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or a man who touches any swarming things by which he is made unclean, or touches any person by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness;

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

'But when the sun sets, he will be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food.

'But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that person may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'Anyone of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel who presents his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their voluntary offerings, which they present to the LORD as a burnt offering—

"If there is any person who does not humble himself on this very day, he shall be cut off from his people.

"As for any person who does any work on this very day, that person I will eliminate from among his people.

"And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."

Now the son of an Israelite woman—his father was an Egyptian—went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man had a fight within the camp.

And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name 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 outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have all the congregation stone him.

"You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin.

'If someone injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

'So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

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 property.

'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, so that he may return to his property.

'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.