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"Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: "You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

"Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

"Whoever lies carnally with a woman who is betrothed to a man as a concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given her freedom, for this there shall be scourging; but they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed. And the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

"When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten.

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.

The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

"For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.

"You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister nor of your father's sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.

And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

And you shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.

Ezekiel 44:15-31">[xr] And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: "None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;

also his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself.