Leviticus, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {22:2} "Tell Aaron and his
sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy
name. I am Yahweh.
{22:3} "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your
generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel
make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be
cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
{22:4} "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he
shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches
anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from
him; {22:5} or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be
made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever
uncleanness he has; {22:6} the person that touches any such shall be
unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things,
unless he bathe his body in water. {22:7} When the sun is down, he
shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because
it is his bread. {22:8} That which dies of itself, or is torn by
animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
{22:9} "'They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for
it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies
them.
{22:10} "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner
living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing. {22:11} But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money,
he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat
of his bread. {22:12} If a priest's daughter is married to an
outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
{22:13} But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no
child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she
may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
{22:14} "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall
add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing
to the priest. {22:15} The priests shall not profane the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh, {22:16} and so
cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their
holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
{22:17} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {22:18} "Speak to Aaron, and
to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them,
'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel,
who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of
their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt
offering; {22:19} that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male
without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. {22:20}
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not
be acceptable for you. {22:21} Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace
offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering,
of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there
shall be no blemish therein. {22:22} Blind, injured, maimed, having a
wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these
to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to
Yahweh. {22:23} Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or
lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but
for a vow it shall not be accepted. {22:24} That which has its
testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to
Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your land. {22:25} Neither from
the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread of your God of any
of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in
them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"
{22:26} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {22:27} "When a bull, or a
sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its
mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted
for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {22:28}
Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both
in one day.
{22:29} "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh,
you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. {22:30} It shall
be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the
morning. I am Yahweh.
{22:31} "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am
Yahweh. {22:32} You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made
holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
{22:33} who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am
Yahweh."
{23:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {23:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
{23:3} "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a
Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of
work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
{23:4} "'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations,
which you shall proclaim in their appointed season. {23:5} In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is
Yahweh's Passover. {23:6} On the fifteenth day of the same month is
the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread. {23:7} In the first day you shall have a holy
convocation. You shall do no regular work. {23:8} But you shall offer
an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a
holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"
{23:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {23:10} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I
give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the
sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: {23:11} and
he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the
next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. {23:12} On the
day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without
blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. {23:13} The meal
offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet
savor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth
part of a hin. {23:14} You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain,
nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the
offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
{23:15} "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from
the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
Sabbaths shall be completed: {23:16} even to the next day after the
seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new
meal offering to Yahweh. {23:17} You shall bring out of your
habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth
parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for
first fruits to Yahweh. {23:18} You shall present with the bread seven
lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They
shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and
their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma
to Yahweh. {23:19} You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering,
and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
{23:20} The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be
holy to Yahweh for the priest. {23:21} You shall make proclamation on
the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do
no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
{23:22} "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and
for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"
{23:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {23:24} "Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of
the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, a holy convocation. {23:25} You shall do no regular work;
and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"
{23:26} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {23:27} "However on the tenth
day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy
convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {23:28} You shall do no
manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make
atonement for you before Yahweh your God. {23:29} For whoever it is
who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his
people. {23:30} Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same
day, that person I will destroy from among his people. {23:31} You
shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. {23:32} It shall be a Sabbath of
solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day
of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your
Sabbath."
{23:33} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {23:34} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh
month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh. {23:35} On the
first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
{23:36} Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you
shall do no regular work.
{23:37} "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink
offerings, each on its own day; {23:38} besides the Sabbaths of
Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides
all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
{23:39} "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you
have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of
Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the
eighth day shall be a solemn rest. {23:40} You shall take on the first
day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of
thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before
Yahweh your God seven days. {23:41} You shall keep it a feast to
Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. {23:42} You shall
dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall
dwell in booths, {23:43} that your generations may know that I made
the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
{23:44} Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed
feasts of Yahweh.
{24:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {24:2} "Command the children
of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light,
to cause a lamp to burn continually. {24:3} Outside of the veil of the
Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from
evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations. {24:4} He shall keep in order the
lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.
{24:5} "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two
tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. {24:6} You shall set
them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
{24:7} You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to
the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
{24:8} Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh
continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an
everlasting covenant. {24:9} It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and
they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
{24:10} The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian,
went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite
woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. {24:11} The son
of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they
brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of
Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. {24:12} They put him in custody, until the
will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
{24:13} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {24:14} "Bring out of the
camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his
head, and let all the congregation stone him. {24:15} You shall speak
to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear
his sin. {24:16} He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely
be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the
foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name,
shall be put to death.
{24:17} "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to
death. {24:18} He who strikes a animal mortally shall make it good,
life for life. {24:19} If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done,
so shall it be done to him: {24:20} fracture for fracture, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done
to him. {24:21} He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who
kills a man shall be put to death. {24:22} You shall have one kind of
law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Yahweh
your God.'"
{24:23} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought
forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones.
The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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