The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered into a clay vessel over fresh water.

You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.

If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. It must not be redeemed.’”

and he slaughtered it. Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord.

Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce from the field.

And whatever holy thing he violated he must restore and must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the guilt offering ram and he will be forgiven.”

“Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself, and he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household. He is to slaughter the sin offering bull which is for himself,

if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

“‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord.

These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the Lord, anything which he gives to the Lord from this kind of animal will be holy.

On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord.