THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS
The Burnt Offering
1 And the Lord called Moses again and spoke to him out of the
tabernacle of witness, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel,
and you shall say to them,
2 ‘If any man of you shall bring gifts to the Lord, you shall
bring your gifts of the cattle and of the oxen and of the sheep.
3 ‘If his gift be a burnt offering, he shall bring an unblemished
male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall
bring it as acceptable before the Lord.
4 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him.
5 And they shall slay the calf before the Lord; and the sons of Aaron
the priests shall bring the blood, and they shall pour the blood round
about on the altar, which is at the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
6 And having skinned the burnt offering, they shall divide it by its limbs.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priests shall put fire on the altar, and shall pile wood on the fire.
8 And the sons of Aaron the priests shall pile up the divided parts,
and the head, and the fat on the wood on the fire, the wood which is on
the altar.
9 And the entrails and the feet they shall wash in water, and the
priests shall put all on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a
sacrifice, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
10 ‘And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs,
or of the kids for a burnt offering, he shall bring a male without
blemish.
11 And he shall lay his hand on its head; and they shall kill it by the
side of the altar, toward the north before the Lord, and the sons of
Aaron the priests shall pour its blood on the altar round about.
12 And they shall divide it by its limbs, and its head and its fat, and
the priests shall pile them up on the wood which is on the fire, on the
altar.
13 And they shall wash the entrails and the feet with water, and the
priest shall bring all the parts and put them on the altar: it is a
burnt offering, a sacrifice, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
14 ‘And if he bring his gift, a burnt offering to the Lord, of birds, then shall he bring his gift of doves or pigeons.
15 And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and shall wring off its
head; and the priest shall put it on the altar, and shall wring out the
blood at the bottom of the altar.
16 And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it
forth by the altar toward the east, to the place of the ashes.
17 And he shall break it off from the wings and shall not separate it,
and the priest shall put it on the altar on the wood which is on the
fire: it is a burnt offering, a sacrifice, a sweet-smelling savor to
the Lord.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 2
The Grain Offering
1 ‘And if a soul bring a gift, a sacrifice to the Lord, his gift
shall be fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and shall put
frankincense on it: it is a sacrifice.
2 And he shall bring it to the priests the sons of Aaron. And having
taken from it a handful of the fine flour with the oil, and all its
frankincense, then the priest shall put the memorial of it on the
altar: it is a sacrifice, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
3 And the remainder of the sacrifice shall be for Aaron and his sons, a most holy portion from the sacrifices of the Lord.
4 ‘And if he bring as a gift a sacrifice baked from the oven, a
gift to the Lord of fine flour, he shall bring unleavened bread kneaded
with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil.
5 And if your gift be a sacrifice from a pan, it is fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened offerings.
6 And you shall break them into fragments and pour oil upon them: it is a sacrifice to the Lord.
7 ‘And if your gift be a sacrifice from the hearth, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
8 And he shall offer the sacrifice which he shall make of these to the Lord, and shall bring it to the priest.
9 And the priest shall approach the altar, and shall take away from the
sacrifice a memorial of it, and the priest shall place it on the altar:
a burnt offering, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
10 And that which is left of the sacrifice shall be for Aaron and his sons, most holy from the burnt offerings of the Lord.
11 ‘You shall not leaven any sacrifice which you shall bring to
the Lord; for as to any leaven, or any honey, you shall not bring of it
to offer a gift to the Lord.
12 You shall bring them in the way of fruits to the Lord, but they
shall not be offered on the altar for a sweet-smelling savor to the
Lord.
13 And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; do not
omit the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on
every gift of yours you shall offer salt to the Lord your God.
14 And if you would offer a sacrifice of firstfruits to the Lord, it
shall be new grains ground and roasted for the Lord; so shall you bring
the sacrifice of the firstfruits.
15 And you shall pour oil upon it, and shall put frankincense on it: it is a sacrifice.
16 And the priest shall offer the memorial of it taken from the grains
with the oil, and all its frankincense: it is a burnt offering to the
Lord.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 3
The Peace Offering
1 ‘And if his gift to the Lord be a peace-offering, if he should
bring it of the oxen, whether it be male or whether it be female, he
shall bring it unblemished before the Lord.
2 And he shall lay his hands on the head of the gift, and shall slay it
before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. And the
priests the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood on the altar of burnt
offerings round about.
3 And they shall bring of the peace-offering a burnt sacrifice to the
Lord, the fat covering the belly, and all the fat on the belly;
4 and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them; he shall take away
that which is on the thighs, and the fatty lobe above the liver
together with the kidneys.
5 And the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer them on the altar on
the burnt offering, on the wood which is on the fire upon the altar: it
is a burnt offering, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
6 ‘And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace-offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.
7 If he bring a lamb for his gift, he shall bring it before the Lord.
8 And he shall lay his hands on the head of his offering, and shall
slay it by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the priests, the
sons of Aaron, shall pour out the blood on the altar round about.
9 And he shall bring of the peace-offering, a burnt sacrifice to the
Lord: the fat and the hinder part unblemished he shall take away with
the loins, and having taken away all the fat that covers the belly, and
all the fat that is on the belly,
10 and both the kidneys and the fat that is upon them, and that which
is on the thighs, and the fatty lobe which is on the liver with the
kidneys,
11 the priest shall offer these on the altar: it is a sacrifice of sweet savor, a burnt offering to the Lord.
12 And if his offering be of the goats, then shall he bring it before the Lord.
13 And he shall lay his hands on its head; and they shall slay it
before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the
priests, the sons of Aaron, shall pour out the blood on the altar round
about.
14 And he shall offer of it a burnt offering to the Lord, even the fat
that covers the belly, and all the fat that is on the belly.
15 And both the kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, that which
is upon the thighs, and the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys,
shall he take away.
16 And the priest shall offer it upon the altar: it is a burnt
offering, an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord. All the fat belongs to
the Lord.
17 ‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all
your habitations; you shall eat no fat and no
blood.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 4
The Sin Offering
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a soul
shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the commandments of
the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall do some
of them;
3 if the anointed priest should sin so as to cause the people to sin,
then shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned, an unblemished
calf of the herd to the Lord for his sin.
4 And he shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness
before the Lord, and he shall put his hand on the head of the calf
before the Lord, and shall slay the calf in the presence of the Lord.
5 And the anointed priest who has been consecrated, having received of
the blood of the calf, shall then bring it into the tabernacle of
witness.
6 And the priest shall dip his finger into the blood, and sprinkle of
the blood seven times before the Lord, over against the holy veil.
7 And the priest shall put of the blood of the calf on the horns of the
altar of the compound incense which is before the Lord, which is in the
tabernacle of witness; and all the blood of the calf shall he pour out
by the foot of the altar of burnt offerings, which is by the doors of
the tabernacle of witness.
8 and all the fat of the calf of the sin-offering shall he take off
from it; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on
the inwards,
9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is on the
thighs, and the fatty lobe that is on the liver with the kidneys, them
shall he take away,
10 as he takes it away from the calf of the sacrifice of
peace-offering, so shall the priest offer it on the altar of burnt
offering.
11 And they shall take the skin of the calf, and all his flesh with the head and the extremities and the belly and the dung,
12 and they shall carry out the whole calf out of the camp into a clean
place, where they pour out the ashes, and they shall consume it there
on wood with fire: it shall be burned on the ashes poured out.
13 ‘And if the whole congregation of Israel should trespass
ignorantly, and a thing should escape the notice of the congregation,
and they should do one thing forbidden of any of the commands of the
Lord, which ought not to be done, and should transgress;
14 and the sin in which they have sinned should become known to them,
then shall the congregation bring an unblemished calf of the herd for a
sin-offering, and they shall bring it to the doors of the tabernacle of
witness.
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head
of the calf before the Lord, and they shall slay the calf before the
Lord.
16 And the anointed priest shall bring in of the blood of the calf into the tabernacle of witness.
17 And the priest shall dip his finger into some of the blood of the
calf, and shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of
the veil of the sanctuary.
18 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar
of the incense of composition, which is before the Lord, which is in
the tabernacle of witness; and he shall pour out all the blood at the
bottom of the altar of burnt offerings, which is by the door of the
tabernacle of witness.
19 And he shall take away all the fat from it, and shall offer it up on the altar.
20 And he shall do to the calf as he did to the calf of the
sin-offering, so shall it be done; and the priest shall make atonement
for them, and the trespass shall be forgiven them.
21 And they shall carry forth the calf whole outside the camp, and they
shall burn the calf as they burned the former calf: it is the
sin-offering of the congregation.
22 ‘And if a ruler should sin, and break one of all the commands
of the Lord his God, doing that which ought not to be done,
unwillingly, and shall sin and trespass,
23 and his trespass in which he has sinned be known to him, then shall
he offer for his gift a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.
24 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the kid, and they shall
kill it in the place were they kill the victims for burnt offerings
before the Lord; it is a sin-offering.
25 And the priest shall put some of the blood of the sin-offering with
his finger on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and he shall
pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of burnt offerings.
26 And he shall offer up all his fat on the altar, as the fat of the
sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for
him concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
27 ‘And if a soul of the people of the land should sin
unwillingly, in doing a thing contrary to any of the commandments of
the Lord, which ought not to be done, and shall transgress,
28 and his sin should be known to him, in which he has sinned, then
shall he bring a kid of the goats, a female without blemish shall he
bring for his sin, which he has sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his sin-offering, and they
shall slay the kid of the sin-offering in the place where they slay the
victims for burnt offerings.
30 And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall
put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offerings; and all its blood
he shall pour forth by the foot of the altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat, as the fat is taken away from
the sacrifice of peace-offering, and the priest shall offer it on the
altar for an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord; and the priest shall
make atonement for him, and his sin shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he should offer a lamb for his sin-offering, he shall offer it a female without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offerings, and they
shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for burnt
offerings.
