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And on the second day, shalt thou bring near a kid of the goats without defect as a sin-bearer, - and they shall cleanse the altar from sin just as they cleansed it from sin with the bullock,

and shalt bring them near before Yahweh, - and the priests shall east over them salt, so shall they cause them to go up as an ascending-sacrifice to Yahweh.

Seven days, shalt thou offer a sin-bearing goat for each day, - and a young bullock and aram out of the flock without defect, shall they offer.

Seven days, shall they put a propitiatory covering over the altar, and shall purify it, - and shall consecrate it.

That ye brought in the sons of the foreigner Uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, To be in my sanctuary. So that be profaned my house,- That ye brought near as my food the fat and the blood, And so they brake my covenant - Among all your abominations;

Yet shall they remain in my sanctuary As attendants in charge at the gates of the house, - And attending upon the house, - They shall slay the ascending-offering, and the sacrifice of the people, And they, shall stand before them to wait upon them.

Because they used to wait upon them before their manufactured gods, and became to the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity, For this cause have I lifted up my hand concerning them Declareth My Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity;

So then they shall not come near unto me To minister as priests unto me, Nor come near unto any of my holy things, As regardeth things most holy, - But they shall bear their rebuke, and their abominations which they have committed;

But the priests the Levites the sons of Zadok, Who kept the charge of my sanctuary - when the sons of Israel went astray from me, They shall draw near unto me to wait upon me, And shall stand before me, to bring near unto me the fat and the blood Declareth My Lord, Yahweh:

They shall enter into my sanctuary, and They shall draw near unto my table to wait upon me,- So shall they keep my charge.

And it shall be when they shall enter into the gates of the inner court, Garments of linen, shall they put on, Yea there shall come upon them no wool, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within:

Chaplets of linen, shall be upon their head, and Breeches of linen shall be upon their loins, - They shall not gird themselves, so as to perspire,

And when they go forth into the outer court into the outer court unto the people, They shall put off their garments, wherein they do minister, and lay them in the chambers of the holy place,- And shall put on other garments, That they may not hallow the people by their garments.

And their heads, shall they not shave, Nor let the hair grow long, - They shall only poll, their heads.

And wine, shall no priest drink, - when they enter into the inner court.

And my people, shall they instruct, between the holy and the common, - And between the unclean and the clean, shall they cause them to distinguish.

And in a controversy, They shall stand up for justice, With my judgments, shall they judge it, And my laws and my statutes in all mine appointed assemblies, shall they observe, And my sabbaths, shall they hallow.

And unto no dead person, shall they go in. to defile themselves,- Save that for father or for mother or for son or for daughter, for brother or for sister who hath belonged to no husband they may defile themselves.

As for the meal-offering and the sin-bearer and the gut-bearer, they shall eat them, - And everything devoted in Israel to them, shall belong.

Of the land, it shall be his for a possession in Israel, - and so my princes shall no more oppress my people, but the land itself, shall they give to the house of Israel, by their tribes.