then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop be taken up for the one being cleansed.

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering. So he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and the people.

Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

What has been done on this day the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.

and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.

Then Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself and is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household.

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the Lord.

Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.