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We have obeyed the Lord in everything that has been done today, so that your sins may be forgiven.

Moses said: The Lord has ordered you to do this, so that he may appear to you in all of his glory.

And so, he burned this sacrifice on the altar in the proper way.

So they dragged the dead men away by their clothes.

Moses told Aaron and his two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: The grain sacrifice that was offered to give thanks to the Lord is very holy. So make bread without yeast from the part that wasn't sent up in smoke and eat it beside the altar.

But the choice ribs and the hind leg that were lifted up may be eaten by your entire family, as long as you do so in an acceptable place. These parts are yours from the sacrifices that the people offer to ask the Lord 's blessing. This is what the Lord has commanded, and it will never change.

I brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. Now you must become holy, because I am holy!

I have given these laws so that you will know what animals, birds, and fish are clean and may be eaten, and which ones are unclean and may not be eaten.

If so, he will have someone scrape the plaster from the walls, remove the filthy stones, then haul everything off and dump it in an unclean place outside the town.

Two of Aaron's sons had already lost their lives for disobeying the Lord , so the Lord told Moses to say to Aaron: I, the Lord , appear in a cloud over the place of mercy on the sacred chest, which is behind the inside curtain of the sacred tent. And I warn you not to go there except at the proper time. Otherwise, you will die!

There you will present them to me by placing the incense on the coals, so that the place of mercy will be covered with a cloud of smoke. Do this, or you will die right there!

There you will lay your hands on its head, while confessing every sin the people have committed, and you will appoint someone to lead the goat into the desert, so that it can take away their sins.

And so, when you sacrifice an animal to ask my blessing, it must not be done out in a field,

So don't follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you.

When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.

and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.

The man must bring a ram to the entrance of the sacred tent and give it to a priest, who will then offer it as a sacrifice to me, so the man's sins will be forgiven.

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.

Having sex with one of your father's wives disgraces him. So both you and the woman will be put to death, just as you deserve.

It isn't natural for a man to marry both a mother and her daughter, and so all three of them will be burned to death.