Leviticus Chapter 1

Leviticus 1:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting. He said,

Leviticus 1:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.

Leviticus 1:3 (NIV)

³ “‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer a male without defect. He must present it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD.

Leviticus 1:4 (NIV)

⁴ He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

Leviticus 1:5 (NIV)

⁵ He is to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and sprinkle it against the altar on all sides at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 1:6 (NIV)

⁶ He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

Leviticus 1:7 (NIV)

⁷ The sons of Aaron the priest are to put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Leviticus 1:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the burning wood that is on the altar.

Leviticus 1:9 (NIV)

⁹ He is to wash the inner parts and the legs with water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 1:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ “‘If his offering is from the flock, whether from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he must offer a male without defect.

Leviticus 1:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He is to slaughter it at the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 1:12 (NIV)

¹² He is to cut it into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and the fat, on the burning wood that is on the altar.

Leviticus 1:13 (NIV)

¹³ He is to wash the inner parts and the legs with water, and the priest is to bring all of it and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 1:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘If the offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to offer a dove or a young pigeon.

Leviticus 1:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

Leviticus 1:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, where the ashes are.

Leviticus 1:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He shall tear it open by the wings, not severing it completely, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is on the fire on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus Chapter 2

Leviticus 2:1 (NIV)

¹ “‘When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it

Leviticus 2:2 (NIV)

² and take it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:3 (NIV)

³ The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus 2:4 (NIV)

⁴ “‘If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of fine flour: cakes made without yeast and mixed with oil, or wafers made without yeast and spread with oil.

Leviticus 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of fine flour mixed with oil, and without yeast.

Leviticus 2:6 (NIV)

⁶ Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

Leviticus 2:7 (NIV)

⁷ If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it is to be made of fine flour and oil.

Leviticus 2:8 (NIV)

⁸ Bring the grain offering made of these things to the LORD; present it to the priest, who shall take it to the altar.

Leviticus 2:9 (NIV)

⁹ He shall take out the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus 2:11 (NASB)

¹¹ ‘No grain offering, which you bring to the LORD, shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:12 (NIV)

¹² You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of the firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

Leviticus 2:13 (NIV)

¹³ Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.

Leviticus 2:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

Leviticus 2:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Put oil and incense on it; it is a grain offering.

Leviticus 2:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus Chapter 3

Leviticus 3:1 (NIV)

¹ “‘If someone’s offering is a fellowship offering, and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present before the LORD an animal without defect.

Leviticus 3:2 (NIV)

² He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 3:3 (NIV)

³ From the fellowship offering he is to bring a sacrifice made to the LORD by fire: all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,

Leviticus 3:4 (NIV)

⁴ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys.

Leviticus 3:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘If he offers an animal from the flock as a fellowship offering to the LORD, he is to offer a male or female without defect.

Leviticus 3:7 (NIV)

⁷ If he offers a lamb, he is to present it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:8 (NIV)

⁸ He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 3:9 (NIV)

⁹ From the fellowship offering he is to bring a sacrifice made to the LORD by fire: its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,

Leviticus 3:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys.

Leviticus 3:11 (7KB)

¹¹ The priest will make it go up in smoke on the altar; it is food, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘If his offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:13 (NIV)

¹³ He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 3:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ From what he offers he is to make this offering to the LORD by fire: all the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,

Leviticus 3:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys.

Leviticus 3:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s.

Leviticus 3:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ ~’It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'”

Leviticus Chapter 4

Leviticus 4:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 4:2 (NASB)

² “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them,

Leviticus 4:3 (NIV)

³ “‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 4:4 (NIV)

⁴ He is to present the bull at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the LORD.

Leviticus 4:5 (NASB)

⁵ ~’Then the anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting,

Leviticus 4:6 (NIV)

⁶ He is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the curtain of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4:7 (NIV)

⁷ The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the bull’s blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:8 (CJB)

⁸ He is to remove from the bull for the sin offering all of its fat — the fat covering the inner organs, all the fat above the inner organs,

Leviticus 4:9 (NIV)

⁹ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys–

Leviticus 4:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ as it is removed from an ox sacrificed as a peace offering; and the priest is to make these parts go up in smoke on the altar for burnt offerings.

Leviticus 4:11 (AMP)

¹¹ But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung,

Leviticus 4:12 (CJB)

¹² in other words, the entire bull — he is to bring outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are emptied out. There he is to burn it on wood with fire; there, where the ashes are emptied out, it is to be burned up.

Leviticus 4:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, they are guilty.

Leviticus 4:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ When they become aware of the sin they committed, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.

Leviticus 4:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.

Leviticus 4:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ He is to remove all its fat and make it go up in smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 4:20 (NIV)

²⁰ and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.

Leviticus 4:22 (NIV)

²² “‘When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, he is guilty.

Leviticus 4:23 (NIV)

²³ When he is made aware of the sin he committed, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

Leviticus 4:24 (NIV)

²⁴ He is to lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:25 (7KB)

²⁵ The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. Its remaining blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar for burnt offerings.

Leviticus 4:26 (NASB)

²⁶ ~’All its fat he shall offer up in smoke on the altar as in the case of the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him in regard to his sin, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “‘If a member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, he is guilty.

Leviticus 4:28 (NIV)

²⁸ When he is made aware of the sin he committed, he must bring as his offering for the sin he committed a female goat without defect.

Leviticus 4:29 (NIV)

²⁹ He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4:31 (NIV)

³¹ He shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:32 (NIV)

³² “‘If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he is to bring a female without defect.

Leviticus 4:33 (NIV)

³³ He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Leviticus 4:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4:35 (7KB)

³⁵ All its fat he is to remove, as the fat of a lamb is removed from the sacrifice for peace offerings; and the priest is to make it go up in smoke on the altar on top of the offerings for the Lord made by fire. Thus the priest will make atonement for him in regard to the sin he committed, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus Chapter 5

Leviticus 5:1 (NIV)

¹ “‘If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible.

Leviticus 5:2 (NIV)

² “‘Or if a person touches anything ceremonially unclean–whether the carcasses of unclean wild animals or of unclean livestock or of unclean creatures that move along the ground–even though he is unaware of it, he has become unclean and is guilty.

Leviticus 5:3 (CJB)

³ If he touches some human uncleanness, no matter what the source of his uncleanness is, and is unaware of it, then, when he learns of it, he is guilty.

Leviticus 5:4 (CJB)

⁴ If someone allows to slip from his mouth an oath to do evil or to do good, and he doesn’t remember that he clearly spoke this oath, then, no matter what it was about, when he learns of it, he is guilty.

Leviticus 5:5 (NIV)

⁵ “‘When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what way he has sinned

Leviticus 5:6 (NIV)

⁶ and, as a penalty for the sin he has committed, he must bring to the LORD a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

Leviticus 5:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘If he cannot afford a lamb, he is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the LORD as a penalty for his sin–one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 5:8 (NIV)

⁸ He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck, not severing it completely,

Leviticus 5:9 (NIV)

⁹ and is to sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The priest shall then offer the other as a burnt offering in the prescribed way and make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5:12 (NIV)

¹² He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the offerings made to the LORD by fire. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5:13 (NIV)

¹³ In this way the priest will make atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The rest of the offering will belong to the priest, as in the case of the grain offering.'”

