Leviticus Chapter 1
The Holocausts
1 The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When any of you offers an offering to the Lord, your offering shall be from the herd or from the flock.
3 If your offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall offer a male without blemish. You shall offer it willingly at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord.
4 You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on you to make atonement for you.
5 You shall slaughter the bull before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer its blood and sprinkle it all around the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
6 You shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
7 Aaron’s sons the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange the wood on the fire.
8 Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat of the entrails on the wood that is on the fire on the altar.
9 He shall wash the entrails and the legs with water, and the priest shall burn it all on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
10 If his offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, he shall offer a male without blemish.
11 He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood all around the altar.
12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and the fat of the entrails, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar.
13 He shall wash the entrails and the legs with water, and the priest shall offer it all and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
14 If the offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, he shall present his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons.
15 And the priest shall offer it on the altar, and cut off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be squeezed out against the side of the altar.
16 He shall pluck off its crop and feathers and throw them beside the altar, toward the east, in the place of ashes.
17 He shall tear it open by its wings, but not divide it in two. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 2
The offerings
1 When anyone brings a grain offering to the Lord, their offering shall be of fine flour, with oil poured on it and frankincense placed on it.
2 They shall bring it to the priests, Aaron’s sons. The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour, the oil, and all the frankincense and burn it on the altar as a memorial portion; it is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
3 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the offerings made by fire to the Lord.
4 When you bring an offering baked in an oven, it shall be of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
5 If you bring an offering prepared on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour mixed with oil.
6 You shall break it into pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
7 If you offer a grain offering baked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8 You shall bring the offering made from these things to the Lord and present it to the priest, who shall bring it to the altar.
9 The priest shall take from that offering what is for a memorial portion and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
10 The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the offerings made by fire to the Lord.
11 No grain offering you present to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for no leavened thing or honey shall be burned as an offering to the Lord.
12 You shall offer them as an offering of firstfruits to the Lord; they shall not be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
13 You shall season every grain offering you present with salt, and you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your grain offering; In every offering of yours you shall offer salt.
14 If you offer the Lord an offering of firstfruits, you shall roast the green ears of grain over the fire, and you shall offer the crushed grain as your offering of firstfruits.
15 You shall put oil on it, and you shall put frankincense on it; it is an offering.
16 The priest shall burn its memorial portion, some of the crushed grain and some of the oil, with all the frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 3
Peace offerings
1 If his offering is a peace offering, and he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he must offer it without blemish before the Lord.
2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood all around the altar.
3 Then he shall offer from the peace offering as a burnt offering to the Lord: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,
4 the two kidneys with the fat on them and on the loins, and with the kidneys he shall remove the fat of the entrails that is on the liver.
5 Aaron’s sons shall burn these on the altar, on top of the burnt offering that is on the wood that is on the fire; it is a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
6 But if his offering for a peace offering to the Lord is from the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
7 If he offers a lamb as his offering, he shall offer it before the Lord.
8 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around.
9 And from the peace offering he shall offer as an offering by fire to the Lord the fat, the whole tail, which he shall remove from the backbone, the fat that covers all the entrails, and all that is on the entrails.
10 He shall also offer the two kidneys with the fat that is on them and the fat that is on the loins; and with the kidneys he shall remove the fat that is on the liver.
11 The priest shall burn these on the altar; it is food, an offering by fire to the Lord.
12 If his offering is a goat, he shall offer it before the Lord.
13 He shall lay his hand on her head and slaughter her before the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle her blood all around the altar.
14 Then he shall present from her an offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
15 the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the fat that is on the flanks; and with the kidneys he shall remove the fat from above the liver.
16 The priest shall burn it on the altar; it is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord; all the fat belongs to the Lord.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus Chapter 4
Offerings for sin
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord’s commands concerning things that ought not to be done, and does any of them,
3 and the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.
4 He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and kill it before the Lord.
5 The anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the tent of meeting.
6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense, which is in the tent of meeting before the Lord. He shall pour the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
8 He shall take from the bull of the sin offering all its fat, the fat that covers its entrails and the fat that is on its entrails,
9 the two kidneys, the fat that is on them and the fat that is on its loins, and with the kidneys he shall remove the fat that is on its liver,
10 just as it is removed from the bull of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar of burnt offering.
11 The skin of the bull, all its flesh, its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—
12 in short, the whole bull—he shall take outside the camp to a clean place where ashes are poured out, and burn it on the wood where ashes are poured out; it shall be burned.
13 If the whole congregation of Israel has sinned, and the sin is hidden from the sight of the people, and they have done something contrary to any of the commandments of the Lord, things which ought not to be done, and are guilty,
14 as soon as the sin which they have committed becomes known, the congregation shall offer a young bull as a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the tent of meeting.
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and in the presence of the Lord they shall kill the bull.
16 And the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,
17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil.
18He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
19 He shall remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.
20 He shall do with the bull as he did with the bull of the sin offering; he shall do the same with it. Thus the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
21 He shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is a sin offering for the congregation.
22 If a leader sins and unintentionally does anything contrary to any of the commands of the Lord his God concerning things that must not be done, and he sins,
23 as soon as he knows the sin he has committed, he shall offer as his offering a male goat without blemish.
24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, before the Lord; it is a sin offering.
25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
26 He shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the peace offering; thus the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
27 If any person of the people sins unintentionally, doing something contrary to any of the commandments of the Lord, in things which ought not to be done, and transgresses;
28 When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he shall bring as his sin offering a goat, a goat without blemish.
29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
30 Then the priest shall take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
31 He shall remove all its fat, just as the fat is removed from the peace offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Thus the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
32 If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
34 Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
35 He shall remove all its fat, just as the fat is removed from the peace offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on top of the offering made by fire to the Lord. The priest shall make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus Chapter 5
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, “You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 Then God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you gave me to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 And the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Expiatory offerings
14 The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying:
15 If anyone sins unintentionally against any of the holy things of the Lord, they shall bring to the Lord as a sin offering a ram without blemish from the flock, valued by you in silver shekels from the sanctuary shekel.
16 They shall repay what they have taken from the holy things and add a fifth to it, and give it to the priest. The priest will then make atonement for them with the ram of the sin offering, and they will be forgiven.
17 If anyone sins or does any of the things the Lord has commanded against, even unknowingly, they are guilty and will bear their sin.
18 They shall bring to the priest as a sin offering a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation. The priest will make atonement for them for the sin they committed unknowingly, and they will be forgiven.
19 It is a transgression, and he certainly sinned against Jehovah.
Leviticus Chapter 6
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ When a person sins and commits a transgression against the Lord, denying his neighbor what was entrusted to him or left in his care, or stealing, or lying to his neighbor,
3 or finding something lost and then lying about it, or swearing falsely—in any of the things that people do—
4 then, having sinned and transgressed, he shall make restitution for what he stole, or for the harm caused by his slander, or for the deposit entrusted to him, or for what he found lost,
5 or for all that he swore falsely about. He shall make full restitution to the one to whom it belongs, and add a fifth to it on the day of his atonement.
6 And he shall bring to the Lord, as a sin offering, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation, and give it to the priest for a sin offering.
7 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall obtain forgiveness for any of all the things in which he usually offends.
