Leviticus 24
24The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5592"Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.H6680H1121H3478H3947H2134H8081H2132H3795H3974H5216H5927H85483This is the lampstand that stands in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant. Aaron must keep the lamps burning in the LORD's presence all night. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation.H2351H6532H5715H168H4150H175H6186H6153H1242H6440H3068H8548H2708H5769H17554Aaron and the priests must tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand continually in the LORD's presence.H6186H5216H2889H4501H6440H3068H85485"You must bake twelve loaves of bread from choice flour, using four quarts of flour for each loaf.H3947H5560H644H6240H2471H8147H6241H259H24716Place the bread before the LORD on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two rows, with six loaves in each row.H7760H8147H4634H8337H4635H2889H7979H6440H30687Put some pure frankincense near each row to serve as a representative offering, a special gift presented to the LORD.H5414H2134H3828H4635H3899H234H801H30688Every Sabbath day this bread must be laid out before the LORD. The bread is to be received from the people of Israel as a requirement of the eternal covenant.H7676H3117H6186H6440H3068H8548H1121H3478H5769H12859The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron and his descendants, who must eat them in a sacred place, for they are most holy. It is the permanent right of the priests to claim this portion of the special gifts presented to the LORD."H175H1121H398H6918H4725H6944H6944H801H3068H801H5769H270610One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out of his tent and got into a fight with one of the Israelite men.H1121H3482H802H1121H376H4713H3318H8432H1121H3478H3481H1121H3482H376H3478H5327H426411During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the Name of the LORD with a curse. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.H3482H802H1121H5344H8034H7043H935H4872H517H8034H8019H1323H1704H4294H183512They kept the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear to them.H3240H4929H6310H3068H656713Then the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H55914"Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard the curse to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death.H3318H7043H2351H4264H8085H5564H3027H7218H5712H727515Say to the people of Israel: Those who curse their God will be punished for their sin.H1696H1121H3478H559H376H3588H7043H430H5375H239916Anyone who blasphemes the Name of the LORD must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any native-born Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the Name of the LORD must be put to death.H5344H8034H3068H4191H4191H5712H7275H7275H1616H249H5344H8034H419117"Anyone who takes another person's life must be put to death.H376H5221H5315H120H4191H419118"Anyone who kills another person's animal must pay for it in full—a live animal for the animal that was killed.H5221H5315H929H7999H5315H531519Anyone who injures another person must be dealt with according to the injury inflicted—H376H5414H3971H5997H6213H621320a fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Whatever anyone does to injure another person must be paid back in kind.H7667H7667H5869H5869H8127H8127H5414H3971H120H541421"Whoever kills an animal must pay for it in full, but whoever kills another person must be put to death.H5221H929H7999H5221H120H419122"This same standard applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God."H259H4941H1616H249H3068H43023After Moses gave all these instructions to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.H4872H1696H1121H3478H3318H7043H2351H4264H7275H68H1121H3478H6213H3068H6680H4872
Leviticus 25
25While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him,H3068H1696H4872H2022H5514H5592"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the LORD every seventh year.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H776H7673H7676H30683For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,H8337H8141H2232H7704H8337H8141H2168H3754H622H83934but during the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath year of complete rest. It is the LORD's Sabbath. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year.H7637H8141H7676H7677H776H7676H3068H2232H7704H2168H37545And don't store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.H5599H7105H7114H1219H6025H5139H8141H7677H7766But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own during its Sabbath. This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you.H7676H776H402H5650H519H7916H8453H14817Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.H929H2416H776H8393H3988"In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all.H5608H7651H7676H8141H7651H6471H7651H8141H3117H7651H7676H8141H705H8672H81419Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram's horn loud and long throughout the land.H7782H8643H5674H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H7782H5674H77610Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.H6942H2572H8141H8141H7121H1865H776H3427H3104H7725H376H272H7725H376H494011This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don't gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.H3104H2572H8141H8141H2232H7114H5599H1219H513912It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own.H3104H6944H398H8393H770413In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.H8141H3104H7725H376H27214"When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other.H4376H4465H5997H7069H5997H3027H3238H376H25115When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee.H4557H8141H310H3104H7069H5997H4557H8141H8393H437616The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests.H6310H7230H8141H7235H4736H6310H4591H8141H4591H4736H4557H8393H437617Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the LORD your God.H3238H376H5997H3372H430H3068H43018"If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.H6213H2708H8104H4941H6213H3427H776H98319Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it.H776H5414H6529H398H7648H3427H98320But you might ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?'H559H398H7637H8141H2232H622H839321Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.H6680H1293H8345H8141H6213H8393H7969H814122When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.H2232H8066H8141H398H3465H8393H8671H8141H8393H935H398H346523"The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.H776H4376H6783H776H1616H845324"With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.H776H272H5414H1353H77625If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.H251H4134H4376H272H7138H935H1350H1350H251H446526If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back,H376H1350H3027H1767H5381H4672H135327he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.H2803H8141H4465H7725H5736H376H4376H7725H27228But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.H3027H1767H4672H7725H4465H3027H7069H8141H3104H3104H3318H7725H27229"Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.H376H4376H4186H1004H2346H5892H1353H8552H8141H4465H3117H135330But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.H1350H4390H8549H8141H1004H2346H5892H6965H6783H7069H1755H3318H310431But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.H1004H2691H2346H5439H2803H7704H776H1353H3318H310432"The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.H5892H3881H1004H5892H272H3881H1353H576933And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.H1350H3881H1004H4465H5892H272H3318H3104H1004H5892H3881H272H8432H1121H347834The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.H7704H4054H5892H4376H5769H27235"If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you.H251H4134H4131H3027H2388H1616H8453H241636Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative.H3947H5392H8636H3372H430H251H241637Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.H5414H3701H5392H5414H400H476838I 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.H3068H430H3318H776H4714H5414H776H3667H43039"If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave.H251H4134H4376H5647H5656H565040Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you, and he will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.H7916H8453H5647H8141H310441At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors.H3318H1121H7725H4940H272H1H772542The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.H5650H3318H776H4714H4376H4466H565043Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.H7287H6531H3372H43044"However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you.H5650H519H1471H5439H7069H5650H51945You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property,H1121H8453H1481H7069H4940H3205H776H27246passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.H5157H1121H310H3423H272H5647H5769H251H1121H3478H7287H376H251H653147"Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family,H1616H8453H5381H3027H251H4134H4376H1616H8453H6133H1616H494048they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother,H310H4376H1353H259H251H135049an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered.H1730H1730H1121H1350H7607H1320H4940H1350H5381H1350H302750They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time.H2803H7069H8141H4376H8141H3104H3701H4465H4557H8141H3117H791651If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves.H7227H8141H6310H7725H1353H3701H473652If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption.H7604H4592H8141H8141H3104H2803H6310H8141H7725H135353The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly.H8141H8141H7916H7287H6531H586954If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time.H1350H3318H8141H3104H112155For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.H1121H3478H5650H5650H3318H776H4714H3068H430
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. Aaron must keep the lamps burning in the LORD's presence all night. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation.H2351
