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The chosen religious leader who is set apart to work as religious leader in his father's place will pay for the sin. He will put on the holy linen clothing

This will be a Law forever for you. The people of Israel must be made free from all their sins once a year." And Moses did what the Lord told him to do.

and has not brought it to the door of the meeting tent to give it to the Lord, he will be guilty for that blood, and will not be among God's people.

The religious leader will put the blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the meeting tent. And he will burn the fat for a pleasing smell to the Lord.

So they will no longer give their gifts to the goat-like gods to whom they sell themselves. This will be a Law to them for all their people forever.'

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make your souls free from sin. For the blood makes you free from sin because of the life in it.'

"For blood is the life of every living thing. So I said to the people of Israel, ‘Do not eat the blood of any living thing. For the life of every living thing is its blood. Whoever eats it will be cut off.'

But if he does not wash them or wash his body, he will suffer for his own sin."

So keep My Laws and do what I say. If a man obeys them, My Laws will be life for him. I am the Lord.

Do not take the clothes off your father's wife. Her body is for your father.

Do not take the clothes off your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter. For they are of your own family.

Do not take the clothes off your brother's wife. Her body is for your brother.

‘Do not allow yourself to sin in any of these ways. For by doing all these things the nations that I am driving out in front of you became unclean.

For the land is unclean. So I have punished its sin. The land has spit out its people.

But as for you, you are to keep My Laws and do what I have decided. Do not do any of these sinful things, not you or the man who lives among you from another land.

For the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean.

"Say to all the people of Israel, ‘Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Every one of you must have respect for his mother and his father. And keep My Days of Rest. I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to false gods or make gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Every one who eats it will carry his guilt. For he has made the holy thing of the Lord sinful. That person will not be among God's people.