^13:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^13:2If a man has on his skin a growth or a mark or a white place, and it becomes the disease of a leper, let him be taken to Aaron the priest, or to one of the priests, his sons; ^13:3And if, when the priest sees the mark on his skin, the hair on the place is turned white and the mark seems to go deeper than the skin, it is the mark of a leper: and the priest, after looking at him, will say that he is unclean. ^13:4But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days; ^13:5And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more: ^13:6And the priest is to see him again on the seventh day; and if the mark is less bright and is not increased on his skin, then let the priest say that he is clean: it is only a skin-mark, and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean. ^13:7But if the size of the mark on his skin is increased after he has been seen by the priest, let him go to the priest again: ^13:8And if, after looking at him, he sees that the mark is increased in his skin, let the priest say that he is unclean; he is a leper. ^13:9When the disease of a leper is seen on a man, let him be taken to the priest; ^13:10And if the priest sees that there is a white growth on the skin, and the hair is turned white, and there is diseased flesh in the growth, ^13:11It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean. ^13:12And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see, ^13:13And if the priest sees that all his flesh is covered with the leper's disease, the priest will say that he is clean: it is all turned white, he is clean. ^13:14But whenever diseased flesh is seen on him, he will be unclean. ^13:15And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper. ^13:16Or if the diseased flesh is turned again and changed to white then he is to come to the priest, ^13:17And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease. ^13:18And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again, ^13:19And on the same place there is a white growth of a bright mark, red and white, then let the priest see it; ^13:20And after looking at it, if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is turned white, then the priest will say that the man is unclean: it is the leper's disease, it has come out in the bad place. ^13:21But if, after looking at it, he sees that there are no white hairs on it, and it is not deeper than the skin, and it is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days: ^13:22And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease. ^13:23But if the bright mark keeps in the same place and gets no greater, it is the mark of the old wound, and the priest will say that he is clean. ^13:24Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white, ^13:25The priest is to see it: and if the hair on the bright place is turned white and it seems to go deeper than the skin, he is a leper: it has come out in the burn, and the priest will say that he is unclean: it is the leper's disease. ^13:26But if, after looking at it, the priest sees that there is no white hair on the bright place, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days: ^13:27And the priest is to see him again on the seventh day; if it is increased in the skin, then the priest will say that he is unclean: it is the leper's disease. ^13:28And if the bright place keeps the same size and gets no greater on the skin, but is less bright, it is the effect of the burn, and the priest will say that he is clean: it is the mark of the burn. ^13:29And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin, ^13:30Then the priest is to see the diseased place: and if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and if there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest will say that he is unclean: he has the mark of the leper's disease on his head or in the hair of his chin. ^13:31And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days: ^13:32And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, ^13:33Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more: ^13:34And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, the priest will say that he is clean: and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean. ^13:35But if the disease in his skin becomes worse after he has been made clean, ^13:36Then the priest is to see him: and if the mark is increased, the priest, without looking for the yellow hair, will say that he is unclean. ^13:37But if, in his opinion, the growth is stopped, and black hair has come up on it, the disease has gone; he is clean and the priest will say that he is clean. ^13:38And if a man or a woman has bright marks on the skin of their flesh, that is, bright white marks, ^13:39Then the priest is to see them: and if the white marks on their skin are not very bright, it is a skin disease which has come out on the skin; he is clean. ^13:40And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean. ^13:41And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean. ^13:42But if, on his head or on his brow, where he has no hair, there is a red and white place, it is the disease of the leper coming out on his head or on his brow. ^13:43Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper; ^13:44He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head. ^13:45And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean. ^13:46While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle. ^13:47And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease; ^13:48If it is in the threads of the linen or of the wool, or in leather, or in anything made of skin; ^13:49If there are red or green marks on the clothing, or on the leather, or in the threads of the cloth, or in anything made of skin, it is the leper's disease: let the priest see it. ^13:50And after it has been seen by the priest, the thing which is so marked is to be shut up for seven days: ^13:51And he is to see the mark on the seventh day; if the mark is increased in the clothing, or in the threads of the material, or in the leather, whatever the leather is used for, it is the disease biting into it: it is unclean. ^13:52And the clothing, or the wool or linen material, or anything of leather in which is the disease, is to be burned: for the disease is biting into it; let it be burned in the fire. ^13:53And if the priest sees that the mark is not increased in the clothing or in any part of the material or in the leather, ^13:54Then the priest will give orders for the thing on which the mark is, to be washed, and to be shut up for seven days more: ^13:55And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside. ^13:56And if the priest sees that the mark is less bright after the washing, then let him have it cut out of the clothing or the leather or from the threads of the material: ^13:57And if the mark is still seen in the clothing or in the threads of the material or in the leather, it is the disease coming out: the thing in which the disease is will have to be burned with fire. ^13:58And the material of the clothing, or anything of skin, which has been washed, if the mark has gone out of it, let it be washed a second time and it will be clean. ^13:59This is the law about the leper's disease in the thread of wool or linen material, in clothing or in anything of skin, saying how it is to be judged clean or unclean.

