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 --> 00:00:04.243 Day 100 and 30 00:00:04.595 --> 00:00:09.305 the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. 00:00:10.025 --> 00:00:13.805 These are the Lord's appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim 00:00:13.985 --> 00:00:16.115 as official days for Holy Assembly. 00:00:17.585 --> 00:00:22.085 You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day 00:00:22.085 --> 00:00:27.275 is a Sabbath day of complete rest, an official day for Holy assembly. 00:00:27.935 --> 00:00:32.345 It is the Lord's Sabbath Day, and it must be observed wherever you live. 00:00:33.365 --> 00:00:37.715 In addition to the Sabbath, these are the Lord's appointed festivals, the 00:00:37.715 --> 00:00:42.155 official days for Holy Assembly that are to be celebrated at their proper times. 00:00:42.155 --> 00:00:46.955 Each year, the Lord's Passover begins at sundown on the 00:00:46.955 --> 00:00:48.665 14th day of the first month. 00:00:49.685 --> 00:00:53.945 On the next day, the 15th day of the month, you must begin celebrating 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:55.655 the festival of Unleavened Bread. 00:00:56.390 --> 00:01:01.520 This festival to the Lord continues for seven days and during that time, the 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.980 bread you eat must be made without yeast. 00:01:04.850 --> 00:01:08.720 On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:11.090 work and observe an official day. 00:01:11.090 --> 00:01:16.340 For Holy Assembly For seven days, you must present special gifts to the Lord. 00:01:16.970 --> 00:01:21.590 On the seventh day, the people must again stop all their ordinary work to 00:01:21.590 --> 00:01:23.990 observe an official day for Holy assembly. 00:01:25.460 --> 00:01:29.240 Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:30.440 to the people of Israel. 00:01:31.070 --> 00:01:35.210 When you enter the land I am giving you and you harvest its first crops, 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:39.410 bring the priest a bundle of grain from the first cutting of your grain 00:01:39.410 --> 00:01:42.200 harvest on the day after the Sabbath. 00:01:42.530 --> 00:01:45.500 The priest will lift it up before the Lord, so it may 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:46.970 be accepted on your behalf. 00:01:47.705 --> 00:01:53.195 On that same day, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb with no defects 00:01:53.495 --> 00:01:55.145 as a burnt offering to the Lord. 00:01:55.955 --> 00:02:00.215 With it, you must present a grain offering consisting of four quarts of 00:02:00.215 --> 00:02:02.465 choice flour moistened with olive oil. 00:02:03.275 --> 00:02:06.935 It will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:02:07.985 --> 00:02:11.225 You must also offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering. 00:02:12.455 --> 00:02:17.225 Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until 00:02:17.225 --> 00:02:19.175 you bring this offering to your God. 00:02:20.135 --> 00:02:24.725 This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation 00:02:24.725 --> 00:02:30.575 to generation wherever you live, from the day after the Sabbath, the 00:02:30.605 --> 00:02:34.085 day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering. 00:02:34.685 --> 00:02:36.485 Count off seven full weeks. 00:02:37.370 --> 00:02:40.340 Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath. 00:02:40.790 --> 00:02:44.840 50 days later, then present an offering of new grain to the 00:02:44.845 --> 00:02:47.270 Lord from wherever you live. 00:02:47.690 --> 00:02:52.250 Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up before the Lord as a special offering. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.530 Make these loaves from four quarts of choice flour, and bake them with yeast. 00:02:58.250 --> 00:03:01.250 They will be an offering to the Lord from the first of your crops. 00:03:02.195 --> 00:03:07.805 Along with the bread present, seven one-year-old male lambs with no defects. 00:03:08.375 --> 00:03:12.575 One young bull and two rams as burnt offerings to the Lord. 00:03:13.475 --> 00:03:16.895 These burnt offerings together with the grain offerings and liquid 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:21.275 offerings will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 00:03:22.295 --> 00:03:27.065 Then you must offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year 00:03:27.065 --> 00:03:29.345 old male lambs as a peace offering. 