Leviticus 5:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The LORD said to Moses:

Leviticus 5:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “When a person commits a violation and sins unintentionally in regard to any of the LORD’s holy things, he is to bring to the LORD as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering.

Leviticus 5:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He must make restitution for what he has failed to do in regard to the holy things, add a fifth of the value to that and give it all to the priest, who will make atonement for him with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible.

Leviticus 5:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He is to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the wrong he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ It is a guilt offering; he has been guilty of wrongdoing against the LORD.”

Leviticus Chapter 6

Leviticus 6:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD said to Moses:

Leviticus 6:2 (NIV)

² “If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the LORD by deceiving his neighbor about something entrusted to him or left in his care or stolen, or if he cheats him,

Leviticus 6:3 (NIV)

³ or if he finds lost property and lies about it, or if he swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that people may do–

Leviticus 6:4 (NIV)

⁴ when he thus sins and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

Leviticus 6:5 (NIV)

⁵ or whatever it was he swore falsely about. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day he presents his guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:6 (NASB)

⁶ “Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering,

Leviticus 6:7 (NASB)

⁷ and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.”

Leviticus 6:8 (NIV)

⁸ The LORD said to Moses:

Leviticus 6:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Give Aaron and his sons this command: ‘These are the regulations for the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, till morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.

Leviticus 6:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The priest shall then put on his linen clothes, with linen undergarments next to his body, and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.

Leviticus 6:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then he is to take off these clothes and put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.

Leviticus 6:12 (NIV)

¹² The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.

Leviticus 6:13 (NIV)

¹³ The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.

Leviticus 6:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘These are the regulations for the grain offering: Aaron’s sons are to bring it before the LORD, in front of the altar.

Leviticus 6:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The priest is to take a handful of fine flour and oil, together with all the incense on the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 6:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 6:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share of the offerings made to me by fire. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.

Leviticus 6:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Any male descendant of Aaron may eat it. It is his regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire for the generations to come. Whatever touches them will become holy.'”

Leviticus 6:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The LORD also said to Moses,

Leviticus 6:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to bring to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

Leviticus 6:21 (NIV)

²¹ Prepare it with oil on a griddle; bring it well-mixed and present the grain offering broken in pieces as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 6:22 (NIV)

²² The son who is to succeed him as anointed priest shall prepare it. It is the LORD’s regular share and is to be burned completely.

Leviticus 6:23 (NIV)

²³ Every grain offering of a priest shall be burned completely; it must not be eaten.”

Leviticus 6:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 6:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “Say to Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the regulations for the sin offering: The sin offering is to be slaughtered before the LORD in the place the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is most holy.

Leviticus 6:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 6:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.

Leviticus 6:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The clay pot the meat is cooked in must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot is to be scoured and rinsed with water.

Leviticus 6:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Any male in a priest’s family may eat it; it is most holy.

Leviticus 6:30 (NIV)

³⁰ But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned.

Leviticus Chapter 7

Leviticus 7:1 (NIV)

¹ “‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy:

Leviticus 7:2 (NIV)

² The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be sprinkled against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 7:3 (NASB)

³ ‘Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,

Leviticus 7:4 (NIV)

⁴ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

Leviticus 7:5 (AMP)

⁵ And the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt or trespass offering.

Leviticus 7:6 (AMP)

⁶ Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a sacred place; it is most holy.

Leviticus 7:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.

Leviticus 7:8 (AMP)

⁸ And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the hide of the burnt offering which he has offered.

Leviticus 7:9 (NASB)

⁹ ~’Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in the oven and everything prepared in a pan or on a griddle shall belong to the priest who presents it.

Leviticus 7:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

Leviticus 7:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be offered to the Lord:

Leviticus 7:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘If he offers it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.

Leviticus 7:13 (NASB)

¹³ ~’With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

Leviticus 7:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.

Leviticus 7:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for giving thanks is to be eaten on the day of his offering; he is not to leave any of it until morning.

Leviticus 7:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ But if the sacrifice connected with his offering is for a vow or is a voluntary offering, then, while it is to be eaten on the day he offers his sacrifice, what remains of it may be eaten the next day.

Leviticus 7:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ However, what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day is to be burned up completely.

Leviticus 7:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, the sacrifice will neither be accepted nor credited to the person offering it; rather, it will have become a disgusting thing, and whoever eats it will bear the consequences of his wrongdoing.

Leviticus 7:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.

Leviticus 7:20 (NASB)

²⁰ ~’But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:21 (NASB)

²¹ ~’When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.'”

Leviticus 7:22 (NASB)

²² Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 7:23 (AMP)

²³ Say to the Israelites, You shall eat no kind of fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Leviticus 7:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

Leviticus 7:25 (7KB)

²⁵ For whoever eats the fat of animals of the kind used in presenting an offering made by fire to the Lord will be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:26 (NIV)

²⁶ And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

Leviticus 7:27 (AMP)

²⁷ Whoever eats any kind of blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 7:29 (NASB)

²⁹ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:30 (7KB)

³⁰ He is to bring with his own hands the offerings for the Lord made by fire — he is to bring the breast with its fat. The breast is to be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.

Leviticus 7:31 (7KB)

³¹ The priest is to make the fat go up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.

Leviticus 7:32 (NASB)

³² ~’You shall give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:33 (7KB)

³³ The descendant of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings is to have the right thigh as his share.

Leviticus 7:34 (7KB)

³⁴ For the breast that has been waved and the thigh that has been contributed I have taken from the people of Israel out of their sacrifices of peace offerings and given them to Aaron the priest and to his descendants as their share forever from the people of Israel.’”

Leviticus 7:35 (7KB)

³⁵ On the day when Aaron and his sons were presented to serve the Lord in the office of priest , this portion was set aside for him and his descendants from the offerings for the Lord made by fire.

Leviticus 7:36 (NASB)

³⁶ ~’These the LORD had commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel in the day that He anointed them. It is their due forever throughout their generations.'”

Leviticus 7:37 (NASB)

³⁷ This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering and the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings,

Leviticus 7:38 (AMP)

³⁸ Which the Lord ordered Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to offer their sacrifices to the Lord, in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus Chapter 8

Leviticus 8:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 8:2 (NIV)

² “Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,

Leviticus 8:3 (NIV)

³ and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”

Leviticus 8:4 (NIV)

⁴ Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 8:5 (NIV)

⁵ Moses said to the assembly, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”

Leviticus 8:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water.

Leviticus 8:7 (7KB)

⁷ He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put the ephod [ritual vest] on him. He also tied the ephod [ritual vest] to him by its skillfully woven waistband; so it was fastened on him.

Leviticus 8:8 (NIV)

⁸ He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.

Leviticus 8:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then he placed the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the sacred diadem, on the front of it, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.

Leviticus 8:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

Leviticus 8:12 (NIV)

¹² He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

Leviticus 8:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then he brought Aaron’s sons forward, put tunics on them, tied sashes around them and put headbands on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Leviticus 8:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it.

