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 --> 00:00:04.413 Day 100 and 29. 00:00:04.787 --> 00:00:09.677 the Lord said to Moses, give the people of Israel these instructions, which 00:00:09.677 --> 00:00:13.637 apply both to Native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel. 00:00:15.047 --> 00:00:18.497 If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to 00:00:18.497 --> 00:00:20.897 mole, they must be put to death. 00:00:21.827 --> 00:00:24.317 The people of the community must stone them to death. 00:00:25.262 --> 00:00:29.282 I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community 00:00:29.612 --> 00:00:34.322 because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name 00:00:34.532 --> 00:00:36.392 by offering their children to mole. 00:00:37.742 --> 00:00:42.212 And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to mole 00:00:42.662 --> 00:00:49.232 and refuse to execute them, I myself will turn against them and their families and 00:00:49.232 --> 00:00:50.972 will cut them off from the community. 00:00:52.082 --> 00:00:55.292 This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution. 00:00:55.472 --> 00:01:00.272 By worshiping Molech, I will also turn against those who 00:01:00.272 --> 00:01:02.042 commit spiritual prostitution. 00:01:02.222 --> 00:01:07.112 By putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead, 00:01:07.922 --> 00:01:09.872 I will cut them off from the community. 00:01:10.622 --> 00:01:15.482 So set yourselves apart to be holy for I am the Lord your God. 00:01:16.352 --> 00:01:19.532 Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice. 00:01:20.297 --> 00:01:22.697 For I am the Lord who makes you holy. 00:01:23.897 --> 00:01:27.467 Anyone who dishonored, father or mother must be put to death. 00:01:28.157 --> 00:01:31.217 Such a person is guilty of a capital offense. 00:01:32.327 --> 00:01:36.287 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man 00:01:36.292 --> 00:01:39.917 and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death. 00:01:41.147 --> 00:01:46.637 If a man violates his father by having sex with one of his father's wives, both the 00:01:46.642 --> 00:01:48.947 man and the woman must be put to death. 00:01:49.442 --> 00:01:51.572 For they are guilty of a capital offense. 00:01:52.592 --> 00:01:56.552 If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death. 00:01:57.152 --> 00:02:01.232 They have committed a perverse act and are guilty of a capital offense. 00:02:02.372 --> 00:02:07.352 If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man, as with a woman, 00:02:07.952 --> 00:02:10.472 both men have committed a detestable act. 00:02:11.102 --> 00:02:15.212 They must both be put to death for they are guilty of a capital offense. 00:02:16.622 --> 00:02:20.972 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a 00:02:20.972 --> 00:02:26.372 wicked act, the man, and both women must be burned to death to wipe 00:02:26.372 --> 00:02:28.142 out such wickedness from among you. 00:02:29.522 --> 00:02:33.452 If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death and 00:02:33.452 --> 00:02:34.772 the animal must be killed. 00:02:35.762 --> 00:02:40.352 If a woman presents herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it, she 00:02:40.352 --> 00:02:42.482 and the animal must both be put to death. 00:02:43.202 --> 00:02:44.342 You must kill both. 00:02:44.882 --> 00:02:46.952 For they are guilty of a capital offense. 00:02:48.362 --> 00:02:52.112 If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or 00:02:52.112 --> 00:02:56.792 his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful disgrace. 00:02:57.512 --> 00:02:59.942 They must be publicly cut off from the community. 00:03:00.452 --> 00:03:04.802 Since the man has violated his sister, he will be punished for his sin. 00:03:06.587 --> 00:03:09.917 If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual 00:03:09.917 --> 00:03:14.147 period, both of them must be cut off from the community for together. 00:03:14.447 --> 00:03:16.757 They have exposed the source of her blood flow. 00:03:18.317 --> 00:03:21.587 Do not have sexual relations with your aunt, whether your mother's 00:03:21.592 --> 00:03:23.507 sister or your father's sister. 00:03:24.197 --> 00:03:26.117 This would dishonor a close relative. 00:03:26.747 --> 00:03:30.137 Both parties are guilty and will be punished for their sin. 00:03:31.412 --> 00:03:35.282 If a man has sex with his uncle's wife, he has violated his uncle. 