，不可替代，不能以好換壞，或以壞換好；如果人拿一隻走獸還另一隻，以前所許的和以後所換的，都應視為聖的。
 肋:27.11    如所許的是一隻不潔，不堪獻於上主作祭品的走獸，就應將牠牽到司祭前，
 肋:27.12    司祭估定牠的好壞；司祭估多少；就是多少；
 肋:27.13    如許願的人願把牠贖回，除了司祭估定的價值外，還應加五分之一。
 肋:27.14    [房屋的估價]  若人把自己的房屋，獻於上主，司祭應估定它的好壞；司祭估多少，就是多少。
 肋:27.15    如果獻房屋的人願再贖回，除估定的價值外，還應加五分之一，房屋才可歸他。
 肋:27.16    [田地的估價]  若人將自己的一部份田產獻於上主，估價應按地播種所需要的數量；一「荷默爾」大麥種子，為五十銀「協刻耳」。
 肋:27.17    若人由喜年起，獻了自己的田地，這個估價就是定價；
 肋:27.18    但如果在喜年以後獻自己的田地，司祭應按至喜年尚餘的數量給他估價，把估價減低。
 肋:27.19    如獻田地的人再願贖回，除司祭估定的價錢之外，還應加五分之一，田地仍歸於他；
 肋:27.20    但若他不但沒有把田地贖回，反而賣給別人，不能再贖回；
 肋:27.21    一到喜年，田地應退還時，應獻於上主，當作禁田，歸於司祭，成為他的產業。
 肋:27.22    若人將自己買來的田地，而非祖業，獻於上主，
 肋:27.23    司祭就應估定這田地直到喜年所有的價值，那人應在當天支付你估定的價錢，這是歸上主的聖物。
 肋:27.24    一到喜年，這田地應退給賣田的人，歸於這塊田地的原有人。
 肋:27.25    一切估價都應按聖所的「協刻耳」；一「協刻耳」等於二十「革辣」。
 肋:27.26    [頭胎牲畜]  至於頭胎牲畜，既是頭胎，應屬於上主，人不能再奉獻；不論是牛是羊，已屬於上主。
 肋:27.27    若是不潔牲畜的頭胎，人應照估價贖回，再加五分之一；如不贖回，應照估價賣掉。
 肋:27.28    [禁物]  凡照禁物法獻於上主之物，凡人所有的，不論是人，或是牲畜，或是一部份田產，便不可變賣，亦不可贖回；凡禁物都是屬於上主的至聖之物。
 肋:27.29    凡照禁物法應處置的人，便不可贖回，應將他處死。
 肋:27.30    [什一之物]  凡土地的出產，或是田地的穀物，或是樹木的果實，十分之一應歸於上主，是獻於上主的聖物。
 肋:27.31    人若願意把應獻的十分之一贖回一部份，除物價外，應另加五分之一。
 肋:27.32    凡牛群或羊群，由牧童杖下經過的每第十隻，亦即全群十分之一，應獻於上主；
 肋:27.33    不應追究是好是壞，亦不可將牠更換；更換了，以前所有的和以後所換的，都應視為聖物，不得贖回」。
 肋:27.34    這是上主在西乃山為以色列子民向梅瑟吩咐的法令。 　[肋未記完篇]
  
 lv:.1.      [Leviticus]  27 chapters  [肋未記]  [英文版]
  
 lv:1.1   The LORD called Moses, and from the meeting tent gave him this message:
 lv:1.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any one of you wishes to bring an animal offering to the LORD, such an offering must be from the herd or from the flock.
 lv:1.3   "If his holocaust offering is from the herd, it must be a male without blemish. To find favor with the LORD, he shall bring it to the entrance of the meeting tent
 lv:1.4   and there lay his hand on the head of the holocaust, so that it may be acceptable to make atonement for him.
 lv:1.5   He shall then slaughter the bull before the LORD, but Aaron's sons, the priests, shall offer up its blood by splashing it on the sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 lv:1.6   Then he shall skin the holocaust and cut it up into pieces.
 lv:1.7   After Aaron's sons, the priests, have put some burning embers on the altar and laid some wood on them,
 lv:1.8   they shall lay the pieces of meat, together with the head and the suet, on top of the wood and embers on the altar.
 lv:1.9   The inner organs and the shanks, however, the offerer shall first wash with water. The priest shall then burn the whole offering on the altar as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:1.10  "If his holocaust offering is from the flock, that is, a sheep or a goat, he must bring a male without blemish.
 lv:1.11  This he shall slaughter before the LORD at the north side of the altar. Then Aaron's sons, the priests, shall splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 lv:1.12  When the offerer has cut it up into pieces, the priest shall lay these, together with the head and suet, on top of the wood and the fire on the altar.
 lv:1.13  The inner organs and the shanks, however, the offerer shall first wash with water. The priest shall offer them up and then burn the whole offering on the altar as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:1.14  "If he offers a bird as a holocaust to the LORD, he shall choose a turtledove or a pigeon as his offering.
 lv:1.15  Having brought it to the altar where it is to be burned, the priest shall snap its head loose and squeeze out its blood against the side of the altar.
 lv:1.16  Its crop and feathers shall be removed and thrown on the ash heap at the east side of the altar.
 lv:1.17  Then, having split the bird down the middle without separating the halves, the priest shall burn it on the altar, over the wood on the fire, as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
  
 lv:2.1   "When anyone wishes to bring a cereal offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense over it.
 lv:2.2   When he has brought it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one of them shall take a handful of this fine flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and this he shall burn on the altar as a token offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:2.3   The rest of the cereal offering belongs to Aaron and his sons. It is a most sacred oblation to the LORD.
 lv:2.4   "When the cereal offering you present is baked in an oven, it must be in the form of unleavened cakes made of fine flour mixed with oil, or of unleavened wafers spread with oil.
 lv:2.5   If you present a cereal offering that is fried on a griddle, it must be of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened.
 lv:2.6   Such a cereal offering must be broken into pieces, and oil must be poured over it.
 lv:2.7   If you present a cereal offering that is prepared in a pot, it must be of fine flour, deep-fried in oil.
 lv:2.8   A cereal offering that is made in any of these ways you shall bring to the LORD, offering it to the priest, who shall take it to the altar.
 lv:2.9   Its token offering the priest shall then lift from the cereal offering and burn on the altar as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:2.10  The rest of the cereal offering belongs to Aaron and his sons. It is a most sacred oblation to the LORD.
 lv:2.11  "Every cereal offering that you present to the LORD shall be unleavened, for you shall not burn any leaven or honey as an oblation to the LORD.
 lv:2.12  Such you may indeed present to the LORD in the offering of first fruits, but they are not to be placed on the altar for a pleasing odor.
 lv:2.13  However, every cereal offering that you present to the LORD shall be seasoned with salt. Do not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your cereal offering. On every offering you shall offer salt.
 lv:2.14  "If you present a cereal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer it in the form of fresh grits of new ears of grain, roasted by fire.
 lv:2.15  On this cereal offering you shall put oil and frankincense.
 lv:2.16  For its token offering the priest shall then burn some of the grits and oil, together with all the frankincense, as an oblation to the LORD.
  
 lv:3.1   "If someone in presenting a peace offering makes his offering from the herd, he may offer before the LORD either a male or a female animal, but it must be without blemish.
 lv:3.2   He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and then slaughter it at the entrance of the meeting tent; but Aaron's sons, the priests, shall splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 lv:3.3   From the peace offering he shall offer as an oblation to the LORD the fatty membrane over the inner organs, and all the fat that adheres to them,
 lv:3.4   as well as the two kidneys, with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall sever above the kidneys.
 lv:3.5   All this Aaron's sons shall then burn on the altar with the holocaust, on the wood over the fire, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:3.6   "If the peace offering he presents to the LORD is from the flock, he may offer either a male or a female animal, but it must be without blemish.
 lv:3.7   If he presents a lamb as his offering, he shall bring it before the LORD,
 lv:3.8   and after laying his hand on the head of his offering, he shall slaughter it before the meeting tent; but Aaron's sons shall splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 lv:3.9   As an oblation to the LORD he shall present the fat of the peace offering: the whole fatty tail, which he must sever close to the spine, the fatty membrane over the inner organs, and all the fat that adheres to them,
 lv:3.10  as well as the two kidneys, with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he must sever above the kidneys.
 lv:3.11  All this the priest shall burn on the altar as the food of the LORD'S oblation.
 lv:3.12  "If he presents a goat, he shall bring it before the LORD,
 lv:3.13  and after laying his hand on its head, he shall slaughter it before the meeting tent; but Aaron's sons shall splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
 lv:3.14  From it he shall offer as an oblation to the LORD the fatty membrane over the inner organs, and all the fat that adheres to them,
 lv:3.15  as well as the two kidneys, with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he must sever above the kidneys.
 lv:3.16  All this the priest shall burn on the altar as the food of the sweet-smelling oblation. All the fat belongs to the LORD.
 lv:3.17  This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your descendants wherever they may dwell. You shall not partake of any fat or any blood."
  
 lv:4.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:4.2   "Tell the Israelites: When a person inadvertently commits a sin against some command of the LORD by doing one of the forbidden things,
 lv:4.3   if it is the anointed priest who thus sins and thereby makes the people also become guilty, he shall present to the LORD a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he committed.
 lv:4.4   Bringing the bullock to the entrance of the meeting tent, before the LORD, he shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the LORD.
 lv:4.5   The anointed priest shall then take some of the bullock's blood and bring it into the meeting tent,
 lv:4.6   where, dipping his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, toward the veil of the sanctuary.
 lv:4.7   The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense which is before the LORD in the meeting tent. The rest of the bullock's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of holocausts which is at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 lv:4.8   From the sin-offering bullock he shall remove all the fat: the fatty membrane over the inner organs, and all the fat that adheres to them,
 lv:4.9   as well as the two kidneys, with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he must sever above the kidneys.
 lv:4.10  This is the same as is removed from the ox of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar of holocausts.
 lv:4.11  The hide of the bullock and all its flesh, with its head, legs, inner organs and offal,
 lv:4.12  in short, the whole bullock, shall be brought outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are deposited and there be burned up in a wood fire. At the place of the ash heap, there it must be burned.
 lv:4.13  "If the whole community of Israel inadvertently and without even being aware of it does something that the LORD has forbidden and thus makes itself guilty,
 lv:4.14  should it later on become known that the sin was committed, the community shall present a young bull as a sin offering. They shall bring it before the meeting tent,
 lv:4.15  and here, before the LORD, the elders of the community shall lay their hands on the bullock's head. When the bullock has been slaughtered before the LORD,
 lv:4.16  the anointed priest shall bring some of its blood into the meeting tent,
 lv:4.17  and dipping his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, toward the veil.
 lv:4.18  He shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense which is before the LORD in the meeting tent. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of holocausts which is at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 lv:4.19  All of its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar,
 lv:4.20  doing with this bullock just as he did with the other sin-offering bullock. Thus the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.
 lv:4.21  This bullock must also be brought outside the camp and burned, just as has been prescribed for the other one. This is the sin offering for the community.
 lv:4.22  "Should a prince commit a sin inadvertently by doing one of the things which are forbidden by some commandment of the LORD, his God, and thus become guilty,
 lv:4.23  if later on he learns of the sin he committed, he shall bring as his offering an unblemished male goat.
 lv:4.24  Having laid his hands on its head, he shall slaughter the goat as a sin offering before the LORD, in the place where the holocausts are slaughtered.
 lv:4.25  The priest shall then take some of the blood of the sin offering on his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of holocausts. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of this altar.
 lv:4.26  All of the fat he shall burn on the altar like the fat of the peace offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for the prince's sin, and it will be forgiven.
 lv:4.27  "If a private person commits a sin inadvertently by doing one of the things which are forbidden by the commandments of the LORD, and thus becomes guilty,
 lv:4.28  should he later on learn of the sin he committed, he shall bring an unblemished she-goat as the offering for his sin.
 lv:4.29  Having laid his hand on the head of the sin offering, he shall slaughter it at the place of the holocausts.
 lv:4.30  The priest shall then take some of its blood on his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of holocausts. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
 lv:4.31  All the fat shall be removed, just as the fat is removed from the peace offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for an odor pleasing to the LORD. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
 lv:4.32  "If, however, for his sin offering he presents a lamb, he shall bring an unblemished female.
 lv:4.33  Having laid his hand on its head, he shall slaughter this sin offering in the place where the holocausts are slaughtered.
 lv:4.34  The priest shall then take some of the blood of the sin offering on his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of holocausts. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
 lv:4.35  All the fat shall be removed, just as the fat is removed from the peace-offering lamb, and the priest shall burn it on the altar with the other oblations of the LORD. Thus the priest shall make atonement for the man's sin, and it will be forgiven.
  