Leviticus 8:16 (7KB)

¹⁶ Moses took all the fat on the inner organs, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and made it go up in smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 8:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ But the bull and its hide and its flesh and its refuse he burned in the fire outside the camp, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.

Leviticus 8:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Then Moses slaughtered the ram and sprinkled the blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 8:20 (7KB)

²⁰ When the ram had been cut in pieces, Moses made the head, the pieces and the fat go up in smoke.

Leviticus 8:21 (NIV)

²¹ He washed the inner parts and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:22 (AMP)

²² And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration and ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8:23 (7KB)

²³ After it had been slaughtered, Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Moses also brought Aaron’s sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled blood against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 8:25 (NIV)

²⁵ He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.

Leviticus 8:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Then from the basket of bread made without yeast, which was before the LORD, he took a cake of bread, and one made with oil, and a wafer; he put these on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

Leviticus 8:27 (NASB)

²⁷ He then put all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering before the LORD.

Leviticus 8:28 (NASB)

²⁸ Then Moses took them from their hands and offered them up in smoke on the altar with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was an offering by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 8:29 (NIV)

²⁹ He also took the breast–Moses’ share of the ordination ram–and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.

Leviticus 8:31 (7KB)

³¹ Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the tent of meeting; and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I ordered when I said that Aaron and his sons are to eat it.

Leviticus 8:32 (CJB)

³² Whatever is left over of the meat and bread you are to burn up completely.

Leviticus 8:33 (NIV)

³³ Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.

Leviticus 8:34 (NIV)

³⁴ What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for you.

Leviticus 8:35 (NIV)

³⁵ You must stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and do what the LORD requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded.”

Leviticus 8:36 (NIV)

³⁶ So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD commanded through Moses.

Leviticus Chapter 9

Leviticus 9:1 (NIV)

¹ On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

Leviticus 9:2 (NIV)

² He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:3 (NIV)

³ Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb–both a year old and without defect–for a burnt offering,

Leviticus 9:4 (NIV)

⁴ and an ox and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the LORD, together with a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.'”

Leviticus 9:5 (NIV)

⁵ They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”

Leviticus 9:7 (NIV)

⁷ Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”

Leviticus 9:8 (NIV)

⁸ So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

Leviticus 9:9 (NIV)

⁹ His sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 9:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ But the fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver of the sin offering he made go up in smoke on the altar, as the Lord had ordered Moses.

Leviticus 9:11 (NIV)

¹¹ the flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.

Leviticus 9:12 (NIV)

¹² Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons handed him the blood, and he sprinkled it against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 9:13 (CJB)

¹³ They brought him the burnt offering, piece by piece, and the head; and he made them go up in smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 9:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ He washed the inner organs and the lower parts of the legs and made them go up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

Leviticus 9:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ Then the people’s offering was presented. He took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the earlier sin offering.

Leviticus 9:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ The burnt offering was presented, and he offered it in the prescribed manner.

Leviticus 9:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ (ii) The grain offering was presented; he took a handful of it and made it go up in smoke on the altar, in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.

Leviticus 9:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he sprinkled it against the altar on all sides.

Leviticus 9:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But the fat portions of the ox and the ram–the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver–

Leviticus 9:20 (CJB)

²⁰ They put the fat on the breasts, and he made the fat go up in smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 9:21 (NIV)

²¹ Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the LORD as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.

Leviticus 9:22 (NASB)

²² Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

Leviticus 9:23 (NASB)

²³ Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

Leviticus 9:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

Leviticus Chapter 10

Leviticus 10:1 (NIV)

¹ Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.

Leviticus 10:2 (7KB)

² So as a result of their flippant behavior, fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

Leviticus 10:3 (7KB)

³ Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: “‘Among those who approach me I must be regarded as holy (and treated with respect). In the sight of all the people I must be honored.'” Aaron remained silent.

Leviticus 10:4 (NASB)

⁴ Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”

Leviticus 10:5 (AMP)

⁵ So they drew near and carried them in their undertunics [stripped of their priestly vestments] out of the camp, as Moses had said.

Leviticus 10:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt, and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the house of Israel, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.

Leviticus 10:7 (NIV)

⁷ Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting or you will die, because the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses said.

Leviticus 10:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then the LORD said to Aaron,

Leviticus 10:9 (NIV)

⁹ “You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Leviticus 10:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,

Leviticus 10:11 (7KB)

¹¹ and so that you will teach the people of Israel all the laws the Lord has told them through Moses.”

Leviticus 10:12 (NIV)

¹² Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering left over from the offerings made to the LORD by fire and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, for it is most holy.

Leviticus 10:13 (NASB)

¹³ “You shall eat it, moreover, in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due out of the LORD’S offerings by fire; for thus I have been commanded.

Leviticus 10:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children as your share of the Israelites’ fellowship offerings.

Leviticus 10:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “The thigh offered by lifting up and the breast offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the LORD; so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just as the LORD has commanded.”

Leviticus 10:16 (CJB)-M

¹⁶ Then Moses carefully investigated what had happened to the goat of the sin offering and discovered that it had been burned up. He became angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, and asked,

Leviticus 10:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the LORD.

Leviticus 10:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

Leviticus 10:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ But Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this very day in which they have [obediently] offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, such [terrible calamities] have befallen me [and them]! If I [and they] had eaten the most holy sin offering today [humbled as we have been by the sin of our kinsmen and God’s judgment upon them], would it have been acceptable in the sight of the Lord?

Leviticus 10:20 (AMP)

²⁰ And when Moses heard that, he was pacified.

Leviticus Chapter 11

Leviticus 11:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Leviticus 11:2 (NIV)

² “Say to the Israelites: ‘Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat:

Leviticus 11:3 (NIV)

³ You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.

Leviticus 11:4 (NIV)

⁴ “‘There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:5 (NKJV)

⁵ the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;

Leviticus 11:6 (NIV)

⁶ The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:7 (NIV)

⁷ And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:8 (NIV)

⁸ You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales–whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water–you are to detest.

Leviticus 11:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11:12 (NIV)

¹² Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:13 (NASB)

¹³ ‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Leviticus 11:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ and the kite and the falcon in its kind,

Leviticus 11:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ any kind of raven,

Leviticus 11:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ the ostrich, the screech-owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawks,

Leviticus 11:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

Leviticus 11:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ and the white owl and the pelican and the carrion vulture,

Leviticus 11:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

Leviticus 11:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:21 (NASB)

²¹ ~’Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.

Leviticus 11:22 (CJB)

²² Specifically, of these you may eat the various kinds of locusts, grasshoppers, katydids and crickets.

Leviticus 11:23 (NIV)

²³ But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest.

Leviticus 11:24 (NASB)

²⁴ ‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:25 (CJB)

²⁵ and whoever picks up any part of their carcass is to wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:

Leviticus 11:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “‘Every animal that has a split hoof not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches [the carcass of] any of them will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 11:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. They are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “‘Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

Leviticus 11:30 (NASB)

³⁰ and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.

Leviticus 11:31 (NIV)

³¹ Of all those that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 11:32 (NIV)

³² When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth. Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean.

Leviticus 11:33 (NIV)

³³ If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot.

Leviticus 11:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean.

Leviticus 11:35 (NIV)

³⁵ Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean.

Leviticus 11:36 (NIV)

³⁶ A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean.

Leviticus 11:37 (NIV)

³⁷ If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.

Leviticus 11:38 (NIV)

³⁸ But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:39 (CJB)

³⁹ “‘If an animal of a kind that you are permitted to eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:40 (CJB)

⁴⁰ A person who eats meat from its carcass or carries its carcass is to wash his clothes; he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:41 (CJB)

⁴¹ “‘Any creature that swarms on the ground is a detestable thing; it is not to be eaten —

Leviticus 11:42 (CJB)

⁴² whatever moves on its stomach, goes on all fours, or has many legs — all creatures that swarm on the ground; you are not to eat them, because they are a detestable thing.

Leviticus 11:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.

Leviticus 11:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground.

Leviticus 11:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

Leviticus 11:46 (NASB)

⁴⁶ This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

Leviticus 11:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.'”

Leviticus Chapter 12

Leviticus 12:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 12:2 (NIV)

² “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.

Leviticus 12:3 (CJB)

³ On the eighth day, the baby’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

Leviticus 12:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.

Leviticus 12:5 (NIV)

⁵ If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.

Leviticus 12:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.

Leviticus 12:7 (NIV)

⁷ He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. “‘These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

Leviticus 12:8 (NIV)

⁸ If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'”

Leviticus Chapter 13

Leviticus 13:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Leviticus 13:2 (NIV)

² “When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a bright spot on his skin that may become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.

Leviticus 13:3 (NIV)

³ The priest is to examine the sore on his skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious skin disease. When the priest examines him, he shall pronounce him ceremonially unclean.

Leviticus 13:4 (NIV)

⁴ If the spot on his skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to put the infected person in isolation for seven days.

Leviticus 13:5 (NIV)

⁵ On the seventh day the priest is to examine him, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to keep him in isolation another seven days.

Leviticus 13:6 (NIV)

⁶ On the seventh day the priest is to examine him again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a rash. The man must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 13:7 (NIV)

⁷ But if the rash does spread in his skin after he has shown himself to the priest to be pronounced clean, he must appear before the priest again.

Leviticus 13:8 (NIV)

⁸ The priest is to examine him, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious disease.

Leviticus 13:9 (NIV)

⁹ “When anyone has an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.

Leviticus 13:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The priest is to examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Leviticus 13:11 (NIV)

¹¹ it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He is not to put him in isolation, because he is already unclean.

Leviticus 13:12 (NIV)

¹² “If the disease breaks out all over his skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot,

Leviticus 13:13 (NIV)

¹³ the priest is to examine him, and if the disease has covered his whole body, he shall pronounce that person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

Leviticus 13:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.

Leviticus 13:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; he has an infectious disease.

Leviticus 13:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Should the raw flesh change and turn white, he must go to the priest.

Leviticus 13:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The priest is to examine him, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the infected person clean; then he will be clean.

Leviticus 13:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “When someone has a boil on his skin and it heals,

Leviticus 13:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, he must present himself to the priest.

Leviticus 13:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an infectious skin disease that has broken out where the boil was.

Leviticus 13:21 (NIV)

²¹ But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to put him in isolation for seven days.

Leviticus 13:22 (NIV)

²² If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is infectious.

Leviticus 13:23 (NIV)

²³ But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “When someone has a burn on his skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn,

Leviticus 13:25 (NIV)

²⁵ the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious skin disease.

Leviticus 13:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to put him in isolation for seven days.

Leviticus 13:27 (NIV)

²⁷ On the seventh day the priest is to examine him, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infectious skin disease.

Leviticus 13:28 (NIV)

²⁸ If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scar from the burn.

Leviticus 13:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “If a man or woman has a sore on the head or on the chin,

Leviticus 13:30 (NIV)

³⁰ the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean; it is an itch, an infectious disease of the head or chin.

Leviticus 13:31 (NIV)

³¹ But if, when the priest examines this kind of sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to put the infected person in isolation for seven days.

Leviticus 13:32 (NIV)

³² On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if the itch has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep,

Leviticus 13:33 (NIV)

³³ he must be shaved except for the diseased area, and the priest is to keep him in isolation another seven days.

Leviticus 13:34 (NIV)

³⁴ On the seventh day the priest is to examine the itch, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 13:35 (NIV)

³⁵ But if the itch does spread in the skin after he is pronounced clean,

Leviticus 13:36 (NIV)

³⁶ the priest is to examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.

Leviticus 13:37 (NIV)

³⁷ If, however, in his judgment it is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13:38 (NIV)

³⁸ “When a man or woman has white spots on the skin,

Leviticus 13:39 (NIV)

³⁹ the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; that person is clean.

Leviticus 13:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ “When a man has lost his hair and is bald, he is clean.

Leviticus 13:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

Leviticus 13:42 (NIV)

⁴² But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on his head or forehead.

Leviticus 13:43 (NIV)

⁴³ The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like an infectious skin disease,

Leviticus 13:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.

Leviticus 13:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ “The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

Leviticus 13:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ As long as he has the infection he remains unclean. He must live alone; he must live outside the camp.

Leviticus 13:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ “If any clothing is contaminated with mildew–any woolen or linen clothing,

Leviticus 13:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather–

Leviticus 13:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ and if the contamination in the clothing, or leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest.

Leviticus 13:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected article for seven days.

Leviticus 13:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mildew has spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a destructive mildew; the article is unclean.

Leviticus 13:52 (NIV)

⁵² He must burn up the clothing, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has the contamination in it, because the mildew is destructive; the article must be burned up.

Leviticus 13:53 (NIV)

⁵³ “But if, when the priest examines it, the mildew has not spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather article,

Leviticus 13:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ he shall order that the contaminated article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days.

Leviticus 13:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ After the affected article has been washed, the priest is to examine it, and if the mildew has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it with fire, whether the mildew has affected one side or the other.

Leviticus 13:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ If, when the priest examines it, the mildew has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the contaminated part out of the clothing, or the leather, or the woven or knitted material.

Leviticus 13:57 (NIV)

⁵⁷ But if it reappears in the clothing, or in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is spreading, and whatever has the mildew must be burned with fire.

Leviticus 13:58 (NIV)

⁵⁸ The clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and is rid of the mildew, must be washed again, and it will be clean.”

Leviticus 13:59 (NIV)

⁵⁹ These are the regulations concerning contamination by mildew in woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted material, or any leather article, for pronouncing them clean or unclean.

Leviticus Chapter 14

Leviticus 14:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 14:2 (NIV)

² “These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest:

Leviticus 14:3 (NIV)

³ The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease,

Leviticus 14:4 (NIV)

⁴ the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

Leviticus 14:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.

Leviticus 14:6 (NIV)

⁶ He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

Leviticus 14:7 (NIV)

⁷ Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the infectious disease and pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields.

Leviticus 14:8 (NIV)

⁸ “The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. After this he may come into the camp, but he must stay outside his tent for seven days.

