Leviticus 21–23

¹And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Speak unto the priests, sons of Aaron, and thou hast said unto them, For any person a priest is not defiled among his people, ²except for his relation who is near unto him—for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother. ³and for his sister, the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled.

⁴‘A master priest doth not defile himself among his people—to pollute himself; ⁵they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting; ⁶they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

⁷‘A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God; ⁸and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy am I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

⁹‘And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring—her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

¹⁰‘And the high priest of his brethren, on whose head is poured the anointing oil, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments, ¹¹nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself; ¹²nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah.

¹³‘And he taketh a wife in her virginity; ¹⁴widow, or cast out, or polluted one—a harlot—these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take for a wife, ¹⁵and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying him.’

¹⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷‘Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God, ¹⁸for no man in whom is blemish doth draw near—a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged, ¹⁹or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand, ²⁰or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye, or a scurvy person, or scabbed, or broken-testicled.

²¹‘No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) doth come nigh to bring near the fire-offerings of Jehovah; blemish is in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near.

²²‘Bread of his God—of the most holy things, and of the holy things—he doth eat; ²³only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish is in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.’ ²⁴And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel.

Chapter 22

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and they are separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they pollute not My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me; I am Jehovah.

³‘Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him—even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.

⁴‘Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue—of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him, ⁵or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness— ⁶the person who cometh against it—hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water, ⁷and the sun hath gone in, and he hath been clean, and afterwards he doth eat of the holy things, for it is his food; ⁸a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah.

⁹‘And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I am Jehovah sanctifying them.

¹⁰‘And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing; ¹¹and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.

¹²‘And a priest’s daughter, when she is a strange man’s,—she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat; ¹³and a priest’s daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father’s bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

¹⁴‘And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given it to the priest, with the holy thing; ¹⁵and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel—that which they lift up to Jehovah, ¹⁶nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.’

¹⁷And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁸‘Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, who bringeth near his offering, of all his vows, or of all his willing offerings which they bring near to Jehovah for a burnt-offering; ¹⁹at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats; ²⁰nothing in which is blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.

²¹‘And when a man bringeth near a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a willing-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it is perfect for a pleasing thing: no blemish is in it; ²²blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed—ye do not bring these near to Jehovah, and a fire-offering ye do not make of them on the altar to Jehovah.

²³‘As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed—a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing. ²⁴As to a bruised, or beaten, or enlarged, or cut thing—ye do not bring it near to Jehovah; even in your land ye do not do it. ²⁵And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption is in them; blemish is in them; they are not pleasing for you.’ ²⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁷‘When ox or lamb or goat is born, and it hath been seven days under its dam, then from the eighth day and henceforth, it is pleasing for an offering, a fire-offering to Jehovah; ²⁸but an ox or sheep—it and its young one, ye do not slaughter in one day.

²⁹‘And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice, ³⁰on that day it is eaten, ye do not leave of it till morning; I am Jehovah; ³¹and ye have kept my commands, and have done them; I am Jehovah; ³²and ye do not pollute My holy name, and I have been hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel; I am Jehovah, sanctifying you, ³³who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt, to become your God; I am Jehovah.’

Chapter 23

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, are these: they are My appointed seasons: ³six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

⁴‘These are appointed seasons of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons: ⁵in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Jehovah; ⁶and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat; ⁷on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work; ⁸and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.’ ⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest, ¹¹then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it.

¹²‘And ye have prepared in the day of your waving the sheaf a lamb, a perfect one, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah, ¹³and its present two tenth deals of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink-offering, wine, a fourth of the hin.

¹⁴‘And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God—a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.

¹⁵‘And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; ¹⁶unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah; ¹⁷out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two loaves, of two tenth deals of flour they are, with yeast they are baken, first -fruits to Jehovah.

¹⁸‘And ye have brought near, besides the bread, seven lambs, perfect ones, sons of a year, and one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt-offering to Jehovah, with their present and their libations, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

¹⁹‘And ye have prepared one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, ²⁰and the priest hath waved them, besides…