Bible in one year 4/25/2022 Leviticus chapter 23-27
By
Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
Christian
Arts Ministries: Biblical precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry &
Counseling
Chapter 23 Laws concerning Festivals; the Passover
and unleavened bread; firstfruits; Pentecost; Trumpets, the Day of Atonement,
tabernacles
The feast of firstfruits involved presenting to the Lord a sheaf (Lit., an omer, about two quarts; (Ex.16:16) of the barley harvest on the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (16th of Nisan). (Verses 10-14). This was accompanied by burnt, grain, and drink offerings (Ex.29:40). The drink offering (Ex.29:41), consisting of about two pints of unmixed wine, was poured on the grain offering as a symbol of joy. Firstfruits symbolized the consecration of the entire harvest to God and was an earnest, or pledge, of the full harvest yet to be gathered (1 Cor.15:20; James 1:18; Rev.14:4 as well as other N.T. uses in Rom. 8:23;11:16;1Cor.16:15). Fifty days (vv.15-23) (the meaning of the Greek word “Pentecost”) after firstfruits, two loaves of bread were offered for the people, along with burnt, grain drink, sin, and peace offerings. The loaves, made with yeast, typified the formation of the church on the day of Pentecost. The church, the Body of Christ, is composed of sinners ( yeast typifies sin; Ex.12:15-20) who are saved by the grace of God (2:11). Three festivals occurred in the seventh month (Tishri, Sept.-Oct.); those of Trumpets, Atomement, and Taberanacles. The bellowing of a trumpet (the shofar, or ram’s horn) on the first day signaled the beginning of the civil new year, Rosh Hashanah (Num.29:1-6). The Day of Atonement. (chapter 16). The last festival was that of Tabernacles (vv.34-43), which was seven days in length and concluded with a holy convocation(v.36). During that week, the people lived in booths or huts made of boughs (Neh.8:14-18), commemorating God’s provision for them in bringing them out of Egypt and through the wilderness (Lev.23:43). The sacrifices offered during this time amounted to 189 animals (Num.29:12-38). It also celebrated the autumn harvest of fruits and olives (ex.23:16 and , according to Zech.14:16, it will be celebrated during the Millennium.
1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which
ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work
be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye
shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts
of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth
day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.
6 And on the fifteenth
day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven
days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye
shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an
holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I
give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave
the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the
sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer
that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year
for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat
offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an
offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering
thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat
neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye
have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count
unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the
sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the
morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer
a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out
of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine
flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer
with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young
bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with
their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire,
of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall
sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first
year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest
shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before
the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall
proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye
shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap
the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of
thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy
harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the
LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the
month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy
convocation.
25 Ye shall do no
servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
26 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth
day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an
holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no
work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for
you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul
it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from
among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul
it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from
among his people.
31 Ye shall do no
manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto
you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the
month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be
the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35 On the first day
shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an
holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the
feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering,
a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths
of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all
your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39 Also in the
fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the
land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be
a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take
you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and
the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice
before the LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep
it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever
in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in
booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your
generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared
unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Chapter 24 Laws concerning the oil, bread, and blasphemy
This blasphemer
apparently was one of the “many other people of Ex.12:38. By laying their hands
on him, the people transferred to him what eve guilt might have accrued to the
community. (vv,10-16). The law of retaliation, lex talionis, provided for exact
justice, not revenge, and concerned public justice, not private vengeance
(v.20; Matt.5:38)
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel,
that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the
lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony,
in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening
unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in
your generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the
pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine flour,
and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two
rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure
frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in
order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by
an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron's and his
sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish
woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and
this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the
camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son
blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses:
(and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of
Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that
the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed
without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and
let all the congregation stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
16 And he that blasphemeth the name
of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall
certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when
he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man shall
surely be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall
make it good; beast for beast.
19 And if a man cause a blemish in
his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to
him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast, he
shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
22 Ye shall have one manner of law,
as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD
your God.
23 And Moses spake to the children
of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp,
and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Every seventh year
the land was to have a Sabbath, a rest. Whatever grew during that year was
freely a vailable to all alike (vv.6-7). It was also a time of special
instruction in the Law of God (Deut.31:10-13). Every fiftieth year was a year
of jubilee, during which there was to be no sowing or reaping, and during which
all land was returned to its original owner and slaves to their families.
(vv.8-12). Buying and selling land was to be carried on equitably, with due
regard to how near the year of jubilee was, when the land would have to be
returned to its original owner.(vv.13-17), God promised that the crops of the
sixth year would be sufficient to sustain the people during the Sabbath year
that followed and the year of jubilee.(vv.21-22)
Any Israelite who
was forced to sell his land could have it redeemed by a near relative, or buy
it back himself(with due regard for the number of crops remaining until the
year of jubilee), or wait until jubilee when it would be restored to him.
(vv.25-28). A house within a city, if sold and not repurchased within a year,
became the permanent possession of the buyer (with the exception stated in
v.33). Poor Israelites were to be assisted in every way and without usury
(interest; Ex.22:25). If one sold himself to a fellow Israelite, he was to be
treated as a hired person rather than a slave. Slave labor came only form the
heathen nations.(Lev.25:44). If an Israelite sold himself to a foreigner, he
could be redeemed by a near relative, by himself, or automatically during the
year of jubilee. (vv.47-55).
