WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.310 Day 100 and 54 00:00:04.670 --> 00:00:09.260 you must set aside a tithe of your crops, one 10th of all the crops you harvest. 00:00:09.260 --> 00:00:13.790 Each year, bring this tithe to the designated place of worship, the place the 00:00:13.790 --> 00:00:18.320 Lord your God chooses for His name to be honored and eat it there in His presence. 00:00:19.070 --> 00:00:24.470 This applies to your tithes of grain, new wine, olive oil, and the firstborn 00:00:24.470 --> 00:00:26.090 males of your flocks and herds. 00:00:26.885 --> 00:00:29.915 Doing this will teach you always to fear the Lord your God. 00:00:31.145 --> 00:00:34.955 Now, when the Lord, your God blesses you with a good harvest, the place 00:00:34.955 --> 00:00:38.165 of worship he chooses for his name to be honored might be too 00:00:38.165 --> 00:00:39.665 far for you to bring the tithe. 00:00:40.385 --> 00:00:45.275 If so, you may sell the tithe portion of your crops and herds, put 00:00:45.275 --> 00:00:49.385 the money in a pouch and go to the place the Lord your God has chosen. 00:00:50.075 --> 00:00:53.945 When you arrive, you may use the money to buy any kind of food you want. 00:00:54.515 --> 00:01:00.635 Cattle, sheep, goats, wine, or other alcoholic drink, then feast there in 00:01:00.635 --> 00:01:04.295 the presence of the Lord your God, and celebrate with your household. 00:01:04.805 --> 00:01:08.315 And do not neglect the Levites in your town for they will receive 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:10.175 no allotment of land among you. 00:01:10.545 --> 00:01:15.635 At the end of every third year, bring the entire tithe of that year's harvest 00:01:15.905 --> 00:01:17.885 and store it in the nearest town. 00:01:18.815 --> 00:01:23.195 Give it to the Levites who will receive no allotment of land among you, as 00:01:23.195 --> 00:01:27.005 well as to the foreigners living among you, the orphans and the widows in your 00:01:27.005 --> 00:01:30.185 towns so they can eat and be satisfied. 00:01:30.905 --> 00:01:34.415 Then the Lord, your God will bless you in all your work. 00:01:34.625 --> 00:01:39.365 At the end of every seventh year, you must cancel the debts 00:01:39.365 --> 00:01:40.895 of everyone who owes you money. 00:01:41.645 --> 00:01:43.205 This is how it must be done. 00:01:44.300 --> 00:01:47.750 Everyone must cancel the loans they have made to their fellow Israelites. 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.200 They must not demand payment from their neighbors or relatives. 00:01:51.620 --> 00:01:54.320 For the Lord's time of release has arrived. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.900 This release from debt however applies only to your fellow Israelites, not 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.460 to the foreigners living among you. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.370 There should be no poor among you for the Lord. 00:02:04.370 --> 00:02:07.460 Your God will greatly bless you in the land he is giving 00:02:07.460 --> 00:02:08.750 you as a special possession. 00:02:09.410 --> 00:02:13.760 You will receive this blessing if you are careful to obey all the commands of the 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:16.580 Lord your God, that I am giving you today. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:22.280 The Lord, your God will bless you as he has promised You will lend money to many 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.590 nations but will never need to borrow. 00:02:25.130 --> 00:02:29.690 You'll rule many nations, but they will not rule over you. 00:02:31.070 --> 00:02:34.550 But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns, when you arrive in the 00:02:34.550 --> 00:02:36.410 land, the Lord your God is giving you. 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:39.980 Do not be hardhearted or tight-fisted toward them. 00:02:40.700 --> 00:02:44.210 Instead be generous and lend them whatever they need. 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.860 Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone alone because the year for 00:02:48.860 --> 00:02:50.660 canceling debts is close at hand. 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:55.760 If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the Lord, 00:02:56.180 --> 00:02:58.010 you will be considered guilty of sin. 00:02:58.790 --> 00:03:02.510 Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly for the Lord. 00:03:02.510 --> 00:03:04.730 Your God will bless you in everything you do. 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:07.940 And there will always be some in the land who are poor. 00:03:08.390 --> 00:03:11.570 That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and 00:03:11.570 --> 00:03:13.130 with other Israelites in need. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.380 If a fellow Hebrew sells himself or herself to be your servant and serves 00:03:18.380 --> 00:03:22.640 you for six years, in the seventh year, you must set that servant free. 00:03:22.930 --> 00:03:27.740 When you release a male servant, do not send him away empty handed. 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:31.730 Give him a generous, farewell gift from your flock, your threshing 00:03:31.730 --> 00:03:33.560 floor, and your wine press. 00:03:34.265 --> 00:03:38.075 Share with him some of the bounty with which the Lord your God has blessed you. 00:03:38.825 --> 00:03:42.215 Remember that you were once slaves in the land of Egypt and 00:03:42.215 --> 00:03:44.105 the Lord your God redeemed you. 00:03:44.735 --> 00:03:46.685 That is why I am giving you this command. 00:03:47.795 --> 00:03:53.315 But suppose your servant says, I will not leave you because he loves you and your 00:03:53.315 --> 00:03:55.655 family and he has done well with you. 00:03:56.585 --> 00:04:00.545 In that case, take an all and push it through his earlobe into the door. 00:04:01.565 --> 00:04:05.195 After that, he will be your servant for life and do the 00:04:05.195 --> 00:04:06.875 same for your female servants. 00:04:07.805 --> 00:04:11.075 You must not consider it a hardship when you release your servants. 