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"‘Do not turn to spirit-mediums or sorcerers; don't seek them out, to be defiled by them; I am Adonai your God.

"‘Stand up in the presence of a person with gray hair, show respect for the old; you are to fear your God; I am Adonai .

Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you like the native-born among you — you are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am Adonai your God.

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Therefore consecrate yourselves — you people must be holy, because I am Adonai your God.

But to you I have said, "You will inherit their land; I will give it to you as a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Adonai your God, who has set you apart from other peoples.

Rather, they are to be holy for their God and not profane the name of their God. For they are the ones who present Adonai with offerings made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they must be holy.

"‘A cohen is not to marry a woman who is a prostitute, who has been profaned or who has been divorced; because he is holy for his God.

Rather, you are to set him apart as holy, because he offers the bread of your God; he is to be holy for you, because I, Adonai , who makes you holy, am holy.

He may not leave the sanctuary then or profane the sanctuary of his God, because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Adonai .

"Tell Aharon, ‘None of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

no one descended from Aharon the cohen who has such a defect may approach to present the offerings for Adonai made by fire; he has a defect and is not to approach to offer the bread of his God.

He may eat the bread of his God, both the especially holy and the holy;

and you are not to receive any of these from a foreigner for you to offer as bread for your God, because their deformity is a defect in them — they will not be accepted from you.'"

who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Adonai ."

You are not to eat bread, dried grain or fresh grain until the day you bring the offering for your God; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

"‘When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don't harvest all the way to the corners of your field, and don't gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am Adonai your God.'"

You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.

On the first day you are to take choice fruit, palm fronds, thick branches and river-willows, and celebrate in the presence of Adonai your God for seven days.

so that generation after generation of you will know that I made the people of Isra'el live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Adonai your God.'"