00:03:35.972 --> 00:03:41.432 Both the man and woman will be punished for their sin and they will die childless. 00:03:42.902 --> 00:03:46.862 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity. 00:03:47.312 --> 00:03:52.082 He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless. 00:03:53.552 --> 00:03:58.022 You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice. 00:03:58.787 --> 00:04:03.737 Otherwise, the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out. 00:04:04.667 --> 00:04:08.477 Do not live according to the customs of the people I'm driving out before you. 00:04:09.167 --> 00:04:13.007 It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them. 00:04:14.027 --> 00:04:19.007 But I have promised you, you will possess their land because I will 00:04:19.007 --> 00:04:20.657 give it to you as your possession. 00:04:21.377 --> 00:04:26.297 A land flowing with milk and honey, I am the Lord your God. 00:04:26.882 --> 00:04:29.372 Who has set you apart from all other people? 00:04:30.722 --> 00:04:33.812 You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially 00:04:33.812 --> 00:04:38.672 clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. 00:04:39.362 --> 00:04:44.042 You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or 00:04:44.042 --> 00:04:45.932 creature that scurries along the ground. 00:04:46.802 --> 00:04:49.412 I have identified them as being unclean for you. 00:04:50.162 --> 00:04:54.632 You must be holy because I the Lord am holy. 00:04:55.577 --> 00:05:02.357 I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own men and women. 00:05:02.357 --> 00:05:06.587 Among you who act as mediums or who consult the spirits of the dead 00:05:06.947 --> 00:05:08.897 must be put to death by stoning. 00:05:09.857 --> 00:05:11.927 They are guilty of a capital offense. 00:05:12.247 --> 00:05:18.377 The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the priests. 00:05:18.527 --> 00:05:24.047 The descendants of Aaron, a priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean. 00:05:24.362 --> 00:05:26.522 By touching the dead body of a relative. 00:05:27.272 --> 00:05:31.982 The only exceptions are his closest relatives, his mother or father, son 00:05:31.982 --> 00:05:36.662 or daughter, brother, or his virgin sister, who depends on him because 00:05:36.667 --> 00:05:41.492 she has no husband, but a priest must not defile him himself and make 00:05:41.497 --> 00:05:45.842 himself unclean for someone who is related to him only by marriage. 00:05:47.312 --> 00:05:51.902 The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies. 00:05:52.562 --> 00:05:56.042 They must be set apart as holy to their God and must never 00:05:56.042 --> 00:05:57.692 bring shame on the name of God. 00:05:58.412 --> 00:06:00.452 They must be holy for. 00:06:00.452 --> 00:06:03.122 They are the ones who present the special gifts to the Lord. 00:06:03.632 --> 00:06:05.252 Gifts of food for their God. 00:06:06.362 --> 00:06:11.342 Priests may not marry a woman defiled by prostitution, and they may not marry a 00:06:11.342 --> 00:06:13.382 woman who is divorced from her husband. 00:06:14.072 --> 00:06:19.202 For the priests are set apart as holy to their God, you must treat them as holy 00:06:19.532 --> 00:06:21.542 because they offer up food to your God. 00:06:22.262 --> 00:06:27.962 You must consider them holy because I, the Lord am holy and I make you holy. 00:06:29.222 --> 00:06:33.872 If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she 00:06:33.872 --> 00:06:38.042 also defiles her father's holiness and she must be burned to death. 00:06:39.362 --> 00:06:42.362 The high priest has the highest rank of all the priests. 00:06:42.992 --> 00:06:46.712 The anointing oil has been poured on his head, and he has been ordained 00:06:46.772 --> 00:06:48.302 to wear the priestly garments. 00:06:48.902 --> 00:06:52.622 He must never leave his hair combed or tear his clothing. 00:06:53.102 --> 00:06:56.642 He must not defile himself by going near a dead body. 00:06:57.122 --> 00:07:01.922 He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother. 00:07:02.552 --> 00:07:07.112 He must not defile the sanctuary of his God by leaving it to attend to 00:07:07.112 --> 00:07:12.422 a dead person, for he has been made holy by the anointing oil of his God. 00:07:13.262 --> 00:07:14.312 I am the Lord. 00:07:16.232 --> 00:07:19.052 The high priest may marry only a virgin. 