Leviticus
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The appointed times of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., which you shall proclaim as holy proclamations, these are my appointed times.
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Mo’ed is an appointed time. Miqra qodesh is a holy proclamation, a day called out as holy.
3Six days work shall be done, and on the seventh day there is a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. of complete rest, a holy proclamation. You shall do no work. It is a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. in all your settlements.
4These are the appointed times of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., holy proclamations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time.
5In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt..
6On the fifteenth day of this month is the festival of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Seven days you shall eat Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread.
7On the first day you shall have a holy proclamation. You shall do no laborious work.
8You shall bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. for seven days. On the seventh day there is a holy proclamation. You shall do no laborious work.
9God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
10Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I am giving you, and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first of your harvest to the priest.
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Omer here is the sheaf of the first harvest. The same word is the measure in Exodus. This line is the sheaf.
11He shall raise the sheaf before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. so that you may be accepted. On the day after the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. the priest shall raise it.
12On the day you raise the sheaf, you shall make a whole lamb in its first year as a whole offering for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
13Its grain gift shall be two tenths of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour mixed with oil, a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a soothing scent, and its drink offering, wine, a quarter of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine..
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The drink-offering suffix is written with he, וְנִסְכֹּה, “and its drink offering.” This copy does not mark a separate reading. The written suffix is printed. The hin is not converted.
14You shall not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh ears, until this very day, until you have brought the A gift brought close to God. of your God. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations in all your settlements.
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Qali is roasted grain. Karmel is fresh ears. Neither is given a second crop name.
15You shall count for yourselves from the day after the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land., from the day you bring the sheaf of the raised offering. Seven Times of rest set aside for God. shall be complete.
16Until the day after the seventh A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. you shall count fifty days, and you shall bring near a new grain gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
17From your settlements you shall bring bread of a raised offering, two loaves. They shall be two tenths of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour. They shall be baked leavened, first fruits for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
18You shall bring near with the bread seven whole lambs in their first year, one bull, a son of the herd, and two rams. They shall be a whole offering for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., with their grain gift and their drink offerings, a food gift, a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
19You shall make one male goat of the goats for an offense offering, and two lambs in their first year for a sacrifice of well-being.
20The priest shall raise them with the bread of the first fruits as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., with the two lambs. They shall be holy for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., for the priest.
21You shall proclaim on this very day a holy proclamation for yourselves. You shall do no laborious work. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. in all your settlements, through your generations.
22When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish the edge of your field in your reaping, and you shall not gather the Grain left on the ground after the harvest, for people who need food. of your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the A person living in a land that is not their own.. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
23God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
24Speak to the sons of Israel: In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a complete rest, a memorial of a blast, a holy proclamation.
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Teru’ah is a blast, a shout of the horn. Zikhron is a memorial. The day is the first of the seventh month.
25You shall do no laborious work, and you shall bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
26God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
27On the tenth of this seventh month is the day of The making of people right with God after a wrong.. It shall be a holy proclamation for you. You shall afflict your persons, and you shall bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Yom ha-kippurim is the day of atonements. Kipper is to cover, as earlier in this book. “Atonement” is printed.
28You shall do no work on this very day, because it is a day of The making of people right with God after a wrong., to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for you before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
29Any person who is not afflicted on this very day shall be cut off from his people.
30Any person who does any work on this very day, I will destroy that person from the midst of his people.
31You shall do no work. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations in all your settlements.
32It is a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. of complete rest for you, and you shall afflict your persons. On the ninth of the month, in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land..
33God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
34Speak to the sons of Israel: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the festival of booths, seven days for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Sukkot are booths. The festival is seven days, with an eighth day of closing assembly in verse 36.
35On the first day there is a holy proclamation. You shall do no laborious work.
36Seven days you shall bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. On the eighth day you shall have a holy proclamation, and you shall bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is a closing assembly. You shall do no laborious work.
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Atzeret is a closing assembly, the day that holds the festival shut.
37These are the appointed times of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., which you shall proclaim as holy proclamations, to bring near a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a whole offering and a grain gift, a sacrifice and drink offerings, the matter of each day on its day,
38besides God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s Times of rest set aside for God., and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your free gifts that you give to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
39On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the yield of the land, you shall keep God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s festival seven days. On the first day there is a complete rest, and on the eighth day there is a complete rest.
40You shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a splendid tree, palms of date palms, a branch of a thick tree, and willows of the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes., and you shall rejoice before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God seven days.
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Peri etz hadar is the fruit of a splendid tree. The species is not named. Kappot temarim are palms of date palms. Anaf etz avot is a branch of a thick-leaved tree. Arvei nachal are willows of the wadi. No modern species is added.
41You shall keep it as a festival for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. seven days in the year. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations. In the seventh month you shall keep it.
42You shall live in booths seven days. Every native in Israel shall live in booths,
43so that your generations will know that I made the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
44Moses spoke the appointed times of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. to the sons of Israel.