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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 10:27 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday February 7 > Leviticus 25 > > "The Land Will Observe a Sabbath to God" > 1-7 God spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai: "Speak to the People of Israel. > Tell them, When you enter > the land which I am going to give you, the land will observe > a Sabbath to God. Sow your fields, prune your vineyards, and take in your > harvests for six years. > But the seventh year the land will take a Sabbath of > complete and total rest, a Sabbath to God; you will not sow your fields or > prune your vineyards. > Don't reap what grows of itself; don't harvest the grapes > of your untended vines. The land gets a year of complete and total rest. > But you can eat from what > the land volunteers during the Sabbath year-you and > your men and women servants, your hired hands, and the foreigners who live > in the country, and, of > course, also your livestock and the wild animals in > the land can eat from it. Whatever the land volunteers of itself can be > eaten. > > "The Fiftieth Year Shall Be a Jubilee for You" > 8-12 "Count off seven Sabbaths of years-seven times seven years: Seven > Sabbaths of years adds up to > forty-nine years. Then sound loud blasts on the ram's > horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. Sound > the ram's horn all over the > land. Sanctify the fiftieth year; make it a holy year. > Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it-a Jubilee > for you: Each person will > go back to his family's property and reunite with his > extended family. The fiftieth year is your Jubilee year: Don't sow; don't > reap what volunteers > itself in the fields; don't harvest the untended vines because > it's the Jubilee and a holy year for you. You're permitted to eat from > whatever volunteers itself in > the fields. > > 13 "In this year of Jubilee everyone returns home to his family property. > > 14-17 "If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don't > cheat him. Calculate the > purchase price on the basis of the number of years since > the Jubilee. He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the > number of harvests remaining > until the next Jubilee. The more years left, the more > money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; > decrease the price. What > you are buying and selling in fact is the number of > crops you're going to harvest. Don't cheat each other. Fear your God. I am > God, your God. > > 18-22 "Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the > land. The land will > yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will > live safe and secure. Do I hear you ask, 'What are we going to eat in the > seventh year if we don't > plant or harvest?' I assure you, I will send such a > blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three > years. While you plant in the > eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue > until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. > > 23-24 "The land cannot be sold permanently because the land is mine and > you are foreigners-you're > my tenants. You must provide for the right of redemption > for any of the land that you own. > > 25-28 "If one of your brothers becomes poor and has to sell any of his > land, his nearest relative > is to come and buy back what his brother sold. If a man > has no one to redeem it but he later prospers and earns enough for its > redemption, he is to > calculate the value since he sold it and refund the balance > to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own land. If he > doesn't get together > enough money to repay him, what he sold remains in the possession > of the buyer until the year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it will be returned > and he can go back and > live on his land. > > 29-31 "If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right to > buy it back for a full year > after the sale. At any time during that year he can > redeem it. But if it is not redeemed before the full year has passed, it > becomes the permanent > possession of the buyer and his descendants. It is not returned > in the Jubilee. However, houses in unwalled villages are treated the same > as fields. They can be > redeemed and have to be returned at the Jubilee. > > 32-34 "As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the > Levites are always subject to > redemption. Levitical property is always redeemable > if it is sold in a town that they hold and reverts to them in the Jubilee, > because the houses in the > towns of the Levites are their property among the > People of Israel. The pastures belonging to their cities may not be sold; > they are their permanent > possession. > > 35-38 "If one of your brothers becomes indigent and cannot support > himself, help him, the same as > you would a foreigner or a guest so that he can continue > to live in your neighborhood. Don't gouge him with interest charges; out > of reverence for your God > help your brother to continue to live with you in the > neighborhood. Don't take advantage of his plight by running up big > interest charges on his loans, > and don't give him food for profit. I am your God who > brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your > God. > > 39-43 "If one of your brothers becomes indigent and has to sell himself to > you, don't make him work > as a slave. Treat him as a hired hand or a guest among > you. He will work for you until the Jubilee, after which he and his > children are set free to go back > to his clan and his ancestral land. Because the People > of Israel are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt, they must never be > sold as slaves. Don't > tyrannize them; fear your God. > > 44-46 "The male and female slaves which you have are to come from the > surrounding nations; you are > permitted to buy slaves from them. You may also buy > the children of foreign workers who are living among you temporarily and > from their clans which are > living among you and have been born in your land. They > become your property. You may will them