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Indeed, the life of all flesh, its blood, is in its life, so I said to the Israelites, ‘You may not eat the blood of any flesh, because the life of all flesh is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.'

As for the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they are your nakedness.

You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

"‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.

(because the people of the land, who were before you, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

"Speak to all the community of the Israelites, and say to them, ‘You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh's holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people.

"‘And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed.

The alien who is dwelling with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so that he makes my sanctuary unclean and profanes my holy name.

"‘And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God.

And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, and you shall not expose your father's sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative—they must bear their guilt.

And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out from before you, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.

They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh—their God's food—and they shall be holy.

"‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest is holy for his God.

And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God's food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, am holy.

And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God's sanctuary, because the dedication of his God's oil of anointment is on him; I am Yahweh.

And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates him.'"

But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.'"