Leviticus, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The LORD 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 the LORD.
{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 the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall
be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.
{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 the LORD.
{22:9} "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear
sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am the LORD 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 the LORD, {22:16} and
so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat
their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"
{22:17} The LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering,
of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; no
blemish shall be therein. {22:22} Blind, injured, maimed, having a
wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these
to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the
LORD. {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 the
LORD; neither shall you do thus in your land. {22:25} Neither shall
you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner 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} The LORD 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 the LORD. {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 the LORD,
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 the LORD.
{22:31} "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am
the LORD. {22:32} You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be
made holy among the children of Israel. I am the LORD who makes you
holy, {22:33} who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God. I am the LORD."
{23:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {23:2} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of the LORD, 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 kind of
work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.
{23:4} "'These are the set feasts of the LORD, 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 the LORD's Passover. {23:6} On the fifteenth day of the
same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD. 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 the LORD seven days. In the seventh
day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"
{23:9} The LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD.
{23:13} The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an
[1>]efah[<1] of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire
to the LORD for a pleasant aroma; 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 the LORD. {23:17} You shall bring out of your
habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth
parts of an efah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for
first fruits to the LORD. {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 the LORD, with their meal offering,
and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet
aroma to the LORD. {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 the LORD, with the two lambs.
They shall be holy to the LORD 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 the LORD your God.'"
{23:23} The LORD 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
[2>]shofars[<2], a holy convocation. {23:25} You shall do no regular
work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.'"
{23:26} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {23:27} "However on the
tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy
convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. {23:28} You shall do no
kind of work in that same day; for it is [3>]Yom Kippur[<3], to make
atonement for you before the LORD 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 kind of work in that same
day, that person I will destroy from among his people. {23:31} You
shall do no kind 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} The LORD 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 booths for seven days to the LORD. {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
the LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and
you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn
assembly; you shall do no regular work.
{23:37} "'These are the appointed 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 meal offering, a sacrifice,
and drink offerings, each on its own day; {23:38} besides the Sabbaths
of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and
besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.
{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
the LORD 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 the LORD your God seven days. {23:41} You shall keep it a feast
to the LORD 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 the LORD your God.'"
{23:44} Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed
feasts of the LORD.
{24:1} The LORD 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 the LORD continually: it shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations. {24:4} He shall keep in order the
lamps on the pure gold menorah before the LORD continually.
{24:5} "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two
tenth parts of an [4>]efah[<4] shall be in one cake. {24:6} You shall
set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the
LORD. {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 the
LORD. {24:8} Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the
LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD should be declared to them.
{24:13} The LORD 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 the LORD, 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 an 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 the LORD
your God.'"
{24:23} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out
him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The
children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:13} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
[2] {23:24} or, trumpets
[3] {23:28} a day of atonement
[4] {24:5} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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