Leviticus 14:9 (NIV)

⁹ On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair; he must shave his head, his beard, his eyebrows and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 14:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “On the eighth day he must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.

Leviticus 14:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The priest who pronounces him clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and his offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 14:12 (NIV)

¹² “Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

Leviticus 14:13 (NIV)

¹³ He is to slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

Leviticus 14:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 14:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,

Leviticus 14:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the LORD seven times.

Leviticus 14:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

Leviticus 14:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for him before the LORD.

Leviticus 14:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering

Leviticus 14:20 (NIV)

²⁰ and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 14:21 (NIV)

²¹ “If, however, he is poor and cannot afford these, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, together with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,

Leviticus 14:22 (NIV)

²² and two doves or two young pigeons, which he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 14:23 (NIV)

²³ “On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD.

Leviticus 14:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

Leviticus 14:25 (NIV)

²⁵ He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 14:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,

Leviticus 14:27 (NIV)

²⁷ and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD.

Leviticus 14:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering–on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 14:29 (NIV)

²⁹ The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

Leviticus 14:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, which the person can afford,

Leviticus 14:31 (NIV)

³¹ one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.”

Leviticus 14:32 (NIV)

³² These are the regulations for anyone who has an infectious skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for his cleansing.

Leviticus 14:33 (NASB)

³³ The LORD further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

Leviticus 14:34 (NIV)

³⁴ “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in that land,

Leviticus 14:35 (NIV)

³⁵ the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like mildew in my house.’

Leviticus 14:36 (NIV)

³⁶ The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

Leviticus 14:37 (NIV)

³⁷ He is to examine the mildew on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

Leviticus 14:38 (NIV)

³⁸ the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

Leviticus 14:39 (NIV)

³⁹ On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,

Leviticus 14:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

Leviticus 14:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.

Leviticus 14:42 (NIV)

⁴² Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

Leviticus 14:43 (NIV)

⁴³ “If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,

Leviticus 14:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.

Leviticus 14:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ It must be torn down–its stones, timbers and all the plaster–and taken out of the town to an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ “Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 14:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.

Leviticus 14:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mildew has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.

Leviticus 14:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Leviticus 14:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

Leviticus 14:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

Leviticus 14:52 (NIV)

⁵² He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

Leviticus 14:53 (NIV)

⁵³ Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

Leviticus 14:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ These are the regulations for any infectious skin disease, for an itch,

Leviticus 14:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ for mildew in clothing or in a house,

Leviticus 14:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ and for a swelling, a rash or a bright spot,

Leviticus 14:57 (NIV)

⁵⁷ to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for infectious skin diseases and mildew.

Leviticus Chapter 15

Leviticus 15:1 (NASB)

¹ The LORD also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Leviticus 15:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

Leviticus 15:3 (NIV)

³ Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:

Leviticus 15:4 (NIV)

⁴ “‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean.

Leviticus 15:5 (NIV)

⁵ Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:6 (NIV)

⁶ Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean,

Leviticus 15:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘A clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water.

Leviticus 15:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 15:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.

Leviticus 15:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the LORD for the man because of his discharge.

Leviticus 15:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

Leviticus 15:21 (NIV)

²¹ Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:22 (NIV)

²² Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:23 (NIV)

²³ Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.

Leviticus 15:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.

Leviticus 15:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.

Leviticus 15:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 15:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

Leviticus 15:29 (NIV)

²⁹ On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 15:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.

Leviticus 15:31 (NIV)

³¹ “‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.'”

Leviticus 15:32 (NIV)

³² These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,

Leviticus 15:33 (NIV)

³³ for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who lies with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.

Leviticus Chapter 16

Leviticus 16:1 (NKJV)

¹ Now the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the LORD, and died;

Leviticus 16:2 (NIV)

² The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

Leviticus 16:3 (NIV)

³ “This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 16:4 (NIV)

⁴ He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on.

Leviticus 16:5 (NIV)

⁵ From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 16:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.

Leviticus 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 16:8 (NIV)

⁸ He is to cast lots for the two goats–one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat.

Leviticus 16:9 (NIV)

⁹ Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.

Leviticus 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

Leviticus 16:12 (NIV)

¹² He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.

Leviticus 16:13 (NIV)

¹³ He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.

Leviticus 16:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.

Leviticus 16:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.

Leviticus 16:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

Leviticus 16:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.

Leviticus 16:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

Leviticus 16:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

Leviticus 16:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.

Leviticus 16:21 (NIV)

²¹ He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites–all their sins–and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task.

Leviticus 16:22 (CJB)

²² The goat will bear all their transgressions away to some isolated place, and he is to let the goat go in the desert.

Leviticus 16:23 (NIV)

²³ “Then Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.

Leviticus 16:24 (NIV)

²⁴ He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 16:25 (NIV)

²⁵ He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

Leviticus 16:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

Leviticus 16:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up.

Leviticus 16:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

Leviticus 16:29 (NASB)

²⁹ “This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you;

Leviticus 16:30 (NASB)

³⁰ for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

Leviticus 16:31 (NASB)

³¹ “It is to be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, that you may humble your souls; it is a permanent statute.

Leviticus 16:32 (NIV)

³² The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments

Leviticus 16:33 (NIV)

³³ and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community.

Leviticus 16:34 (NIV)

³⁴ “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.” And it was done, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus Chapter 17

Leviticus 17:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 17:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘This is what the LORD has commanded:

Leviticus 17:3 (NIV)

³ Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it

Leviticus 17:4 (NIV)

⁴ instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD–that man shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood and must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17:5 (NIV)

⁵ This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the LORD, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings.

Leviticus 17:6 (NIV)

⁶ The priest is to sprinkle the blood against the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 17:7 (CJB)

⁷ No longer will they offer sacrifices to the goat-demons, before whom they prostitute themselves! This is a permanent regulation for them through all their generations.’

Leviticus 17:8 (NASB)

⁸ “Then you shall say to them, ‘Any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

Leviticus 17:9 (NIV)

⁹ and does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD–that man must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ ‘And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11 (NIV)

¹¹ For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

Leviticus 17:12 (NIV)

¹² Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.”

Leviticus 17:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Any Israelite or any alien living among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth,

Leviticus 17:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

Leviticus 17:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ And every person who eats what dies of itself or was torn by beasts, whether he is native-born or a temporary resident, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening; then shall he be clean.

Leviticus 17:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ But if he doesn’t wash them or bathe his body, he will bear the consequences of his wrongdoing.”

Leviticus Chapter 18

Leviticus 18:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 18:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:3 (NIV)

³ You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.

Leviticus 18:4 (NIV)

⁴ You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:5 (NIV)

⁵ Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

Leviticus 18:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

Leviticus 18:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

Leviticus 18:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; that would dishonor you.

Leviticus 18:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

Leviticus 18:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

Leviticus 18:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

Leviticus 18:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

Leviticus 18:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.

Leviticus 18:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

Leviticus 18:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

Leviticus 18:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

Leviticus 18:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

Leviticus 18:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 18:21 (NIV)

²¹ “‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:22 (NIV)

²² “‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 18:23 (NIV)

²³ “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

Leviticus 18:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

Leviticus 18:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,

Leviticus 18:27 (NIV)

²⁷ for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

Leviticus 18:28 (NIV)

²⁸ And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Leviticus 18:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things–such persons must be cut off from their people.

