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(vii) Adonai said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

Moshe was unable to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud remained on it, and the glory of Adonai filled the tabernacle.

"‘No grain offering that you bring to Adonai is to be made with leaven, because you are not to cause any leaven or honey to go up in smoke as an offering made by fire to Adonai .

(vii) "‘But if his means are insufficient even for two doves or two young pigeons, then he is to bring as his offering for the sin he committed two quarts of fine flour for a sin offering; he is not to put any olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Adonai ; also a grain offering mixed with olive oil — because today Adonai is going to appear to you.'"

Then Moshe told Aharon and his sons El‘azar and Itamar, "Don't unbind your hair or tear your clothes in mourning, so that you won't die and so that Adonai won't be angry with the entire community. Rather, let your kinsmen — the whole house of Isra'el — mourn, because of the destruction Adonai brought about with his fire.

Moreover, don't leave the entrance to the tent of meeting, or you will die, because Adonai 's anointing oil is on you."

(iv) Moshe said to Aharon and to El‘azar and Itamar, his remaining sons, "Take the grain offering left from the offerings for Adonai made by fire, and eat it without leaven next to the altar, because it is especially holy.

Eat it in a holy place, because it is your and your sons' share of the offerings for Adonai made by fire; for this is what I have been ordered.

But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a separate hoof. For example, the camel, the coney and the hare are unclean for you, because they chew the cud but don't have a separate hoof;

while the pig is unclean for you, because, although it has a separate and completely divided hoof, it doesn't chew the cud.

whatever moves on its stomach, goes on all fours, or has many legs — all creatures that swarm on the ground; you are not to eat them, because they are a detestable thing.

(Maftir) For I am Adonai , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Therefore you are to be holy, because I am holy.

then it is chronic tzara‘at on his skin, and the cohen is to declare him unclean; he is not to isolate him, because it is already clear that he is unclean.

But if the bright spot stays where it was and has not spread on the skin but appears faded, it is a swelling due to the burn; and the cohen is to declare him clean; because it is only a scar from the burn.

(LY: ii) He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary for slaughtering sin offerings and burnt offerings, because the guilt offering belongs to the cohen, just like the sin offering; it is especially holy.

The cohen is to offer the sin offering and make atonement for the person being purified because of his uncleanness; afterwards, he is to slaughter the burnt offering.

If the cohen enters, examines and sees that the infection has not spread in the house since it was plastered; then he is to declare the house clean; because the infection is cured.

Adonai said to Moshe, "Tell your brother Aharon not to come at just any time into the Holy Place beyond the curtain, in front of the ark-cover which is on the ark, so that he will not die; because I appear in the cloud over the ark-cover.

He will make atonement for the Holy Place because of the uncleannesses of the people of Isra'el and because of their transgressions — all their sins; and he is to do the same for the tent of meeting which is there with them right in the middle of their uncleannesses.