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Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the
Daily Bible reading Experience.
Day 100 and 30
the Lord said to Moses, give the following
instructions to the people of Israel.
These are the Lord's appointed
festivals, which you are to proclaim
as official days for Holy Assembly.
You have six days each week for your
ordinary work, but the seventh day
is a Sabbath day of complete rest,
an official day for Holy assembly.
It is the Lord's Sabbath Day, and it
must be observed wherever you live.
In addition to the Sabbath, these are
the Lord's appointed festivals, the
official days for Holy Assembly that are
to be celebrated at their proper times.
Each year, the Lord's Passover
begins at sundown on the
14th day of the first month.
On the next day, the 15th day of the
month, you must begin celebrating
the festival of Unleavened Bread.
This festival to the Lord continues for
seven days and during that time, the
bread you eat must be made without yeast.
On the first day of the festival, all
the people must stop their ordinary
work and observe an official day.
For Holy Assembly For seven days, you
must present special gifts to the Lord.
On the seventh day, the people must
again stop all their ordinary work to
observe an official day for Holy assembly.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions
to the people of Israel.
When you enter the land I am giving
you and you harvest its first crops,
bring the priest a bundle of grain
from the first cutting of your grain
harvest on the day after the Sabbath.
The priest will lift it up
before the Lord, so it may
be accepted on your behalf.
On that same day, you must sacrifice a
one-year-old male lamb with no defects
as a burnt offering to the Lord.
With it, you must present a grain
offering consisting of four quarts of
choice flour moistened with olive oil.
It will be a special gift, a
pleasing aroma to the Lord.
You must also offer one quart
of wine as a liquid offering.
Do not eat any bread or roasted grain
or fresh kernels on that day until
you bring this offering to your God.
This is a permanent law for you, and
it must be observed from generation
to generation wherever you live,
from the day after the Sabbath, the
day you bring the bundle of grain to
be lifted up as a special offering.
Count off seven full weeks.
Keep counting until the day
after the seventh Sabbath.
50 days later, then present an
offering of new grain to the
Lord from wherever you live.
Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted
up before the Lord as a special offering.
Make these loaves from four quarts of
choice flour, and bake them with yeast.
They will be an offering to the
Lord from the first of your crops.
Along with the bread present, seven
one-year-old male lambs with no defects.
One young bull and two rams as
burnt offerings to the Lord.
These burnt offerings together
with the grain offerings and liquid
offerings will be a special gift,
a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Then you must offer one male goat
as a sin offering and two one-year
old male lambs as a peace offering.
The priest will lift up the two lambs
as a special offering to the Lord.
Together with the loaves representing
the first of your crops, these
offerings which are holy to the
Lord, belong to the priests.
That same day will be proclaimed
and official day for holy assembly.
A day on which you do no ordinary work.
This is a permanent law for you, and
it must be observed from generation
to generation wherever you live.
When you harvest the crops of your
land, do not harvest the grain along
the edges of your fields and do not
pick up what the harvesters drop.
Leave it for the poor and the
foreigners living among you.
I am the Lord your God.
The Lord said to Moses, give the
following instructions to the people
of Israel on the first day of the
appointed month in early Autumn.
You are to observe a day of complete rest.
It will be an official day for
Holy Assembly, a day commemorated
with loud blasts of a trumpet.
You must do no ordinary work on that day.
Instead, you are to present
special gifts to the Lord.
Then the Lord said to Moses, be careful
to celebrate the Day of Atonement on
the 10th day of that same month, nine
days after the Festival of Trumpets.
You must observe it as an
official day for Holy Assembly.
A day to deny yourselves and
present special gifts to the Lord.
Do no work during that entire day
because it is the day of atonement.
When offerings of purification
are made for you, making you right
with the Lord your God, all who
do not deny themselves that day
will be cut off from God's people.
And I will destroy anyone among
you who does any work on that day.
You must not do any work at all.
This is a permanent law for you and
it must be observed from generation
to generation wherever you live.
This will be a Sabbath day of
complete rest for you, and on that
day, you must deny yourselves.
This day of rest will begin at sundown
on the ninth day of the month and extend
until sundown on the 10th day and the
Lord said to Moses, give the following
instructions to the people of Israel.
