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Leviticus 23-24; Mark 1:1-22 (Contemporary English Version)

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Leviticus 23-24 Listen to this passage View commentary related to this passage Leviticus 23 Religious Festivals ¹The LORD told Moses ²to say to the community of Israel: I have chosen certain times for you to come together and worship me. ³You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change. The LORD said: Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread (Numbers 28.16-25) ^4-5Passover is another time when you must come together to worship me, and it must be celebrated on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month ^[a] of each year. ⁶The Festival of Thin Bread begins on the fifteenth day of that same month; it lasts seven days, and during this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast. ⁷On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship. ⁸Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship. Offering the First Part of the Harvest ⁹The LORD told Moses ¹⁰to say to the community of Israel: After you enter the land I am giving you, the first bundle of wheat from each crop must be given to me. So bring it to a priest ¹¹on the day after the Sabbath. He will lift it up ^[b] in dedication to me, and I will accept you. ¹²You must also offer a sacrifice to please me. ^[c] So bring the priest a one-year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it ¹³and four pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil. Then he will place these on the bronze altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. Together with these, you must bring a quart of wine as a drink offering. ¹⁴I am your God, and I forbid you to eat any new grain or anything made from it until you have brought these offerings. This law will never change. The LORD said: The Harvest Festival (Numbers 28.26-31) ¹⁵Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain. ¹⁶Do this exactly fifty days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath. ¹⁷Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up ^[d] in dedication to me. Each loaf is to be made with yeast and with four pounds of the finest flour from the first part of your harvest. ¹⁸At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. ^[e] You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal. ^[f] ¹⁹Offer a goat ^[g] as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing. ^[h] ²⁰The priest will lift up ^[i] the rams together with the bread in dedication to me. These offerings are holy and are my gift to the priest. ²¹This is a day of celebration and worship, a time of rest from your work. You and your descendants must obey this law. ²²When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing around the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the LORD your God! The Festival of Trumpets (Numbers 29.1-6) ²³The LORD told Moses ^24-25to say to the people of Israel: The first day of the seventh month ^[j] must be a day of complete rest. Then at the sound of the trumpets, you will come together to worship and to offer sacrifices on the altar. The Great Day of Forgiveness (Numbers 29.7-11) ²⁶The LORD God said to Moses: ²⁷The tenth day of the seventh month ^[k] is the Great Day of Forgiveness. ^[l] It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned. ²⁸No one is to work on that day--it is the Great Day of Forgiveness, when sacrifices will be offered to me, so that I will forgive your sins. ²⁹I will destroy anyone who refuses to go without eating. ^30-31None of my people are ever to do any work on that day--not now or in the future. And I will wipe out those who do! ³²This is a time of complete rest just like the Sabbath, and everyone must go without eating from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth. The Festival of Shelters (Numbers 29.12-40) ³³The LORD told Moses ³⁴to say to the community of Israel: Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^[m] and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honor of me. ³⁵No one is to do any work on the first day of the festival--it is a time when everyone must come together for worship. ³⁶For seven days, sacrifices must be offered on the altar. The eighth day is also to be a day of complete rest, as well as a time of offering sacrifices on the altar and of coming together for worship. ³⁷I have chosen these festivals as times when my people must come together for worship and when animals, grain, and wine are to be offered on the proper days. ³⁸These festivals must be celebrated in addition to the Sabbaths and the times when you offer special gifts or sacrifices to keep a promise or as a voluntary offering. ³⁹Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honor of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival. ⁴⁰Pick the best fruit from your trees ^[n] and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honor. ⁴¹I command you and all of your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year. ⁴²For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter, ⁴³so future generations will know that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. ⁴⁴This is how Moses instructed the people of Israel to celebrate the LORD's festivals. Leviticus 24 Caring for the Lamps (Exodus 27.20,21) ¹The LORD told Moses ²to say to the community of Israel: You must supply the purest olive oil for the lamps in the sacred tent, so they will keep burning. ^3-4Aaron will set up the gold lampstand in the holy place of the sacred tent. Then he will light the seven lamps that must be kept burning there in my presence, every night from now on. This law will never change. The Sacred Bread The LORD said: ⁵Use your finest flour to bake twelve loaves of