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"For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord" Leviticus 16: 30
“All the elders of the city who are nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over their heifer that was killed in the valley. They shall speak up and say; ‘Our hands have not spilled this blood and our eyes did not see it done’” Deuteronomy 21: 6-8
“The congregation shall restore him (a person who has committed manslaughter) to the city of refuge where he has fled and he shall dwell there until the death of the High Priest” Numbers 35: 25
“They brought the Children of Israel an evil report saying ‘The land that we passed through to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants!’” Numbers 13: 32
"You shall not desecrate my holy name, I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy" Leviticus 22: 31
"And the fire on the altar shall be kindled on it, it shall not be extinguished" Leviticus 6:5
Don’t write off the black sheep of the family.
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