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Then pour oil upon them as you have done to their father, so they may serve Me as religious leaders. Pouring oil upon them will make them ready to be religious leaders, they and all their children-to-come."

Do not give any of your children as a gift on an altar to the false god Molech. Do not put the name of your God to shame. I am the Lord.

"Say to the people of Israel, ‘Any man of Israel or of the strangers living in Israel, who gives any of his children to the false god Molech, must be put to death. The people of the land will kill him with stones.

I Myself will go against that man and he will not be numbered among God's people, because he has given some of his children to Molech, making My holy place sinful and bringing shame on My holy name.

If the people of the land close their eyes when a man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

If a man lies with the wife of his father's or mother's brother, he has put to shame his father's or mother's brother. They will suffer for their own sin. They will die without children.

If a man takes his brother's wife, it is sin. He has put his brother to shame. They will have no children.

By doing this he will not sin against his children among his people. For I am the Lord Who makes him holy.'"

"Say to Aaron, ‘None of your children or their children who has something wrong with his body should go near to give the bread as a gift to his God.

No man among the children of Aaron the religious leader, who has something wrong with his body, should come near to give the Lord's gifts by fire. He should not come near to give the bread of his God, because he has something wrong with him.

Say to them, ‘If any one of all your children comes near the holy gifts that the people of Israel set apart for the Lord, while he is unclean, he will be cut off from My holy place. I am the Lord.

None of the children of Aaron who has a bad skin disease or something flowing from his body may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. If one touches anything that is unclean because of a dead body, or has had his seed come from his sex part,

Then he will leave you, he and his children, that he may return to the land of his fathers.

You may buy from among the children of the strangers who live among you, and from their families that are with you and were born in your land. You may own them.

You may give them to your children after you, to receive as their own. You can have them as servants forever. But do not make it hard for your brothers, the people of Israel.

‘Now a stranger or one visiting you may become rich. And your brother may become so poor that he sells himself to a stranger living among you, or to the children of a stranger's family.

Even if the price is not paid for him in this way, he will go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children.

I will care for you and give you many children. I will keep My agreement with you.

I will let the wild animals loose among you. They will rob you of your children and destroy your cattle. They will make you few in number, so that your roads will be empty.

But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they made a fire that was not holy to the Lord in the Desert of Sinai. And they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar worked as religious leaders during the life-time of their father Aaron.