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So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord 's gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

So Moses spoke these things to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.

"Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the Lord .

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

but if a priest's daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat from her father's food, but no lay person may eat it.

and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.'"

When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord , you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit.

so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.'"

So Moses spoke to the Israelites about the appointed times of the Lord .

The Israelite woman's son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord .

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

"‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

"‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner's family,

"‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.