Laws of sacrifices
8 The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
9 “ Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering shall be on the fire burning on the altar all night until morning; the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
10 The priest shall put on his linen garments and linen undergarments. When the fire has consumed the burnt offering, he shall remove the ashes from the altar and put them beside the altar.
11 Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
12 The fire on the altar shall not go out, but the priest shall add wood to it every morning, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat of the peace offerings on it.
13 The fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; It shall not go out.
14 This is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall offer it before the Lord at the altar.
15 He shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and burn it on the altar as a memorial offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
16 Aaron and his sons shall eat what is left of it; it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.
17 It shall not be baked with leaven; I have given it to them as their portion of my offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
18 All the males of Aaron’s sons shall eat of it. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations concerning the offerings by fire to the Lord; whatever touches them shall be holy.
19 The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,
20 “ This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord on the day they are anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, a regular grain offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.
21 It shall be prepared in a pan with oil; you shall bring it fried, and you shall offer the cooked pieces of the offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
22 The priest who is anointed from among his sons in place of Aaron shall make the same offering. It is a perpetual statute of the Lord; all of it shall be burned.
23 Every offering of the priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.
24 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
25 “ Speak to Aaron and his sons, and say to them, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the Lord; it is most holy.
26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.
27 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy; and if any of its blood is sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it falls in a holy place.
28 The earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scrubbed and washed with water.
29 Every male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.’”
30 But no offering of whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the sanctuary shall be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.
Leviticus Chapter 7
1 This is also the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.
2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering, they shall slaughter the guilt offering and sprinkle its blood all around on the altar.
3 From it, he shall offer all its fat: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
4 the two kidneys with the fat on them and the fat on the loins, and with the kidneys, he shall remove the fat from the liver.
5 The priest shall burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.
6 Every male among the priests may eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7 Like the sin offering, so is the guilt offering; they have the same law. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
8 If a priest offers a burnt offering for anyone, the skin of the burnt offering he offers shall be his own.
9 Likewise, every offering baked in an oven, and everything prepared in a pan or in a pot, shall belong to the priest who offers it.
10 And every offering mixed with oil, or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, both of one and of the other.
11 And this is the law of the peace offering that shall be offered to the Lord:
12 If it is offered as a thanksgiving offering, he shall offer as a thanksgiving offering unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour baked with oil.
13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the thanksgiving offering of peace.
14 And from all the offering he shall present a portion as a wave offering to the Lord, and it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it shall be left until the next day.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he offers his sacrifice, and what remains of it shall be eaten the next day.
17 And what remains of the meat of the sacrifice until the third day shall be burned with fire.
18 If any of the meat of the peace offering is eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted on the one who offered it, nor shall it be credited to him; it shall be an abomination, and the person who eats it shall bear his sin.
19 And the meat that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. Everyone who is clean may eat the meat;
20But whoever eats the flesh of the peace offering, which is to the Lord, while unclean, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
21 Moreover, whoever touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats the flesh of the peace offering, which is to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
22 The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘You shall eat no fat of oxen, or of sheep, or of goats.
24 The fat of an animal that dies, and the fat of one that is torn by wild beasts, may be put to any other use, but you shall not eat it.
25 For whoever eats the fat of an animal of which an offering by fire is presented to the Lord, that person who eats it shall be cut off from among his people.’”
26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood anywhere you live, whether of birds or of beasts.
27 Anyone who eats any of the blood shall be cut off from his people.
28 The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
29 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering of the sacrifice of peace offerings before the Lord.’”
30 Their hands shall bring the offerings to be burned before the Lord; they shall bring the fat with the breast, the breast to be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.
31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.
32 You shall give to the priest the right thigh of your peace offerings to be waved as an offering.
33 Whoever among Aaron’s sons offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall receive the right thigh as his portion.
34 For I have taken from the peace offerings of the Israelites the breast that is waved and the thigh that is waved as an offering, and I have given it to Aaron the priest and his sons as a perpetual statute for the Israelites.
35 This is the portion of Aaron and his sons from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, from the day he anointed them to be priests to the Lord,
36 which the Lord commanded them to give them from the day he anointed them from among the Israelites, as a perpetual statute throughout their generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the consecration offerings, and the peace offering,
38 which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus Chapter 8
Consecration of Aaron and his sons
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
3 and gather all the congregation together at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”
4 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation gathered at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
5 Then Moses said to the congregation, “This is what the Lord has commanded us to do.”
6 Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons near and washed them with water.
7 He put the tunic on him and girded him with the sash; he then put the robe on him, placed the ephod on him, and fastened it with the ephod’s strap.
8 He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim inside it.
9 Then he placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he placed the gold plate, the holy diadem, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
10 Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
11 He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
13 Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons near and clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and fastened turbans on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
14 Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering,
15 and he slaughtered it. Moses took some of the blood and put it with his finger on the horns of the altar all around, and purified the altar. He poured the rest of the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make atonement.
16 Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fat of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.
17 But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its dung he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
18 Then he brought the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,
19 and he slaughtered it. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around the altar,
20 and cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.
21Then he washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar, a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 After that, he had the other ram brought, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head.
23 He slaughtered it, and Moses took some of the blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
24 Then he brought Aaron’s sons near, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet; and Moses sprinkled the blood all around the altar.
25 Then he took the fat, the tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fat of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.
26 From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and placed them with the fat and the right thigh.
27 He placed them all in the hands of Aaron and his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord.
28 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering; they were the consecration offerings, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
29 Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord; this was Moses’ portion from the ram of consecration, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
30 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, on his sons and their garments with him, thus consecrating Aaron and his garments, his sons and their garments with him.
31 Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
32 What remains of the meat and the bread you shall burn with fire.
33 You shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are completed, for you shall be consecrated for seven days
35 “Therefore you shall remain at the door of the tent of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the ordinance before the Lord, so that you do not die; for so I have been commanded.”
36 And Aaron and his sons did all that the Lord commanded through Moses.
Leviticus Chapter 9
Aaron 's sacrifices
1 On the eighth day, Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2 He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the Lord.
3 Then tell the Israelites, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a young bull and a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering,
4 also an ox and a ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which you will sacrifice before the Lord, along with a grain offering mixed with oil, for the Lord will appear to you today.’”
5 So they brought what Moses had commanded before the tent of meeting, and the whole assembly came and stood before the Lord.
6 Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded; do it, and the glory of the Lord will appear to you.”
7 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Come near to the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Also, make the people’s offering and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”
8 So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the bull of the sin offering that was for him.
9 Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put some of it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
10 He burned the fat, kidneys, and liver of the sin offering on the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
11 But the flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside the camp.
12 He also slaughtered the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons presented its blood to him, and he sprinkled it all around the altar.
13 Then they presented the burnt offering to him piece by piece, including the head, and he burned it on the altar.
14 He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering.
15 He also offered the people’s offering. He took the goat that was for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it as a sin offering, just as he had offered the first.
16 He offered the burnt offering and did as prescribed.
17 He also offered the grain offering, filled his hand with it, and burned it on the altar, besides the morning burnt offering.
18 He also slaughtered the ox and the ram as a peace offering for the people. Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him, and he sprinkled it all around the altar.
