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December 30, 2018

Leviticus 25:19 Leviticus 25:38

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat to be satisfied and dwell securely in it.

20 And if you should say, What shall we eat the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our produce?

21 Then I will command My blessing for you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for three years.

22 When you sow in the eighth year you will eat of the old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old produce.

23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is Mine; for with Me you are strangers and sojourners.

24 And in all the land of your possession you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his redeemer, the nearest relative, shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

26 But if a man does not have anyone to redeem it, but he obtains the means and finds it sufficient to redeem it,

27 Then let him calculate the years since its sale and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his possession.

28 But if he has not found sufficient means to restore it for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of the one who has purchased it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

29 And if anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it until the end of a year from its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

30 But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the one who purchased it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall all around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

32 As for the cities of the Levites, that is, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have the permanent right of redemption.

33 And what can be redeemed from the Levites, that is, a house that was sold in a city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

35 And if your brother becomes poor, and he is unable to support himself as he lives beside you, then you shall support him, like a stranger and a sojourner, so that he may live beside you.

36 Do not take any interest or gain from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live beside you.

37 You shall not give him your money at interest nor give him your food for gain.

38 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

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December 29, 2018

Leviticus 25:1 Leviticus 25:18

1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath to Jehovah.

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce;

4 But in the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to Jehovah; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

5 The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; the land shall have a year of complete rest.

6 And the Sabbath produce of the land shall be for food for you; for you and for your male slaves and for your female slaves, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who sojourns with you,

7 And for your cattle and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its produce be for food.

8 And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years to yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of seven Sabbaths of years, that is, forty-nine years.

9 Then you shall sound aloud the ram’s horn in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Expiation you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

10 And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow nor reap its aftergrowth nor gather from its unpruned vines.

12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce out of the field.

13 In this year of jubilee each one of you shall return to his possession.

14 And if you sell anything to your fellow countryman or buy from the hand of your fellow countryman, you shall not wrong one another.

15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your fellow countryman; according to the number of crop years remaining he shall sell to you.

16 According to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price; for it is the number of crop years that he sells to you.

17 And you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Jehovah your God.

18 Thus you shall observe My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances and observe them, so that you dwell securely in the land.

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December 28, 2018

Leviticus 24:1 Leviticus 24:23

1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Command the children of Israel to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.

3 Outside the veil of the testimony in the Tent of Meeting Aaron shall set it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

4 He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually.

5 And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6 And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before Jehovah.

7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, so that it may be a memorial for the bread, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the children of Israel.

9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy to him of Jehovah’s offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.

10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, who was also the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a certain Israelite struggled together in the camp.

11 And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed, and they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12 And they put him in custody so that it might be declared to them by the mouth of Jehovah.

13 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

14 Bring forth the one who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the assembly stone him.

15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Anyone who curses his God shall bear his sin.

16 And the one who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall surely be put to death; all the assembly shall surely stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

17 And anyone who takes the life of any human being shall surely be put to death.

18 And the one who takes the life of a beast shall make restitution for it, life for life.

19 And anyone who causes a blemish in his fellow countryman, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

20 A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; just as he has caused a blemish in a man, so it will be inflicted on him.

21 And one who kills a beast shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.

22 You shall have one judgment for the sojourner as well as for the native, for I am Jehovah your God.

23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

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December 27, 2018

Leviticus 23:23 Leviticus 23:44

23 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a complete rest, a memorial proclaimed by the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

25 You shall do no work of labor, but you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah.

26 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

27 And on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to Jehovah.

28 And you shall do no work on that same day, because it is a Day of Expiation, to make expiation on your behalf before Jehovah your God.

29 If there is any person who does not afflict himself on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

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

31 You shall do no work. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

33 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Jehovah.

35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

36 Seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no work of labor.

37 These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, burnt offerings and meal offerings, sacrifices of peace offerings, and drink offerings, each on its own day,

38 Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah and besides your gifts and besides all your vows and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to Jehovah.

39 Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day shall be a complete rest, and on the eighth day shall be a complete rest.

40 And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the product of stately trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God for seven days.

41 And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

42 You shall dwell in booths seven days – all who are native in Israel shall dwell in booths –

43 So that your descendants may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

44 And Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Jehovah.

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December 26, 2018

Leviticus 23:4 Leviticus 23:22

4 These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, even the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time:

5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Jehovah’s Passover,

6 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

8 But you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah seven days. On the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

9 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest;

11 And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to Jehovah.

13 And its meal offering shall be two- tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance. And its drink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

14 And you shall eat no bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

15 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath; from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.

16 You shall count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new meal offering to Jehovah.

17 You shall bring out of your dwelling places two loaves as a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as firstfruits to Jehovah.

18 And you shall present with the bread seven lambs, a year old without blemish, and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Jehovah with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.

19 And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs, a year old, for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Jehovah with the two lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.

21 And you shall make a proclamation on that same day; you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.

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