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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:52 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Thursday February 5 > Leviticus 19 > > "I Am God, Your God" > 1-2 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the congregation of Israel. Tell them, > Be holy because I, God, > your God, am holy. > > 3 "Every one of you must respect his mother and father. "Keep my Sabbaths. > I am God, your God. > > 4 "Don't take up with no-god idols. Don't make gods of cast metal. I am > God, your God. > > 5-8 "When you sacrifice a Peace-Offering to God, do it as you've been > taught so it is acceptable. > Eat it on the day you sacrifice it and the day following. > Whatever is left until the third day is to be burned up. If it is eaten on > the third day it is > polluted meat and not acceptable. Whoever eats it will be > held responsible because he has violated what is holy to God. That person > will be cut off from his > people. > > 9-10 "When you harvest your land, don't harvest right up to the edges of > your field or gather the > gleanings from the harvest. Don't strip your vineyard > bare or go back and pick up the fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and > the foreigner. I am God, > your God. > > 11 "Don't steal. > > "Don't lie. > > "Don't deceive anyone. > > 12 "Don't swear falsely using my name, violating the name of your God. I > am God. > > 13 "Don't exploit your friend or rob him. > > "Don't hold back the wages of a hired hand overnight. > > 14 "Don't curse the deaf; don't put a stumbling block in front of the > blind; fear your God. I am > God. > > 15 "Don't pervert justice. Don't show favoritism to either the poor or the > great. Judge on the > basis of what is right. > > 16 "Don't spread gossip and rumors. > > "Don't just stand by when your neighbor's life is in danger. I am God. > > 17 "Don't secretly hate your neighbor. If you have something against him, > get it out into the open; > otherwise you are an accomplice in his guilt. > > 18 "Don't seek revenge or carry a grudge against any of your people. > > "Love your neighbor as yourself. I am God. > > 19 "Keep my decrees. > > "Don't mate two different kinds of animals. > > "Don't plant your fields with two kinds of seed. > > "Don't wear clothes woven of two kinds of material. > > 20-22 "If a man has sex with a slave girl who is engaged to another man > but has not yet been > ransomed or given her freedom, there must be an investigation. > But they aren't to be put to death because she wasn't free. The man must > bring a > Compensation-Offering to God at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, a > ram of compensation. The priest will perform the ritual of atonement for > him before God with the ram > of compensation for the sin he has committed. Then > he will stand forgiven of the sin he committed. > > 23-25 "When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, don't eat > the fruit for three > years; consider it inedible. By the fourth year its fruit > is holy, an offering of praise to God. Beginning in the fifth year you can > eat its fruit; you'll > have richer harvests this way. I am God, your God. > > 26 "Don't eat meat with blood in it. > > "Don't practice divination or sorcery. > > 27 "Don't cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard. > > 28 "Don't gash your bodies on behalf of the dead. > > "Don't tattoo yourselves. I am God. > > 29 "Don't violate your daughter by making her a whore-the whole country > would soon become a > brothel, filled with sordid sex. > > 30 "Keep my Sabbaths and revere my Sanctuary: I am God. > > 31 "Don't dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you'll pollute > your souls. I am God, your > God. > > 32 "Show respect to the aged; honor the presence of an elder; fear your > God. I am God. > > 33-34 "When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don't take advantage > of him. Treat the > foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own. > Remember that you were once foreigners in Egypt. I am God, your God. > > 35-36 "Don't cheat when measuring length, weight, or quantity. Use honest > scales and weights and > measures. I am God, your God. I brought you out of Egypt. > > 37 "Keep all my decrees and all my laws. Yes, do them. I am God." > > Leviticus 20 > 1-5 God spoke to Moses: "Tell the Israelites, Each and every Israelite and > foreigner in Israel who > gives his child to the god Molech must be put to death. > The community must kill him by stoning. I will resolutely reject that man > and cut him off from his > people. By giving his child to the god Molech he has > polluted my Sanctuary and desecrated my holy name. If the people of the > land look the other way as > if nothing had happened when that man gives his child > to the god Molech and fail to kill him, I will resolutely reject that man > and his family, and him > and all who join him in prostituting themselves in the > rituals of the god Molech I will cut off from their people. > > 6 "I will resolutely reject persons who dabble in the occult or traffic > with mediums, prostituting > themselves in their practices. I will cut them off from > their people. > > 7-8 "Set yourselves apart for a holy life. Live a holy life, because I am > God, your God. Do what I > tell you; live the way I tell you. I am the God who > makes you holy. > > 9 "Any and every person who curses his father or mother must be put to > death. By cursing his father > or mother he is responsible for his own death. > > 10 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife-the wife, say, of > his neighbor-both the man > and the woman, the adulterer and adulteress, must be > put to death. > > 11 "If a man has sex with his father's wife, he has violated his father. > Both the man and woman > must be put to death; they are responsible for their own > deaths. > > 12 "If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to > death. What they have > done is perverse. And they are responsible for their own > deaths. > > 13 "If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them > have done what is abhorrent. > They must be put to death; they are responsible for > their own deaths. > > 14 "If a man marries both a woman and her mother, that's wicked. All three > of them must be burned > at the stake, purging the wickedness from the community. > > 15 "If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death and you must > kill the animal. > > 16 "If a woman has sex with an animal, you must kill both the woman and > the animal. They must be > put to death. And they are responsible for their deaths. > > 17 "If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or > mother, and they have sex, > that's a disgrace. They must be publicly cut off from > their people. He has violated his sister and will be held responsible. > > 18 "If a man sleeps with a woman during her period and has sex with her, > he has uncovered her > 'fountain' and she has revealed her 'fountain'-both of them > must be cut off from their people. > > 19 "Don't have sex with your aunt on either your mother's or father's > side. That violates a close > relative. Both of you are held responsible. > > 20 "If a man has sex with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will > be held responsible and > die childless. > > 21 "If a man marries his brother's wife, it's a defilement. He has shamed > his brother. They will be > childless. > > 22-23 "Do what I tell you, all my decrees and laws; live by them so that > the land where I'm > bringing you won't vomit you out. You simply must not live > like the nations I'm driving out before you. They did all these things and > I hated every minute of > it. > > 24-26 "I've told you, remember, that you will possess their land that I'm > giving to you as an > inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am God, > your God, who has distinguished you from the nations. So live like it: > Distinguish between ritually > clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't pollute > yourselves with any animal or bird or crawling thing which I have marked > out as unclean for you. > Live holy lives before me because I, God, am holy. I have > distinguished you from the nations to be my very own. > > 27 "A man or woman who is a medium or sorcerer among you must be put to > death. You must kill them > by stoning. They're responsible for their own deaths." > > Leviticus 21 > > Holy Priests > 1-41 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron. Tell > them, A priest must not > ritually contaminate himself by touching the dead, except > for close relatives: mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or an > unmarried sister who is dependent > on him since she has no husband; for these he may > make himself ritually unclean, but he must not contaminate himself with > the dead who are only > related to him by marriage and thus profane himself. > > 5-6 "Priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or gash their > bodies. They must be > holy to their God and must not profane the name of their > God. Because their job is to present the gifts of God, the food of their > God, they are to be holy. > > 7-8 "Because a priest is holy to his God he must not marry a woman who has > been a harlot or a cult > prostitute or a divorced woman. Make sure he is holy > because he serves the food of your God. Treat him as holy because I, God, > who make you holy, am > holy. > > 9 "If a priest's daughter defiles herself in prostitution, she disgraces > her father. She must be > burned at the stake. > > 10-12 "The high priest, the one among his brothers who has received the > anointing oil poured on his > head and been ordained to wear the priestly vestments, > must not let his hair go wild and tangled nor wear ragged and torn > clothes. He must not enter a room > where there is a dead body. He must not ritually contaminate > himself, even for his father or mother; and he must neither abandon nor > desecrate the Sanctuary of > his God because of the dedication of the anointing oil > which is upon him. I am God. > > 13-15 "He is to marry a young virgin, not a widow, not a divorcee, not a > cult prostitute-he is only > to marry a virgin from his own people. He must not > defile his descendants among his people because I am God who makes him > holy." > > 16-23 God spoke to Moses: "Tell Aaron, None of your descendants, in any > generation to come, who has > a defect of any kind may present as an offering the > food of his God. That means anyone who is blind or lame, disfigured or > deformed, crippled in foot or > hand, hunchbacked or dwarfed, who has anything wrong > with his eyes, who has running sores or damaged testicles. No descendant > of Aaron the priest who has > any defect is to offer gifts to God; he has a defect > and so must not offer the food of his God. He may eat the food of his God, > both the most holy and > the holy, but because of his defect he must not go near > the curtain or approach the Altar. It would desecrate my Sanctuary. I am > God who makes them holy." > > 24 Moses delivered this message to Aaron, his sons, and to all the People > of Israel. > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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