LEVITICUS 23
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: These are the
appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations,
my appointed festivals.
3: Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a Sabbath of
complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a Sabbath to the
Lord throughout your settlements.
4: These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, the holy
convocations, which you shall celebrate at the time appointed for them
5: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at
twilight, there shall be a Passover offering to the Lord,
6: and on the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of unleavened
bread to the Lord; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7: On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not
work at your occupations.
8: For seven days you shall present the Lord's offerings by fire; on
the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall not work at your
occupations.
9: The Lord spoke to Moses:
10: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the
land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf
of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
11: He shall raise the sheaf before the Lord, that you may find acceptance;
on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall raise it.
12: On the day when you raise the sheaf, you shall offer a lamb a year old,
without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord.
13: And the grain offering with it shall be two-tenths of an ephah of choice
flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire of pleasing odour to the Lord; and
the drink offering with it shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.
14: You shall eat no bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that very
day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your settlements
15: And from the day after the Sabbath, from the day on which you
bring the sheaf of the elevation offering, you shall count off seven weeks;
they shall be complete.
16: You shall count until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty
days; then you shall present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
17: You shall bring from your settlements two loaves of bread as an
elevation offering, each made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of
choice flour, baked with leaven, as first fruits to the Lord.
18: You shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without
blemish, one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the
Lord, along with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by
fire of pleasing odour to the Lord.
19: You shall also offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male
lambs a year old as a sacrifice of well-being
20: The priest shall raise them with the bread of the first fruits as
an elevation offering before the Lord, together with the two lambs; they shall
be holy to the Lord for the priest.
21: On that same day you shall make proclamation; you shall hold a
holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations. This is a statute
forever in all your settlements throughout your generations
22: When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the
very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall
leave them for the poor and for the alien: I am the Lord your God.
23: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
24: Speak to the people of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on
the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of complete rest, a holy
convocation commemorated with trumpet blasts.
25: You shall not work at your occupations; and you shall present the
Lord's offering by fire.
26: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
27: Now, the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement;
it shall be a holy convocation for you: you shall deny yourselves and present
the Lord's offering by fire;
28: and you shall do no work during that entire day; for it is a day
of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.
29: For anyone who does not practice self-denial during that entire
day shall be cut off from the people.
30: And anyone who does any work during that entire day, such a one I
will destroy from the midst of the people.
31: You shall do no work: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your settlements.
32: It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall deny
yourselves; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening
you shall keep your Sabbath.
33: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
34: Speak to the people of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of
this seventh month, and lasting seven days, there shall be the festival of booths
to the Lord.
35: The first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not work at
your occupations.
36: Seven days you shall present the Lord's offerings by fire; on the
eighth day you shall observe a holy convocation and present the Lord's offerings
by fire; it is a solemn assembly; you shall not work at your occupations
37: These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you shall
celebrate as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord offerings by
fire—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each
on its proper day—
38: apart from the Sabbaths of the Lord, and apart from your gifts,
and apart from all your votive offerings, and apart from all your freewill
offerings, which you give to the Lord
39: Now, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have
gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the festival of the Lord,
lasting seven days; a complete rest on the first day, and a complete rest on
the eighth day.
40: On the first day you shall take the fruit of majestic trees,
branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and
you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
41: You shall keep it as a festival to the Lord seven days in the
year; you shall keep it in the seventh month as a statute forever throughout
your generations.
42: You shall live in booths for seven days; all that are citizens in
Israel shall live in booths,
43: so that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel
live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your
God.
44: Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed
festivals of the Lord.
LEVITICUS 24
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten
olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.
3: Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain
of the covenant, to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it
shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
4: He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the
Lord regularly.
5: You shall take choice flour, and bake twelve loaves of it;
two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
6: You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of
pure gold.
7: You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token
offering for the bread, as an offering by fire to the Lord.
8: Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly
as a commitment of the people of Israel, as a covenant forever.
9: They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in
a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by
fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.
10: A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an
Egyptian came out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and
a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp.
