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20‘The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. nThey shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21‘And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22o‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.’ ”
The Feast of Trumpets
(Num. 29:1–6)
23Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
24“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the pseventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, qa memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25‘You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’ ”
The Day of Atonement
(Num. 29:7–11)
26And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
27r“Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
28“And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, sto make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29“For any person who is not tafflicted in soul on that same day ushall be cut off from his people.
30“And any person who does any work on that same day, vthat person I will destroy from among his people.
31“You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32“It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall 3afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall 4celebrate your sabbath.”
The Feast of Tabernacles
(Num. 29:12–40; Deut. 16:13–17)
33Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
34“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: w‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.
35‘On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.
36‘For seven days you shall offer an xoffering made by fire to the LORD. yOn the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a zsacred5 assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
37a‘These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day—
38b‘besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.
39‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have cgathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.
40‘And dyou shall take for yourselves on the first day the 6fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; eand you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
41f‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42g‘You shall dwell in 7booths for seven days. hAll who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,
43i‘that your generations may jknow that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when kI brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”
44So Moses ldeclared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus 24
Care of the Tabernacle Lamps
(Ex. 27:20, 21)
1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2a“Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.
3“Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations.
4“He shall 1be in charge of the lamps on bthe pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
The Bread of the Tabernacle
5“And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ccakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
6“You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, don the pure gold table before the LORD.
7“And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ememorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8f“Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9“And git shall be for Aaron and his sons, hand they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”
The Penalty for Blasphemy
10Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.
11And the Israelite woman’s son iblasphemed the name of the LORD and jcursed; and so they kbrought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12Then they lput him 2in custody, mthat 3the mind of the LORD might be shown to them.
13And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14“Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him nlay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
15“Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God oshall 4bear his sin.
16‘And whoever pblasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall be put to death.
17q‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.
18r‘Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.
19‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as she has done, so shall it be done to him—
20‘fracture for tfracture, ueye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.
21‘And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.
22‘You shall have vthe5 same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.’ ”
23Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 25
The Sabbath of the Seventh Year
(Deut. 15:1–11)
1And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount aSinai, saying,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall bkeep a sabbath to the LORD.
3‘Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
4‘but in the cseventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn drest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5e‘What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
6‘And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female
servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
7‘for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.
The Year of Jubilee
8‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9‘Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; fon the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10‘And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and gproclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; hand each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
11‘That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it iyou shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.
12‘For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; jyou shall eat its produce from the field.
13k‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
14‘And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not loppress one another.
15m‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.
16‘According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
17‘Therefore nyou shall not 1oppress one another, obut you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
Provisions for the Seventh Year
18p‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; qand you will dwell in the land in safety.
19‘Then the land will yield its fruit, and ryou will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.
20‘And if you say, s“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since twe shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”
21‘Then I will ucommand My blessing on you in the vsixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.
22w‘And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat xold produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
Redemption of Property
23‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for ythe land is Mine; for you are zstrangers and sojourners with Me.
24‘And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
25a‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if bhis redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.
26‘Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,
27‘then clet him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.
28‘But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; dand in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
29‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it.
30‘But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
31‘However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
32‘Nevertheless ethe cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
33‘And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34‘But fthe field of the common-land of their cities may not be gsold, for it is their perpetual possession.
Lending to the Poor
35‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and 2falls into poverty among you, then you shall hhelp him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
36i‘Take no usury or interest from him; but jfear your God, that your brother may live with you.
37‘You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.
38k‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
The Law Concerning Slavery
39‘And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.
40‘As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
41‘And then he shall depart from you—he and his children lwith him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers.
42‘For they are mMy servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43n‘You shall not rule over him owith 3rigor, but you pshall fear your God.
44‘And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
45‘Moreover you may buy qthe children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.
46‘And ryou may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47‘Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
48‘after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him;
49‘or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.
50‘Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be saccording to the time of a hired servant for him.
51‘If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.
52‘And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.
53‘He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.
54‘And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him.
55‘For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26
Promise of Blessing and Retribution
(Deut. 7:12–24; 28:1–68)
1‘You shall anot make idols for yourselves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;
for I am the LORD your God.
2bYou shall 1keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:
I am the LORD.
3c‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
4dthen I will give you rain in its season, ethe land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5fYour threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;
you shall eat your bread to the full, and gdwell in your land safely.
6hI will give peace in the land, and iyou shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;
I will rid the land of jevil2 beasts,
and kthe sword will not go through your land.
7You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8lFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;
your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9‘For I will mlook on you favorably and nmake you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ocovenant with you.
10You shall eat the pold harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.
11qI will set My 3tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
12rI will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;
I have broken the bands of your syoke and made you walk 4upright.
14‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, twasting disease and fever which shall uconsume the eyes and vcause sorrow of heart.
And wyou shall sow your seed 5in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17I will 6set xMy face against you, and yyou shall be defeated by your enemies.
zThose who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall aflee when no one pursues you.
18‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you bseven times more for your sins.
19I will cbreak the pride of your power;
I dwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.