Read the Bible in a Year - Day 37
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Leviticus Chapter 26
Leviticus 26:1Â I am the LORD your God! So don’t make or worship any sort of idols or images.
Leviticus 26:2Â Respect the Sabbath and honor the place where I am worshiped, because I am the LORD.
Leviticus 26:3Â Faithfully obey my laws,
Leviticus 26:4Â and I will send rain to make your crops grow and your trees produce fruit.
Leviticus 26:5Â Your harvest of grain and grapes will be so abundant, that you won’t know what to do with it all. You will eat and be satisfied, and you will live in safety.
Leviticus 26:6Â I will bless your country with peace, and you will rest without fear. I will wipe out the dangerous animals and protect you from enemy attacks.
Leviticus 26:7Â You will chase and destroy your enemies,
Leviticus 26:8Â even if there are only five of you and a hundred of them, or only a hundred of you and ten thousand of them.
Leviticus 26:9Â I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you.
Leviticus 26:10Â Your barns will overflow with grain each year.
Leviticus 26:11Â I will live among you and never again look on you with disgust.
Leviticus 26:12Â I will walk with you–I will be your God, and you will be my people.
Leviticus 26:13Â I am the LORD your God, and I rescued you from Egypt, so that you would never again be slaves. I have set you free; now walk with your heads held high.
Leviticus 26:14Â If you disobey me and my laws, and if you break our agreement,
Leviticus 26:15Â (SEE 26:14)
Leviticus 26:16Â I will punish you terribly, and you will be ruined. You will be struck with incurable diseases and with fever that leads to blindness and depression. Your enemies will eat the crops you plant,
Leviticus 26:17Â and I will turn from you and let you be destroyed by your attackers. You will even run at the very rumor of attack.
Leviticus 26:18Â Then, if you still refuse to obey me, I will punish you seven times for each of your sins,
Leviticus 26:19Â until your pride is completely crushed. I will hold back the rain, so the sky above you will be like iron, and the ground beneath your feet will be like copper.
Leviticus 26:20Â All of your hard work will be for nothing–and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.
Leviticus 26:21Â If you keep rebelling against me, I’ll punish you seven times worse, just as your sins deserve!
Leviticus 26:22Â I’ll send wild animals to attack you, and they will gobble down your children and livestock. So few of you will be left that your roads will be deserted.
Leviticus 26:23Â If you remain my enemies after this,
Leviticus 26:24Â I’ll remain your enemy and punish you even worse.
Leviticus 26:25Â War will break out because you broke our agreement, and if you escape to your walled cities, I’ll punish you with horrible diseases, and you will be captured by your enemies.
Leviticus 26:26Â You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry.
Leviticus 26:27Â Then if you don’t stop rebelling,
Leviticus 26:28Â I’ll really get furious and punish you terribly for your sins!
Leviticus 26:29Â In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.
Leviticus 26:30Â I’ll destroy your shrines and tear down your incense altars, leaving your dead bodies piled on top of your idols. And you will be disgusting to me.
Leviticus 26:31Â I’ll wipe out your towns and your places of worship and will no longer be pleased with the smell of your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:32Â Your land will become so desolate that even your enemies who settle there will be shocked when they see it.
Leviticus 26:33Â After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I’ll scatter you among the nations.
Leviticus 26:34Â While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.
Leviticus 26:35Â (SEE 26:34)
Leviticus 26:36Â In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.
Leviticus 26:37Â (SEE 26:36)
Leviticus 26:38Â Many of you will die in foreign lands,
Leviticus 26:39Â and others of you will waste away in sorrow as the result of your sins and the sins of your ancestors.
Leviticus 26:40Â Then suppose you realize that I turned against you and brought you to the land of your enemies because both you and your ancestors had stubbornly sinned against me. If you humbly confess what you have done and start living right,
Leviticus 26:41Â (SEE 26:40)
Leviticus 26:42Â I’ll keep the promise I made to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bless your land
Leviticus 26:43Â and let it rest during the time that you are in a foreign country, paying for your rebellion against me and my laws.
Leviticus 26:44Â No matter what you have done, I am still the LORD your God, and I will never completely reject you or become absolutely disgusted with you there in the land of your enemies.
Leviticus 26:45Â While nations watched, I rescued your ancestors from Egypt so that I would be their God. Yes, I am your LORD, and I will never forget our agreement.
Leviticus 26:46Â Moses was on Mount Sinai when the LORD gave him these laws and teachings for the people of Israel.
Leviticus Chapter 27
Leviticus 27:1Â The LORD told Moses
Leviticus 27:2Â to say to the community of Israel: If you ever want to free someone who has been promised to me,
Leviticus 27:3Â you may do so by paying the following amounts, weighed according to the official standards: fifty pieces of silver for men ages twenty to sixty, and thirty pieces for women; twenty pieces of silver for young men ages five to twenty, and ten pieces for young women; fifteen pieces of silver for men ages sixty and above and ten pieces for women; five pieces of silver for boys ages one month to five years, and three pieces for girls.
Leviticus 27:4Â (SEE 27:3)
Leviticus 27:5Â (SEE 27:3)
Leviticus 27:6Â (SEE 27:3)
Leviticus 27:7Â (SEE 27:3)
Leviticus 27:8Â If you have promised to give someone to me and can’t afford to pay the full amount for that person’s release, you will be taken to a priest, and he will decide how much you can afford.
Leviticus 27:9Â If you promise to sacrifice an animal to me, it becomes holy, and there is no way you can set it free.
Leviticus 27:10Â If you try to substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they will both become holy and must be sacrificed.
Leviticus 27:11Â Donkeys are unfit for sacrifice, so if you promise me a donkey, you must bring it to the priest,
Leviticus 27:12Â and let him determine its value.
Leviticus 27:13Â But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty percent.
Leviticus 27:14Â If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price, whatever the condition of the house.
Leviticus 27:15Â But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty percent.
Leviticus 27:16Â If you promise part of your family’s land to me, its value must be determined by the bushels of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every bushel of seed.
Leviticus 27:17Â If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration, the land will be valued at the full price.
Leviticus 27:18Â But any time after that, the price will be figured according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration.
Leviticus 27:19Â If you decide to buy back the land, you must pay the price plus an additional twenty percent,
Leviticus 27:20Â but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it.
Leviticus 27:21Â When the Year of Celebration comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to the priests.
Leviticus 27:22Â If you promise me a field that you have bought,
Leviticus 27:23Â its value will be decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine.
Leviticus 27:24Â However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner.
Leviticus 27:25Â Every price will be set by the official standards.
Leviticus 27:26Â All first-born animals of your flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me.
Leviticus 27:27Â If you promise me a donkey, you may buy it back by adding an additional twenty percent to its value. If you don’t buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.
Leviticus 27:28Â Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed. It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.
Leviticus 27:29Â In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.
Leviticus 27:30Â Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees.
Leviticus 27:31Â If you want to buy back this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an additional twenty percent.
Leviticus 27:32Â When you count your flocks and herds, one out of ten of every newborn animal is holy and belongs to me,
Leviticus 27:33Â no matter how good or bad it is. If you substitute one animal for another, both of them become holy, and neither can be bought back.
Leviticus 27:34Â Moses was on Mount Sinai when the LORD gave him these laws for the people of Israel.
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