34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his
finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offerings,
and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of burnt
offering.
35 And he shall take away all his fat, as the fat of the lamb of the
sacrifice of peace-offering is taken away, and the priest shall put it
on the altar for a burnt offering to the Lord; and the priest shall
make atonement for him for the sin which he sinned, and it shall be
forgiven him.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 5
The Trespass Offering
1 ‘And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and he is a
witness or has seen or been conscious, if he does not report it, he
shall bear his iniquity.
2 That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcass, or that
which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of
abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcasses of unclean cattle,
3 or should touch the uncleanness of a man, or whatever kind, which he
may touch and be defiled by, and it should have escaped him, but
afterwards he should know, then he shall have transgressed.
4 That unrighteous soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or
to do good according to whatsoever a man may determine with an oath,
and it shall have escaped his notice, and he shall afterwards know it,
and so he should sin in one of these things;
5 then shall he declare his sin in the things in which he has sinned by that sin.
6 And he shall bring for his transgressions against the Lord, for his
sin which he has sinned, a ewe lamb of the flock, or a kid of the
goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for
him for his sin which he has sinned, and his sin shall be forgiven him.
7 ‘And if he cannot afford a sheep, he shall bring for his sin
which he has sinned, two turtle doves or two young pigeons to the Lord:
one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
8 And he shall bring them to the priest, and the priest shall bring the
sin-offering first; and the priest shall pinch off the head from the
neck, and shall not divide the body.
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering on the side of
the altar, but the rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the
altar, for it is a sin-offering.
10 And he shall make the second a burnt offering, as it is fit; and the
priest shall make atonement for his sin which he has sinned, and it
shall be forgiven him.
11 ‘And if he cannot afford a pair of turtle doves, or two young
pigeons, then shall he bring as his gift for his sin, the tenth part of
an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall not pour oil upon
it, nor shall he put frankincense upon it, because it is a
sin-offering.
12 And he shall bring it to the priest; and the priest, having taken a
handful of it, shall lay the memorial of it on the altar of burnt
offerings to the Lord: it is a sin-offering.
13 And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, which he
has sinned in one of these things, and it shall be forgiven him; and
that which is left shall be the priest's, as an offering of fine
flour.’”
Offerings with Restitution
14 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
15 “The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin
unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to
the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish,
valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the
sanctuary, for his transgression in which he transgressed.
16 And he shall make compensation for that in which he has sinned in
the holy things; and he shall add the fifth part to it, and give it to
the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of
transgression, and his sin shall be forgiven him.
17 “And the soul which shall sin, and do one thing against any of
the commandments of the Lord, which it is not right to do, and has not
known it, and shall have transgressed, and shall have contracted guilt,
18 he shall even bring a ram without blemish from the flock, valued at
a price of silver for his transgression to the priest; and the priest
shall make atonement for his trespass of ignorance, wherein he
ignorantly trespassed, and he knew it not; and it shall be forgiven
him.
19 For he has surely been guilty of transgression before the Lord.”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 6
Instructions Concerning Sacrifices
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “The soul which shall have sinned, and willfully overlooked the
commandments of the Lord, and shall have dealt falsely in the affairs
of his neighbor in the matter of a deposit, or concerning fellowship,
or concerning plunder, or has in anything wronged his neighbor,
3 or has found that which was lost, and shall have lied concerning it,
and shall have sworn unjustly concerning any one of all the things,
whatsoever a man may do, so as to sin hereby;
4 it shall come to pass, whenever he shall have sinned, and
transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or
redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which
was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found of any
kind, about which he swore unjustly, he shall even restore it in full;
and he shall add to it a fifth part besides; he shall restore it to him
whose it is in the day in which he happens to be convicted.
5 And he shall bring to the Lord for his trespass, a ram of the flock,
without blemish, of value to the amount of the thing in which he
trespassed.
6 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he
shall be forgiven for any one of all the things which he did and
trespassed in it.”
7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
8 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
9 ‘This is the law of burnt offering; this is the burnt offering
in its burning on the altar all the night till the morning; and the
fire of the altar shall burn on it, it shall not be put out.
10 And the priest shall put on the linen tunic, and he shall put the
linen drawers on his body; and shall take away that which has been
thoroughly burned, which the fire shall have consumed, even the burnt
offering from the altar, and he shall put it near the altar.
11 And he shall put off his robe, and put on another robe, and he shall
take forth the offering that has been burned without the camp into a
clean place.
12 And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it and shall not
be extinguished; and the priest shall burn on it wood every morning,
and shall heap on it the burnt offering, and shall lay on it the fat of
the peace-offering.
13 And the fire shall always burn on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.
14 ‘This is the law of the sacrifice, which the sons of Aaron shall bring near before the Lord, before the altar.
15 And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the
sacrifice with its oil, and with all its frankincense, which are upon
the sacrifice; and he shall offer up on the altar a burnt offering as a
sweet-smelling savor, a memorial of it to the Lord.
16 And Aaron and his sons shall eat that which is left of it: it shall
be eaten without leaven in a holy place, they shall eat it in the court
of the tabernacle of witness.
17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as a portion to
them of the burnt offerings of the Lord: it is most holy, as the
offering for sin, and as the offering for trespass.
18 Every male of the priests shall eat it: it is a perpetual ordinance
throughout your generations of the burnt offerings of the Lord;
whosoever shall touch them shall be hallowed.’”
19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
20 “This is the gift of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall
offer to the Lord in the day in which you shall anoint him; the tenth
of an ephah of fine flour for a sacrifice continually, the half of it
in the morning, and the half of it in the evening.
21 It shall be made with oil in a frying pan; he shall offer it kneaded
and in rolls, an offering of fragments, an offering of a sweet savor
unto the Lord.
22 The anointed priest who is in his place, one of his sons, shall
offer it: it is a perpetual statute, it shall all be consumed.
23 And every sacrifice of a priest shall be thoroughly burned, and shall not be eaten.”
24 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the
law of the sin-offering: in the place where they slay the burnt
offering, they shall slay the sin-offerings before the Lord: they are
most holy.
26 The priest that offers it shall eat it; in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of witness.
27 Everyone that touches the flesh of it shall be holy, and on
whosoever’s garment any of its blood shall have been sprinkled,
whoever shall have it sprinkled, shall be washed in the holy place.
28 And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if
it shall have been boiled in a bronze vessel, he shall scour it and
wash it with water.
29 Every male among the priests shall eat it: it is most holy to the Lord.
30 And no offerings for sin, of whose blood there shall be brought any
into the tabernacle of witness to make atonement in the holy place,
shall be eaten: they shall be burned with
fire.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 7
The Law of the Trespass Offering
1 ‘And this is the law of the ram for the trespass-offering: it is most holy.
2 In the place where they slay the burnt offering, they shall slay the
ram of the trespass-offering before the Lord, and he shall pour out the
blood at the bottom of the altar round about.
3 And he shall offer all the fat from it; and the loins, and all the
fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, that which is
upon the thighs, and the fatty lobe upon the liver with the kidney, he
shall take them away.
5 And the priest shall offer them on the altar, a burnt offering to the Lord: it is for trespass.
6 Every male of the priests shall eat them, in the holy place they shall eat them: they are most holy.
7 As the sin-offering, so also is the trespass-offering. There is one
law of them; the priest who shall make atonement with it, his it shall
be.
8 And as for the priest who offers a man's burnt offering, the skin of the burnt offering which he offers shall be his.
9 And every sacrifice which shall be prepared in the oven, and everyone
which shall be prepared on the hearth, or on a frying-pan, it is the
property of the priest that offers it: it shall be his.
10 And every sacrifice made up with oil, or not made up with oil, shall belong to the sons of Aaron, an equal portion to each.
The Law of Peace Offerings
11 ‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which they shall bring to the Lord.
12 If a man should offer it for praise, then shall he bring, for the
sacrifice of praise, loaves of fine flour made up with oil, and
unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and fine flour kneaded with oil.
13 With leavened bread he shall offer his gifts, with the peace-offering of praise.
14 And he shall bring one of all his gifts, a separate offering to the
Lord; it shall belong to the priest who pours forth the blood of the
peace-offering.
15 ‘And the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering of
praise shall be his, and it shall be eaten in the day in which it is
offered; they shall not leave of it till the morning.
16 And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on
whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on
the next day.
17 And that which is left of the flesh of the sacrifice till the third day, shall be consumed with fire.
18 And if he should eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be
accepted for him that offers: it shall not be reckoned to him, it is
pollution; and whatsoever soul shall eat of it, shall bear his
iniquity.
19 ‘And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it
shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; everyone that is
clean shall eat the flesh.
20 And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the
peace-offering which is the Lord's, and his uncleanness be upon him,
that soul shall perish from his people.
21 And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the
uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean
abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the
peace-offering, which is the Lord's, that soul shall perish from his
people.’”
Fat and Blood May Not Be Eaten
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat of oxen or sheep or goats.
24 And the fat of such animals as have died of themselves, or have been
seized of beasts, may be employed for any work; but it shall not be
eaten for food.
25 Everyone that eats fat off the beasts, from which he will bring a
burnt offering to the Lord—that soul shall perish from his
people.
26 You shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds.
27 Every soul that shall eat blood, that soul shall perish from his people.’”
28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
29 “You shall also speak to the children of Israel, saying,
‘He that offers a sacrifice of peace-offering, shall bring his
gift to the Lord also from the sacrifice of peace-offering.
30 His hands shall bring the burnt offerings to the Lord; the fat which
is on the breast and the lobe of the liver, he shall bring them, so as
to set them for a gift before the Lord.
