Read the Bible in a Year - Day 34
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Welcome to Reading the Bible in a Year - Day 34.
Today were reading from Leviticus Leviticus Chapters 19 , 20 and 21.
Leviticus Chapter 19
Leviticus 19:1 The LORD told Moses
Leviticus 19:2 to say to the community of Israel: I am the LORD your God. I am holy, and you must be holy too!
Leviticus 19:3 Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don’t make idols or images. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:4 (SEE 19:3)
Leviticus 19:5 When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing, be sure to follow my instructions.
Leviticus 19:6 You may eat the meat either on the day of the sacrifice or on the next day, but you must burn anything left until the third day.
Leviticus 19:7 If you eat any of it on the third day, the sacrifice will be disgusting to me, and I will reject it.
Leviticus 19:8 In fact, you will be punished for not respecting what I say is holy, and you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
Leviticus 19:9 When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing along the edges of your fields and don’t pick up what falls on the ground.
Leviticus 19:10 Don’t strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:11 Do not steal or tell lies or cheat others.
Leviticus 19:12 Do not misuse my name by making promises you don’t intend to keep. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:13 Do not steal anything or cheat anyone, and don’t fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.
Leviticus 19:14 I am the LORD your God, and I command you not to make fun of the deaf or to cause a blind person to stumble.
Leviticus 19:15 Be fair, no matter who is on trial–don’t favor either the poor or the rich.
Leviticus 19:16 Don’t be a gossip, but never hesitate to speak up in court, especially if your testimony can save someone’s life.
Leviticus 19:17 Don’t hold grudges. On the other hand, it’s wrong not to correct someone who needs correcting.
Leviticus 19:18 Stop being angry and don’t try to take revenge. I am the LORD, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.
Leviticus 19:19 Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don’t plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.
Leviticus 19:20 If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.
Leviticus 19:21 The man must bring a ram to the entrance of the sacred tent and give it to a priest, who will then offer it as a sacrifice to me, so the man’s sins will be forgiven.
Leviticus 19:22 (SEE 19:21)
Leviticus 19:23 After you enter the land, you will plant fruit trees, but you are not to eat any of their fruit for the first three years.
Leviticus 19:24 In the fourth year the fruit must be set apart, as an expression of thanks
Leviticus 19:25 to me, the LORD God. Do this, and in the fifth year, those trees will produce an abundant harvest of fruit for you to eat.
Leviticus 19:26 Don’t eat the blood of any animal. Don’t practice any kind of witchcraft.
Leviticus 19:27 I forbid you to shave any part of your head or beard or to cut and tattoo yourself as a way of worshiping the dead.
Leviticus 19:28 (SEE 19:27)
Leviticus 19:29 Don’t let your daughters serve as temple prostitutes–this would bring disgrace both to them and the land.
Leviticus 19:30 I command you to respect the Sabbath and the place where I am worshiped.
Leviticus 19:31 Don’t make yourselves disgusting to me by going to people who claim they can talk to the dead.
Leviticus 19:32 I command you to show respect for older people and to obey me with fear and trembling.
Leviticus 19:33 Don’t mistreat any foreigners who live in your land.
Leviticus 19:34 Instead, treat them as well as you treat citizens and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:35 Use honest scales and don’t cheat when you weigh or measure anything. I am the LORD your God. I rescued you from Egypt,
Leviticus 19:36 (SEE 19:35)
Leviticus 19:37 and I command you to obey my laws.
Leviticus Chapter 20
Leviticus 20:1 The LORD told Moses
Leviticus 20:2 to say to the community of Israel: Death by stoning is the penalty for any citizens or foreigners in the country who sacrifice their children to the god Molech.
Leviticus 20:3 They have disgraced both the place where I am worshiped and my holy name, and so I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people.
Leviticus 20:4 Some of you may let them get away with human sacrifice,
Leviticus 20:5 but not me. If any of you worship Molech, I will turn against you and your entire family, and I will no longer let you belong to my people.
Leviticus 20:6 I will be your enemy if you go to someone who claims to speak with the dead, and I will destroy you from among my people.
