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Leviticus 25

Leviticus 25:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 25:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when you come into the land that I give you, the land will keep a Sabbath to Yahveh.

Leviticus 25:3 For six years you will plant your field, and for six years you will prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,

Leviticus 25:4 but in the seventh year there will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahveh. You will not plant your field or prune your vineyard.

Leviticus 25:5 You will not reap what grows of itself in your harvest or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land.

Leviticus 25:6 The Sabbath of the land will provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the guest who lives with you,

Leviticus 25:7 and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield will be for food.

Leviticus 25:8 “You will count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years will give you forty-nine years.

Leviticus 25:9 Then you will sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Reconciliations, you will sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

Leviticus 25:10 And you will consecrate the fiftieth year and cry out “liberty” throughout the land to all those who stay there. It will be a liberation for you, when each of you return to his property and each of you will return to his clan.

Leviticus 25:11 That fiftieth year will be a liberation for you; in it you will neither plant nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

Leviticus 25:12 Because it is a liberation. It will be sacred to you. You may eat the produce of the field.

Leviticus 25:13 “In this year of liberation each of you will return to his property.

Leviticus 25:14 And if you make a sale to your associate or buy from your associate, you will not wrong one another.

Leviticus 25:15 You will pay your associate according to the number of years after the liberation, and he will sell to you according to the number of years for crops.

Leviticus 25:16 If the years are many, you will increase the price, and if the years are few, you will reduce the price, because it is actually the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

Leviticus 25:17 You will not oppress — a man against his associate, but you will fear your God, because I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 25:18 “Therefore you will do my prescriptions and keep my judgments and perform them, and then you will stay in the land securely.

Leviticus 25:19 The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and stay in it securely.

Leviticus 25:20 And if you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year, noticing we may not plant or gather in our crop?’

Leviticus 25:21 I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

Leviticus 25:22 When you plant in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you will eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

Leviticus 25:23 “The land will not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is mine. Because you are guests and temporary residents with me.

Leviticus 25:24 And in all the country you possess, you will allow a redemption of the land.

Leviticus 25:25 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer will come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Leviticus 25:26 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

Leviticus 25:27 let him figure out 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.

Leviticus 25:28 But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold will remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of liberation. In the liberation it will be released, and he will return to his property.

Leviticus 25:29 “If a man sells a house where he stays in a walled city, he may redeem it until a year is finished.[1] For a full year he will have the right of redemption.

Leviticus 25:30 If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it will not be released in the liberation.

Leviticus 25:31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they will be released in the liberation.

Leviticus 25:32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem permanently the houses in the cities they possess.

Leviticus 25:33 And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess will be released in the liberation. Because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

Leviticus 25:34 But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, because that is their possession permanently.

Leviticus 25:35 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you will make him strong[2] as though he were a foreign guest and a temporary resident, and he will live with you.

Leviticus 25:36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Leviticus 25:37 You will not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Leviticus 25:38 I am Yahveh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

Leviticus 25:39 “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you will not make him serve as a slave:

Leviticus 25:40 he will be with you as a hired worker and as a temporary resident. He will serve with you until the year of the liberation.

Leviticus 25:41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

Leviticus 25:42 Because they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they will not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:43 You will not judgment over him ruthlessly but will fear your God.

Leviticus 25:44 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.

Leviticus 25:45 You may also buy from among the temporary residents who are guests with you and their clans that are with you, who have been given birth to in your land, and they may be your property.

Leviticus 25:46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a permanent possession. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you will not judgment, one over another ruthlessly.

Leviticus 25:47 “If a stranger or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the foreign guest or temporary resident with you or to a member of the temporary resident’s clan,

Leviticus 25:48 then after he is sold, he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Leviticus 25:49 or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or an actual close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich, he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:50 He will figure out with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of liberation, and the price of his sale will vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner will be rated as the time of a hired worker.

Leviticus 25:51 If there are still many years left, he will pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.

Leviticus 25:52 If there remain but a few years until the year of liberation, he will figure it out and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

Leviticus 25:53 He will treat him as a worker hired year by year. He will not judgment ruthlessly over him in your sight.

