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Now you shall have this as a perpetual statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once every year." And just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, so he did.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.'

"For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.'

The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative.

‘So do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

But as for you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you

(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.

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

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am Yahweh your God.

And everyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the afflicted and for the sojourner. I am Yahweh your God.

And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall designate their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

Now in the fifth year you shall eat of its fruit, that its produce may increase for you; I am Yahweh your God.

And you shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am Yahweh.

The sojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.