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Day 100 and 27.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.
This defilement is caused by his discharge.
Whether the discharge continues or stops, in either case, the man is unclean.
Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies and anything on which
he sits will be ceremonially unclean.
So if you touch the man's bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe
yourself in water, and you'll remain unclean until evening.
If you sit where the man with the discharge has sat, you must wash your
clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you'll remain unclean until evening.
If you touch the man with the discharge, you must wash your clothes
and bathe yourself in water and you'll remain unclean until evening.
If the man spits on you, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in
water and you will remain unclean until evening, any saddle blanket on which the
man rides will be ceremonially unclean.
If you touch anything that was under the man, you will be unclean until evening.
You must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water and you
will remain unclean until evening.
If the man touches you without first rinsing his hands, you must wash
your clothes and bathe yourself in water and you will remain unclean.
Until evening, any clay pot the man touches must be broken, and
any wooden utensil he touches must be rinsed with water.
When the man with the discharge is healed, he must count off seven
days for the period of purification.
Then he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in fresh water, and he will be
ceremonially clean on the eighth day.
He must get two turtle doves or two young pigeons and come before the
Lord at the entrance of the tabernacle and give his offerings to the priest.
The priest will offer one bird for a sin offering and the
other for a burnt offering.
Through this process, the priest will purify the man before
the Lord for his discharge.
Whenever a man has any mission of semen, he must bathe his entire body in
water and he will remain ceremonially unclean until the next evening.
Any clothing or leather with semen on, it must be washed in
water and it will remain unclean.
Until evening after a man and a woman have sexual intercourse, they must each bathe
in water and they will remain unclean until the next evening, whenever a woman
has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening.
Anything on which the woman lies or sits during the time
of her period will be unclean.
If any of you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water
and you'll remain unclean until evening.
If you touch any object she has sat on, you must wash your clothes
and bathe yourself in water and you will remain unclean until evening.
This includes her bed or any other object she has sat on.
You will be unclean until evening if you touch it.
If a man has sexual intercourse with her and her blood touches him, her menstrual
impurity will be transmitted to him.
He will remain unclean for seven days and any bed on which he lies will be unclean.
If a woman has a flow of blood for many days, that is unrelated
to her menstrual period.
Or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially
unclean as during her menstrual period.
The woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.
Any bed she lies on and any object she sits on during that time
will be unclean just as during her normal menstrual period.
If any of you touch these things, you'll be ceremonially unclean.
You must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water.
And you will remain unclean until evening.
When the woman's bleeding stops, she must count off seven days.
Then she will be ceremonially clean on the eighth day.
She must bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons and
present them to the priest.
At the entrance of the tabernacle, the priest will offer one for a
sin offering and the other for a burnt offering through this process.
The priest will purify her before the Lord for the ceremonial
impurity caused by her bleeding.
This is how you will guard the people of Israel from ceremonial uncleanliness.
Otherwise, they would die for their impurity, would defile my tabernacle.
That stands among them.
These are the instructions for dealing with anyone who has a bodily discharge.
A man who is unclean because of an omission of semen or a woman
during her menstrual period.
It applies to any man or woman who has a bodily discharge, and to a man
who has sexual intercourse with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.
The
Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's two sons who died after they
entered the Lord's presence and burned the wrong kind of fire before him.
The Lord said to Moses, warn your brother Aaron not to enter the
most holy place behind the inner curtain whenever he chooses.
If he does, he will die for the Arks cover.
The place of atonement is there, and I myself am present in the
cloud above the atonement cover.
When Aaron enters the sanctuary area, he must follow these instructions fully.
He must bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
He must put on his linen tunic and the linen undergarments worn next to his body.
He must tie the linen sash around his waist and put the
linen turban on his head.
These are sacred garments, so he must bathe himself in
water before he puts them on.
Aaron must take from the community of Israel, two male goats for a sin
offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
Aaron will present his own bull as a sin offering to purify himself and his
family, making them right with the Lord.
Then he must take the two male goats and present them to the Lord.
At the entrance of the tabernacle, he is to cast sacred lots to
determine which goat will be reserved as an offering to the Lord.
And which will carry the sins of the people to the wilderness of Azazel.
Aaron will then present as a sin, offering the goat chosen by lot for the Lord.
The other goat.
The scapegoat chosen by lot to be sent away will be kept alive standing before
the Lord when it is sent away to Azazel in the wilderness, the people will be
purified and made right with the Lord.
Aaron will present his own bull as a sin offering to purify himself and his
family, making them right with the Lord.
After he has slaughtered the bull as a sin offering, he will fill an incense
burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the Lord.
Then he will take two handfuls of fragrant powdered incense and will carry the burner
and the incense behind the inner curtain.
There in the Lord's presence, he will put the incense on the burning coals so
that a cloud of incense will rise over.
The ark's cover the place of atonement that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.
If he follows these instructions, he will not die.
Then he must take some of the blood of the bull, dip his finger
in it, and sprinkle it on the east side of the atonement cover.
He must sprinkle blood seven times with his finger in
front of the atonement cover.
Then Aaron must slaughter the first goat as a sin offering for the people and
carry its blood behind the inner curtain.
There he will sprinkle the goat's blood over the atonement cover and in front of
it, just as he did with the bull's blood.
Through this process, he will purify the most holy place and he will do
the same for the entire tabernacle.
Because of the defiling sin and rebellion of the Israelites, no one
else is allowed inside the tabernacle.
When Aaron enters it for the purification ceremony in the most holy place, no
one may enter until he comes out at again at after pur purifying himself,
his family, and all the congregation of Israel, making them right with the Lord.
Then Aaron will come out to purify the altar that stands before the Lord.
He will do this by taking some of the blood from the bull
and the goat and putting it on each of the horns of the altar.
Then he must sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times over the altar.
In this way, he will cleanse it from Israel's defilement and make it holy.
When Aaron has finished purifying the most holy place and the tabernacle and
the altar, he must present the live goat.
He will lay both of his hands on the goat's head and confess over
it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel.
In this way, he will transfer the people's sins to the head of the goat.
Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.
As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people's sins
upon itself into a desolate land.
When Aaron goes back into the tabernacle, he must take off the
linen garments he was wearing when he entered the most holy place, and
he must leave the garments there.
Then he must bathe himself with water in a sacred place, put on his regular
garments, and go out to sacrifice a burnt offering for himself and
a burnt offering for the people.
Through this process, he will purify himself and the people
making them right with the Lord.
He must then burn all the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
The man chosen to drive the scapegoat into the wilderness of Azazel must wash
his clothes and bathe himself in water.
Then he may return to the camp, the bull and the goat presented as sin offerings
whose blood Aaron takes into the most holy place for the purification ceremony
will be carried outside the camp.
The animals hides internal organs and dung are all to be burned.
The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water before
returning to the camp on the 10th day of the appointed month in early autumn.
You must deny yourselves neither native born Israelites nor foreigners living
among you may do any kind of work.
This is a permanent law for you.
On that day, offerings of purification will be made for you
and you will be purified in the Lord's presence from all your sins.
It will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and you must deny yourselves.
This is a permanent law for you.
In future generations, the purification ceremony will be performed by
the priest who has been anointed and ordained to serve as high
priest in place of his ancestor.
Aaron.
He will put on the holy linen garments and purify the most holy
place, the tabernacle, the altar, the priests, and the entire congregation.
This is a permanent law for you to purify the people of Israel from their
sins, making them right with the Lord.
Once each year, Moses followed all these instructions exactly
as the Lord had commanded him.
This concludes today's Immer Reading experience.
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