^14:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^14:2This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest; ^14:3And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him, ^14:4Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop. ^14:5And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. ^14:6And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water. ^14:7And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country. ^14:8And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days. ^14:9And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean. ^14:10And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. ^14:11And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting. ^14:12And the priest is to take one of the male lambs and give it as an offering for wrongdoing, and the log of oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; ^14:13And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy. ^14:14And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot; ^14:15And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand; ^14:16And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord; ^14:17And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing; ^14:18And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord. ^14:19And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death. ^14:20And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean. ^14:21And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; ^14:22And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering. ^14:23And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean. ^14:24And the priest will take the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; ^14:25And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot; ^14:26And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand, ^14:27Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times: ^14:28And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put; ^14:29And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord. ^14:30And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get; ^14:31And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord. ^14:32This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean. ^14:33And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^14:34When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage, ^14:35Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house. ^14:36And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house; ^14:37And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall; ^14:38Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days: ^14:39And the priest is to come again on the seventh day and have a look and see if the marks on the walls of the house are increased in size; ^14:40Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town: ^14:41And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town: ^14:42And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house. ^14:43And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on, ^14:44Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean. ^14:45And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town. ^14:46And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening. ^14:47And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed. ^14:48And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone. ^14:49And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; ^14:50And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; ^14:51And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. ^14:52And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread. ^14:53But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean. ^14:54This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases; ^14:55And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house; ^14:56And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin; ^14:57To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.

^15:1And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, ^15:2Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean. ^15:3If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean. ^15:4Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seated will be unclean. ^15:5And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:6And he who has been seated on anything on which the unclean man has been seated is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:7And anyone touching the flesh of the unclean man is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:8And if liquid from the mouth of the unclean man comes on to him who is clean, then he is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:9And any leather seat on a horse on which the unclean man has been seated will be unclean. ^15:10And anyone touching anything which was under him will be unclean till the evening; anyone taking up any of these things is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:11And anyone on whom the unclean man puts his hands, without washing them in water, is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:12And any vessel of earth which has been touched by the unclean man will have to be broken and any vessel of wood washed. ^15:13And when a man who has a flow from his body is made clean from it, he is to take seven days to make himself clean, washing his clothing and bathing his body in flowing water, and then he will be clean. ^15:14And on the eighth day he is to take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of meeting and give them to the priest: ^15:15And they are to be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, and the priest will take away his sin before the Lord on account of his flow. ^15:16And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening. ^15:17And any clothing or skin on which the seed comes is to be washed with water and be unclean till evening. ^15:18And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening. ^15:19And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening. ^15:20And everything on which she has been resting, while she is kept separate, will be unclean, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean. ^15:21And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:22And anyone touching anything on which she has been seated will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ^15:23Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening. ^15:24And if any man has sex relations with her so that her blood comes on him, he will be unclean for seven days and every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean. ^15:25And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times. ^15:26Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way. ^15:27And anyone touching these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening. ^15:28But when her flow of blood is stopped, after seven days she will be clean. ^15:29And on the eighth day let her get two doves or two young pigeons and take them to the priest to the door of the Tent of meeting, ^15:30To be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering; and the priest will take away her sin before the Lord on account of her unclean condition. ^15:31In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them. ^15:32This is the law for the man who has a flow from his body, or whose seed goes from him so that he is unclean; ^15:33And for her who has a flow of blood, and for any man or woman who has an unclean flow, and for him who has sex relations with a woman when she is unclean.

