WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the Daily Bible reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:04.403 Day 100 and 31 00:00:04.793 --> 00:00:08.663 if one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support 00:00:08.663 --> 00:00:13.433 himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident 00:00:13.883 --> 00:00:15.203 and allow him to live with you. 00:00:16.073 --> 00:00:19.463 Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. 00:00:20.063 --> 00:00:24.983 Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative. 00:00:25.898 --> 00:00:28.388 Remember, do not charge interest on money. 00:00:28.388 --> 00:00:31.568 You lend him or make a profit on food, you sell him. 00:00:32.558 --> 00:00:37.118 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you 00:00:37.123 --> 00:00:40.178 the land of Canaan and to be your God. 00:00:41.498 --> 00:00:46.148 If one of your fellow is Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself 00:00:46.148 --> 00:00:48.878 to you, do not treat him as a slave. 00:00:49.658 --> 00:00:54.458 Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you. 00:00:54.968 --> 00:00:58.478 And he will serve you only until the year of Jubilee. 00:00:59.318 --> 00:01:03.368 At that time, he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, 00:01:04.028 --> 00:01:07.898 and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally 00:01:07.898 --> 00:01:09.338 allotted to their ancestors. 00:01:10.298 --> 00:01:14.768 The people of Israel are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, 00:01:15.458 --> 00:01:17.588 so they must never be sold as slaves. 00:01:18.608 --> 00:01:22.178 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly. 00:01:23.378 --> 00:01:28.238 However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. 00:01:28.988 --> 00:01:32.648 You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live 00:01:32.648 --> 00:01:35.828 among you, including those who have been born in your land. 00:01:36.608 --> 00:01:40.268 You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children 00:01:40.328 --> 00:01:41.768 as a permanent inheritance. 00:01:42.458 --> 00:01:46.118 You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your 00:01:46.118 --> 00:01:47.798 fellow Israelites this way. 00:01:49.283 --> 00:01:52.823 Suppose a foreigner or a temporary resident becomes 00:01:52.823 --> 00:01:54.473 rich while living among you. 00:01:55.493 --> 00:01:59.723 If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell 00:01:59.723 --> 00:02:04.493 themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family, they still 00:02:04.493 --> 00:02:08.633 retain the right to be bought back even after they have been purchased. 00:02:09.473 --> 00:02:13.073 They may be bought back by a brother, an uncle, or a cousin. 00:02:14.003 --> 00:02:17.573 In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. 00:02:18.548 --> 00:02:21.758 They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered. 00:02:22.628 --> 00:02:26.318 They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. 00:02:27.128 --> 00:02:30.488 The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were 00:02:30.488 --> 00:02:32.768 sold until the next year of Jubilee. 00:02:33.518 --> 00:02:39.158 Whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time, if many years 00:02:39.158 --> 00:02:43.898 still remain until the Jubilee, they will repay the proper portion of what 00:02:43.898 --> 00:02:45.998 they received when they sold themselves. 00:02:46.988 --> 00:02:50.948 If only a few years remain until the year of Jubilee, they will repay a 00:02:50.948 --> 00:02:52.748 small amount for their redemption. 00:02:53.738 --> 00:02:57.608 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. 00:02:58.388 --> 00:03:02.678 You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly. 00:03:03.698 --> 00:03:07.028 If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the year 00:03:07.028 --> 00:03:11.468 of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time. 00:03:12.218 --> 00:03:14.828 For the people of Israel belong to me. 00:03:15.563 --> 00:03:19.133 They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. 