19 and the fat of the ox and the ram, the tail, the fat covering the intestines, the kidneys, and the fat of the liver;
20 They placed the fat on the breasts, and he burned them on the altar.
21 But Aaron waved the breasts with the right thigh as a wave offering before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them; and after he had made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he came down.
23 Moses and Aaron then went into the tent of meeting, and came out and blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
24 Then fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering with the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they gave thanks and fell on their faces.
Leviticus Chapter 10
The sin of Nadab and Abihu
1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.
2 So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke of when he said: ‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron remained silent.
4 Then Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, “Come near and bring your brothers out from before the sanctuary, outside the camp.”
5 So they came near and brought them out in their tunics outside the camp, as Moses had instructed.
6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not uncover your heads or tear your clothes in mourning, or you will die and the Lord’s wrath will fall on the whole community. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, will mourn for the fire the Lord has caused.
7 Do not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting, or you will die, because the Lord’s anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses had said.
8 Then the Lord said to Aaron,
9 “ You and your sons with you must not drink wine or strong drink when you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,
10 so that you may distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
11 and so that you may teach the Israelites all the decrees the Lord has given them through Moses.”
12 Then Moses said to Aaron, and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, who were left, “Take the remaining offering of the food offerings to the Lord and eat it without yeast beside the altar, for it is most holy.
13 You shall eat it in a holy place, for it is for you and your sons from the food offerings to the Lord, as I have been commanded.
14 You shall eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering in a clean place—you, your sons, and your daughters with you—for they are your right and your sons’ right, given from the peace offerings of the Israelites.
15 With the fat offerings that are to be made by fire, they shall bring the thigh of the heave offering and the breast that is to be waved as a wave offering before the Lord; it shall be a perpetual right for you and your sons, as the Lord has commanded.”
16 And Moses inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and it was found that it had been burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons who were left of Aaron, saying:
17 Why did you not eat the sin offering in a holy place? For it is most holy, and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord.
18 See, the blood was not brought into the sanctuary; and you should have eaten the offering in the holy place, as I commanded.
19 Aaron answered Moses, “Look, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, but these things have happened to me. If I had eaten of the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable to the Lord?”
20 When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.
Leviticus Chapter 11
Clean and unclean
1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘These are the animals you may eat from among all the animals on the earth.
3 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and chews the cud.
4 But of all the animals that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you shall not eat these: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean for you.
5 The rabbit, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean for you.
6 The hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a divided hoof, is unclean for you.
7 The pig, because it has divided hooves but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you.
8 You shall not eat their flesh or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.’”
9 These are the creatures you may eat of all the living creatures that are in the water: all that have fins and scales in the waters of the seas and in the rivers, these you may eat.
10 But all that do not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, whether creatures of every kind that move along the water, you shall regard as unclean.
11 They shall be unclean to you; you shall not eat their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.
12 Anything in the water that does not have fins and scales you shall regard as unclean.
13 And these are the birds you shall regard as unclean; you shall not eat them, they shall be unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
14 the buzzard, the kite after its kind,
15 every raven after its kind,
16 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the sparrowhawk after its kind;
17 The owl, the cormorant, the ibis,
18 the moorhen, the pelican, the vulture,
19 the stork, the herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 Every winged insect that walks on all fours is an abomination to you.
21 But these you may eat of every winged insect that walks on all fours, that has legs besides its feet with which to hop on the ground:
22 These you may eat of them: the locust according to its kind, the grasshopper according to its kind, the garter according to its kind, and the cricket according to its kind.
23 Every winged insect that has four legs is an abomination to you.
24 And by these things you will be unclean; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
25 and whoever carries anything of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
26Every animal that has a hoof but does not have a cloven hoof or chew the cud is unclean for you, and whoever touches them is unclean.
27 Of all animals that walk on all fours, any that walks on its paws is unclean for you, and whoever touches their carcasses is unclean until evening.
28 Whoever carries their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean until evening; they are unclean for you.
29 These are the creatures you shall consider unclean that move along the ground: the weasel, the mouse, the frog of every kind,
30 the hedgehog, the crocodile, the lizard, the gecko, and the chameleon.
31 These are unclean among the creatures that move along the ground, and whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
32 Anything on which any part of them falls after they are dead shall be unclean, whether it be wood, clothing, skin, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It shall be put into water, and it shall be unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.
33 Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls will be unclean, as well as everything in it, and you must break the vessel.
34 Any food that is eaten upon which water from such vessels falls will be unclean, and any drink that is in such vessels will be unclean.
35 Anything on which any of their carcasses falls will be unclean. The oven and the stove must be broken down; they are unclean, and you must consider them unclean.
36 However, the spring and the cistern where water is collected will be clean, but anything that touches the carcasses will be unclean.
37 If anything from the carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it will be clean.
38 But if water is put on the seed, and anything from the carcasses falls on it, you must consider it unclean.
39 If any animal that you have for food dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.
40 Whoever eats any of the carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. Likewise, whoever carries away the carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening.
41 Every creeping thing that creeps on the ground is an abomination; it must not be eaten.
42 You shall not eat anything that walks on its belly, or anything that walks on all fours or more, of all the creatures that creep on the earth, for they are detestable.
43 You shall not make yourselves detestable by any creeping thing, nor defile yourselves by them, nor be unclean by them.
44 For I am the Lord your God; you shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Do not defile yourselves by any creature that creeps on the earth.
45 For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
46 This is the law concerning the animals, the birds, every living creature that moves in the waters, and every creature that creeps on the earth,
47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animals that may be eaten and the animals that may not be eaten.
Leviticus Chapter 12
The purification of a woman after childbirth
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When a woman conceives and gives birth to a son, she will be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her monthly period.
3 On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
4 She must remain in purification from her blood for 33 days. She must not touch anything holy or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.
5 If she gives birth to a daughter, she will be unclean for two weeks, as in her period, and she must remain in purification from her blood for 66 days.
6 When the days of her purification are completed, whether for a son or a daughter, she must bring a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
7 He is to present them before the Lord and make atonement for her, and she will be clean from her flow of blood.’” This is the law for her who gives birth to a son or a daughter.
8 And if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Leviticus Chapter 13
Laws concerning leprosy
1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “ When a man has a swelling, a rash, or a white spot on the skin of his body, and it appears to be a leprous sore on his skin, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who are priests.
3 The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of his body. If the hair in the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a leprous sore, and the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.
4 But if there is a white spot on the skin of his body, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the afflicted man for seven days.
5 On the seventh day the priest shall examine him, and if the sore remains the same, and has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him again for another seven days.”
6 On the seventh day the priest shall examine him again. If the sore appears to have darkened and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it was only a rash. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.
7 But if the rash spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest to be clean, he must show himself to the priest again.
8 If the priest examines him and sees that the rash has spread on the skin, he shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
9 When a person has a leprous sore, he shall be brought to the priest.
10 The priest shall examine him, and if a white growth appears on the skin, which has changed the color of the hair, and raw flesh is exposed,
11 it is chronic leprosy on the skin of his body. The priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not isolate him, because he is unclean.
12 But if the leprosy breaks out and spreads over the skin, covering all the skin of the afflicted person from head to toe, as far as the priest can see,
13 then the priest shall examine him. If the leprosy covers his whole body, he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean; it has turned completely white, and he is clean.
