 CHAPTER VIII. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Take Aaron and his sons with him, with the robes and the oil of consecration, and the bowl for a sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of biscuits, and the whole of the chiefs of the parliament, to the door of the hall of assembly. Moses consequently did as the ever-living commanded him, and summoned the chiefs to the door of the hall of assembly. Then Moses said to the chiefs, The ever-living commands this to be done. Then Moses took Aaron and his sons, and washed them in water, and put the vests upon them, and girded them with the girdle, and clothed them with the mantle, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered belt of the ephod, and ephodded him with it. Then he put on the breastplate of the urim and thumim, and put the turban upon his head, and fastened upon the turban at the front of it the golden flower consecrated to holiness as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Moses next took the oil of consecration, and consecrated the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them, and sprinkled with it seven times on the altar, and consecrated the altar and all its instruments, and the bath and all its cans to sanctify them, and poured the oil of consecration on the head of Aaron, and consecrated him to sanctify him. Then Moses brought forward the sons of Aaron and dressed them with vests, and girded them with girdles, and bound upon them the miters, as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Next he brought up the bowl for a sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bowl for a sin offering. Then he slew it, and Moses took some of the blood and put it around the horns of the altar with his forefinger to purify the altar from sin, and he poured out the rest of the blood at the side of the altar, and sanctified it with an expiation for it. He also took the fat which is on the chest, and the other fat of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat upon them, which Moses burnt upon the altar. But the bowl and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung he burnt with fire, as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Then he took the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. Then Moses slew it, and sprinkled some of the blood on the altar around, and divided the ram into parts. Moses then burnt the pieces of the head and its fat. But the chest and the feet Moses washed in water, and burnt the whole of the ram upon the altar, as a whole burnt offering. It was a pleasant breath given to the ever-living, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then he took the ram, the second ram, of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. Moses afterwards slew it, and took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on his right thumb, and on his right great toe. Moses also sprinkled the blood upon the altar around. Next Moses took the sons of Aaron, and put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet. Moses afterwards sprinkled some of the blood around the altar. He also took the fat, and the tail, and the whole of the fat that is on the chest, and the rest of the fat, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right leg, and some from the basket of biscuits which was before the ever-living. He took one biscuit, and one oil-bread cake, and one wafer, and placed them with the fats upon the right leg, and put the whole into the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons, and they waved them before the presence of the ever-living. Then Moses took them from their hands, and offered them as a whole burnt offering on the altar, as an appointment of them. It was an offering of pleasing flavor to the ever-living. Moses then took the breast of the ram of consecration, and waved it before the ever-living. It was as a portion for Moses, as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Moses afterwards took some of the oil of consecration, and some of the blood from the altar, and sprinkled upon Aaron, upon his sons, and upon his robes, and upon the robes of his sons with him, and sanctified Aaron and his robes, and his sons and the robes of his sons with him. Moses also said to Aaron and his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the hall of assembly, and sit to eat it with the bread that is upon the basket of consecration, as I have been commanded to instruct Aaron and his sons that they should eat. But what is left of the flesh and bread, burn with fire. You shall, however, not quit the hall of assembly for seven days until the days are fulfilled, the days of your consecration, for seven days will complete their number. What has been done to-day, the ever-living commanded to be done to expiate for you. You shall remain at the door of the hall of assembly day and night for seven days, and guard the trust of the ever-living, and not remove, for so I have been commanded. Aaron and his sons consequently did all the things that the ever-living commanded by the hand of Moses. CHAPTER IX But when the eighth day came, Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the judges of Israel, and said to Aaron and his sons, Select for yourselves a perfect heifer from the fold for a sin offering, and approach to the presence of the ever-living. Then he addressed the children of Israel, saying, You must take a ram from the goats for a sin offering, and a lamb and bullock of a year old both perfect for a burnt offering, with a bowl and a ram for a fink offering, to sacrifice before the ever-living, and a food offering mixed with oil, for today the ever-living will appear to you. They consequently brought what Moses ordered to the front of the hall of assembly, and all the chiefs approached and stood before the ever-living. Then Moses said, This is the thing that the ever-living commanded you to do. Now the majesty of the ever-living will appear to you. Moses next said to Aaron, Advance to the altar and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering for yourself, and expiate first on account of yourself, afterwards on account of the people, and make a gift for the people, and expiate on account of them, as the ever-living has commanded. Aaron consequently advanced to the altar, and slew the calf that was for his sin offering. The sons of Aaron also advanced to the blood of it, and dipped their forefingers into the blood of it, and placed upon the horns of the altar, and poured the rest of the blood at the side of the altar. But the fat and the kidneys, and the rest from the breast of the sin offering, he burnt on the altar, as the ever-living commanded to Moses, but the flesh and the skin and dung he consumed in fire outside the camp. Then he slew the burnt offering, and the sons of Aaron took some of its blood, and poured it upon the altar around. Then he took the whole burnt offering to him to divide it, and burnt its head upon the altar. Since he washed the chest and the feet, and burnt them as a burnt offering on the altar. Then he offered the gift for the people, and took the goat for the sin of the people, and made a sin offering like the former sin offering. Next he presented the burnt offering, and did as with the offering for righteousness. Afterwards he presented the food offering, and filled his hand from it, and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning. Then he slew the bowl and the ram as a sacrifice of thanks from the people, and the sons of Aaron brought some of the blood, and sprinkled it around upon the altar, with the fats from the bowl, and the fat from the tail of the ram, the call and the kidneys, and the rest of the breast. And they piled up the fats upon the chest, and burnt the fats upon the altar. But the breast and the right leg Aaron waved before the ever-living, as the ever-living commanded Moses. Then Aaron raised his hands and blessed the people, and came down from making the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the thank offering. Moses and Aaron next entered the hall of assembly, and went and blessed the people, when the splendor of the ever-living appeared to all the people, the fire came from the presence of the ever-living, and consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and the fats. When all the people saw it, they cheered and fell upon their faces. CHAPTER X. But the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abaihu, each took a fire pan, and placed on them fire, and put incense upon it, and presented strange fire before the ever-living, which they were not commanded. Therefore fire came out from the presence of the Lord, and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Consequently Moses said to Aaron, What was it that the ever-living spoke, saying, In approaching me I will be sanctified, and respected before all the people? And Aaron was silent. Then Moses called to Mishal and to Al-Zafan, sons of Azayal, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Approach, and take up those from the presence of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp! So they approached, and carried them in their vestments to the outside of the camp, as Moses had ordered. Then Moses said to Aaron, and to Ali-Azar, and to Ithamar, his sons, You shall not uncover your heads, and you shall not strip off your robes, lest you should die, and anger come upon all the congregation. But your relatives of all the house of Israel shall weep for the burning that the ever-living has burnt. You shall also not come out of the hall of assembly, lest you should die, for the oil of consecration to the ever-living is upon you. So they did, as Moses ordered. Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and commanded, You or your sons with you shall not drink of wine or an intoxicant when you are going to the hall of assembly, so that you may not die. This is an everlasting institution for your posterity, for you shall distinguish between the sacred and the common, and between sin and purity, so that you may teach the sons of Israel all the institutions which the ever-living dictated to them by means of Moses. Moses also spoke to Aaron, and Ali-Azar, and Ithamar, his sons. Take again another food offering for a present to the ever-living, and eat it with biscuits at the side of the altar, for it is holy of holies, therefore you shall eat it in the holy place, for it is a portion to you and a portion to your sons from the presence to the ever-living, for so I have been commanded. But you may eat the waved breast and the raised leg in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given from my altar as a portion to you and to your children, as thank offerings from the children of Israel. The raised leg and the waved breast, with the presence of the fats which they bring to be waved, you shall wave before the ever-living, and they shall be for you and your children for a perpetual portion, as the ever-living has commanded. But when Moses inquired for the goat for the sin-offering, he found it had been burnt, therefore he was angry with Ali-Azar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, again, and said, Why have you not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is holy of holies, and it was given to you to bear the frailty of the congregation to expiate for them before the ever-living. Look, its blood was not brought into the sanctuary. You ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary as I commanded. Then Aaron spoke to Moses, On the day they presented their sin-offering and their burnt offering before the ever-living, you instructed me about it and I ate