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For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

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

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord , to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

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

"When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.

But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord .

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native 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 anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's relative; they shall bear their iniquity.

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,

except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord 's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.