¹⁰ so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,^{(A) 11} and so you can teach^(B) the Israelites all the decrees the Lord has given them through Moses.^(C)”

⁴⁴ I am the Lord your God;^(A) consecrate yourselves^(B) and be holy,^(C) because I am holy.^(D) Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.^{(E) 45} I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt^(F) to be your God;^(G) therefore be holy, because I am holy.^(H)

¹⁹ “Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness.^(A) After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering ²⁰ and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for them,^(B) and they will be clean.^(C)

³¹ “‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place,^[a](A) which is among them.’”