14 But on the day that raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.
15 And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.
16 But when the raw flesh changes and turns white, then he shall come to the priest,
17 and the priest shall examine it; and if the sore has turned white, the priest shall pronounce the one who had the sore clean, and he shall be clean.
18 And when there is a boil on the skin of the flesh, and it heals,
19If there is a swelling or a reddish-white spot in the place of the boil, it shall be shown to the priest.
20 The priest shall examine it; and if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous sore that originated in the boil.
21 If the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but dark, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days;
22 and if it is spreading over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a sore.
23 But if the white spot remains in its place and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 Likewise, if there is a burn on the skin of the body, and a whitish, reddish, or white spot appears in the healed area,
25 the priest shall examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white, and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy that has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, because it is a leprous sore.
26 But if the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in the spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but remains dark, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
27 On the seventh day the priest shall examine it, and if it has spread over the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous sore.
28 But if the spot remains in its place and has not spread over the skin, but remains dark, it is the scar of the burn; The priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is a sign of the burning.
29 And if a man or woman has a sore on his head or beard,
30 the priest shall examine the sore; and if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellowish and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is ringworm, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
31 But if the priest has examined the sore of the ringworm, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, nor is there any black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the afflicted person for seven days;
32 and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the sore; and if the ringworm does not appear to have spread, nor is there any yellowish hair in it, nor does the ringworm appear to be deeper than the skin,
33 then he shall have him shave, but he shall not shave the affected area; And the priest shall isolate the one who has the ringworm for another seven days.
34 And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the ringworm; and if the ringworm has not spread on the skin, nor does it appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
35 But if the ringworm has spread on the skin after their purification,
36 then the priest shall examine them. If the ringworm has spread on the skin, the priest shall not look for yellow hair; it is unclean.
37 But if the ringworm appears to have stopped, and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm is cured; the person is clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.
38 Likewise, when a man or a woman has spots on the skin of their body, white spots,
39 the priest shall examine them. If there are spots on the skin of their body that are slightly darkened, it is a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
40 If a man’s hair falls out, he is bald, but clean.
41 If his hair falls out toward his forehead, he is bald in front, but clean.
42 But if a reddish-white sore appears on his bald head or on the area before his bald head, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on the area before his bald head.
43 Then the priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the reddish-white sore on his bald head or on the area before his bald head looks like leprosy on the skin of the body,
44 he is a leper; he is unclean, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean at once, because he has the sore on his head.
45 The leper who has the sore shall wear torn clothes, let his head be uncovered, and cover his mouth and cry out, “Unclean! Unclean!”
46 As long as the sore is on him, he shall be unclean; he shall be unclean, and he shall live alone; he shall live outside the camp.
47 If a leprous plague is found in a garment, whether it is a woolen or linen garment,
48 whether in the warp or woven fabric of linen or wool, or in leather, or in any work of leather,
49 and the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in leather, in the warp or woven fabric, or in any work of leather, it is a leprous plague, and it must be shown to the priest.
50 The priest shall examine the plague and shut up the plagued item for seven days.
51 On the seventh day he shall examine the plague; and if the plague has spread in the garment, in the warp or woven fabric, in the leather, or in any work of leather, it is a malignant leprosy plague; it is unclean.
52 The garment, the warp or woven fabric of wool or linen, or any work of leather in which there is such a plague must be burned, for it is a malignant leprosy; it must be burned with fire.
53 If the priest examines the garment and finds no evidence that the plague has spread in the warp or woof, or in any leatherwork,
54 then the priest shall order that the place where the plague is be washed, and he shall shut it up again for seven days.
55The priest shall examine it after the plague has been washed away. If the plague has not changed in appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire. It is a penetrating corrosion, whether the affected area is on the front or the back of the item.
56 But if the priest examines it, and the plague has faded after it has been washed, he shall cut it out of the garment, the leather, the warp, or the woven fabric.
57 If it reappears in the garment, the warp, the woven fabric, or any leather item, spreading in them, you shall burn that in which the plague is.
58 However, if the garment, the warp, the woven fabric, or any leather item you wash and the plague is removed from it, it shall be washed a second time, and then it will be clean.
59 This is the law for the plague of leprosy of the garment of wool or linen, or of warp or weft, or of anything made of leather, to declare it clean or unclean.
Leviticus Chapter 14
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ This is the law for the leper when he is cleansed: He shall be brought to the priest,
3 and the priest shall go outside the camp and examine him. If he sees that the plague of the leprosy has healed him,
4 then the priest shall command that two live, clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be taken for the one to be cleansed.
5 The priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water.
6 Then he shall take the live bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them, along with the live bird, into the blood of the bird that was killed over running water.
7 He shall sprinkle the person to be cleansed of leprosy seven times and pronounce him clean, and he shall release the live bird into the open field.
8 The one to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he shall be clean. After that he shall enter the camp and remain outside his tent for seven days.
9 On the seventh day he shall shave off all the hair on his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and all his hair, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10 On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one female ewe a year old without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
11 The priest who makes him clean shall present the one to be cleansed, with these things, before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
12 The priest shall take one lamb and offer it as a guilt offering, with the log of oil, and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord.
13 He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered, in the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is, so also the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is most holy.
14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 The priest shall also take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his left hand.
16 He shall dip his right finger into the oil in his left hand and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
17 The priest shall put some of the remaining oil in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
18And whatever remains of the oil that is in his hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
19 Then the priest shall offer the sin offering and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering,
20 and the priest shall bring the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take a lamb to offer as a guilt offering, to make atonement for himself, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,
22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, as he can afford; one shall be for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day of his purification he shall bring these things to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the Lord.
24 The priest shall take the guilt offering lamb and the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.
25 Then he shall slaughter the guilt offering lamb, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his left hand.
27 With his right finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.
28 The priest shall also pour some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place of the guilt offering blood.
29 The remaining oil that the priest has in his hand he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord.
30 He shall also offer one of the turtledoves or one of the young pigeons, as he is able.
31 One as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him to be cleansed before the Lord.
32 This is the law for him who has had a leprous disease and has nothing else to cleanse him.
33 The Lord also spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
34 “ When you have entered the land of Canaan, which I am giving you to possess, if I put a leprous plague in any house in the land of your possession,
35 the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a plague has appeared in my house.’
36 Then the priest shall order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the plague, so that nothing in the house will be defiled; and afterward the priest shall go in to examine it.
37 He shall examine the plague, and if there are spots on the walls of the house, greenish or reddish spots that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house for seven days.
39 On the seventh day the priest shall return and examine it; If the plague has spread on the walls of the house,
40 then the priest shall command that the stones in which the plague is be removed and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.
41 He shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that is scraped off shall be poured out outside the city into an unclean place.
42 Then other stones shall be taken and put in place of the stones that were removed, and other plaster shall be taken and applied to the house.
43 If the plague breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and plastered,
44 then the priest shall go in and examine it. If the plague appears to have spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 He shall tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and carry everything outside the city into an unclean place.
