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Rh uncle of Aaron, and said unto them: 'Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.' So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons: 'Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes, that ye die not, and that He be not wroth with all the congregation; but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the hath kindled. And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of the is upon you.' And they did according to the word of Moses.

And the spoke unto Aaron, saying: 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

And Moses spoke unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left: 'Take the meal-offering that remaineth of the offerings of the made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy. And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the offerings of the made by fire; for so I am commanded. And the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for they are given as thy due, and thy sons' due, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of Israel. The thigh of heaving and the breast of waving shall they bring with the offerings of the fat made by fire, to wave it for a wave-offering before the ; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, as a due for ever; as the hath commanded.'

And Moses diligently inquired for the goat of the sin-offering, and, behold, it was burnt; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the ? Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within; ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.' And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the, and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the ?' And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.

And the spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.