00:07:19.682 --> 00:07:24.122 He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has 00:07:24.122 --> 00:07:26.102 defiled herself by prostitution. 00:07:26.792 --> 00:07:30.782 She must be a virgin from his own clan so that he will not dishonor 00:07:30.782 --> 00:07:35.462 his descendants among his clan, for I am the Lord who makes him holy. 00:07:36.572 --> 00:07:40.652 Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to Aaron. 00:07:41.942 --> 00:07:46.352 In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect 00:07:46.562 --> 00:07:49.082 will qualify to offer food to his God. 00:07:49.922 --> 00:07:55.922 No one who has a defect qualifies whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, 00:07:56.042 --> 00:08:00.962 deformed, or has a broken foot or arm, or is hunchbacked or dwarfed, 00:08:01.322 --> 00:08:06.812 or has a defective eye or skin sores or scabs or damaged testicles. 00:08:07.637 --> 00:08:12.287 No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to 00:08:12.287 --> 00:08:14.027 present special gifts to the Lord. 00:08:15.107 --> 00:08:19.037 Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to 00:08:19.037 --> 00:08:24.977 his God, however he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy 00:08:24.977 --> 00:08:27.167 offerings and the most holy offerings. 00:08:27.917 --> 00:08:32.087 Yet because of his physical defect, he may not enter the room behind the 00:08:32.087 --> 00:08:36.977 inner curtain or approach the altar for this would defile my holy places. 00:08:37.877 --> 00:08:40.187 I am the Lord who makes them holy. 00:08:41.117 --> 00:08:46.487 So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons, and to all the Israelites. 00:08:46.837 --> 00:08:52.757 The Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron and his sons to be very careful 00:08:52.817 --> 00:08:55.847 with the sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart from me. 00:08:56.387 --> 00:08:58.607 So they do not bring shame on my holy name. 00:08:59.597 --> 00:09:00.587 I am the Lord. 00:09:01.607 --> 00:09:06.077 Give them the following instructions in all future generations. 00:09:06.497 --> 00:09:11.087 If any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean, when he approaches 00:09:11.092 --> 00:09:14.577 the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the Lord, 00:09:15.467 --> 00:09:17.687 he must be cut off from my presence. 00:09:18.497 --> 00:09:19.577 I am the Lord. 00:09:20.957 --> 00:09:25.487 If any of Aaron's descendants has a skin disease, Or any kind of discharge 00:09:25.487 --> 00:09:27.737 that makes him ceremonially unclean. 00:09:28.007 --> 00:09:32.627 He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean. 00:09:33.287 --> 00:09:38.507 He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse or by having any mission of semen 00:09:38.897 --> 00:09:44.297 or by touching a small animal that is unclean or by touching someone who is 00:09:44.297 --> 00:09:46.937 ceremonially unclean for any reason. 00:09:47.807 --> 00:09:52.517 The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. 00:09:53.042 --> 00:09:57.362 He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water. 00:09:57.962 --> 00:10:02.222 When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially, clean again and 00:10:02.222 --> 00:10:03.992 may eat from the sacred offerings. 00:10:04.472 --> 00:10:07.502 For this is his food, he may not eat. 00:10:07.502 --> 00:10:11.762 An animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild 00:10:11.762 --> 00:10:14.102 animals for this would defile him. 00:10:15.062 --> 00:10:20.492 I am the Lord, the priests must follow my instructions carefully. 00:10:21.197 --> 00:10:24.617 Otherwise, they will be punished for their sin and will die 00:10:24.737 --> 00:10:26.567 for violating my instructions. 00:10:27.497 --> 00:10:29.627 I am the Lord who makes them holy. 00:10:31.157 --> 00:10:35.087 No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings. 00:10:35.717 --> 00:10:40.607 Even guests and hired workers in a priest's home are not allowed to eat them. 00:10:41.597 --> 00:10:45.947 However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may 00:10:45.947 --> 00:10:47.657 eat from the sacred offerings. 