 lv:5.1   "If any person refuses to give the information which, as a witness of something he has seen or learned, he has been adjured to give, and thus commits a sin and has guilt to bear;
 lv:5.2   or if someone, without being aware of it, touches any unclean thing, as the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or that of an unclean domestic animal, or that of an unclean swarming creature, and thus becomes unclean and guilty;
 lv:5.3   or if someone, without being aware of it, touches some human uncleanness, whatever kind of uncleanness this may be, and then recognizes his guilt;
 lv:5.4   or if someone, without being aware of it, rashly utters an oath to do good or evil, such as men are accustomed to utter rashly, and then recognizes that he is guilty of such an oath;
 lv:5.5   then whoever is guilty in any of these cases shall confess the sin he has incurred,
 lv:5.6   and as his sin offering for the sin he has committed he shall bring to the LORD a female animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat. The priest shall then make atonement for his sin.
 lv:5.7   "If, however, he cannot afford an animal of the flock, he shall bring to the LORD as the sin offering for his sin two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a holocaust.
 lv:5.8   He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer the one for the sin offering first. Snapping its head loose at the neck, yet without breaking it off completely,
 lv:5.9   he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar. The rest of the blood shall be squeezed out against the base of the altar. Such is the offering for sin.
 lv:5.1   The other bird shall be offered as a holocaust in the usual way. Thus the priest shall make atonement for the sin the man committed, and it will be forgiven.
 lv:5.11  "If he is unable to afford even two turtledoves or two pigeons, he shall present as a sin offering for his sin one tenth of an ephah of fine flour. He shall not put oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
 lv:5.12  When he has brought it to the priest, the latter shall take a handful of this flour as a token offering, and this he shall burn as a sin offering on the altar with the other oblations of the LORD.
 lv:5.13  Thus the priest shall make atonement for the sin that the man committed in any of the above cases, and it will be forgiven. The rest of the flour, like the cereal offerings, shall belong to the priest."
 lv:5.14  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:5.15  "If someone commits a sin by inadvertently cheating in the LORD'S sacred dues, he shall bring to the LORD as his guilt offering an unblemished ram from the flock, valued at two silver shekels according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
 lv:5.16  He shall also restore what he has sinfully withheld from the sanctuary, adding to it a fifth of its value. This is to be given to the priest, who shall then make atonement for him with the guilt-offering ram, and he will be forgiven.
 lv:5.17  "If someone, without being aware of it, commits such a sin by doing one of the things which are forbidden by some commandment of the LORD, that he incurs guilt for which he must answer,
 lv:5.18  he shall bring as a guilt offering to the priest an unblemished ram of the flock of the established value. The priest shall then make atonement for the fault which was unwittingly committed, and it will be forgiven.
 lv:5.19  Such is the offering for guilt; the penalty of the guilt must be paid to the LORD."
 lv:5.20  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:5.21  "If someone commits a sin of dishonesty against the LORD by denying his neighbor a deposit or a pledge for a stolen article, or by otherwise retaining his neighbor's goods unjustly,
 lv:5.22  or if, having found a lost article, he denies the fact and swears falsely about it with any of the sinful oaths that men make in such cases,
 lv:5.23  he shall therefore, since he has incurred guilt by his sin, restore the thing that was stolen or unjustly retained by him or the deposit left with him or the lost article he found
 lv:5.24  or whatever else he swore falsely about; on the day of his guilt offering he shall make full restitution of the thing itself, and in addition, give the owner one fifth of its value.
 lv:5.25  As his guilt offering he shall bring to the LORD an unblemished ram of the flock of the established value. When he has presented this as his guilt offering to the priest,
 lv:5.26  the latter shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven whatever guilt he may have incurred."
  
 lv:6.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:6.2   "Give Aaron and his sons the following command: This is the ritual for holocausts. The holocaust is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night until the next morning, and the fire is to be kept burning on the altar.
 lv:6.3   The priest, clothed in his linen robe and wearing linen drawers on his body, shall take away the ashes to which the fire has reduced the holocaust on the altar, and lay them at the side of the altar.
 lv:6.4   Then, having taken off these garments and put on other garments, he shall carry the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.
 lv:6.5   The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it. On this he shall lay out the holocaust and burn the fat of the peace offerings.
 lv:6.6   The fire is to be kept burning continuously on the altar; it must not go out.
 lv:6.7   "This is the ritual of the cereal offering. One of Aaron's sons shall first present it before the LORD, in front of the altar.
 lv:6.8   Then he shall take from it a handful of its fine flour and oil, together with all the frankincense that is on it, and this he shall burn on the altar as its token offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:6.9   The rest of it Aaron and his sons may eat; but it must be eaten in the form of unleavened cakes and in a sacred place: in the court of the meeting tent they shall eat it.
 lv:6.10  It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion from the oblations of the LORD; it is most sacred, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
 lv:6.11  All the male descendants of Aaron may partake of it as their rightful share in the oblations of the LORD perpetually throughout your generations. Whatever touches the oblations becomes sacred."
 lv:6.12  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:6.13  "This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall present to the LORD (on the day he is anointed): one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for the established cereal offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.
 lv:6.14  It shall be well kneaded and fried in oil on a griddle when you bring it in. Having broken the offering into pieces, you shall present it as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:6.15  Aaron's descendant who succeeds him as the anointed priest shall do likewise. This is a perpetual ordinance: for the Lord the whole offering shall be burned.
 lv:6.16  Every cereal offering of a priest shall be a whole burnt offering; it may not be eaten."
 lv:6.17  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:6.18  "Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the ritual for sin offerings. At the place where holocausts are slaughtered, there also, before the LORD, shall the sin offering be slaughtered. It is most sacred.
 lv:6.19  The priest who presents the sin offering may partake of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place, in the court of the meeting tent.
 lv:6.20  Whatever touches its flesh shall become sacred. If any of its blood is spilled on a garment, the stained part must be washed in a sacred place.
 lv:6.21  A clay vessel in which it has been cooked shall thereafter be broken; if it is cooked in a bronze vessel, this shall be scoured afterward and rinsed with water.
 lv:6.22  All the males of the priestly line may partake of the sin offering, since it is most sacred.
 lv:6.23  But no one may partake of any sin offering of which some blood has been brought into the meeting tent to make atonement in the sanctuary; such an offering must be burned up in the fire.
  
 lv:7.1   "This is the ritual for guilt offerings, which are most sacred.
 lv:7.2   At the place where the holocausts are slaughtered, there also shall the guilt offering be slaughtered. Its blood shall be splashed on the sides of the altar.
 lv:7.3   All of its fat shall be taken from it and offered up: the fatty tail, the fatty membrane over the inner organs,
 lv:7.4   as well as the two kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which must be severed above the kidneys.
 lv:7.5   All this the priest shall burn on the altar as an oblation to the LORD. This is the guilt offering.
 lv:7.6   All the males of the priestly line may partake of it; but it must be eaten in a sacred place, since it is most sacred.
 lv:7.7   "Because the sin offering and the guilt offering are alike, both having the same ritual, the guilt offering likewise belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
 lv:7.8   Similarly, the priest who offers a holocaust for someone may keep for himself the hide of the holocaust that he has offered.
 lv:7.9   Also, every cereal offering that is baked in an oven or deep-fried in a pot or fried on a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it,
 lv:7.10  whereas all cereal offerings that are offered up dry or mixed with oil shall belong to all of Aaron's sons without distinction.
 lv:7.11  "This is the ritual for the peace offerings that are presented to the LORD.
 lv:7.12  When anyone makes a peace offering in thanksgiving, together with his thanksgiving sacrifice he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of fine flour mixed with oil and well kneaded.
 lv:7.13  His offering shall also include loaves of leavened bread along with the victim of his peace offering for thanksgiving.
 lv:7.14  From each of his offerings he shall present one portion as a contribution to the LORD; this shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.
 lv:7.15  "The flesh of the thanksgiving sacrifice shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it may be kept till the next day.
 lv:7.16  However, if the sacrifice is a votive or a free-will offering, it should indeed be eaten on the day the sacrifice is offered, but what is left over may be eaten on the next day.
 lv:7.17  Should any flesh from the sacrifice be left over on the third day, it must be burned up in the fire.
 lv:7.18  If, therefore, any of the flesh of the peace offering is eaten on the third day, it shall not win favor for him nor shall it be reckoned to his credit; rather, it shall be considered as refuse, and anyone who eats of it shall have his guilt to bear.
 lv:7.19  Should the flesh touch anything unclean, it may not be eaten, but shall be burned up in the fire. "All who are clean may partake of this flesh.
 lv:7.20  If, however, someone while in a state of uncleanness eats any of the flesh of a peace offering belonging to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.
 lv:7.21  Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether the uncleanness be of human or of animal origin or from some loathsome crawling creature, and then eats of a peace offering belonging to the LORD, that person, too, shall be cut off from his people."
 lv:7.22  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:7.23  "Tell the Israelites: You shall not eat the fat of any ox or sheep or goat.
 lv:7.24  Although the fat of an animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild beasts may be put to any other use, you may not eat it.
 lv:7.25  If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an oblation is made to the LORD, such a one shall be cut off from his people.
 lv:7.26  Wherever you dwell, you shall not partake of any blood, be it of bird or of animal.
 lv:7.27  Every person who partakes of any blood shall be cut off from his people."
 lv:7.28  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:7.29  "Tell the Israelites: He who presents a peace offering to the LORD shall bring a part of it as his special offering to him,
 lv:7.30  carrying in with his own hands the oblations to the LORD. The fat is to be brought in, together with the breast, which is to be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.
 lv:7.31  The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
 lv:7.32  Moreover, from your peace offering you shall give to the priest the right leg as a raised offering.
 lv:7.33  The descendant of Aaron who offers up the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right leg as his portion,
 lv:7.34  for from the peace offerings of the Israelites I have taken the breast that is waved and the leg that is raised up, and I have given them to Aaron, the priest, and to his sons by a perpetual ordinance as a contribution from the Israelites."
 lv:7.35  This is the priestly share from the oblations of the LORD, allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day he called them to be the priests of the LORD;
 lv:7.36  on the day he anointed them the LORD ordered the Israelites to give them this share by a perpetual ordinance throughout their generations.
 lv:7.37  This is the ritual for holocausts, cereal offerings, sin offerings, guilt offerings, (ordination offerings) and peace offerings,
 lv:7.38  which the LORD enjoined on Moses at Mount Sinai at the time when he commanded the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai to bring their offerings to the LORD.
  
