VaYikra, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {22:2} Speak to Aharon and
to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the
children of Yisra'el, which they make holy to me, and that they not
profane my holy name: I am the LORD. {22:3} Tell them, Whoever he be
of all your seed throughout your generations, that approaches to the
holy things, which the children of Yisra'el 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} Whatever man of the seed of Aharon 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 soul that touches
any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the
holy things, unless he bathe his flesh 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, to defile himself therewith: I
am the LORD. {22:9} They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they
bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LORD
who sanctifies them. {22:10} There shall no stranger eat of the holy
thing: a sojourner of the [1>]Kohen[<1]'s, or a hired servant, shall
not eat of the holy thing. {22:11} But if a [2>]Kohen[<2] buy any
soul, the purchase of 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
[3>]Kohen[<3]'s daughter be married to a stranger, she shall not eat
of the heave-offering of the holy things. {22:13} But if a
[4>]Kohen[<4]'s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child,
and be returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat
of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat of it. {22:14}
If a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the
fifth part of it to it, and shall give to the [5>]Kohen[<5] the holy
thing. {22:15} They shall not profane the holy things of the children
of Yisra'el, 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 Moshe, saying, {22:18} Speak to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all
the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, Whoever he be of the house of
Yisra'el, or of the sojourners in Yisra'el, that 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 shall you 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; there shall be no blemish
therein. {22:22} Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or
scurvy, or scabbed, 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
may you offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be
accepted. {22:24} That which has its stones bruised, or crushed, or
broken, or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD; 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} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {22:27}
When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be
seven days under the hen; 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 be 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 that you may be
accepted. {22:30} On the same day it shall be eaten; you shall leave
none of it until the morning: I am the LORD. {22:31} Therefore shall
you keep my [6>]mitzvot[<6], 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 Yisra'el: I am the LORD who makes you holy, {22:33} who
brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your God: I am the
LORD.
{23:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {23:2} Speak to the children
of Yisra'el, 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
Shabbat of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of
work: it is a Shabbat 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 at even, is the LORD's Pesach.
{23:6} On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
[1>]matzah[<1] to the LORD: seven days you shall eat [2>]matzah[<2].
{23:7} In the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall
do no servile 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 servile work. {23:9} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
{23:10} Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you are
come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of
it, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest
to the [3>]Kohen[<3]: {23:11} and he shall wave the sheaf before the
LORD, to be accepted for you: on the next day after the Shabbat the
[4>]Kohen[<4] shall wave it. {23:12} In the day when you wave the
sheaf, you shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a
burnt offering to the LORD. {23:13} The meal-offering of it shall be
two tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering
made by fire to the LORD for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering of
it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. {23:14} You shall eat
neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this same day,
until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute
forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. {23:15} You
shall count to you from the next day after the Shabbat, from the day
that you brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven Shabbatot shall
there be complete: {23:16} even to the next day after the seventh
Shabbat shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new
meal-offering to the LORD. {23:17} You shall bring out of your
habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts [of an efah]: they
shall be 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, and 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
savor to the LORD. {23:19} You shall offer one male goat for a
sin-offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of
peace-offerings. {23:20} The [5>]Kohen[<5] 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 [6>]Kohen[<6].
{23:21} You shall make proclamation on the same day; there shall be a
holy convocation to you; you shall do no servile work: it 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 the
corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your
harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the sojourner: I
am the LORD your God. {23:23} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {23:24}
Speak to the children of Yisra'el, 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
servile work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the
LORD. {23:26} The LORD spoke to Moshe, 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 your souls; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. {23:28} You shall do no
manner of work in that same day; for it is [7>]Yom Kippur[7>]a day of
atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. {23:29}
For whatever soul it be who shall not be afflicted in that same day;
he shall be cut off from his people. {23:30} Whatever soul it be who
does any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I 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 to you a Shabbat of solemn rest, and you shall
afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even
to even, shall you keep your Shabbat. {23:33} The LORD spoke to Moshe,
saying, {23:34} Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 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 servile 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
servile work. {23:37} These are the set 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
Shabbatot 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} However 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 home-born in Yisra'el
shall dwell in booths; {23:43} that your generations may know that I
made the children of Yisra'el to dwell in booths, when I brought them
out of the land of Mitzrayim: I am the LORD your God. {23:44} Moshe
declared to the children of Yisra'el the set feasts of the LORD.
{24:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {24:2} Command the children
of Yisra'el, 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 Aharon 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 menorah before the LORD continually.
{24:5} You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two
tenth parts [of an efah] shall be in one cake. {24:6} You shall set
them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure 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 Shabbat day he shall set it in order before the LORD
continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, an
everlasting covenant. {24:9} It shall be for Aharon 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 Yisra'elite woman, whose father was a Mitzrian, went out
among the children of Yisra'el; and the son of the Yisra'elite woman
and a man of Yisra'el strove together in the camp: {24:11} and the son
of the Yisra'elite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they
brought him to Moshe. His mother's name was Shelomit, the daughter of
Divri, of the tribe of Dan. {24:12} They put him in custody, that it
might be declared to them at the mouth of the LORD. {24:13} The LORD
spoke to Moshe, saying, {24:14} Bring forth him who has cursed outside
of the camp; 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 Yisra'el, 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: as
well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemes the name [of
the LORD], 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 a man cause a
blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:
{24:20} breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered to him. {24:21} He
who kills a 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, as well for the
sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am the LORD your God. {24:23}
Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el; and they brought forth him
who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The
children of Yisra'el did as the LORD commanded Moshe.
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Footnotes:
[1] {22:10} priest
[2] {22:11} priest
[3] {22:12} priest
[4] {22:13} priest
[5] {22:14} priest
[6] {22:31} commandments
[1] {23:6} unleavened bread
[2] {23:6} unleavened bread
[3] {23:10} priest
[4] {23:11} priest
[5] {23:20} priest
[6] {23:20} priest
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