31 And the priest shall offer the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons,
32 and you shall give the right shoulder for a choice piece to the priest of your sacrifices of peace-offering.
33 He that offers the blood of the peace-offering, and the fat, of the
sons of Aaron, his shall be the right shoulder for a portion.
34 For I have taken the wave-breast and shoulder of separation from the
children of Israel from the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and I
have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons, a perpetual ordinance
due from the children of Israel.’”
35 This is the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons, their
portion of the burnt offerings of the Lord, in the day in which He
brought them forward to minister as priests to the Lord,
36 as the Lord commanded to give to them in the day in which He
anointed them of the sons of Israel, a perpetual statute through their
generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offerings, and of sacrifice, and of
sin-offering, and of offering for transgression, and of the sacrifice
of consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace-offering;
38 as the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, in the day in which He
commanded the children of Israel to offer their gifts before the Lord
in the Wilderness of Sinai.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 8
The Rites of Ordination
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Take Aaron and his sons, and his robes and the anointing oil,
and the calf for the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of
unleavened bread,
3 and assemble the whole congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.”
4 And Moses did as the Lord appointed him, and he assembled the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
5 And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded you to do.”
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons near, and washed them with water,
7 and put on him the coat, and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;
8 and girded him according to the make of the ephod, and clasped him
closely with it; and put upon it the oracle, and put upon the oracle
the Manifestation and the Truth.
9 And he put the turban on his head, and put upon the turban in front
the golden plate, the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.
10 And Moses took of the anointing oil,
11 and sprinkled of it seven times on the altar; and anointed the
altar, and hallowed it, and all things on it, and the laver and its
foot, and sanctified them; and anointed the tabernacle and all its
furniture, and hallowed it.
12 And Moses poured of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron; and he anointed him and sanctified him.
13 And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and put on them tunics and
girded them with sashes, and put hats on them, as the Lord commanded
Moses.
14 And Moses brought near the calf for the sin-offering, and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands on the head of the calf of the sin-offering,
15 and he killed it. And Moses took of the blood, and put it on the
horns of the altar round about with his finger; and he purified the
altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make atonement upon it.
16 And Moses took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe
on the liver, and both the kidneys, and the fat that was upon them, and
Moses offered them on the altar.
17 But the calf, and his hide, and his flesh, and his dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
18 And Moses brought near the ram for a burnt offering, and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and Moses killed the
ram. And Moses poured the blood on the altar round about.
19 And he divided the ram by its limbs, and Moses offered the head, and
the limbs, and the fat; and he washed the belly and the feet with
water.
20 And Moses offered up the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt
offering for a sweet-smelling savor; it is a burnt offering to the
Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
21 And Moses brought the second ram, the ram of consecration, and Aaron
and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and he slew him;
22 and Moses took of his blood, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's
right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right foot.
23 And Moses brought near the sons of Aaron; and Moses put of the blood
on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right
hands, and on the big toes of their right feet, and Moses poured out
the blood on the altar round about.
24 And he took the fat, and the rump, and the fat on the belly, and the
lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
and the right shoulder.
25 And from the basket of consecration, which was before the Lord, he
also took one unleavened loaf, and one loaf made with oil, and one
cake; and put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder;
26 and put them all on the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his
sons, and offered them up for a wave-offering before the Lord.
27 And Moses took them at their hands, and Moses offered them on the
altar, on the burnt offering of consecration, which is an aroma of
sweet savor: it is a burnt offering to the Lord.
28 And Moses took the breast, and separated it for a heave-offering
before the Lord, from the ram of consecration; and it became Moses'
portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.
29 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on
the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and his
sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
30 And he sanctified Aaron and his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh in
the tent of the tabernacle of witness in the holy place; and there you
shall eat it and the loaves in the basket of consecration, as it has
been appointed me, the Lord saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat
them.’
32 And that which is left of the flesh and of the loaves you shall burn with fire.
33 And you shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of witness
for seven days, until the day be fulfilled, the day of your
consecration; for in seven days shall he consecrate you,
34 as he did in this day on which the Lord commanded me to do so, to make an atonement for you.
35 And you shall remain seven days at the door of the tabernacle of
witness, day and night; you shall observe the ordinances of the Lord,
so that you do not die; for so has the Lord God commanded me.”
36 And Aaron and his sons performed all these commands which the Lord
commanded Moses.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 9
Aaron’s Priesthood Inaugurated
1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel,
2 and Moses said to Aaron, “Take to yourself a young calf of the
herd for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, unblemished,
and offer them before the Lord.
3 And speak to the elders of Israel, saying, ‘Take one kid of the
goats for a sin-offering, and a young calf, and a lamb of a year old
for a burnt offering, spotless,
4 and a calf and a ram for a peace offering before the Lord, and fine
flour mingled with oil, for today the Lord will appear among
you.’”
5 And they took as Moses commanded them before the tabernacle of
witness, and all the congregation drew near, and they stood before the
Lord.
6 And Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has spoken:
do it, and the glory of the Lord shall appear among you.”
7 And Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer
your sin-offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for
yourself, and for your house; and offer the gifts of the people, and
make atonement for them”; as the Lord commanded Moses.
8 And Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of his sin-offering.
9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his
finger into the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and he
poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar.
10 And he offered up on the altar the fat and the kidneys and the lobe
of the liver of the sin-offering, according as the Lord commanded
Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burned with fire outside of the camp.
12 And he killed the burnt offering; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about.
13 And they brought the burnt offering, according to its pieces; them and the head he put upon the altar.
14 And he washed the belly and the feet with water, and he put them on the burnt offering on the altar.
15 And he brought the gift of the people, and took the goat of the
sin-offering of the people, and slew it, and purified it as also the
first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it in due form.
17 And he brought the sacrifice and filled his hands with it, and laid
it on the altar, besides the morning burnt offering.
18 And he killed the calf, and the ram of the sacrifice of
peace-offering of the people; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood
to him, and he poured it out on the altar round about.
19 And he took the fat of the calf, and the hind quarters of the ram,
and the fat covering the belly, and the two kidneys, and the fat upon
them, and the fatty lobe on the liver.
20 And he put the fat on the breasts, and offered the fat on the altar.
21 And Aaron separated the breast and the right shoulder as a choice-offering before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
22 And Aaron lifted up his hands on the people and blessed them; and
after he had offered the sin-offering, and the burnt offerings, and the
peace-offerings, he came down.
23 And Moses and Aaron entered into the tabernacle of witness. And they
came out and blessed all the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared
to all the people.
24 And fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured the offerings on the
altar, both the burnt offerings and the fat; and all the people saw,
and were amazed, and fell upon their
faces.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 10
Nadab and Abihu Offer Profane Fire
1 And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each his censer, and
put fire in it, and threw incense on it, and offered strange fire
before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them,
2 and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is the thing which the Lord
spoke, saying, ‘I will be sanctified among them that draw near to
Me, and I will be glorified in the whole congregation.’”
And Aaron was pricked in his heart.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elisaphan, sons of Uzziel, sons of the
brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, “Draw near and take
your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
5 And they came near and took them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses said.
6 And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were
left, “You shall not uncover your heads, and you shall not tear
your clothes, so that you do not die, and so there should be wrath on
all the congregation. But your brothers, even all the house of Israel,
shall lament for the burning, with which they were burned by the Lord.
7 And you shall not go forth from the door of the tabernacle of
witness, that you do not die; for the Lord's anointing oil is upon
you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.
Priestly Conduct
8 And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying,
9 “You shall not drink wine nor strong drink, you and your sons
with you, whenever you enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when
you approach the altar, so shall you not die; it is a perpetual statute
for your generations,
10 to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,
11 and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes, which the Lord spoke to them by Moses.”
12 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of
Aaron who survived, “Take the sacrifice that is left of the burnt
offerings of the Lord, and you shall eat unleavened bread by the altar:
it is most holy.
13 And you shall eat it in the holy place; for this is a statute for
you and a statute for your sons, of the burnt offerings to the Lord;
for so it has been commanded me.
14 And you shall eat the breast of separation, and the shoulder of the
choice-offering in the holy place, you and your sons and your house
with you; for it has been given as an ordinance for you and an
ordinance for your sons, of the sacrifices of peace-offering of the
children of Israel.
15 They shall bring the shoulder of the choice-offering, and the breast
of the separation upon the burnt offerings of the fat, to separate for
a separation before the Lord; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for
you and your sons and your daughters with you, as the Lord commanded
Moses.”
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, but it had
been consumed by fire; and Moses was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the
sons of Aaron that were left, saying, 17 “Why did you not eat the
sin-offering in the holy place? For because it is most holy He has
given you this to eat, that you might take away the sin of the
congregation, and make atonement for them before the Lord.
18 For the blood of it was not brought into the holy place: you shall
eat it inside, before the Lord, as the Lord commanded me.”
19 And Aaron spoke to Moses, saying, “If they have brought near
today their sin-offerings, and their burnt offerings before the Lord,
and these events have happened to me, and yet I should eat today of the
sin-offerings, would it be pleasing to the Lord?”
20 And Moses heard it, and it pleased him.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 11
Clean and Unclean Foods
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the
beasts which you shall eat out of all beasts that are upon the earth.
3 Every beast parting the hoof and making divisions of two claws, and chewing the cud among beasts, these you shall eat.
4 But of these you shall not eat, of those that chew the cud, and of
those that part the hoofs, and divide claws: the camel, because it
chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
5 And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
6 And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
7 And the swine, because this animal divides the hoof, and makes claws
of the hoof, and it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
8 You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; these are unclean to you.
9 ‘And these are what you shall eat of all that are in the
waters: all things that have fins and scales in the waters, and in the
seas, and in the brooks, these you shall eat.
