Numbers 3:1-51

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Numbers 3

Levites to Be Priesthood

1Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

2These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
4But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

5Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6"Bring the tribe of Levi near and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
7"They shall perform the duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
8"They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the duties of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

9"You shall thus
give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.

10"So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but (the layman who comes near shall be put to death."

11Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

12"Now, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall be Mine.

13"For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am the LORD."

14Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."

16So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.
17These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

18These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;
19and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;

20and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.
21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites.

22Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500.

23The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
24and the leader of the fathers' households of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Duties of the Priests

25Now the duties of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,

26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them.

27Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites.

28In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary.
29The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the southward side of the tabernacle,

30and the leader of the fathers' households of the Kohathite families was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31Now their duties involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the service concerning them;

32and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi, and had the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary.
33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.

34Their numbered men in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

35The leader of the fathers' households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the northward side of the tabernacle.
36Now the appointed duties of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its equipment, and the service concerning them,

37and the pillars around the court with their sockets and their pegs and their cords.

38Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons,
performing the duties of the sanctuary for the obligation of the sons of Israel; but the layman coming near was to be put to death.

39All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the LORD by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

Firstborn Redeemed

40Then the LORD said to Moses, "Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.

41"You shall take the Levites for Me, I am the LORD, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel."

42So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as the LORD had commanded him;

43and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273.
44Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

45"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am the LORD.
46"For the ransom of the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess beyond the Levites,

47you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
48and give the money, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to his sons."

49So Moses took the ransom money from those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by the Levites;

50from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365.

51Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons, at the command of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

~Please join me in reading Leviticus 4:1-49

Numbers 2:1-34

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Numbers 2

Arrangement of the Camps

1Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2"The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting at a distance.

3"Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab,
4and his army, even their numbered men, 74,600.

5"Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, and the leader of the sons of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar,
6and his army, even their numbered men, 54,400.
7"Then comes the tribe of Zebulun, and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon,

8and his army, even his numbered men, 57,400.

9"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.

10"On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur,
11and his army, even their numbered men, 46,500.

12"Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of the sons of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,
13and his army, even their numbered men, 59,300.

14"Then comes the tribe of Gad, and the leader of the sons of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel,

15and his army, even their numbered men, 45,650.
16"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And they shall set out second.

17"Then the tent of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

18"On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud,
19and his army, even their numbered men, 40,500.

20"Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the sons of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,

21and his army, even their numbered men, 32,200.
22"Then comes the tribe of Benjamin, and the leader of the sons of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni,

23and his army, even their numbered men, 35,400.
24"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And they shall set out third.

25"On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
26and his army, even their numbered men, 62,700.

27"Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, and the leader of the sons of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran,
28and his army, even their numbered men, 41,500.
29"Then comes the tribe of Naphtali, and the leader of the sons of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan,

30and his army, even their numbered men, 53,400.
31"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600. They shall set out last by their standards."

32These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers' households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

33The Levites, however, were not numbered among the sons of Israel, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

34Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, every one by his family according to his father's household.

~Every detail was assigned with military precision. This was necessary in handling so vast a multitude.

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Numbers 1:1-54

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Numbers 1



The Census of Israel's Warriors



1Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,



2"Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head



3from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.



4"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.



5"These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;



6of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;
13of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;
14of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
15of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.



16"These are they who were called of the congregation, the leaders of their fathers' tribes; they were the heads of divisions of Israel."



17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
18and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,



19just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20Now the sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



21their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
22Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
23their numbered men of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.



24Of the sons of Gad, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



25their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
26Of the sons of Judah, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



27their numbered men of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
28Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



29their numbered men of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.



30Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



31their numbered men of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
32Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



33their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.
34Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



35their numbered men of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
36Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



37their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
38Of the sons of Dan, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



39their numbered men of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
40Of the sons of Asher, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



41their numbered men of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
42Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,



43their numbered men of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
44These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father's household.
45So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers' households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,
46even all the numbered men were 603,550.



Levites Exempted



47The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers' tribe.
48For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,
49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.



50"But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle.



51"So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up But the layman who comes near shall be put to death.



52"The sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies.



53"But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be (no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony."



54Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all which the LORD had commanded Moses, so they did.





~The Census...This census, taken at Mt Sinai, showed 603,550 males above the age of 20, exclusive of Levites, 45-47. Another census, 38 years later, showed 601,730.





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Leviticus 27:1-34

Hello and Welcome...Today we read through Leviticus 27:1-34

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Leviticus 27

Rules concerning Valuations

1Again, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the LORD.

3'If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

4'Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5'If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.

6'But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

7'If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

8'But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

9'Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the LORD, any such that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.

10'He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

11'If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which men do not present as an offering to the LORD, then he shall place the animal before the priest.
12'The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

13'But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

14'Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
15'Yet if the one who consecrates it should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

16'Again, if a man consecrates to the LORD part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

17'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

18'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

19'If the one who consecrates it should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may pass to him.
20'Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

21and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field set apart; it shall be for the priest as his property.
22'Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

23then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to the LORD.

24'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

25'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

26'However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.

27'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

28'Nevertheless anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD.

29'No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30'Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S; it is holy to the LORD.

31'If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.

32'For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.

33'He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"

34These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.

~There were three tithes mentioned: Levitical, Festival, and for the Poor every 3rd year. Some think there were only one tithe and that it was used partly for festivals and every 3rd year partly for the poor. Others think that the Festival tithe was taken out of the 9/10 left after the Levitical Tithe had been paid.

The tithe was in use long before the days of Moses. Abrahm and Jocob paid Tithes. Among the Jews the tithe was for the support of the Levites and the Levites were used in civil government as well as the religious service,(see chron 23)

First-fruits God claimed as His Own, Not only the Tithes but the First born sons of all families and First born of all flocks and Herds and offered at passover, and No part of the new crop could be used till this was done.(lev 23:14) (Halley's handbook)

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Leviticus 26:1-46

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Leviticus 26

Blessings of Obedience

1'You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

2'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
3'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
4then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5'Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
6'I shall also grant peace in the land, so that (K)you may lie down with no one making you tremble I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and (M)no sword will pass through your land.

7'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
8five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
9'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

10'You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new.
11'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
12'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

14'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

17'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
18'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19'I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

20'Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

21'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
22'I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

23'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
24then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.

25'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

26'When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread]in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

27'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
28then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.

29'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
30'I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

31'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

32'I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.
33'You, however, Iwill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

34'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35'All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

36'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.

37'They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.

38'But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will consume you.
39'So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

40'If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their
unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me--

41I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies--or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that (BI)they then make amends for their iniquity,

42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

43'For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

44'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

45'But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"

46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.

~This chapter, like Deut 28 of Magnificent Promisis and Frightful Warnings, is one of the great chapters of the Bible.(Halley's Handbook)

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Leviticus chaper 25:1-55

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Leviticus 25

The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee

1The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD.
3'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

4but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

5'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

6'All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.
7'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

8'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
9'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

10'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

11'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

12'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.
13'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.
14'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

15'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
16'In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.
17'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

18'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

19'Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.
20'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?"

21then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

22'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

The Law of Redemption

23'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

24'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
25'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

26'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

27then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

28'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

29'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

30'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

31'The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.

32'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

33'What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

34'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.
Of Poor Countrymen

35'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
36'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

37'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.
38'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'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.

40'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

41'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

42'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

43'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
44'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

45'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

46'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

Of Redeeming a Poor Man

47'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family,

48then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

50'He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

51'If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

52and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

53'Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.

54'Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

55'For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

~Sabbatic Year was every 7th year. The land was to stay put. No sowing, no reaping, No pruning of vineyards. It was to be left for the poor God promised enough in the 6th year to carry over. Jubilee year was every 50th year. It followed the 7th Sabbath year, making two rest years come together. It began on the day of attonement. All debts were cancelled. slaves set free and lands that had been sold returned. Jesus seemed to regard it as a sort of picture of the grand jubilee which He came to proclaim.(Lev 25:10 and Luke 4:19

Leviticus 24:1-23

Hello There and welcome :o) Today we read through Leviticus 24:1-23.

I am using the NASB version today but you may change it if you like by clicking here.

Leviticus 24

The Lamp and the Bread of the Sanctuary

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

3"Outside the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

4"He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
5"Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

6"You shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
7"You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the LORD.

8"Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.
9"It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the LORD'S offerings by fire, his portion forever."

10Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.

11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
12They put him in custody so that the command of the LORD might be made clear to them.
13Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

14"Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him (K)lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him.
15"You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

16'Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

"An Eye for an Eye"
17'If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.
18'The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.
19'If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:
20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

21'Thus the one who kills an animal shall make it good, but the one who kills a man shall be put to death.
22'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"

23Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the sons of Israel did, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

~Blasphemy to be punished with death. The "eye for eye" legislation was part of evil law, perfectly just, see on Matt 5:38 and Luke 6:27

Have a lovely weekend...I'll see you back here on monday when we read through Leviticus chaper 25:1-55 (another long one so get your coffee before hand and settle down for a good read :o)