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The priest will take one of the lambs and the oil as a guilt offering. He will lift them in front of the Lord to show they were presented to God.

Then the priest will kill the male lamb in the holy place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is very holy.

The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the oil, and he will lift them up to show they were offered before the Lord .

then he must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them and throw them away. They must put these stones at a special unclean place outside the city.

If a woman has sexual relations with a man, and he has a flow of semen, both the man and the woman must bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.

Whoever touches her bed must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.

Whoever touches anything she has sat on must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.

Whoever touches these things will be unclean until evening. They must wash their own clothes and bathe in water.

"So you must warn the Israelites about being unclean. If you don't warn the people, they might make my Holy Tent unclean. And then they would have to die!"

They must take the sacrifice to the entrance of the Meeting Tent and offer it to the Lord . Whoever does not do this will be separated from their people.

You must not follow the customs of Egypt where you lived, and you must not follow the customs of the Canaanites where I am leading you. You must not live the way they do.

"Don't make yourself unclean by doing any of these wrong things! I am throwing nations off their land and giving it to you because they did those terrible sins.

They made the land filthy. Now the land is sick of those things, and it will vomit out the people who live there.

"Show honor to old people. Stand up when they come into the room. And show respect to your leaders. I am the Lord .

"You must also tell the Israelites these things: Anyone living in Israel who gives one of their children to the false god Molech must be killed! It doesn't matter if they are a citizen of Israel or a foreigner, you must throw stones at them and kill them.

I will be against them and separate them from their people, because they gave their children to Molech. They showed that they did not respect my holy name. And they made my holy place unclean.

If a man has sexual relations with his father's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. It is as if that man had sexual relations with his father!

If a woman has sexual relations with an animal, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

"It is a shameful thing for a brother and his sister or half-sister to marry each other and have sexual relations with each other. They must be punished in public. They must be separated from their people. The man who has sexual relations with his sister must be punished for his sin.

"If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly time of bleeding, both the woman and the man must be separated from their people. They sinned because they exposed her source of blood.