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1Reading 1 Leviticus 21:1–15Chapter page with footnotes →

Holiness Required of Priests

^21:1And the LORD said to Moses: Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them: For a soul none shall defile himself among his people; ²except for his kin who is near to him: for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother; ³and for his sister, the virgin who is near to him, who has not belonged to a man: for her he may defile himself. ⁴He shall not defile himself as a master among his people, to profane himself.

⁵They shall not make baldness upon their head, and the corner of their beard they shall not shave, and in their flesh they shall not cut a cutting. ⁶Holy they shall be to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for the fire-offerings of the LORD, the bread of their God, they offer; so they shall be holy.

⁷A woman who is a harlot or profaned they shall not take, and a woman divorced from her husband they shall not take; for he is holy to his God. ⁸And you shall sanctify him, for the bread of your God he offers; holy he shall be to you, for holy am I, the LORD, who sanctifies you. ⁹And a daughter of a man who is a priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, her father she profanes; with fire she shall be burned.

¹⁰And the priest who is great among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has filled his hand to put on the garments, his head he shall not let go loose, and his garments he shall not tear. ¹¹And to any dead souls he shall not come; for his father or for his mother he shall not defile himself. ¹²And from the sanctuary he shall not go out, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

¹³And he, a woman in her virginity he shall take. ¹⁴A widow, or a divorced one, or a profaned one, a harlot, these he shall not take; but a virgin from his people he shall take as a woman. ¹⁵And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.

2Reading 2 Leviticus 21:16–22:16Chapter page with footnotes →

Restrictions against Those with Blemishes

^21:16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁷Speak to Aaron, saying: A man from your seed throughout their generations in whom there is a blemish shall not draw near to offer the bread of his God.

¹⁸For any man in whom there is a blemish shall not draw near: a man blind, or lame, or mutilated, or with a limb overlong; ¹⁹or a man in whom there is a broken foot, or a broken hand; ²⁰or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a blemish in his eye, or scab, or scurvy, or with crushed testicles.

²¹Any man in whom there is a blemish, from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not approach to offer the fire-offerings of the LORD; a blemish is in him; the bread of his God he shall not approach to offer. ²²The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, he may eat. ²³Only to the veil he shall not come, and to the altar he shall not approach, for a blemish is in him; that he profane not my holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

²⁴And Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.

Restrictions against the Unclean

^22:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they keep separate from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they sanctify to me, and that they profane not my holy name: I am the LORD.

³Say to them: Throughout your generations, any man from all your seed who approaches the holy things, which the sons of Israel sanctify to the LORD, with his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am the LORD.

⁴Any man from the seed of Aaron who is leprous or has a discharge, of the holy things he shall not eat until he is clean. And the one who touches anyone unclean by a soul, or a man from whom goes out an emission of seed; ⁵or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he is made unclean, or a man by whom he is made unclean, for any of his uncleanness; ⁶a soul who touches it shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening, and he shall not eat of the holy things unless he washes his flesh in water.

⁷And when the sun goes down, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, for it is his bread. ⁸A carcass or that which is torn he shall not eat, to be defiled by it: I am the LORD. ⁹And they shall keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die by it, because they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

¹⁰And no stranger shall eat the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing. ¹¹But a priest, when he buys a soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and one born in his house, they may eat of his bread.

¹²And a priest's daughter, when she becomes a strange man's, she of the heave-offering of the holy things shall not eat. ¹³But a priest's daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced, and has no seed, and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, of her father's bread she may eat; but no stranger shall eat of it.

¹⁴And a man when he eats a holy thing in error, then he shall add a fifth part of it to it, and shall give to the priest the holy thing. ¹⁵And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they lift up to the LORD; ¹⁶and so cause them to bear the iniquity of guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

3Reading 3 Leviticus 22:17–33Chapter page with footnotes →

Worthy Offerings

^22:17And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁸Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them: Any man from the house of Israel, or from the sojourner in Israel, who offers his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill-offerings, which they offer to the LORD for a burnt-offering; ¹⁹for your acceptance, a perfect male, among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats. ²⁰Anything in which there is a blemish you shall not offer; for it shall not be for acceptance for you.