Leviticus 25:54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him will be released in the year of liberation.

Leviticus 25:55 Because it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahveh your God.

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[1] תָּמַם = finish. Leviticus 25:29; 26:20.

[2] חָזָק= make strong.

Leviticus 25 quotes:

“The Day of Atonement is an annual holiday, but Leviticus stipulates that every 49 years, the sound of the shofar on the Day of Atonement marks the beginning of a Year of Jubilee.”

Lawrenz, Mel. Jubilee : A Season of Spiritual Renewal. Regal Books, 2008. p. 75.

“Studying Leviticus 25 and related scripture texts, especially the fourth chapter of Luke’s Gospel and the sixty-first chapter of Isaiah, and reading contemporary commentators on Jubilee, I have become convinced that Jubilee provides avenues for educating religiously and interreligiously and that instead of being an obsolete set of pathways belonging exclusively to an ancient people who never really tried them (as some argue), it is — or can be — a richly textured, vital response to the challenges of our era and the complex issues of contemporary life.”

Harris, Maria. Proclaim Jubilee! : A Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century. 1st ed, Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. p. 2.

“But it was more than just a rest for the land, for everyone was to return tothe property that by heredity belonged to their family (Leviticus 25:10). The implications of this were profound. To make it possible for everyone to be able to return to their original homesteads, all indebtedness had to be removed. Thus, every fifty years the economic structures of the community _ were to be adjusted so that there would be no debts or capital loans…”

March, W. Eugene. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Abingdon Press, 2012. p.65.

Leviticus 25 links:

a hand up and out
abundant grace
brothers yet to be liberated
freedom and fairness
hope of recovery
identifying with God
law abuse
not over your brothers
Shenandoah
the sound of freedom

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Leviticus 23

Leviticus 23:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 23:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, these are the appointed feasts of Yahveh that you will convene as sacred conventions; they are my appointed feasts.

Leviticus 23:3 “Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a sacred convention. You will do no work. It is a Sabbath to Yahveh wherever you stay.

Leviticus 23:4 “These are the appointed feasts of Yahveh, the sacred conventions, which you will convene at the time appointed for them.

Leviticus 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Yahveh’s Passover.

Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahveh; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you will have a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:8 But you will present a fire offering to Yahveh for seven days. On the seventh day is a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.”

Leviticus 23:9 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you will bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,

Leviticus 23:11 and he will wave the sheaf to Yahveh’s face, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest will wave it.

Leviticus 23:12 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you will offer a perfect male lamb a year old as an ascending offering to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:13 And the tribute offering with it will be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Yahveh with a pacifying aroma, and the drink offering with it will be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

Leviticus 23:14 And you will eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a permanent prescription throughout your generations wherever you stay.

Leviticus 23:15 “You will count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.

Leviticus 23:16 You will count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you will present a new tribute offering to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:17 You will bring from wherever you stay two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They will be of fine flour, and they will be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:18 And you will present with the bread seven perfect lambs a year old, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They will be an ascending offering to Yahveh, with their tribute offering and their drink offerings, a fire offering with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:19 And you will offer one male goat for a failure offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice for healthy relationships.

Leviticus 23:20 And the priest will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering to Yahveh’s face, with the two lambs. They will be sacred to Yahveh for the priest.

Leviticus 23:21 And you will convene on the same day. You will hold a sacred convention. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a permanent prescription wherever you stay throughout your generations.

Leviticus 23:22 “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, nor will you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You will leave them for the poor and for the temporary resident: I am Yahveh your God.”

Leviticus 23:23 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a sacred convention.

Leviticus 23:25 You will not do any ordinary work, and you will present a fire offering to Yahveh.”

Leviticus 23:26 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 23:27 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Reconciliations. It will be for you a time of sacred convention, and you will discipline your throats and present a food offering to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:28 And you will not do any work on that very day, because it is a Day of Reconciliations, to provide reconciliation for you to your God Yahveh’s face.

Leviticus 23:29 Because every throat who is not disciplined on that very day will be eliminated from his people.