Leviticus 18:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'”

Leviticus Chapter 19

Leviticus 19:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 19:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Leviticus 19:3 (NIV)

³ “‘Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:4 (NIV)

⁴ “‘Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:5 (NIV)

⁵ “‘When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 19:6 (NIV)

⁶ It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up.

Leviticus 19:7 (CJB)

⁷ If any of it is eaten on the third day, it will have become a disgusting thing and will not be accepted;

Leviticus 19:8 (NIV)

⁸ Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has desecrated what is holy to the LORD; that person must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 19:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Leviticus 19:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘Do not steal. “‘Do not lie. “‘Do not deceive one another.

Leviticus 19:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. “‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.

Leviticus 19:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

Leviticus 19:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.

Leviticus 19:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘Keep my decrees. “‘Do not mate different kinds of animals. “‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. “‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 19:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘If a man sleeps with a woman who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

Leviticus 19:21 (NIV)

²¹ The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for a guilt offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 19:22 (NIV)

²² With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.

Leviticus 19:23 (NIV)

²³ “‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 19:24 (NIV)

²⁴ In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

Leviticus 19:25 (NIV)

²⁵ But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. “‘Do not practice divination or sorcery.

Leviticus 19:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 19:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.

Leviticus 19:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:31 (NIV)

³¹ “‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:32 (NIV)

³² “‘Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:33 (NIV)

³³ “‘When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him.

Leviticus 19:34 (NIV)

³⁴ The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:35 (NIV)

³⁵ “‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.

Leviticus 19:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:37 (NIV)

³⁷ “‘Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the LORD.'”

Leviticus Chapter 20

Leviticus 20:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 20:2 (NIV)

² “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him.

Leviticus 20:3 (NIV)

³ I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

Leviticus 20:4 (7KB)

⁴ If the people of the land look the other way when that man sacrifices his child to Molech and fail to put him to death,

Leviticus 20:5 (NIV)

⁵ I will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.

Leviticus 20:6 (CJB)

⁶ “‘The person who turns to spirit-mediums and sorcerers to go fornicating after them — I will set myself against him and cut him off from his people.

Leviticus 20:7 (NASB)

⁷ ‘You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:8 (7KB)

⁸ Observe my regulations, and obey them; I am the Lord, who sets you apart to be holy and who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 20:9 (CJB)

⁹ “‘A person who curses his father or mother must be put to death; having cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him.

Leviticus 20:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife–with the wife of his neighbor–both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

Leviticus 20:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:13 (7KB)

¹³ If a man [has sexual relations] with a man [in the way he would have sexual relations] with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they must be put to death; their blood is on them.

Leviticus 20:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity; they are to be put to death by fire, both he and they, so that there will not be depravity among you.

Leviticus 20:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you are to kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

Leviticus 20:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ If a man goes to bed with a woman in her menstrual period and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her blood, and she has exposed the source of her blood; both of them are to be cut off from their people.

Leviticus 20:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.

Leviticus 20:20 (CJB)

²⁰ If a man goes to bed with his uncle’s wife, he has disgraced his uncle sexually; they will bear the consequences of their sin and die childless.

Leviticus 20:21 (CJB)

²¹ If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is uncleanness; he has disgraced his brother sexually; they will be childless.

Leviticus 20:22 (NIV)

²² “‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20:23 (NIV)

²³ You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20:24 (NIV)

²⁴ But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

Leviticus 20:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground–those which I have set apart as unclean for you.

Leviticus 20:26 (NIV)

²⁶ You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

Leviticus 20:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.'”

Leviticus Chapter 21

Leviticus 21:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

Leviticus 21:2 (NASB)

² except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

Leviticus 21:3 (NIV)

³ or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband–for her he may make himself unclean.

Leviticus 21:4 (NIV)

⁴ He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

Leviticus 21:5 (NASB)

⁵ ~’They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

Leviticus 21:6 (NIV)

⁶ They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the LORD by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

Leviticus 21:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

Leviticus 21:8 (NIV)

⁸ Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy–I who make you holy.

Leviticus 21:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 21:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes.

Leviticus 21:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,

Leviticus 21:12 (7KB)

¹² He may not leave the sanctuary then or profane the sanctuary of his God, because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.

Leviticus 21:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

Leviticus 21:15 (7KB)

¹⁵ and not disqualify his descendants among his people; because I am the Lord, who makes him holy.’”

Leviticus 21:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 21:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

Leviticus 21:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ no man with a crippled foot or hand,

Leviticus 21:20 (NIV)

²⁰ or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

Leviticus 21:21 (NIV)

²¹ No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:22 (NIV)

²² He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;

Leviticus 21:23 (NIV)

²³ yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'”

Leviticus 21:24 (NIV)

²⁴ So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Leviticus Chapter 22

Leviticus 22:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 22:2 (NIV)

² “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:3 (NASB)

³ “Say to them, ‘If any man among all your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy gifts which the sons of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:4 (NIV)

⁴ “‘If a descendant of Aaron has an infectious skin disease or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

Leviticus 22:5 (NIV)

⁵ or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.

Leviticus 22:6 (NIV)

⁶ The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

Leviticus 22:7 (NIV)

⁷ When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

Leviticus 22:8 (NIV)

⁸ He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘The priests are to keep my requirements so that they do not become guilty and die for treating them with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

Leviticus 22:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ “‘No layman (anyone outside a priest’s family) may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.

Leviticus 22:11 (NIV)

¹¹ But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

Leviticus 22:12 (NASB)

¹² ‘If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

Leviticus 22:13 (NASB)

¹³ ‘But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food; but no layman shall eat of it.

Leviticus 22:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ ‘But if a layman eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest.

Leviticus 22:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the LORD

Leviticus 22:16 (7KB)

¹⁶ by allowing any layman to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'”

Leviticus 22:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 22:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you–either an Israelite or an alien living in Israel–presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

Leviticus 22:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable.

Leviticus 22:23 (NIV)

²³ You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow.

Leviticus 22:24 (NIV)

²⁴ You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land,

Leviticus 22:25 (NIV)

²⁵ and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.'”

Leviticus 22:26 (NASB)

²⁶ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 22:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus 22:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

Leviticus 22:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:30 (NIV)

³⁰ It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:31 (NIV)

³¹ “Keep my commands and follow them. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:32 (NIV)

³² Do not profane my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who makes you holy

Leviticus 22:33 (NIV)

³³ and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”

Leviticus Chapter 23

Leviticus 23:1 (NASB)

¹ The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

Leviticus 23:3 (7KB)

³ “‘Work is to be done on six days; but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you are not to do any kind of work; it is a Sabbath for the Lord, even in your homes.

Leviticus 23:4 (7KB)

⁴ “‘These are the designated times of the Lord, the holy convocations you are to proclaim at their designated times.

Leviticus 23:5 (NIV)

⁵ The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Leviticus 23:6 (NIV)

⁶ On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

Leviticus 23:7 (CJB)

⁷ On the first day you are to have a holy convocation; don’t do any kind of ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:8 (NIV)

⁸ For seven days present an offering made to the LORD by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.'”

