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Leviticus 22-26
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22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they (A)abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they (B)dedicate to me, so that they do not (C)profane my holy name: I am the Lord. 3 Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while (D)he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. 4 None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a (E)discharge may eat of the holy things (F)until he is clean. (G)Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or (H)a man who has had an emission of semen, 5 and (I)whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or (J)a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be— 6 the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has (K)bathed his body in water. 7 When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because (L)they are his food. 8 (M)He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’ 9 They shall therefore keep my charge, (N)lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: (O)I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

10 (P)“A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing, 11 but if a priest buys a slave[a] as his property for money, the slave[b] may eat of it, and (Q)anyone born in his house may eat of his food. 12 If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things. 13 But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and (R)returns to her father's house, (S)as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it. 14 (T)And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add (U)the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest. 15 They (V)shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord, 16 and so cause them (W)to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: (X)for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

Acceptable Offerings

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, (Y)When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord, 19 if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a (Z)male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats. 20 (AA)You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you. 21 And when anyone (AB)offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord (AC)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it. 22 Animals (AD)blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or (AE)an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food (AF)offering on the altar. 23 You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part (AG)too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted. 24 Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the Lord; you shall not do it within your land, 25 neither shall you offer as (AH)the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a (AI)blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 27 (AJ)“When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord. 28 But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep (AK)and her young in one day. 29 And when you sacrifice a (AL)sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 30 It shall be eaten on the same day; (AM)you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the Lord.

31 (AN)“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord. 32 (AO)And you shall not profane my holy name, that (AP)I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. (AQ)I am the Lord who sanctifies you, 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt (AR)to be your God: I am the Lord.”

Feasts of the Lord

23 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, (AS)These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall (AT)proclaim as (AU)holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.

The Sabbath

3 (AV)“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.

The Passover

4 (AW)“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the (AX)holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. 5 (AY)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight,[c] is the Lord's Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 (AZ)On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 8 But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”

The Feast of Firstfruits

9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, (BA)When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of (BB)the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, 11 and he shall (BC)wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And on the day when you (BD)wave the sheaf, you shall offer a (BE)male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 (BF)And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah[d] of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, (BG)and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.[e] 14 And you shall eat neither bread nor grain (BH)parched or (BI)fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Feast of Weeks

15 (BJ)“You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the (BK)wave offering. 16 You shall count (BL)fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of (BM)new grain to the Lord. 17 You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as (BN)firstfruits to the Lord. 18 And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19 And you shall offer one (BO)male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of (BP)peace offerings. 20 And the priest shall (BQ)wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. (BR)They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21 And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

22 “And (BS)when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

The Feast of Trumpets

23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In (BT)the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, (BU)a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.”

The Day of Atonement

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “Now (BV)on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves[f] and present a food offering to the Lord. 28 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. 29 For whoever is not afflicted[g] on that very day (BW)shall be cut off from his people. 30 And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31 You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”

The Feast of Booths

33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, (BX)On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths[h] to the Lord. 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 36 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. (BY)On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a (BZ)solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.

37 (CA)“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, 38 (CB)besides the Lord's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.

39 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have (CC)gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40 And (CD)you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and (CE)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 41 (CF)You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 (CG)You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43 that (CH)your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

44 Thus Moses (CI)declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord.

The Lamps

24 (CJ)The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 He shall arrange the lamps on the (CK)lampstand of pure gold[i] before the Lord regularly.

Bread for the Tabernacle

5 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve (CL)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah[j] shall be in each loaf. 6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, (CM)on the table of pure gold[k] before the Lord. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. 8 (CN)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. 9 And (CO)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and (CP)they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due.”

Punishment for Blasphemy

10 Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, 11 and the Israelite woman's son (CQ)blasphemed the (CR)Name, and cursed. Then they (CS)brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 And (CT)they put him in custody, (CU)till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.

