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Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

But all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing that is in the waters, they are unclean to you;

And these you shall abhor among the birds; they shall not be eaten, because they are unclean: the eagle and the vulture

And he who carries their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, because they are unclean to you.

And upon whatever thing any of them falls when they are dead, that thing shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack or whatever vessel it be wherein any work is done, it must be put into water and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed.

And everything upon which any part of their carcasses falls shall be unclean; whether it be oven or bake-house, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

Whatever goes upon its belly and whatever goes upon all fours or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, you shall not eat of them; for they are unclean.

Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague and he shall observe it seven days more;

And if it appears still in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in anything of skin, they shall burn it with fire, for the plague has spread in it.

Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest shall go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house;

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague of leprosy is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city;

And they shall scrape the house within round about, and they shall throw out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place;

And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar and plaster the house.

And they shall demolish the house, its stones and its timber and all the mortar of the house; and they shall carry them forth out of the town into an unclean place and burn it with fire.

And the priest shall command and they shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water;

If a woman also lie with a man having an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

Thus shall you admonish the children of Israel concerning their uncleanness, that they may not die in their uncleanness and that they may not defile my tabernacle that is among them.

AND the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered strange fire before the LORD and died;

And the bullock for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, some of whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, they shall carry forth outside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their meat and their dung.

To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, that they may bring them before the LORD to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest, and offer them for peace offerings to the LORD.