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But I will be against him and his family, and I will cut him off from his people. I will do this to anyone who follows him in being unfaithful to me by worshiping Molech.

But if the dead person was one of his close relatives, he may touch him. The priest may make himself unclean if the dead person is his mother or father, son or daughter, brother or

But a priest must not make himself unclean if the dead person was only related to him by marriage.

But he may not go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place, and he may not go near the altar, because he has something wrong with him. He must not make my Holy Place unfit. I am the Lord who makes these places holy.'"

But if the priest buys a slave with his own money, that slave may eat the holy offerings; slaves who were born in his house may also eat his food.

But if the priest's daughter becomes widowed or divorced, with no children to support her, and if she goes back to her father's house where she lived as a child, she may eat some of her father's food. But only people from a priest's family may eat this food.

"‘If someone brings a fellowship offering to the Lord , either as payment for a special promise the person has made or as a special gift the person wants to give the Lord , it might be from the herd or from the flock. But it must be healthy, with nothing wrong with it, so that it will be accepted.

"‘If an ox or lamb is smaller than normal or is not perfectly formed, you may give it as a special gift to the Lord ; it will be accepted. But it will not be accepted as payment for a special promise you have made.

"When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must stay seven days with its mother. But from the eighth day on, this animal will be accepted as a sacrifice by fire to the Lord .

But you must not kill the animal and its mother on the same day, either an ox or a sheep.

"‘There are six days for you to work, but the seventh day will be a special day of rest. It is a day for a holy meeting; you must not do any work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your homes.

Whoever kills another person's animal must give that person another animal to take its place. But whoever kills another person must be put to death.

But during the seventh year, you must let the land rest. This will be a special time to honor the Lord . You must not plant seed in your field or trim your vineyards.

If there are many years, the price will be high. But if there are only a few years, lower the price, because your neighbor is really selling only a few crops to you.

You must not cheat each other, but you must respect your God. I am the Lord your God.

"‘But you might ask, "If we don't plant seeds or gather crops, what will we eat the seventh year?"

People might sell their land, but it must always be possible for the family to get its land back.

If there is not a close relative to buy the land back, but if the person makes enough money to be able to buy it back,

But if there is not enough money to buy it back, the one who bought it will keep it until the year of Jubilee. During that celebration, the land will go back to the first owner's family.

But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is over, it will belong to the one who bought it and to his future sons. The house will not go back to the first owner at Jubilee.