46 Anyone who enters that house during the days it was sealed will be unclean until evening.
47 Anyone who sleeps in that house must wash their clothes, and anyone who eats in the house must wash their clothes.
48 But if the priest goes in and examines the house and sees that the plague has not spread after it was covered, the priest will pronounce the house clean, because the plague has disappeared.
49 Then he will take two birds to cleanse the house, along with cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
50 He will kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over running water.
51 He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the dead bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52He shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, with running water, with the live bird, with cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn.
53 Then he shall release the live bird outside the city into the open country. Thus he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law concerning every plague of leprosy and ringworm,
55 and leprosy of clothing and of the house,
56 and concerning swelling, rash, and white spot,
57 to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law concerning leprosy.
Leviticus Chapter 15
Physical impurities
1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘Any man who has a discharge of semen will be unclean.
3 This is how he will be unclean: Whether his body discharges or ceases to discharge, he will be unclean.
4 Every bed on which he lies will be unclean, and everything on which he sits will be unclean.
5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be unclean until evening.
6 Anyone who sits on anything on which the man with the discharge sits must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be unclean until evening.
7 Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be unclean until evening.’”
8 If the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean until evening.
9 Every mount the one with the discharge rides on will be unclean.
10 Anyone who touches anything that has been under the one with the discharge will be unclean until evening; and whoever carries it must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean until evening.
11 Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches, and who does not wash their hands with water, must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean until evening.
12 Any earthen vessel that the one with the discharge touches must be broken, and every wooden vessel must be washed with water.
13 When the one with the discharge is cleansed of their discharge, they must count seven days from the time of their purification, wash their clothes, and bathe their body in running water, and they will be clean.
14 On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.
15 The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.
16 When a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and he will be unclean until evening.
17 Any garment or skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and it will be unclean until evening.
18 When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe with water, and they will be unclean until evening.
19When a woman has a discharge of blood, and the discharge is from her body, she shall be unclean for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
20 Everything she lies on during her uncleanness shall be unclean, and everything she sits on shall be unclean.
21 Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.
22 Anyone who touches anything she sits on shall wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.
23 And whatever is on the bed, or on the chair on which she sat, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
24 If a man lies with her, and her menstrual flow is on him, he will be unclean for seven days; and every bed on which he lies will be unclean.
25 If a woman has her menstrual flow for many days outside of her regular period, or if her flow is longer than usual, she will be unclean throughout the duration of her flow, as in her regular period.
26 Every bed she lies on during the duration of her flow will be like her regular bed, and everything she sits on will be unclean, as during her regular period.
27 Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe in water, and they will be unclean until evening.
28 When she is free from her discharge, she shall count off seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
30 The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for the discharge of her impurity.
31 Thus you shall keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law for anyone with a discharge, for anyone with an emission of semen who becomes unclean because of it,
33 and for a woman who has her period, and for anyone with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.
Leviticus Chapter 16
The Day of Atonement
1 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons, when they approached the Lord and died.
2 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell your brother Aaron not to come at any time into the Most Holy Place behind the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, lest he die. For I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
3 This is how Aaron shall enter the Most Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall wear linen undergarments, a linen sash around his waist, and a linen turban. These are the holy garments; he shall put them on after he has bathed his body in water.
5 From the congregation of the Israelites, he shall take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
6 Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering that is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
7 Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.
9 Aaron shall bring the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell and offer it as a sin offering.
10 But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell he shall present alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, to send it away to Azazel into the wilderness.
11 Aaron shall bring the bull that was for his own sin offering and make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall slaughter the bull that is for himself as a sin offering.
12 Then he shall take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord, and his handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring it inside the veil.
13 He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the mercy seat that is over the atonement, so that he does not die.
14 He shall take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger toward the mercy seat on the east side; he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times toward the mercy seat.
15 Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering for the people and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.
16 Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the Israelites, because of their transgressions, and because of all their sins. He will do the same to the tent of meeting, which remains among them in their uncleanness.
17No one may be in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out and has made atonement for himself, his household, and all the congregation of Israel.
18 Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, thus cleansing it and consecrating it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
20 When he has finished making atonement for the Holy Place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, all their transgressions, and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for this purpose.
22 The goat will bear all their sins on itself to a solitary land, and Aaron will let the goat go into the wilderness.
23 Then Aaron will come to the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he wore when he went into the sanctuary and place them there.
24 He will then bathe in water at the sanctuary, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, making atonement for himself and for the people.
25 He shall burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
26 Whoever brought the goat to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
27 The bull and the goat sacrificed for sin, whose blood was brought into the sanctuary to make atonement, shall be taken outside the camp, and their hides, flesh, and dung shall be burned with fire.
28 Whoever burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
29 This shall be a perpetual statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall afflict yourselves and do no work, whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you,
30 for on that day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord.
31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a perpetual statute.
32 The priest who is anointed and consecrated to be priest in place of his father shall make atonement, and he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.
33 He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary and the tent of meeting; he shall also make atonement for the altar, for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
34 This shall be a perpetual statute for you, to make atonement once a year for all the sins of Israel. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
Leviticus Chapter 17
The unique sanctuary
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites, saying, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded:
3 Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a sheep, or a goat, whether in the camp or outside the camp,
4 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer an offering to the Lord before the tent of the Lord, that man shall be guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
5 The Israelites shall bring their sacrifices, those they sacrifice in the open field, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, so that they may offer peace offerings to the Lord.
6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.’”
7 They shall no longer offer sacrifices to demons, after whom they have committed sexual immorality; this shall be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
8 You shall also say to them: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice,
9 and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people.
Prohibition against eating blood
10 If any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.”
13 Any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.
14 For the life of every creature is its blood; therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
15 And whoever, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything that dies of itself or is torn by wild beasts, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he shall be unclean until evening; then he shall be clean.
16 But if he does not wash his clothes and his body, he shall bear his guilt.
Leviticus Chapter 18
Prohibited acts of immorality
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.
3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, nor as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their practices.
4 You shall obey my decrees and be careful to follow them. I am the Lord your God.
5 Therefore, you shall keep my decrees and laws, and if a person obeys them, he will live by them. I am the Lord.
6 No man shall approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the Lord.
7 You shall not have sexual relations with your father or with your mother; she is your mother, you shall not have sexual relations with her.
8 You shall not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.’”
9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for it is your own nakedness.
11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten by your father; she is your sister.
12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister; she is your mother’s relative.
14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not approach his wife; she is your father’s brother’s wife.
15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law;
16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are close relatives, it is wickedness.
18 You shall not take a wife as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness in her presence while she lives.
19 You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.
20 You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.
21 You shall not give any of your children to be offered to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.
22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
23 You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is perversion.
24 You shall not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves,
25 and the land was defiled; so I punished it for its wickedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 Therefore, keep my statutes and my ordinances, and do not do any of these abominations, whether native-born or foreigner residing among you.
27 For all these abominations were committed by the people of the land who were before you, and the land became defiled.
28 Otherwise, the land may vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 For whoever does any of these abominations, those who do them shall be cut off from their people.