00:03:19.913 --> 00:03:21.533 I am the Lord your God. 00:03:23.693 --> 00:03:30.593 Do not make idols or set up carved images or sacred pillars or sculptured stones 00:03:30.593 --> 00:03:32.783 in your land so you may worship them. 00:03:33.133 --> 00:03:35.153 I am the Lord your God. 00:03:35.843 --> 00:03:40.583 You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. 00:03:41.363 --> 00:03:42.413 I am the Lord. 00:03:43.523 --> 00:03:48.173 If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I 00:03:48.173 --> 00:03:50.153 will send you the seasonal rains. 00:03:50.873 --> 00:03:54.443 The land will then yield its crops and the trees of the 00:03:54.443 --> 00:03:56.093 field will produce their fruit. 00:03:56.843 --> 00:04:01.103 Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest and your grape 00:04:01.103 --> 00:04:06.293 harvest will overlap With the season of planting grain, you will eat your fill 00:04:06.833 --> 00:04:09.143 and live securely in your own land. 00:04:10.103 --> 00:04:11.663 I will give you peace in the land. 00:04:12.323 --> 00:04:16.523 And you will be able to sleep with no cause For fear, I will rid 00:04:16.523 --> 00:04:20.183 the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land. 00:04:21.023 --> 00:04:25.733 In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords. 00:04:26.393 --> 00:04:31.523 Five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase 10,000. 00:04:32.603 --> 00:04:35.183 All your enemies will fall beneath your sword. 00:04:36.443 --> 00:04:41.123 I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. 00:04:42.038 --> 00:04:44.288 And I will fulfill my covenant with you. 00:04:45.098 --> 00:04:49.118 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old 00:04:49.118 --> 00:04:51.698 grain to make room for the new harvest. 00:04:52.478 --> 00:04:56.528 I will live among you and I will not despise you. 00:04:57.368 --> 00:04:58.808 I will walk among you. 00:04:59.498 --> 00:05:02.978 I will be your God and you will be my people. 00:05:04.298 --> 00:05:09.068 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you 00:05:09.073 --> 00:05:10.688 would no longer be their slaves. 00:05:11.723 --> 00:05:17.393 I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high. 00:05:18.443 --> 00:05:24.323 However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, and if 00:05:24.328 --> 00:05:29.363 you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations 00:05:29.423 --> 00:05:34.883 with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, I will punish you. 00:05:35.843 --> 00:05:37.943 I will bring sudden terrors upon you. 00:05:38.663 --> 00:05:43.313 Wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes 00:05:43.313 --> 00:05:45.893 to fail and your life to eeb away. 00:05:46.613 --> 00:05:50.573 You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them. 00:05:51.413 --> 00:05:55.493 I will turn against you and you will be defeated by your enemies. 00:05:56.273 --> 00:06:00.653 Those who hate you will rule over you and you will run even 00:06:00.653 --> 00:06:02.063 when no one is chasing you. 00:06:03.143 --> 00:06:06.893 And if in spite of all this, you still disobey me. 00:06:07.808 --> 00:06:10.838 I will punish you seven times over for your sins. 00:06:11.618 --> 00:06:16.418 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding, as 00:06:16.418 --> 00:06:19.328 iron and the earth as hard as bronze. 00:06:20.168 --> 00:06:24.938 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, 00:06:25.388 --> 00:06:27.608 and your trees will bear no fruit. 00:06:29.288 --> 00:06:34.418 If even then, you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me. 00:06:35.138 --> 00:06:39.728 I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins. 00:06:40.508 --> 00:06:44.198 I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children 00:06:44.378 --> 00:06:45.938 and destroy your livestock. 00:06:46.448 --> 00:06:50.048 Your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. 