 lv:8.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:8.2   "Take Aaron and his sons, together with the vestments, the anointing oil, the bullock for a sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened food.
 lv:8.3   Then assemble the whole community at the entrance of the meeting tent."
 lv:8.4   And Moses did as the LORD had commanded. When the community had assembled at the entrance of the meeting tent,
 lv:8.5   Moses told them what the LORD had ordered to be done.
 lv:8.6   Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, he first washed them with water.
 lv:8.7   Then he put the tunic on Aaron, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, placed the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered belt of the ephod, fastening it around him.
 lv:8.8   He then set the breastpiece on him, with the Urim and Thummim in it,
 lv:8.9   and put the miter on his head, attaching the gold plate, the sacred diadem, over the front of the miter, at his forehead, as the LORD had commanded him to do.
 lv:8.10  Taking the anointing oil, Moses anointed and consecrated the Dwelling, with all that was in it.
 lv:8.11  Then he sprinkled some of this oil seven times on the altar, and anointed the altar, with all its appurtenances, and the laver, with its base, thus consecrating them.
 lv:8.12  He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, thus consecrating him.
 lv:8.13  Moses likewise brought forward Aaron's sons, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and put turbans on them, as the LORD had commanded him to do.
 lv:8.14  When he had brought forward the bullock for a sin offering, Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
 lv:8.15  Then Moses slaughtered it, and taking some of its blood, with his finger he put it on the horns around the altar, thus purifying the altar. He also made atonement for the altar by pouring out the blood at its base when he consecrated it.
 lv:8.16  Taking all the fat that was over the inner organs, as well as the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, Moses burned them on the altar.
 lv:8.17  The bullock, however, with its hide and flesh and offal he burned in the fire outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him to do.
 lv:8.18  He next brought forward the holocaust ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
 lv:8.19  When he had slaughtered it, Moses splashed its blood on all sides of the altar.
 lv:8.20  After cutting up the ram into pieces, he burned the head, the cut-up pieces and the suet;
 lv:8.21  then, having washed the inner organs and the shanks with water, he also burned these remaining parts of the ram on the altar as a holocaust, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him to do.
 lv:8.22  Then he brought forward the second ram, the ordination ram, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
 lv:8.23  When he had slaughtered it, Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
 lv:8.24  Moses had the sons of Aaron also come forward, and he put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. The rest of the blood he splashed on the sides of the altar.
 lv:8.25  He then took the fat: the fatty tail and all the fat over the inner organs, the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and likewise the right leg;
 lv:8.26  from the basket of unleavened food that was set before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, one loaf of bread made with oil, and one wafer; these he placed on top of the portions of fat and the right leg.
 lv:8.27  He then put all these things into the hands of Aaron and his sons, whom he had wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
 lv:8.28  When he had received them back, Moses burned them with the holocaust on the altar as the ordination offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:8.29  He then took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD; this was Moses' own portion of the ordination ram. All this was in keeping with the LORD'S command to Moses.
 lv:8.30  Taking some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, Moses sprinkled with it Aaron and his vestments, as well as his sons and their vestments, thus consecrating both Aaron and his vestments and his sons and their vestments.
 lv:8.31  Finally, Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the entrance of the meeting tent, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of the ordination offering, in keeping with the command I have received: 'Aaron and his sons shall eat of it.'
 lv:8.32  What is left over of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up in the fire.
 lv:8.33  Moreover, you are not to depart from the entrance of the meeting tent for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed; for your ordination is to last for seven days.
 lv:8.34  The LORD has commanded that what has been done today be done to make atonement for you.
 lv:8.35  Hence you must remain at the entrance of the meeting tent day and night for seven days, carrying out the prescriptions of the LORD; otherwise, you shall die; for this is the command I have received."
 lv:8.36  So Aaron and his sons did all that the LORD had commanded through Moses.
  
 lv:9.1   On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons, together with the elders of Israel,
 lv:9.2   and said to Aaron, "Take a calf for a sin offering and a ram for a holocaust, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
 lv:9.3   Tell the elders of Israel, too: Take a he-goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb, both unblemished yearlings, for a holocaust,
 lv:9.4   and an ox and a ram for a peace offering, to sacrifice them before the LORD, along with a cereal offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will reveal himself to you."
 lv:9.5   So they brought what Moses had ordered. When the whole community had come forward and stood before the LORD,
 lv:9.6   Moses said, "This is what the LORD orders you to do, that the glory of the LORD may be revealed to you.
 lv:9.7   Come up to the altar," Moses then told Aaron, "and offer your sin offering and your holocaust in atonement for yourself and for your family; then present the offering of the people in atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded."
 lv:9.8   Going up to the altar, Aaron first slaughtered the calf that was his own sin offering.
 lv:9.9   When his sons presented the blood to him, he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar. The rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.
 lv:9.10  He then burned on the altar the fat, the kidneys and the lobe of the liver that were taken from the sin offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses;
 lv:9.11  but the flesh and the hide he burned up in the fire outside the camp.
 lv:9.12  Then Aaron slaughtered his holocaust. When his sons brought him the blood, he splashed it on all sides of the altar.
 lv:9.13  They then brought him the pieces and the head of the holocaust, and he burned them on the altar.
 lv:9.14  Having washed the inner organs and the shanks, he burned these also with the holocaust on the altar.
 lv:9.15  Thereupon he had the people's offering brought up. Taking the goat that was for the people's sin offering, he slaughtered it and offered it up for sin as before.
 lv:9.16  Then he brought forward the holocaust, other than the morning holocaust, and offered it in the usual manner.
 lv:9.17  He then presented the cereal offering; taking a handful of it, he burned it on the altar.
 lv:9.18  Finally he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the peace offering of the people. When his sons brought him the blood, Aaron splashed it on all sides of the altar.
 lv:9.19  The portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fatty tail, the fatty membrane over the inner organs, the two kidneys, with the fat that is on them, and the lobe of the liver,
 lv:9.20  he placed on top of the breasts and burned them on the altar,
 lv:9.21  having first waved the breasts and the right legs as a wave offering before the LORD, in keeping with the LORD'S command to Moses.
 lv:9.22  Aaron then raised his hands over the people and blessed them. When he came down from offering the sin offering and holocaust and peace offering,
 lv:9.23  Moses and Aaron went into the meeting tent. On coming out they again blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD was revealed to all the people.
 lv:9.24  Fire came forth from the LORD'S presence and consumed the holocaust and the remnants of the fat on the altar. Seeing this, all the people cried out and fell prostrate.
  
 lv:10.1   During this time Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers and, strewing incense on the fire they had put in them, they offered up before the LORD profane fire, such as he had not authorized.
 lv:10.2   Fire therefore came forth from the LORD'S presence and consumed them, so that they died in his presence.
 lv:10.3   Moses then said to Aaron, "This is as the LORD said: Through those who approach me I will manifest my sacredness; In the sight of all the people I will reveal my glory." But Aaron said nothing.
 lv:10.4   Then Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, with the order, "Come, remove your kinsmen from the sanctuary and carry them to a place outside the camp."
 lv:10.5   So they went in and took them, in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses had commanded.
 lv:10.6   Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not bare your heads or tear your garments, lest you bring not only death on yourselves but God's wrath also on the whole community. Your kinsmen, the rest of the house of Israel, shall mourn for those whom the LORD'S fire has smitten;
 lv:10.7   but do not you go beyond the entry of the meeting tent, else you shall die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." So they did as Moses told them.
 lv:10.8   The LORD said to Aaron,
 lv:10.9   "When you are to go to the meeting tent, you and your sons are forbidden under pain of death, by a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations, to drink any wine or strong drink.
 lv:10.10  You must be able to distinguish between what is sacred and what is profane, between what is clean and what is unclean;
 lv:10.11  you must teach the Israelites all the laws that the LORD has given them through Moses."
 lv:10.12  Moses said to Aaron and his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the cereal offering left over from the oblations of the LORD, and eat it beside the altar in the form of unleavened cakes. Since it is most sacred,
 lv:10.13  you must eat it in a sacred place. This is your due from the oblations of the LORD, and that of your sons; such is the command I have received.
 lv:10.14  With your sons and daughters you shall also eat the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the raised offering, in a clean place; for these have been assigned to you and your children as your due from the peace offerings of the Israelites.
 lv:10.15  The leg of the raised offering and the breast of the wave offering shall first be brought in with the oblations, the fatty portions, that are to be waved as a wave offering before the LORD. Then they shall belong to you and your children by a perpetual ordinance, as the LORD has commanded."
 lv:10.16  When Moses inquired about the goat of the sin offering, he discovered that it had all been burned. So he was angry with the surviving sons of Aaron, Eleazar and Ithamar, and said,
 lv:10.17  "Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sacred place, since it is most sacred? It has been given to you that you might bear the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the LORD.
 lv:10.18  If its blood was not brought into the inmost part of the sanctuary, you should certainly have eaten the offering in the sanctuary, in keeping with the command I had received."
 lv:10.19  Aaron answered Moses, "Even though they presented their sin offering and holocaust before the LORD today, yet this misfortune has befallen me. Had I then eaten of the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing to the LORD?"
 lv:10.20  On hearing this, Moses was satisfied.
  
 lv:11.1   The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 lv:11.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: Of all land animals these are the ones you may eat:
 lv:11.3   any animal that has hoofs you may eat, provided it is cloven-footed and chews the cud.
 lv:11.4   But you shall not eat any of the following that only chew the cud or only have hoofs: the camel, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you;
 lv:11.5   the rock badger, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you;
 lv:11.6   the hare, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you; and the pig,
 lv:11.7   which does indeed have hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you.
 lv:11.8   Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they are unclean for you.
 lv:11.9   "Of the various creatures that live in the water, you may eat the following: whatever in the seas or in river waters has both fins and scales you may eat.
 lv:11.10  But of the various creatures that crawl or swim in the water, whether in the sea or in the rivers, all those that lack either fins or scales are loathsome for you,
 lv:11.11  and you shall treat them as loathsome. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall loathe.
 lv:11.12  Every water creature that lacks fins or scales is loathsome for you.
 lv:11.13  "Of the birds, these you shall loathe and, as loathsome, they shall not be eaten: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
 lv:11.14  the kite, the various species of falcons,
 lv:11.15  the various species of crows,
 lv:11.16  the ostrich, the nightjar, the gull, the various species of hawks,
 lv:11.17  the owl, the cormorant, the screech owl,
 lv:11.18  the barn owl, the desert owl, the buzzard,
 lv:11.19  the stork, the various species of herons, the hoopoe, and the bat.
 lv:11.20  "The various winged insects that walk on all fours are loathsome for you.
 lv:11.21  But of the various winged insects that walk on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs for leaping on the ground;
 lv:11.22  hence of these you may eat the following: the various kinds of locusts, the various kinds of grasshoppers, the various kinds of katydids, and the various kinds of crickets.
 lv:11.23  All other winged insects that have four legs are loathsome for you.
 lv:11.24  "Such is the uncleanness that you contract, that everyone who touches their dead bodies shall be unclean until evening,
 lv:11.25  and everyone who picks up any part of their dead bodies shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening.
 lv:11.26  All hoofed animals that are not cloven-footed or do not chew the cud are unclean for you; everyone who touches them becomes unclean.
 lv:11.27  Of the various quadrupeds, all those that walk on paws are unclean for you; everyone who touches their dead bodies shall be unclean until evening,
 lv:11.28  and everyone who picks up their dead bodies shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening. Such is their uncleanness for you.
 lv:11.29  "Of the creatures that swarm on the ground, the following are unclean for you: the rat, the mouse, the various kinds of lizards,
 lv:11.30  the gecko, the chameleon, the agama, the skink, and the mole.
 lv:11.31  Among the various swarming creatures, these are unclean for you. Everyone who touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
 lv:11.32  Everything on which one of them falls when dead becomes unclean. Any such article that men use, whether it be an article of wood, cloth, leather or goat hair, must be put in water and remain unclean until evening, when it again becomes clean.
 lv:11.33  Should any of these creatures fall into a clay vessel, everything in it becomes unclean, and the vessel itself you must break.
 lv:11.34  Any solid food that was in contact with water, and any liquid that men drink, in any such vessel become unclean.
 lv:11.35  Any object on which one of their dead bodies falls, becomes unclean; if it is an oven or a jar-stand, this must be broken to pieces; they are unclean and shall be treated as unclean by you.
 lv:11.36  However, a spring or a cistern for collecting water remains clean; but whoever touches the dead body becomes unclean.
 lv:11.37  Any sort of cultivated grain remains clean even though one of their dead bodies falls on it;
 lv:11.38  but if the grain has become moistened, it becomes unclean when one of these falls on it.
 lv:11.39  "When one of the animals that you could otherwise eat, dies of itself, anyone who touches its dead body shall be unclean until evening;
 lv:11.40  and anyone who eats of its dead body shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening; so also, anyone who removes its dead body shall wash his garments and be unclean until evening.
 lv:11.41  "All the creatures that swarm on the ground are loathsome and shall not be eaten.
 lv:11.42  Whether it crawls on its belly, goes on all fours, or has many legs, you shall eat no swarming creature: they are loathsome.
 lv:11.43  Do not make yourselves loathsome or unclean with any swarming creature through being contaminated by them.
 lv:11.44  For I, the LORD, am your God; and you shall make and keep yourselves holy, because I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean, then, by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.
 lv:11.45  Since I, the LORD, brought you up from the land of Egypt that I might be your God, you shall be holy, because I am holy.
 lv:11.46  "This is the law for animals and birds and for all the creatures that move about in the water or swarm on the ground,
 lv:11.47  that you may distinguish between the clean and the unclean, between creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten."
  