11: The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they
brought him to Moses—now his mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of
the tribe of Dan—
12: and they put him in custody, until the decision of the Lord should be
made clear to them.
13: The Lord said to Moses, saying:
14: Take the blasphemer outside the camp; and let all who were within
hearing lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone
him.
15: And speak to the people of Israel, saying: Anyone who curses God
shall bear the sin.
16: One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the
whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when
they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.
17: Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.
18: Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for
life.
19: Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in
return:
20: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury
inflicted is the injury to be suffered.
21: One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but one who kills
a human being shall be put to death.
22: You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am
the Lord your God.
23: Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; and they took the
blasphemer outside the camp, and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did
as the Lord had commanded Moses.
LEVITICUS 25
1: The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the
land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord.
3: Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune
your vineyard, and gather in their yield;
4: but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest
for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord: you shall not sow your field or prune
your vineyard.
5: You shall not reap the after growth of your harvest or gather the
grapes of your un-pruned vine: it shall be a year of complete rest for the
land.
6: You may eat what the land yields during its Sabbath—you, your male
and female slaves, your hired and your bound labourers who live with you;
7: for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all
its yield shall be for food.
8: You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years,
so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years.
9: Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day of
the seventh month—on the Day of Atonement—you shall have the trumpet sounded
throughout all your land.
10: And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you
shall return every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your
family.
11: That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or
reap the after growth, or harvest the un-pruned vines.
12: For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what
the field itself produces.
13: In this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your
property.
14: When you make a sale to your neighbour or buy from your neighbour, you
shall not cheat one another.
15: When you buy from your neighbour, you shall pay only for the
number of years since the jubilee; the seller shall charge you only for the
remaining crop years.
16: If the years are more, you shall increase the price, and if the
years are fewer, you shall diminish the price; for it is a certain number of
harvests that are being sold to you.
17: You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for
I am the Lord your God.
18: You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances,
so that you may live on the land securely.
19: The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live
on it securely.
20: Should you ask, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we
may not sow or gather in our crop?"
21: I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it
will yield a crop for three years.
22: When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the old
crop; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the
old.
23: The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine;
with me you are but aliens and tenants.
24: Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the
redemption of the land.
25: If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of
property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has
sold.
26: If the person has no one to redeem it, but then prospers and finds
sufficient means to do so,
27: the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference shall be
refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be
returned.
28: But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold
shall remain with the purchaser until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it
shall be released, and the property shall be returned.
29: If anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, it may be
redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale; the right of redemption shall
be one year.
30: If it is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed, a house that
is in a walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the purchaser, throughout the
generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.
31: But houses in villages that have no walls around them shall be classed
as open country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the
jubilee.
32: As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the
right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.
33: Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites—houses sold in a
city belonging to them—shall be released in the jubilee; because the houses in
the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of
Israel.
34: But the open land around their cities may not be sold; for that is
their possession for all time.
35: If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on
you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident
aliens.
36: Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from
them, but fear your God; let them live with you.
37: You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance,
or provide them food at a profit.
38: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39: If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they
sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves.
40: They shall remain with you as hired or bound labourers. They shall
serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
41: Then they and their children with them shall be free from your
authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral
property.
42: For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt;
they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.
43: You shall not rule over them with harshness, but shall fear your
God.
44: As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from
the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves.
45: You may also acquire them from among the aliens residing with you,
and from their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and
they may be your property.
46: You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for
them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your
fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.
47: If resident aliens among you prosper, and if any of your kin fall
into difficulty with one of them and sell themselves to an alien, or to a
branch of the alien's family,
48: after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of
redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,
49: or their uncle or their uncle's son may redeem them, or anyone of
their family who is of their own flesh may redeem them; or if they prosper they
may redeem themselves.
50: They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when
they sold themselves to the alien until the jubilee year; the price of the sale
shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner
shall be rated as the time of a hired labourer.
51: If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in
proportion to the purchase price;
52: and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute
thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their
redemption.
53: As a labourer hired by the year they shall be under the alien's
authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight.
54: And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and
their children with them shall go free in the jubilee year.
55: For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants
whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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