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Therefore, you shall set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God.

You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for such a one has made naked his blood relative; they will bear their guilt.

Moreover, you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I will cast out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have loathed them.

You are therefore to separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

Thus you shall be holy to Me, for I Yahweh am holy; and I have separated you from the peoples to be Mine.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,

except for his blood relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they bring near the offerings to Yahweh by fire, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

Therefore, you shall set him apart as holy, for he brings near the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I Yahweh, who makes you holy, am holy.

nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.

so that he will not profane his seed among his people; for I am Yahweh who makes him holy.'"

For no one who has a defect shall come near: a blind man or a lame man or he who has a disfigured face or any deformed limb,

only he shall not go in to the veil or approach the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am Yahweh who makes them holy.'"

But the sun will set, and he will be clean. And afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food.

and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts; for I am Yahweh who makes them holy.'"

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel who brings near his offering, whether it is any of their votive or any of their freewill offerings, which they bring near to Yahweh for a burnt offering—

for you to be accepted—it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.