to your children as property and > make them slaves for life. > But you must not tyrannize your brother Israelites. > > 47-53 "If a foreigner or temporary resident among you becomes rich and one > of your brothers becomes > poor and sells himself to the foreigner who lives among > you or to a member of the foreigner's clan, he still has the right of > redemption after he has sold > himself. One of his relatives may buy him back. An uncle > or cousin or any close relative of his extended family may redeem him. Or, > if he gets the money > together, he can redeem himself. What happens then is that > he and his owner count out the time from the year he sold himself to the > year of Jubilee; the > buy-back price is set according to the wages of a hired hand > for that number of years. If many years remain before the Jubilee, he must > pay back a larger share > of his purchase price, but if only a few years remain > until the Jubilee, he is to calculate his redemption price accordingly. He > is to be treated as a man > hired from year to year. You must make sure that his > owner does not tyrannize him. > > 54-55 "If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he goes free in the > year of Jubilee, he and his > children, because the People of Israel are my servants, > my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am God, your God. > > Leviticus 26 > 1 "Don't make idols for yourselves; don't set up an image or a sacred > pillar for yourselves, and > don't place a carved stone in your land that you can bow > down to in worship. I am God, your God. > > 2 "Keep my Sabbaths; treat my Sanctuary with reverence. I am God. > > "If You Live by My Decrees..." > 3-5 "If you live by my decrees and obediently keep my commandments, I will > send the rains in their > seasons, the ground will yield its crops and the trees > of the field their fruit. You will thresh until the grape harvest and the > grape harvest will > continue until planting time; you'll have more than enough > to eat and will live safe and secure in your land. > > 6-10 "I'll make the country a place of peace-you'll be able to go to sleep > at night without fear; > I'll get rid of the wild beasts; I'll eliminate war. > You'll chase out your enemies and defeat them: Five of you will chase a > hundred, and a hundred of > you will chase ten thousand and do away with them. I'll > give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow > in numbers, and keep my > covenant with you in good working order. You'll still > be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to > make room for the new > crops. > > 11-13 "I'll set up my residence in your neighborhood; I won't avoid or > shun you; I'll stroll > through your streets. I'll be your God; you'll be my people. > I am God, your personal God who rescued you from Egypt so that you would > no longer be slaves to the > Egyptians. I ripped off the harness of your slavery > so that you can move about freely. > > "But If You Refuse to Obey Me..." > 14-17 "But if you refuse to obey me and won't observe my commandments, > despising my decrees and > holding my laws in contempt by your disobedience, making > a shambles of my covenant, I'll step in and pour on the trouble: > debilitating disease, high fevers, > blindness, your life leaking out bit by bit. You'll > plant seed but your enemies will eat the crops. I'll turn my back on you > and stand by while your > enemies defeat you. People who hate you will govern you. > You'll run scared even when there's no one chasing you. > > 18-20 "And if none of this works in getting your attention, I'll > discipline you seven times over > for your sins. I'll break your strong pride: I'll make > the skies above you like a sheet of tin and the ground under you like cast > iron. No matter how hard > you work, nothing will come of it: No crops out of > the ground, no fruit off the trees. > > 21-22 "If you defy me and refuse to listen, your punishment will be seven > times more than your > sins: I'll set wild animals on you; they'll rob you of your > children, kill your cattle, and decimate your numbers until you'll think > you are living in a ghost > town. > > 23-26 "And if even this doesn't work and you refuse my discipline and > continue your defiance, then > it will be my turn to defy you. I, yes I, will punish > you for your sins seven times over: I'll let war loose on you, avenging > your breaking of the > covenant; when you huddle in your cities for protection, I'll > send a deadly epidemic on you and you'll be helpless before your enemies; > when I cut off your bread > supply, ten women will bake bread in one oven and ration > it out. You'll eat, but barely-no one will get enough. > > 27-35 "And if this-even this!-doesn't work and you still won't listen, > still defy me, I'll have had > enough and in hot anger will defy you, punishing you > for your sins seven times over: famine will be so severe that you'll end > up cooking and eating your > sons in stews and your daughters in barbecues; I'll > smash your sex-and-religion shrines and all the paraphernalia that goes > with them, and then stack > your corpses and the idol-corpses in the same piles-I'll > abhor you; I'll turn your cities into rubble; I'll clean out your > sanctuaries; I'll hold my nose at > the "pleasing aroma" of your sacrifices. I'll turn > your land into a lifeless moonscape-your enemies who come in to take over > will be shocked at what > they see. I'll scatter you all over the world and keep > after you with the point of my sword in your backs. There'll be nothing > left in your land, nothing > going on in your cities. With you gone and dispersed > in the countries of your enemies, the land, empty of you, will finally get > a break and enjoy its > Sabbath years. All the time it's left there empty, the > land will get rest, the Sabbaths it never got when you lived there. > > 36-39 "As for those among you still alive, I'll give them over to fearful > timidity -even the rustle > of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They'll run > here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though > no one is after them, > tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. > You