the sin-offering that day. Let that compensate in the eyes of my Lord!" So Moses listened, and it compensated in his eyes. CHAPTER XI Then the ever-living spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, Speak to the children of Israel to command. These are what you may eat of all the animals that are upon the earth, all that have hoofs and divide the hoofs and chew the cud. You may eat those beasts, but you shall not eat those that chew the cud and do not divide the hoof. The camel, for it chews the cud, but has not divided the hoof. It is unclean to you. And the jerboa, for it chews the cud, but has not a divided hoof. It is unclean to you. And the leaper, for it chews the cud, but has not a divided hoof. It is unclean to you. And the swine, although it has hoofs and divides the the hoof, but it does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their carcasses, they are unclean to you. You may eat of all these that are in the waters, all that have fins and scales in the waters and the seas and the rivers, you may eat them, but all that have not fins and scales on them in the waters and rivers, of all the swarms of the waters, and of every form of life that is in the waters, they must be loathsome to you, and their flesh shall be loathsome to you. You shall not eat of their carcasses, you shall loath them. All in the waters that have not fins and scales shall be loathsome to you. And these shall be loathsome to you among birds, you shall not eat them, they are loathsome. The eagle, and the osprey, and the fish-hawk, the kite, and the vulture species, and all the raven species, and the ostrich, and the goat-sucker, and seagull, and the buzzard species, and the pelican, and the gannet, and the owl, and the crusted owl, and the turkey buzzard, and the carrion eagle, and the stork, and snorter species, and hoopoo, and the bat, and every winged reptile that crawls shall be loathsome to you. However you may eat of these, of all the swarms of wing that crawl, that have knees above their feet to leap upon the earth, you may eat these from among them. The locust kind, and the cockchaffer kind, and the grasshopper kind, but all the winged breed that crawls on its feet shall be loathsome to you, and they defile. All who touch their dead bodies are unclean until the evening, and anyone who carries their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. Hence every beast that has hoofs, but does not divide its hoofs, and does not chew the cud, they are unclean to you. All who touch them are unclean, and everything that walks upon its paws, every insect that goes on all fours, they are unclean to you. Everyone who touches their dead bodies is unclean, and whoever carries their dead bodies shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. These also are unclean to you of the species breeding upon the earth. The mole, and the mouse, and the lizard species, the groaner, and the panter, and the shrew, and the ignanodon, and the chameleon. These are unclean to you in all their breeds. All touching them when dead shall be unclean until the evening, and all who eat of them when dead are unclean, and all upon which any of them may fall, and any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or a sack, any article that is made use of, shall be put into water, and be unclean until the evening, then pure. And any vessel of earthenware that they fall into, all that they fall into is unclean, and it shall be broken, and all food that they have gnawed or their water falls upon is unclean, and any cup from which they drink of all vessels is unclean, and anything upon which their dead bodies may fall is unclean. Pan, or tub, it shall be broken. They are unclean and shall be unclean to you, except a spring, or well, or reservoir of water, they shall be pure. But all touching their dead bodies are unclean, but if their dead bodies fall upon any grain to be used for seed that is to be sown, it is pure. Also if you have put water upon the seed after their dead bodies fall upon it, it is clean to you. And when any of the cattle that you possess for food dies, whoever touches its carcass is unclean until evening, and whoever eats from its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. All vermin also of the vermin on the earth shall be loathsome, it shall not be eaten. Everything going upon its belly, and everything going by crawling upon many feet of all the vermin of the vermin of the earth, you shall not eat, for they are loathsome. You shall not make yourselves loathsome with the bodies of any of the spawn of the vermin, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, nor be defiled by them. For I am your ever-living God, who sanctifies you, and you shall be healthy, for I am holy, and you shall not defile yourselves or your lives by any of the vermin that crawls upon the earth. For the ever-living brought you up from the land of Mitz'er to be a God to you, so you must be healthy, for I am holy. These are the laws about cattle and birds, and every animal life that crawls in the waters, and every animal life that spawns upon the land, with the difference between the unclean and the pure, and between the animals for food, and the animals that are not for food. CHAPTER XII The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, commanding, A woman who is delivered and bears a boy is unclean for seven days, as though she were unclean with the uncleanness of menstruation, and at the eighth day his foreflesh shall be circumcised, but for a period of thirty-three days she shall be secluded for her purification. She shall not approach anything sacred, and shall not come to the sacred place until the days of her purification are completed. But if she bears a girl, then she shall be separated as unclean for twice seven as in menstruation, and for a period of sixty-six days she shall be secluded for purification from her blood. But upon the completion of the days of her purification for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a she-lam of one year for a burnt offering and a young dove or a turtle dove as a sin offering to the door of the hall of assembly to the priest, and he shall present them before the ever-living and expiate for her and purify her for the flow of her blood. These are the laws about the childbirth of a boy or girl. But if she does not possess a she-lam, then she shall take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering, and the priest shall expiate for her, and she shall be purer. CHAPTER XIII The ever-living also spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When a man has on the skin of his flesh a swelling or scab or scurf, and there is on the skin of his flesh an irritation, he shall go to Aaron the priest or to one of the medical priests, and shall show the priest the spot on the skin of his body and the hair in the spot turned white. Should the spot appear hollow under the skin of his body it may be a contagion, and the priest shall diagnose it, for it is a disease. But if a white scurf is upon the skin of his body which does not appear to be below the skin, and the hair is not changed to white, then the priest shall isolate the patient for seven days, and upon the seventh day the priest shall examine the patient, and if the mark appears to him to stand still without the spot spreading, the priest shall isolate him for a second seven days. But the priest shall examine him on the seventh day the second time, and if the mark is mitigated and the spot has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall cleanse off the scurf from it, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. But if the eruption spreads and with scabs on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest to be pronounced clean, then he shall show himself again to the priest, and the priest shall examine him, and if the eruption has spread on his skin, the priest shall declare him diseased with a contagion. When a man has been attacked by a contagion, he shall go to a priest, and the priest shall examine him, and if he sees a white swelling in his skin, and if the hair has turned white and corrupting flesh lives in the swelling, it is chronic leprosy on the skin of his body, and he is unclean. The priest shall not isolate him, but he is unclean. But if the disease spreads on the skin, and the irritation covers the whole of his skin with an attack, from his head to his feet, he shall show all to the eye of the priest, and the priest shall examine it, and if the irritation covers the whole of his body, and the eruption is bright, all of it turned white, he is clean. But if at any time raw flesh appears, he is contagious, therefore he shall show the raw flesh to the priest, and be declared contagious, the raw flesh is a contagion, it is contagious. But if the raw flesh ceases and turns white, he shall also go to the priest, and the priest shall examine it, and if the eruption has turned white and bright, the priest shall declare him free from contagiousness. When there is on the body a burning ulcer to be cured, and there may be on the inflamed part a white swelling or a white reddish scurf, it shall be shown to the priest, and the priest shall examine it, and if he sees a sinking of the skin and the hair turning white, the priest shall declare him unclean with a contagion of spreading inflammation. But if when the priest examines him there is no white hair, and there is no sinking in the skin, but there is degeneration, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days, and if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall declare him diseased by a contagious attack, but if afterwards the inflammation abating, the irritation ceases to burn in the ulcers, the priest shall declare him clean. When there is in the flesh an acute inflammation and there is rawness on the inflammation with white scurf and red and white pimples, when the priest examines him and observes the hair to be turning white on the scurf and he observes pitting in the skin, it is an attack of inflammatory ulceration, and the priest shall pronounce him diseased, it is a contagious disease. But if on examining it the priest does not perceive white hair on the inflammation, nor a pitting in the skin, but it is fiery, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days, but when the priest shall re-examine him on the seventh day, if it is spreading over the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean, it is a contagious disease. But if afterwards the inflammation abates and does not spread on the skin, but the inflammation of the swelling is relaxed, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only an attack of inflammation. And when a man or woman may have spots on the head or chin, the priest shall examine the spot, and if he sees on examining it a sinking in the skin and with it a small yellow hair, then they are unclean until the priest has extirpated it, it is a disease of the head or chin. But when the priest examines, if the attack is extirpated and discovers after examination that there is no depression on the skin and strong black hair on it, then the priest shall isolate the patient he has cured seven days. But the priest shall examine the patient on the seventh day, and if it has not spread during the seclusion, and there is not on him a yellow hair, and he observes not upon the isolated person a depression in the skin, the priest shall cause the patient to be shaved, and the priest shall isolate the patient for a second seven days. But the priest shall examine the patient on the seventh day, and if it has not spread upon the patient's skin, and