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Leviticus 22

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.

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"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, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.

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"`If a descendant of Aaron has an infectious skin disease or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

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or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.

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The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

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When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

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He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD.

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"`The priests are to keep my requirements so that they do not become guilty and die for treating them with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

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"`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.

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But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

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If a priest's daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions.

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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 house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat any of it.

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"`If anyone eats a sacred offering by mistake, he must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it.

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The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the LORD

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by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: `If any of you--either an Israelite or an alien living in Israel--presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

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you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.

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Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

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When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable.

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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 an offering made to the LORD by fire.

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You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow.

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You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land,

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and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.'"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made to the LORD by fire.

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Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

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"When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.

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It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the LORD.

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"Keep my commands and follow them. I am the LORD.

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Do not profane my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who makes you holy

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and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD."

Leviticus 23

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

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"`There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

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"`These are the LORD's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:

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The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

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On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

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For seven days present an offering made to the LORD by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.'"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

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He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

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On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect,

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together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil--an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma--and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

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You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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"`From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.

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Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

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From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.

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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--an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

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Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.

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The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest.

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On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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"`When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Say to the Israelites: `On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.

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Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire.'"

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire.

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Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

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Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people.

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I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day.

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You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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It is a sabbath of rest 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."

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Say to the Israelites: `On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.

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The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.

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For seven days present offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.

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("`These are the LORD's appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the LORD by fire--the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.

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These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD's Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.)

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"`So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest.

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On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

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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.

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Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths

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so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'"

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So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

Leviticus 24

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The LORD said to Moses,

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"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

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Outside the curtain of the Testimony 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 for the generations to come.

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The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.

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"Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.

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Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

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Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire.

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This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.

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It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire."

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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.

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The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)

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They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

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Then the LORD said to Moses:

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"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.

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Say to the Israelites: `If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible;

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anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

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"`If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death.

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Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution--life for life.

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If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

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fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.

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Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

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You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'"

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Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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