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And in the sixth year of the seventh week of this jubilee Avraham called Yitschaq his son, and commanded him, saying:
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"I am become old, and know not the day of my death, and am full of my days.
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And look, I am one hundred and seventy-five years old, and throughout all the days of my life I have remembered Yahuah, and sought with all my heart to do His will, and to walk uprightly in all His ways.
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My soul has hated idols, (and I have despised those that served them, and I have given my heart and spirit) that I might observe to do the will of Him who created me. For He is the living Elohim, and He is set-apart and faithful, and He is righteous beyond all, and there is with Him no accepting of (men's) persons and no accepting of gifts;
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for Elohim is righteous, and executs judgment on all those who transgress His commandments and despise His covenant.
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And do you, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and walk not after the abominations and after the graven images and after the molten images. And eat no blood at all of animals or cattle, or of any bird which flis in the heaven.
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And if you do slay a victim as an acceptable peace-offering, slay you it, and pour out its blood upon the altar, and all the fat of the offering offer on the altar with fine flour (and the meat-offering) mingled with oil, with its drink-offering
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--offer them all together on the altar of burnt-offering; it is a sweet savour before Yahuah.
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And you will offer the fat of the sacrifice of thank-offerings on the fire which is upon the altar, and the fat which is on the belly, and all the fat on the inwards
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and the two kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, and upon the loins and liver you shall remove together with the kidneys.
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And offer all these for a sweet savour acceptable before Yahuah, with its meat-offering and with its drink-offering, for a sweet savour, the bread of the offering to Yahuah,
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And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and let not the sun on the second day go down upon it till it is eaten,
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and let nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable [for it is not approved] and let it no longer be eaten,
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and all who eat of it will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Chanokh, and in the words of Noach.
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And on all your oblations you shall strew salt, and let not the salt of the covenant be lacking in all your oblations before Yahuah.
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And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest you bring (other) wood for the altar in addition to these: cypress, dêfrân, sagâd, pine, fir, cedar, savin, palm, olive, myrrh, laurel, and citron, juniper, and balsam.
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And of these kinds of wood lay upon the altar under the sacrifice, such as have been tested as to their appearance, and do not lay (on it) any split or dark wood,
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(but) hard and clean, without fault, a sound and new growth; and do not lay (on it) old wood, [for its fragrance is gone] for there is no longer fragrance in it as before.
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Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that you shall place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance goes not up to heaven.
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Observe this commandment and do it, my son, that you mayst be upright in all your deeds.
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And at all times be clean in your body, and wash yourself with water before you approachest to offer on the altar, and wash your hands and your feet before you drawest near to the altar;
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and when you are done sacrificing, wash again your hands and your feet. And let no blood appear upon you nor upon your clothes;
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be on your guard, my son, against blood, be on your guard exceedingly; cover it with dust. And do not eat any blood, for it is the soul; eat no blood whatever.
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And take no gifts for the blood of man, lest it be shed with impunity, without judgment; for it is the blood that is shed that causs the earth to sin, and the earth cannot be cleansed from the blood of man save by the blood of him who shed it.
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And take no present or gift for the blood of man: blood for blood,
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that you mayest be accepted before Yahuah, the Most High Elohim; for He is the defence of the good: and that you mayest be preserved from all evil, and that He may save you from every kind of death.
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I see, my son, That all the works of the children of men are sin and wickedness, And all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a pollution, And there is no righteousness with them.
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Beware, lest you shouldest walk in their ways And tread in their paths, And sin a sin to death before the Most High Elohim.
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Else He will [hide His face from you, And] give you back into the hands of your transgression, And root you out of the land, and your seed likewise from under heaven, And your name and your seed will perish from the whole earth.
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Turn away from all their deeds and all their uncleanness, And observe the ordinance of the Most High Elohim, And do His will and be upright in all things.
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And He will bless you in all your deeds, And will raise up from you the plant of righteousness through all the earth, throughout all generations of the earth,
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And my name and your name will not be forgotten under heaven for ever.
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Go, my son, in peace. May the Most High Elohim, my Elohim and your Elohim, strengthen you to do His will,
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And may He bless all your seed and the residue of your seed for the generations for ever, with all righteous blessings, That you mayest be a blessing on all the earth." And he went out from him rejoicing.