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The reason is so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing in the open field, that they may bring them in to Yahweh, at the doorway of the tent of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

So any man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourners who sojourn among them, who in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live by them; I am Yahweh.

‘So do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

So the land has become defiled, and I have brought its punishment upon it. And the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am Yahweh your God.'"

‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted.

And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, and so not bear sin because of him.

‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given some of those who are his seed to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

If the people of the land, however, should ever turn a blind eye to that man when he gives any of those who are his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is lewdness; both he and they shall be burned with fire so that there will be no lewdness in your midst.

‘If there is a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he bears his guilt.

‘You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to inhabit will not vomit you out.

He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they bring near the offerings to Yahweh by fire, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.