00:03:30.725 --> 00:03:34.325 The priest will lift up the two lambs as a special offering to the Lord. 00:03:34.685 --> 00:03:39.065 Together with the loaves representing the first of your crops, these 00:03:39.065 --> 00:03:42.725 offerings which are holy to the Lord, belong to the priests. 00:03:43.385 --> 00:03:47.465 That same day will be proclaimed and official day for holy assembly. 00:03:48.005 --> 00:03:50.195 A day on which you do no ordinary work. 00:03:51.245 --> 00:03:55.505 This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation 00:03:55.505 --> 00:03:57.785 to generation wherever you live. 00:03:59.135 --> 00:04:03.395 When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:07.415 the edges of your fields and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. 00:04:08.405 --> 00:04:11.615 Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. 00:04:12.365 --> 00:04:13.865 I am the Lord your God. 00:04:14.245 --> 00:04:19.595 The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people 00:04:19.595 --> 00:04:24.065 of Israel on the first day of the appointed month in early Autumn. 00:04:24.515 --> 00:04:26.765 You are to observe a day of complete rest. 00:04:27.485 --> 00:04:31.595 It will be an official day for Holy Assembly, a day commemorated 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.185 with loud blasts of a trumpet. 00:04:33.965 --> 00:04:36.275 You must do no ordinary work on that day. 00:04:36.905 --> 00:04:40.025 Instead, you are to present special gifts to the Lord. 00:04:41.675 --> 00:04:46.175 Then the Lord said to Moses, be careful to celebrate the Day of Atonement on 00:04:46.175 --> 00:04:50.915 the 10th day of that same month, nine days after the Festival of Trumpets. 00:04:51.725 --> 00:04:54.875 You must observe it as an official day for Holy Assembly. 00:04:55.475 --> 00:04:59.435 A day to deny yourselves and present special gifts to the Lord. 00:05:00.245 --> 00:05:04.775 Do no work during that entire day because it is the day of atonement. 00:05:05.405 --> 00:05:09.455 When offerings of purification are made for you, making you right 00:05:09.515 --> 00:05:14.075 with the Lord your God, all who do not deny themselves that day 00:05:14.315 --> 00:05:16.115 will be cut off from God's people. 00:05:16.715 --> 00:05:21.185 And I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day. 00:05:22.025 --> 00:05:24.785 You must not do any work at all. 00:05:26.165 --> 00:05:30.215 This is a permanent law for you and it must be observed from generation 00:05:30.215 --> 00:05:32.315 to generation wherever you live. 00:05:33.245 --> 00:05:37.235 This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that 00:05:37.235 --> 00:05:39.545 day, you must deny yourselves. 00:05:40.595 --> 00:05:45.095 This day of rest will begin at sundown on the ninth day of the month and extend 00:05:45.095 --> 00:05:52.115 until sundown on the 10th day and the Lord said to Moses, give the following 00:05:52.115 --> 00:05:54.005 instructions to the people of Israel. 00:05:55.055 --> 00:05:59.975 Begin celebrating the Festival of Shelters on the 15th day of the appointed month. 00:06:00.635 --> 00:06:02.975 Five days after the Day of Atonement. 00:06:03.875 --> 00:06:06.845 This festival to the Lord will last for seven days. 00:06:07.655 --> 00:06:09.155 On the first day of the festival. 00:06:09.485 --> 00:06:12.335 You must proclaim an official day for Holy Assembly. 00:06:12.605 --> 00:06:17.135 When you do no ordinary work for seven days, you must present 00:06:17.135 --> 00:06:18.605 special gifts to the Lord. 00:06:19.325 --> 00:06:22.805 The eighth day is another holy day on which you present your 00:06:22.805 --> 00:06:24.155 special gifts to the Lord. 00:06:24.995 --> 00:06:29.645 This will be a solemn occasion and no ordinary work may be done that day. 00:06:31.025 --> 00:06:33.005 These are the Lord's appointed festivals. 00:06:33.395 --> 00:06:38.525 Celebrate them each year as official days for holy assembly by presenting special 00:06:38.525 --> 00:06:44.225 gifts to the Lord, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and liquid 00:06:44.225 --> 00:06:46.505 offerings each on its proper day. 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:50.330 These festivals must be observed in addition to the 00:06:50.330 --> 00:06:51.980 Lord's regular Sabbath days. 00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:57.200 And the offerings are in addition to your personal gifts, the offerings you give 00:06:57.200 --> 00:07:01.490 to fulfill your vows and the voluntary offerings you present to the Lord. 