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"And Aaron shall present the sin offering's bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family.

"And Aaron shall present the sin offering's bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family; then he shall slaughter the sin offering's bull, which is for himself.

And he shall take some of the bull's blood, and he shall spatter it with his finger on the atonement cover's surface on the eastern side, and before the atonement cover he shall spatter some of the blood with his finger seven times.

And no person shall be in the tent of assembly when he enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family and for all of Israel's assembly.

And he shall spatter some of the blood on it seven times with his finger, and he shall cleanse it and consecrate it from the Israelites' impurities.

And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat's head, and he shall confess over it all the Israelites' iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat's head, and he shall send it away into the desert with a man standing ready.

"And Aaron shall enter the tent of assembly, and he shall take off the linen garments that he put on at his coming to the sanctuary, and he shall leave them there.

And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, and he shall put on his garments and go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for people.

"And the person who sends out the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and afterward he shall come to the camp.

And the person who burns them shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and afterward he must come to the camp.

And the priest who is anointed and who is ordained to serve as a priest in place of his father shall make atonement; thus he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and you shall say to them, ‘This is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying,

and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly's entrance to present an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh's tabernacle, then that man shall be accounted bloodguilty—he has poured out blood, and that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people.

and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly's entrance to sacrifice it for Yahweh, then that man shall be cut off from his people.

And if there is anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.

"And if there is any person who eats a dead body or a mangled carcass, whether among the native or among the alien, then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall be clean.

But if he does not wash his garments and he does not wash his body, then he shall bear his guilt."

"‘None of you shall approach anyone who is his close relative to expose nakedness; I am Yahweh.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father's brother; you must not have sex with his wife—she is your aunt.

And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh's holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people.