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"Tell Aharon and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Isra'el which they set apart as holy for me, so that they will not profane my holy name; I am Adonai .

or who has touched a reptile or insect that can make him unclean, or a man who is unclean for any reason and who can transmit to him his uncleanness —

the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and is not to eat the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

After sunset he will be clean; and afterwards, he may eat the holy things; because they are his food.

But if a cohen acquires a slave, either through purchase or through his being born in his household, he may share his food.

"Speak to Aharon and his sons and to the entire people of Isra'el; tell them: ‘When anyone, whether a member of the house of Isra'el or a foreigner living in Isra'el, brings his offering, either in connection with a vow or as a voluntary offering, and brings it to Adonai as a burnt offering,

Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people;

and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people.

They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for Adonai made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

"Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him.

Then tell the people of Isra'el, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin;

If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him —

and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.

(LY: iv) That is, if one of you becomes poor and sells some of his property, his next-of-kin can come and buy back what his relative sold.

he will calculate the number of years the land was sold for, refund the excess to its buyer, and return to his property.

If he hasn't sufficient means to get it back himself, then what he sold will remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of yovel; in the yovel the buyer will vacate it and the seller return to his property.

but if he has not redeemed the dwelling in the walled city within the year, then title in perpetuity passes to the buyer through all his generations; it will not revert in the yovel.

Then he will leave you, he and his children with him, and return to his own family and regain possession of his ancestral land.

he may be redeemed after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him;