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:06.320 Remember that this seven day festival to the Lord, the Festival 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:11.330 of Shelters, begins on the 15th day of the appointed month after you have 00:07:11.330 --> 00:07:13.280 harvested all the produce of the land. 00:07:14.105 --> 00:07:18.875 The first day and the eighth day of the festival will be days of complete rest. 00:07:19.655 --> 00:07:24.035 On the first day, gather branches from magnificent trees, palm 00:07:24.035 --> 00:07:28.685 fronds, bows from leafy trees, and willows that grow by the streams. 00:07:29.315 --> 00:07:32.345 Then celebrate with joy before the Lord your God. 00:07:32.555 --> 00:07:36.425 For seven days you must observe this festival to the Lord 00:07:36.425 --> 00:07:38.495 for seven days every year. 00:07:39.305 --> 00:07:40.895 This is a permanent law for you. 00:07:41.315 --> 00:07:45.695 And it must be observed in the appointed month from generation to generation. 00:07:46.565 --> 00:07:50.945 For seven days, you must live outside in little shelters. 00:07:51.785 --> 00:07:54.935 All native born Israelites must live in shelters. 00:07:55.835 --> 00:07:59.975 This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their 00:07:59.975 --> 00:08:04.295 ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt. 00:08:05.225 --> 00:08:06.935 I am the Lord your God. 00:08:08.345 --> 00:08:12.815 So Moses gave the Israelites these instructions regarding the 00:08:12.815 --> 00:08:14.525 annual festivals of the Lord. 00:08:16.895 --> 00:08:21.635 The Lord said to Moses, command the people of Israel to bring you pure 00:08:21.635 --> 00:08:26.495 oil of pressed olives for the light to keep the lambs burning continually. 00:08:27.425 --> 00:08:31.595 This is the lamb stand that stands in the tabernacle in front of the inner curtain 00:08:31.715 --> 00:08:33.305 that shields the Ark of the Covenant. 00:08:34.250 --> 00:08:38.000 Aaron must keep the lamps burning in the Lord's presence all night. 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.930 This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed 00:08:41.930 --> 00:08:43.730 from generation to generation. 00:08:44.660 --> 00:08:48.980 Aaron and the priests must tend the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand 00:08:48.985 --> 00:08:51.050 continually in the Lord's presence. 00:08:52.670 --> 00:08:56.870 You must bake 12 flat loaves of bread from choice flour using four 00:08:56.870 --> 00:08:58.730 quarts of flour for each loaf. 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.040 Place the bread before the Lord on the pure gold table and arrange the loaves in 00:09:04.040 --> 00:09:07.280 two stacks with six loaves in each stack. 00:09:08.180 --> 00:09:11.900 Put some pure frankincense near each stack to serve as a representative 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:17.270 offering a special gift presented to the Lord every Sabbath day. 00:09:17.510 --> 00:09:21.560 This bread must be laid out before the Lord as a gift from the Israelites. 00:09:22.370 --> 00:09:25.160 It is an ongoing expression of the eternal covenant. 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.950 The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron and his descendants who must eat them in 00:09:30.950 --> 00:09:33.620 a sacred place for they are most holy. 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:38.090 It is the permanent right of the priests to claim this portion of the 00:09:38.090 --> 00:09:40.250 special gifts presented to the Lord. 00:09:42.920 --> 00:09:48.500 One day, a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came 00:09:48.500 --> 00:09:52.520 out of his tent and got into a fight with one of the Israelite men. 00:09:53.510 --> 00:09:57.500 During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the 00:09:57.500 --> 00:09:59.150 name of the Lord with a curse. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.690 So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. 00:10:03.470 --> 00:10:06.770 His mother was Shalom, the daughter of Diri. 00:10:06.890 --> 00:10:07.940 Of the tribe of Dan. 00:10:08.660 --> 00:10:11.930 They kept the man in custody until the Lord's will, in the matter, 00:10:11.930 --> 00:10:13.070 should become clear to them. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:19.220 Then the Lord said to Moses, take the blasphemer outside the camp and 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:22.670 tell all those who heard the curse to lay their hands on his head. 00:10:23.450 --> 00:10:27.770 Then let the entire community stone him to death say to the people of 00:10:27.770 --> 00:10:31.940 Israel, those who curse their God will be punished for their sin. 00:10:32.810 --> 00:10:36.800 Anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord must be stoned to death 00:10:37.010 --> 00:10:38.600 by the whole community of Israel. 00:10:39.650 --> 00:10:44.570 Any native born Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the name 00:10:44.570 --> 00:10:46.610 of the Lord must be put to death. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.650 Anyone who takes another person's life must be put to death. 00:10:52.700 --> 00:10:57.890 Anyone who kills another person's animal must pay for it in full, alive 00:10:57.980 --> 00:10:59.840 animal for the animal that was killed. 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:05.000 Anyone who injures another person must be dealt with according 00:11:05.005 --> 00:11:06.260 to the injury inflicted. 00:11:07.055 --> 00:11:11.825 A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. 00:11:12.785 --> 00:11:17.285 Whatever anyone does to injure, another person must be paid back in kind. 00:11:18.575 --> 00:11:23.225 Whoever kills an animal must pay for it in full, but whoever kills 00:11:23.225 --> 00:11:25.655 another person must be put to death. 00:11:26.975 --> 00:11:30.875 This same standard applies both to native born Israelites and to 00:11:30.875 --> 00:11:32.405 the foreigners living among you. 00:11:33.425 --> 00:11:34.775 I am the Lord your God. 00:11:36.575 --> 00:11:41.045 After Moses gave all these instructions to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer 00:11:41.045 --> 00:11:43.655 outside the camp and stoned him to death. 00:11:44.795 --> 00:11:45.965 The Israelites did. 00:11:45.965 --> 00:11:48.125 Just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 00:11:50.765 --> 00:11:55.805 While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord said to him, give the following 00:11:55.805 --> 00:11:57.695 instructions to the people of Israel. 00:11:58.565 --> 00:12:00.545 When you have entered the land, I am giving you. 00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:05.270 The land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the Lord. 00:12:05.570 --> 00:12:06.650 Every seventh year. 00:12:07.490 --> 00:12:11.840 For six years, you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.490 harvest your crops, but during the seventh year, the land must have 00:12:16.495 --> 00:12:18.410 a Sabbath year of complete rest. 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:20.630 It is the Lord's Sabbath. 00:12:21.110 --> 00:12:24.890 Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year. 00:12:25.430 --> 00:12:29.000 And don't store away the crops that grow on their own or gather 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.070 the grapes from your unpr vines. 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:37.850 The land must have a year of complete rest, but you may eat whatever the land 00:12:37.855 --> 00:12:40.190 produces on its own during its Sabbath. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:47.030 This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the 00:12:47.030 --> 00:12:49.130 temporary residents who live with you. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.960 Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.910 to eat what the land produces. 00:12:57.770 --> 00:13:03.200 In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.660 years, adding up to 49 years in all. 00:13:06.620 --> 00:13:10.940 Then on the day of Atonement in the 50th year, blow the Rams 00:13:10.940 --> 00:13:16.430 horn loud and long throughout the land set this year apart as holy. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.930 A time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:25.880 It will be a jubilee year for you when each of you may return to the 00:13:25.880 --> 00:13:30.380 land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan. 00:13:31.310 --> 00:13:35.840 This 50th year will be a jubilee for you during that year. 00:13:36.050 --> 00:13:39.920 You must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that 00:13:39.920 --> 00:13:44.060 grow on their own, and don't gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. 00:13:44.825 --> 00:13:50.615 It'll be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy, but you may eat 00:13:50.735 --> 00:13:52.715 whatever the land produces on its own. 00:13:53.825 --> 00:13:57.815 In the year of Jubilee, each of you may return to the land 00:13:57.965 --> 00:13:59.615 that belong to your ancestors. 00:13:59.805 --> 00:14:05.195 When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you 00:14:05.195 --> 00:14:06.935 must not take advantage of each other. 00:14:07.670 --> 00:14:12.050 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the 00:14:12.050 --> 00:14:14.570 number of years since the last jubilee. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:19.340 The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:21.830 remaining until the next year of Jubilee. 00:14:22.670 --> 00:14:26.690 The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price, the 00:14:26.690 --> 00:14:28.850 fewer years, the lower the price. 00:14:29.690 --> 00:14:33.920 After all the person selling the land is actually selling you 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:35.450 a certain number of harvests. 00:14:36.470 --> 00:14:40.310 Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. 00:14:41.420 --> 00:14:42.980 I am the Lord your God. 00:14:44.510 --> 00:14:48.950 If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey 00:14:48.950 --> 00:14:54.290 my regulations, then the land will yield large crops and you will eat 00:14:54.290 --> 00:14:56.720 your fill and live securely in it. 00:14:57.830 --> 00:15:02.870 But you might ask, what will we eat during the seventh year since we are not allowed 00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:05.060 to plant or harvest crops that year? 00:15:06.290 --> 00:15:09.980 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year. 00:15:10.490 --> 00:15:13.880 So the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 00:15:14.690 --> 00:15:18.290 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating 00:15:18.290 --> 00:15:20.360 from the large crop of the sixth year. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:25.610 In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new 00:15:25.610 --> 00:15:28.040 crop is harvested in the ninth year. 00:15:29.780 --> 00:15:32.930 The land must never be sold on a permanent basis. 00:15:33.410 --> 00:15:35.330 For the land belongs to me. 00:15:36.140 --> 00:15:39.800 You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me. 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:45.080 With every purchase of land, you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. 00:15:45.830 --> 00:15:49.430 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to 00:15:49.435 --> 00:15:53.750 sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. 00:15:54.575 --> 00:15:58.025 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who 00:15:58.025 --> 00:16:02.465 sold it gets enough money to buy it back, he then has the right to 00:16:02.465 --> 00:16:04.145 redeem it from the one who bought it. 00:16:05.075 --> 00:16:08.315 The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.775 years until the next year of Jubilee. 00:16:11.585 --> 00:16:16.475 In this way, the original owner can then return to the land, but if the 00:16:16.475 --> 00:16:21.095 original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new 00:16:21.095 --> 00:16:23.255 owner until the next year of Jubilee. 00:16:24.470 --> 00:16:29.120 In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:30.890 they can return to their family land. 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.860 Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it 00:16:36.860 --> 00:16:39.290 back for a full year after its sale. 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:44.810 During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back, but if it 00:16:44.810 --> 00:16:48.410 is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the 00:16:48.410 --> 00:16:50.510 walled town cannot be reversed. 00:16:51.215 --> 00:16:53.735 It will become the permanent property of the buyer. 00:16:54.425 --> 00:16:59.285 It will not be returned to the original owner in the year of Jubilee, but 00:16:59.285 --> 00:17:04.205 a house in a village, a settlement without fortified walls will be treated 00:17:04.205 --> 00:17:05.795 like property in the countryside. 00:17:06.545 --> 00:17:11.075 Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the 00:17:11.075 --> 00:17:13.295 original owner in the year of Jubilee. 00:17:14.795 --> 00:17:19.595 The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within 00:17:19.595 --> 00:17:25.115 the towns allotted to them, and any property that is sold by the Levites, 00:17:25.445 --> 00:17:30.335 all houses within the Levitical towns must be returned in the year of Jubilee. 00:17:31.175 --> 00:17:35.315 After all the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the 00:17:35.315 --> 00:17:37.745 only property they own in all Israel. 00:17:38.615 --> 00:17:42.575 The open pasture land around the Levitical towns may never be sold. 00:17:43.115 --> 00:17:44.795 It is their permanent possession. 00:17:46.655 --> 00:17:49.505 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:17:49.655 --> 00:17:50.885 Thank you for joining us.