“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. “You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge. “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers everyone shall be put to death for his own sin. You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it so that he will not cry against you to the Lord and it become sin in you. “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns. They shall not profane the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they offer to the Lord, and so cause them to bear punishment for guilt by eating their holy gifts for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’” Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or of the aliens in Israel who presents his offering, whether it is any of their votive or any of their freewill offerings, which they present to the Lord for a burnt offering. But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest. read more.īut 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. If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts. But if a priest buys a slave as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food. ‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift. 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.’ When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening then he will become clean.

“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life.

read more.įor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’ Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.’ So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. ‘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. “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, and does not bring it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord, that man also shall be cut off from his people.

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