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And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly's entrance: a ram for a guilt offering.

And the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he committed, and so his sin that he committed shall be forgiven him.

"And to the Israelites you shall say, ‘If there is anyone from the Israelites or from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones.

And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so that he makes my sanctuary unclean and profanes my holy name.

And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from that man at his giving some of his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death,

then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut him off and all those from the midst of their people who prostitute after Molech.

As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

"‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother—his blood is upon him.

"‘As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death.

As for a man who lies with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death—their blood is on them.

As for a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed a perversion—their blood is on them.

"‘As for a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she herself sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people; he has exposed his sister's nakedness—he must bear his guilt.

And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, and you shall not expose your father's sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative—they must bear their guilt.

As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

As for a man who marries his brother's wife, it is an abomination; he has exposed his brother's nakedness—they shall be childless.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, Aaron's sons, and say to them, ‘One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his own people,

except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother,

and for his sister, a virgin, who is closest to him, who has not had a husband—for her he may defile himself.

"‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest is holy for his God.

"‘As for the priest who is higher than his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointment is poured and he was ordained to wear the garments, he shall not dishevel his head, and he shall not tear his garments.