he He observes that there is not a pitting of the skin. Then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. But if it spreads upon the patient's skin after he has been pronounced clean, the priest shall re-examine him. And if he observes a spreading on the skin of the patient, the priest need not examine for the yellow hair. He is unclean. But if when the patient stands for re-inspection and black hair has sprung up on him, the patient is cured. The priest shall pronounce him clean. And if a man or a woman has in the skin of their body a bright shining with whiteness, then the priest shall examine. And if he observes in the skin of their body a bright shining with whiteness, it is an eruption flowering in the skin. It is clean. And if a person is sprinkled with baldness on his head, he is clean. And if at the front of his face his head is sprinkled, it is for baldness. He is clean. But if there should be upon his bald head or forehead a whitish red outbreak, it is an ulcerous attack, whether on the crown or the forehead. So the priest shall examine it. And if he observes a rising white reddish eruption upon the crown or the forehead when he examines the scurf on the skin of the body, the man is diseased, he is unclean. The priest shall declare him unclean by a disease of the head, but the attack is constitutional. His clothes shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall not curl his beard, but shall cry, Unclean, unclean, all the time he is suffering it. He is unclean. He must be isolated outside the camp, must be made to remain outside. The clothing also that may be upon him is infected by the disease, whether woolen clothing or cotton clothing, whether warped and wefted with wool or cotton, or of skin or of any preparation of skin. And if there is a greenish or reddish stain on the clothing or skin, whether of warp or weft, or any article of skin is marked by the discharge, it shall be examined by the priest. The priest who examines the patient shall then isolate the sufferer for seven days, but shall re-examine the patient on the seventh day, when if the infection has discharged upon the clothing, whether in warp or weft, or on the skin of any article made of skin for use. It is an attack of itch. It is unclean. Consequently he shall burn that clothing, whether warped and weft, whether of wool or cotton, or of any article of skin in which the infection may be, for it is infected with itch, it must be burnt in fire. But if when the priest examines it, he observes that the infection has not spread in the fabric of warp and weft, or in the leather or any article of leather. Then the priest shall order them to wash whatever has the infection upon it, and isolate them for a second, seven days. But the priest shall examine the infected articles after the washing, and if he observes that the infection has not disappeared from sight and the stain has not gone, it is unclean, they shall consume it in fire, it is corroded by vermin or microbes. But even if when the priest examines and observes a mitigation of the attack, after the washing of it, yet there is a wearing away from the garment, or from the skin, or from the warp, or from the weft, and he perceives that the garment of warp and weft, or any article of leather, is still fretted, they shall burn in fire everything in which the infection remains. But the clothing of warp and weft, or any article of leather which has been washed, and the infection has departed from them, shall be washed a second time, and be clean. These are the laws respecting infection in clothing of wool or cotton, of warp and weft, or any article of skin, as to cleanness or uncleanness. CHAPTER XIV The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, These are the laws about sufferers from infectious diseases at the time they are cured and submitted to the priest. The priest shall go to the outside of the camp, and the priest shall examine and look at the patient recovered from infection. Then the priest shall prepare and take for purification two clean living birds, and cedarwood, and scarlet wool, and hissep. And the priest shall prepare and slay the first bird into a vessel full of living water, then take the living bird to him, and the cedarwood, and the scarlet wool, and the hissep, and sprinkle them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird and the living water, and also upon the man cleansed from the infection seven times, and declare him clean, and send the living bird out into the open field. Afterwards the cleansed man shall wash his clothes, and shave his head, and bathe in water, and be clean, and after that go into the camp. He shall, however, keep out of his tent for seven days. But on the seventh day he shall shave the whole of his head, both the head and his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall also shave the whole of his hair, and bathe his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and be clean. On the eighth day he shall also take two perfect he-lams, and a perfect you-lam of one year, and three-tenths of flower mixed with oil as a food offering, and one log of oil, and the priest shall station the cleansed man or the cleansed woman before the presence of the ever-living at the door of the hall of assembly. Then the priest shall take one of the he-lams, and present it as a trespass offering with the log of oil, and wave them before the ever-living, and slay the lamb in the place where they slay the sin offering, and the burnt offerings in the holy place. For as a sin offering, the trespass offering shall be holy of holies to the priest. The priest shall also take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and place upon the tip of the right ear of the recovered man, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. Then let the priest take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of the priest's left hand, and dip the right hand of the priest in the oil that is in his left hand palm, and sprinkle the oil seven times with his finger before the ever-living, and from the rest of the oil that is in his palm. The priest shall put some upon the tip of the right ear of the restored person, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, with some of the blood of the trespass offering. And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest, he shall put upon the head of the recovered person. The priest shall expiate for him before the ever-living. The priest shall also make a sin offering, and expiate for the recovered man for his sins, and slay a burnt offering for him. Thus the priest shall offer up the burnt offering, and the food offering on the altar, and expiate for him. The priest shall afterwards declare him clean. But if he is poor and has no property, then he shall take a single he-lam for a trespass offering to wave, to expiate for himself, and a tenth of flour mixed with oil for a food offering, and a log of oil, or two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, whichever he may possess, and one shall be for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. He shall bring them upon the eighth day after his recovery to the priest at the door of the hall of assembly to present to the ever-living. Then the priest shall take the lamb for a trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them before the ever-living, and slay the lamb for a trespass offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it upon the tip of the right ear of the recovered person, and upon the thumb of the right hand, and upon the great toe of the right foot. The priest shall also pour some of the oil into the priest's left-hand palm, and the priest shall sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil which is in his left palm, seven times before the ever-living. Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his left palm upon the tip of the right ear of the recovered person, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, on the place for the blood of the trespass offering. But the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest he shall put upon the head of the recovered person, to expiate for him before the ever-living, or he shall take one of the turtle doves, or young pigeons which he possesses, which he holds in his hand, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt offering with the food-offering, thus the priest shall expiate for the recovered person before the ever-living. These are the laws about those attacked by contagious disease who do not possess enough for the regular purification. The ever-living also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, to command, When you arrive in the land of Canaan, which I shall give to you to possess, and find a contagious disease in a house in the land you possess, then the owner of the house shall go to the priest and inform him, saying that a contagious disease has appeared in his house, and demand that the priest should visit the house. The priest shall at once go and inquire the nature of the disease, and declare all in the house unclean. Then after that the priest shall go to examine the house itself, and inquire into the disease, and if he finds the infection in the walls of the house, the drains having a greenish-yellow or purplish rotting, and there appears decay in their walls, then the priest shall remove the family from the neighborhood of the house, and isolate the house for seven days. But the priest shall revisit it on the seventh day, and examine it again, and if the infection has spread in the drains of the house, the priest shall command, and they shall pull away the stones in which the infection is, and remove them to the outside of the town, to the receptacle for refuse, and the house shall be cut off from the houses surrounding it, and they shall pour out the rubbish caused by the cutting it off at the outside of the town, into the receptacle for refuse. Then they shall take other stones in the place of these stones, and take other mortar, and repair the house. But if the infection returns and spreads in the family after the removal of the stones, and after the destruction of the stones, and after the cutting off of the house, and after its repairing, then the priest shall come and examine it, and if he observes the infection spreading in the house, it is a virulent contagion, the house itself is unclean. Therefore he shall break down the house with its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house, and carry it outside the town to the refuse heap. And whoever enters that house, all the time that it is isolated, shall be unclean until the evening. For rests in that house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in that house shall wash his clothing. But if the priest upon coming to examine observes that the infection is not spreading in that house after the house has been repaired, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for it is cured of the infection. Then he shall take as a sin offering for the house, two he goats, and cedar wood, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and slay one of the goats into an earthen bowl filled with living water, then prepare the cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet wool, and the living goat, and dabble them with some blood of the slain goat, and with the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times, and expiate for the house by the blood of the goat, and by living water, and by the living goat, and by the cedar wood, and scarlet wool. Afterwards he shall turn the living goat outside the village on the face of the field, and expiate for