bread about four pounds each, ⁶then take them into the sacred tent and lay them on the gold table in two rows of six loaves. ⁷Alongside each row put some pure incense that will be sent up by fire in place of the bread as an offering to me. ⁸Aaron must lay fresh loaves on the table each Sabbath, and priests in all generations must continue this practice as part of Israel's agreement with me. ⁹This bread will always belong to Aaron and his family; it is very holy because it was offered to me, and it must be eaten in a holy place. ^[o] Punishment for Cursing the LORD ^10-11Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan, had married an Egyptian, and they had a son. One day their son got into a fight with an Israelite man in camp and cursed the name of the LORD. So the young man was dragged off to Moses, ¹²who had him guarded while everyone waited for the LORD to tell them what to do. ¹³Finally, the LORD said to Moses: ¹⁴This man has cursed me! Take him outside the camp and have the witnesses lay their hands on his head. Then command the whole community of Israel to stone him to death. ^15-16And warn the others that everyone else who curses me will die in the same way, whether they are Israelites by birth or foreigners living among you. ¹⁷Death is also the penalty for murder, ¹⁸but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced. ¹⁹Personal injuries to others must be dealt with in keeping with the crime-- ²⁰a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. ²¹It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder. ²²I am the LORD your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you. ²³When Moses finished speaking, the people did what the LORD had told Moses, and they stoned to death the man who had cursed the LORD. Footnotes: Leviticus 23:4 first month: Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April. Leviticus 23:11 lift it up: See the note at 7.29,30. Leviticus 23:12 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. Leviticus 23:17 lifted up: See the note at 7.29,30. Leviticus 23:18 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3. Leviticus 23:18 proper grain. . . animal: See Numbers 15.1-16. Leviticus 23:19 goat: See the note at 1.1-3. Leviticus 23:19 sacrifice to ask my blessing: See the note at 3.1. Leviticus 23:20 lift up: See the note at 7.29,30. Leviticus 23:24 seventh month: See the note at 16.29. Leviticus 23:27 seventh month: See the note at 16.29. Leviticus 23:27 Great Day of Forgiveness: See the note at 16.34. Leviticus 23:34 seventh month: See the note at 16.29. Leviticus 23:40 best fruit from your trees: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. Leviticus 24:9 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17). Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
Mark 1:1-22 Listen to this passage View commentary related to this passage Mark 1 The Preaching of John the Baptist (Matthew 3.1-12; Luke 3.1-18; John 1.19-28) ¹This is the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ^[a] ²It began just as God had said in the book written by Isaiah the prophet, "I am sending my messenger to get the way ready for you. ³In the desert someone is shouting, `Get the road ready for the Lord! Make a straight path for him.' " ⁴So John the Baptist showed up in the desert and told everyone, "Turn back to God and be baptized! Then your sins will be forgiven." ⁵From all Judea and Jerusalem crowds of people went to John. They told how sorry they were for their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan River. ⁶John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey. ⁷John also told the people, "Someone more powerful is going to come. And I am not good enough even to stoop down and untie his sandals. ^[b] ⁸I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!" The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 3.21,22) ⁹About that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River. ¹⁰As soon as Jesus came out of the water, he saw the sky open and the Holy Spirit coming down to him like a dove. ¹¹A voice from heaven said, "You are my own dear Son, and I am pleased with you." Jesus and Satan (Matthew 4.1-11; Luke 4.1-13) ¹²Right away God's Spirit made Jesus go into the desert. ¹³He stayed there for forty days while Satan tested him. Jesus was with the wild animals, but angels took care of him. Jesus Begins His Work (Matthew 4.12-17; Luke 4.14,15) ¹⁴After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and told the good news that comes from God. ^[c] ¹⁵He said, "The time has come! God's kingdom will soon be here. ^[d] Turn back to God and believe the good news!" Jesus Chooses Four Fishermen (Matthew 4.18-22; Luke 5.1-11) ¹⁶As Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were fishermen and were casting their nets into the lake. ¹⁷Jesus said to them, "Come with me! I will teach you how to bring in people instead of fish." ¹⁸Right then the two brothers dropped their nets and went with him. ¹⁹Jesus walked on and soon saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat, mending their nets. ²⁰At once Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father in the boat with the hired workers and went with him. A Man with an Evil Spirit (Luke 4.31-37) ²¹Jesus and his disciples went to the town of Capernaum. Then on the next Sabbath he went into the Jewish meeting place and started teaching. ²²Everyone was amazed at his teaching. He taught with authority, and not like the teachers of the Law of Moses. Footnotes: Mark 1:1 the Son of God: These words are not in some manuscripts. Mark 1:7 untie his sandals: This was the duty of a slave. Mark 1:14 that comes from God: Or "that is about God." Mark 1:15 will soon be here: Or "is already here." Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society

