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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about the Day of Atonement and the sacrifices that are involved and the

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rituals that are involved and how Aaron would first offer sacrifices on his own behalf and

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then on behalf of the people.

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We also heard about the things that if committed would cut off a person from the people.

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And today we're going to hear a bit more about the priesthood of Aaron and some of

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the things that they are not allowed to do.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Leviticus chapters 20 to 22.

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Chapter 20 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Again

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you shall say to the children of Israel, whoever of the children of Israel or of the strangers

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who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be

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put to death.

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The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

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I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from his people, because he has

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given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile my sanctuary and profane my holy name.

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And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from the man when he gives

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some of his descendants to Molech and they do not kill him, then I will set my face against

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that man and against his family, and I will cut him off from his people and all who prostitute

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themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.

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And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits to prostitute himself with them, I

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will set my face against that person and cut him off from his people.

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Consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the Lord your God, and you shall

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keep my statutes and perform them.

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I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

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For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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He has cursed his father or his mother.

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His blood shall be upon him.

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The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with

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his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

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The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness.

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Both of them shall surely be put to death.

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Their blood shall be upon them.

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If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death.

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They have committed perversion.

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Their blood shall be upon them.

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If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.

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They shall surely be put to death.

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Their blood shall be upon them.

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If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is wickedness.

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They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among

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you.

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If a man mates with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

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If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the

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animal.

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They shall surely be put to death, their blood is upon them.

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If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness,

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when she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight

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of their people.

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He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his guilt.

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If a man lies with a woman, during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed

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her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood.

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Both of them shall be cut off from their people.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister,

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for that would uncover his near of kin.

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They shall bear their guilt.

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If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness, they shall

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bear their sin, they shall die childless.

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If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing, he has uncovered his brother's

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nakedness, they shall die childless.

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You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments and perform them, that the

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land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out, and you shall not walk

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in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you.

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For they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

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But I have said to you, you shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess

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a land flowing with milk and honey.

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I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

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You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds

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and clean.

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And you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living

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thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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And you shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples,

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that you should be mine.

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A man or a woman, who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put

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to death.

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They shall stone them with stones, their blood shall be upon them.

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Chapter 21 And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to the priests,

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the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

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except for his relatives, who are nearest to him, his mother, his father, his son, his

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daughter, and his brother.

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Also his virgin sister, who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile

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himself.

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Otherwise, he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

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They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of

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their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

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They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God.

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For they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God.

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Therefore they shall be holy.

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They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a

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woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

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Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God.

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He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord who sanctify you am holy.

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The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes

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her father, she shall be burned with fire.

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He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head anointing oil was poured, and

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who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor tear his clothes.

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Nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother.

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Nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God.

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For the consecration of the anointing oil of God is upon him, I am the Lord.

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And he shall take a wife in her virginity, a widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman

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or a harlot, these he shall not marry.

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But he shall take a version of his own people as wife.

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Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your descendants

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in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

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Nor any man who has a defect shall not approach, a man blind or lame, who has a marred face,

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or any limb too long, a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, or is a hunchback or

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a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.

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No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer

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the offerings made by fire to the Lord.

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He has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

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He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy, only he shall not

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go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect.

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Lest he profane my sanctuaries, for I the Lord sanctify them.

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And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons and to all the children of Israel.

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Chapter 22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak

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to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children

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of Israel, and that they do not profane my holy name by what they dedicate to me, for

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I am the Lord.

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Say to them, whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations who goes near

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the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has uncleanness

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upon him, that person shall be cut off from my presence.

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I am the Lord.

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Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron who is a leper or who has a discharge, shall not

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eat the holy offerings until he is clean, and whoever touches anything made unclean

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by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen, or whoever touches any creeping

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thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean,

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whatever his uncleanness may be, the person who has touched any such thing, shall be unclean

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until evening and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he washes his body with water,

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and when the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat the holy offerings

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because it is his food.

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Whatever dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it.

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I am the Lord.

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They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they

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profane it.

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I the Lord sanctify them.

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No outsider shall eat the holy offering.

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One who dwells with the priest or a hired servant shall not eat the holy thing.

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But if the priest buys a person with his money he may eat it, and one who is born in his

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house may eat his food.

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If the priest's daughter is married to an outsider she may not eat of the holy offerings,

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but if the priest's daughter is a widow or divorced and has no child and has returned

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to her father's house as in her youth, she may eat her father's food, but no outsider

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shall eat it.

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And if a man eats the holy offering unintentionally, then he shall restore a holy offering to the

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priest and add one fifth to it.

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They shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer to

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the Lord, or allow them to bear the guilt of trespass when they eat their holy offerings.

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For I the Lord sanctify them.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the children

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of Israel and say to them, Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in

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Israel, who offers his sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his free will offerings,

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which they offer to the Lord as a burnt offering, you shall offer of your own free will a male

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without blemish from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.

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Whatever has a defect you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf.

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And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord to fulfill his vow, or

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a free will offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted.

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There shall be no defect in it.

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Those that are blind or broken or maimed, or have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you shall

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not offer to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the Lord.

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Either a bull or a lamb that has any limb too long or too short, you may offer as a free

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will offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

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You shall not offer to the Lord what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut, nor shall you

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make any offering of them in your land.

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Nor from a foreigner's hand shall you offer any of these as the bread of your God, because

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their corruption is in them, and defects are in them, they shall not be accepted on your

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behalf.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall

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be seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day and thereafter it shall be accepted

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as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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Whether it is a cow or you, do not kill both her and her young on the same day.

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And when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, offer it of your own free will.

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On the same day it shall be eaten, you shall leave none of it until morning.

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I am the Lord.

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Therefore you shall keep my commandments and perform them.

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I am the Lord.

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You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel.

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I am the Lord who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God.

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I am the Lord.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.