^16:1And the Lord said to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they took in strange fire before the Lord and death overtook them; ^16:2The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark. ^16:3Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering. ^16:4Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water. ^16:5And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering. ^16:6And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin. ^16:7And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting. ^16:8And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel. ^16:9And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering. ^16:10But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land. ^16:11And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself and take away sin from himself and his house, and put to death the ox of the sin-offering which is for himself. ^16:12And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil; ^16:13And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him. ^16:14And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times. ^16:15Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark. ^16:16And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people. ^16:17And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin. ^16:18And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it; ^16:19Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel. ^16:20And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord; ^16:21And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land. ^16:22And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land. ^16:23Then let Aaron come into the Tent of meeting and take off the linen clothing which he put on when he went into the holy place, and put them down there; ^16:24And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people. ^16:25And the fat of the sin-offering is to be burned by him on the altar. ^16:26And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle. ^16:27And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire. ^16:28And the man by whom they are burned is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water, and then he may come back to the tent-circle. ^16:29And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you: ^16:30For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord. ^16:31It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever. ^16:32And the man on whose head the holy oil has been put, and who has been marked out to be a priest in his father's place, will do what is necessary to take away sin, and will put on the linen clothing, even the holy robes: ^16:33And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people. ^16:34And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

^17:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^17:2Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given. ^17:3If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle; ^17:4And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people: ^17:5So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord. ^17:6And the priest will put blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting, burning the fat for a sweet smell to the Lord. ^17:7And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations. ^17:8And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering, ^17:9And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people. ^17:10And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people. ^17:11For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it. ^17:12For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food. ^17:13And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth. ^17:14For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of. ^17:15And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean. ^17:16But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

^18:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^18:2Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God. ^18:3You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules. ^18:4But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God. ^18:5So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord. ^18:6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord. ^18:7You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her. ^18:8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's. ^18:9You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country. ^18:10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself; ^18:11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister. ^18:12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation. ^18:13You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation. ^18:14You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family; ^18:15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her. ^18:16You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's. ^18:17You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame. ^18:18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time. ^18:19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time. ^18:20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her. ^18:21And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. ^18:22You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. ^18:23And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act. ^18:24Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: ^18:25And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. ^18:26So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: ^18:27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) ^18:28So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you. ^18:29For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. ^18:30So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

^19:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^19:2Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. ^19:3Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ^19:4Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God. ^19:5And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord. ^19:6Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire. ^19:7If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord. ^19:8And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people. ^19:9And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain. ^19:10And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God. ^19:11Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another. ^19:12And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. ^19:13Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning. ^19:14Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord. ^19:15Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness. ^19:16Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord. ^19:17Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil. ^19:18Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord. ^19:19Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth. ^19:20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman. ^19:21Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing. ^19:22And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done. ^19:23And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food. ^19:24And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord. ^19:25But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God. ^19:26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders. ^19:27The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off. ^19:28You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord. ^19:29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame. ^19:30Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord. ^19:31Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God. ^19:32Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord. ^19:33And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him; ^19:34Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ^19:35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. ^19:36Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt; ^19:37You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

^20:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^20:2Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land; ^20:3And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common. ^20:4And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death, ^20:5Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people. ^20:6And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people. ^20:7So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God. ^20:8And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy. ^20:9Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him. ^20:10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death. ^20:11And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them. ^20:12And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them. ^20:13And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them. ^20:14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you. ^20:15And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction. ^20:16And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them. ^20:17And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him. ^20:18And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people. ^20:19And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them. ^20:20And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children. ^20:21And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children. ^20:22So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again. ^20:23And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them. ^20:24But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples. ^20:25So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you. ^20:26And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people. ^20:27Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

^21:1And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people; ^21:2But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother; ^21:3And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean. ^21:4But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself. ^21:5They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh. ^21:6Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy. ^21:7They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God. ^21:8And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy. ^21:9And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire. ^21:10And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow. ^21:11He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother; ^21:12He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord. ^21:13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man. ^21:14A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people. ^21:15And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy. ^21:16And the Lord said to Moses, ^21:17Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God. ^21:18For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth, ^21:19Or a man with broken feet or hands, ^21:20Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged; ^21:21No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings. ^21:22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy; ^21:23But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy. ^21:24These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

^22:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^22:2Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord, ^22:3Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord. ^22:4No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him; ^22:5Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever; ^22:6Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water; ^22:7And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread. ^22:8That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord. ^22:9So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy. ^22:10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment. ^22:11But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread. ^22:12And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings. ^22:13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so. ^22:14And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part. ^22:15And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, ^22:16So causing sin to come on them when they take their holy things for food: I am the Lord who make them holy. ^22:17And the Lord said to Moses, ^22:18Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering; ^22:19So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats. ^22:20But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord. ^22:21And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage. ^22:22Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord. ^22:23An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath. ^22:24An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land. ^22:25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them. ^22:26And the Lord said to Moses, ^22:27When an ox or a sheep or a goat is given birth, let it be with its mother for seven days; and after the eighth day it may be taken as an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^22:28A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day. ^22:29And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him. ^22:30Let it be used for food on the same day; do not keep any part of it till the morning: I am the Lord. ^22:31So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord. ^22:32And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy, ^22:33Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.