30 Therefore, keep my ordinance, not doing the abominable customs that were practiced before you, and do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus Chapter 19
Laws of holiness and justice
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 «Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3 Each one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
4 You shall not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.
5 And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, offer it in such a way that it may be accepted upon you.
6 It shall be eaten on the day you offer it, and on the next day it shall be burned with fire. 7 If
it is eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted. harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 You shall not glean your vineyard aloft, nor gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave it for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. 11 You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord. 13 You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not keep the wages of a hired worker in your house until morning. 14 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the Lord. 15 You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 16 You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people. You shall not take the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord. 17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, so that you do not share in his sin. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with other animals; you shall not sow your field with mixed seeds, nor wear a garment of mixed material. 20 If a man lies with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man, and she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, both of them shall be flogged; they shall not be put to death, because she is not free. 21 And he shall bring to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting a ram as a sin offering for him.
22And with the ram of the sin offering the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for the sin he has committed, and his sin that he has committed shall be forgiven.
23 And when you enter the land and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you shall regard the first of their fruit as uncircumcised; for three years it shall be uncircumcised for you; its fruit shall not be eaten.
24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.
25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, so that its fruit may increase for you. I am the Lord your God.
26 You shall not eat anything with the blood still in it. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying.
27 You shall not shave your heads or mar the edges of your beard.
28 You shall not make any cuts on your bodies for the dead or tattoo yourselves. I am the Lord.
29 You shall not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land become a prostitute and be filled with wickedness.
30 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
31 Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.
32 Rise in the presence of the gray-headed and honor the face of the elderly, and fear your God. I am the Lord.
33 When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not oppress them.
34 Treat the foreigner residing among you as your native-born and love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
35 Do not do injustice in judgment, in land measurement, in weight, or in any other measure.
36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them. I am Jehovah.
Leviticus Chapter 20
Penalties for acts of immorality
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
3 I myself will set my face against that person and cut him off from his people, because he has sacrificed any of his children to Molech, thus defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
4 But if the people of the land turn a blind eye to anyone who sacrifices any of his children to Molech and do not put him to death,
5 I myself will set my face against that person and his family and cut him off from his people, along with all who follow him and prostitute themselves to Molech.
6 And if anyone turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute themselves to them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from his people.’”
7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
8 Keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
9 Anyone who curses their father or mother must be put to death; they have cursed their father or mother, and their blood will be on their own head.
10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
11 If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, both of them have uncovered their father’s nakedness; they must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
12 If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death; they have committed a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
13 If a man has sexual relations with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
14 Whoever takes a wife or her mother commits a vile act; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there may be no vileness among you.
15 Whoever has sexual relations with an animal shall be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual relations with it, you shall kill both the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
17 If a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is an abomination; therefore they shall be put to death in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his sin.
18 Whoever lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, uncovers her flow, and she uncovers the flow of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for by uncovering the nakedness of their relative, they will bear their guilt.
20 Whoever lies with his father’s brother’s wife has uncovered his father’s brother’s nakedness; they will bear their sin; they will die childless.
21 Whoever takes his brother’s wife commits an unclean act; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
22 Therefore, keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them, lest the land where I am bringing you to live vomit you out.
23 Do not walk in the practices of the nations that I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.
24 But I have said to you, ‘You shall possess their land, and I will give it to you to possess as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the nations.
25 Therefore, you shall distinguish between clean and unclean animals, and between unclean and clean birds; Do not defile yourselves with animals or birds or anything that creeps on the earth, which I have set apart for you as unclean.
26 You must be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
27 Anyone who is a medium or spiritist or who practices divination must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood will be on their own heads.
Leviticus Chapter 21
Holiness of priests
1 The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them not to defile themselves for a dead body among their people.
2 But they may defile themselves for their close relative, for their mother or father, or for their son or brother,
3 or for their close virgin sister who has no husband, for her they may defile themselves.
4 They must not defile themselves as any of the men of their people do, making themselves unclean.
5 They must not shave their heads or trim the edges of their beards or make any cuts in their flesh.
6 They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, because they offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord and the bread of their God; therefore they must be holy.
7 They must not marry a prostitute or a defiled woman, nor a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
8 You must consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; It shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord, who sanctifies you, am holy.
9 If a priest’s daughter commits sexual immorality, she dishonors her father; she shall be burned with fire.
10 The high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head or tear his clothes.
11 He shall not go near a dead body, nor defile himself for his father or mother.
12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary or profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.
13 He shall take a virgin as his wife. 14 He shall not take a widow, a divorced woman , a defiled woman, or a prostitute, but he shall take a virgin as his wife from among his own people, 15 so that he will not profane his offspring among their people, for I, the Lord, am the one who sanctifies them. 16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 “Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘None of your descendants throughout their generations who has any defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For no man who has a defect may approach: a man who is blind, or lame, or has a mutilated limb, or has one limb too long, 19 or a man who has a broken foot or a broken hand, 20 or is hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or has a blemish in his eye, or has scabs, or ringworm, or a crushed testicle. 21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect may approach to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he may not approach to offer the bread of his God. 22 Of the bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy things, he may eat. 23
But he shall not go behind the veil, nor come near the altar, because there is a blemish in him; lest he profane my sanctuary, for I the Lord am he who sanctifies them.
24 And Moses spoke this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.
20 Whoever lies with his father’s brother’s wife has uncovered his father’s brother’s nakedness; they will bear their sin; they will die childless.
21 Whoever takes his brother’s wife commits an unclean act; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
22 Therefore, keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them, lest the land where I am bringing you to live vomit you out.
23 Do not walk in the practices of the nations that I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.
24 But I have said to you, ‘You shall possess their land, and I will give it to you to possess as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the nations.
25 Therefore, you shall distinguish between clean and unclean animals, and between unclean and clean birds; Do not defile yourselves with animals or birds or anything that creeps on the earth, which I have set apart for you as unclean.
26 You must be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
27 Anyone who is a medium or spiritist or who practices divination must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood will be on their own heads.
Leviticus Chapter 22
Holiness of the offerings
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Tell Aaron and his sons to abstain from the holy things the Israelites have dedicated to me, and not to profane my holy name. I am the Lord.
3 Tell them: ‘Any male among your descendants throughout your generations who approaches the holy things the Israelites dedicate to the Lord while he has an uncleanness on him shall be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord.
4 Any male descended from Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Anyone who touches anything that has died, or any man who has an emission of semen,
5 or any man who touches any reptile that makes him unclean, or any human being who makes him unclean, according to whatever uncleanness he has;
6 Anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening and may not eat any of the holy things unless they have bathed with water.
7 At sunset, they will be clean, and afterward they may eat the holy things, for that is their food.
8 They must not eat anything that dies of itself or is torn by wild animals, thus defiling themselves. I am the Lord.
9 Therefore, keep my ordinance, so that you do not incur guilt by profaning it and die. I am the Lord, who sanctifies you.
10 No outsider may eat any holy thing; neither a guest of the priest nor a hired servant may eat any holy thing.
11 But if the priest buys a slave for money, that slave may eat of it, and a child born in his house may eat of his food.
12 If a priest’s daughter marries a foreigner, she must not eat any of the holy offerings.
13 But if the priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no children, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no outsider may eat of it.
14 And whoever eats a holy thing unintentionally shall add a fifth of it to it and give it to the priest with the holy thing.
15 They shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord,
16 for they would bear the iniquity of sin by eating their holy things; for I, the Lord, am the one who sanctifies them.