00:04:11.945 --> 00:04:14.975 Remember that for six years, they have given you services worth 00:04:14.980 --> 00:04:16.865 double the wages of hired workers. 00:04:17.315 --> 00:04:20.405 And the Lord your God will bless you and all you do, 00:04:22.445 --> 00:04:25.325 you must set aside for the Lord your God, all the firstborn, 00:04:25.325 --> 00:04:27.095 males from your flocks and herds. 00:04:27.875 --> 00:04:31.745 Do not use the firstborn of your herds to work your fields and do not 00:04:31.745 --> 00:04:33.515 shear the firstborn of your flocks. 00:04:33.935 --> 00:04:37.145 Instead, you and your family must eat these animals in the 00:04:37.145 --> 00:04:41.105 presence of the Lord your God each year at the place he chooses. 00:04:42.065 --> 00:04:45.665 But if this firstborn animal has any defect such as lameness or 00:04:45.670 --> 00:04:49.385 blindness, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not 00:04:49.385 --> 00:04:51.305 sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 00:04:51.875 --> 00:04:55.565 Instead, use it for food for your family in your hometown. 00:04:56.375 --> 00:05:00.995 Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean may eat it just as 00:05:00.995 --> 00:05:05.345 anyone may eat a gazelle or deer, but you must not consume the blood. 00:05:05.705 --> 00:05:11.375 You must pour it out on the ground like water in honor of the Lord your God. 00:05:11.615 --> 00:05:16.475 Celebrate the Passover each year in the early spring and the month of Abib for 00:05:16.475 --> 00:05:20.075 that was the month in which the Lord your God, brought you out of Egypt by night. 00:05:21.305 --> 00:05:26.105 Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be 00:05:26.105 --> 00:05:31.175 sacrificed to the Lord your God, at the designated place of worship, the place 00:05:31.175 --> 00:05:33.605 he chooses for his name to be honored. 00:05:34.415 --> 00:05:37.955 Eat it with bread made without yeast for seven days. 00:05:38.285 --> 00:05:41.675 The bread you eat must be made without yeast as when you escaped 00:05:41.675 --> 00:05:42.965 from Egypt in such a hurry. 00:05:43.655 --> 00:05:48.395 Eat this bread, the bread of suffering so that as long as you live, you'll 00:05:48.395 --> 00:05:50.435 remember the day you departed from Egypt. 00:05:51.305 --> 00:05:55.595 Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for those seven days. 00:05:56.435 --> 00:05:59.585 And when you sacrifice the Passover lamb on the evening of the first 00:05:59.585 --> 00:06:03.245 day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next morning. 00:06:04.895 --> 00:06:08.255 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of the towns that 00:06:08.255 --> 00:06:09.755 the Lord your God is giving you. 00:06:10.445 --> 00:06:15.245 You must offer it only at the designated place of worship the place the Lord your 00:06:15.245 --> 00:06:17.135 God chooses for His name to be honored. 00:06:18.155 --> 00:06:21.845 Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the 00:06:21.845 --> 00:06:23.735 anniversary of your exodus from Egypt. 00:06:24.515 --> 00:06:28.805 Roast the lamb and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses. 00:06:29.435 --> 00:06:33.635 Then you may go back to your tents the next morning for the next six days. 00:06:33.640 --> 00:06:35.735 You may not eat any bread made with yeast. 00:06:36.395 --> 00:06:37.475 On the seventh day. 00:06:37.715 --> 00:06:41.555 Proclaim another holy day in honor of the Lord your God and 00:06:41.555 --> 00:06:43.715 no work may be done on that day. 00:06:44.975 --> 00:06:47.735 Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the 00:06:47.735 --> 00:06:49.235 grain at the time of harvest. 00:06:49.925 --> 00:06:54.005 Then celebrate the Festival of Harvest to honor the Lord your God. 00:06:54.725 --> 00:06:57.725 Bring him a voluntary offering in proportion to the blessings 00:06:57.725 --> 00:06:58.925 you have received from him. 00:06:59.705 --> 00:07:03.245 This is a time to celebrate before the Lord your God, at 00:07:03.245 --> 00:07:04.745 the designated place of worship. 00:07:04.745 --> 00:07:06.605 He will choose for his name to be honored. 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:12.200 Celebrate with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:16.040 from your towns and the foreigners, orphans and widows who live among you. 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:20.210 Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt, so be careful 00:07:20.270 --> 00:07:22.040 to obey all these decrees. 00:07:23.450 --> 00:07:27.530 You must observe the festival of shelters for seven days at the end of the harvest 00:07:27.530 --> 00:07:31.550 season, after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed. 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:36.200 This festival will be a happy time of celebrating with your sons and daughters. 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.030 You're male and female servants and the Levites foreigners, orphans, and 00:07:41.030 --> 00:07:44.390 widows from your towns for seven days. 00:07:44.660 --> 00:07:47.900 You must celebrate this festival to honor the Lord your God. 00:07:47.930 --> 00:07:52.460 The place he chooses for it is He who blesses you with bountiful harvests 00:07:52.730 --> 00:07:54.890 and gives you success in all your work. 00:07:55.400 --> 00:08:00.860 This festival will be a time of great joy for all each year. 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:03.710 Every man in Israel must celebrate these three festivals. 00:08:04.265 --> 00:08:07.445 The Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest, 00:08:07.805 --> 00:08:09.335 and the Festival of Shelters. 00:08:10.055 --> 00:08:14.045 On each of these occasions, all men must appear before the Lord your God, at the 00:08:14.045 --> 00:08:18.695 place he chooses, but they must not appear before the Lord, without a gift for him. 00:08:19.205 --> 00:08:23.165 All must give as they are able, according to the blessings given 00:08:23.165 --> 00:08:25.235 to them by the Lord your God. 00:08:27.095 --> 00:08:29.945 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:08:30.095 --> 00:08:31.295 Thank you for joining us.