10 And all things which have not fins or scales in the water, or in the
seas, and in the brooks, of all which the waters produce, and of every
soul living in the water, are an abomination; and they shall be
abominations to you.
11 You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall abhor their carcasses.
12 And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters, these are an abomination to you.
13 ‘And these are the things which you shall abhor of birds, an
they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the
ossifrage, and the sea-eagle. 14 And the vulture, and the kite, and the
like to it;
15 and the sparrow, and the owl, and the sea-mew, and the like to it;
16 and every raven, and the birds like it, and the hawk and his like,
17 and the night-raven and the cormorant and the stork,
18 and the red-bill, and the pelican, and swan,
19 and the heron, and the lapwing, and the like to it, and the hoopoe and the bat.
20 ‘And all winged creatures that creep, which go upon four feet, are abominations to you.
21 But these you shall eat of the creeping winged animals, which go
upon four feet, which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the
earth.
22 And these of them you shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and
the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the
locust and his like.
23 Every creeping thing from among the birds, which has four feet, is an abomination to you.
Unclean Animals
24 ‘And by these you shall be defiled; everyone that touches their carcasses shall be unclean till the evening.
25 And everyone that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till the evening.
26 And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws, and
does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; everyone that touches
their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.
27 And everyone among all the wild beasts that moves upon its four
feet, which goes on all four, is unclean to you; everyone that touches
their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.
28 And he that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till evening: these are unclean to you.
29 ‘And these are unclean to you of reptiles upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the lizard,
30 the ferret, the chameleon, the evet, the newt, and the mole.
31 These are unclean to you of all the reptiles which are on the earth;
everyone who touches their carcasses shall be unclean till evening.
32 And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be
unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may
be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in
water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean.
33 And every earthen vessel into which one of these things shall fall,
whatsoever is inside it shall be unclean, and it shall be broken.
34 And all food that is eaten, on which water shall come from such a
vessel, shall be unclean; and every beverage which is drunk in any such
vessel shall be unclean.
35 And everything on which there shall fall of their dead bodies shall
be unclean; ovens and stands for jars shall be broken down: these are
unclean, and they shall be unclean to you.
36 Only if the water be of fountains of water, or a pool, or confluence
of water, it shall be clean; but he that touches their carcasses shall
be unclean.
37 And if one of their carcasses should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean.
38 But if water be poured on any seed, and one of their dead bodies fall upon it, it is unclean to you.
39 ‘And if one of the cattle die, which it is lawful for you to
eat, he that touches their carcasses shall be unclean till evening.
40 And he that eats of their carcasses shall wash his garments, and be
unclean till evening; and he that carries any of their carcasses shall
wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean till
evening.
41 ‘And every reptile that creeps on the earth, this shall be an abomination to you; it shall not be eaten.
42 And every animal that creeps on its belly, and everyone that goes on
four feet continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles
creeping upon the earth— you shall not eat it, for it is an
abomination to you.
43 And you shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles that
creep upon the earth, and you shall not be polluted with them, and you
shall not be unclean by them.
44 For I am the Lord your God; and you shall be sanctified, and you
shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and you shall not
defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth.
45 For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; and you shall be holy, for I the Lord am holy.
46 This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living
creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the
earth;
47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean; and between those
that bring forth alive, such as should be eaten, and those that bring
forth alive, such as should not be
eaten.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 12
Purification of Women After Childbirth
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them,
‘Whatsoever woman shall have conceived and born a male child
shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days
of separation for her monthly courses.
3 And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.
4 And for thirty-three days she shall continue in her unclean blood;
she shall touch nothing holy, and shall not enter the sanctuary, until
the days of her purification be fulfilled.
5 But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean
fourteen days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for
sixty-six days shall she remain in her unclean blood.
6 ‘And when the days of her purification shall have been
fulfilled for a son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of a year old
without blemish for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or turtle dove
for a sin-offering to the door of the tabernacle of witness, to the
priest.
7 And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make
atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood;
this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.
8 And if she cannot afford a lamb, then shall she take two turtle doves
or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering, and one for a
sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she
shall be purified.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 13
The Law Concerning Leprosy
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “If any man should have in the skin of his flesh a bright clear
spot, and there should be in the skin of his flesh a plague of leprosy,
he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the
priests.
3 And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if
the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the
spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the
priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.
4 But if the spot be clear and white in the skin of his flesh, yet the
appearance of it be not deep below the skin, and its hair has not
changed itself for white hair, but it is dark, then the priest shall
separate him that has the spot for seven days;
5 and the priest shall look on the spot the seventh day; and behold, if
the spot remains before him, if the spot has not spread in the skin,
then the priest shall separate him the second time for seven days.
6 And the priest shall look upon him the second time on the seventh
day. And behold, if the spot is dark, and the spot has not spread in
the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is a mere
mark, and the man shall wash his garments and be clean.
7 But if the bright spot should have changed and spread in the skin,
after the priest has seen him for the purpose of purifying him, then
shall he appear the second time to the priest,
8 and the priest shall look upon him; and behold, if the mark has
spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is
leprosy.
9 “And if a man should have a plague of leprosy, then he shall come to the priest;
10 and the priest shall look, and behold, if it is a white spot in the
skin, and it has changed the hair to white, and there be some of the
sound part of the quick flesh in the sore—
11 it is leprosy advancing in the skin of the flesh; and the priest
shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is
unclean.
12 “And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the
skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the
head to the feet, wherever the priest shall look;
13 then the priest shall look, and behold, the leprosy has covered all
the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him clean of the
plague, because it has changed all to white, it is clean.
14 But on whatever day the quick flesh shall appear on him, he shall be pronounced unclean.
15 And the priest shall look upon the sound flesh, and the sound flesh
shall prove him to be unclean; for it is unclean, it is a leprosy.
16 But if the sound flesh be restored and changed to white, then shall he come to the priest;
17 and the priest shall see him, and behold, if the plague is turned
white, then the priest shall pronounce the patient clean: he is clean.
18 “And if the flesh should have become an ulcer in his skin, and should be healed,
19 and there should be in the place of the ulcer a white sore, or one
looking white and bright, or fiery, and it shall be seen by the priest;
20 then the priest shall look, and behold, if the appearance be beneath
the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean; because it is leprosy, it has broken out in the
ulcer.
21 But if the priest look, and behold there is no white hair on it, and
it is not below the skin of the flesh, and it is dark-colored; then the
priest shall separate him for seven days.
22 But if it manifestly spread over the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy; it has broken out in
the ulcer.
23 But if the bright spot should remain in its place and not spread, it
is the scar of the ulcer; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 “And if his flesh is in a state of fiery inflammation, and
there should be in his skin the part which is healed of the
inflammation, bright, clear, and white, suffused with red or very
white;
25 then the priest shall look upon him, and behold, if the hair being
white is changed to a bright color, and its appearance is lower than
the skin, it is a leprosy; it has broken out in the inflammation, and
the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest should look, and behold, there is not in the
bright spot any white hair, and it should not be lower than the skin,
and it should be dark, then the priest shall separate him seven days.
27 And the priest shall look upon him on the seventh day; and if the
spot has spread much in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
28 But if the bright spot remain stationary, and has not spread in the
skin, but the sore should be dark, it is a scar of inflammation; and
the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the mark of the
inflammation.
29 “And if a man or a woman have in them a plague of leprosy in the head or the beard,
30 then the priest shall look on the plague, and behold, if the
appearance of it is beneath the skin, and in it there is thin yellowish
hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scurf, it is
leprosy of the head, or leprosy of the beard.
31 And if the priest should see the plague of the scurf, and behold,
the appearance of it is not beneath the skin, and there is no yellowish
hair in it, then the priest shall set apart him that has the plague of
the scurf for seven days.
32 And the priest shall look at the plague on the seventh day; and
behold, if the scurf has not spread, and there is no yellowish hair on
it, and the appearance of the scurf is not hollow under the skin;
33 then the skin shall be shaven, but the scurf shall not be shaven;
and the priest shall set aside the person having the scurf the second
time for seven days.
34 And the priest shall see the scurf on the seventh day; and behold,
if the scurf is not spread in the skin after the man has been shaved,
and the appearance of the scurf is not hollow beneath the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his garments,
and be clean.
35 But if the scurf has indeed spread in the skin after he has been purified,
36 then the priest shall look, and behold, if the scurf has spread in
the skin, the priest shall not examine concerning the yellow hair, for
he is unclean.
37 But if the scurf remain before him in its place, and a dark hair
should have arisen in it, the scurf is healed: he is clean, and the
priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 “And if a man or woman should have in the skin of their flesh spots of a bright whiteness,
39 then the priest shall look; and behold, there being bright spots of
a bright whiteness in the skin of their flesh, it is a tetter; it burst
forth in the skin of his flesh; he is clean.
40 And if anyone's head should lose his hair, he is only bald, he is clean.
41 And if his head should lose the hair in front, he is forehead bald, he is clean.
42 And if there should be in his baldness of head, or his baldness of
forehead, a white or fiery plague, it is leprosy in his baldness of
head, or baldness of forehead.
43 And the priest shall look upon him, and behold, if the appearance of
the plague is white or inflamed in his baldness of head or baldness in
front, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of his flesh,
44 then he is a leprous man; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean, his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be torn, and
his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and
he shall be called unclean.
46 All the days in which the plague shall be upon him, being unclean,
he shall be esteemed unclean; he shall dwell apart, his place of
sojourn shall be outside the camp.
The Law Concerning Leprous Clothing
47 “And if a garment have in it the plague of leprosy, a garment of wool, or a garment of flax,
48 either in the warp or in the woof, or in the linen, or in the woolen threads, or in a skin, or in any workmanship of skin,
49 and the plague is greenish or reddish in the skin, or in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any utensil of skin,
it is a plague of leprosy, and he shall show it to the priest.
