by Septuagint
[6] And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people. [7] And ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. [8] And ye 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 neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress. [11] And if any one 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 any one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty. [13] And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought 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 ye shall kill the beast. [16] And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connexion with it, ye 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 a flux, 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 thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister, or of the sister of thy mother; for that man has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin: they shall bear their iniquity. [20] Whosoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin to him: 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 ye all my ordinances, and my judgments; and ye shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it. [23] And walk ye not in 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, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people. [25] And ye shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and ye 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 ye 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: ye shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.
Chapter 21
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt 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 one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself. [4] He shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself. [5] And ye 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 thou shalt hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them am holy. [9] And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
[10] And the priest that is chief among his brethren, 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 mitre off his head, and shall not rend his garments: [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 thy tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of his God. [18] No man who has a blemish on him shall draw nigh; 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 blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle. [21] Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer sacrifices to thy God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh 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 nigh 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.
Chapter 22
[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 seed 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 seed 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 seed, 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.
[17] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [18] Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the congregation of Israel, and thou shalt 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 whole-burnt-offerings — [19] your free-will-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 free-will-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 ye 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, thou shalt slay them for thyself; but they shall not be accepted for thy vow. [24] That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated, — thou shalt not offer them to the Lord, neither shall ye sacrifice them upon your land. [25] Neither shall ye 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, thou shalt not kill in one day.
[29] And if thou shouldest offer a sacrifice, a vow of rejoicing to the Lord, ye shall offer it so as to be accepted for you. [30] In that same day it shall be eaten; ye shall not leave of the flesh till the morrow: I am the Lord. [31] And ye shall keep my commandments and do them. [32] And ye 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.
Chapter 23
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which ye shall call holy assemblies, these are my feasts. [3] Six days shalt thou do works, but on the seventh day is the sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: thou shalt not do any work, it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
[4] These are the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which ye 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 ye eat unleavened bread. [7] And the first day shall be a holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work. [8] And ye shall offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work. [9] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [10] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall ye bring a sheaf, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest; [11] and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day the priest shall lift it up. [12] And ye shall offer on the day on which ye bring the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord. [13] And its meat-offering two tenth portions of fine flour mingled with oil: it is a sacrifice to the Lord, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord, and its drink-offering the fourth part of a hin of wine. [14] And ye shall not eat bread, or the new parched corn, until this same day, until ye offer the sacrifices to your God: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
[15] And ye shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which ye shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks: [16] until the morrow after the last week ye shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord. [17] Ye shall bring from your dwelling loaves, as a heave-offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the first-fruits to the Lord. [18] And ye 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 whole-burnt-offering to the Lord: and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings shall be a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour 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 first-fruits. [20] And the priest shall place them with the loaves of the first-fruits 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 ye shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; ye shall do no servile work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations. [22] And when ye shall reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not fully reap the remainder of the harvest of your field when thou reapest, and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping; thou shalt leave it for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
[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, ye shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation. [25] Ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.
[26] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [27] Also on the tenth day of this seventh month is a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and ye shall humble your souls, and offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord. [28] Ye shall do no work on this self-same day: for this is a 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] Ye 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 ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye 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 a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord. [35] And on the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. [36] Seven days shall ye offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord, and the eighth-day shall be a holy convocation to you; and ye shall offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord: it is a time of release, ye shall do no servile work. [37] These are the feasts to the Lord, which ye shall call holy convocations, to offer burnt-offerings to the Lord, whole-burnt-offerings and their meat-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 free-will-offerings, which ye shall give to the Lord. [39] And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when ye shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, ye 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 ye shall take goodly fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and thick bou
ghs 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 ye shall keep it. [42] Seven days ye 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.
Chapter 24
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee 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] Ye shall burn the lamps on the pure lamp-stand before the Lord till the morrow. [5] And ye shall take fine flour, and make of it twelve loaves; each loaf shall be of two tenth parts. [6] And ye shall put them in two rows, each row containing six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord. [7] And ye 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.