00:06:50.348 --> 00:06:56.918 And if you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me, then 00:06:56.918 --> 00:06:58.748 I myself will be hostile toward you. 00:06:59.888 --> 00:07:04.688 I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins. 00:07:05.408 --> 00:07:08.678 I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of 00:07:08.678 --> 00:07:10.148 the covenant you have broken. 00:07:11.078 --> 00:07:14.888 When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to 00:07:14.888 --> 00:07:18.608 destroy you there and you will be handed over to your enemies. 00:07:19.478 --> 00:07:24.698 I will destroy your food supply so that 10 women will need only one oven 00:07:24.788 --> 00:07:26.438 to bake bread for their families. 00:07:27.203 --> 00:07:29.273 They will ration your food by weight. 00:07:29.693 --> 00:07:33.353 And though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied. 00:07:34.673 --> 00:07:40.283 If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain 00:07:40.288 --> 00:07:45.383 hostile toward me, then I will give full vent to my hostility. 00:07:46.463 --> 00:07:51.083 I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins. 00:07:51.983 --> 00:07:55.223 Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. 00:07:56.048 --> 00:08:00.578 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. 00:08:01.358 --> 00:08:04.958 I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless 00:08:04.958 --> 00:08:07.358 idols, and I will despise you. 00:08:08.258 --> 00:08:13.058 I will make your city's desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. 00:08:14.228 --> 00:08:16.898 I will take no pleasure in your offerings. 00:08:17.258 --> 00:08:19.208 That should be a pleasing aroma to me. 00:08:20.348 --> 00:08:20.678 Yes. 00:08:21.863 --> 00:08:26.753 I myself will devastate your land and your enemies who come to occupy. 00:08:26.753 --> 00:08:29.003 It will be appalled at what they see. 00:08:30.023 --> 00:08:34.433 I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. 00:08:35.363 --> 00:08:39.503 Your land will become desolate and your cities will lie in ruins. 00:08:40.973 --> 00:08:45.683 Then at last, the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath 00:08:45.683 --> 00:08:48.323 years as it lies desolate. 00:08:48.743 --> 00:08:54.593 While you are in exile in the land of your enemies, then the land will finally 00:08:54.593 --> 00:08:57.863 rest and enjoy the sabbaths it missed. 00:08:58.853 --> 00:09:02.873 As long as the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest. 00:09:02.873 --> 00:09:06.683 You never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it. 00:09:08.273 --> 00:09:12.653 And for those of you who survive, I will demoralize you 00:09:12.773 --> 00:09:14.183 in the land of your enemies. 00:09:15.188 --> 00:09:19.448 You will live in such fear that the sound of a leaf driven by 00:09:19.448 --> 00:09:21.248 the wind will send you fleeing. 00:09:22.058 --> 00:09:25.748 You will run as though fleeing from a sword and you will fall 00:09:26.318 --> 00:09:28.028 even when no one pursues you. 00:09:28.928 --> 00:09:32.198 Though no one is chasing you, you will stumble over each other 00:09:32.378 --> 00:09:34.088 as though fleeing from a sword. 00:09:35.108 --> 00:09:38.138 You will have no power to stand up against your enemies. 00:09:39.083 --> 00:09:44.603 You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies. 00:09:45.863 --> 00:09:50.813 Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemy's lands because of their 00:09:50.813 --> 00:09:53.813 sins and the sins of their ancestors. 00:09:55.313 --> 00:10:01.883 But at last, my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for 00:10:01.883 --> 00:10:04.523 betraying me and being hostile toward me. 00:10:05.708 --> 00:10:09.608 When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the 00:10:09.608 --> 00:10:15.248 land of their enemies, then at last, their stubborn hearts will be humbled 00:10:16.058 --> 00:10:17.738 and they will pay for their sins. 00:10:18.938 --> 00:10:23.438 Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my Covenant with 00:10:23.443 --> 00:10:28.388 Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 00:10:29.378 --> 00:10:33.248 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath 00:10:33.253 --> 00:10:35.258 rest as it lies deserted. 