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You shall also bring two doves or two pigeons, one for the sin offering and one for the burnt offering.

The priest shall take the lamb and the olive oil and present them as a special gift to the Lord for the priest.

This is the law for those who have a dreaded skin disease but who cannot afford the normal offerings required for his purification.

he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.

Then he shall let the live bird fly away outside the city over the open fields. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification for the house, and it will be ritually clean.

for the people of Israel. When any man has a discharge from his penis, the discharge is unclean,

The priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way he will perform the ritual of purification for the man.

When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

If a man has sexual intercourse with her during her period, he is contaminated by her impurity and remains unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies is unclean.

If a woman has a flow of blood for several days outside her monthly period or if her flow continues beyond her regular period, she remains unclean as long as the flow continues, just as she is during her monthly period.

The priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and in this way he will perform the ritual of purification for her.

He may enter the Most Holy Place only after he has brought a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering."

The community of Israel shall give Aaron two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

There he shall draw lots, using two stones, one marked "for the Lord " and the other "for Azazel."

Aaron shall sacrifice the goat chosen by lot for the Lord and offer it as a sin offering.

The goat chosen for Azazel shall be presented alive to the Lord and sent off into the desert to Azazel, in order to take away the sins of the people.

When Aaron sacrifices the bull as the sin offering for himself and his family,

After that, he shall kill the goat for the sin offering for the people, bring its blood into the Most Holy Place, and sprinkle it on the lid and then in front of the Covenant Box, as he did with the bull's blood.

From the time Aaron enters the Most Holy Place to perform the ritual of purification until he comes out, there must be no one in the Tent. When he has performed the ritual for himself, his family, and the whole community,

he must then go out to the altar for burnt offerings and purify it. He must take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it all over the projections at the corners of the altar.