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Let
no priest defile himself with contact from dead people, except for
his close family.
Let
no priest shave patches off his head. Let them not shave the edges
of their beards or make marks on their skin. A priest must be holy
because I am holy.
The
High Priest must not defile himself with any dead body. He must be
holy for I make him holy.
Shabbat
You
may work 6 days, but Saturday is Shabbat and it is sacred to me,
and you shall do no work on that day.
Passover
These
are the festivals that you must celebrate as sacred holidays in
their time.
The afternoon
of the 14th of the First month (Nissan) you must sacrifice my
Passover offering.
On the 15th of
Nissan is the festival of matzahs, when you will eat matzah
for seven days. The first day shall be a sacred holiday when you
will do no service work. The
Omer
When
you come into the land that I am going to give you, and you reap
and harvest, you must bring an omer of your first reaping to the
priest. Until you bring this sacrifice to HaShem you are not to
eat bread, roasted grain or fresh grain.
You
shall count seven complete weeks after the day following the
Passover holiday when you brought the omer, a total of 50 days. On
the 50th day you may present new grain as a meal offering to
HaShem. This day is to be celebrated a a sacred holiday (Shavuot)
when no service work may be done.
When you
harvest, do not reap all of the corners of the field. This is for
the poor and the stranger. Rosh
Hashanah
The
first day of the seventh month (Tishrei) is a sacred holiday and
shall be a day of rest. It is a holiday for remembrance and
sounding the ram's horn.
Yom
Kippur
The
10th day of the seventh month (Tishrei) shall be the Day of
Atonement (Yom
Kippur). It is a scared holiday that you must fast and bring a
fire offering before HaShem.
If anyone does
not fast on this day, they will be cut off spiritually from my
people. If you work on this day you will be spiritually destroyed.
You must keep
this holy from the ninth of the month until the next night. Sukkot
On
the 15th day of the seventh month shall be the festival of
Sukkot.
The first day is a sacred holiday when you shall do no work and
the eighth day shall be a day of rest.
On the first
day you must take for yourself a fruit of the citron tree, an
unopened palm frond, myrtle branches and willows. You shall
rejoice before HaShem.
During the
seven days you shall live in thatched huts. Everyone in Israel
must live in thatched huts so that all will know what it was like
when I brought you out of Egypt. Menorah
Aaron
shall light the lamp before HaShem outside the cloth partition in
the Communion Tent. The lamp will be lit from evening to morning
and will be of pure gold.
Showbread
You
shall take the finest grade of wheat flour and bake it into 12
loaves. Arrange these into two stacks of 6 each. Place
frankincense alongside these stacks as a fire offering to HaShem.
The loaves shall be arranged before HaShem each Shabbat.
The
Blasphemer
The
son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man went out among the
people and had an argument with one of the people in the camp. He
said the name of HaShem with a curse. The people brought him to
Moses and kept him under guard until a penalty could be found out
from HaShem.
HaShem said to
Moses: Take him out of the camp and let all who heard him curse
place their hand on his head. The entire community shall then
stone him to death.
Tell my
people: Anyone who curses HaShem shall bear his sin. But, if one
blasphemes the name of HaShem they shall be put to death.
One that takes
another human life shall be put to death.
If one kills
an animal, he shall pay for the value of it. There is one law for
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