50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and the priest shall set apart that which has the plague for seven days.
51 And the priest shall look upon the plague on the seventh day. And if
the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the
woof, or in the skin, in whatsoever things skins may be used in their
workmanship, the plague is a confirmed leprosy; it is unclean.
52 He shall burn the garment, either the warp or woof in woolen
garments or in flaxen, or in any utensil of skin, in which there may be
the plague; because it is a confirmed leprosy; it shall be burned with
fire.
53 “And if the priest should see, and the plague has not spread
in the garments, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any utensil
of skin,
54 then the priest shall give directions, and one shall wash that on
which there may have been the plague, and the priest shall set it aside
a second time for seven days.
55 And the priest shall look upon it after the plague has been washed;
and if this, even the plague, has not changed its appearance, and the
plague does not spread, it is unclean; it shall be burned with fire: it
is fixed in the garment, in the warp, or in the woof.
56 And if the priest should look, and the spot is dark after it has
been washed, he shall tear it off from the garment, either from the
warp or from the woof, or from the skin.
57 And if it should still appear in the garment, either in the warp or
in the woof, or in any article of skin, it is leprosy bursting forth:
that in which is the plague shall be burned with fire.
58 And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or any article of skin,
which shall be washed, and the plague depart from it, shall also be
washed again, and shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woolen or linen
garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leather article, to
pronounce it clean or unclean.”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 14
Purification of Lepers and Leprous Houses
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “This is the law of the leper: in whatsoever day he shall have
been cleansed, then shall he be brought to the priest.
3 And the priest shall come forth out of the camp, and the priest shall
look, and behold, the plague of the leprosy is removed from the leper.
4 And the priest shall give directions, and they shall take for him
that is cleansed two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and spun
scarlet, and hyssop.
5 And the priest shall give direction, and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.
6 And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and
the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living
bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.
7 And he shall sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his
leprosy, and he shall be clean; and he shall let go the living bird
into the field.
8 And the man that has been cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall
shave off all his hair, and shall wash himself in water, and shall be
clean; and after that he shall go into the camp, and shall remain out
of his house for seven days.
9 And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, he shall shave off all
his hair, his head and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair
shall he shave; and he shall wash his garments, and wash his body with
water, and shall be clean.
10 “And on the eighth day he shall take two lambs without spot of
a year old, and one ewe lamp without spot of a year old, and
three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for sacrifice kneaded with oil,
and one small cup of oil.
11 And the priest that cleanses shall present the man under
purification, and these offerings before the Lord, at the door of the
tabernacle of witness.
12 And the priest shall take one lamb, and offer him for a
trespass-offering, and the cup of oil, and set them apart for a special
offering before the Lord.
13 And they shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the burnt
offerings, and the sin-offerings, in the holy places; for it is a
sin-offering: as the trespass-offering, it belongs to the priest, it is
most holy.
14 And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and
the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of the person under
cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right foot.
15 And the priest shall take of the cup of oil, and shall pour it upon his own left hand.
16 And he shall dip with the finger of his right hand into some of the
oil that is in his left hand, and he shall sprinkle with his finger
seven times before the Lord. 17 And the remaining oil that is in
his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that
is under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big
toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the
trespass-offering.
18 And the remaining oil that is on the hand of the priest, the priest
shall put on the head of the cleansed leper, and the priest shall make
atonement for him before the Lord.
19 And the priest shall sacrifice the sin-offering, and the priest
shall make atonement for the person under purification to cleanse him
from his sin, and afterwards the priest shall slay the burnt offering.
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering, and the sacrifice
upon the altar before the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for
him, and he shall be cleansed.
21 “And if he should be poor, and cannot afford so much, he shall
take one lamb for his transgression for a separate-offering, so as to
make propitiation for him, and a tenth deal of fine flour mingled with
oil for a sacrifice, and one cup of oil,
22 and two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, as he can afford; and
the one shall be for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt
offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day, to purify him, to the
priest, to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the
cup of oil, and place them for a set-offering before the Lord.
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest
shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it on the tip
of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil on his own left hand.
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with the finger of his right hand some
of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is on his hand on the tip
of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of
the blood of the trespass-offering.
29 And that which is left of the oil which is on the hand of the priest
he shall put on the head of him that is purged, and the priest shall
make atonement for him before the Lord.
30 And he shall offer one of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons, as he can afford it,
31 the one for a sin-offering, the other for a burnt offering with the
grain offering, and the priest shall make an atonement before the Lord
for him that is under purification.
32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, and who cannot afford the offerings for his purification.”
33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
34 “Whenever you shall enter into the land of the Canaanites,
which I give you for a possession, and I shall put the plague of
leprosy in the houses of the land of your possession;
35 then the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, saying, ‘I have seen a plague in the house.’
36 And the priest shall give orders to remove the furniture of the
house, before the priest comes in to see the plague, and thus none of
the things in the house shall become unclean; and afterwards the priest
shall go in to examine the house.
37 And he shall look on the plague, and behold, if the plague is in the
walls of the house, he will see greenish or reddish cavities, and the
appearance of them will be beneath the surface of the walls.
38 And the priest shall come out of the house to the door of the house,
and the priest shall separate the house for seven days. 39 And the
priest shall return on the seventh day and view the house. And behold,
if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
40 then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the
stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into
an unclean place.
41 And they shall scrape the house inside round about, and shall pour
out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
42 And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place
of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the
house.
43 “And if the plague should return again, and break out in the
house after they have taken away the stones and after the house is
scraped, and after it has been plastered,
44 then the priest shall go in and see if the plague has spread in the
house: it is a confirmed leprosy in the house, it is unclean.
45 And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones,
and they shall carry out all the mortar outside the city into an
unclean place.
46 And he that goes into the house at any time, during its separation, shall be unclean until evening.
47 And he that sleeps in the house shall wash his garments, and be
unclean until evening; and he that eats in the house shall wash his
garments, and be unclean until evening.
48 “And if the priest shall arrive and enter and see, and behold
the plague has not at all spread in the house after the house has been
plastered, then the priest shall declare the house clean, because the
plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to purify the house two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
50 And he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the
hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it into the blood of the
bird slain over running water, and with them he shall sprinkle the
house seven times.
52 And he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with
the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood,
and with the hyssop, and with the spun scarlet.
53 And he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the field,
and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54 “This is the law concerning every plague of leprosy and scurf,
55 and of the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 and of a sore, and of a clear spot, and of a shining one,
57 and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall
be purged: this is the law of the
leprosy.”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 15
The Law Concerning Bodily Discharges
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them,
‘Whatever man shall have a discharge out of his body, his
discharge is unclean.
3 And this is the law of his uncleanness: whoever has a discharge out
of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the discharge,
by which, his body is affected through the discharge. All the days of
the discharge of his body, by which his body is affected through the
discharge, there is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed on which he that has the discharge shall happen to lie, is
unclean; and every seat on which he that has the discharge may happen
to sit, shall be unclean.
5 And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.
6 And whosoever sits on the seat on which he that has the discharge may
have sat, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and
shall be unclean until evening.
7 And he that touches the skin of him that has the discharge, shall
wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till
evening.
8 And if he that has the discharge should spit upon one that is clean,
that person shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until evening.
9 And every donkey’s saddle, on which the man with the discharge shall have mounted, shall be unclean till evening.
10 And everyone that touches whatsoever shall have been under him shall
be unclean until evening; and he that takes them up shall wash his
garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until
evening.
11 And whomsoever he that has the discharge shall touch, if he has not
rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his garments, and bathe his
body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
12 And the earthen vessel which he that has the discharge shall happen
to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with
water, and shall be clean.
13 ‘And if he that has the discharge should be cleansed of his
issue, then shall he number to himself seven days for his purification;
and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall
be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtle doves or
two young pigeons, and he shall bring them before the Lord to the doors
of the tabernacle of witness, and shall give them to the priest.
15 And the priest shall offer them, one for a sin-offering, and the
other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him
before the Lord for his discharge.
16 ‘And the man whose seed of copulation shall happen to go forth
from him, shall then wash his whole body, and shall be unclean until
evening.
17 And every garment, and every skin on which there shall be the seed
of copulation shall both be washed with water, and be unclean until
evening.
18 And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulation--
they shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until
evening.
19 ‘And the woman whosoever shall have an issue of blood, when
her issue shall be in her body, shall be seven days in her separation;
everyone that touches her shall be unclean until evening.
20 And everywhere that she shall lie upon in her separation shall be
unclean; and whatever she shall sit upon, shall be unclean.
21 And whosoever shall touch her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
22 And everyone that touches any vessel on which she shall sit, shall
wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean
until evening.
23 And whether it be while she is on her bed, or on a seat which she
may happen to sit upon when he touches her, he shall be unclean till
evening.
24 And if anyone shall lie with her, and her uncleanness be upon him,
he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he shall have
lain shall be unclean.
25 ‘And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the
time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her
separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as
the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
26 And every bed on which she shall lie all the days of her flux shall
be to her as the bed of her separation, and every seat whereon she
shall sit shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her
separation.
27 Everyone that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his
garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till
evening.
28 ‘But if she shall be cleansed from her flux, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and afterwards she shall be esteemed
clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle doves, or two young
pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of witness.
30 And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for
a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before
the Lord for her unclean flux.
31 ‘And you shall cause the children of Israel to beware of their
uncleanness, so they shall not die for their uncleanness, in polluting
My tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
33 And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her
separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his
issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who
shall have lain with her that is set
apart.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 16
The Day of Atonement
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses after the two sons of Aaron died in bringing strange fire before the Lord, so they died.
