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 \v 13 You must eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons' share of the offerings to Yahweh made by fire, for this is what I have been commanded to tell you.
 
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-\v 14 The breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented to Yahweh, you must eat in a clean place acceptable to God. You and your sons and daughters with you should eat those portions, for they are given as your share and your sons' share out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
+\v 14 As for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, you must eat them in a clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they are given as your assigned portion and your sons' assigned portion out of the sacrifices of the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.
-\v 15 The thigh that is presented and the breast that is waved, they must bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to wave before Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
+\v 15 As for the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, they must bring them with the offerings of fat made by fire as a wave offering before Yahweh. They will be yours and your sons' with you as a share forever, as Yahweh has commanded."
 
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 \v 36 A spring or cistern for collecting water remains clean; but anyone who touches their carcass is unclean.
-\v 37 If any part of their carcass falls upon any seeds for planting, those seeds will still be clean.
+\v 37 If any part of their carcass falls upon any seeds for sowing, those seeds will still be clean.
 \v 38 But if water is put on the seeds, and if any part of their carcass falls on them, then they will be unclean to you.
 
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 \v 42 Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all four legs, or whatever has many feet—all the animals that creep on the ground, these you must not eat, for they are detestable.
 
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-\v 43 You must not make yourselves unclean with any living creatures that creep; you must not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be made impure by them.
+\v 43 You must not make yourselves detestable with any living creatures that creep; you must not make yourselves unclean with them and you must not be made unclean by them.
 \v 44 For I am Yahweh your God. You are to keep yourselves holy, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves about on the ground.
 \v 45 For I am Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You must therefore be holy, for I am holy.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, then she will be unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during the days of her monthly period.
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, then she will be unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during the days of her monthly impurity.
 \v 3 On the eighth day the flesh of a baby boy's foreskin must be circumcised.
 
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-\v 4 Then the mother's purification from her bleeding will continue for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or come into the tabernacle area until the days of her purification are finished.
+\v 4 Then the mother's purification from her bleeding will continue for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are finished.
-\v 5 But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as she is during her period. Then the mother's purification will continue for sixty-six days.
+\v 5 But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as she is during her impurity. Then for sixty-six days she will be purified from her bleeding.
 
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 \v 42 But if there is a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease that has broken out.
 \v 43 Then the priest must examine him to see if the swelling of the diseased area on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of an infectious disease in the skin.
-\v 44 If it is, then he has an infectious disease and he is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his disease on his head.
+\v 44 If it is, then he is leprous and is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his disease on his head.
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
-\v 2 "This will be the law for the diseased person on the day of his cleansing. He must be brought to the priest.
+\v 2 "This will be the law for the leper on the day of his cleansing. He must be brought to the priest.
 
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-\v 3 The priest will go out of the camp to examine the person to see if the infectious skin disease is healed.
+\v 3 The priest will go out of the camp to examine the leper to see if the infectious skin disease is healed.
 \v 4 Then the priest will command that the one to be cleansed must take two live, clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
 \v 5 The priest will command him to kill one of the birds over fresh water that is in a clay pot.
 
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 \v 23 On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.
 
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-\v 24 The priest will take the lamb for an offering, and he will take with it the log of olive oil, and he will lift them high as he presents them to Yahweh.
+\v 24 The priest will take the lamb for an offering, and he will take with it the log of olive oil, and he will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh.
-\v 25 He will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
+\v 25 The priest will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
 
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 \v 26 Then the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
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-\v 19 When a woman menstruates, her impurity will continue for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.
+\v 19 When a woman has a flow of blood, her impurity will continue for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.
 \v 20 Everything she lies on during her period will be unclean; everything that she sits on will also be unclean.
 
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-\v 32 These are the regulations for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,
+\v 32 This is the law for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,
 \v 33 for any woman who has a menstrual period, for anyone with a flow of fluid, whether male or female, and for any man who lies with an unclean woman.'"
 
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 \v 20 When he has finished atoning for the most holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he must present the live goat.
-\v 21 Aaron must lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over him all the wickedness of the people of Israel, all their rebellion, and all their sins. Then he must put that sinfulness on the head of the goat and send the goat away in the care of a man who is ready to lead the goat into the wilderness.
+\v 21 Aaron must lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over him all the evil deeds of the people of Israel, all their rebellion, and all their sins. Then he must put that sinfulness on the head of the goat and send the goat away in the care of a man who is ready to lead the goat into the wilderness.
-\v 22 The goat must carry on himself all the people's wickedness to a solitary place. There in the wilderness, the man must let the goat go free.
+\v 22 The goat must carry on himself all the people's evil deeds to a solitary place. There in the wilderness, the man must let the goat go free.
 
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 \v 8 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wives; it is your father's nakedness.
 
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-\v 9 Do not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you.
+\v 9 Do not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was born in your home or distant from you.
 \v 10 Do not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
 \v 11 Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.
 
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-\v 19 Do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during the time of her uncleanness.
+\v 19 Do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during the impurity of her uncleanness.
 \v 20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.
 
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 \v 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.
-\v 25 The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
+\v 25 The land became defiled, so I have punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
 
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 \v 26 You, therefore, must keep my commandments and decrees, and you must not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born Israelite nor the foreigner who lives among you.
-\v 27 For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.
+\v 27 For these detestable things are what the people who lived in the land before you committed, and now the land is defiled.
 \v 28 Therefore be careful so that the land does not vomit you up also after you have defiled it, as it vomited out the people who were before you.
 
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