‘Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practise self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.’
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
‘The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practise self-denial; you are to present a food offering to the Lord.
I proclaimed a fast by the River Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.
If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent , creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.’