the house, and declare it clean. These are the laws about any infectious disease, and its removal, and for infected fabrics or houses, and for ulcerations, and running sores, and for scruffula, with eruptions, from the day of contagion until the day of their cure. These are the laws of infection. The end of chapters 8 through 14 of the Book of Leviticus. Chapter 15 The Ever-Living Also Spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, And whoever touches the discharging flesh shall wash his clothing and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. And upon whoever the issue spurts in cleansing it they also shall wash their clothing and bathe in water and be unclean until evening, and every carriage upon which the patient rides is unclean, and anyone touching anything that has been under him shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries them shall wash their clothing and bathe in water and be unclean until evening, and everyone who touches the sufferer from that discharge with his hand shall plunge it in water and wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening, and an article of pottery that has touched the patient with that discharge shall be broken, and any article of wood shall be washed with a rush of water, but when he is cured of the discharging fix for him seven days to purify himself, and to wash his clothing and to bathe his body in living water and to cleanse, then upon the eighth day let him prepare two turtle doves or two young pigeons and go to the priest before the ever-living at the door of the Hall of Assembly, and the priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering. Thus the priest shall expiate for him before the ever-living for the discharge, and a man from whom has come the pouring of seed shall wash the whole of his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening, and any fabric or any skin upon which shall be the pouring of seed shall also be washed in water and be unclean until the evening, and every woman with whom a man has poured the pouring of seed shall also wash in water and be unclean until evening, and a woman with whom may be menstruation shall have seven days for the discharge of her body in seclusion, and all touching her shall be unclean until the evening, and all that she has upon her during her seclusion is unclean, and all she sits upon is unclean, and all who touch her bed shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening, and all touching any article upon which she has sat shall wash their clothing and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening, and if anyone lies down with her or upon any article where she has sat or touches it they are unclean until the evening, and if any Any husband copulates with her when there is menstruation on her, then he shall be unclean for seven days, and any bed upon which he copulated with her is unclean. But a woman who has a discharge of blood for many days, which is not her menstruation, or who discharges sap at her menstruation for a long period, beyond the time of her menstrual period, is unclean. Every bed upon which she lies all the time of her discharge shall be to her as a bed of menstruation, and every article upon which she sits shall be unclean, as with menstrual uncleanness. And whoever touches her is unclean, and shall wash their clothes and bathe their bodies, and be unclean until the evening. But if she is cured of her discharge, appoint seven days for her, and afterwards she shall be clean. Then at the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest at the door of the hall of assembly, and the priest shall make of the one a sin offering, and of the other a burnt offering, and the priest shall expiate for her before the ever-living for the defect of her uncleanness. In this way the children of Israel shall separate themselves from their sins, and not die in their sins, with the sins of the populations among whom you reside. These are the laws regulating generative diseases that come to you from sexual sins. CHAPTER XVI The ever-living also spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron while offering in the presence of the Lord when he killed them. The ever-living then said to Moses, Say to Aaron your brother that he must not come at all times from the sanctuary of the house to within the veil before the expiatories which are over the ark lest he should die, for I appear in the cloud upon the coverings. This is how Aaron must go to the sanctuary, with a bowl the son of the fold for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. His body clothed with the sacred robes, and his trousers shall be upon his body, and girt with his waist belt, and turbaned with his turban, and with the sacred robes. And his body and clothing washed in water, and he shall take two goats for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, for the chiefs of the children of Israel. And Aaron shall present the bowl he has with him for the sin offering, and expiate for the sins of himself and the family of his own house. Then take the two goats and place them before the ever-living at the door of the hall of assembly, where Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, to allot one to the ever-living, and allot the other as a scapegoat. Aaron shall afterwards sacrifice the goat which the lot came upon for the ever-living, and the goat which the lot came upon for a scapegoat he shall place alive before the ever-living to expiate with it, by sending it as a scapegoat into the field. Aaron shall next sacrifice the bowl on account of his own sins, and expiate for himself and on account of his own house, and slay the bowl for his own sins. Then he shall take a shovel full of burning coals from off the altar before the ever-living, and fail his hand with sweet incense powder, and bring it from the house to the veil, and put the incense on to the fire before the ever-living, and the cloud from the incense shall cover the veil that is over the witnesses, and he shall not die. Let him next take some of the blood of the bowl, and sprinkle with his forefinger before the veil towards the east, and before the expiatories he shall sprinkle the blood seven times with his finger. Then slay the goat that is for the sins of the nation, and bring some of its blood from the house to the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bowl, and sprinkle some of it upon the veil and before the veil, and expiate for the sins of the children of Israel and for their rebellions with all their sins, and do the same to the Hall of Assembly which is erected in the midst of their sins. And no person shall be in the Hall of Assembly when he goes to expiate in the sanctuary, when he expiates on account of himself and on account of his house and for the whole congregation of Israel. Then he shall come to the altar that is before the ever-living, and expiate for himself, and take some of the blood of the bowl, and some of the blood of the ram, and put upon the horns at the side of the altar, and sprinkle some of the blood with his forefinger seven times, and purify it, and sanctify himself from the sins of the children of Israel. When he has finished expiating for the sanctuary and the Hall of Assembly and the altar, he shall then present the live goat, and Aaron shall lay his two hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess upon it the whole of the frailties of the children of Israel, and the whole of their faults, and the whole of their sins, and lay them upon the head of the goat, and send it by the hand of a man of my people into the desert. That goat shall carry upon itself the whole of their frailties to the land of forgetfulness. Thus the goat shall be sent to the desert. Aaron shall next go to the Hall of Assembly, and strip off from himself the robes with which he was clothed at his going to the sanctuary, and leave them there, and bathe his body in water in the holy place, then put on his robes, and come and offer the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the nation, and expiate on account of himself and on account of the nation, and burn the fat of the sin offerings with incense upon the altar. The man who drove out the scapegoat shall afterwards wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and then he may go into the camp. Next the bull of the sin offering, and the ram of the sin offering, some of whose blood was brought for expiating to the sanctuary, shall be brought to the outside of the camp, and burnt with fire, the skin, and the flesh, and the dung. But the person who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, previous to returning to the camp. This shall be a perpetual institution for you in the seventh month, in the tenth day of the month, that you may humble yourselves, and do no business, either the native or the foreigner living amongst you, for on that day there is an expiation made for you, to purify you from all your sins before the ever living. You must be pure. It shall be to you a rest of rests, when you shall humble your lives and institution for ever. At that time the priest who has been consecrated, and who has been appointed as priest in the place of his fathers, and has put on himself the sacred robes, shall thus expiate for the holy of holies and the hall of assembly, and also expiate for the altar and for the priests, and expiate for all the people of the congregation. And this shall be a perpetual institution for you, to expiate for the whole of the children of Israel on account of all their sins, once every year. And it was done as the ever living had instructed Moses. CHAPTER XVII The ever living also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to Aaron and his sons, with all the children of Israel, and say to them, This is the thing that the ever living has commanded to be said. Any man of the house of Israel who slays a bullock, or sheep, or goat at the altar, or who slays it outside the camp, or at the door of the hall of assembly, who comes not to offer a gift to the ever living before the dwelling of the ever living, Blood shall be imputed to that man, blood spilt, that man shall be excommunicated from association with his people, so that instead of the children of Israel going to their altars that they have in the open fields, they must bring their offerings to the ever living at the door of the hall of assembly, to the priest, that he may offer for them to the ever living, and the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the ever living at the door of the hall of assembly, and burn the fat with incense as a delightful breath to the ever living. For you shall never sacrifice your sacrifices to demons that you whore after. This is an everlasting command to them, and their posterity. Say also to them, any man of the house of Israel or of the foreigners who reside among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, and does not cause it to be brought to the door of the hall of assembly to offer it to the ever living, that man shall be excommunicated from his people, and every person of the children of Israel or of the foreigners who reside amongst them, who eats any blood, or places before me what he has eaten with a life blood in it, I will cause him to be excommunicated from association with the nation. For the life of the body is in its blood, and I have given it to you for the altar, to expiate for your sins, for the blood with its life expiates. Therefore I say to the children of Israel, no person of you shall eat the blood, and the foreigner that resides among you shall not eat blood. Any person also from the children of Israel or from the foreigners who reside among you, who hunts animal or bird that he may eat it, shall also pour out the blood and cover it with dust because the life of all flesh is in its blood as its life. Therefore say to the children of Israel, you shall not eat the life with the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is in its blood. All eating of it shall be excommunicated, and every person who eats of a dead carcass or when torn or mangled or worried shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening and then clean, but if he does not wash his body or bathe, he shall bear his sin. CHAPTER XVIII. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding. Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, I am your ever-living God. You shall not do as in the land of the Mitsurayim when you dwelt there, and you shall not do as the land of Canaan does to which I shall bring you. You shall not continue their customs. You shall practice my decrees and observe my institutions to walk by them. I am your ever-living God. And you shall guard my institutions and my decrees which were made for you, and live in them. I am the ever-living. No person shall approach to a relative of his body to uncover their sexuality. I am the ever-living. The sexuality of your father or the sexuality of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her sexuality. You shall not uncover the sexuality of a wife of your father. I am the ever-living. The sexuality of your sister, a daughter of your father or a daughter of your mother, born in the house or born out of it. You shall not uncover the sexuality of them. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the daughter of your son or the daughter of your daughter, for that is your own sexuality. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the daughters of the wives of your father, born to your father. She is your sister. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the sister of your father. She is of your father's blood. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the sister of your mother. She is of your mother's blood. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the wife of the brother of your father. Your love shall not approach to her. You shall not uncover the sexuality of your daughter-in-law. She is the wife of your son. You shall not uncover her sexuality. You shall not uncover the sexuality of your brother's wife. She is your brother's wife. You shall not uncover the sexuality of a woman and her daughter, daughter of her son, or the daughter of her daughter, you shall not take to uncover their sexuality. Copulation with them is wickedness. And you shall not marry a wife's sister to grieve her by uncovering her sexuality whilst she lives. You shall not approach to a woman unclean by menstruation to uncover her sexuality. And to the wife of your neighbor you shall not give your copulation for seed to defile her. And you shall not give of your seed to pass to Moloch, and thus defile the name of your God, I am the ever living. And with a man you shall not copulate with the copulation of a woman, it is abominable. And to any beast you shall not give your copulation to defile it, and a woman shall not place herself to the face of a beast to copulate, it is incest. You shall not defile yourselves with any of these, for with all these the heathen defiled themselves whom I shall drive out from before you, and they defiled the land. Therefore I punish the sin in it upon them, and the land spews out its inhabitants. Therefore you yourselves must preserve my institutions and decrees, and not practice any of these abominations, either you natives or foreigners residing among you. For the whole of these abominations the population of the land whom I shall drive out from before you practiced, and they defiled the land. If you do so the land will spew you out for your defiling it, as it spewed out the heathen who were before you for all that they did with all these abominations. Therefore the people who do them shall be cut off from the boundaries of your people. CHAPTER XIX The everliving also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to all the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, Be holy, for I your everliving God am holy. Each of you reverence your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the everliving God. You shall not turn to idols, and you shall not make metal gods for yourselves. I am the everliving your God. And when you offer a thank offering, you shall offer it to your everliving strength. You shall eat it in the day of sacrifice and the day after, but the remainder to the third day you shall burn with fire. And if anyone eats of it on the third day, it is worthless and will not be accepted, and the eater of it shall bear his fault, for he profanes the holiness of the everliving, so that person shall be excluded from his family. And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not continue cutting to the sides of your field, cutting and gleaning. You shall not cut the gleaning, and you shall not strip your vineyard, nor shall you glean the scatterings of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am your everliving God. You shall not rob, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not lie each to his neighbor, and you shall not swear by my name to a lie, and disgrace the name of your God. I am the everliving. And you shall not oppress, and you shall not plunder, nor retain the wages of a workman with yourself until the morning. You shall not curse the deaf, and before the blind you shall not place a stumbling block, but you shall fear your God. I am the everliving. You shall not do wrong instead of justice. You shall not despise the face of the lowly, and honor the face of the great. You shall judge your neighbor in righteousness. You shall not go about slandering your neighbor. You shall not lie and wait for the blood of your neighbor. I am the everliving. You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You may reprove your neighbor, but not bear ill will against him. You shall not take revenge upon the child of your neighbor, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the everliving. You shall preserve my institutions. You shall not yoke together different kinds of cattle. You shall not sow in your field mixed kinds of seed. And you shall not put on yourself cloth woven of different materials. And anyone who lies with a woman in pouring of seed, and she was enslaved as a slave to the man, and was not free as a free woman, or at liberty, punishment shall not be given to her. She shall not be killed, for she was not free. But she shall bring to the everliving to the door of the Hall of Assembly a ram for a sin-offering, and the priest shall expiate for her before the everliving with the ram as a sin-offering, for the sin which she has sinned, and the sin which she has sinned shall be forgiven. When you arrive in the land, and plant any tree for food, you shall consecrate its fruit. It shall remain upon it three years for a consecration. You shall not eat of it. But in the fourth year all its fruits shall be devoted as thanks to the everliving. But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. Its produce shall be for yourselves. I am your everliving God. You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not worship serpents. You shall not worship clouds. You shall not cut off the beard on your cheeks, and you shall not destroy the beard of your chin. You shall not make tattooings on your flesh for spirits, nor put written brands upon yourselves. I am the everliving. You shall not pollute your daughters to whoredom by causing them to whore and filling the country with wickedness. You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall reverence my sacred things. I am the everliving. You shall not turn to spirits or to fortune-tellers to inquire of them, to sin with them. I am your everliving God. You shall rise up before the gray-headed, and pay respect to the presence of a judge, and reverence to your God. I am the everliving. And when a foreigner resides in your land, you shall not oppress him. As it is with you natives, so it shall be with the foreigners among you. You shall love them as yourselves. For you were foreigners in the land of the Mitsurayim. I am your everliving God. You shall not do wrong in measuring as to length, weight, or measure. You shall have a true scale, true weights, a true bushel, a true gallon. I am your everliving God who brought you out of the land of the Mitsurayim. Therefore you shall keep the whole of my institutions and all my decrees, and practice them. I am the everliving. CHAPTER XX The everliving also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to the children of Israel, to each one of the sons of Israel, and to the foreigners, the foreigners among Israel. Whoever gives their offspring to Moach, they shall be killed. The people of the country shall stone them with stones, and I will place my face against that person, and will cut him off from his people for giving his offspring to Moach to defile my holiness and to pollute my holy name. And if to conceal it, the people of the country cover their eyes from the person who gives his offspring to Moach to destroy him in death. I, however, will set my face against that person and destroy him and cut him off with all those who whore after him, whoring after Moach from the midst of their people. The person also who turns to spirits and to wizards to whore after them, I will put my face against that person and will excommunicate him from the midst of his people. For you shall make yourselves holy and be holy, for I am your everliving God. Therefore you shall preserve my institutions and practice them. I, the everliving, must make you holy. Whatever person outrages his father or his mother, let him be put to death. The blood of the outrager of his father or mother is upon himself. The man who commits adultery with a wife, the man who commits adultery with a wife of his neighbor shall be killed, both the adulterer and adulteress. The man who copulates with a wife of his father, uncovering the sexuality of his father, they shall both die, their blood is on themselves. The man who copulates with his daughter-in-law, both who have done that villainy shall die, their blood is upon themselves. And the man who copulates with a male with the copulation of a woman commits abomination, they shall both die, their blood is on themselves. And the man who takes a woman and her mother, it is wickedness, they shall burn him in fire with them, that wickedness shall not be in the midst of you. And the man who copulates with a beast shall be killed, and the beast shall be slaughtered. And the woman who approaches to a beast to copulate with it, with the copulation of a woman, both the beast and she shall be killed, their blood is on themselves. And the man who takes his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and sees her sexuality and she sees his sexuality, they are disgraceful and shall be excommunicated in the sight of their people, he shall bear his sin for uncovering the sexuality of his sister. And a man who copulates with a sick woman and uncovers the nakedness of her font upon her, and uncovers the font of her blood, both shall be cut off from association with their people. You shall not uncover the sexuality of the sister of your mother or the sister of your father, for they are his flesh, whoever uncovers them shall bear their sin. The man who copulates with his aunt, uncovering the sexuality of his aunt, they shall each bear their sin, they shall be killed openly. And the man who takes the wife of his brother in uncovering the sexuality of his brother, they shall be exposed. Thus you shall keep all my institutions and all my decrees, and shall practice them, and then the land that I will bring you to as a residence will not spew you out. Thus you shall not conduct yourselves according to the customs of the heathen whom I shall drive out from before you, for they practiced all these things in their land, therefore I promised you you should inherit their country, and I will give to you the inheritance of that land flowing with milk and honey. I am your ever-living God who will destroy them from among the nations. You shall also distinguish between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean birds and the clean. And you shall not pollute your lives with animal or bird, or any reptile of the field which I have pointed out to you as unclean. But you shall be healthy before me, for I, the ever-living, am holy, and have separated you from the nations to be for myself. Therefore the man or woman who possesses a spirit or a foreteller shall be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood is upon themselves. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and command them that they shall not defile themselves for their relatives, not even for a near-blood relation of them, for their mother, or for their father, or for their son, or for their daughter, or for their brother, or for their sister, or their dearest loved daughter who has not been to a man to wed her. He shall not debase or degrade himself with grief. They shall not shave strips upon their heads, nor shave off their whiskers, nor cut gashes on their bodies. They are sacred to their God, and shall not lower the name of their God, for they offer bread to the ever-living their God, they offer themselves, and they shall be healthy. They shall not take for a wife a whore or a loose woman, and they shall not marry a woman who has been divorced, for they are holy to the ever-living, and they shall keep themselves holy as an offering to your God. He who approaches the holy must be the same, for I, the ever-living, make you holy. And the daughter of a priest who defiles herself with hordom, she defiles her father. You shall burn her with fire. The chief priest also, over his brothers, upon whose head has been poured the oil of consecration, and his hand filled by the investiture of the robes, shall not neglect his head, and shall not neglect his robes, and never disorder his person for a death. Not if it comes to his father or his mother, shall he degrade himself. Nor shall he go from the sanctuary, nor shall he wail, for he has been separated by the oil of consecration to his God, I am the ever-living. Therefore he shall take a maiden for his wife, he shall not take a widow or a divorced woman, or one abandoned to hordom, any of them, but he shall take a wife only from the virgins of his own people, he shall not degrade his race or his family, for I, the ever-living, have sanctified it. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and say, Any man from the offspring of your posterity, who may be disfigured, shall not approach to offer bread to his God. For any man in whom there is a defect shall not approach, any one blind, or lame, or flat-nosed, or deformed, or a man who has a broken leg, or a broken hand, or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or squint-eyed, or scurveyed, or scabbed, or defective in his testicles. Any man of the race of Aaron, the priest, in whom there may be a defect shall not approach to present offerings to the ever-living. Because of his defect he shall not approach to present bread to his God. It is the bread of God for them, holy of holies, and the healthy shall eat it. He shall also not come within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because of his defect, so as not to profane my holiness, for I am the ever-living sanctifier. Moses consequently spoke this to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel. THE END of CHAPTERS 15 THROUGH 21 OF THE BOOK OF LAVITICUS. RECORDING BY MARK PENFOLD. CHAPTERS 22 THROUGH 27 OF THE BOOK OF LAVITICUS. FROM THE HOLY BIBLE IN MOTORN ENGLISH. THIS LIBERVOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. RECORDING BY MARK PENFOLD. THE HOLY BIBLE IN MOTORN ENGLISH. TRANSLATED BY FERRAR FENTON. THE BOOK OF LAVITICUS. CHAPTERS 22 THROUGH 27 CHAPTER 22 The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding, speak to Aaron and his sons, and separate them as consecrated from the children of Israel, so that they may not defile my holy name by which they are sanctified to me. I am the ever-living. Say to them for their posterity. Every man of all your race who approaches to the sanctuary which the children of Israel have sanctified to the ever-living, whilst there is uncleanness upon him, that person shall be excommunicated from before me. I am the ever-living. Any man from the race of Aaron who has leprosy or the disease of fornication shall never eat of what is pure, or if he has a contagion of any disease on his body, or a man who comes from procreative copula, or a man who has touched any reptile that may defile him, or a man that may defile himself by anything that defiles him, a person who defiles him by touch until the evening, he shall not eat of the sacred offerings unless he bathes his body in water. But when the sun sets, then he will be clean, and afterwards may eat of the sacred offerings, for he is clean. Of a dead or torn carcass he shall not eat to defile himself with it. I am the ever-living. Thus they shall reverence my trusts, and not bring sin upon themselves, and die in it to condemn themselves. I, the ever-living, consecrate them. No foreigner shall eat of the sacred offerings. A visitor to the priest, and the hired servant of the family shall not eat of the sacred offerings. But a priest who buys a person, having bought him for money, that person may eat, and those born in his house may eat of the food. But the daughter of a priest who has a foreign husband may not eat of the raised leg of the sacred offerings. But the daughter of a priest who may be a widow or divorced, and has no offspring for herself, and dwells in the house of her father as in her youth, she may eat of the bread of her father. But any foreigner may not eat it. Any person, however, who unknowingly eats of sacred offerings, shall return five times as much for it, and give it to the priest for the offerings. For the children of Israel shall not profane my sacred offerings, which are lifted up to the ever-living, and they shall bear the sin of trespass if they eat of the sacred gifts, for I am the ever-living who sanctifies them. The ever-living also spoke to Moses and said, Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers a gift for any of their vows, or for any free will gift which they present to the ever-living for a burnt offering, that will please, let it be a perfect male from the oxen, or sheep, or goats. Anything that has a defect in it they shall not present, for it will not be pleasing to the ever-living from them. And the man who presents a sacrifice of thanks to the ever-living to fulfill a vow, or a free will offering, let it be a perfect, beautiful sheep. There must be no defect in it. The blind or torn shall not be presented to the ever-living, or the sick, or broken-winded, or scurveyed, or scabbed. A female also shall not be offered by them at the altar of the ever-living. And an ox or sheep that is deformed, or a dwarf, if you make a vow of them, they will not be accepted. And if castrated, or crushed, or mutilated, or wounded, you shall not present them to the ever-living, and you shall not so mutilate them in your country. You shall also not present food to your God from any of these, by the hand of a foreigner, for to offer by him would be to desecrate them, they would not be accepted from you. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding, When a cow or a sheep or a goat has young, then you shall let it be for seven days with its mother, but on the seventh day it will be acceptable as a gift of trespass to the ever-living. But you shall not slay a cow or a sheep and their young upon the same day. And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the ever-living, you should sacrifice it for your delight. Eat it upon the same day, leave nothing of it until the morning. I am the ever-living, and you shall keep my commandments and practice them. I am the ever-living. And you shall not defile my holy name, for I would be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the ever-living who consecrated you. I brought you out from the land of the Mitsarayim to be a God to you. I am the ever-living. Chapter 23 The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, These are the festivals of the ever-living which you shall proclaim with a holy proclamation as my festivals. You shall do your work for six days, but on the seventh day there shall be a rest of rests with a holy proclamation from all work. You shall do none on the Sabbath. It is for the ever-living in all your dwelling places. These are festivals to the ever-living with a holy proclamation which you shall proclaim at your festivals. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, between sunrise and sunset, is the Passover of the ever-living. And on the fifteenth day of that month is the feast of unfermented bread to the ever-living. For seven days you shall eat unfermented bread. Upon the first day you shall make a holy proclamation, you shall do no servile work, and you shall offer a trespass offering to the ever-living for seven days. For seven days by a holy proclamation you shall do no laboring work. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the country that I will give to you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the ever-living to delight you. The priest shall wave at the day after the Sabbath, and you shall offer on the day of your waving of the sheaf a perfect lamb, the son of that year, as a burnt offering to the ever-living, with a food offering of a twelfth of flour mixed with oil as a perfume to the ever-living, a pleasant breath, and as a draft of wine the quarter of a hen, and you shall not eat in public bread or oats or vegetables on that day until you have brought this gift to your God. This is a perpetual institution for your posterity in all your dwelling places. You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath that you bring the wave sheaf seven Sabbaths. They must be complete. Then after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days when you shall present a new offering to the ever-living. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave cakes of two tenths of fine flour. They shall be fermented, baked in an oven for the ever-living. You shall also offer with this bread seven perfect lambs of a year, and a bullock, a son of the fold, and two rams which shall be a burnt offering to the ever-living, with their food offerings and their drink offerings as a gift of sweet odor to the ever-living. You shall offer as well one he goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of a year old for a thank offering, and the priest shall wave them with the first-made bread. He shall wave them before the ever-living. They shall be sacred to the ever-living, with the two lambs for the priest. Then there shall be made a holy proclamation to the public on that day. It shall be holy of holies to you. You shall not do any laboring work. This is an everlasting institution in all your dwellings for your posterity, that in reaping your harvests you shall not reap to the edge of your fields in your reaping, and you shall not glean. Leave the gleanings for the poor and the foreigners amongst you. I am your ever-living God. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, to say, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, there shall be a rest for remembrance of sins. It is holy of holies. You shall not do any laboring work, and you shall offer a burnt offering to the ever-living. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, to say further, On the tenth of the seventh month, there shall be a day of expiation. It shall be holy of holies to you, and you shall humble yourselves and offer a burnt offering to the ever-living. You shall do no laboring work on that day, for it is a day of expiation to expiate for you before your ever-living God. Therefore every person who does not humble himself publicly on that day shall be cut off from his family. And every person who does any laboring work on that day, I will trouble that person in the midst of his family. You shall do no work. This is a perpetual institution for your posterity in all your dwellings. It is a rest of rests for you, when you shall humble your souls on the ninth of the month at daybreak from dawn to evening. You shall rest to refresh yourselves. The ever-living also spoke to Moses. Speak to the children of Israel and say, On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, there shall be the feast of tabernacles to the ever-living for seven days. From the first day proclaimed holy, you shall do no laboring work. You shall present a burnt offering to the ever-living for seven days. The eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall present a burnt offering to the ever-living. It shall be a public holiday. You shall do no laboring work in it. These are the assemblies of the ever-living, which you shall proclaim with a holy proclamation, for presenting an offering, a burnt offering to the ever-living, a whole burnt offering and a food offering, a sacrifice and fragrance day by day, besides the sabbaths of the ever-living, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and free wills which you give to the ever-living. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after the reaping of the produce of your land, you shall enjoy the feast of the ever-living for seven days, from the first day after the sabbath until the eighth day after the sabbath. You shall then take for yourselves on the first day, handfuls of the finest fruits from the trees, with the palm and boughs of the bushes and willow, and enjoy yourselves before your ever-living god for seven days. Thus you shall feast in this feast to the ever-living seven days every year. It shall be a perpetual institution for your descendants. You shall hold the festival in the seventh month, living in tents for seven days. All the natives of Israel shall live in tents, so that your posterity may know that the sons of Israel dwelt in tents when I brought you out from the land of the Mitsorayim. I am your ever-living god." Moses consequently commanded these feasts of the ever-living to the children of Israel. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, commanding. Order the children of Israel to bring to you olive oil, pressed pure for the lamps to raise a clear light outside the veil of the witnesses in the hall of assembly, which Aaron shall arrange continually from evening till dawn before the ever-living. It shall be an institution for your posterity forever to arrange a pure light before the ever-living continually. Yourself also take flower and bake from it twelve cakes. These twelve cakes shall be of equal size, and place them in two piles, six in a pile, on the pure table before the ever-living, and place upon the piles pure incense, and they will be the bread of remembrance like a burnt offering to the ever-living. From a Sabbath day to a Sabbath day they shall be always arranged before the ever-living, as an everlasting covenant with the children of Israel, and they shall belong to Aaron and to his sons, and be eaten in the holy place, for they are holy of holies to them from the offerings to the ever-living. This is a perpetual institution. It occurred once that the son of an Israelite-ish woman, who was also the son of a Mitsurite man, among the sons of Israel, quarreled in the camp with the son of an Israelite-ish woman and an Israelite man, and the son of the Israelite-ish woman cursed the name and insulted it. They therefore brought him to Moses. The name of his mother, however, was Shalameth, the daughter of Dibrai, of the tribe of Dan. So they put him under guard to inquire about him from the ever-living. The ever-living consequently spoke to Moses, commanding, Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the assembly kill him. Then you shall command the children of Israel, saying, Whatever person curses his God shall bear his sin, and the blasphemer of the name of the ever-living shall die. You shall kill him. All the assembly shall stone him. All of the population who blasphemes the name, whether native or foreigner, shall die. And whoever strikes off the life of a man shall die. And whoever strikes the life of a beast shall pay life for life. And a person who inflicts injury upon his neighbor, as he has done, so you shall do to him. Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he has done to a man, the same shall be done to him. Thus whoever kills a beast shall compensate for it, but whoever kills a man shall die. There shall be equal justice with you for the foreigner and the native, for I am your ever-living God. Moses consequently spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought out the blasphemer from the camp, and killed him with stones. Thus the children of Israel did, as the ever-living commanded to Moses. Chapter 25 The ever-living also spoke to Moses in Mount Sinai, commanding, Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you arrive in the land that I will give to you, you shall grant the land a rest of rests to the ever-living. You shall sow your fields for six years, and prune your vineyards for six years, and then cease to go to them. And in the seventh year there shall be a rest of rests for the land to the ever-living. You shall not sow your fields, nor prune your vineyards. You shall not reap the self-grown harvest, nor cut off the bunches from your vine. It is a rest of rests for the earth. There shall be a rest of the earth to feed it, for you and for your servant and for your maid servant, and for your hired laborer, and for the foreigners residing with you, and for your cattle and animals that are in your country, who shall all be allowed to eat of it. Also reckon for yourselves seven Sabbaths of years, seven years, seven times, and they shall be for you a period of seven sevens of years, forty-nine years. Then pass a loud-sounding trumpet through all the country. It shall be sent out upon the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of expiation, to sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the country to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you, when every person shall return to his inheritance, and everyone shall be restored to his family. Every fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you. You shall neither sow nor reap nor prune the vines, for it shall be a holy jubilee for you. Eat from the field what springs from it. In this jubilee year everyone shall return to his inheritance, for what you buy in a sale of your neighbor, or acquire from the hand of your neighbor, does not dispossess your brother of it. According to the number of years after a jubilee you must purchase from your neighbor, you must buy it according to the number of years to run for yourself. In proportion to the number of years you shall increase the money, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall decrease the purchase price. Thus from the number to run it shall be purchased for yourself, for you shall not dispossess any of your neighbors, but fear your ever-living God, for I am your ever-living God, and you shall practice my institutions and my decrees, guarding and observing them, and dwell in the land in safety. Then the earth will give her fruits, and you can eat them to your fill and live securely upon it. But if you ask, what shall we eat in that seventh year when we have neither sown nor continued our labours? I will then send my blessing to you in the sixth year, and make the produce of it for three years. But you may sow in the eighth year, and eat the stored produce in the eighth year, until the coming in of products in the ninth year, until its produce comes you must eat what was stored. Thus you shall not sell your land for ever, for the land is mine, and you only foreigners and visitors with me, and with all the land you purchase a power of redemption for the inheritance shall be given with the land. When your brother is reduced to poverty and sell some of his inheritance, if a relative of his brings the redemption for it, then the purchaser shall restore it to his brother. But if the person has not the redemption money, but he acquires it and obtains possession of the amount for its redemption, then the years from its purchase shall be counted, and the balance paid to the person who purchased it, and his inheritance shall be restored. But if he cannot attain possession of enough to pay to the purchaser, it shall remain in his possession until the year of Jubilee, and when the Jubilee comes, then he shall return to his inheritance. But if a person sells a dwelling-house in a walled town, then the redemption shall be at the end of a year from its purchase. That shall be the time of its redemption. But if he has not redeemed at the end of the complete year, and the house stands in a town which has walls, he is dispossessed for ever, it shall not return to his posterity at the Jubilee. But houses in a court, where there are not fortified walls around, shall return with the land of the farm that belongs to them. They shall return with it when the Jubilee comes. But the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of the Levites, are their inheritance. They shall always be redeemable to the Levites. But when redeemed it shall be by the Levites, and the purchaser shall quit the house, or village he has acquired at the Jubilee. For the village-homes of the Levites are their inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. But they shall not sell their grazing-lands around their villages, for they are a perpetual inheritance for them. But if your brother becomes poor, and his hand fails among you, you must help him like a foreigner and settler, and let him live with you. Take no usury or increase from him, but fear your God, and let your brother live with you. You shall not lend your money to him at usury, and you shall not lend him food at increase, for I am your ever-living God who brought you from the land of the Mitsarayim, to give you the land of Canaan, to be for you from the ever-living. Therefore when your brother becomes poor with you, and sells himself to you, you shall not work him as slaves work. He shall be with you as a hired man until the year of Jubilee to serve you. Then he shall go from you, he and his children with him, and return to his family, and to the inheritance of his fathers. For you were slaves in the land of the Mitsarayim when I brought you out. You shall not purchase him as you purchase a slave, you shall not reduce him to slavery, but shall fear your God. Your men and