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but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord . He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

This is so that the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord .

So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood—all who eat it will be cut off.

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord .

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord !

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.'"

"‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord , you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord .

You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

"‘If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister's nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

If a man has sexual intercourse with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.

"‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.