13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 14 (CV)“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him (CW)lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15 And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall (CX)bear his sin. 16 Whoever (CY)blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

17 (CZ)“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. 18 (DA)Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. 19 If anyone injures his neighbor, (DB)as he has done it shall be done to him, 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. 21 (DC)Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, (DD)and whoever kills a person shall be put to death. 22 You shall have the (DE)same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.” 23 So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and (DF)they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Sabbath Year

25 (DG)The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into (DH)the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5 (DI)You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 The Sabbath of the land[l] shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves[m] and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, 7 and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: (DJ)all its yield shall be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

8 “You shall count seven weeks[n] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound (DK)the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. (DL)On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and (DM)proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of (DN)you shall return to his clan. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it (DO)you shall neither sow nor reap (DP)what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. (DQ)You may eat the produce of the field.[o]

13 (DR)“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14 And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, (DS)you shall not wrong one another. 15 (DT)You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 16 If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17 (DU)You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

18 (DV)“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then (DW)you will dwell in the land securely. 19 (DX)The land will yield its fruit, and (DY)you will eat your fill (DZ)and dwell in it securely. 20 And if you say, (EA)‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if (EB)we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ 21 I will (EC)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22 (ED)When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of (EE)the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

Redemption of Property

23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for (EF)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

25 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, (EG)then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27 let (EH)him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. 28 But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall (EI)be released, and (EJ)he shall return to his property.

29 “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30 If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; (EK)it shall not be released in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and (EL)they shall be released in the jubilee. 32 As for (EM)the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. 33 And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. 34 But the fields (EN)of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

Kindness for Poor Brothers

35 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, (EO)you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 (EP)Take no interest from him or profit, but (EQ)fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 (ER)You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 (ES)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39 (ET)“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40 he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 (EU)Then he shall go out from you, (EV)he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return (EW)to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are (EX)my servants,[p] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43 (EY)You shall not rule over him (EZ)ruthlessly but (FA)shall fear your God. 44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 45 (FB)You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel (FC)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Redeeming a Poor Man

47 “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and (FD)your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan, 48 then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49 or his uncle or his cousin may (FE)redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he (FF)grows rich he may redeem himself. 50 He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be (FG)rated as the time of a hired worker. 51 If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. 52 If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. 53 He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. (FH)He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then (FI)he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. 55 For it is (FJ)to me that the people of Israel are servants.[q] They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Blessings for Obedience

26 “You shall not make (FK)idols for yourselves or erect an (FL)image or (FM)pillar, and you shall not set up a (FN)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 (FO)You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 (FP)“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then (FQ)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 (FR)Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And (FS)you shall eat your bread to the full and (FT)dwell in your land securely. 6 (FU)I will give peace in the land, and (FV)you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And (FW)I will remove harmful beasts from the land, (FX)and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 (FY)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 (FZ)I will turn to you and (GA)make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat (GB)old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 (GC)I will make my dwelling[r] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 (GD)And I (GE)will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 (GF)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. (GG)And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 (GH)“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (GI)break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (GJ)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (GK)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will (GL)set my face against you, and (GM)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (GN)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (GO)you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again (GP)sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break (GQ)the pride of your power, and I (GR)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And (GS)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (GT)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 (GU)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And (GV)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (GW)your roads shall be deserted.

23 “And (GX)if by this discipline you are not turned to me (GY)but walk contrary to me, 24 (GZ)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And (HA)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (HB)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 (HC)When I break your supply[s] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (HD)you shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But (HE)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you (HF)in fury, and I myself will discipline you (HG)sevenfold for your sins. 29 (HH)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And (HI)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (HJ)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will (HK)lay your cities waste and will (HL)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (HM)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (HN)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (HO)appalled at it. 33 And (HP)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 (HQ)“Then the land shall enjoy[t] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, (HR)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (HS)sound of a (HT)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (HU)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall (HV)rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if (HW)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (HX)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (HY)uncircumcised heart is (HZ)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (IA)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (IB)remember the land. 43 But (IC)the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (ID)I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and (IE)break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, (IF)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (IG)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 (IH)These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses (II)on Mount Sinai.

