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"But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their Asherim

"You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

"For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

and he made its five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; but their five bases were of bronze.

but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.

'But if his offering is from the flock, either from the sheep or from the goats, as a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.

'But if his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering from the turtledoves or from young doves.

'Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

'As an offering of first fruits you shall bring them to the LORD, but they shall not ascend as a soothing aroma on the altar.

'But if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock, he shall offer it, male or female, without defect.

'But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, along with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its refuse,

'But if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

'But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young doves, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

'He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer that which is for the sin offering, and shall pinch off its head at the front of its neck, but he shall not sever it.

'But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young doves, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering.

'The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.

'But no sin offering of which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place shall be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.

'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten;

but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.