 lv:12.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:12.2   "Tell the Israelites: When a woman has conceived and gives birth to a boy, she shall be unclean for seven days, with the same uncleanness as at her menstrual period.
 lv:12.3   On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy's foreskin shall be circumcised,
 lv:12.4   and then she shall spend thirty-three days more in becoming purified of her blood; she shall not touch anything sacred nor enter the sanctuary till the days of her purification are fulfilled.
 lv:12.5   If she gives birth to a girl, for fourteen days she shall be as unclean as at her menstruation, after which she shall spend sixty-six days in becoming purified of her blood.
 lv:12.6   "When the days of her purification for a son or for a daughter are fulfilled, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the meeting tent a yearling lamb for a holocaust and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
 lv:12.7   The priest shall offer them up before the LORD to make atonement for her, and thus she will be clean again after her flow of blood. Such is the law for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl child.
 lv:12.8   If, however, she cannot afford a lamb, she may take two turtledoves or two pigeons, the one for a holocaust and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and thus she will again be clean."
  
 lv:13.1   The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 lv:13.2   "If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants,
 lv:13.3   who shall examine the sore on his skin. If the hair on the sore has turned white and the sore itself shows that it has penetrated below the skin, it is indeed the sore of leprosy; the priest, on seeing this, shall declare the man unclean.
 lv:13.4   If, however, the blotch on the skin is white, but does not seem to have penetrated below the skin, nor has the hair turned white, the priest shall quarantine the stricken man for seven days.
 lv:13.5   On the seventh day the priest shall again examine him. If he judges that the sore has remained unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall quarantine him for another seven days,
 lv:13.6   and once more examine him on the seventh day. If the sore is now dying out and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall declare the man clean; it was merely eczema. The man shall wash his garments and so become clean.
 lv:13.7   But if, after he has shown himself to the priest to be declared clean, the eczema spreads at all on his skin, he shall once more show himself to the priest.
 lv:13.8   Should the priest, on examining it, find that the eczema has indeed spread on the skin, he shall declare the man unclean; it is leprosy.
 lv:13.9   "When someone is stricken with leprosy, he shall be brought to the priest.
 lv:13.10  Should the priest, on examining him, find that there is a white scab on the skin which has turned the hair white and that there is raw flesh in it,
 lv:13.11  it is skin leprosy that has long developed. The priest shall declare the man unclean without first quarantining him, since he is certainly unclean.
 lv:13.12  If leprosy breaks out on the skin and, as far as the priest can see, covers all the skin of the stricken man from head to foot,
 lv:13.13  should the priest then, on examining him, find that the leprosy does cover his whole body, he shall declare the stricken man clean; since it has all turned white, the man is clean.
 lv:13.14  But as soon as raw flesh appears on him, he is unclean;
 lv:13.15  on observing the raw flesh, the priest shall declare him unclean, because raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.
 lv:13.16  If, however, the raw flesh again turns white, he shall return to the priest;
 lv:13.17  should the latter, on examining him, find that the sore has indeed turned white, he shall declare the stricken man clean, and thus he will be clean.
 lv:13.18  "If a man who had a boil on his skin which later healed,
 lv:13.19  should now in the place of the boil have a white scab or a pink blotch, he shall show himself to the priest.
 lv:13.20  If the latter, on examination, sees that it is deeper than the skin and that the hair has turned white, he shall declare the man unclean; it is the sore of leprosy that has broken out in the boil.
 lv:13.21  But if the priest, on examining him, finds that there is no white hair in it and that it is not deeper than the skin and is already dying out, the priest shall quarantine him for seven days.
 lv:13.22  If it has then spread on the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; the man is stricken.
 lv:13.23  But if the blotch remains in its place without spreading, it is merely the scar of the boil; the priest shall therefore declare him clean.
 lv:13.24  "If a man had a burn on his skin, and the proud flesh of the burn now becomes a pink or a white blotch,
 lv:13.25  the priest shall examine it. If the hair has turned white on the blotch and this seems to have penetrated below the skin, it is leprosy that has broken out in the burn; the priest shall therefore declare him unclean and stricken with leprosy.
 lv:13.26  But if the priest, on examining it, finds that there is no white hair on the blotch and that this is not deeper than the skin and is already dying out, the priest shall quarantine him for seven days.
 lv:13.27  Should the priest, when examining it on the seventh day, find that it has spread at all on the skin, he shall declare the man unclean and stricken with leprosy.
 lv:13.28  But if the blotch remains in its place without spreading on the skin and is already dying out, it is merely the scab of the burn; the priest shall therefore declare the man clean, since it is only the scar of the burn.
 lv:13.29  "When a man or a woman has a sore on the head or cheek,
 lv:13.30  should the priest, on examining it, find that the sore has penetrated below the skin and that there is fine yellow hair on it, the priest shall declare the person unclean, for this is scall, a leprous disease of the head or cheek.
 lv:13.31  But if the priest, on examining the scall sore, finds that it has not penetrated below the skin, though the hair on it may not be black, the priest shall quarantine the person with scall sore for seven days,
 lv:13.32  and on the seventh day again examine the sore. If the scall has not spread and has no yellow hair on it and does not seem to have penetrated below the skin,
 lv:13.33  the man shall shave himself, but not on the diseased spot. Then the priest shall quarantine him for another seven days.
 lv:13.34  If the priest, when examining the scall on the seventh day, finds that it has not spread on the skin and that it has not penetrated below the skin, he shall declare the man clean; the latter shall wash his garments, and thus he will be clean.
 lv:13.35  But if the scall spreads at all on his skin after he has been declared clean,
 lv:13.36  the priest shall again examine it. If the scall has indeed spread on the skin, he need not look for yellow hair; the man is surely unclean.
 lv:13.37  If, however, he judges that the scall has remained in its place and that black hair has grown on it, the disease has been healed; the man is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.
 lv:13.38  "When the skin of a man or a woman is spotted with white blotches,
 lv:13.39  the priest shall make an examination. If the blotches on the skin are white and already dying out, it is only tetter that has broken out on the skin, and the person therefore is clean.
 lv:13.40 "When a man loses the hair of his head, he is not unclean merely because of his bald crown.
 lv:13.41 So too, if he loses the hair on the front of his head, he is not unclean merely because of his bald forehead.
 lv:13.42 But when there is a pink sore on his bald crown or bald forehead, it is leprosy that is breaking out there.
 lv:13.43 The priest shall examine him; and if the scab on the sore of the bald spot has the same pink appearance as that of skin leprosy of the fleshy part of the body,
 lv:13.44 the man is leprous and unclean, and the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head.
 lv:13.45 "The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'
 lv:13.46 As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean, since he is in fact unclean. He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp.
 lv:13.47 "When a leprous infection is on a garment of wool or of linen,
 lv:13.48 or on woven or knitted material of linen or wool, or on a hide or anything made of leather,
 lv:13.49 if the infection on the garment or hide, or on the woven or knitted material, or on any leather article is greenish or reddish, the thing is indeed infected with leprosy and must be shown to the priest.
 lv:13.50 Having examined the infection, the priest shall quarantine the infected article for seven days.
 lv:13.51 "On the seventh day the priest shall again examine the infection. If it has spread on the garment, or on the woven or knitted material, or on the leather, whatever be its use, the infection is malignant leprosy, and the article is unclean.
 lv:13.52 He shall therefore burn up the garment, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or the leather article, whatever it may be, which is infected; since it has malignant leprosy, it must be destroyed by fire.
 lv:13.53 But if the priest, on examining the infection, finds that it has not spread on the garment, or on the woven or knitted material, or on the leather article,
 lv:13.54 he shall give orders to have the infected article washed and then quarantined for another seven days.
 lv:13.55 "Then the priest shall again examine the infected article after it has been washed. If the infection has not changed its appearance, even though it may not have spread, the article is unclean and shall be destroyed by fire.
 lv:13.56 But if the priest, on examining the infection, finds that it is dying out after the washing, he shall tear the infected part out of the garment, or the leather, or the woven or knitted material.
 lv:13.57 If, however, the infection again appears on the garment, or on the woven or knitted material, or on the leather article, it is still virulent and the thing infected shall be destroyed by fire.
 lv:13.58 But if, after the washing, the infection has left the garment, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather article, the thing shall be washed a second time, and thus it will be clean.
 lv:13.59 This is the law for leprous infection on a garment of wool or linen, or on woven or knitted material, or on any leather article, to determine whether it is clean or unclean."
  