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Leviticus 23-24

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Leviticus 23

Religious Festivals

¹The LORD told Moses ²to say to the community of Israel:

I have chosen certain times for you to come together and worship me.

³You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

The LORD said:

Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread

(Numbers 28.16-25)

^4-5Passover is another time when you must come together to worship me, and it must be celebrated on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month ^[a] of each year. ⁶The Festival of Thin Bread begins on the fifteenth day of that same month; it lasts seven days, and during this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast. ⁷On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship. ⁸Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.

Offering the First Part of the Harvest

⁹The LORD told Moses ¹⁰to say to the community of Israel:

After you enter the land I am giving you, the first bundle of wheat from each crop must be given to me. So bring it to a priest ¹¹on the day after the Sabbath. He will lift it up ^[b] in dedication to me, and I will accept you. ¹²You must also offer a sacrifice to please me. ^[c] So bring the priest a one-year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it ¹³and four pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil. Then he will place these on the bronze altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. Together with these, you must bring a quart of wine as a drink offering. ¹⁴I am your God, and I forbid you to eat any new grain or anything made from it until you have brought these offerings. This law will never change. The LORD said:

The Harvest Festival

(Numbers 28.26-31)

¹⁵Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain. ¹⁶Do this exactly fifty days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath. ¹⁷Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up ^[d] in dedication to me. Each loaf is to be made with yeast and with four pounds of the finest flour from the first part of your harvest. ¹⁸At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. ^[e] You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal. ^[f] ¹⁹Offer a goat ^[g] as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing. ^[h] ²⁰The priest will lift up ^[i] the rams together with the bread in dedication to me. These offerings are holy and are my gift to the priest. ²¹This is a day of celebration and worship, a time of rest from your work. You and your descendants must obey this law. ²²When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing around the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the LORD your God!

The Festival of Trumpets

(Numbers 29.1-6)

²³The LORD told Moses ^24-25to say to the people of Israel:

The first day of the seventh month ^[j] must be a day of complete rest. Then at the sound of the trumpets, you will come together to worship and to offer sacrifices on the altar.

The Great Day of Forgiveness

(Numbers 29.7-11)

²⁶The LORD God said to Moses:

²⁷The tenth day of the seventh month ^[k] is the Great Day of Forgiveness. ^[l] It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned. ²⁸No one is to work on that day--it is the Great Day of Forgiveness, when sacrifices will be offered to me, so that I will forgive your sins. ²⁹I will destroy anyone who refuses to go without eating. ^30-31None of my people are ever to do any work on that day--not now or in the future. And I will wipe out those who do! ³²This is a time of complete rest just like the Sabbath, and everyone must go without eating from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth.

The Festival of Shelters

(Numbers 29.12-40)

³³The LORD told Moses ³⁴to say to the community of Israel:

Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^[m] and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honor of me. ³⁵No one is to do any work on the first day of the festival--it is a time when everyone must come together for worship. ³⁶For seven days, sacrifices must be offered on the altar. The eighth day is also to be a day of complete rest, as well as a time of offering sacrifices on the altar and of coming together for worship. ³⁷I have chosen these festivals as times when my people must come together for worship and when animals, grain, and wine are to be offered on the proper days. ³⁸These festivals must be celebrated in addition to the Sabbaths and the times when you offer special gifts or sacrifices to keep a promise or as a voluntary offering.

³⁹Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honor of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival. ⁴⁰Pick the best fruit from your trees ^[n] and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honor. ⁴¹I command you and all of your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year. ⁴²For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter, ⁴³so future generations will know that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. ⁴⁴This is how Moses instructed the people of Israel to celebrate the LORD's festivals.

Leviticus 24

Caring for the Lamps

(Exodus 27.20,21)

¹The LORD told Moses ²to say to the community of Israel:

You must supply the purest olive oil for the lamps in the sacred tent, so they will keep burning. ^3-4Aaron will set up the gold lampstand in the holy place of the sacred tent. Then he will light the seven lamps that must be kept burning there in my presence, every night from now on. This law will never change.

The Sacred Bread

The LORD said:

⁵Use your finest flour to bake twelve loaves of bread about four pounds each, ⁶then take them into the sacred tent and lay them on the gold table in two rows of six loaves. ⁷Alongside each row put some pure incense that will be sent up by fire in place of the bread as an offering to me. ⁸Aaron must lay fresh loaves on the table each Sabbath, and priests in all generations must continue this practice as part of Israel's agreement with me. ⁹This bread will always belong to Aaron and his family; it is very holy because it was offered to me, and it must be eaten in a holy place. ^[o]

Punishment for Cursing the LORD

^10-11Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri from the tribe of Dan, had married an Egyptian, and they had a son. One day their son got into a fight with an Israelite man in camp and cursed the name of the LORD. So the young man was dragged off to Moses, ¹²who had him guarded while everyone waited for the LORD to tell them what to do.

¹³Finally, the LORD said to Moses:

¹⁴This man has cursed me! Take him outside the camp and have the witnesses lay their hands on his head. Then command the whole community of Israel to stone him to death. ^15-16And warn the others that everyone else who curses me will die in the same way, whether they are Israelites by birth or foreigners living among you.

¹⁷Death is also the penalty for murder, ¹⁸but the killing of an animal that belongs to someone else requires only that the animal be replaced. ¹⁹Personal injuries to others must be dealt with in keeping with the crime-- ²⁰a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. ²¹It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder. ²²I am the LORD your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.