women slaves, however, you may buy from the nations that surround you. They shall be your slaves, and you may also buy the children of the foreign residents among you, and from their families who are with you, who are born in your country, and they shall be your property. You may also bequeath them to your children after you, to hold them as property for ever, and they shall serve you. But your relatives of the children of Israel are men, and your brothers. You shall not reduce them to slavery. When, however, a foreigner or settler among you obtains property in one of your poor brethren, and he is sold to the foreign resident to be added to the family of the foreigner, he shall be redeemable after he has been sold to him. Any one of his relatives may redeem him. His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any relation by blood of his family may redeem, or he may acquire property and redeem himself and pay to his purchaser according to the years he bought him for, up to the year of Jubilee. That shall be the price given to his purchaser, proportionate to the number of years by the scale of wages that might belong to him. If the years are many before them, he shall give back equivalent money to his purchaser, and if few of the years are remaining to the year of Jubilee, then he shall repay to him proportionate to the space of years as the redemption fee. According to the wages year by year it shall be. You shall not add a profit for your eyes. But if he is redeemed by none of these, then he shall be freed at the year of Jubilee, both himself and his children with him. For the children of Israel are my servants whom I brought up out of the land of the Mitsarayim, I am their ever living God. Chapter 26 You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you set up columns for yourselves, nor shall you erect stone images in your country for objects of worship, for I am your ever living God. You shall keep my sapaths, and you shall reverence my sanctuary. I am the ever living. If you are guided by my institutions, and guard my commandments, and do them, I will then give my reign upon you, and the earth will give her produce, and the trees of the field their fruit. And your thrashing shall last till vintage, and vintage shall overtake seed time, and you shall eat to fullness, and live securely in your land. And I will give the land peace, and drive savage beasts from the land, and the sword shall not govern your country, and you shall subdue your foes. They shall fall before your sword. Five of you shall conquer a hundred, and a hundred defeat ten thousand, and your foes fall to your sword. And my presence shall be with you, and you shall increase and grow. I will fix my covenant with you, and feed till your rest in quiet, and sleep and rise refreshed. I will fix my home among you, and turn not away my soul, but march with you, and be your God, and my people you shall be. For I am your living God, who brought from the Mitsurite's land, to whom you had been enslaved, and from off you broke their rod, and in triumph marched you out. But if you refuse to hear me, and obey not all my commandments, and if you despise my statutes, and turn your souls from my laws, to neglect to do my commandments, and break away from my bonds, then I will do this to you. We'll send you consumption, and fever, and wasting of eyes, and a fainting soul, and scatter your race to the wind, and your foes shall devour yourselves. I will set my face against you, and strike you before your foes, and those who hate you shall drive, and you fly from instead of pursue. And if for this you will hear me not, I will sevenfold punish your sins, and break the pride of your strength, and turn your skies into iron, and make your ground like brass, and send you a choking wind, and your land not give her growth, nor the trees of the land their fruit. And if you load me perversely, and will not listen to me, I will sevenfold punish your sins, and wild beasts shall destroy your sons, and cut off your herds, and reduce, and haunt you upon your roads. If for these you turn not to me, but perversely load me still, then I will load you with grief, and heavily strike your sins, and bring cruel slaughter upon you, to avenge the broken law, and crowd you into your cities, and there send the plague to you, and give to the hand of your foemen. I will then break the staff of bread, and in one oven ten shall bake, and your bread shall be given by weighing. You shall eat, but shall not be filled. If for this you will not hearken, but still recoil upon me, I then will advance on you fiercely, and charge on you in my wrath, I myself, for your sevenfold sins. You shall then eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters consume, and I will destroy your high towers, and cut off your sin gods from you, your carrion fling to your carrion idols, and from you my soul turn away. I will turn your cities to deserts, and your sanctifications reject, and smell not the smell of your sweets. Your land shall be turned to a waste, and or it your enemies rule, and there shall dwell for themselves, while I fling you out to the heathen, and after you blow scorching wind, and by it your land shall be wasted, and your skins shall be burnt by its breath. Till the ground has enjoyed all its sabbaths, by the time that it lies as a waste, and your haters shall be in the land, whilst it rests, and delights in its rest. It shall rest in its desolate time, for you gave it not rest in your rests, while upon it you rested yourselves. Your fragments shall have cowered hearts as you crouch in the lands of your foes, who shall drive you by threatening voice, and you fly as men fly from hot blasts, and fall down when no one pursues. You shall stagger the one on the other, as though from the face of such blasts, though no one pursues, and never stand up to your foes. You shall wander among every nation, and tramp in the lands of your foes, and your remnants shall waste in your sins, in the land of your foes, as they watch for the sins of your fathers and selves, till confessing the faults of yourselves, and the faults that your fathers have done, and your treacherous revolt against me, and the fury with which you assailed, I therefore dealt fiercely with you, and brought to the land of your foes. If your hard hearts, however, there bow, and you purify them from their sins, I will think of my bond made with Jacob, and also with Isaac my bond, and with Abraham remember my covenant, and also remember the land. Thus the land rid of their load, and freed shall in quietude rest, but they shall be gorged with their sins, and gorged by my judgments despised, and my statutes their souls had abhorred. But though thus in the land of their foes, I will not reject them nor loathe so far as my treaty to break, for I am their still living God. I therefore will bring to their minds my old treaty contracted with them in the sight of the heathen around, to be their God, for I am the life. These are the institutions and judgments and the laws which the ever-living appointed between himself and between the children of Israel at Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. The ever-living also spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a person separates himself for you to value his life for the ever-living, you shall value him for a male from twenty years old to sixty years, and your valuation for a male shall be fifty shekels of silver by the sacred shekel, but if it is for a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels, but if from five up to twenty years old, then the value of a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels, but if from a month up to five years old, then the value of a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female the value three shekels of silver. But if they are sixty years old or more, if a male, then the value shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. But if the redeemable person is defective, then he shall be placed before the priest, and the priest shall estimate what may be the amount of his value for the vow he is to pay to the priest. But if it is a beast that they sacrifice from that is vowed to the ever-living, all that belongs to it shall be sacred to the ever-living. They shall not alter or change it good for bad, or bad for good. But if it is changed, it shall be changed for a beast of the same kind, and the exchange shall be sacred. But if of any unclean beast which they do not offer as a gift to the ever-living, then the beast shall be shown to the priest, and the priest shall estimate its value between good and bad, and it shall be redeemed as the priest decides. But if they redeem it, they shall then add a fifth part to the valuation. But if a man devotes his house as sacred to the ever-living, then the priest shall estimate between good and bad. As the priest values it, so it shall stand. But if the consecrator redeems his house, he must add one fifth to the money value above what has been fixed for it. But if anyone consecrates his inherited farm to the ever-living, it shall then be valued according to its acreage, what takes a comor of seed at fifty shekels of silver. But if he consecrates his farm before the year of Jubilee, the priest shall then calculate for him the money on the basis of the years remaining until the year of Jubilee, and equate the valuation. But if he redeems the farm which he had consecrated, he shall then add a fifth above the valuation price, and it shall continue his. But if he does not redeem the farm, or if he sells the land to another person afterward, he cannot redeem it forever. But the farm shall be consecrated to the ever-living. Until the arrival of the Jubilee, the estate shall be as a farm for cultivation for the priests. But if the farm has been purchased, and was not an entailed estate which he consecrated to the ever-living, then the priest shall fix a redemption for him by the amount of value according to the year of Jubilee, and decide the value from the day he has consecrated to the ever-living. Then the estate shall return at the year of Jubilee from the person who bought it, to the person to whom it was an entailed land. Every valuation shall be by the sacred shekel. Twenty Gera are a shekel. However, a firstborn that is born to the ever-living, no man shall consecrate whether an ox or a sheep. It is the ever-livings. But if of an unclean beast, then it shall be valued as an ox, and one-fifth of the price above it, and if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation. However, anything devoted to destruction which a person devotes to the ever-living, of anything he possesses, from man to beast, or in a state of inheritance, he shall not sell it, but he shall redeem every devoted thing. It shall be holy of holies to the ever-living. Being devoted, which is devoted by a man, which is unredeemable, shall be put to death. And all tithe of the land, from the grain of the earth, from the fruit of the tree, is sacred to the ever-living. But if a person redeems it from tithe, he shall add one-fifth to it. All tithe of cattle and sheep, all that passes under the measure for tithing, shall be sacred to the ever-living. You shall not distinguish between good and bad, and not change, but if you do change, then the exchange shall be sacred, it shall not be redeemed. These are the commands which the ever-living commanded by Moses to the children of Israel at Mount Sinai. The end of chapters 22 through 27, and the end of the Book of Leviticus from the Holy Bible in Modern English, translated by Farrar Fenton. Thank you for watching by Mark Penfold.