VaYikra, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {22:2} "Tell Aharon and his
sons to 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, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your
generations approaches 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} "'Whoever 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 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 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} "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner
living with the [1>]Kohanim[<1], or a hired servant, shall not eat of
the holy thing. {22:11} But if a [2>]Kohen[<2] 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 [3>]Kohen[<3]'s daughter is
married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the
holy things. {22:13} But if a [4>]Kohen[<4]'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 [5>]Kohen[<5]. {22:15} The [6>]Kohanim[<6] 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 say to them,
'Whoever is of the house of Yisra'el, or of the foreigners in
Yisra'el, 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
shalom 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, 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 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 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 [7>]mitzvot[<7], 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 in the
evening, 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 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 Moshe, saying, {23:10} "Speak to the
children of Yisra'el, 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
[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} 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 efah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering
made by fire to the LORD 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 Shabbat, from
the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
Shabbatot shall be completed: {23:16} even to the next day after the
seventh Shabbat 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 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, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey 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 shalom 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 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 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 regular 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 yourselves; 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 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 Shabbat 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 Shabbat."
{23:33} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {23:34} "Speak to the
children of Yisra'el, 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
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} "'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 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 appointed
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 gold 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 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 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} 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, until the will of the LORD should be declared to them.
{24:13} The LORD spoke to Moshe, 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 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: 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 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} priests
[2] {22:11} priest
[3] {22:12} priest
[4] {22:13} priest
[5] {22:14} priest
[6] {22:15} priests
[7] {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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