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'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the Israelites.

"Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy things (offerings, gifts) which the children of Israel dedicate to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name; I am the LORD.

the person who touches any such thing shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.

'When the sun sets, he will be clean, and afterward he may eat the holy things, for it is his food.

'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, the slave may eat the holy thing, and those who are born in the priest's house; they may eat his food.

"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them, 'Any man of the house of Israel or any stranger in Israel who presents his offering, whether to fulfill any of their vows or as any of their freewill (voluntary) offerings which they presented to the LORD as a burnt offering—

"If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].

"If there is any person who does any work on this same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.

"The bread of the Presence shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for Aaron a most holy portion of the offerings by fire to the LORD, his portion forever."

The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name [of the LORD] and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

"Bring the one who has cursed [the LORD] outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head [as witnesses to his guilt]; then let all the congregation stone him.

"You shall speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Whoever curses his God will bear his sin [through his own death].

'If a man injures his neighbor (fellow citizen), whatever he has done shall be done to him:

'And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom [for the slaves] throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee (year of remission) for you, and each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property [that was sold to another because of poverty], and each of you shall return to his family [from whom he was separated by bondage].

'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property.

'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.

'Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,

then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his [ancestral] property.

'But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.