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The one who sets the goat free for Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward may come into the camp.

The one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward may come into the camp.

The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the linen vestments, the holy vestments.

Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them: This is what the Lord has commanded.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he committed; and the sin he committed shall be forgiven him.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them.

If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall be subject to punishment.

If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall be subject to punishment; they shall die childless.

If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,

except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;

But he shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments.

He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord .

A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin,

that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the Lord ; I sanctify him.