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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.
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