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After having sex, both the man and the woman must take a bath, but they still remain unclean until evening.

They have disgraced both the place where I am worshiped and my holy name, and so I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people.

It's disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve.

And don't bring me animals you bought from a foreigner. I won't accept them, because they are no better than one that has something wrong with it.

At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal.

Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan, had married an Egyptian, and they had a son. One day their son got into a fight with an Israelite man in camp and cursed the name of the Lord . So the young man was dragged off to Moses,

And warn the others that everyone else who curses me will die in the same way, whether they are Israelites by birth or foreigners living among you.

When Moses finished speaking, the people did what the Lord had told Moses, and they stoned to death the man who had cursed the Lord .

This is to be a time of complete rest for your fields and vineyards, so don't harvest anything they produce.

And any houses that they do not buy back will be returned to them in the Year of Celebration, because these homes are their permanent property among the people of Israel.

Suppose some of your people become so poor that they have to sell themselves and become your slaves.

Then you must treat them as servants, rather than as slaves. And in the Year of Celebration they are to be set free,

so they and their children may return home to their families and property.

I'll send wild animals to attack you, and they will gobble down your children and livestock. So few of you will be left that your roads will be deserted.

If you try to substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they will both become holy and must be sacrificed.

called together the people that same day. They were counted according to their clans and families. Then Moses and the others listed the names of the men twenty years and older,

Instead, give them the job of caring for the sacred tent, its furnishings, and the objects used for worship. They will camp around the tent, and whenever you move, they will take it down, carry it to the new camp, and set it up again. Anyone else who tries to go near it must be put to death.

Marching behind Reuben will be the Levites, arranged in groups, just as they are camped. They will carry the sacred tent and their own banners.

Israel did everything the Lord had told Moses. They arranged their camp according to clans and families, with each tribe under its own banner. And that was the order by which they marched into battle.

But the Lord killed Nadab and Abihu in the Sinai Desert when they used fire that was unacceptable in their offering to the Lord . And because Nadab and Abihu had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests with their father Aaron.