00:10:48.212 --> 00:10:51.872 And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food. 00:10:52.892 --> 00:10:58.022 If a priest's daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may 00:10:58.022 --> 00:11:02.882 no longer eat the sacred offerings, but if she becomes a widow or is 00:11:02.887 --> 00:11:07.472 divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her 00:11:07.472 --> 00:11:11.942 father's home, as in her youth, she may eat her father's food again. 00:11:12.812 --> 00:11:17.792 Otherwise, no one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings. 00:11:19.292 --> 00:11:22.802 Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it 00:11:23.312 --> 00:11:27.872 must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20%. 00:11:28.922 --> 00:11:33.452 The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to 00:11:33.452 --> 00:11:39.182 the Lord By allowing unauthorized people to eat them, this would bring guilt upon 00:11:39.182 --> 00:11:41.912 them and require them to pay compensation. 00:11:43.007 --> 00:11:45.317 I am the Lord who makes them holy. 00:11:47.327 --> 00:11:51.587 And the Lord said to Moses, give Aaron and his sons and all the 00:11:51.587 --> 00:11:56.507 Israelites, these instructions which apply both to native Israelites and 00:11:56.507 --> 00:11:58.037 to the foreigners living among you. 00:11:59.057 --> 00:12:01.757 If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord. 00:12:02.207 --> 00:12:06.557 Whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you will 00:12:06.557 --> 00:12:11.177 be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. 00:12:11.942 --> 00:12:15.032 It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat. 00:12:15.872 --> 00:12:19.202 Do not present an animal with defects because the Lord will 00:12:19.202 --> 00:12:20.672 not accept it on your behalf. 00:12:21.962 --> 00:12:26.762 If you present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or the flock, whether 00:12:26.762 --> 00:12:32.342 it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal. 00:12:33.122 --> 00:12:34.982 It may have no defect of any kind. 00:12:35.792 --> 00:12:40.592 You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that 00:12:40.592 --> 00:12:43.382 has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs. 00:12:44.102 --> 00:12:48.152 Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the Lord. 00:12:49.202 --> 00:12:54.362 If a bull or lamb has a leg that is too long or too short, it may be 00:12:54.362 --> 00:12:58.802 offered as a voluntary offering, but it may not be offered to fulfill a vow. 00:12:59.612 --> 00:13:03.362 If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you 00:13:03.362 --> 00:13:04.832 may not offer it to the Lord. 00:13:05.462 --> 00:13:09.422 You must never do this in your own land, and you must not accept such 00:13:09.422 --> 00:13:13.982 an animal from foreigners and then offer it as a sacrifice to your God. 00:13:14.852 --> 00:13:18.032 Such animals will not be accepted on your behalf for 00:13:18.032 --> 00:13:20.012 they are mutilated or defective. 00:13:21.302 --> 00:13:27.182 And the Lord said to Moses, when a calf or lamb or goat is born, it must be 00:13:27.187 --> 00:13:29.192 left with its mother for seven days. 00:13:29.792 --> 00:13:34.022 From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a special gift to the Lord. 00:13:34.682 --> 00:13:38.522 But you must not slaughter a mother animal and her offspring on the same 00:13:38.522 --> 00:13:41.282 day, whether from the herd or the flock. 00:13:41.912 --> 00:13:45.332 When you bring a Thanksgiving offering to the Lord, sacrifice it 00:13:45.332 --> 00:13:47.282 properly so you will be accepted. 00:13:48.032 --> 00:13:51.602 Eat the entire sacrificial animal on the day it is presented. 00:13:52.202 --> 00:13:54.482 Do not leave any of it until the next morning. 00:13:55.232 --> 00:13:56.282 I am the Lord. 00:13:57.092 --> 00:14:00.602 You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into 00:14:00.602 --> 00:14:03.332 practice for I am the Lord. 00:14:04.097 --> 00:14:06.257 Do not bring shame on my holy name. 00:14:06.677 --> 00:14:10.067 For I will display my holiness among the people of Israel. 00:14:10.997 --> 00:14:13.037 I am the Lord who makes you holy. 00:14:13.667 --> 00:14:18.527 It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt that I might be your God. 00:14:19.397 --> 00:14:20.597 I am the Lord. 00:14:22.097 --> 00:14:24.977 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:14:25.097 --> 00:14:26.067 Thank you for joining us.