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"Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

"You must not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

"If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, Yahweh who sets you apart, am holy.

But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate My sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sets them apart."

They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.

You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Neither you nor a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect."

You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God."

It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

"The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem—a house sold in a city they possess—must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.

They are not to be sold as slaves, because they are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers' sins along with theirs.

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

"But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the Lord , because a firstborn already belongs to the Lord .