^23:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^23:2Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts. ^23:3On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living. ^23:4These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times. ^23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover; ^23:6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread. ^23:7On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. ^23:8And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ^23:9And the Lord said to Moses, ^23:10Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest; ^23:11And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. ^23:12And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord. ^23:13And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. ^23:14And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. ^23:15And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering; ^23:16Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord. ^23:17Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord. ^23:18And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord. ^23:19And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings. ^23:20And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest. ^23:21And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. ^23:22And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God. ^23:23And the Lord said to Moses, ^23:24Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship. ^23:25Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire. ^23:26And the Lord said to Moses, ^23:27The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire. ^23:28And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God. ^23:29For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people. ^23:30And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people. ^23:31You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living. ^23:32Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept. ^23:33And the Lord said to Moses, ^23:34Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days. ^23:35On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work. ^23:36Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day. ^23:37These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day; ^23:38In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord. ^23:39But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same. ^23:40On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days. ^23:41And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept. ^23:42For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places: ^23:43So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ^23:44And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.

^24:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^24:2Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times, ^24:3Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations. ^24:4Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times. ^24:5And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. ^24:6And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord. ^24:7And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^24:8Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever. ^24:9And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever. ^24:10And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents; ^24:11And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ^24:12And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord. ^24:13And the Lord said to Moses, ^24:14Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people. ^24:15And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head. ^24:16And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death. ^24:17And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death. ^24:18And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life. ^24:19And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him; ^24:20Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him. ^24:21He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death. ^24:22You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God. ^24:23And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

^25:1And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai, ^25:2Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord. ^25:3For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them; ^25:4But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut. ^25:5That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land. ^25:6And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you; ^25:7And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food. ^25:8And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years; ^25:9Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land. ^25:10And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family. ^25:11Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines. ^25:12For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field. ^25:13In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage. ^25:14And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another. ^25:15Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce. ^25:16If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you. ^25:17And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God. ^25:18So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land. ^25:19And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land. ^25:20And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase ^25:21Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years. ^25:22And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready. ^25:23No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time. ^25:24Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back. ^25:25If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up. ^25:26And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back; ^25:27Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property. ^25:28But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again. ^25:29And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up. ^25:30And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee. ^25:31But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee. ^25:32But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time. ^25:33And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel. ^25:34But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever. ^25:35And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. ^25:36Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. ^25:37Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him. ^25:38I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God. ^25:39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; ^25:40But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; ^25:41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. ^25:42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. ^25:43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. ^25:44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. ^25:45And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. ^25:46And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel. ^25:47And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family; ^25:48After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers, ^25:49Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free. ^25:50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant. ^25:51If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him. ^25:52And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free. ^25:53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes. ^25:54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. ^25:55For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

^26:1Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God. ^26:2Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord. ^26:3If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them, ^26:4Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit; ^26:5And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely. ^26:6And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land. ^26:7And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords. ^26:8Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords. ^26:9And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you. ^26:10And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new; ^26:11And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust. ^26:12And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people. ^26:13I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright. ^26:14But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws; ^26:15And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement; ^26:16This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food. ^26:17And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you. ^26:18And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins. ^26:19And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass; ^26:20And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit. ^26:21And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins. ^26:22I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste. ^26:23And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me; ^26:24Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins. ^26:25And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters. ^26:26When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough. ^26:27And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still, ^26:28Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins. ^26:29Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food; ^26:30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust. ^26:31And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes; ^26:32And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it. ^26:33And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste. ^26:34Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest. ^26:35All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it. ^26:36And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them; ^26:37Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters. ^26:38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction. ^26:39And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away. ^26:40And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; ^26:41So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins, ^26:42Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land. ^26:43And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws. ^26:44But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God. ^26:45And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord. ^26:46These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

