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And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

You shall have one law for him that does anything unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the sons of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.

and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look at it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you don't follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you prostitute after;

and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on yourselves, for everyone in the entire congregation is holy and Yahweh is among them: why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of Yahweh?

And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, If we don't, the earth will swallow us up.

Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he takes up the censers out of the burning, and you scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy,

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made into beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.

And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

And Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for wrath has gone out from Yahweh; the plague has begun.

And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and saw that the plague had begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and take from them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: you shall write every man's name on his rod.

And you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.

And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and saw that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

And Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the sons of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they will not die.

And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

And you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that inside the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old you shall redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).