17 The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “ Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who brings an offering in payment of his vows, or as a freewill offering, a burnt offering to the Lord,
19To be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish from among the cattle, from among the lambs, or from among the goats.
20 You shall not offer anything in which there is a blemish, for it will not be accepted by you.
21 Likewise, when anyone offers a sacrifice as a peace offering to the Lord to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering, whether from herds or sheep, it must be without blemish to be accepted.
22 You shall not offer to the Lord anything blind, lame, maimed, with warts, scabs, or mangy, nor shall you place any of them as an offering made by fire on the altar of the Lord.
23 You may offer as a freewill offering an ox or a ram that is too large or too small, but it shall not be accepted as payment for a vow.
24 You shall not offer to the Lord an animal with wounded or bruised testicles, torn or cut, nor shall you offer it in your land.
25 You shall not take these animals from foreigners to offer as bread to your God, for their corruption is in them; they have a blemish, and they will not be accepted for you.
26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “ When a calf, lamb, or goat is born, it shall suckle at its mother’s breast for seven days. From the eighth day onward it may be accepted as an offering made by fire to the Lord.
28 Whether it is a cow or a sheep, you shall not slaughter it and its young on the same day.
29 When you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall offer it in a way that is acceptable to him.
30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until the next day. I am the Lord.
31 Therefore, keep my commandments and do them. I am the Lord.
32 Do not profane my holy name, so that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,
33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 23
The solemn festivals
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are the Lord’s appointed feasts, the holy convocations you are to proclaim:
3 For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
4 These are the Lord’s appointed feasts, the holy convocations you are to proclaim at their appointed times:
5 On the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, is the Lord’s Passover.
6 On the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work.
8 For seven days you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work.
9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, bring a sheaf of the first grain you harvest to the priest.
11 The priest is to wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted on your behalf; he is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.
13 Its grain offering is to be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, a pleasing aroma; and its drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of wine.
14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh ears of grain until the same day, until you have brought the offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.’”
15 You shall count off from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full weeks.
16 You shall count off fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.
17 From your dwellings you shall bring two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.
18 With the bread you shall offer seven lambs a year old without blemish, one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
19 You shall also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20And the priest shall present them as a wave offering before the Lord, with the bread of the firstfruits and the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
21 And you shall proclaim a holy convocation on that very day; you shall do no customary work; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
22 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of it, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “ Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25 You shall do no customary work, and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord.’ ”
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “ On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; You shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
28 You shall do no work on this day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
29 For whoever does not afflict himself on this very day shall be cut off from his people.
30 And whoever does any work on this day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
31 You shall do no work; it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. Beginning on the evening of the ninth day of the month, from evening to evening you shall observe your Sabbath.
33 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
34 “ Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles to the Lord for seven days.
35 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work.
36 For seven days you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord; On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord; it is a festival, and you shall do no customary work.
37 These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering made by fire to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each in its proper time,
38 besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, your gifts, all your vows, and all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.
39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest, and the eighth day shall also be a Sabbath of solemn rest.
40 On the first day you shall take branches of beautiful trees, palm branches, boughs of leafy trees, and willows from the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
41 You shall celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days each year; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all native-born Israelites shall dwell in booths,
43 so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
44 Thus Moses spoke to the Israelites concerning the appointed festivals of the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 24
Oil for lamps
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange them before the Lord from evening until morning; this is a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
4 On a pure lampstand, he shall continually arrange the lamps before the Lord.”
The bread of the Presence
5 You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of it, two-tenths of an ephah in each loaf.
6 You shall arrange them in two rows, six in each row, on the pure table before the Lord.
7 You shall also put pure frankincense on each row, as a perfume on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, on behalf of the people of Israel, as a perpetual covenant.
9 It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him, an offering made by fire to the Lord, a perpetual statute.
Punishment for the blasphemer
10 At that time, the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites. The Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man quarreled in the camp.
11 The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed God’s name and cursed him, so they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 They put him in custody until the Lord’s word could be made clear to them.
13 The Lord said to Moses,
14 “Bring the blasphemer outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let the whole community stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses God will bear their own guilt.’”
16 Anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them. The foreigner and the native-born must be put to death.
17 Anyone who kills another person must be put to death.
18 Anyone who kills an animal must make restitution for it, animal for animal.
19 Anyone who injures another person must be treated the same way:
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury they inflicted on another must be inflicted on them.
21 Anyone who kills an animal must make restitution for it, but anyone who kills a person must be put to death.
22 You must treat the foreigner and the native-born the same way, for I am the Lord your God.
23 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the blasphemer out of the camp and stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus Chapter 25
The year of rest for the land and the year of jubilee
1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When you enter the land I am giving you, the land must observe a sabbath to the Lord.
3 For six years you are to sow your land and prune your vineyards and gather their crops.
4 But the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your land or prune your vineyards.
5 You must not reap what grows of itself in your harvested land, nor gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must be a year of sabbath rest.
6 The land will provide food during its sabbath for you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the foreigners residing among you,
7 and for your livestock and all the wild animals in your land—all its produce will be food.
8 You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the days of the seven weeks of years shall be forty-nine years for you.
9 Then you shall sound the trumpet loudly on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
10 You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you shall return to your own property, and each of you shall return to your clan.
11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, nor reap what grows of itself in the land, nor gather the grapes of its untended vines,
12 for it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat the produce of the land.
13 In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to your own property.
14 When you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything from your neighbor, do not cheat your neighbor.
15 You shall buy from your neighbor according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he shall sell to you according to the number of years of the harvest.
16 The more years, the higher the price you shall charge, and the fewer the years, the lower the price; for he shall sell to you according to the number of the harvest.
17 Do not cheat your neighbor, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
18 Therefore, keep my statutes and observe my ordinances, and do them, and you will dwell securely in the land.
19 The land will yield its produce, and you will eat your fill and dwell securely in it.
20 And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year?” Behold, we shall neither sow nor reap our harvest;
21 then I will send you my blessing in the sixth year, and it will produce fruit for three years.
22 You shall sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat of the old crop; until the ninth year, until its fruit comes in, you shall eat of the old crop.
23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Therefore, in all the land of your possession you shall sell for redemption.
25 If your brother becomes poor and sells any of his possession, then his nearest relative shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
26 If a man has no redeemer, and he acquires enough for the redemption,
27 then he shall count the years from when he sold it, and what remains shall be paid to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.
28 But if he does not acquire enough to redeem it, what he sold shall remain with the one who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and at the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, he may redeem it within one year of the sale; one year shall be the period for redemption.
30 If it is not redeemed within a full year, the house in the walled city shall remain forever in the possession of the one who bought it and his descendants; it shall not be released in the Jubilee.
31 But houses in villages that are not walled shall be valued like open country land; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
32 As for the cities of the Levites, they may redeem the houses in their cities at any time.
33 Anyone who buys land from the Levites must leave the house they have sold or the city they possess in the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.
34 But the common land within their cities must not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
35 If your fellow Israelite becomes poor and seeks your help, you must support him; he may live among you as a foreigner or a sojourner.
36 You shall not charge him interest or profit, but you shall fear your God, and your brother shall live among you.
37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor sell him your food at profit.
38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39 If your brother becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave.
