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Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.
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I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.
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“‘No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.
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Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.
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“‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed.
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“‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,
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“‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the Lord—whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord.
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One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you.
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These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
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“The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”
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So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.
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The Levites
This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.
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Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
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Duties of Priests and Levites
The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
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The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
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And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
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“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured.
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Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes.
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Inheritance of Zelophehad’s Daughters
The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.
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But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,
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Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.
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He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
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If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
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his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
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That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