Begin celebrating the Festival of Shelters
on the 15th day of the appointed month.
Five days after the Day of Atonement.
This festival to the Lord
will last for seven days.
On the first day of the festival.
You must proclaim an official
day for Holy Assembly.
When you do no ordinary work
for seven days, you must present
special gifts to the Lord.
The eighth day is another holy
day on which you present your
special gifts to the Lord.
This will be a solemn occasion and no
ordinary work may be done that day.
These are the Lord's appointed festivals.
Celebrate them each year as official days
for holy assembly by presenting special
gifts to the Lord, burnt offerings,
grain offerings, sacrifices, and liquid
offerings each on its proper day.
These festivals must be
observed in addition to the
Lord's regular Sabbath days.
And the offerings are in addition to your
personal gifts, the offerings you give
to fulfill your vows and the voluntary
offerings you present to the Lord.
Remember that this seven day
festival to the Lord, the Festival
of Shelters, begins on the 15th day
of the appointed month after you have
harvested all the produce of the land.
The first day and the eighth day of the
festival will be days of complete rest.
On the first day, gather branches
from magnificent trees, palm
fronds, bows from leafy trees, and
willows that grow by the streams.
Then celebrate with joy
before the Lord your God.
For seven days you must observe
this festival to the Lord
for seven days every year.
This is a permanent law for you.
And it must be observed in the appointed
month from generation to generation.
For seven days, you must live
outside in little shelters.
All native born Israelites
must live in shelters.
This will remind each new generation
of Israelites that I made their
ancestors live in shelters when I
rescued them from the land of Egypt.
I am the Lord your God.
So Moses gave the Israelites
these instructions regarding the
annual festivals of the Lord.
The Lord said to Moses, command the
people of Israel to bring you pure
oil of pressed olives for the light
to keep the lambs burning continually.
This is the lamb stand that stands in the
tabernacle in front of the inner curtain
that shields the Ark of the Covenant.
Aaron must keep the lamps burning
in the Lord's presence all night.
This is a permanent law for
you, and it must be observed
from generation to generation.
Aaron and the priests must tend the
lamps on the pure gold lamp stand
continually in the Lord's presence.
You must bake 12 flat loaves of
bread from choice flour using four
quarts of flour for each loaf.
Place the bread before the Lord on the
pure gold table and arrange the loaves in
two stacks with six loaves in each stack.
Put some pure frankincense near each
stack to serve as a representative
offering a special gift presented
to the Lord every Sabbath day.
This bread must be laid out before the
Lord as a gift from the Israelites.
It is an ongoing expression
of the eternal covenant.
The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron
and his descendants who must eat them in
a sacred place for they are most holy.
It is the permanent right of the
priests to claim this portion of the
special gifts presented to the Lord.
One day, a man who had an Israelite
mother and an Egyptian father came
out of his tent and got into a
fight with one of the Israelite men.
During the fight, this son of an
Israelite woman blasphemed the
name of the Lord with a curse.
So the man was brought
to Moses for judgment.
His mother was Shalom,
the daughter of Diri.
Of the tribe of Dan.
They kept the man in custody until
the Lord's will, in the matter,
should become clear to them.
Then the Lord said to Moses, take
the blasphemer outside the camp and
tell all those who heard the curse
to lay their hands on his head.
Then let the entire community stone
him to death say to the people of
Israel, those who curse their God
will be punished for their sin.
Anyone who blasphemes the name of
the Lord must be stoned to death
by the whole community of Israel.
Any native born Israelite or foreigner
among you who blasphemes the name
of the Lord must be put to death.
Anyone who takes another person's
life must be put to death.
Anyone who kills another person's
animal must pay for it in full, alive
animal for the animal that was killed.
Anyone who injures another person
must be dealt with according
to the injury inflicted.
A fracture for a fracture, an eye
for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Whatever anyone does to injure, another
person must be paid back in kind.
Whoever kills an animal must pay
for it in full, but whoever kills
another person must be put to death.
This same standard applies both
to native born Israelites and to
the foreigners living among you.
I am the Lord your God.
After Moses gave all these instructions to
the Israelites, they took the blasphemer
outside the camp and stoned him to death.