Leviticus 23:9 (NASB)

⁹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

Leviticus 23:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:12 (NIV)

¹² On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect,

Leviticus 23:13 (NIV)

¹³ together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil–an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma–and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

Leviticus 23:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ You are not to eat bread, dried grain or fresh grain until the day you bring the offering for your God; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

Leviticus 23:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.

Leviticus 23:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ ~’You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings–an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.

Leviticus 23:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest.

Leviticus 23:21 (NIV)

²¹ On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Leviticus 23:22 (NIV)

²² “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'”

Leviticus 23:23 (NASB)

²³ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:24 (7KB)

²⁴ “Tell the people of Israel, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar (trumpet blasts).

Leviticus 23:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire.'”

Leviticus 23:26 (NASB)

²⁶ The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire.

Leviticus 23:28 (7KB)

²⁸ You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, (Day of Atonement) to make atonement for you before for the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:29 (CJB)

²⁹ Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people;

Leviticus 23:30 (CJB)

³⁰ and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people.

Leviticus 23:31 (CJB)

³¹ You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

Leviticus 23:32 (NIV)

³² It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”

Leviticus 23:33 (NASB)

³³ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23:34 (7KB)

³⁴ “Tell the people of Israel, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot [Feast of Tabernacles] for seven days to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:35 (CJB)

³⁵ On the first day there is to be a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:36 (7KB)

³⁶ For seven days you are to bring an offering made by fire to the Lord; on the eighth day you are to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to the Lord; it is a day of public assembly; do not do any kind of ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:37 (7KB)

³⁷ “‘These are the designated times of the Lord that you are to proclaim as holy convocations and bring an offering made by fire to the Lord — a burnt offering, a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, each on its own day —

Leviticus 23:38 (NIV)

³⁸ These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.)

Leviticus 23:39 (7KB)

³⁹ “‘But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to observe the festival of the Lord seven days; the first day is to be a complete rest and the eighth day is to be a complete rest.

Leviticus 23:40 (NASB)

⁴⁰ ~’Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Leviticus 23:41 (7KB)

⁴¹ You are to observe it as a feast to the Lord seven days in the year; it is a permanent regulation, generation after generation; keep it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 23:42 (NIV)

⁴² Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths

Leviticus 23:43 (NASB)

⁴³ so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'”

Leviticus 23:44 (7KB)

⁴⁴ Thus Moses announced to the people of Israel the designated times of the Lord.

Leviticus Chapter 24

Leviticus 24:1 (NASB)

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 24:2 (NIV)

² “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

Leviticus 24:3 (NIV)

³ Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Leviticus 24:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ He is always tend continually the lamps on the pure gold menorah [lampstand] before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:5 (CJB)

⁵ “You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.

Leviticus 24:6 (NIV)

⁶ Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

Leviticus 24:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to the Lord in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.

Leviticus 24:8 (NIV)

⁸ This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

Leviticus 24:9 (NIV)

⁹ It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire.”

Leviticus 24:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

Leviticus 24:11 (AMP)

¹¹ The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. They brought him to Moses—his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

Leviticus 24:12 (NIV)

¹² They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

Leviticus 24:13 (NASB)

¹³ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 24:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

Leviticus 24:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Say to the Israelites: ‘If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible;

Leviticus 24:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the Lord].

Leviticus 24:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ ‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ And he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.

Leviticus 24:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

Leviticus 24:20 (NIV)

²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.

Leviticus 24:21 (NIV)

²¹ Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:22 (NASB)

²² ~’There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'”

Leviticus 24:23 (NIV)

²³ Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus Chapter 25

Leviticus 25:1 (AMP)

¹ THE LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

Leviticus 25:2 (NIV)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

Leviticus 25:3 (CJB)

³ Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.

Leviticus 25:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ But in the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

Leviticus 25:5 (CJB)

⁵ You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

Leviticus 25:6 (NIV)

⁶ Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year will be food for you–for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

Leviticus 25:7 (NIV)

⁷ as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

Leviticus 25:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘Count off seven Sabbaths of years–seven times seven years–so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years.

Leviticus 25:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, [Day of Atonement] you are to sound a blast on the shofar; [trumpet] you are to sound the shofar [trumpet] all through your land;

Leviticus 25:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.

Leviticus 25:11 (CJB)-M

¹¹ That fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;

Leviticus 25:12 (NASB)

¹² ~’For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.

Leviticus 25:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property.

Leviticus 25:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take advantage of each other.

Leviticus 25:15 (CJB)-M

¹⁵ Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the jubilee when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be raised.

Leviticus 25:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ If the number of years remaining is large, you will raise the price; if few years remain, you will lower it; because what he is really selling you is the number of crops to be produced.

Leviticus 25:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Thus you are not to take advantage of each other, but you are to fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ ‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.

Leviticus 25:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ ~’Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

Leviticus 25:20 (CJB)

²⁰ “‘If you ask, “If we aren’t allowed to sow seed or harvest what our land produces, what are we going to eat the seventh year?”

Leviticus 25:21 (CJB)

²¹ then I will order my blessing on you during the sixth year, so that the land brings forth enough produce for all three years.

Leviticus 25:22 (CJB)

²² The eighth year you will sow seed, but eat the old, stored produce until the ninth year; that is, until the produce of the eighth year comes in, you will eat the old, stored food.

Leviticus 25:23 (CJB)

²³ “‘The land is not to be sold in perpetuity, because the land belongs to me — you are only foreigners and temporary residents with me.

Leviticus 25:24 (CJB)

²⁴ Therefore, when you sell your property, you must include the right of redemption.

Leviticus 25:25 (NASB)

²⁵ ‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

Leviticus 25:26 (CJB)

²⁶ If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,

Leviticus 25:27 (CJB)

²⁷ he will calculate the number of years the land was sold for, refund the excess to its buyer, and return to his property.

Leviticus 25:28 (CJB)-M

²⁸ If he hasn’t sufficient means to get it back himself, then what he sold will remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of Jubilee in the Jubilee the buyer will vacate it and the seller return to his property.

Leviticus 25:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time he may redeem it.

Leviticus 25:30 (NIV)

³⁰ If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:31 (NIV)

³¹ But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:32 (NIV)

³² “‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

Leviticus 25:33 (NIV)

³³ So the property of the Levites is redeemable–that is, a house sold in any town they hold–and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

Leviticus 25:34 (NIV)

³⁴ But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

Leviticus 25:35 (NIV)

³⁵ “‘If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:37 (CJB)

³⁷ Do not take interest when you loan him money or take a profit when you sell him food.

Leviticus 25:38 (NIV)

³⁸ I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

Leviticus 25:39 (NIV)

³⁹ “‘If one of your countrymen becomes poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave.

Leviticus 25:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ He is to be treated as a hired worker or a temporary resident among you; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:41 (CJB)

⁴¹ Then he will leave you, he and his children with him, and return to his own family and regain possession of his ancestral land.

Leviticus 25:42 (CJB)

⁴² For they are my slaves, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; therefore they are not to be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:43 (CJB)

⁴³ Do not treat him harshly, but fear your God.

