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Leviticus 23

    ²Say to the Israelites, The set feasts or appointed seasons of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, even My set feasts, are these:

    ³Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation or assembly by summons. You shall do no work on that day; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

    ⁴These are the set feasts or appointed seasons of the Lord, holy convocations you shall proclaim at their stated times:

    ⁵On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover.

    ⁶On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.^(A)

    ⁷On the first day you shall have a holy "calling together;" you shall do no servile or laborious work on that day.

    ⁸But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no servile or laborious work on that day.

    ⁹And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹⁰Tell the Israelites, When you have come into the land I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

    ¹¹And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, that you may be accepted; on the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it [before the Lord].

    ¹²You shall offer on the day when you wave the sheaf a male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord.

    ¹³Its cereal offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet, pleasing, and satisfying fragrance; and the drink offering of it [to be poured out] shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

    ¹⁴And you shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor green ears, until this same day when you have brought the offering of your God; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your houses.

    ¹⁵And you shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths; [seven full weeks] shall they be.

    ¹⁶Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.

    ¹⁷You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread to be waved, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven, for firstfruits to the Lord.

    ¹⁸And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs, a year old and without blemish, and one young bull and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their cereal offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

    ¹⁹Then you shall sacrifice one he-goat for a sin offering and two he-lambs, a year old, for a sacrifice of peace offering.

    ²⁰The priest shall wave the two lambs, together with the bread of the firstfruits, for a wave offering before the Lord. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

    ²¹You shall make proclamation the same day, summoning a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work that day. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

    ²²And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

    ²³And the Lord said to Moses,

    ²⁴Say to the Israelites, On the first day of the seventh month [almost October], you shall observe a day of solemn [sabbatical] rest, a memorial day announced by blowing of trumpets, a holy [called] assembly.

    ²⁵You shall do no servile work on it, but you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    ²⁶And the Lord said to Moses,

    ²⁷Also the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy [called] assembly, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting in penitence and humility] and present an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    ²⁸And you shall do no work on this day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.

    ²⁹For whoever is not afflicted [by fasting in penitence and humility] on this day shall be cut off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].

    ³⁰And whoever does any work on that same day I will destroy from among his people.

    ³¹You shall do no kind of work [on that day]. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    ³²It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting in penitence and humility]. On the ninth day of the month from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath.

    ³³And the Lord said to Moses,

    ³⁴Say to the Israelites, The fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths to the Lord.

    ³⁵On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work on that day.

    ³⁶For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation and you shall present an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work on that day.

    ³⁷These are the set feasts or appointed seasons of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to present an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a cereal offering, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day.

    ³⁸This is in addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord and besides your gifts and all your vowed offerings and all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.

    ³⁹Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month [nearly October], when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days, the first day and the eighth day each a Sabbath.

    ⁴⁰And on the first day you shall take the fruit of pleasing trees [and make booths of them], branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick (leafy) trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

    ⁴¹You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year, a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

    ⁴²You shall dwell in booths (shelters) for seven days: All native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

    ⁴³That your generations may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

    ⁴⁴Thus Moses declared to the Israelites the set or appointed feasts of the Lord.

Leviticus 24

    ²Command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand] to cause a lamp to burn continually.

    ³Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy and the Most Holy Places] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

    ⁴He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually.^(B)

    ⁵And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake [of the showbread or bread of the Presence].

    ⁶And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold before the Lord.

    ⁷You shall put pure frankincense [in a bowl or spoon] beside each row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord.

    ⁸Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set the showbread in order before the Lord continually; it is on behalf of the Israelites, an everlasting covenant.

    ⁹And the bread shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for [Aaron] a most holy portion of the offerings to the Lord made by fire, a perpetual due [to the high priest].

    ¹⁰Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled and strove together in the camp.

    ¹¹The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. They brought him to Moses--his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

    ¹²And they put him in custody until the will of the Lord might be declared to them.

    ¹³And the Lord said to Moses,

    ¹⁴Bring him who has cursed out of the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

    ¹⁵And you shall say to the Israelites, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

    ¹⁶And he who blasphemes the Name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the stranger as well as he who was born in the land shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the Lord].

    ¹⁷And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

    ¹⁸And he who kills a beast shall make it good, beast for beast.

    ¹⁹And if a man causes a blemish or disfigurement on his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

    ²⁰Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish or disfigurement on a man, so shall it be done to him.^(C)

    ²¹He who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death.

    ²²You shall have the same law for the sojourner among you as for one of your own nationality, for I am the Lord your God.

    ²³Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Mark 1

    ^2[b]Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will make ready Your way--^(A)

    ³A voice of one crying in the wilderness [shouting in the desert], Prepare the way of the Lord, make His ^[c]beaten tracks straight (level and passable)!^(B)

    ⁴John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness (desert), preaching a baptism [^[d]obligating] repentance (^[e]a change of one's mind for the better, heartily amending one's ways, with abhorrence of his past sins) in order ^[f]to obtain forgiveness of and release from sins.

    ⁵And there kept going out to him [continuously] all the country of Judea and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, ^[g]as they were confessing their sins.

    ⁶And John wore clothing woven of camel's hair and had a leather girdle around his loins and ate locusts and wild honey.

    ⁷And he preached, saying, After me comes He Who is stronger (more powerful and more valiant) than I, the strap of Whose sandals I am not worthy or fit to stoop down and unloose.

    ⁸I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

    ⁹In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

    ¹⁰And when He came up out of the water, at once he [John] saw the heavens torn open and the [Holy] Spirit like a dove coming down [^[h]to enter] ^[i]into Him.^(C)

    ¹¹And there came a voice ^[j]out from within heaven, You are My Beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.^(D)

    ¹²Immediately the [Holy] Spirit [from within] drove Him out into the wilderness (desert),

    ¹³And He stayed in the wilderness (desert) forty days, being tempted [all the while] by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to Him [continually].

    ¹⁴Now after John was arrested and put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God,

    ¹⁵And saying, The [appointed period of] time is fulfilled (completed), and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent (^[k]have a change of mind which issues in regret for past sins and in change of conduct for the better) and believe (trust in, rely on, and adhere to) the good news (the Gospel).

    ¹⁶And passing along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon [Peter] and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net [to and fro] in the sea, for they were fishermen.

    ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, Come after Me and ^[l]be My disciples, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

    ¹⁸And at once they left their nets and [^[m]yielding up all claim to them] followed [with] Him [^[n]joining Him as disciples and siding with His party].

    ¹⁹He went on a little farther and saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in [their] boat putting their nets in order.

    ²⁰And immediately He called out to them, and [^[o]abandoning all mutual claims] they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after Him [^[p]to be His disciples, side with His party, and follow Him].

    ²¹And they entered into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He went into the synagogue and began to teach.

    ²²And they were completely astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching as One Who possessed authority, and not as the scribes.