2 And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron your brother, and
let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil
before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he
shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place: with a calf of the herd
for a sin-offering, and having a ram for a burnt offering.
4 And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on
his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen sash,
and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall
bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two
kids of the goats for a sin-offering, and one lamb for a burnt
offering.
6 “And Aaron shall bring the calf for his own sin-offering, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and place them before the Lord by the door of the tabernacle of witness.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering.
10 And the goat upon which the lot of the scapegoat came, he shall
present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to
send him away as a scapegoat, and he shall send him into the
wilderness.
11 “And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make
atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for
his sin-offering.
12 And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar,
which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine
compound incense, and shall bring it inside the veil.
13 And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the
smoke of the incense shall cover the mercy seat over the tables of
testimony, and he shall not die.
14 And he shall take of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his
finger on the mercy seat eastward: before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.
15 “And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for
the people, before the Lord. And he shall bring in of its blood within
the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the
calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy seat, in front of the
mercy seat.
16 And he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the
matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of
witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of witness, when he goes
in to make atonement in the holy place, until he shall have come out;
and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all
the congregation of the children of Israel.
18 And he shall come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, and he
shall make atonement upon it; and he shall take of the blood of the
calf, and of the blood of the goat, and shall put it on the horns of
the altar round about.
19 And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his
finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the
children of Israel.
20 “And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and
for the tabernacle of witness, and for the altar; and he shall make a
cleansing for the priests, and he shall bring the living goat;
21 and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and he
shall declare over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel,
and all their unrighteousness, and all their sins; and he shall lay
them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him by the hand of
a ready man into the wilderness.
22 And the goat shall bear their unrighteousnesses upon him into a
desert land; and Aaron shall send away the goat into the wilderness.
23 “And Aaron shall enter into the tabernacle of witness, and
shall put off the linen garment, which he had put on, as he entered
into the holy place, and shall lay it by there.
24 And he shall bathe his body in water in the holy place, and shall
put on his garments, and shall go out and offer the burnt offering for
himself and the burnt offering for the people: and shall make atonement
for himself and for his house, and for the people, as for the priests.
25 And he shall offer the fat for the sin-offering on the altar.
26 And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let
go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and
afterwards shall enter into the camp.
27 And the calf for the sin-offering, and the goat for the
sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy
place, they shall carry forth out of the camp, and burn them with fire,
even their skins and their flesh and their dung. 28 And he that burns
them shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and
afterwards he shall enter into the camp.
29 “And this shall be a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, and
shall do no work, the native and the stranger who abides among you.
30 For in this day he shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you
from all your sins before the Lord, and you shall be purged.
31 This shall be to you a most holy Sabbath, a rest, and you shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.
32 The priest whomsoever they shall anoint shall make atonement, and
whomsoever they shall consecrate to exercise the priestly office after
his father; and he shall put on the linen robe, the holy garment.
33 And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and the
tabernacle of witness; and he shall make atonement for the altar, and
for the priests; and he shall make atonement for all the congregation.
34 And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for
the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the
year,” as the Lord commanded
Moses.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 17
The Sanctity of Blood
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of
Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘This is the word which the
Lord has commanded, saying,
3 ‘Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the
camp, or who shall kill it outside of the camp,
4 and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so
as to sacrifice it for a burnt offering or peace-offering to the Lord
to be acceptable for a sweet-smelling savor; and whosoever shall kill
it outside the camp, and shall not bring it to the door of the
tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before
the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has
shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people.
5 That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they
shall kill in the fields, and bring them to the Lord, unto the doors of
the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them
as a peace-offering to the Lord.
6 And the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about before
the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the
fat for a sweet-smelling savor to the Lord.
7 And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain gods after
which they whore after; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your
generations.’
8 And you shall say to them, ‘Whatever man of the children of
Israel, or of the sons of the proselytes abiding among you, shall offer
a burnt offering or a sacrifice,
9 and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness to
sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from among his
people.
10 ‘And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the
strangers abiding among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set My
face against that soul that eats blood, and I will destroy that soul
from among its people.
11 For the life of flesh is its blood, and I have given it to you on
the altar to make atonement for your souls; for its blood shall make
atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘No soul of you
shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat
blood.
13 And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
abiding among you shall take any animal in hunting, beast, or bird,
which is eaten, then shall he pour out the blood, and cover it in the
dust.
14 For the blood of all flesh is its life; and I said to the children
of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the
life of all flesh is its blood: everyone that eats it shall be
destroyed.
15 ‘And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or
is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers,
shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be
unclean until evening: then shall he be clean.
16 But if he does not wash his garments, and does not bathe his body in
water, then shall he bear his
iniquity.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 18
The Laws of Sexual Morality
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God.
3 You shall not do according to what is done in Egypt, in which you
dwelt: and according to what is done in the land of Canaan, into which
I bring you, you shall not do; and you shall not walk in their
ordinances.
4 You shall observe My judgments, and shall keep My ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
5 So you shall keep all My ordinances, and all My judgments, and do
them; which if a man shall do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord
your God.
6 ‘No man shall draw near to any of his relatives to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord.
7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness
of your mother, for she is your mother; you shall not uncover her
nakedness.
8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of your sister by your father or by your mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter,
their nakedness you shall not uncover; because it is your nakedness.
11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's
wife; she is your sister by the same father: you shall not uncover her
nakedness.
12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister, for she is near akin to your father.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near akin to your mother.
14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, and you shall not go in to his wife; for she is your relation.
15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law, for she
is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
17 The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shall you not uncover; her
son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shall you not take, to
uncover their nakedness, for they are your kinswomen: it is impiety.
18 You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to
uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.
19 ‘And you shall not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.
20 And you shall not lie with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.
21 And you shall not give of your seed to serve a ruler; and you shall not profane My holy name; I am the Lord.
22 And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
23 Neither shall you lie with any animal, to mate with it, and be
polluted by it: neither shall a woman present herself before any animal
to mate with it; for it is an abomination.
24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all
these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,
25 and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to
them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon
it.
26 And you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and you
shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the
stranger that joins himself with you:
27 (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled)
28 and lest the land be enraged with you in your polluting it, as it was enraged with the nations before you.
29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.
30 And you shall keep My ordinances, that you may not do any of the
abominable practices, which have taken place before your time; and you
shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your
God.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 19
Ritual and Moral Holiness
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you
shall say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am
holy.
3 Let everyone of you reverence his father and his mother; and you shall keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
4 You shall not follow idols, and you shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
5 ‘And if you will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, you shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.
6 In whatever day you shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the
following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it
shall be thoroughly burned with fire.
7 And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted.
8 And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned
the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be
destroyed from among their people.
9 ‘And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and you shall not
gather that which falls from your reaping.
10 And you shall not go over the gathering of your vineyard, neither
shall you gather the remaining grapes of your vineyard: you shall leave
them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
11 ‘You shall not steal, you shall not lie, neither shall one
bear false witness as an informer against his neighbor.
12 And you shall not swear unjustly by My name, and you shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.
13 ‘You shall not injure your neighbor, neither shall you rob
him, neither shall the wages of your hireling remain with you until the
morning.
14 You shall not revile the deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling
block in the way of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I
am the Lord your God. 15 ‘You shall not act unjustly in judgment:
you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the
mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbor.
16 You shall not walk deceitfully among your people; you shall not rise
up against the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord your God.
17 ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall
surely rebuke your neighbor, so you shall not bear sin on his account.
18 And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with
the children of your people; and you shall love your neighbor as
yourself; I am the Lord
19 ‘You shall observe My law: you shall not let your cattle breed
with one of a different kind, and you shall not sow your vineyard with
diverse seed; and you shall not put upon yourself a mingled garment
woven of two materials.
20 And if anyone should lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a
home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her
freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with
punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
21 And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering.
22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and
the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him.
23 ‘And whenever you shall enter into the land which the Lord
your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall you
purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be unclean to you for three
years; it shall not be eaten.
24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
26 ‘Do not eat on the mountains, nor shall you employ divination, nor divine by inspection of birds.
27 You shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.
28 And you shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead body, and
you shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.
29 ‘You shall not profane your daughter to prostitute her; so the
land shall not whore after, and the land be filled with iniquity.
30 ‘You shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
31 ‘You shall not attend to those who have in them divining
spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves
with them: I am the Lord your God.
32 ‘You shall rise up before the gray-headed, and honor the face
of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.
33 ‘And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, you shall not afflict him.
34 The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and
you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 ‘You shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales.
36 There shall be among you honest balances and honest weights and
honest liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt.
37 ‘And you shall keep all My laws and all My ordinances, and you
shall do them: I am the Lord your
God.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 20
Penalties for Breaking the Law
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “You shall also say to the children of Israel, ‘If there
shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become
proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Moloch, let him be
surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with
stones.
3 And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from
his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile My
sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to Me.
4 And if the natives of the land should in anyway overlook that man in
giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death;
5 then will I set My face against that man and his family, and I will
destroy him, and all who have consented with him, so that he should
whore after the chief gods of their people.
6 ‘And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining
spirits, or enchanters, so as to whore after them; I will set My face
against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people.
7 And you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
8 ‘And you shall observe My ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
9 Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let
him die the death; has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? He
shall be guilty.
10 Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or
whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them
die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
11 And if anyone should lie with his father's wife, he has uncovered
his father's nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty.
12 And if anyone should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be
put to death; for they have committed perversion, they are guilty.
13 And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both
committed an abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.
14 Whosoever shall take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they
shall burn him and them with fire; so there shall not be iniquity among
you.
15 And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and you shall kill the beast.
16 And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to mate with it,
you shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they
are guilty.
17 Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and
shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach:
they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has
uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their sin.
18 And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart for her
impurity, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her
fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her blood: they shall both
be destroyed from among their generation.
19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister, or
of the sister of your mother; for that man has uncovered the nakedness
of a close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
20 Whosoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of a close relataive: they shall die childless.
21 Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness; he has
uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall die childless.
22 ‘And keep all My ordinances, and My judgments; and you shall
do them, and the land shall not be enraged with you, into which I bring
you to dwell upon it.
23 And do not walk according to the customs of the nations which I
drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I
have abhorred them:
24 and I said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will
give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and
honey’: I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from all
people.
25 And you shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean
cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and you shall not defile
your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of
the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness.
26 And you shall be holy to Me; because I the Lord your God am holy, who separated you from all nations, to be Mine.
27 “And as for a man or woman whosoever of them shall have in
them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the
death: you shall stone them with stones, they are
guilty.”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 21
The Holiness of Priests
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the priests, the
sons of Aaron, and you shall tell them that they shall not defile
themselves in their nation for the dead,
2 but they may mourn for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,
3 and for a virgin sister that is near to him, that has no husband; for her he may defile himself.
4 Otherwise he shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself.
5 And you shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the
top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make
gashes on their flesh.
6 They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name
of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of
their God, and they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman
put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.
8 And you shall sanctify him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God:
he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them is holy.
9 And if the daughter of a priest should profane herself by playing the
harlot, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burned with
fire.
10 “And the priest that is chief among his brothers, the oil
having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having
been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the turban off
his head, and shall not tear his clothes;
11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.
12 And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not
profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God
is upon him: I am the Lord.
13 He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.
14 But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot,
these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his
own people.
15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I am the Lord that sanctifies him.”
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
17 “Say to Aaron, A man of your tribe throughout your
generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw near to
offer the gifts of his God.
18 No man who has a blemish on him shall draw near; a man blind, lame, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,
19 a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,
20 or hump-backed, or bleary-eyed, or that has lost his eyelashes, or a
man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a
testicle.
21 Whoever of the descendants of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him,
shall not draw near to offer sacrifices to your God, because he has a
blemish on him; he shall not draw near to offer the gifts of God.
22 The gifts of God are most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.
23 Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw near to
the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the
sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.”
24 And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 22
The Use of Holy Offerings
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and let them take heed
concerning the holy things of the children of Israel, so they shall not
profane My holy name in any of the things which they consecrate to Me:
I am the Lord.
3 Say to them, ‘Every man throughout your generations, whoever of
all your descendants shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the
children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness
is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from Me: I am the Lord your
God.
4 And the man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, if he should have
leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until
he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or
the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,
5 or whosoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him,
or who shall touch a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all
his uncleanness;
6 whatsoever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he
shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water,
7 and the sun go down, and then he shall be clean; and then shall he eat of all the holy things, for they are his bread.
8 He shall not eat that which dies of itself, or is taken of beasts, so that he should be polluted by them: I am the Lord.
9 And they shall keep My ordinances, that they do not bear iniquity
because of them, and die because of them, if they shall profane them: I
am the Lord God that sanctifies them.
10 ‘And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns
with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.
11 But if a priest should have a soul purchased for money, he shall eat
of his bread; and they that are born in his house, they also shall eat
of his bread.
12 And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.
13 And if the daughter of priest should be a widow, or put away, and
have no descendants, she shall return to her father's house, as in her
youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat
of it.
14 ‘And the man who shall ignorantly eat holy things, shall add
the fifth part to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.
15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord.
16 So should they bring upon themselves the iniquity of trespass in
their eating their holy things: for I am the Lord that sanctifies
them.’”
Acceptable Offerings
17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the congregation of
Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘Any man of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers that abide among them in Israel, who shall
offer his gifts according to all their confession and according to all
their choice, whatsoever they may bring to the Lord for burnt
offerings,
19 your freewill offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
20 They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 And whatsoever man shall offer a peace-offering to the Lord,
discharging a vow, or in the way of freewill offering, or an offering
in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without
blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it. 22 One that is
blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts,
or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the
Lord; neither shall you offer any of them for a burnt offering on the
altar of the Lord.
23 And a calf or a sheep with the ears cut off, or that has lost its
tail, you shall kill them for yourself; but they shall not be accepted
for your vow.
24 That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelded or
mutilated—you shall not offer them to the Lord, neither shall you
sacrifice them upon your land. 25 Neither shall you offer the gifts of
your God of all these things by the hand of a stranger, because there
is corruption in them, a blemish in them: these shall not be accepted
for you.’”
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “As for a calf, or a sheep, or a goat, whenever it is born,
then shall it be seven days under its mother; and on the eighth day and
after they shall be accepted for sacrifices, a burnt offering to the
Lord.
28 And a bullock and a ewe, it and its young, you shall not kill in one day.
29 And if you should offer a sacrifice, a vow of rejoicing to the Lord, you shall offer it so as to be accepted for you.
30 In that same day it shall be eaten; you shall not leave of the flesh till the morning: I am the Lord.
31 “And you shall keep My commandments and do them.
32 And you shall not profane the name of the Holy One, and I will be
sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord that
sanctifies you,
33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23
Feasts of the Lord
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say unto them,
‘The feasts of the Lord which you shall call holy assemblies,
these are My feasts.
The Sabbath
3 ‘Six days shall you do work, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: you shall not do any
work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
The Passover and Unleavened Bread
4 ‘These are the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall call in their seasons.
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evening times is the Lord's Passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened
Bread to the Lord; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.
7 And the first day shall be a holy convocation to you: you shall do no customary work.
8 And you shall offer burnt offerings to the Lord for seven days; and
the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you: you shall do no
customary work.’”
The Feast of Firstfruits
9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them,
‘When you shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap
the harvest of it, then shall you bring a sheaf, the firstfruits of
your harvest, to the priest;
11 and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for
you. On the morning of the first day the priest shall lift it up.
12 And you shall offer on the day on which you bring the sheaf, a lamb
without blemish of a year old for a burnt offering to the Lord.
13 And its grain offering two tenth portions of fine flour mingled with
oil: it is a sacrifice to the Lord, an aroma of sweet savor to the
Lord, and its drink offering the fourth part of a hin of wine.
14 And you shall not eat bread, or the new parched grain, until this
same day, until you offer the sacrifices to your God: it is a perpetual
statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Weeks
15 ‘And you shall number to yourselves from the day after the
Sabbath, from the day on which you shall offer the sheaf of the
heave-offering, seven full weeks:
16 until the day after the last week you shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new grain offering to the Lord.
17 You shall bring loaves from your dwelling places, as a heave
offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine
flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the firstfruits to the Lord.
18 And you shall bring with the loaves seven unblemished lambs of a
year old, and one calf of the herd, and two rams without blemish, and
they shall be a burnt offering to the Lord. And their grain offerings
and their drink offerings shall be a sacrifice, an aroma of sweet savor
to the Lord.
19 And they shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering,
and two lambs of a year old for a peace offering, with the loaves of
the firstfruits.
20 And the priest shall place them with the loaves of the firstfruits,
an offering before the Lord with the two lambs, they shall be holy to
the Lord, they shall belong to the priest that brings them.
21 And you shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you;
you shall do no customary work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance
throughout your generations in all your habitations.
22 ‘And when you shall reap the harvest of your land, you shall
not fully reap the remainder of the harvest of your field when you
reap, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping; you
shall leave it for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your
God.’”
The Feast of Trumpets
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the
seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a rest, a
memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.
25 You shall do no customary work, and you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord.’”
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “Also on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of
Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall humble
your souls, and offer a burnt offering to the Lord.
28 You shall do no work on that same day; for this is the Day of
Atonement for you, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
29 Every soul that shall not be humbled in that day, shall be cut off from among its people.
30 And every soul which shall do work on that day, that soul shall be destroyed from among its people.
31 You shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.
32 It shall be a holy Sabbath to you; and you shall humble your souls,
from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening you shall keep
your Sabbaths.”
33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
34 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘On the
fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be the Feast of
Tabernacles, seven days to the Lord.
35 And on the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work.
36 Seven days shall you offer burnt offerings to the Lord, and the
eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer
burnt offerings to the Lord: it is a time of release, you shall do no
customary work.
37 These are the feasts to the Lord, which you shall call holy
convocations, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings and
their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, that for each day on
its day:
38 besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts, and
besides all your vows, and besides your freewill offerings, which you
shall give to the Lord.
39 ‘And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you
shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, you shall
keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a
rest, and on the eighth day a rest.
40 And on the first day you shall take the good fruit of beautiful
trees, and branches of palm trees, and thick boughs of trees, and
willows, and branches of osiers from the brook, to rejoice before the
Lord your God seven days in the year.
41 It is a perpetual statute for your generations: in the seventh month you shall keep it.
42 Seven days you shall dwell in tabernacles: every native in Israel shall dwell in tents,
43 that your posterity may see, that I made the children of Israel to
dwell in tents, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the
Lord your God.’”
44 And Moses recounted the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 24
The Lamp
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, and let them take for you pure
olive oil beaten for the light, to burn a lamp continually,
3 outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons
shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a
perpetual statute throughout your generations.
4 You shall burn the lamps on the pure lampstand before the Lord till the morning.
The Bread for the Tabernacle
5 “And you shall take fine flour, and make of it twelve loaves; each loaf shall be of two tenth parts.
6 And you shall put them in two rows, each row containing six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord.
7 And you shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these
things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.
8 On the Sabbath day they shall be set forth before the Lord
continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.