 lv:14.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:14.2   "This is the law for the victim of leprosy at the time of his purification. He shall be brought to the priest,
 lv:14.3   who is to go outside the camp to examine him. If the priest finds that the sore of leprosy has healed in the leper,
 lv:14.4   he shall order the man who is to be purified, to get two live, clean birds, as well as some cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
 lv:14.5   The priest shall then order him to slay one of the birds over an earthen vessel with spring water in it.
 lv:14.6   Taking the living bird with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, the priest shall dip them all in the blood of the bird that was slain over the spring water,
 lv:14.7   and then sprinkle seven times the man to be purified from his leprosy. When he has thus purified him, he shall let the living bird fly away over the countryside.
 lv:14.8   The man being purified shall then wash his garments and shave off all his hair and bathe in water; only when he is thus made clean may he come inside the camp; but he shall still remain outside his tent for seven days.
 lv:14.9   On the seventh day he shall again shave off all the hair of his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and any other hair he may have, and also wash his garments and bathe his body in water; and so he will be clean.
 lv:14.10  "On the eighth day he shall take two unblemished male lambs, one unblemished yearling ewe lamb, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and one log of oil.
 lv:14.11  The priest who performs the purification ceremony shall place the man who is being purified, as well as all these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 lv:14.12  Taking one of the male lambs, the priest shall present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, waving them as a wave offering before the LORD.
 lv:14.13  (This lamb he shall slaughter in the sacred place where the sin offering and the holocaust are slaughtered; because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest and is most sacred.)
 lv:14.14  Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the man's right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot.
 lv:14.15  The priest shall also take the log of oil and pour some of it into the palm of his own left hand;
 lv:14.16  then, dipping his right forefinger in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the LORD.
 lv:14.17  Of the oil left in his hand the priest shall put some on the tip of the man's right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the guilt offering.
 lv:14.18  The rest of the oil in his hand the priest shall put on the head of the man being purified. Thus shall the priest make atonement for him before the LORD.
 lv:14.19  Only after he has offered the sin offering in atonement for the man's uncleanness shall the priest slaughter the holocaust
 lv:14.20  and offer it, together with the cereal offering, on the altar before the LORD. When the priest has thus made atonement for him, the man will be clean.
 lv:14.21  "If a man is poor and cannot afford so much, he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering, to be used as a wave offering in atonement for himself, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, a log of oil,
 lv:14.22  and two turtledoves or pigeons, which he can more easily afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust.
 lv:14.23  On the eighth day of his purification he shall bring them to the priest, at the entrance of the meeting tent before the LORD.
 lv:14.24  Taking the guilt-offering lamb, along with the log of oil, the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
 lv:14.25  When he has slaughtered the guilt-offering lamb, he shall take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of the man being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
 lv:14.26  The priest shall then pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand
 lv:14.27  and with his right forefinger sprinkle it seven times before the LORD.
 lv:14.28  Some of the oil in his hand the priest shall also put on the tip of the man's right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the guilt offering.
 lv:14.29  The rest of the oil in his hand the priest shall put on the man's head. Thus shall he make atonement for him before the LORD.
 lv:14.30  Then, of the turtledoves or pigeons, such as the man can afford,
 lv:14.31  the priest shall offer up one as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust, along with the cereal offering. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the LORD for the man who is to be purified.
 lv:14.32  This is the law for one afflicted with leprosy who has insufficient means for his purification."
 lv:14.33  The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 lv:14.34  "When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you to possess, if I put a leprous infection on any house of the land you occupy,
 lv:14.35  the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, 'It looks to me as if my house were infected.'
 lv:14.36  The priest shall then order the house to be cleared out before he goes in to examine the infection, lest everything in the house become unclean. Only after this is he to go in to examine the house.
 lv:14.37  If the priest, on examining it, finds that the infection on the walls of the house consists of greenish or reddish depressions which seem to go deeper than the surface of the wall,
 lv:14.38  he shall close the door of the house behind him and quarantine the house for seven days.
 lv:14.39  On the seventh day the priest shall return to examine the house again. If he finds that the infection has spread on the walls,
 lv:14.40  he shall order the infected stones to be pulled out and cast in an unclean place outside the city.
 lv:14.41  The whole inside of the house shall then be scraped, and the mortar that has been scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
 lv:14.42  Then new stones shall be brought and put in the place of the old stones, and new mortar shall be made and plastered on the house.
 lv:14.43  "If the infection breaks out once more after the stones have been pulled out and the house has been scraped and replastered,
 lv:14.44  the priest shall come again; and if he finds that the infection has spread in the house, it is corrosive leprosy, and the house is unclean.
 lv:14.45  It shall be pulled down, and all its stones, beams and mortar shall be hauled away to an unclean place outside the city.
 lv:14.46  Whoever enters a house while it is quarantined shall be unclean until evening.
 lv:14.47  Whoever sleeps or eats in such a house shall also wash his garments.
 lv:14.48  If the priest finds, when he comes to examine the house, that the infection has in fact not spread after the plastering, he shall declare the house clean, since the infection has been healed.
 lv:14.49  To purify the house, he shall take two birds, as well as cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
 lv:14.50  One of the birds he shall slay over an earthen vessel with spring water in it.
 lv:14.51  Then, taking the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, together with the living bird, he shall dip them all in the blood of the slain bird and the spring water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
 lv:14.52  Thus shall he purify the house with the bird's blood and the spring water, along with the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
 lv:14.53  He shall then let the living bird fly away over the countryside outside the city. When he has thus made atonement for it, the house will be clean.
 lv:14.54  "This is the law for every kind of human leprosy and scall,
 lv:14.55  for leprosy of garments and houses,
 lv:14.56  as well as for scabs, pustules and blotches,
 lv:14.57  so that it may be manifest when there is a state of uncleanness and when a state of cleanness. This is the law for leprosy."
  
 lv:15.1   The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 lv:15.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: Every man who is afflicted with a chronic flow from his private parts is thereby unclean.
 lv:15.3   Such is his uncleanness from this flow that it makes no difference whether the flow drains off or is blocked up; his uncleanness remains.
 lv:15.4   Any bed on which the man afflicted with the flow lies, is unclean, and any piece of furniture on which he sits, is unclean.
 lv:15.5   Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.6   Whoever sits on a piece of furniture on which the afflicted man was sitting, shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.7   Whoever touches the body of the afflicted man shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.8   If the afflicted man spits on a clean man, the latter shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.9   Any saddle on which the afflicted man rides, is unclean.
 lv:15.10  Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening; whoever lifts up any such thing shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.11  Anyone whom the afflicted man touches with unrinsed hands shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.12  Earthenware touched by the afflicted man shall be broken; and every wooden article shall be rinsed with water.
 lv:15.13  "When a man who has been afflicted with a flow becomes free of his affliction, he shall wait seven days for his purification. Then he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in fresh water, and so he will be clean.
 lv:15.14  On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, and going before the LORD, to the entrance of the meeting tent, he shall give them to the priest,
 lv:15.15  who shall offer them up, the one as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the LORD for the man's flow.
 lv:15.16  "When a man has an emission of seed, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.17  Any piece of cloth or leather with seed on it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.18  "If a man lies carnally with a woman, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.19  "When a woman has her menstrual flow, she shall be in a state of impurity for seven days. Anyone who touches her shall be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.20  Anything on which she lies or sits during her impurity shall be unclean.
 lv:15.21  Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.22  Whoever touches any article of furniture on which she was sitting, shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.23  But if she is on the bed or on the seat when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.24  If a man dares to lie with her, he contracts her impurity and shall be unclean for seven days; every bed on which he then lies also becomes unclean.
 lv:15.25  "When a woman is afflicted with a flow of blood for several days outside her menstrual period, or when her flow continues beyond the ordinary period, as long as she suffers this unclean flow she shall be unclean, just as during her menstrual period.
 lv:15.26  Any bed on which she lies during such a flow becomes unclean, as it would during her menstruation, and any article of furniture on which she sits becomes unclean just as during her menstruation.
 lv:15.27  Anyone who touches them becomes unclean; he shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
 lv:15.28  "If she becomes freed from her affliction, she shall wait seven days, and only then is she to be purified.
 lv:15.29  On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 lv:15.30  The priest shall offer up one of them as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the LORD for her unclean flow.
 lv:15.31  "You shall warn the Israelites of their uncleanness, lest by defiling my Dwelling, which is in their midst, their uncleanness be the cause of their death.
 lv:15.32  "This is the law for the man who is afflicted with a chronic flow, or who has an emission of seed, and thereby becomes unclean;
 lv:15.33  as well as for the woman who has her menstrual period, or who is afflicted with a chronic flow; the law for male and female; and also for the man who lies with an unclean woman."
  
 lv:16.1   After the death of Aaron's two sons, who died when they approached the LORD'S presence, the LORD spoke to Moses
 lv:16.2   and said to him, "Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he pleases into the sanctuary, inside the veil, in front of the propitiatory on the ark; otherwise, when I reveal myself in a cloud above the propitiatory, he will die.
 lv:16.3   Only in this way may Aaron enter the sanctuary. He shall bring a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a holocaust.
 lv:16.4   He shall wear the sacred linen tunic, with the linen drawers next his flesh, gird himself with the linen sash and put on the linen miter. But since these vestments are sacred, he shall not put them on until he has first bathed his body in water.
 lv:16.5   From the Israelite community he shall receive two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a holocaust.
 lv:16.6   "Aaron shall bring in the bullock, his sin offering to atone for himself and for his household.
 lv:16.7   Taking the two male goats and setting them before the LORD at the entrance of the meeting tent,
 lv:16.8   he shall cast lots to determine which one is for the LORD and which for Azazel.
 lv:16.9   The goat that is determined by lot for the LORD, Aaron shall bring in and offer up as a sin offering.
 lv:16.10  But the goat determined by lot for Azazel he shall set alive before the LORD, so that with it he may make atonement by sending it off to Azazel in the desert.
 lv:16.11  "Thus shall Aaron offer up the bullock, his sin offering, to atone for himself and for his family. When he has slaughtered it,
 lv:16.12  he shall take a censer full of glowing embers from the altar before the LORD, as well as a double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bringing them inside the veil,
 lv:16.13  there before the LORD he shall put incense on the fire, so that a cloud of incense may cover the propitiatory over the commandments; else he will die.
 lv:16.14  Taking some of the bullock's blood, he shall sprinkle it with his finger on the fore part of the propitiatory and likewise sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times in front of the propitiatory.
 lv:16.15  "Then he shall slaughter the people's sin-offering goat, and bringing its blood inside the veil, he shall do with it as he did with the bullock's blood, sprinkling it on the propitiatory and before it.
 lv:16.16  Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary because of all the sinful defilements and faults of the Israelites. He shall do the same for the meeting tent, which is set up among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
 lv:16.17  No one else may be in the meeting tent from the time he enters the sanctuary to make atonement until he departs. When he has made atonement for himself and his household, as well as for the whole Israelite community,
 lv:16.18  he shall come out to the altar before the LORD and make atonement for it also. Taking some of the bullock's and the goat's blood, he shall put it on the horns around the altar,
 lv:16.19  and with his finger sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times. Thus he shall render it clean and holy, purged of the defilements of the Israelites.
 lv:16.20  "When he has completed the atonement rite for the sanctuary, the meeting tent and the altar, Aaron shall bring forward the live goat.
 lv:16.21  Laying both hands on its head, he shall confess over it all the sinful faults and transgressions of the Israelites, and so put them on the goat's head. He shall then have it led into the desert by an attendant.
 lv:16.22  Since the goat is to carry off their iniquities to an isolated region, it must be sent away into the desert.
 lv:16.23  "After Aaron has again gone into the meeting tent, he shall strip off and leave in the sanctuary the linen vestments he had put on when he entered there.
 lv:16.24  After bathing his body with water in a sacred place, he shall put on his vestments, and then come out and offer his own and the people's holocaust, in atonement for himself and for the people,
 lv:16.25  and also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
 lv:16.26  "The man who has led away the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.
 lv:16.27  The sin-offering bullock and goat whose blood was brought into the sanctuary to make atonement, shall be taken outside the camp, where their hides and flesh and offal shall be burned up in the fire.
 lv:16.28  The one who burns them shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.
 lv:16.29  "This shall be an everlasting ordinance for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall mortify himself and shall do no work.
 lv:16.30  Since on this day atonement is made for you to make you clean, so that you may be cleansed of all your sins before the LORD,
 lv:16.31  by everlasting ordinance it shall be a most solemn sabbath for you, on which you must mortify yourselves.
 lv:16.32  "This atonement is to be made by the priest who has been anointed and ordained to the priesthood in succession to his father. He shall wear the linen garments, the sacred vestments,
 lv:16.33  and make atonement for the sacred sanctuary, the meeting tent and the altar, as well as for the priests and all the people of the community.
 lv:16.34  This, then, shall be an everlasting ordinance for you: once a year atonement shall be made for all the sins of the Israelites." Thus was it done, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  
 lv:17.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:17.2   "Speak to Aaron and his sons, as well as to all the Israelites, and tell them: This is what the LORD has commanded.
 lv:17.3   Any Israelite who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat, whether in the camp or outside of it,
 lv:17.4   without first bringing it to the entrance of the meeting tent to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of his Dwelling, shall be judged guilty of bloodshed; and for this, such a man shall be cut off from among his people.
 lv:17.5   Therefore, such sacrifices as they used to offer up in the open field the Israelites shall henceforth offer to the LORD, bringing them to the priest at the entrance of the meeting tent and sacrificing them there as peace offerings to the LORD.
 lv:17.6   The priest shall splash the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the meeting tent and there burn the fat for an odor pleasing to the LORD.
 lv:17.7   No longer shall they offer their sacrifices to the satyrs to whom they used to render their wanton worship. This shall be an everlasting ordinance for them and their descendants.
 lv:17.8   "Tell them, therefore: Anyone, whether of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing among them, who offers a holocaust or sacrifice
 lv:17.9   without bringing it to the entrance of the meeting tent to offer it to the LORD, shall be cut off from his kinsmen.
 lv:17.10  And if anyone, whether of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing among them, partakes of any blood, I will set myself against that one who partakes of blood and will cut him off from among his people.
 lv:17.11  Since the life of a living body is in its blood, I have made you put it on the altar, so that atonement may thereby be made for your own lives, because it is the blood, as the seat of life, that makes atonement.
 lv:17.12  That is why I have told the Israelites: No one among you, not even a resident alien, may partake of blood.
 lv:17.13  "Anyone hunting, whether of the Israelites or of the aliens residing among them, who catches an animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.
 lv:17.14  Since the life of every living body is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You shall not partake of the blood of any meat. Since the life of every living body is its blood, anyone who partakes of it shall be cut off.
 lv:17.15  "Everyone, whether a native or an alien, who eats of an animal that died of itself or was killed by a wild beast, shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening, and then he will be clean.
 lv:17.16  If he does not wash or does not bathe his body, he shall have the guilt to bear."
  