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 22:11 Or servant; twice in this verse
  2. Leviticus 22:11 Hebrew he
  3. Leviticus 23:5 Hebrew between the two evenings
  4. Leviticus 23:13 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
  5. Leviticus 23:13 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
  6. Leviticus 23:27 Or shall fast; also verse 32
  7. Leviticus 23:29 Or is not fasting
  8. Leviticus 23:34 Or Tabernacles
  9. Leviticus 24:4 Hebrew the pure lampstand
  10. Leviticus 24:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
  11. Leviticus 24:6 Hebrew the pure table
  12. Leviticus 25:6 That is, the Sabbath produce of the land
  13. Leviticus 25:6 Or servants
  14. Leviticus 25:8 Or Sabbaths
  15. Leviticus 25:12 Or countryside
  16. Leviticus 25:42 Hebrew slaves
  17. Leviticus 25:55 Or slaves
  18. Leviticus 26:11 Hebrew tabernacle
  19. Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
  20. Leviticus 26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43
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Leviticus 22-26
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22 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings(A) the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name.(B) I am the Lord.(C)

3 “Say to them: ‘For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord,(D) that person must be cut off from my presence.(E) I am the Lord.

4 “‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[a] or a bodily discharge,(F) he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse(G) or by anyone who has an emission of semen, 5 or if he touches any crawling thing(H) that makes him unclean, or any person(I) who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. 6 The one who touches any such thing will be unclean(J) till evening.(K) He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.(L) 7 When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.(M) 8 He must not eat anything found dead(N) or torn by wild animals,(O) and so become unclean(P) through it. I am the Lord.(Q)

9 “‘The priests are to perform my service(R) in such a way that they do not become guilty(S) and die(T) for treating it with contempt. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.(U)

10 “‘No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.(V) 11 But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.(W) 12 If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. 13 But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

14 “‘Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake(X) must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value(Y) to it. 15 The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings(Z) the Israelites present to the Lord(AA) 16 by allowing them to eat(AB) the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt(AC) requiring payment.(AD) I am the Lord, who makes them holy.(AE)’”

Unacceptable Sacrifices

17 The Lord said to Moses, 18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you—whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel(AF)—presents a gift(AG) for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow(AH) or as a freewill offering,(AI) 19 you must present a male without defect(AJ) from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.(AK) 20 Do not bring anything with a defect,(AL) because it will not be accepted on your behalf.(AM) 21 When anyone brings from the herd or flock(AN) a fellowship offering(AO) to the Lord to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering,(AP) it must be without defect or blemish(AQ) to be acceptable.(AR) 22 Do not offer to the Lord the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. 23 You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox[b] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. 24 You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut.(AS) You must not do this in your own land, 25 and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God.(AT) They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.(AU)’”

26 The Lord said to Moses, 27 “When a calf, a lamb or a goat(AV) is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days.(AW) From the eighth day(AX) on, it will be acceptable(AY) as a food offering presented to the Lord. 28 Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.(AZ)

29 “When you sacrifice a thank offering(BA) to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. 30 It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning.(BB) I am the Lord.(BC)

31 “Keep(BD) my commands and follow them.(BE) I am the Lord. 32 Do not profane my holy name,(BF) for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites.(BG) I am the Lord, who made you holy(BH) 33 and who brought you out of Egypt(BI) to be your God.(BJ) I am the Lord.”

The Appointed Festivals

23 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals,(BK) the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.(BL)

The Sabbath

3 “‘There are six days when you may work,(BM) but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,(BN) a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;(BO) wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread(BP)

4 “‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:(BQ) 5 The Lord’s Passover(BR) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.(BS) 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread(BT) begins; for seven days(BU) you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly(BV) and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.(BW) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”

Offering the Firstfruits

9 The Lord said to Moses, 10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you(BX) and you reap its harvest,(BY) bring to the priest a sheaf(BZ) of the first grain you harvest.(CA) 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord(CB) so it will be accepted(CC) on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old(CD) without defect,(CE) 13 together with its grain offering(CF) of two-tenths of an ephah[c](CG) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering(CH) of a quarter of a hin[d] of wine.(CI) 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,(CJ) until the very day you bring this offering to your God.(CK) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,(CL) wherever you live.(CM)

The Festival of Weeks(CN)

15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath,(CO) and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. 17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah(CP) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits(CQ) to the Lord. 18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings(CR)—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. 19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering[e] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. 20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,(CS) together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest. 21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly(CT) and do no regular work.(CU) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

22 “‘When you reap the harvest(CV) of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.(CW) Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you.(CX) I am the Lord your God.’”

