Jan 30 - Leviticus 23-25
Leviticus
1The LORD said to Moses,2"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.3"'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.4"'These are the LORD's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:5The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.6On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.7On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.8For seven days present an offering made to the LORD by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.'"9The LORD said to Moses,10"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.11He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.12On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect,13together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil-an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma-and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.14You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.15"'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.16Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.17From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.18Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings-an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.19Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.20The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest.21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.22"'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'"23The LORD said to Moses,24"Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.25Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire.'"26The LORD said to Moses,27"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire.28Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.29Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people.30I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day.31You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.32It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath."33The LORD said to Moses,34"Say to the Israelites: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.35The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.36For seven days present offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.37("'These are the LORD's appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the LORD by fire-the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.38These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD's Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.)39"'So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest.40On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.41Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.42Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths43so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'"44So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.
1The LORD said to Moses,2"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.3Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.4The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.5"Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.6Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.7Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire.8This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire." A Blasphemer Stoned10Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)12They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.13Then the LORD said to Moses:14"Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.15Say to the Israelites: 'If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible;16anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.17"'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death.18Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution-life for life.19If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.22You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'"23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.
1The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,2"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.3For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.4But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.5Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.6Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you-for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,7as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.8"'Count off seven sabbaths of years-seven times seven years-so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years.9Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.10Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan.11The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.12For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.13"'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property.14"'If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take advantage of each other.15You are to buy from your countryman on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And he is to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.16When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what he is really selling you is the number of crops.17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.18"'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.19Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.20You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"21I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.22While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.23"'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.24Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.25"'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and sells some of his property, his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his countryman has sold.26If, however, a man has no one to redeem it for him but he himself prospers and acquires sufficient means to redeem it,27he is to determine the value for the years since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own property.28But if he does not acquire the means to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and he can then go back to his property.29"'If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time he may redeem it.30If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.31But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.32"'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.33So the property of the Levites is redeemable-that is, a house sold in any town they hold-and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.34But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.35"'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you.36Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you.37You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit.38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.39"'If one of your countrymen becomes poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave.40He is to be treated as a hired worker or a temporary resident among you; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.41Then he and his children are to be released, and he will go back to his own clan and to the property of his forefathers.42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.43Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.44"'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.45You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.46You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.47"'If an alien or a temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your countrymen becomes poor and sells himself to the alien living among you or to a member of the alien's clan,48he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his relatives may redeem him:49An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.50He and his buyer are to count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for his release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired man for that number of years.51If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption a larger share of the price paid for him.52If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to compute that and pay for his redemption accordingly.53He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year; you must see to it that his owner does not rule over him ruthlessly.54"'Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,55for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.