^27:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^27:2Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord. ^27:3And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place. ^27:4And if it is a female, the value will be thirty shekels. ^27:5And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female. ^27:6And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels. ^27:7And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten. ^27:8But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give. ^27:9And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy. ^27:10It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy. ^27:11And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest; ^27:12And let the priest put a value on it, if it is good or bad; whatever value the priest puts on it, so will it be. ^27:13But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value. ^27:14And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed. ^27:15And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his. ^27:16And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver. ^27:17If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision. ^27:18But if he gives his field after the year of Jubilee, the amount of the money will be worked out by the priest in relation to the number of years till the coming year of Jubilee, and the necessary amount will be taken off your value. ^27:19And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his. ^27:20But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again. ^27:21But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest. ^27:22And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage; ^27:23Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord. ^27:24In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was. ^27:25And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel. ^27:26But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's. ^27:27And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing. ^27:28But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord. ^27:29Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death. ^27:30And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord. ^27:31And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more. ^27:32And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord. ^27:33He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again. ^27:34These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

Numbers

^1:1And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, ^1:2Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name; ^1:3All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron. ^1:4And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house. ^1:5These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ^1:6From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ^1:7From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ^1:8From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ^1:9From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ^1:10Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ^1:11From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ^1:12From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ^1:13From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ^1:14From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ^1:15From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan. ^1:16These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel. ^1:17And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name; ^1:18And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over. ^1:19As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai. ^1:20The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ^1:21Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered. ^1:22The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ^1:23Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered. ^1:24The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:25Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered. ^1:26The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:27Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered. ^1:28The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:29Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered. ^1:30The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:31Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered. ^1:32The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:33Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered. ^1:34The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:35Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered. ^1:36The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:37Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered. ^1:38The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war; ^1:39Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered. ^1:40The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:41Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered. ^1:42The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ^1:43Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered. ^1:44These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. ^1:45So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, ^1:46Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ^1:47But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ^1:48For the Lord said to Moses, ^1:49Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ^1:50But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ^1:51And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death. ^1:52The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ^1:53But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites. ^1:54So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

^2:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^2:2The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side. ^2:3Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief. ^2:4The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred. ^2:5And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief. ^2:6The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred. ^2:7After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief. ^2:8The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred. ^2:9The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first. ^2:10On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief. ^2:11The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred. ^2:12And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief. ^2:13The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred. ^2:14Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief. ^2:15The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty. ^2:16The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second. ^2:17Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag. ^2:18On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief. ^2:19The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred. ^2:20And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief. ^2:21The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred. ^2:22Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief. ^2:23The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred. ^2:24The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred and eight thousand, one hundred. They go forward third. ^2:25On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief. ^2:26The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven hundred. ^2:27Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief. ^2:28The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred; ^2:29Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief. ^2:30The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ^2:31The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags. ^2:32These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ^2:33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses. ^2:34So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.

^3:1Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai. ^3:2These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ^3:3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests. ^3:4And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father. ^3:5And the Lord said to Moses, ^3:6Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers, ^3:7In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ^3:8And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House. ^3:9Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel. ^3:10And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death. ^3:11And the Lord said to Moses, ^3:12See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; ^3:13For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord. ^3:14And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, ^3:15Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered. ^3:16So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered. ^3:17These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. ^3:18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei. ^3:19And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. ^3:20And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses. ^3:21From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. ^3:22Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred. ^3:23The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. ^3:24The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael. ^3:25In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ^3:26And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use. ^3:27From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ^3:28Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ^3:29The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ^3:30Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ^3:31In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ^3:32Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place. ^3:33From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ^3:34Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ^3:35The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House. ^3:36And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ^3:37And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords. ^3:38And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death. ^3:39All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand. ^3:40And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names. ^3:41And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel. ^3:42So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him. ^3:43Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three. ^3:44And the Lord said to Moses, ^3:45Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord. ^3:46And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites, ^3:47Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs); ^3:48And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons. ^3:49So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites; ^3:50From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place; ^3:51And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.

^4:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^4:2Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ^4:3All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ^4:4And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ^4:5When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ^4:6And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ^4:7And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ^4:8And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ^4:9And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ^4:10All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ^4:11On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ^4:12All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ^4:13And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ^4:14Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ^4:15And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ^4:16And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care. ^4:17And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^4:18Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites; ^4:19But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up; ^4:20But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death. ^4:21And the Lord said to Moses, ^4:22Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ^4:23All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ^4:24This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up. ^4:25They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting; ^4:26And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do. ^4:27From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders. ^4:28This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ^4:29The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ^4:30Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ^4:31And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ^4:32And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ^4:33This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ^4:34So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ^4:35Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting; ^4:36And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty. ^4:37This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ^4:38And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families, ^4:39All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting, ^4:40Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty. ^4:41This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ^4:42And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ^4:43All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting, ^4:44Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred. ^4:45This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ^4:46And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ^4:47Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, ^4:48Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty. ^4:49At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.