The Festival of Trumpets(CY)

23 The Lord said to Moses, 24 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly(CZ) commemorated with trumpet blasts.(DA) 25 Do no regular work,(DB) but present a food offering to the Lord.(DC)’”

The Day of Atonement(DD)

26 The Lord said to Moses, 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month(DE) is the Day of Atonement.(DF) Hold a sacred assembly(DG) and deny yourselves,[f] and present a food offering to the Lord. 28 Do not do any work(DH) on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. 29 Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.(DI) 30 I will destroy from among their people(DJ) anyone who does any work on that day. 31 You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance(DK) for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32 It is a day of sabbath rest(DL) for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”(DM)

The Festival of Tabernacles(DN)

33 The Lord said to Moses, 34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh(DO) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles(DP) begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly;(DQ) do no regular work.(DR) 36 For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly(DS) and present a food offering to the Lord.(DT) It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

37 (“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings(DU) required for each day. 38 These offerings(DV) are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths(DW) and[g] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings(DX) you give to the Lord.)

39 “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival(DY) to the Lord for seven days;(DZ) the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. 40 On the first day you are to take branches(EA) from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees(EB)—and rejoice(EC) before the Lord your God for seven days. 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Live in temporary shelters(ED) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters 43 so your descendants will know(EE) that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.

Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord(EF)

24 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3 Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance(EG) for the generations to come. 4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand(EH) before the Lord must be tended continually.

5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,(EI) using two-tenths of an ephah[h](EJ) for each loaf. 6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold(EK) before the Lord. 7 By each stack put some pure incense(EL) as a memorial[i] portion(EM) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. 8 This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,(EN) Sabbath after Sabbath,(EO) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons,(EP) who are to eat it in the sanctuary area,(EQ) because it is a most holy(ER) part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”

A Blasphemer Put to Death

10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name(ES) with a curse;(ET) so they brought him to Moses.(EU) (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)(EV) 12 They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.(EW)

13 Then the Lord said to Moses: 14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.(EX) 15 Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God(EY) will be held responsible;(EZ) 16 anyone who blasphemes(FA) the name of the Lord is to be put to death.(FB) The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

17 “‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.(FC) 18 Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution(FD)—life for life. 19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.(FE) The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. 21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution,(FF) but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.(FG) 22 You are to have the same law for the foreigner(FH) and the native-born.(FI) I am the Lord your God.’”

23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him.(FJ) The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Sabbath Year

25 The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,(FK) 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.(FL) 4 But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest,(FM) a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.(FN) 5 Do not reap what grows of itself(FO) or harvest the grapes(FP) of your untended vines.(FQ) The land is to have a year of rest. 6 Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year(FR) will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, 7 as well as for your livestock and the wild animals(FS) in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

The Year of Jubilee(FT)(FU)

8 “‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet(FV) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;(FW) on the Day of Atonement(FX) sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty(FY) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee(FZ) for you; each of you is to return to your family property(GA) and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee(GB) for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.(GC) 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee(GD) everyone is to return to their own property.

14 “‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.(GE) 15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years(GF) since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price,(GG) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17 Do not take advantage of each other,(GH) but fear your God.(GI) I am the Lord your God.(GJ)

18 “‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws,(GK) and you will live safely in the land.(GL) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit,(GM) and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.(GN) 20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year(GO) if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” 21 I will send you such a blessing(GP) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(GQ) 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.(GR)

23 “‘The land(GS) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(GT) and you reside in my land as foreigners(GU) and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption(GV) of the land.

