Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land<n id="1" /> will not produce their fruit.p>

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the <sc>Lordsc> their God.

If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the <sc>Lordsc>, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the <sc>Lordsc> as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

If, however,<n id="1" /> it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to<n id="2" /> its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.p>

and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts.<n id="1" /> Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire &#8211; it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If he cannot afford an animal from the flock,<n id="1" /> he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed,<n id="2" /> two turtledoves or two young pigeons,<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels,<n id="1" /> for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement<n id="2" /> on his behalf for his error which he committed<n id="3" /> (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven.<n id="4" />

but the fire which is on the altar must be kept burning on it.<n id="1" /> It must not be extinguished. So the priest must kindle wood on it morning by morning, and he must arrange the burnt offering on it and offer the fat of the peace offering up in smoke on it.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Aaron&#8217;s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire<n id="2" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>, which he had not commanded them to do.

Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, &#8220;Do not<n id="1" /> dishevel the hair of your heads<n id="2" /> and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the <sc>Lordsc> has caused,<n id="3" />

&#8220;Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation,<n id="1" /> to make atonement on their behalf before the <sc>Lordsc>.

However, you must not eat these<n id="1" /> from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you<n id="2" /> because it chews the cud<n id="3" /> even though its hoof is not divided.<n id="4" />

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs<n id="1" /> to hop with on the land.

You must not eat anything that crawls<n id="1" /> on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs<n id="2" /> of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

If she cannot afford a sheep,<n id="1" /> then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons,<n id="2" /> one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If<n id="1" /> it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,<n id="2" /> and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days.<n id="3" />

The priest must then examine the infection on the seventh day, and if<n id="1" /> the scall has not spread, there is no reddish yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear to be deeper than the skin,<n id="2" />

The priest must then examine the scall on the seventh day, and if<n id="1" /> the scall has not spread on the skin and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,<n id="2" /> then the priest is to pronounce him clean.<n id="3" /> So he is to wash his clothes and be clean.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If, however, the priest enters<n id="1" /> and examines it, and the<n id="2" /> infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.