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“‘The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.
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The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
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Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.
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Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
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He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
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“‘Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then they will be clean.
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You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God.
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Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord.
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“‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.
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But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
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Various Laws
The Lord said to Moses,
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“‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.
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“‘Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the Lord.’”
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“‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
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“‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
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He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
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He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the Lord.
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Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
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You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.’”
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“‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.
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and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
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I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
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For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.
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These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
