I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.

Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to decontaminate the house,

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

“‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

“‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

“‘If he cannot afford an animal from the flock, he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, to the Lord, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

But Aaron spoke to Moses, “See here! Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the Lord have been pleased?”

You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

“‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

So they came near and carried them away in their tunics to a place outside the camp just as Moses had spoken.

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.