 lv:18.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:18.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:18.3   You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.
 lv:18.4   My decrees you shall carry out, and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:18.5   Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the man who carries them out will find life through them. I am the LORD.
 lv:18.6   "None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the LORD.
 lv:18.7   You shall not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. Besides, since she is your own mother, you shall not have intercourse with her.
 lv:18.8   You shall not have intercourse with your father's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.
 lv:18.9   You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.
 lv:18.10  You shall not have intercourse with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter, for that would be a disgrace to your own family.
 lv:18.11  You shall not have intercourse with the daughter whom your father's wife bore to him, since she, too, is your sister.
 lv:18.12  You shall not have intercourse with your father's sister, since she is your father's relative.
 lv:18.13  You shall not have intercourse with your mother's sister, since she is your mother's relative.
 lv:18.14  You shall not disgrace your father's brother by being intimate with his wife, since she, too, is your aunt.
 lv:18.15  You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, and therefore you shall not disgrace her.
 lv:18.16  You shall not have intercourse with your brother's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your brother.
 lv:18.17  You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; this would be shameful, because they are related to her.
 lv:18.18  While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival; for thus you would disgrace your first wife.
 lv:18.19  "You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is unclean from menstruation.
 lv:18.20  You shall not have carnal relations with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.
 lv:18.21  You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD.
 lv:18.22  You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.
 lv:18.23  You shall not have carnal relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; such things are abhorrent.
 lv:18.24  "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.
 lv:18.25  Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants.
 lv:18.26  You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations
 lv:18.27  by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land;
 lv:18.28  otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.
 lv:18.29  Everyone who does any of these abominations shall be cut off from among his people.
 lv:18.30  Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the LORD, am your God."
  
 lv:19.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:19.2   "Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: Be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.
 lv:19.3   Revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.4   "Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.5   "When you sacrifice your peace offering to the LORD, if you wish it to be acceptable,
 lv:19.6   it must be eaten on the very day of your sacrifice or on the following day. Whatever is left over until the third day shall be burned up in the fire.
 lv:19.7   If any of it is eaten on the third day, the sacrifice will be unacceptable as refuse;
 lv:19.8   whoever eats of it then shall pay the penalty for having profaned what is sacred to the LORD. Such a one shall be cut off from his people.
 lv:19.9   "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you glean the stray ears of grain.
 lv:19.10  Likewise, you shall not pick your vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have fallen. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.11  "You shall not steal. You shall not lie or speak falsely to one another.
 lv:19.12  You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.13  "You shall not defraud or rob your neighbor. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your day laborer.
 lv:19.14  You shall not curse the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.15  "You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your fellow men justly.
 lv:19.16  You shall not go about spreading slander among your kinsmen; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.17  "You shall not bear hatred for your brother in your heart. Though you may have to reprove your fellow man, do not incur sin because of him.
 lv:19.18  Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your fellow countrymen. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.19  "Keep my statutes: do not breed any of your domestic animals with others of a different species; do not sow a field of yours with two different kinds of seed; and do not put on a garment woven with two different kinds of thread.
 lv:19.20  "If a man has carnal relations with a female slave who has already been living with another man but has not yet been redeemed or given her freedom, they shall be punished but not put to death, because she is not free.
 lv:19.21  The man, moreover, shall bring to the entrance of the meeting tent a ram as his guilt offering to the LORD.
 lv:19.22  With this ram the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the sin he has committed, and it will be forgiven him.
 lv:19.23  "When you come into the land and plant any fruit tree there, first look upon its fruit as if it were uncircumcised. For three years, while its fruit remains uncircumcised, it may not be eaten.
 lv:19.24  In the fourth year, however, all of its fruit shall be sacred to the LORD as a thanksgiving feast to him.
 lv:19.25  Not until the fifth year may you eat its fruit. Thus it will continue its yield for you. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.26  "Do not eat meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or soothsaying.
 lv:19.27  Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor trim the edges of your beard.
 lv:19.28  Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.29  "You shall not degrade your daughter by making a prostitute of her; else the land will become corrupt and full of lewdness.
 lv:19.30  Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.31  "Do not go to mediums or consult fortune-tellers, for you will be defiled by them. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.32  "Stand up in the presence of the aged, and show respect for the old; thus shall you fear your God. I am the LORD.
 lv:19.33  "When an alien resides with you in your land, do not molest him.
 lv:19.34  You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same love for him as for yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:19.35  "Do not act dishonestly in using measures of length or weight or capacity.
 lv:19.36  You shall have a true scale and true weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
 lv:19.37  Be careful, then, to observe all my statutes and decrees. I am the LORD."
  
 lv:20.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:20.2   "Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall be put to death. Let his fellow citizens stone him.
 lv:20.3   I myself will turn against such a man and cut him off from the body of his people; for in giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
 lv:20.4   Even if his fellow citizens connive at such a man's crime of giving his offspring to Molech, and fail to put him to death,
 lv:20.5   I myself will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who join him in his wanton worship of Molech.
 lv:20.6   Should anyone turn to mediums and fortune-tellers and follow their wanton ways, I will turn against such a one and cut him off from his people.
 lv:20.7   Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.
 lv:20.8   Be careful, therefore, to observe what I, the LORD, who make you holy, have prescribed.
 lv:20.9   "Anyone who curses his father or mother shall be put to death; since he has cursed his father or mother, he has forfeited his life.
 lv:20.10  If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
 lv:20.11  If a man disgraces his father by lying with his father's wife, both the man and his stepmother shall be put to death; they have forfeited their lives.
 lv:20.12  If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; since they have committed an abhorrent deed, they have forfeited their lives.
 lv:20.13  If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.
 lv:20.14  If a man marries a woman and her mother also, the man and the two women as well shall be burned to death for their shameful conduct, so that such shamefulness may not be found among you.
 lv:20.15  If a man has carnal relations with an animal, the man shall be put to death, and the animal shall be slain.
 lv:20.16  If a woman goes up to any animal to mate with it, the woman and the animal shall be slain; let them both be put to death; their lives are forfeit.
 lv:20.17  If a man consummates marriage with his sister or his half-sister, they shall be publicly cut off from their people for this shameful deed; the man shall pay the penalty of having had intercourse with his own sister.
 lv:20.18  If a man lies in sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period, both of them shall be cut off from their people, because they have laid bare the flowing fountain of her blood.
 lv:20.19  You shall not have intercourse with your mother's sister or your father's sister; whoever does so shall pay the penalty of incest.
 lv:20.20  If a man disgraces his uncle by having intercourse with his uncle's wife, the man and his aunt shall pay the penalty by dying childless.
 lv:20.21  If a man marries his brother's wife and thus disgraces his brother, they shall be childless because of this incest.
 lv:20.22  "Be careful to observe all my statutes and all my decrees; otherwise the land where I am bringing you to dwell will vomit you out.
 lv:20.23  Do not conform, therefore, to the customs of the nations whom I am driving out of your way, because all these things that they have done have filled me with disgust for them.
 lv:20.24  But to you I have said: Their land shall be your possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am giving it to you as your own, I, the LORD, your God, who have set you apart from the other nations.
 lv:20.25  You, too, must set apart, then, the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean, so that you may not be contaminated with the uncleanness of any beast or bird or of any swarming creature in the land that I have set apart for you.
 lv:20.26  To me, therefore, you shall be sacred; for I, the LORD, am sacred, I, who have set you apart from the other nations to be my own.
 lv:20.27  "A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortune-teller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death."
  
 lv:21.1   The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to Aaron's sons, the priests, and tell them: None of you shall make himself unclean for any dead person among his people,
 lv:21.2   except for his nearest relatives, his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother
 lv:21.3   or his maiden sister, who is of his own family while she remains unmarried; for these he may make himself unclean.
 lv:21.4   But for a sister who has married out of his family he shall not make himself unclean; this would be a profanation.
 lv:21.5   "The priests shall not make bare the crown of the head, nor shave the edges of the beard, nor lacerate the body.
 lv:21.6   To their God they shall be sacred, and not profane his name; since they offer up the oblations of the LORD, the food of their God, they must be holy.
 lv:21.7   "A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or has lost her honor, nor a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for the priest is sacred to his God.
 lv:21.8   Honor him as sacred who offers up the food of your God; treat him as sacred, because I, the LORD, who have consecrated him, am sacred.
 lv:21.9   "A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.
 lv:21.10  "The most exalted of the priests, upon whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not bare his head or rend his garments,
 lv:21.11  nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean
 lv:21.12  or leave the sanctuary; otherwise he will profane the sanctuary of his God, for with the anointing oil upon him, he is dedicated to his God, to me, the LORD.
 lv:21.13  "The priest shall marry a virgin.
 lv:21.14  Not a widow or a woman who has been divorced or a woman who has lost her honor as a prostitute, but a virgin, taken from his own people, shall he marry;
 lv:21.15  otherwise he will have base offspring among his people. I, the LORD, have made him sacred."
 lv:21.16  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:21.17  "Speak to Aaron and tell him: None of your descendants, of whatever generation, who has any defect shall come forward to offer up the food of his God.
 lv:21.18  Therefore, he who has any of the following defects may not come forward: he who is blind, or lame, or who has any disfigurement or malformation,
 lv:21.19  or a crippled foot or hand,
 lv:21.20  or who is hump-backed or weakly or walleyed, or who is afflicted with eczema, ringworm or hernia.
 lv:21.21  No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any such defect may draw near to offer up the oblations of the LORD; on account of his defect he may not draw near to offer up the food of his God.
 lv:21.22  He may, however, partake of the food of his God: of what is most sacred as well as of what is sacred.
 lv:21.23  Only, he may not approach the veil nor go up to the altar on account of his defect; he shall not profane these things that are sacred to me, for it is I, the LORD, who make them sacred."
 lv:21.24  Moses, therefore, told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
  