Leviticus 25:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Leviticus 25:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

Leviticus 25:46 (CJB)

⁴⁶ You may also bequeath them to your children to own; from these groups you may take your slaves forever. But as far as your brothers the people of Israel are concerned, you are not to treat each other harshly.

Leviticus 25:47 (CJB)

⁴⁷ (LY: vii) “‘If a foreigner living with you has grown rich, and a member of your people has become poor and sells himself to this foreigner living with you or to a member of the foreigner’s family,

Leviticus 25:48 (CJB)

⁴⁸ he may be redeemed after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him;

Leviticus 25:49 (CJB)

⁴⁹ or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or any near relative of his may redeem him; or, if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ He and his buyer are to count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for his release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired man for that number of years.

Leviticus 25:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption a larger share of the price paid for him.

Leviticus 25:52 (NIV)

⁵² If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to compute that and pay for his redemption accordingly.

Leviticus 25:53 (NIV)

⁵³ He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year; you must see to it that his owner does not rule over him ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:54 (CJB)-M

⁵⁴ “‘If he has not been redeemed by any of these procedures, nevertheless he will go free in the year of Jubilee — he and his children with him.

Leviticus 25:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus Chapter 26

Leviticus 26:1 (CJB)-M

¹ “‘You are not to make yourselves any idols, erect a carved statue or a standing-stone, or place any carved stone anywhere in your land in order to bow down to it. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:2 (NIV)

² “‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 26:3 (NIV)

³ “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

Leviticus 26:4 (CJB)

⁴ then I will provide the rain you need in its season, the land will yield its produce, and the trees in the field will yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:5 (CJB)

⁵ Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land.

Leviticus 26:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

Leviticus 26:7 (NIV)

⁷ You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

Leviticus 26:8 (NIV)

⁸ Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

Leviticus 26:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

Leviticus 26:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

Leviticus 26:12 (NIV)

¹² I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Leviticus 26:13 (NIV)

¹³ I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Leviticus 26:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,

Leviticus 26:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

Leviticus 26:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you — wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops.

Leviticus 26:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

Leviticus 26:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ If these things don’t make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins.

Leviticus 26:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze —

Leviticus 26:20 (CJB)

²⁰ you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit.

Leviticus 26:21 (NIV)

²¹ “‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

Leviticus 26:22 (CJB)

²² I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted.

Leviticus 26:23 (CJB)

²³ “‘If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me;

Leviticus 26:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

Leviticus 26:25 (CJB)

²⁵ I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:26 (CJB)

²⁶ I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:27 (CJB)

²⁷ “‘And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me;

Leviticus 26:28 (CJB)

²⁸ then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:29 (CJB)

²⁹ You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.

Leviticus 26:30 (AMP)

³⁰ And I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your sun-images, and throw your dead bodies upon the [wrecked] bodies of your idols, and My soul shall abhor you [with deep and unutterable loathing].

Leviticus 26:31 (NIV)

³¹ I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

Leviticus 26:32 (NASB)

³² ~’I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

Leviticus 26:33 (CJB)

³³ You I will disperse among the nations, and I will draw out the sword in pursuit after you; your land will be a desolation and your cities a wasteland.

Leviticus 26:34 (CJB)-M

³⁴ Then, at last, the land will be paid its Sabbath years. As long as it lies desolate and you are in the lands of your enemies, the land will rest and be repaid its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35 (NIV)

³⁵ All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbaths you lived in it.

Leviticus 26:36 (NIV)

³⁶ “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.

Leviticus 26:37 (NIV)

³⁷ They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.

Leviticus 26:38 (CJB)

³⁸ And among the nations you will perish; the land of your enemies will devour you.

Leviticus 26:39 (CJB)

³⁹ Those of you who remain will pine away in the lands of your enemies from guilt over your misdeeds and those of your ancestors.

Leviticus 26:40 (CJB)

⁴⁰ Then they will confess their misdeeds and those of their ancestors which they committed against me in their rebellion; they will admit that they went against me.

Leviticus 26:41 (CJB)

⁴¹ At that time I will be going against them, bringing them into the lands of their enemies. But if their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble, and they are paid the punishment for their misdeeds;

Leviticus 26:42 (NIV)

⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43 (CJB)

⁴³ For the land will lie abandoned without them, and it will be paid its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will be paid the punishment for their misdeeds, because they rejected my rulings and loathed my regulations.

Leviticus 26:44 (CJB)-M

⁴⁴ Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am the Lord their God.

Leviticus 26:45 (CJB)

⁴⁵ Rather, for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt — with the nations watching — so that I might be their God; I am the Lord.’”

Leviticus 26:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

Leviticus Chapter 27

Leviticus 27:1 (NIV)

¹ The LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 27:2 (CJB)-M

² “Tell the people of Israel, ‘If someone makes a clearly defined vow to the Lord to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being,

Leviticus 27:3 (NIV)

³ set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel;

Leviticus 27:4 (NIV)

⁴ and if it is a female, set her value at thirty shekels.

Leviticus 27:5 (CJB)

⁵ If it is a child five to twenty years old, assign a value of twenty shekels for a boy and ten for a girl;

Leviticus 27:6 (CJB)

⁶ if a baby one month to five years of age, five shekels for a boy and three for a girl;

Leviticus 27:7 (CJB)

⁷ if a person past sixty, fifteen shekels for a man and ten for a woman.

Leviticus 27:8 (NIV)

⁸ If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, he is to present the person to the priest, who will set the value for him according to what the man making the vow can afford.

Leviticus 27:9 (NASB)

⁹ ‘Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the LORD, any such that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.

Leviticus 27:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ ~’He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

Leviticus 27:11 (NIV)

¹¹ If what he vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal–one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD–the animal must be presented to the priest,

Leviticus 27:12 (NIV)

¹² who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be.

Leviticus 27:13 (NIV)

¹³ If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

Leviticus 27:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘If a man dedicates his house as something holy to the LORD, the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain.

Leviticus 27:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ If the man who dedicates his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become his.

Leviticus 27:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of his family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it–fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed.

Leviticus 27:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ If he dedicates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.

Leviticus 27:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall count the money value in proportion to the years that remain until the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

Leviticus 27:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If the man who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become his.

Leviticus 27:20 (NIV)

²⁰ If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:21 (NIV)

²¹ When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become the property of the priests.

Leviticus 27:22 (NIV)

²² “‘If a man dedicates to the LORD a field he has bought, which is not part of his family land,

Leviticus 27:23 (NIV)

²³ the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:24 (CJB)-M

²⁴ In the year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, that is, to the person to whose tribal possession it belongs.

Leviticus 27:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Leviticus 27:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

Leviticus 27:27 (NIV)

²⁷ If it is one of the unclean animals, he may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value.

Leviticus 27:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “‘But nothing that a man owns and devotes to the LORD–whether man or animal or family land–may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “‘No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death.

Leviticus 27:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:31 (NIV)

³¹ If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth of the value to it.

Leviticus 27:32 (NIV)

³² The entire tithe of the herd and flock–every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod–will be holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:33 (NIV)

³³ He must not pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.'”

Leviticus 27:34 (NIV)

³⁴ These are the commands the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.

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