Leviticus 23:30 And every throat who does any work on that very day, that throat I will destroy from among his people.

Leviticus 23:31 You will not do any work. It is a permanent prescription throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

Leviticus 23:32 It will be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you will discipline your throats. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening will you keep your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 23:33 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 23:34 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Huts[1] to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:35 On the first day will be a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:36 For seven days you will present fire offerings to Yahveh. On the eighth day you will hold a sacred convention and present a fire offering to Yahveh. It is a solemn assembly; you will not do any ordinary work.

Leviticus 23:37 “These are the appointed feasts of Yahveh, which you will convene as times of sacred convention, for presenting to Yahveh food offerings, ascending offerings and tribute offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,

Leviticus 23:38 besides Yahveh’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your solemn pledge offerings and besides all your spontaneous voluntary offerings, which you give to Yahveh.

Leviticus 23:39 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you will celebrate the feast of Yahveh seven days. On the first day will be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest.

Leviticus 23:40 And you will 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 you will rejoice to Yahveh your God’s face seven days.

Leviticus 23:41 You will celebrate it as a feast to Yahveh for seven days in the year. It is a permanent prescription throughout your generations; you will celebrate it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 23:42 You will stay in huts for seven days. All native Israelites will stay in huts,

Leviticus 23:43 that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel stay in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahveh your God.”

Leviticus 23:44 Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahveh.

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[1] סֻכָּה = hut. Leviticus 23:34, 42, 43.

Leviticus 23 quotes:

“Jesus is the center of each feast. In Him each feast finds its completion.”

Olsen, Ellyn. God’s Blueprint for Mankind : As Revealed in the Feasts of the Lord. Bless Israel Today, 1983. p. 22.

“The seven feasts of Leviticus 23 present a picture of the orderly chronology of events from Calvary to the millennium.”

Coulson Shepherd. Jewish holy days. Loizeaux Bros., 1961. p. 24.

“Moedim – Literally “appointments” in Hebrew from Leviticus 23:2. These appointments were the scheduled times to appear before the Lord for worship and sacrifices. The feasts of Israel from Leviticus 23 were God’s appointed times.”

Nadler, Sam. Feasts of the Bible. Participant Guide. Rose Publishing, 2011. p. 12.

“The annual feasts were a major part of the Israelites’ life in the Old Testament. In just this chapter in Leviticus, the feasts are referred to as “appointed feasts” and “holy convocations,” words that indicate these were sacred days intended to express devotion to God. They were appointments on Jehovah’s annual calendar when Israel was offered the privilege of meeting with their God. They were also memorial feasts intended to prompt Israel’s memory of all the Lord had done for them.”

Pyle, Debbie. The Lord’s Feasts. Crossbooks, 2010. p. 1.

Leviticus 23 links:

celebrating the temporary
devotion and time
national deliverance
Perish the thought
rescue and rest
self-sovereignty
sustenance
that your generations may know
up time
with blast of trumpets

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, April 6, 2023

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LEVITICUS in Jeff’s library

Leviticus 22

Leviticus 22:1 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 22:2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the sacred things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my sacred name: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 22:3 Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the sacred things that the people of Israel dedicate to Yahveh, while he has a contamination, that throat will be eliminated from my face: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 22:4 None of the offspring of Aaron who has a rash or a discharge may eat of the sacred things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is contaminated through contact with a dead throat or a man who has had an emission of semen,

Leviticus 22:5 and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made contaminated or a human from whom he may take contamination, whatever his contamination may be —

Leviticus 22:6 the throat who touches such a thing will be contaminated until the evening and will not eat of the sacred things unless he has bathed his body in water.

Leviticus 22:7 When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and afterward he may eat of the sacred things, because they are his food.

Leviticus 22:8 He will not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself contaminated by it: I am Yahveh.’

Leviticus 22:9 They will therefore keep my charge, or else they will be responsible for making a mistake against it and die thereby when they profane it: I am Yahveh who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 22:10 “A lay person will not eat of a sacred thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker will eat of a sacred thing,

Leviticus 22:11 but if a priest buys a throat as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

Leviticus 22:12 If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she will not eat of the contribution of the sacred things.

Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no lay person will eat of it.

Leviticus 22:14 And if anyone eats of a sacred thing unintentionally, he will add the fifth of its value to it and give the sacred thing to the priest.

Leviticus 22:15 They will not profane the sacred things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to Yahveh,

Leviticus 22:16 and so cause them to be responsible for violation and need reparation, by eating their sacred things: because I am Yahveh who sanctifies them.”

Leviticus 22:17 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 22:18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, when any one from the house of Israel or from the temporary residents in Israel presents an ascending offering as his offering, for any of their solemn pledges or spontaneous voluntary offerings that they offer to Yahveh,

Leviticus 22:19 if it is to be accepted for you it will be a perfect male, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.

Leviticus 22:20 You will not offer anything that has a defect, because it will not be acceptable for you.

Leviticus 22:21 And when anyone offers a sacrifice for healthy relationships to Yahveh to fulfil a solemn pledge or as a spontaneous voluntary offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there will be no defect in it.

Leviticus 22:22 Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you will not offer to Yahveh or give them to Yahveh as a fire offering on the altar.

Leviticus 22:23 You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a spontaneous voluntary offering, but for a solemn pledge offering it cannot be accepted.

Leviticus 22:24 Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you will not offer to Yahveh; you will not do it within your land,

Leviticus 22:25 neither will you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. since there is a defect in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

Leviticus 22:26 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 22:27 “When an ox or sheep or goat is given birth to, it will remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it will be acceptable as a fire offering to Yahveh.

Leviticus 22:28 But you will not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day.

Leviticus 22:29 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahveh, you will sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

Leviticus 22:30 It will be eaten on the same day; you will leave none of it until morning: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 22:31 “So you will keep my commandments and do them: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 22:32 And you will not profane my sacred name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am Yahveh who sanctifies you,

Leviticus 22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am Yahveh.”

Leviticus 22 quotes:

“Leviticus 22:17-33. These instructions are grounded in the relationship or covenant between God and God’s people and in the commandments given to Moses. They have the authority of God’s law. The Scripture is part of the Holiness Code (17:1-26:46), which is concerned not only with the purity of the sanctuary and the activity of priests (“Aaron and his sons,” 22:18) but also with the holiness_ of those within the boundaries of Israel (“all the people of Israel . … [and] aliens residing in Israel,” 22:18). The text concerns several different kinds of sacrifices and offerings.”

Duerling, Nan, editor. The New International Lesson Annual September 2015 – August 2016. Abingdon Pr, 2015. p. 168.

“Leviticus 22:1—9 describes the circumstances under which priests could not eat the holy food, or offerings. The main reason for such exclusion was uncleanness of the type mentioned in Leviticus 11-15. Any priest made temporarily or permanently unclean was excluded, and anyone who broke this law was to be executed (22:9). God’s means for securing forgiveness could not be treated as if it were merely a priest’s meal ticket.”

House, Paul R. Leviticus/Numbers. Broadman & Holman, 1999. p. 44.

“Early Jewish commentaries on the Scriptures provide insights into how biblical passages were interpreted during the New Testament era. Hence it can be illuminating to read the midrash (commentary) on the verse, “And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the people of Israel” (Leviticus 22:32). Israel’s sages interpreted this verse to mean that one must be willing to sacrifice his life for his faith! “One should not understand literally, ‘Do not profane,’ but rather, ‘Sanctify’ — and when He said, ‘I will be hallowed’—it means deliver yourself over and sanctify my name.”” The focus of this passage is on those who would suffer martyrdom for their righteous way of life and thereby sanctify God’s name by their example.”

Young, Brad. The Jewish Background to the Lord’s Prayer. Center for Judaic-Christian Studies, 1984. p. 8.

Leviticus 22 links:

consecration, not cruelty
devotion and defiled offerings
holy contributions
making the sacred mundane
mutual sanctification
only the best
when the sun goes down

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LEVITICUS in Jeff’s library