Leviticus 20:7 Dedicate yourselves to me and be holy because I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:8 I have chosen you as my people, and I expect you to obey my laws.
Leviticus 20:9 If you curse your father or mother, you will be put to death, and it will be your own fault.
Leviticus 20:10 If any of you men have sex with another man’s wife, both you and the woman will be put to death.
Leviticus 20:11 Having sex with one of your father’s wives disgraces him. So both you and the woman will be put to death, just as you deserve.
Leviticus 20:12 It isn’t natural to have sex with your daughter-in-law, and both of you will be put to death, just as you deserve.
Leviticus 20:13 It’s disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve.
Leviticus 20:14 It isn’t natural for a man to marry both a mother and her daughter, and so all three of them will be burned to death.
Leviticus 20:15 If any of you have sex with an animal, both you and the animal will be put to death, just as you deserve.
Leviticus 20:16 (SEE 20:15)
Leviticus 20:17 If you marry one of your sisters, you will be punished, and the two of you will be disgraced by being openly forced out of the community.
Leviticus 20:18 If you have sex with a woman during her monthly period, both you and the woman will be cut off from the people of Israel.
Leviticus 20:19 The sisters of your father and mother are your own relatives, and you will be punished for having sex with any of them.
Leviticus 20:20 If you have sex with your uncle’s wife, neither you nor she will ever have any children.
Leviticus 20:21 And if you marry your sister-in-law, neither of you will ever have any children.
Leviticus 20:22 Obey my laws and teachings. Or else the land I am giving you will become sick of you and throw you out.
Leviticus 20:23 The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things, and I hated them for it, so don’t follow their example.
Leviticus 20:24 I am the LORD your God, and I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people.
Leviticus 20:25 That’s why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean –this will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.
Leviticus 20:26 I am the LORD, the holy God. You have been chosen to be my people, and so you must be holy too.
Leviticus 20:27 If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.
Leviticus Chapter 21
Leviticus 21:1 The LORD gave Moses these instructions for Aaron’s sons, the priests: Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So don’t go near a dead relative,
Leviticus 21:2 except your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
Leviticus 21:3 or an unmarried sister, who has no husband to take care of her.
Leviticus 21:4 Don’t make yourself unclean by attending the funeral of someone related to you by marriage.
Leviticus 21:5 Don’t shave any part of your head or trim your beard or cut yourself to show that you are mourning.
Leviticus 21:6 I am the LORD your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That’s why you must keep yourselves holy.
Leviticus 21:7 Don’t marry a divorced woman or a woman who has served as a temple prostitute. You are holy,
Leviticus 21:8 because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.
Leviticus 21:9 If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burned to death.
Leviticus 21:10 If you are the high priest, you must not mess up your hair or tear your clothes in order to mourn for the dead.
Leviticus 21:11 Don’t make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother.
Leviticus 21:12 If you leave the sacred place to attend a funeral, both you and the sacred place become unclean, because you are the high priest.
Leviticus 21:13 If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin
Leviticus 21:14 from your own tribe. Don’t marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute.
Leviticus 21:15 In this way, your descendants will be qualified to serve me. Remember–I am the LORD, and I have chosen you.
Leviticus 21:16 The LORD told Moses
Leviticus 21:17 to say to Aaron: No descendant of yours can ever serve as my priest if he is blind or lame, if his face is disfigured, if one leg is shorter than the other,
Leviticus 21:18 (SEE 21:17)
Leviticus 21:19 if either a foot or a hand is crippled,
Leviticus 21:20 if he is a hunchback or a dwarf, if an eye or his skin is diseased, or if his testicles have been damaged.
Leviticus 21:21 These men may not serve as my priests and burn sacrifices to me.
Leviticus 21:22 They may eat the food offerings presented to me,
Leviticus 21:23 but they may not enter the sacred place or serve me at the altar. Remember–I am the LORD, the one who makes a priest holy.
Leviticus 21:24 Moses told all of this to Aaron, his sons, and the people of Israel.
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