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Day 100 and 29.
the Lord said to Moses, give the people of Israel these instructions, which
apply both to Native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel.
If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to
mole, they must be put to death.
The people of the community must stone them to death.
I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community
because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name
by offering their children to mole.
And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to mole
and refuse to execute them, I myself will turn against them and their families and
will cut them off from the community.
This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution.
By worshiping Molech, I will also turn against those who
commit spiritual prostitution.
By putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead,
I will cut them off from the community.
So set yourselves apart to be holy for I am the Lord your God.
Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice.
For I am the Lord who makes you holy.
Anyone who dishonored, father or mother must be put to death.
Such a person is guilty of a capital offense.
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man
and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.
If a man violates his father by having sex with one of his father's wives, both the
man and the woman must be put to death.
For they are guilty of a capital offense.
If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death.
They have committed a perverse act and are guilty of a capital offense.
If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man, as with a woman,
both men have committed a detestable act.
They must both be put to death for they are guilty of a capital offense.
If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a
wicked act, the man, and both women must be burned to death to wipe
out such wickedness from among you.
If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death and
the animal must be killed.
If a woman presents herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it, she
and the animal must both be put to death.
You must kill both.
For they are guilty of a capital offense.
If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or
his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful disgrace.
They must be publicly cut off from the community.
Since the man has violated his sister, he will be punished for his sin.
If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual
period, both of them must be cut off from the community for together.
They have exposed the source of her blood flow.
Do not have sexual relations with your aunt, whether your mother's
sister or your father's sister.
This would dishonor a close relative.
Both parties are guilty and will be punished for their sin.
If a man has sex with his uncle's wife, he has violated his uncle.
Both the man and woman will be punished for their sin and they will die childless.
If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity.
He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.
You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice.
Otherwise, the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.
Do not live according to the customs of the people I'm driving out before you.
It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them.
But I have promised you, you will possess their land because I will
give it to you as your possession.
A land flowing with milk and honey, I am the Lord your God.
Who has set you apart from all other people?
You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially
clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds.
You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or
creature that scurries along the ground.
I have identified them as being unclean for you.
You must be holy because I the Lord am holy.
I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own men and women.
Among you who act as mediums or who consult the spirits of the dead
must be put to death by stoning.
They are guilty of a capital offense.
The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the priests.
The descendants of Aaron, a priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean.
By touching the dead body of a relative.
The only exceptions are his closest relatives, his mother or father, son
or daughter, brother, or his virgin sister, who depends on him because
she has no husband, but a priest must not defile him himself and make
himself unclean for someone who is related to him only by marriage.
The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.
They must be set apart as holy to their God and must never
bring shame on the name of God.
They must be holy for.
They are the ones who present the special gifts to the Lord.
Gifts of food for their God.
Priests may not marry a woman defiled by prostitution, and they may not marry a
woman who is divorced from her husband.
For the priests are set apart as holy to their God, you must treat them as holy
because they offer up food to your God.
You must consider them holy because I, the Lord am holy and I make you holy.
If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she
also defiles her father's holiness and she must be burned to death.
The high priest has the highest rank of all the priests.
The anointing oil has been poured on his head, and he has been ordained
to wear the priestly garments.
He must never leave his hair combed or tear his clothing.
He must not defile himself by going near a dead body.
He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother.
He must not defile the sanctuary of his God by leaving it to attend to
a dead person, for he has been made holy by the anointing oil of his God.
I am the Lord.
The high priest may marry only a virgin.
He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has
defiled herself by prostitution.
She must be a virgin from his own clan so that he will not dishonor
his descendants among his clan, for I am the Lord who makes him holy.
Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to Aaron.
In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect
will qualify to offer food to his God.
No one who has a defect qualifies whether he is blind, lame, disfigured,
deformed, or has a broken foot or arm, or is hunchbacked or dwarfed,
or has a defective eye or skin sores or scabs or damaged testicles.
No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to
present special gifts to the Lord.
Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to
his God, however he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy
offerings and the most holy offerings.
Yet because of his physical defect, he may not enter the room behind the
inner curtain or approach the altar for this would defile my holy places.
I am the Lord who makes them holy.
So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelites.
The Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron and his sons to be very careful
with the sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart from me.
So they do not bring shame on my holy name.
I am the Lord.
Give them the following instructions in all future generations.
If any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean, when he approaches
the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the Lord,
he must be cut off from my presence.
I am the Lord.
If any of Aaron's descendants has a skin disease, Or any kind of discharge
that makes him ceremonially unclean.
He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean.
He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse or by having any mission of semen
or by touching a small animal that is unclean or by touching someone who is
ceremonially unclean for any reason.
The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening.
He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water.
When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially, clean again and
may eat from the sacred offerings.
For this is his food, he may not eat.
An animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild
animals for this would defile him.
I am the Lord, the priests must follow my instructions carefully.
Otherwise, they will be punished for their sin and will die
for violating my instructions.
I am the Lord who makes them holy.
No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings.
Even guests and hired workers in a priest's home are not allowed to eat them.
However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may
eat from the sacred offerings.
And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.
If a priest's daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may
no longer eat the sacred offerings, but if she becomes a widow or is
divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her
father's home, as in her youth, she may eat her father's food again.
Otherwise, no one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings.
Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it
must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20%.
The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to
the Lord By allowing unauthorized people to eat them, this would bring guilt upon
them and require them to pay compensation.
I am the Lord who makes them holy.
And the Lord said to Moses, give Aaron and his sons and all the
Israelites, these instructions which apply both to native Israelites and
to the foreigners living among you.
If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you will
be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects.
It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.
Do not present an animal with defects because the Lord will
not accept it on your behalf.
If you present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or the flock, whether
it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal.
It may have no defect of any kind.
You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that
has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs.
Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the Lord.
If a bull or lamb has a leg that is too long or too short, it may be
offered as a voluntary offering, but it may not be offered to fulfill a vow.
If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you
may not offer it to the Lord.
You must never do this in your own land, and you must not accept such
an animal from foreigners and then offer it as a sacrifice to your God.
Such animals will not be accepted on your behalf for
they are mutilated or defective.
And the Lord said to Moses, when a calf or lamb or goat is born, it must be
left with its mother for seven days.
From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a special gift to the Lord.
But you must not slaughter a mother animal and her offspring on the same
day, whether from the herd or the flock.
When you bring a Thanksgiving offering to the Lord, sacrifice it
properly so you will be accepted.
Eat the entire sacrificial animal on the day it is presented.
Do not leave any of it until the next morning.
I am the Lord.
You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into
practice for I am the Lord.
Do not bring shame on my holy name.
For I will display my holiness among the people of Israel.
I am the Lord who makes you holy.
It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt that I might be your God.
I am the Lord.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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