won't stand a chance against an enemy. You'll perish among the > nations; the land of your enemies > will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot > away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins > compounded by their > ancestors' sins. > > "On the Other Hand, If They Confess..." > 40-42 "On the other hand, if they confess their sins and the sins of their > ancestors, their > treacherous betrayal, the defiance that set off my defiance > that sent them off into enemy lands; if by some chance they soften their > hard hearts and make amends > for their sin, I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, > I'll remember my covenant with Isaac, and, yes, I'll remember my covenant > with Abraham. And I'll > remember the land. > > 43-45 "The land will be empty of them and enjoy its Sabbaths while they're > gone. They'll pay for > their sins because they refused my laws and treated my > decrees with contempt. But in spite of their behavior, while they are > among their enemies I won't > reject or abhor or destroy them completely. I won't break > my covenant with them: I am God, their God. For their sake I will remember > the covenant with their > ancestors whom I, with all the nations watching, brought > out of Egypt in order to be their God. I am God." > > 46 These are the decrees, laws, and instructions that God established > between himself and the > People of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. > > Leviticus 27 > > Vows, Dedications, and Redemptions > 1-8 God spoke to Moses: He said, "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell > them, If anyone wants to vow > the value of a person to the service of God, set the > value of a man between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of > silver, according to the > Sanctuary shekel. For a woman the valuation is thirty > shekels. If the person is between the ages of five and twenty, set the > value at twenty shekels for a > male and ten shekels for a female. If the person is > between one month and five years, set the value at five shekels of silver > for a boy and three > shekels of silver for a girl. If the person is over sixty, > set the value at fifteen shekels for a man and ten shekels for a woman. If > anyone is too poor to pay > the stated amount, he is to present the person to > the priest, who will then set the value for him according to what the > person making the vow can > afford. > > 9-13 "If he vowed an animal that is acceptable as an offering to God, the > animal is given to God > and becomes the property of the Sanctuary. He must not > exchange or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good > one; if he should > dishonestly substitute one animal for another, both the original > and the substitute become property of the Sanctuary. If what he vowed is a > ritually unclean animal, > one that is not acceptable as an offering to God, the > animal must be shown to the priest, who will set its value, either high or > low. Whatever the priest > sets will be its value. If the owner changes his mind > and wants to redeem it, he must add twenty percent to its value. > > 14-15 "If a man dedicates his house to God, into the possession of the > Sanctuary, the priest > assesses its value, setting it either high or low. Whatever > value the priest sets, that's what it is. If the man wants to buy it back, > he must add twenty > percent to its price and then it's his again. > > 16-21 "If a man dedicates to God part of his family land, its value is to > be set according to the > amount of seed that is needed for it at the rate of fifty > shekels of silver to six bushels of barley seed. If he dedicates his field > during the year of > Jubilee, the set value stays. But if he dedicates it after > the Jubilee, the priest will compute the value according to the years left > until the next Jubilee, > reducing the value proportionately. If the one dedicating > it wants to buy it back, he must add twenty percent to its valuation, and > then it's his again. But > if he doesn't redeem it or sells the field to someone > else, it can never be bought back. When the field is released in the > Jubilee, it becomes holy to > God, the possession of the Sanctuary, God's field. It > goes into the hands of the priests. > > 22-25 "If a man dedicates to God a field he has bought, a field which is > not part of the family > land, the priest will compute its proportionate value in > relation to the next year of Jubilee. The man must pay its value on the > spot as something that is > now holy to God, belonging to the Sanctuary. In the year > of Jubilee it goes back to its original owner, the man from whom he bought > it. The valuations will > be reckoned by the Sanctuary shekel, at twenty gerahs > to the shekel. > > 26-27 "No one is allowed to dedicate the firstborn of an animal; the > firstborn, as firstborn, > already belongs to God. No matter if it's cattle or sheep, > it already belongs to God. If it's one of the ritually unclean animals, he > can buy it back at its > assessed value by adding twenty percent to it. If he > doesn't redeem it, it is to be sold at its assessed value. > > 28 "But nothing that a man irrevocably devotes to God from what belongs to > him, whether human or > animal or family land, may be either sold or bought back. > Everything devoted is holy to the highest degree; it's God's inalienable > property. > > 29 "No human who has been devoted to destruction can be redeemed. He must > be put to death. > > 30-33 "A tenth of the land's produce, whether grain from the ground or > fruit from the trees, is > God's. It is holy to God. If a man buys back any of the > tenth he has given, he must add twenty percent to it. A tenth of the > entire herd and flock, every > tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod, is > holy to God. He is not permitted to pick out the good from the bad or make > a substitution. If he > dishonestly makes a substitution, both animals, the original > and the substitute, become the possession of the Sanctuary and cannot be > redeemed." > > 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. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
