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"‘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.

As for a man who lies with a menstruating woman, he exposes her nakedness—her source he exposes and she herself reveals her blood's source—both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.

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.

And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or with the bird or with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.

And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.

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 daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father—she shall be burned in the fire.

"‘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.

And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother.

or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him due to whatever his uncleanness,

But a priest's daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced or there is no offspring for her, and she returns to her father's house as in her childhood, she may eat from her father's food, but no layman may eat it.

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering,

it must be without defect to be acceptable for you: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats.

You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you.

And if anyone brings a sacrifice of fellowship offerings for Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the cattle or from the flock, it must be without defect to be acceptable; there must not be any physical defect in it.

The blind or the injured or the maimed or the seeping or one with a skin disorder or one with a skin eruption—these you shall not present to Yahweh, nor shall you give from them an offering made by fire on the altar for Yahweh.