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"The firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the firstborn from cattle and sheep.

"You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

"And you shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve as a priest to Me.

and you shall anoint them just as you have anointed their father, so that they may serve as priests to Me; and their anointing will qualify them for a permanent priesthood throughout their generations."

Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

But Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the LORD?"

then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'Something like a spot of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.'

'So you are to keep your commitment to Me not to practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.'"

'So you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy; and I have singled you out from the peoples to be Mine.

"Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name; I am the LORD.

'They shall therefore perform their duty to Me, so that they do not bear sin because of it and die by it because they profane it; I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because the land is Mine; for you are only strangers and residents with Me.

'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

'Yet if you show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

'And if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me,

'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,

'But if they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—

"And you shall take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel."

for they are exclusively given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself instead of the firstborn of every womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.