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So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of assembly, and the whole community presented themselves, and they stood before Yahweh.

and they brought the burnt offering to him by its pieces, as well as the head, and he turned them into smoke on the altar;

they placed the fat portions on the breast sections, and he turned the fat portions into smoke on the altar.

Then Moses and Aaron entered the tent of assembly. When they came out, they blessed the people, and Yahweh's glory appeared to all the people.

Then a fire went out from before Yahweh, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And all the people saw it, so they shouted for joy, and they fell on their faces.

And Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and they put fire in them and placed incense on it; then they presented before Yahweh illegitimate fire, which he had not commanded them.

So fire went out from before Yahweh, and it consumed them so that they died before Yahweh.

So they came forward, and they carried them outside the camp in their tunics, just as Moses had ordered.

And the wave offering's breast section and the upper thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, because they are given as your allotted portion and your sons' allotted portion from the sacrifices of the Israelites' fellowship offerings.

They must bring the thigh of the contribution offering and the breast section of the wave offering in addition to the offerings made by fire, consisting of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before Yahweh; and it will be for you and for your sons with you as a lasting rule, just as Yahweh had commanded."

So Aaron said to Moses, "Look, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh, and things such as these have happened to me, and if I were to eat a sin offering today, would it have been good in Yahweh's eyes?"

You must not eat from their meat, and you must not touch their dead body—they are unclean for you.

But any that does not have a fin and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, among all the water's swarmers among all the living creatures that are in the water—they are a detestable thing to you.

And they shall be detestable to you; you must not eat from their meat, and you must detest their dead body.

"‘And these you must detest from the birds; they must not be eaten—they are detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,

And anything that walks upon its paws among any of the animals that walks on all fours—they are unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,

and the one who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening—they are unclean for you.

And anything on which one of their dead bodies falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken—they are unclean and shall be unclean for you.

And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that all that is in the house might not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go to examine the house.

the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city on an unclean place.