00:10:36.188 --> 00:10:41.918 At last, the people will pay for their sins for they have continually rejected 00:10:41.918 --> 00:10:45.008 my regulations and despised my decrees. 00:10:46.298 --> 00:10:52.328 But de, despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they 00:10:52.328 --> 00:10:54.548 are in exile in the land of their enemies. 00:10:55.508 --> 00:11:01.058 I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out for I am 00:11:01.238 --> 00:11:04.358 the Lord their God for their sakes. 00:11:04.808 --> 00:11:09.278 I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of 00:11:09.278 --> 00:11:14.168 the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations that I might be their God. 00:11:15.308 --> 00:11:16.508 I am the Lord. 00:11:18.218 --> 00:11:22.388 These are the decrees, regulations and instructions that the Lord 00:11:22.388 --> 00:11:26.648 gave through Moses on Mount Sinai as evidence of the relationship 00:11:26.648 --> 00:11:29.168 between himself and the Israelites. 00:11:31.238 --> 00:11:35.498 The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people 00:11:35.498 --> 00:11:40.388 of Israel, if anyone makes a special vow to dedicate someone to the Lord 00:11:40.388 --> 00:11:42.398 by paying the value of that person. 00:11:42.848 --> 00:11:45.158 Here is the scale of values to be used. 00:11:46.178 --> 00:11:51.008 A man between the ages of 20 and 60 is valued at 50 shekels of silver 00:11:51.578 --> 00:11:53.408 as measured by the sanctuary shekel. 00:11:54.278 --> 00:11:57.428 A woman of that age is valued at 30 shekels of silver. 00:11:58.298 --> 00:12:03.098 A boy between the ages of five and 20 is valued at 20 shekels of silver. 00:12:03.758 --> 00:12:06.008 A girl of that age is valued at 10. 00:12:06.008 --> 00:12:06.968 Shekels of silver. 00:12:08.018 --> 00:12:12.068 A boy between the ages of one month and five years is valued 00:12:12.068 --> 00:12:13.538 at five shekels of silver. 00:12:14.258 --> 00:12:17.558 A girl of that age is valued at three shekels of silver. 00:12:18.878 --> 00:12:23.048 A man older than 60 is valued at 15 shekels of silver. 00:12:23.918 --> 00:12:26.948 A woman of that age is valued at 10 shekels of silver. 00:12:28.088 --> 00:12:31.868 If you desire to make such a vow but cannot afford to pay the required 00:12:31.868 --> 00:12:34.478 amount, take the person to the priest. 00:12:34.958 --> 00:12:38.588 He will determine the amount for you to pay based on what you can afford. 00:12:39.833 --> 00:12:43.403 If your vow involves giving an animal that is acceptable as an 00:12:43.403 --> 00:12:47.603 offering to the Lord, any gift to the Lord will be considered holy. 00:12:48.533 --> 00:12:52.403 You may not exchange or substitute it for another animal, neither 00:12:52.403 --> 00:12:55.703 a good animal for a bad one, nor a bad animal for a good one. 00:12:56.543 --> 00:13:01.283 But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and 00:13:01.283 --> 00:13:03.683 its substitute will be considered holy. 00:13:04.703 --> 00:13:09.188 If your vow involves an unclean animal, One that is not acceptable 00:13:09.188 --> 00:13:13.028 as an offering to the Lord, then you must bring the animal to the priest. 00:13:13.568 --> 00:13:16.868 He will assess its value and his assessment will be 00:13:16.868 --> 00:13:19.118 final, whether high or low. 00:13:20.048 --> 00:13:22.988 If you want to buy back the animal, you must pay the value 00:13:22.988 --> 00:13:25.568 set by the priest plus 20%. 00:13:26.738 --> 00:13:31.388 If someone dedicates a house to the Lord, the priest will come to assess its value. 00:13:31.958 --> 00:13:34.898 The priest's assessment will be final, whether high or low. 00:13:35.963 --> 00:13:39.713 If the person who dedicated the house wants to buy it back, he must pay 00:13:39.713 --> 00:13:42.773 the value set by the priest plus 20%. 00:13:43.313 --> 00:13:44.933 Then the house will again be his. 00:13:46.373 --> 00:13:50.723 If someone dedicates to the Lord a piece of his family property, its 00:13:50.723 --> 00:13:54.683 value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it. 00:13:55.703 --> 00:13:56.063 50. 