25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(GW) is to come and redeem(GX) what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(GY) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(GZ) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.(HA) 28 But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned(HB) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.(HC)

29 “‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it. 30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. 31 But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

32 “‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns,(HD) which they possess. 33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. 34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.(HE)

35 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor(HF) and are unable to support themselves among you, help them(HG) as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interest(HH) or any profit from them, but fear your God,(HI) so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest(HJ) or sell them food at a profit. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan(HK) and to be your God.(HL)

39 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.(HM) 40 They are to be treated as hired workers(HN) or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property(HO) of their ancestors.(HP) 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt,(HQ) they must not be sold as slaves. 43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly,(HR) but fear your God.(HS)

44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

47 “‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves(HT) to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, 48 they retain the right of redemption(HU) after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives(HV) may redeem them: 49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper,(HW) they may redeem themselves. 50 They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee.(HX) The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker(HY) for that number of years. 51 If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.(HZ) 53 They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.(IA)

54 “‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, 55 for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt.(IB) I am the Lord your God.(IC)

Reward for Obedience

26 “‘Do not make idols(ID) or set up an image(IE) or a sacred stone(IF) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone(IG) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

2 “‘Observe my Sabbaths(IH) and have reverence for my sanctuary.(II) I am the Lord.

3 “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey(IJ) my commands, 4 I will send you rain(IK) in its season,(IL) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.(IM) 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(IN) and live in safety in your land.(IO)

6 “‘I will grant peace in the land,(IP) and you will lie down(IQ) and no one will make you afraid.(IR) I will remove wild beasts(IS) from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies,(IT) and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five(IU) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.(IV)

9 “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,(IW) and I will keep my covenant(IX) with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.(IY) 11 I will put my dwelling place[j](IZ) among you, and I will not abhor you.(JA) 12 I will walk(JB) among you and be your God,(JC) and you will be my people.(JD) 13 I am the Lord your God,(JE) who brought you out of Egypt(JF) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(JG) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(JH) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(JI) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(JJ) 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(JK) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(JL) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(JM) 17 I will set my face(JN) against you so that you will be defeated(JO) by your enemies;(JP) those who hate you will rule over you,(JQ) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.(JR)

18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(JS) I will punish(JT) you for your sins seven times over.(JU) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(JV) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(JW) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(JX) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(JY)

21 “‘If you remain hostile(JZ) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,(KA) as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals(KB) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(KC) in number that your roads will be deserted.(KD)

23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction(KE) but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile(KF) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword(KG) on you to avenge(KH) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(KI) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(KJ) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me(KK) but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger(KL) I will be hostile(KM) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.(KN) 29 You will eat(KO) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(KP) 30 I will destroy your high places,(KQ) cut down your incense altars(KR) and pile your dead bodies[k] on the lifeless forms of your idols,(KS) and I will abhor(KT) you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins(KU) and lay waste(KV) your sanctuaries,(KW) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.(KX) 32 I myself will lay waste the land,(KY) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.(KZ) 33 I will scatter(LA) you among the nations(LB) and will draw out my sword(LC) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(LD) and your cities will lie in ruins.(LE) 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(LF) and you are in the country of your enemies;(LG) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(LH) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf(LI) will put them to flight.(LJ) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.(LK) 37 They will stumble over one another(LL) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.(LM) 38 You will perish(LN) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.(LO) 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’(LP) sins they will waste away.(LQ)

40 “‘But if they will confess(LR) their sins(LS) and the sins of their ancestors(LT)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(LU) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(LV) are humbled(LW) and they pay(LX) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(LY) and my covenant with Isaac(LZ) and my covenant with Abraham,(MA) and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted(MB) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected(MC) my laws and abhorred my decrees.(MD) 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,(ME) I will not reject them or abhor(MF) them so as to destroy them completely,(MG) breaking my covenant(MH) with them. I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember(MI) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt(MJ) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai(MK) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.(ML)

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 22:4 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
  2. Leviticus 22:23 The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.
  3. Leviticus 23:13 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verse 17
  4. Leviticus 23:13 That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter
  5. Leviticus 23:19 Or purification offering
  6. Leviticus 23:27 Or and fast; similarly in verses 29 and 32
  7. Leviticus 23:38 Or These festivals are in addition to the Lord’s Sabbaths, and these offerings are
  8. Leviticus 24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms
  9. Leviticus 24:7 Or representative
  10. Leviticus 26:11 Or my tabernacle
  11. Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings
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