40 He shall be with you as a hired servant or a sojourner; he shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41 Then he shall go out from your house, he and his children with him, and he shall return to his family, and the property of his fathers shall be restored to him.
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43 You shall not rule over him harshly, but you shall fear your God.
44 Your male and female slaves shall be from the nations around you; you may buy male and female slaves from them.
45 You may also buy some of the children of the foreigners living among you, and their families born in your land who are with you, and you may possess them.
46 You may leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, as an inherited possession; you may use them forever. But you shall not rule harshly over your fellow Israelites.
47 If a foreigner or sojourner among you becomes rich, and your fellow Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner or sojourner among you, or to one of the foreigner’s family,
48 after he has sold himself, he may be redeemed; one of his fellow Israelites may redeem him.
49 Either his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or a close relative of his family may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem himself.
50 He shall reckon with him who bought him, from the year he was sold to him until the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be valued according to the number of years, and the time he was with him shall be reckoned according to the time of a hired servant.
51 If there are still many years left, he shall repay for his redemption according to those years, from the money for which he was sold.
52 And if there is only a few years left until the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him and repay his redemption according to his years.
53 He shall deal with him as he would with a hired servant year by year; he shall not rule over him harshly in your sight.
54 And if he is not redeemed within those years, he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
55For the children of Israel are my servants; they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus Chapter 26
Blessings of obedience
1 You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor erect an image or pillar, nor place a carved stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.
2 Keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3 If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them,
4 then I will give you rain in its season, and the land will yield its increase, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
5 Your threshing will reach to the vintage, and the vintage will reach to the sowing time, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.
6 I will give peace in the land, and you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid; I will rid the land of wild beasts, and the sword will not pass through your country.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the edge of the sword before you.
9 For I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm my covenant with you.
10 You will eat the old grain of long ago and clear out the old to make room for the new.
11 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul will not abhor you.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be slaves to them, and I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Consequences of disobedience
14 But if you do not listen to me and do not keep all these commands of mine,
15 and if you despise my decrees and your soul scorns my statutes, so that you do not carry out all my commands and break my covenant,
16 then I will do this to you: I will send on you terror, wasting disease, and fever that will consume your eyes and torment your soul. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
17 I will set my face against you, and you will be defeated before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 If in spite of all this you still do not listen to me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride of your arrogance and make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 Your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
21 If you walk in opposition to me and refuse to listen to me, I will add to you seven times more plagues according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts against you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, reduce your numbers, and make your roads deserted.
23 And if in spite of these things you are not corrected, but walk in opposition to me,
24 I also will proceed against you and strike you seven times more for your sins.
25 I will bring upon you a sword of vengeance, in vindication of the covenant; and if you seek refuge in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will give you back your bread by weight; and you will eat, but not be satisfied.
27 If in spite of this you still do not listen to me, but continue to oppose me,
28 I will deal with you in wrath, and I will punish you seven times over for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and I will lay your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols, and I will abhor you.
31 I will make your cities desolate and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet incense.
32 I will also lay waste the land, and your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled at it.
33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out my sword after you. Your land will be desolate, and your cities deserted.
34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths, all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. The land will then rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 All the time it lies desolate, it will rest for the Sabbaths it did not enjoy when you lived in it.
36 And I will put such fear into the hearts of those of you who are left, in the land of your enemies, that the sound of a rustling leaf will chase you, and you will flee as from the sword, and you will fall even though no one is pursuing you.
37 They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, though no one is pursuing them; and you will not be able to stand against your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
39 Those of you who are left will languish in the lands of your enemies because of their sins, and because of the sins of their ancestors they will languish with them.
40 They will confess their sin and the sin of their ancestors, because of their transgression, which they committed against me, and also because they walked contrary to me.
41 I also will have walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and they will acknowledge their sin.
42 Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; I will remember the land.
43 But the land will be deserted because of them, and it will enjoy its sabbaths, lying desolate because of them. And then they will be punished for their sins, because they despised my ordinances and loathed my statutes.
44 Yet even though they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, thus breaking my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
45 But I will remember them because of the old covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God. I am the Lord.
46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the Lord established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.
Leviticus Chapter 27
Things consecrated to God
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When anyone makes a special vow to the Lord, according to the valuation of those to be redeemed, you shall value them thus:
3 For a male from twenty to sixty years old, you shall value him at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
4 For a female, you shall value her at thirty shekels.
5 For a male from five to twenty years old, you shall value a male at twenty shekels, and a female at ten shekels.
6 For a male from one month old to five years old, you shall value a male at five shekels of silver, and a female at three shekels of silver.
7 For a male sixty years old or more, you shall value a male at fifteen shekels, and a female at ten shekels.
8 But if the person is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall be brought before the priest, who shall determine the price. According to the means of the one who made the vow, the priest shall set a price for it.
9 If it is an animal that is offered as an offering to the Lord, whatever is given to the Lord from such animals shall be holy.
10 It shall not be exchanged or traded, good for bad or bad for good; and if one animal is exchanged for another, both it and the one given in exchange shall be holy.
11 If it is an unclean animal, which is not offered as an offering to the Lord, then the animal shall be brought before the priest,
12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; according to the priest’s valuation, so it shall be.
13 If he wishes to redeem it, he shall add one-fifth to your valuation.
14 When someone dedicates his house to the Lord, the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; according to the priest’s valuation, so it shall be.
15 But if the one who dedicated his house wishes to redeem it, he shall add one-fifth to your valuation, and it shall be his.
16 If anyone dedicates some of his land to the Lord, your valuation shall be according to its value; a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he dedicates his land from the year of jubilee onward, it shall remain according to your valuation.
18 But if he dedicates his land after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the value according to the number of years remaining until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
19 If the one who dedicated the land wishes to redeem it, he shall add one-fifth of its value to your valuation, and it shall remain with him.
20 But if he does not redeem the land, and the land is sold to another, he shall not redeem it again;
21But when it comes out in the Jubilee, the land will be holy to the Lord, as a consecrated ground; its possession will be the priest’s.
22 And if anyone dedicates to the Lord the land that he bought, which was not part of his inheritance,
23 then the priest will calculate with him the sum of your valuation until the Year of Jubilee, and on that day he will give your appointed price, a holy thing to the Lord.
24 In the year of jubilee, the land will revert to him from whom he bought it, and it is his inheritance.
25 All that you value will be according to the sanctuary shekel; the shekel is twenty gerahs.
26 But the firstborn of any animal, which belongs to the Lord by right of birth, no one may dedicate, whether it be an ox or a sheep; it belongs to the Lord.
27 But if it is from among the unclean animals, they shall redeem it according to your valuation, and add a fifth of its price to it; and if they do not redeem it, it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 But nothing consecrated that a person dedicates to the Lord may be sold or redeemed. Of all that he has, whether man or beast or land of his possession, all that is consecrated shall be most holy to the Lord.
29 No one devoted to destruction may be redeemed; he must be put to death.
30 All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.
31 If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth of its value to it.
32 Every tithe of herds or flocks, of all that passes under the shepherd’s rod, shall be holy to the Lord.
33 He shall not search it out, whether it is good or bad, nor exchange it. But if he does exchange it, both it and what was given in exchange shall be holy; they may not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel, on Mount Sinai.