The Israelites did.
Just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the
Lord said to him, give the following
instructions to the people of Israel.
When you have entered the
land, I am giving you.
The land itself must observe a
Sabbath rest before the Lord.
Every seventh year.
For six years, you may plant your
fields and prune your vineyards and
harvest your crops, but during the
seventh year, the land must have
a Sabbath year of complete rest.
It is the Lord's Sabbath.
Do not plant your fields or prune
your vineyards during that year.
And don't store away the crops
that grow on their own or gather
the grapes from your unpr vines.
The land must have a year of complete
rest, but you may eat whatever the land
produces on its own during its Sabbath.
This applies to you, your male and female
servants, your hired workers, and the
temporary residents who live with you.
Your livestock and the wild animals
in your land will also be allowed
to eat what the land produces.
In addition, you must count off seven
Sabbath years, seven sets of seven
years, adding up to 49 years in all.
Then on the day of Atonement
in the 50th year, blow the Rams
horn loud and long throughout the
land set this year apart as holy.
A time to proclaim freedom throughout
the land for all who live there.
It will be a jubilee year for you
when each of you may return to the
land that belonged to your ancestors
and return to your own clan.
This 50th year will be a jubilee
for you during that year.
You must not plant your fields or
store away any of the crops that
grow on their own, and don't gather
the grapes from your unpruned vines.
It'll be a jubilee year for you, and
you must keep it holy, but you may eat
whatever the land produces on its own.
In the year of Jubilee, each
of you may return to the land
that belong to your ancestors.
When you make an agreement with your
neighbor to buy or sell property, you
must not take advantage of each other.
When you buy land from your neighbor,
the price you pay must be based on the
number of years since the last jubilee.
The seller must set the price by
taking into account the number of years
remaining until the next year of Jubilee.
The more years until the next
jubilee, the higher the price, the
fewer years, the lower the price.
After all the person selling
the land is actually selling you
a certain number of harvests.
Show your fear of God by not
taking advantage of each other.
I am the Lord your God.
If you want to live securely in the
land, follow my decrees and obey
my regulations, then the land will
yield large crops and you will eat
your fill and live securely in it.
But you might ask, what will we eat during
the seventh year since we are not allowed
to plant or harvest crops that year?
Be assured that I will send my
blessing for you in the sixth year.
So the land will produce a crop
large enough for three years.
When you plant your fields in the
eighth year, you will still be eating
from the large crop of the sixth year.
In fact, you will still be eating
from that large crop when the new
crop is harvested in the ninth year.
The land must never be
sold on a permanent basis.
For the land belongs to me.
You are only foreigners and
tenant farmers working for me.
With every purchase of land, you must
grant the seller the right to buy it back.
If one of your fellow Israelites
falls into poverty and is forced to
sell some family land, then a close
relative should buy it back for him.
If there is no close relative to
buy the land, but the person who
sold it gets enough money to buy
it back, he then has the right to
redeem it from the one who bought it.
The price of the land will be
discounted according to the number of
years until the next year of Jubilee.
In this way, the original owner can
then return to the land, but if the
original owner cannot afford to buy back
the land, it will remain with the new
owner until the next year of Jubilee.
In the jubilee year, the land must
be returned to the original owners so
they can return to their family land.
Anyone who sells a house inside a
walled town has the right to buy it
back for a full year after its sale.
During that year, the seller retains
the right to buy it back, but if it
is not bought back within a year,
the sale of the house within the
walled town cannot be reversed.
It will become the permanent
property of the buyer.
It will not be returned to the original
owner in the year of Jubilee, but
a house in a village, a settlement
without fortified walls will be treated
like property in the countryside.
Such a house may be bought back at any
time, and it must be returned to the
original owner in the year of Jubilee.
The Levites always have the right to
buy back a house they have sold within
the towns allotted to them, and any
property that is sold by the Levites,
all houses within the Levitical towns
must be returned in the year of Jubilee.
After all the houses in the towns
reserved for the Levites are the
only property they own in all Israel.
The open pasture land around the
Levitical towns may never be sold.
It is their permanent possession.
This concludes today's
Immer Reading experience.
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