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And the priest shall make an 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.

And when you shall come into the land and shall have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall leave them for three years, and you shall not eat of their fruit.

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor inscribe any marks upon you; I am the LORD.

But let him be among you as one of you; and the proselytes who sojourn among you, you must love them as yourselves; for you also were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

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

And if a man shall take his sister, his fathers daughter or his mothers daughter, and be intimate with her and she be intimate with him, it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sisters nakedness; they shall suffer for their iniquity.

And you shall not be intimate with your mothers sister nor your fathers sister; for he uncovers the nakedness of his near kin; they shall suffer for their iniquity.

And if a man shall lie with his uncles wife, he has uncovered his uncles nakedness; they shall suffer for their sin; they shall die childless.

And if a man shall take his brothers wife, it is an iniquity, for he has uncovered his brothers nakedness; they shall be childless.

And you shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I am casting out before you; for they committed all these things, and therefore I was grieved by them.

And you shall be holy to me; for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from other peoples, that you should be mine.

THE LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron and say to them, There shall none of you defile himself by mourning for the dead among his people,

Except for his kin who is near to him, that is, for his father and for his mother and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother,

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

But he shall not defile himself for the prince of his people, lest he profane himself.

But they shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire and the bread of their God they do offer; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall not marry a harlot or an unclean woman; neither shall they marry a woman who has been put away from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for he is holy, because I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Neither shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself by mourning for his father or for his mother;

Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him; I am the LORD.