 lv:22.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:22.2   "Tell Aaron and his sons to respect the sacred offerings which the Israelites consecrate to me; else they will profane my holy name. I am the LORD.
 lv:22.3   "Tell them: If any one of you, or of your descendants in any future generation, dares, while he is in a state of uncleanness, to draw near the sacred offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, such a one shall be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.
 lv:22.4   "No descendant of Aaron who is stricken with leprosy, or who suffers from a flow, may eat of these sacred offerings, unless he again becomes clean. Moreover, if anyone touches a person who has become unclean by contact with a corpse, or if anyone has had an emission of seed,
 lv:22.5   or if anyone touches any swarming creature or any man whose uncleanness, of whatever kind it may be, is contagious,
 lv:22.6   the one who touches such as these shall be unclean until evening and may not eat of the sacred portions until he has first bathed his body in water,
 lv:22.7   then, when the sun sets, he again becomes clean. Only then may he eat of the sacred offerings, which are his food.
 lv:22.8   He shall not make himself unclean by eating of any animal that has died of itself or has been killed by wild beasts. I am the LORD.
 lv:22.9   "They shall keep my charge and not do wrong in this matter; else they will die for their profanation. I am the LORD who have consecrated them.
 lv:22.10  "Neither a lay person nor a priest's tenant or hired servant may eat of any sacred offering.
 lv:22.11  But a slave whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food.
 lv:22.12  A priest's daughter who is married to a layman may not eat of the sacred contributions.
 lv:22.13  But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and, having no children, returns to her father's house, she may then eat of her father's food as in her youth. No layman, however, may eat of it.
 lv:22.14  If such a one eats of a sacred offering through inadvertence, he shall make restitution to the priest for the sacred offering, with an increment of one fifth of the amount.
 lv:22.15  The sacred offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD the priests shall not allow to be profaned
 lv:22.16  nor in the eating of the sacred offering shall they bring down guilt that must be punished; it is I, the LORD, who make them sacred."
 lv:22.17  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:22.18  "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites, and tell them: When anyone of the house of Israel, or any alien residing in Israel, who wishes to offer a sacrifice, brings a holocaust as a votive offering or as a free-will offering to the LORD,
 lv:22.19  if it is to be acceptable, the ox or sheep or goat that he offers must be an unblemished male.
 lv:22.20  You shall not offer one that has any defect, for such a one would not be acceptable for you.
 lv:22.21  When anyone presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or the flock in fulfillment of a vow, or as a free-will offering, if it is to find acceptance, it must be unblemished; it shall not have any defect.
 lv:22.22  One that is blind or crippled or maimed, or one that has a running sore or mange or ringworm, you shall not offer to the LORD; do not put such an animal on the altar as an oblation to the LORD.
 lv:22.23  An ox or a sheep that is in any way ill-proportioned or stunted you may indeed present as a free-will offering, but it will not be acceptable as a votive offering.
 lv:22.24  One that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn out or cut off you shall not offer to the LORD. You shall neither do this in your own land
 lv:22.25  nor receive from a foreigner any such animals to offer up as the food of your God; since they are deformed or defective, they will not be acceptable for you."
 lv:22.26  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:22.27  "When an ox or a lamb or a goat is born, it shall remain with its mother for seven days; only from the eighth day onward will it be acceptable, to be offered as an oblation to the LORD.
 lv:22.28  You shall not slaughter an ox or a sheep on one and the same day with its young.
 lv:22.29  Whenever you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to the LORD, so offer it that it may be acceptable for you;
 lv:22.30  it must, therefore, be eaten on the same day; none of it shall be left over until the next day. I am the LORD.
 lv:22.31  "Be careful to observe the commandments which I, the LORD, give you,
 lv:22.32  and do not profane my holy name; in the midst of the Israelites I, the LORD, must be held as sacred. It is I who made you sacred
 lv:22.33  and led you out of the land of Egypt, that I, the LORD, might be your God."
  
 lv:23.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:23.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: The following are the festivals of the LORD, my feast days, which you shall celebrate with a sacred assembly.
 lv:23.3   "For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is the sabbath rest, a day for sacred assembly, on which you shall do no work. The sabbath shall belong to the LORD wherever you dwell.
 lv:23.4   "These, then, are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrate at their proper time with a sacred assembly.
 lv:23.5   The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight.
 lv:23.6   The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD'S feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
 lv:23.7   On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assembly and do no sort of work.
 lv:23.8   On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD. Then on the seventh day you shall again hold a sacred assembly and do no sort of work."
 lv:23.9   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:23.10  "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap your harvest, you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest,
 lv:23.11  who shall wave the sheaf before the LORD that it may be acceptable for you. On the day after the sabbath the priest shall do this.
 lv:23.12  On this day, when your sheaf is waved, you shall offer to the LORD for a holocaust an unblemished yearling lamb.
 lv:23.13  Its cereal offering shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine.
 lv:23.14  Until this day, when you bring your God this offering, you shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels. This shall be a perpetual statute for you and your descendants wherever you dwell.
 lv:23.15  "Beginning with the day after the sabbath, the day on which you bring the wave-offering sheaf, you shall count seven full weeks,
 lv:23.16  and then on the day after the seventh week, the fiftieth day, you shall present the new cereal offering to the LORD.
 lv:23.17  For the wave offering of your first fruits to the LORD, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven.
 lv:23.18  Besides the bread, you shall offer to the LORD a holocaust of seven unblemished yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams, along with their cereal offering and libations, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 lv:23.19  One male goat shall be sacrificed as a sin offering, and two yearling lambs as a peace offering.
 lv:23.20  The priest shall wave the bread of the first fruits and the two lambs as a wave offer ing before the LORD; these shall be sacred to the LORD and belong to the priest.
 lv:23.21  On this same day you shall by proclamation have a sacred assembly, and no sort of work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute for you and your descendants wherever you dwell.
 lv:23.22  "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you glean the stray ears of your grain. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the LORD, am your God."
 lv:23.23  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:23.24  "Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you shall keep a sabbath rest, with a sacred assembly and with the trumpet blasts as a reminder;
 lv:23.25  you shall then do no sort of work, and you shall offer an oblation to the LORD."
 lv:23.26  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:23.27  "The tenth of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement, when you shall hold a sacred assembly and mortify yourselves and offer an oblation to the LORD.
 lv:23.28  On this day you shall not do any work, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD, your God.
 lv:23.29  Anyone who does not mortify himself on this day shall be cut off from his people,
 lv:23.30  and if anyone does any work on this day, I will remove him from the midst of his people.
 lv:23.31  This is a perpetual statute for you and your descendants wherever you dwell: you shall do no work,
 lv:23.32  but shall keep a sabbath of complete rest and mortify yourselves. Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep this sabbath of yours from evening to evening."
 lv:23.33  The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:23.34  "Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the LORD'S feast of Booths, which shall continue for seven days.
 lv:23.35  On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly, and you shall do no sort of work.
 lv:23.36  For seven days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD, and on the eighth day you shall again hold a sacred assembly and offer an oblation to the LORD. On that solemn closing you shall do no sort of work.
 lv:23.37  "These, therefore, are the festivals of the LORD on which you shall proclaim a sacred assembly, and offer as an oblation to the LORD holocausts and cereal offerings, sacrifices and libations, as prescribed for each day,
 lv:23.38  in addition to those of the LORD'S sabbaths, your donations, your various votive offerings and the free-will offerings that you present to the LORD.
 lv:23.39  "On the fifteenth day, then, of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate a pilgrim feast of the LORD for a whole week. The first and the eighth day shall be days of complete rest.
 lv:23.40  On the first day you shall gather foliage from majestic trees, branches of palms and boughs of myrtles and of valley poplars, and then for a week you shall make merry before the LORD, your God.
 lv:23.41  By perpetual statute for you and your descendants you shall keep this pilgrim feast of the LORD for one whole week in the seventh month of the year.
 lv:23.42  During this week every native Israelite among you shall dwell in booths,
 lv:23.43  that your descendants may realize that, when I led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, I made them dwell in booths. I, the LORD, am your God."
 lv:23.44  Thus did Moses announce to the Israelites the festivals of the LORD.
  
 lv:24.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:24.2   "Order the Israelites to bring you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, so that you may keep lamps burning regularly.
 lv:24.3   In the meeting tent, outside the veil that hangs in front of the commandments, Aaron shall set up the lamps to burn before the LORD regularly, from evening till morning. Thus, by a perpetual statute for you and your descendants,
 lv:24.4   the lamps shall be set up on the pure gold lampstand, to burn regularly before the LORD.
 lv:24.5   "You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.
 lv:24.6   These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
 lv:24.7   On each pile put some pure frankincense, which shall serve as an oblation to the LORD, a token offering for the bread.
 lv:24.8   Regularly on each sabbath day this bread shall be set out afresh before the LORD, offered on the part of the Israelites by an everlasting agreement.
 lv:24.9   It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since, as something most sacred among the various oblations to the LORD, it is his by perpetual right."
 lv:24.10  Among the Israelites there was a man born of an Israelite mother (Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan) and an Egyptian father.
 lv:24.11  This man quarreled publicly with another Israelite and cursed and blasphemed the LORD'S name. So the people brought him to Moses,
 lv:24.12  who kept him in custody till a decision from the LORD should settle the case for them.
 lv:24.13  The LORD then said to Moses,
 lv:24.14  "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and when all who heard him have laid their hands on his head, let the whole community stone him.
 lv:24.15  Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses his God shall bear the penalty of his sin;
 lv:24.16  whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone him; alien and native alike must be put to death for blaspheming the LORD'S name.
 lv:24.17  "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;
 lv:24.18  whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution of another animal. A life for a life!
 lv:24.19  Anyone who inflicts an injury on his neighbor shall receive the same in return.
 lv:24.20  Limb for limb, eye for eye, tooth for tooth! The same injury that a man gives another shall be inflicted on him in return.
 lv:24.21  Whoever slays an animal shall make restitution, but whoever slays a man shall be put to death.
 lv:24.22  You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike. I, the LORD, am your God."
 lv:24.23  When Moses told this to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him; they carried out the command that the LORD had given Moses.
  