²¹And a man when he offers a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, to fulfill a vow, or for a freewill-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; no blemish shall be in it. ²²Blind, or broken, or maimed, or with a wen, or scab, or scurvy, these you shall not offer to the LORD, and a fire-offering you shall not give from them upon the altar to the LORD.

²³And an ox or a sheep with a limb overlong or stunted, a freewill-offering you may make it; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. ²⁴And that which is bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut you shall not offer to the LORD; and in your land you shall not do this. ²⁵And from the hand of a son of a foreigner you shall not offer the bread of your God from any of these, because their corruption is in them, a blemish is in them; they shall not be accepted for you.

²⁶And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷An ox, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is born, then it shall be seven days under its mother; and from the eighth day and onward it shall be accepted for an offering, a fire-offering, to the LORD. ²⁸And an ox or a sheep, it and its young you shall not slaughter in one day.

²⁹And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, for your acceptance you shall sacrifice it. ³⁰On that same day it shall be eaten; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am the LORD.

³¹And you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD. ³²And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be sanctified among the sons of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you, ³³the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be for you God: I am the LORD.

4Reading 4 Leviticus 23:1–22Chapter page with footnotes →

Feasts and Shabbats

^23:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: The appointed times (moedim) of the LORD, which you shall proclaim them holy convocations, these are My appointed times (moedim).

³Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of Shabbaton, a holy convocation; any work you shall not do; it is a Shabbat to the LORD in all your dwellings.

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

⁴These are the appointed times (moedim) of the LORD, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim them in their appointed time (mo-ed). ⁵In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is a Passover to the LORD. ⁶And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷On the first day a holy convocation shall be to you; any work of service you shall not do. ⁸And you shall bring near a fire-offering to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; any work of service you shall not do.

The Sheaf of the Firstfruits

⁹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁰Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, and you reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. ¹¹And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for your acceptance; on the morrow after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it.

¹²And you shall offer, on the day you wave the sheaf, a lamb without blemish, a son of its year, for a burnt offering to the LORD. ¹³And its grain offering, two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, a fire-offering to the LORD, a savor of soothing; and its drink offering, wine, a fourth of the hin.

¹⁴And bread and parched grain and fresh ears you shall not eat until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your God; an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Feast of Weeks

¹⁵And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven complete Shabbats they shall be. ¹⁶Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat you shall count fifty days; and you shall bring near a new grain offering to the LORD.

¹⁷From your dwellings you shall bring two wave loaves of two tenths; of fine flour they shall be, with leaven they shall be baked, firstfruits to the LORD.

¹⁸And you shall bring near with the bread seven lambs without blemish, sons of a year, and one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a fire-offering of a savor of soothing to the LORD.

¹⁹And you shall make one he-goat of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace offerings. ²⁰And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits, a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

²¹And you shall proclaim on this very day; a holy convocation it shall be to you; any work of service you shall not do; an everlasting statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

²²And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corner of your field in your reaping, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not gather; for the poor and for the stranger you shall leave them: I am the LORD your God.

5Reading 5 Leviticus 23:23–32Chapter page with footnotes →

The Feast of Trumpets

^23:23And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁴Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall be to you a Shabbaton, a memorial of trumpet blast, a holy convocation. ²⁵Any work of service you shall not do; and you shall bring near a fire-offering to the LORD.

The Day of Atonement

²⁶And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷But on the tenth of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; a holy convocation it shall be to you, and you shall afflict your souls; and you shall bring near a fire-offering to the LORD.

²⁸And any work you shall not do on this very day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. ²⁹For every soul that is not afflicted on this very day shall be cut off from its peoples. ³⁰And every soul that does any work on this very day, I will destroy that soul from the midst of its people.

³¹Any work you shall not do; an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³²A Shabbat of Shabbaton it is to you, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall shabbat your Shabbat.

6Reading 6 Leviticus 23:33–44Chapter page with footnotes →

The Feast of Tabernacles

^23:33And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ³⁴Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to the LORD. ³⁵On the first day is a holy convocation; any work of service you shall not do. ³⁶Seven days you shall bring near a fire-offering to the LORD; on the eighth day a holy convocation it shall be to you, and you shall bring near a fire-offering to the LORD; it is a solemn assembly; any work of service you shall not do.