9 And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat them in
the holy place: for this is their most holy portion of the offerings
made to the Lord, a perpetual statute.”
Blasphemy and Its Punishment
10 And there went forth a son of an Israelite woman, and he was son of
an Egyptian man among the sons of Israel; and they fought in the camp,
the son of the Israelite woman, and a man who was an Israelite.
11 And the son of the Israelite woman named THE NAME and cursed; and
they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith,
daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 And they put him in custody, to judge him by the command of the Lord.
13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
14 “Bring forth him that cursed outside the camp, and all who
heard shall lay their hands upon his head, and all the congregation
shall stone him.
15 And speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let
all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a
stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.
17 ‘And whosoever shall strike a man and he die, let him die the death.
18 And whosoever shall strike a beast, and it shall die, let him render life for life.
19 And whosoever shall inflict a blemish on his neighbor, as he has done to him, so shall it be done to himself in return;
20 bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as anyone may
inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.
21 Whosoever shall strike a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.
22 There shall be one judgment for the stranger and the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”
23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought him that
had cursed out of the camp, and they stoned him with stones. And the
children of Israel did as the Lord commanded
Moses.
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 25
The Sabbatical Year
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them,
‘When you come into the land which I give to you, then the land
shall rest, to keep its Sabbaths to the Lord.
3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vine, and gather in its fruit.
4 But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath, it shall be a rest to the
land, a Sabbath unto the Lord: you shall not sow your field, and you
shall not prune your vine.
5 And you shall not gather the spontaneous produce of your field, and
you shall not gather fully the grapes of your dedication: it shall be a
year of rest to the land.
6 And the Sabbaths of the land shall be food for you, and for your man
servant, and for your maid servant, and your hireling, and the stranger
that abides with you.
7 And for your cattle, and for the wild beats that are in your land, shall every fruit of it be for food.
The Year of Jubilee
8 ‘And you shall reckon to yourself seven Sabbaths of years,
seven times seven years; and they shall be to you seven weeks of years,
forty-nine years.
9 In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall make a
proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the Day
of Atonement you shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your
land.
10 And you shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and you shall
proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it. It shall be
given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart
to his possession, and you shall go each to his family.
11 This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth
year: you shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from
the land, neither shall you gather it dedicated fruits.
12 For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, you shall eat its fruits off the fields.
13 ‘In the year of the release, even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession.
14 And if you should sell a possession to your neighbor, or if you
should buy of your neighbor, let not a man oppress his neighbor.
15 According to the number of years after the jubilee shall you buy of
your neighbor, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he
sell to you.
16 According as there may be a greater number of years he shall
increase the value of his possession, and according as there may be a
less number of years he shall lessen the value of his possession; for
according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to you.
17 Let not a man oppress his neighbor, and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.
18 ‘And you shall keep all My ordinances, and all My judgments;
and you shall observe them, and you shall keep them, and dwell securely
in the land.
19 And the land shall yield her increase, and you shall eat to your fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.
20 And if you should say, ‘What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?’
21 Then will I send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.
22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the
ninth year: until its fruit come, you shall eat old fruits of the old.
Redemption of Property
23 ‘And the land shall not be sold permanently; for the land is Mine, because you are strangers and sojourners before Me.
24 And in every land of your possession, you shall allow ransoms for the land.
25 And if your brother who is with you is poor, and should have sold
part of his possession, and his relative who is near to him should
come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.
26 And if one has no close relative, and he prospers with his hand, and he finds sufficient money, even his ransom;
27 then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give
what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his
possession.
28 But if his hand has not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should
restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall
have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in
the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.
29 And if anyone should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then
there shall be the ransom of it, until the time is fulfilled: its time
of ransom shall be a full year.
30 And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a
full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely
confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it
shall not go out in the release.
31 But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about
them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always
be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.
32 And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.
33 And if anyone shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their
sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because
the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the
midst of the children of Israel.
34 And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.
Lending to the Poor
35 ‘And if your brother who is with you should become poor, and
he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a
sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.
36 You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall
fear your God: I am the Lord; and your brother shall live with you.
37 You shall not lend your money to him at interest, and you shall not
lend your food to him to be returned with a profit.
38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, so as to be your God.
The Law Concerning Slavery
39 ‘And if your brother by you should become poor, and be sold to
you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.
40 He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the year of release;
41 and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and
he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his family.
42 Because these are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such a one shall not be sold as a common servant.
43 You shall not oppress him with labor, and shall fear the Lord your God.
44 And whatever number of men servants and maid servants you shall
have, you shall purchase male and female servants from the nations that
are round about you.
45 And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these you
shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let
them be to you for a possession.
46 And you shall distribute them to your children after you, and they
shall be to you permanent possessions forever. But of your brothers the
children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labors.
47 ‘And if a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and
your brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that
is with you, or to a proselyte by extraction;
48 after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brothers shall redeem him.
49 A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall
redeem him; or let one of his close relatives from among his tribe
redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself,
50 then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he
sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his
purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year
to year.
51 And if any have a greater number of years remaining, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase money.
52 And if but a little time is left of the years to the year of
release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall
pay his ransom as a hireling.
53 He shall be with him from year to year; you shall not oppress him with labor before you.
54 And if he does not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.
55 For the children of Israel are My servants: they are My attendants,
whom I brought out of the land of
Egypt.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26
Rewards for Obedience
1 “I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves gods
made with hands, or graven images; neither shall you rear up a pillar
for yourselves, neither shall you set up a stone for an object in your
land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.
2 You shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
3 If you will walk in My ordinances, and keep My commandments, and do them,
4 then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall
produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage
shall overtake your seedtime; and you shall eat your bread to the full;
and you shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through
your land.
6 And I will give peace in your land, and you shall sleep, and none
shall make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your
land,
7 and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter.
8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall
chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
9 ‘And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.
10 And you shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.
11 And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you;
12 and I will walk among you, and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
where you were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought
you forth openly.
14 ‘But if you will not hearken to Me, nor obey these My ordinances,
15 but disobey them, and your soul should loathe My judgments, so that
you should not keep all My commands, so as to break My covenant,
16 then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity
and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and
disease that consumes your life; and you shall sow your seeds in vain,
and your enemies shall eat them.
17 And I will set My face against you, and you shall fall before your
enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee,
no one pursuing you.
18 ‘And if you still refuse to hearken to Me, then will I chasten you yet more, even seven times for your sins.
19 And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heavens like iron, and your earth like brass.
20 And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield
its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.
21 ‘And if after this you should walk perversely, and not be
willing to obey Me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues
according to your sins.
22 And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall
devour you, and shall consume your cattle; and I will make you few in
number, and your ways shall be desolate.
23 ‘And if hereupon you are not corrected, but walk perversely towards Me,
24 I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will strike you seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of My covenant,
and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death
against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
26 When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake
your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight;
and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And if hereupon you will not obey Me, but walk perversely towards Me,
28 then will I walk contrary to you in fury, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.
29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
30 And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy
your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on
the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall loathe you.
31 And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries
desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.
32 And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come
upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your
cities shall be desolate.
34 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation.
35 And you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall
keep its Sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days
of its desolation: it shall keep Sabbaths which it kept not among your
Sabbaths, when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into
their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken
leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and
shall fall when none pursues them.
37 And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies.
38 And you shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
39 And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins,
and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies
shall they consume away.
40 ‘And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their
fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected Me, and that they
have walked perversely before Me,
41 and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them
in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be
ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in the punishment of their sins.
42 And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraham will I remember.
43 And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them;
then the land shall enjoy her Sabbaths, when it is deserted through
them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because
they neglected My judgments, and in their soul loathed My ordinances.
44 And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies,
did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to
break My covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God.
45 And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, to
be their God; I am the Lord.
46 ‘These are My judgments and My ordinances, and the law which
the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in Mount
Sinai, by the hand of Moses.’”
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 27
Votive Offerings
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them,
‘Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the
Lord,
3 the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old
shall be—his valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver by the
standard of the sanctuary.
4 And the valuation of a female shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty shekels, and of a female ten shekels.
6 And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall
be five shekels, and of a female, three shekels of silver.
7 And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his
valuation shall be fifteen shekels of silver, and if a female, ten
shekels.
8 And if the man is too poor for the valuation, he shall stand before
the priest; and the priest shall value him: according to what the man
who has vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.
9 ‘And if it be from the cattle that are offered as a gift to the
Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the Lord, it shall be holy.
10 He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and
if he shall change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall
be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before the priest.
12 And the priest shall make a valuation between the good and the bad,
and accordingly as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.
13 And if the worshipper will at all redeem it, he shall add the fifth part to its value.
14 ‘And whatsoever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the
Lord, the priest shall make a valuation of it between the good and the
bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall
add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be
his.
16 ‘And if a man should set apart to the Lord a part of the field
of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed,
fifty shekels of silver for a homer of barley.
17 And if he should set apart his field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation.
18 And if he should set apart his field in the latter time after the
release, the priest shall reckon to him the money for the remaining
years, until the next year of release, and it shall be deducted as an
equivalent from his full valuation.
19 And if he that set apart the field would redeem it, he shall add to
its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his.
20 And if he does not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not afterwards redeem it.
21 But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it.
22 And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
23 the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of
release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day as holy to the
Lord.
24 And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of
whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.
25 And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26 ‘And every firstborn which shall be produced among your cattle
shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or
sheep, it is the Lord's.
27 But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its
valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his;
and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.
28 ‘And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the
Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his
possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing
shall be most holy to the Lord.
29 And whatever shall be dedicated of men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.
30 Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord.
31 And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.
32 And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatsoever may come in
numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.
33 You shall not change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if
you should at all change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it
shall not be redeemed.’”
34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.