00:13:56.063 --> 00:14:00.683 She shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed. 00:14:01.898 --> 00:14:05.978 If the field is dedicated to the Lord in the year of Jubilee, then 00:14:05.978 --> 00:14:07.598 the entire assessment will apply. 00:14:08.438 --> 00:14:12.338 But if the field is dedicated after the year of Jubilee, the priest 00:14:12.338 --> 00:14:15.788 will assess the land's value in proportion to the number of years 00:14:15.788 --> 00:14:18.008 left until the next year of Jubilee. 00:14:18.848 --> 00:14:21.338 It's assessed value is reduced each year. 00:14:22.508 --> 00:14:26.258 If the person who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, he must pay 00:14:26.258 --> 00:14:29.468 the value set by the priest plus 20%. 00:14:30.263 --> 00:14:34.823 Then the field will again be legally his, but if he does not want to buy it 00:14:34.823 --> 00:14:40.433 back and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back. 00:14:41.363 --> 00:14:44.873 When the field is released in the year of Jubilee, it will be holy. 00:14:45.503 --> 00:14:48.053 A field specially set apart for the Lord. 00:14:48.743 --> 00:14:50.723 It will become the property of the priests. 00:14:51.983 --> 00:14:56.213 If someone dedicates to the Lord a field he has purchased, but which 00:14:56.213 --> 00:14:57.863 is not part of his family property. 00:14:58.418 --> 00:15:01.898 The priest will assess its value based on the number of years left 00:15:02.018 --> 00:15:03.668 until the next year of Jubilee. 00:15:04.418 --> 00:15:08.108 On that day, he must give the assessed value of the land as 00:15:08.108 --> 00:15:09.788 a sacred donation to the Lord. 00:15:10.928 --> 00:15:14.888 In the year of Jubilee, the field must be returned to the person from 00:15:14.893 --> 00:15:18.668 whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property. 00:15:19.478 --> 00:15:22.358 All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary 00:15:22.358 --> 00:15:24.368 shekel, which equals 20. 00:15:24.373 --> 00:15:24.488 Gus. 00:15:26.378 --> 00:15:31.538 You may not dedicate a firstborn animal to the Lord for the firstborn of your cattle, 00:15:31.628 --> 00:15:34.808 sheep, and goats already belong to him. 00:15:35.678 --> 00:15:39.878 However, you may buy back the firstborn of a ceremonially unclean 00:15:39.878 --> 00:15:44.228 animal by paying the priest's assessment of its worth plus 20%. 00:15:44.848 --> 00:15:49.388 If you do not buy it back, the priest will sell it at its assessed value. 00:15:50.438 --> 00:15:54.008 However, anything specially set apart for the Lord. 00:15:54.623 --> 00:15:58.793 Whether a person, an animal, or family property must 00:15:58.793 --> 00:16:01.043 never be sold or bought back. 00:16:01.793 --> 00:16:07.103 Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy and it belongs to the Lord. 00:16:08.003 --> 00:16:12.383 No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. 00:16:12.983 --> 00:16:18.533 Such a person must be put to death one 10th of the produce of the land, 00:16:18.683 --> 00:16:23.153 whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees belongs to the Lord. 00:16:23.648 --> 00:16:25.838 And must be set apart to him as holy. 00:16:26.678 --> 00:16:30.248 If you want to buy back the Lord's 10th of the grain or fruit, you 00:16:30.248 --> 00:16:32.918 must pay its value plus 20%. 00:16:33.968 --> 00:16:37.748 Count off every 10th animal from your herds and flocks and set 00:16:37.748 --> 00:16:39.878 them apart for the Lord as holy. 00:16:40.718 --> 00:16:44.618 You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may 00:16:44.618 --> 00:16:46.388 not substitute one for another. 00:16:47.318 --> 00:16:52.208 But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal 00:16:52.388 --> 00:16:57.188 and its substitute will be considered holy and cannot be bought back. 00:16:58.358 --> 00:17:01.478 These are the commands that the Lord gave through Moses on 00:17:01.478 --> 00:17:03.908 Mount Sinai for the Israelites. 00:17:08.378 --> 00:17:11.228 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:17:11.378 --> 00:17:12.578 Thank you for joining us.