 lv:25.1   The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
 lv:25.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, let the land, too, keep a sabbath for the LORD.
 lv:25.3   For six years you may sow your field, and for six years prune your vineyard, gathering in their produce.
 lv:25.4   But during the seventh year the land shall have a complete rest, a sabbath for the LORD, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
 lv:25.5   The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines in this year of sabbath rest for the land.
 lv:25.6   While the land has its sabbath, all its produce will be food equally for you yourself and for your male and female slaves, for your hired help and the tenants who live with you,
 lv:25.7   and likewise for your livestock and for the wild animals on your land.
 lv:25.8   "Seven weeks of years shall you count--seven times seven years--so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.
 lv:25.9   Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the trumpet resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo throughout your land.
 lv:25.10  This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property, every one to his own family estate.
 lv:25.11  In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
 lv:25.12  Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you, you may not eat of its produce, except as taken directly from the field.
 lv:25.13  "In this year of jubilee, then, every one of you shall return to his own property.
 lv:25.14  Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.
 lv:25.15  On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee shall you purchase the land from him; and so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops, shall he sell it to you.
 lv:25.16  When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.
 lv:25.17  Do not deal unfairly, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:25.18  "Observe my precepts and be careful to keep my regulations, for then you will dwell securely in the land.
 lv:25.19  The land will yield its fruit and you will have food in abundance, so that you may live there without worry.
 lv:25.20  Therefore, do not say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not then sow or reap our crop?'
 lv:25.21  I will bestow such blessings on you in the sixth year that there will then be crop enough for three years.
 lv:25.22  When you sow in the eighth year, you will continue to eat from the old crop; and even into the ninth year, when the crop comes in, you will still have the old to eat from.
 lv:25.23  "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine, and you are but aliens who have become my tenants.
 lv:25.24  Therefore, in every part of the country that you occupy, you must permit the land to be redeemed.
 lv:25.25  When one of your countrymen is reduced to poverty and has to sell some of his property, his closest relative, who has the right to redeem it, may go and buy back what his kinsman has sold.
 lv:25.26  If, however, the man has no relative to redeem his land, but later on acquires sufficient means to buy it back in his own name,
 lv:25.27  he shall make a deduction from the price in proportion to the number of years since the sale, and then pay back the balance to the one to whom he sold it, so that he may thus regain his own property.
 lv:25.28  But if he does not acquire sufficient means to buy back his land, what he has sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to its original owner.
 lv:25.29  "When someone sells a dwelling in a walled town, he has the right to buy it back during the time of one full year from its sale.
 lv:25.30  But if such a house in a walled town has not been redeemed at the end of a full year, it shall belong in perpetuity to the purchaser and his descendants; nor shall it be released in the jubilee.
 lv:25.31  However, houses in villages that are not encircled by walls shall be considered as belonging to the surrounding farm land; they may be redeemed at any time, and in the jubilee they must be released.
 lv:25.32  "In levitical cities the Levites shall always have the right to redeem the town houses that are their property.
 lv:25.33  Any town house of the Levites in their cities that had been sold and not redeemed, shall be released in the jubilee; for the town houses of the Levites are their hereditary property in the midst of the Israelites.
 lv:25.34  Moreover, the pasture land belonging to their cities shall not be sold at all; it must always remain their hereditary property.
 lv:25.35  "When one of your fellow countrymen is reduced to poverty and is unable to hold out beside you, extend to him the privileges of an alien or a tenant, so that he may continue to live with you.
 lv:25.36  Do not exact interest from your countryman either in money or in kind, but out of fear of God let him live with you.
 lv:25.37  You are to lend him neither money at interest nor food at a profit.
 lv:25.38  I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
 lv:25.39  "When, then, your countryman becomes so impoverished beside you that he sells you his services, do not make him work as a slave.
 lv:25.40  Rather, let him be like a hired servant or like your tenant, working with you until the jubilee year,
 lv:25.41  when he, together with his children, shall be released from your service and return to his kindred and to the property of his ancestors.
 lv:25.42  Since those whom I brought out of the land of Egypt are servants of mine, they shall not be sold as slaves to any man.
 lv:25.43  Do not lord it over them harshly, but stand in fear of your God.
 lv:25.44  "Slaves, male and female, you may indeed possess, provided you buy them from among the neighboring nations.
 lv:25.45  You may also buy them from among the aliens who reside with you and from their children who are born and reared in your land. Such slaves you may own as chattels,
 lv:25.46  and leave to your sons as their hereditary property, making them perpetual slaves. But you shall not lord it harshly over any of the Israelites, your kinsmen.
 lv:25.47  "When one of your countrymen is reduced to such poverty that he sells himself to a wealthy alien who has a permanent or a temporary residence among you, or to one of the descendants of an immigrant family,
 lv:25.48  even after he has thus sold his services he still has the right of redemption; he may be redeemed by one of his own brothers,
 lv:25.49  or by his uncle or cousin, or by some other relative or fellow clansman; or, if he acquires the means, he may redeem himself.
 lv:25.50  With his purchaser he shall compute the years from the sale to the jubilee, distributing the sale price over these years as though he had been hired as a day laborer.
 lv:25.51  The more such years there are, the more of the sale price he shall pay back as ransom;
 lv:25.52  the fewer years there are left before the jubilee year, the more he has to his credit; in proportion to his years of service shall he pay his ransom.
 lv:25.53  The alien shall treat him as a servant hired on an annual basis, and he shall not lord it over him harshly under your very eyes.
 lv:25.54  If he is not thus redeemed, he shall nevertheless be released, together with his children, in the jubilee year.
 lv:25.55  For to me the Israelites belong as servants; they are servants of mine, because I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I, the LORD, your God.
  
 lv:26.1   "Do not make false gods for yourselves. You shall not erect an idol or a sacred pillar for yourselves, nor shall you set up a stone figure for worship in your land; for I, the LORD, am your God.
 lv:26.2   Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
 lv:26.3   "If you live in accordance with my precepts and are careful to observe my commandments,
 lv:26.4   I will give you rain in due season, so that the land will bear its crops, and the trees their fruit;
 lv:26.5   your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time for sowing, and you will have food to eat in abundance, so that you may dwell securely in your land.
 lv:26.6   I will establish peace in the land, that you may lie down to rest without anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and keep the sword of war from sweeping across your land.
 lv:26.7   You will rout your enemies and lay them low with your sword.
 lv:26.8   Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand of them, till they are cut down by your sword.
 lv:26.9   I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.
 lv:26.10  So much of the old crops will you have stored up for food that you will have to discard them to make room for the new.
 lv:26.11  I will set my Dwelling among you, and will not disdain you.
 lv:26.12  Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;
 lv:26.13  for it is I, the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of the Egyptians and freed you from their slavery, breaking the yoke they had laid upon you and letting you walk erect.
 lv:26.14  "But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments,
 lv:26.15  if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,
 lv:26.16  then I, in turn, will give you your deserts. I will punish you with terrible woes--with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.
 lv:26.17  I will turn against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and lorded over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one pursues you.
 lv:26.18  "If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold,
 lv:26.19  to break your haughty confidence. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,
 lv:26.20  so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.
 lv:26.21  "If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey me, I will multiply my blows another sevenfold, as your sins deserve.
 lv:26.22  I will unleash the wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.
 lv:26.23  "If, with all this, you still refuse to be chastened by me and continue to defy me,
 lv:26.24  I, too, will defy you and will smite you for your sins seven times harder than before.
 lv:26.25  I will make the sword, the avenger of my covenant, sweep over you. Though you then huddle together in your walled cities, I will send in pestilence among you, till you are forced to surrender to the enemy.
 lv:26.26  And as I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking all the bread they dole out to you in rations--not enough food to still your hunger.
 lv:26.27  "If, despite all this, you still persist in disobeying and defying me,
 lv:26.28  I, also, will meet you with fiery defiance and will chastise you with sevenfold fiercer punishment for your sins,
 lv:26.29  till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
 lv:26.30  I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses on those of your idols. In my abhorrence of you,
 lv:26.31  I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries, refusing to accept your sweet-smelling offerings.
 lv:26.32  So devastated will I leave the land that your very enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.
 lv:26.33  You yourselves I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.
 lv:26.34  Then shall the land retrieve its lost sabbaths during all the time it lies waste, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths
 lv:26.35  during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on the sabbaths when you lived there.
 lv:26.36  "Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies I will make so fainthearted that, if leaves rustle behind them, they will flee headlong, as if from the sword, though no one pursues them;
 lv:26.37  stumbling over one another as if to escape a weapon, while no one is after them--so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!
 lv:26.38  You will be lost among the Gentiles, swallowed up in your enemies' country.
 lv:26.39  Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies will waste away for their own and their fathers' guilt.
 lv:26.40  "Thus they will have to confess that they and their fathers were guilty of having rebelled against me and of having defied me,
 lv:26.41  so that I, too, had to defy them and bring them into their enemies' land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their guilt,
 lv:26.42  I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; and of the land, too, I will be mindful.
 lv:26.43  But the land must first be rid of them, that in its desolation it may make up its lost sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my precepts and abhorred my statutes.
 lv:26.44  Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies' land, I will not reject or spurn them, lest, by wiping them out, I make void my covenant with them; for I, the LORD, am their God.
 lv:26.45  I will remember them because of the covenant I made with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt under the very eyes of the Gentiles, that I, the LORD, might be their God."
 lv:26.46  These are the precepts, decrees and laws which the LORD had Moses promulgate on Mount Sinai in the pact between himself and the Israelites.

 lv:27.1   The LORD said to Moses,
 lv:27.2   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When anyone fulfills a vow of offering one or more persons to the LORD, who are to be ransomed at a fixed sum of money,
 lv:27.3   for persons between the ages of twenty and sixty, the fixed sum, in sanctuary shekels, shall be fifty silver shekels for a man,
 lv:27.4   and thirty shekels for a woman;
 lv:27.5   for persons between the ages of five and twenty, the fixed sum shall be twenty shekels for a youth, and ten for a maiden;
 lv:27.6   for persons between the ages of one month and five years, the fixed sum shall be five silver shekels for a boy, and three for a girl;
 lv:27.7   for persons of sixty or more, the fixed sum shall be fifteen shekels for a man, and ten for a woman.
 lv:27.8   However, if the one who took the vow is too poor to meet the fixed sum, the person must be set before the priest, who shall determine the sum for his ransom in keeping with the means of the one who made the vow.
 lv:27.9   "If the offering vowed to the LORD is an animal that may be sacrificed, every such animal, when vowed to the LORD, becomes sacred.
 lv:27.10  The offerer shall not present a substitute for it by exchanging either a better for a worse one or a worse for a better one. If he attempts to offer one animal in place of another, both the original and its substitute shall be treated as sacred.
 lv:27.11  If the animal vowed to the LORD is unclean and therefore unfit for sacrifice, it must be set before the priest,
 lv:27.12  who shall determine its value in keeping with its good or bad qualities, and the value set by the priest shall stand.
 lv:27.13  If the offerer wishes to redeem the animal, he shall pay one fifth more than this valuation.
 lv:27.14  "When someone dedicates his house as sacred to the LORD, the priest shall determine its value in keeping with its good or bad points, and the value set by the priest shall stand.
 lv:27.15  If the one who dedicated his house wishes to redeem it, he shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and then it will again be his.
 lv:27.16  "If the object which someone dedicates to the LORD is a piece of his hereditary land, its valuation shall be made according to the amount of seed required to sow it, the acreage sown with a homer of barley seed being valued at fifty silver shekels.
 lv:27.17  If the dedication of a field is made at the beginning of a jubilee period, the full valuation shall hold;
 lv:27.18  but if it is some time after this, the priest shall estimate its money value according to the number of years left until the next jubilee year, with a corresponding rebate on the valuation.
 lv:27.19  If the one who dedicated his field wishes to redeem it, he shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and so reclaim it.
 lv:27.20  If, instead of redeeming such a field, he sells it to someone else, it may no longer be redeemed;
 lv:27.21  but at the jubilee it shall be released as sacred to the LORD; like a field that is doomed, it shall become priestly property.
 lv:27.22  "If the field that some man dedicates to the LORD is one he had purchased and not a part of his hereditary property,
 lv:27.23  the priest shall compute its value in proportion to the number of years until the next jubilee, and on the same day the price thus established shall be given as sacred to the LORD;
 lv:27.24  at the jubilee, however, the field shall revert to the hereditary owner of this land from whom it had been purchased.
 lv:27.25  "Every valuation shall be made according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel. There are twenty gerahs to the shekel.
 lv:27.26  "Note that a first-born animal, which as such already belongs to the LORD, may not be dedicated by vow to him. If it is an ox or a sheep, it shall be ceded to the LORD;
 lv:27.27  but if it is an unclean animal, it may be redeemed by paying one fifth more than its fixed value. If it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its fixed value.
 lv:27.28  "Note, also, that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the LORD, whether it is a human being or an animal or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the LORD.
 lv:27.29  All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death.
 lv:27.30  "All tithes of the land, whether in grain from the fields or in fruit from the trees, belong to the LORD, as sacred to him.
 lv:27.31  If someone wishes to buy back any of his tithes, he shall pay one fifth more than their value.
 lv:27.32  The tithes of the herd and the flock shall be determined by ceding to the LORD as sacred every tenth animal as they are counted by the herdsman's rod.
 lv:27.33  It shall not matter whether good ones or bad ones are thus chosen, and no exchange may be made. If any exchange is attempted, both the original animal and its substitute shall be treated as sacred, without the right of being bought back."
 lv:27.34  These are the commandments which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites. [end of Leviticus]

