Nobody is to be in the Meeting Tent<n id="1" /> when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he goes out, and he has made atonement on his behalf, on behalf of his household, and on behalf of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is to be a perpetual statute for you.<n id="1" /> In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves<n id="2" /> and do no work of any kind,<n id="3" /> both the native citizen and the foreigner who resides<n id="4" /> in your midst,

but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent<n id="1" /> to present it as<n id="2" /> an offering to the <sc>Lordsc> before the tabernacle of the <sc>Lordsc>. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.<n id="3" />

for the life of all flesh is its blood.<n id="1" /> So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing<n id="2" /> because the life of every living thing is its blood &#8211; all who eat it will be cut off.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,<n id="1" /> you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.<n id="2" /> Three years it will be forbidden to you;<n id="3" /> it must not be eaten.

No man<n id="1" /> from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge<n id="2" /> may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one<n id="3" /> who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person,<n id="4" /> or a man who has a seminal emission,<n id="5" />

but if a priest&#8217;s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in<n id="1" /> her father&#8217;s house as in her youth,<n id="2" /> she may eat from her father&#8217;s food, but no lay person may eat it.p>

If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> for a special votive offering<n id="1" /> or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable;<n id="2" /> it must have no flaw.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest,<n id="1" /> a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the <sc>Lordsc> in all the places where you live.p>

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day,<n id="1" /> until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations<n id="2" /> in all the places where you live.p>

For seven days you must present a gift to the <sc>Lordsc>. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the <sc>Lordsc>. It is a solemn assembly day;<n id="1" /> you must not do any regular work.p>

If he has not prospered enough to refund<n id="1" /> a balance to him, then what he sold<n id="2" /> will belong to<n id="3" /> the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert<n id="4" /> in the jubilee and the original owner<n id="5" /> may return to his property.p>

He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal<n id="1" /> and its substitute will be holy.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the <sc>Lordsc>.