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Then he said to Aaron: Find a young bull and a ram that have nothing wrong with them. Offer the bull to the Lord as a sacrifice for sin and the ram as a sacrifice to please him.

Tell the people of Israel that they must offer sacrifices as well. They must offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and a bull and a ram as a sacrifice to please the Lord . The bull and the ram must be a year old and have nothing wrong with them.

Aaron, step up to the altar and offer the sacrifice to please the Lord , then offer the sacrifices for the forgiveness of your sins and for the sins of the people, just as the Lord has commanded.

Aaron stepped up to the altar and killed the bull that was to be the sacrifice for his sins.

Next, Aaron sacrificed the goat for the sins of the people, as he had done with the sacrifice for his own sins.

Moses sent for Mishael and Elzaphan, the two sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel. Then he told them, "Take these two dead relatives of yours outside the camp far from the entrance to the sacred tent."

Then Moses told Aaron and his other two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: Don't show your sorrow by messing up your hair and tearing your priestly clothes, or the Lord will get angry. He will kill the three of you and punish everyone else. It's all right for your relatives, the people of Israel, to mourn for those he destroyed by fire.

When Moses asked around and learned that the ram for the sin sacrifice had already been burned on the altar, he became angry with Eleazar and Ithamar and said,

Their father Aaron replied, "Today two of my sons offered the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice to please the Lord , and look what has happened to me! Would the Lord have approved if I had eaten the sacrifice for sin?"

You may eat anything that lives in water and has fins and scales. But it would be disgusting for you to eat anything else that lives in water, and you must not even touch their dead bodies.

The only winged insects you may eat are locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets. All other winged insects that crawl are too disgusting for you to eat.

If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean.

to say to the community of Israel: If a woman gives birth to a son, she is unclean for seven days, just as she is during her monthly period.

but her loss of blood keeps her from being completely clean for another thirty-three days. During this time she must not touch anything holy or go to the place of worship.

Any woman who gives birth to a daughter is unclean for two weeks, just as she is during her period. And she won't be completely clean for another sixty-six days.

When the mother has completed her time of cleansing, she must come to the front of the sacred tent and bring to the priest a year-old lamb as a sacrifice to please me and a dove or a pigeon as a sacrifice for sin.

If she cannot afford a lamb, she can offer two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice to please me and the other as a sacrifice for sin.

But if the infected area is white and only skin deep, and if the hair in it hasn't turned white, the priest will order you to stay away from everyone else for seven days.

If the disease hasn't spread by that time, he will order you to stay away from everyone else for another seven days.

But if the white area is only on the surface of the skin and hasn't gotten any worse, and if the hair in it hasn't turned white, he will have you stay away from everyone else for seven days.