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Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan, put live coals in it, added incense, and presented it to the LORD. But this fire was not holy, because the LORD had not commanded them to present it.
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Suddenly the LORD sent fire, and it burned them to death there in the presence of the LORD.
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Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD was speaking about when he said, 'All who serve me must respect my holiness; I will reveal my glory to my people.' " But Aaron remained silent.
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Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said to them, "Come here and carry your cousins' bodies away from the sacred Tent and put them outside the camp."
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So they came and took hold of the clothing on the corpses and carried them outside the camp, just as Moses had commanded.
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Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes to show that you are in mourning. If you do, you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But all other Israelites are allowed to mourn this death caused by the fire which the LORD sent.
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Do not leave the entrance of the Tent or you will die, because you have been consecrated by the anointing oil of the LORD." So they did as Moses said.
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The LORD said to Aaron,
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"You and your sons are not to enter the Tent of my presence after drinking wine or beer; if you do, you will die. This is a law to be kept by all your descendants.
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You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.
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You must teach the people of Israel all the laws which I have given to you through Moses."
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Moses said to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offered to the LORD, make unleavened bread with it and eat it beside the altar, because this offering is very holy.
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Eat it in a holy place; it is the part that belongs to you and your sons from the food offered to the LORD. That is what the LORD commanded me.
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But you and your families may eat the breast and the hind leg that are presented as the special gift and the special contribution to the LORD for the priests. You may eat them in any ritually clean place. These offerings have been given to you and your children as the part that belongs to you from the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
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They shall bring the hind leg and the breast at the time the fat is presented as a food offering to the LORD. These parts belong to you and your children forever, just as the LORD commanded."
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Moses asked about the goat for the sin offering and learned that it had already been burned. This made him angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, and he demanded,
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"Why didn't you eat the sin offering in a sacred place? It is very holy, and the LORD has given it to you in order to take away the sin of the community.
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Since its blood was not brought into the sacred Tent, you should have eaten the sacrifice there, as I commanded."
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Aaron answered, "If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the LORD have approved? The people presented their sin offering to the LORD today, and they brought their burnt offering, but still these terrible things have happened to me."
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When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.
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The LORD gave Moses and Aaron the following regulations
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for the people of Israel. You may eat any land animal
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that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud,
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but you must not eat camels, rock badgers, or rabbits. These must be considered unclean; they chew the cud, but do not have divided hoofs.
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Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs, but do not chew the cud.
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Do not eat these animals or even touch their dead bodies; they are unclean.
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You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales,
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but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales must not be eaten.
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Such creatures must be considered unclean. You must not eat them or even touch their dead bodies.
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You must not eat anything that lives in the water and does not have fins and scales.
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You must not eat any of the following birds: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants; hoopoes; or bats.
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All winged insects are unclean,
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except those that hop.
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You may eat locusts, crickets, or grasshoppers.
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But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.
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If you touch the dead bodies of the following animals, you will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. If you carry their dead bodies, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.
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Moles, rats, mice, and lizards must be considered unclean.
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Whoever touches them or their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.
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And if their dead bodies fall on anything, it will be unclean. This applies to any article of wood, cloth, leather, or sacking, no matter what it is used for. It shall be dipped in water, but it will remain unclean until evening.
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And if their bodies fall into a clay pot, everything that is in it shall be unclean, and you must break the pot.
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Any food which could normally be eaten, but on which water from such a pot has been poured, will be unclean, and anything drinkable in such a pot is unclean.
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Anything on which the dead bodies fall is unclean; a clay stove or oven shall be broken,
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but a spring or a cistern remains clean, although anything else that touches their dead bodies is unclean.
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If one of them falls on seed that is going to be planted, the seed remains clean.
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But if the seed is soaking in water and one of them falls on it, the seed is unclean.
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If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.
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And if any of you eat any part of the animal, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening; any of you who carry the dead body must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.
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You must not eat any of the small animals that move on the ground,
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whether they crawl, or walk on four legs, or have many legs.
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Do not make yourselves unclean by eating any of these.
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I am the LORD your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy.
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I am the LORD who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.
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This, then, is the law about animals and birds, about everything that lives in the water, and everything that moves on the ground.
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You must be careful to distinguish between what is ritually clean and unclean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.
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The LORD gave Moses the following regulations
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for the people of Israel. For seven days after a woman gives birth to a son, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period.
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On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.
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Then it will be thirty-three more days until she is ritually clean from her loss of blood; she must not touch anything that is holy or enter the sacred Tent until the time of her purification is completed.
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For fourteen days after a woman gives birth to a daughter, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period. Then it will be sixty-six more days until she is ritually clean from her loss of blood.
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When the time of her purification is completed, whether for a son or daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.
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The priest shall present her offering to the LORD and perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean. This, then, is what a woman must do after giving birth.
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If the woman cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two doves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering, and the priest shall perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean.
