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If a man lies with her so that her blood is on him, he will be unclean for seven days. And every bed he lies on will be unclean.

‘If a woman has a flow of blood for many days, at a different time than when it happens each month, or if the blood flows longer at that time, all the days the blood flows she will be unclean. It will be as if it were the time when she is unclean each month. She will be unclean.

The religious leader will give one for a sin gift and the other for a burnt gift. In this way the woman will be clean before the Lord from the flow of blood that made her unclean.'

This is the law for him who has something flowing from his body, and for the man whose seed flows from his sex part and makes him unclean.

And this is the law for the woman who is sick because of her flow of blood, and for the man or woman who has something flowing from the body, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.

The Lord said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron that he must not come just any time into the holy place inside the curtain, in front of the mercy-seat on the special box of the agreement or he will die. For I will show Myself in the cloud over the mercy-seat.

Only this way will Aaron go into the holy place, with a bull for a sin gift and a ram for a burnt gift.

He will take from the people of Israel two male goats for a sin gift and one ram for a burnt gift.

Then Aaron will give the bull as a sin gift for himself, to pay for the sins of himself and those in his house.

Aaron will draw names for the two goats, choosing one for the Lord and the other to be sent away.

Then Aaron will bring the goat that was chosen for the Lord and give it as a sin gift.

But the goat that was chosen to be sent away will be brought alive before the Lord, for the taking away of sin. And it will be sent into the desert.

"Then Aaron will give the bull as the sin gift for himself, to pay for the sins of himself and those in his house. He will kill the bull as the sin gift for himself.

"Then he will kill the goat as the sin gift for the people. He will bring its blood inside the curtain, and do the same with its blood as he did with the bull's blood. He will put it on the seat and in front of the mercy-seat.

When he goes in to pay for sins in the holy place, no one will be in the meeting tent until he comes out. He will pay for the sins of himself, of those in his house, and of all the people of Israel.

He will wash his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes. Then he will come out and give his burnt gift and the people's burnt gift, to pay for the sins of himself and the people.

The bull and the goat for the sin gift, whose blood was brought in to pay for sins in the holy place, will be taken away from the tents. Their skin, their flesh and their waste will be burned with fire.

"This will be a Law forever for you. On the tenth day of the seventh month, you must get rid of your pride and not do any work, both those who live in the land and those who visit from another land.

For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean. You will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.

It is to be a special Day of Rest for you, that you may be free from pride. It is a Law forever.