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And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
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In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
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They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.
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And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.
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And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.
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And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
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Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.
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And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.
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The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.