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He must burn up the clothing, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has the contamination in it, because the mildew is destructive; the article must be burned up.

"But if the priest comes to examine it and the mildew has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.

The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the LORD for the man because of his discharge.

The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD , you will be clean from all your sins.

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off."

" 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

" 'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

"Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has desecrated what is holy to the LORD ; that person must be cut off from his people.

" 'If a man sleeps with a woman who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

" 'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD , am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the LORD by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

" 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy-I who make you holy.

nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD .

yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD , who makes them holy. ' "