²³When Moses finished speaking, the people did what the LORD had told Moses, and they stoned to death the man who had cursed the LORD.

Footnotes:

Leviticus 23:4 first month: Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.
Leviticus 23:11 lift it up: See the note at 7.29,30.
Leviticus 23:12 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.
Leviticus 23:17 lifted up: See the note at 7.29,30.
Leviticus 23:18 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.
Leviticus 23:18 proper grain. . . animal: See Numbers 15.1-16.
Leviticus 23:19 goat: See the note at 1.1-3.
Leviticus 23:19 sacrifice to ask my blessing: See the note at 3.1.
Leviticus 23:20 lift up: See the note at 7.29,30.
Leviticus 23:24 seventh month: See the note at 16.29.
Leviticus 23:27 seventh month: See the note at 16.29.
Leviticus 23:27 Great Day of Forgiveness: See the note at 16.34.
Leviticus 23:34 seventh month: See the note at 16.29.
Leviticus 23:40 best fruit from your trees: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Leviticus 24:9 holy place: The courtyard of the sacred tent (see 6.16,17).

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Mark 1:1-22

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Mark 1

The Preaching of John the Baptist

(Matthew 3.1-12; Luke 3.1-18; John 1.19-28)

¹This is the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ^[a] ²It began just as God had said in the book written by Isaiah the prophet,

"I am sending my messenger

to get the way ready

for you.

³In the desert

someone is shouting,

`Get the road ready

for the Lord!

Make a straight path

for him.' "

⁴So John the Baptist showed up in the desert and told everyone, "Turn back to God and be baptized! Then your sins will be forgiven."

⁵From all Judea and Jerusalem crowds of people went to John. They told how sorry they were for their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan River.

⁶John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

⁷John also told the people, "Someone more powerful is going to come. And I am not good enough even to stoop down and untie his sandals. ^[b] ⁸I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!"

The Baptism of Jesus

(Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 3.21,22)

⁹About that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River. ¹⁰As soon as Jesus came out of the water, he saw the sky open and the Holy Spirit coming down to him like a dove. ¹¹A voice from heaven said, "You are my own dear Son, and I am pleased with you."

Jesus and Satan

(Matthew 4.1-11; Luke 4.1-13)

¹²Right away God's Spirit made Jesus go into the desert. ¹³He stayed there for forty days while Satan tested him. Jesus was with the wild animals, but angels took care of him.

Jesus Begins His Work

(Matthew 4.12-17; Luke 4.14,15)

¹⁴After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and told the good news that comes from God. ^[c] ¹⁵He said, "The time has come! God's kingdom will soon be here. ^[d] Turn back to God and believe the good news!"

Jesus Chooses Four Fishermen

(Matthew 4.18-22; Luke 5.1-11)

¹⁶As Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were fishermen and were casting their nets into the lake. ¹⁷Jesus said to them, "Come with me! I will teach you how to bring in people instead of fish." ¹⁸Right then the two brothers dropped their nets and went with him.

¹⁹Jesus walked on and soon saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat, mending their nets. ²⁰At once Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father in the boat with the hired workers and went with him.

A Man with an Evil Spirit

(Luke 4.31-37)

²¹Jesus and his disciples went to the town of Capernaum. Then on the next Sabbath he went into the Jewish meeting place and started teaching. ²²Everyone was amazed at his teaching. He taught with authority, and not like the teachers of the Law of Moses.

Footnotes:

Mark 1:1 the Son of God: These words are not in some manuscripts.
Mark 1:7 untie his sandals: This was the duty of a slave.
Mark 1:14 that comes from God: Or "that is about God."
Mark 1:15 will soon be here: Or "is already here."

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Leviticus 23-24; Mark 1:1-22 (Contemporary English Version)

Leviticus 23

Religious Festivals

Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread

(Numbers 28.16-25)

Offering the First Part of the Harvest

The Harvest Festival

(Numbers 28.26-31)

The Festival of Trumpets

(Numbers 29.1-6)

The Great Day of Forgiveness

(Numbers 29.7-11)

The Festival of Shelters

(Numbers 29.12-40)

Leviticus 24

Caring for the Lamps

(Exodus 27.20,21)

The Sacred Bread

The LORD said:

Punishment for Cursing the LORD

Mark 1

The Preaching of John the Baptist

(Matthew 3.1-12; Luke 3.1-18; John 1.19-28)

The Baptism of Jesus

(Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 3.21,22)

Jesus and Satan

(Matthew 4.1-11; Luke 4.1-13)

Jesus Begins His Work

(Matthew 4.12-17; Luke 4.14,15)

Jesus Chooses Four Fishermen

(Matthew 4.18-22; Luke 5.1-11)

A Man with an Evil Spirit

(Luke 4.31-37)