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in
mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the
land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy
field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit
thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a
sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow
thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own
accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy
vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall
be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the
beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven
sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the
seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet
of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth
year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year
be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it,
nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be
holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye
shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy
neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one
another:
15 According to the number of years
after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number
of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of
years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of
years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the
years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress
one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her
fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall
we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing
upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year,
and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye
shall eat of the old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for
ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your
possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and
hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it,
then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to
redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of
the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it;
that he may return unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore
it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath
bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he
shall return unto his possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling
house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is
sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within
the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall
not go out in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages
which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the
country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites
redeem at any time.
33 And if a man purchase of the
Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go
out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are
their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of
their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor,
and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or
increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money
upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38 I am the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and
to be your God.
39 And if thy brother that dwelleth
by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to
serve as a bondservant:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a
sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
41 And then shall he depart from
thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family,
and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 For they are my servants, which I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with
rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy
bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about
you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the
strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their
families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be
your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an
inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they
shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel,
ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger
wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell
himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be
redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's
son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may
redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that
bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and
the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to
the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
51 If there be yet many years
behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out
of the money that he was bought for.
52 And if there remain but few years
unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his
years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired servant
shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy
sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in
these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his
children with him.
55 For unto me the children of
Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land
of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Do not make idols
or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves( v.1), idols. Lit.,
nonentities. Image. A carved or cast idol. The threshing (begun in March) would
continue until grape havest (in July). Because of the new crop, the old would
have to be cleared out, so plentiful would be the harvests. (v.10). Avenge the
breaking of the covenant by the punishments described in these verses. (v.25).
The exile of the people to Assyria and Babylonia is here predicted
(2Chron36:21; vv.33-35).
1 Ye shall make you no idols nor
graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any
image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and
reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and
keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach
unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye
shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land,
and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil
beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an
hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your
enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you,
and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and
bring forth the old because of the new.
11 And I will set my tabernacle
among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you, and
will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their
bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto
me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my
statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my
commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I
will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that
shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed
in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against
you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign
over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all
this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of
your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall be spent
in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me,
and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts
among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by
me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary
unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword upon
you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered
together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall
be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 And when I have broken the staff
of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this
hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto
you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of
your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30 And I will destroy your high
places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of
your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities
waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the
savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into
desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the
heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,
and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her
sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even
then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it
shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left alive
of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as
fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon
another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no
power to stand before your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the
heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you
shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 If they shall confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked
contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if
then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant
with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham
will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left of
them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and
they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because
they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they
be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I
abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I
am the LORD their God.
45 But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land
of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
46 These are the statutes and
judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel
in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Chapter 27 Laws concerning vows and tithes
A special vow(v.2),
a vow by which an individual consecrated to the Lord himself or his family
(vv.3-8), his animals (vv.9-13), his house(vv.14-15), or his fields(vv.16-25). Instead
of actually transferring ownership,the individual could substitute a just sum
of money (except when a clean animal was vowed to the Lord, in which case it
could not be refeedmed; vv.9-10). The estimation of the worth of a man or woman
dedicated to the Lord was evidently based on his or her worth as a worker for a
given number of years.(vv.3-7). Unclean animal could be redeemed (and thus kept
by the owner) if the value plus 20 percent was paid.(v.13) Houses also could be
given to the Lord, yet retained, by giving the equivalent value plus 20
percent.(v.15). Redemption of a field was more complicated. The owner could
redeem it by adding 20 persent ot its value in relation to the approaching year
of jubilee. If he failed to redeem it or sold it surreptitiously after having
devoted it to the Lord, it vecame the property of the priests at the year of
jubilee. (vv.16-25). The firstborn among animals already belonged to the Lord,
and so could not be dedicated (Ex.13:2,12; vv.26-27). In certain instances, a person
could be placed under a ban, in which case he was to be put to death (an
example is found in Josh.7). No redemption was possible in such cases.
One-tenth of the increase of the land, trees, herds, and flocks had to be given
to the Lord as His tithe. Part of the tithe could be substituted for with money
(plus the usual 20 percent additional), except in the case of animals. For a
discussion of the various tithes see Mal.3:8 and Gen.14:20;28:22. Passes under
the shepherd’s rod. Refers to the custom of making the animals pass by in
single file and marking each tenth one with a rod dipped in a colored
substance.(vv.30-33).
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be
for the LORD by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the
male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall
be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy
estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old
even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty
shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even
unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of
silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old
and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and
for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy
estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest
shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value
him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men
bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD
shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change
it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast
for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast,
of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the
beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it,
whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it
be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it,
then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 And when a man shall sanctify his
house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it
be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will
redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto
the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be
according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty
shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the
year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field
after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to
the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated
from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the
field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money
of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the
field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed
any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out
in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession
thereof shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the
LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his
possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto
him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall
give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
24 In the year of the jubile the
field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the
possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be
according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts,
which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be
ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's.
27 And if it be of an unclean beast,
then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth
part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according
to thy estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing,
that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and
beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every
devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
29 None devoted, which shall be
devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
30 And all the tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it
is holy unto the LORD.
31 And if a man will at all redeem
ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32 And concerning the tithe of the
herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth
shall be holy unto the LORD.
33 He shall not search whether it be
good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both
it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments, which
the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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