If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
22 You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe them, so that the land to which I bring you to settle in may not vomit you out.
You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
But I have said to you: You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God; I have separated you from the peoples.
You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.
You shall be holy to me; for I the LORD am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.
27 A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned to death, their blood is upon them.
21 The LORD said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:
No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,
except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;
likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her.
But he shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.
They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh.
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the LORD’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,
and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, I who sanctify you, am holy.
When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
10 The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments.
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.
A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin,
that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the LORD; I sanctify him.
16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.
For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a blemish in his eyes or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD’s offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.
He may eat the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy.
But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the LORD; I sanctify them.
Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Direct Aaron and his sons to deal carefully with the sacred donations of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.
Say to them: If anyone among all your offspring throughout your generations comes near the sacred donations, which the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he is in a state of uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
No one of Aaron’s offspring who has a leprous[33 (#ulink_b601ab94-266a-5b6d-9792-86bedf2cdf06)] disease or suffers a discharge may eat of the sacred donations until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse or a man who has had an emission of semen,
and whoever touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or any human being by whom he may be made unclean—whatever his uncleanness may be—
the person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening and shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in water.
When the sun sets he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the sacred donations, for they are his food.
That which died or was torn by wild animals he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it: I am the LORD.
They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and die in the sanctuary[34 (#ulink_69ee0763-9295-55e6-b97d-577bde5acdd4)] for having profaned it: I am the LORD; I sanctify them.
10 No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations;
but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.
If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the sacred donations;
but if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced, without offspring, and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food. No lay person shall eat of it.
If a man eats of the sacred donation unintentionally, he shall add one-fifth of its value to it, and give the sacred donation to the priest.
No one shall profane the sacred donations of the people of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,
causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations: for I am the LORD; I sanctify them.
17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them: When anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing in Israel presents an offering, whether in payment of a vow or as a freewill offering that is offered to the LORD as a burnt offering,
