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For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make an atonement for your souls upon the altar, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.

For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, 'You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.'

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

You must not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for that would shame your family.

You must not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.

When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the sojourner. I am the LORD your God.

The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.

When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one's own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.