³⁷These are the appointed times (moedim) of the LORD, which you shall proclaim them holy convocations, to bring near a fire-offering to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, the matter of a day on its day; ³⁸besides the Shabbat of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.

³⁹But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day is a Shabbaton, and on the eighth day a Shabbaton.

⁴⁰And you shall take for yourselves on the first day fruit of a majestic tree, fronds of palms, and a branch of a leafy tree, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. ⁴¹And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year; an everlasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month you shall keep it.

⁴²In booths you shall dwell seven days; every native in Israel shall dwell in booths; ⁴³that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

⁴⁴And Moses declared the appointed times (moedim) of the LORD to the sons of Israel.

7Reading 7 Leviticus 24:1–23Chapter page with footnotes →

The Oil for the Lamps

^24:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²Command the sons of Israel, that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to go up continually.

³Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; an everlasting statute throughout your generations. ⁴Upon the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps before the LORD continually.

The Showbread

⁵And you shall take fine flour and bake it, twelve cakes; two tenths shall be in the one cake. ⁶And you shall set them in two rows, six to the row, upon the pure table before the LORD. ⁷And you shall put upon the row pure frankincense, and it shall be for the bread a memorial, a fire-offering to the LORD.

⁸On the Shabbat day, on the Shabbat day, he shall arrange it before the LORD continually; from the sons of Israel, an everlasting covenant. ⁹And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the fire-offerings of the LORD, an everlasting statute.

Punishment for Blasphemy

¹⁰And the son of an Israelite woman went out, and he was the son of an Egyptian man, in the midst of the sons of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. ¹¹And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

¹²And they put him in custody, to declare to them at the mouth of the LORD.

¹³And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁴Bring out the one who cursed to outside the camp, and let all who heard lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

¹⁵And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying: Any man, when he curses his God, shall bear his sin. ¹⁶And he who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall surely stone him; as the stranger, so the native, when he blasphemes the Name, he shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

¹⁷And a man, when he strikes any soul of man, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸And he who strikes the soul of a beast shall make it good: soul for soul. ¹⁹And a man, when he gives a blemish in his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him: ²⁰breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he gives a blemish in the man, so shall it be given in him.

²¹And he who strikes a beast shall make it good; and he who strikes a man shall be put to death. ²²One judgment shall be for you; as the stranger, so the native it shall be; for I am the LORD your God.

²³And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought out the one who cursed to outside the camp, and stoned him with a stone. And the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

PEzekiel 44:15–31Chapter page with footnotes →

The Duties of the Priests

^44:15But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, they shall draw near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁶They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall draw near to my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

¹⁷And it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within. ¹⁸Linen turbans shall be upon their heads, and linen breeches shall be upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with sweat.

¹⁹And when they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

²⁰And their heads they shall not shave, and they shall not let locks grow long; they shall surely trim their heads. ²¹And no priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court. ²²And a widow and a divorced woman they shall not take for themselves for wives; but virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest, they may take. ²³And my people they shall teach the difference between holy and profane, and they shall make them know between the unclean and the clean.

²⁴And over a controversy they shall stand to judge; by my judgments they shall judge it; and my Torah and my statutes in all my appointed times (moedim) they shall keep, and my Shabbat they shall sanctify.

²⁵And to a dead man he shall not come, to defile himself; except for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has not been to a man, they may defile themselves. ²⁶And after his cleansing, seven days they shall count for him. ²⁷And on the day he enters the holy place, to the inner court, to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD.

²⁸And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

²⁹The grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, they shall eat them; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. ³⁰And the first of all the firstfruits of everything, and every heave offering of everything, of all your heave offerings, shall be for the priests; and the first of your dough you shall give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest upon your house. ³¹Any carcass or torn thing, of bird or of beast, the priests shall not eat.

A1 Corinthians 15:20–23Chapter page with footnotes →

The Order of Resurrection

^15:20But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. ²¹For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. ²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all will be made alive. ²³But each in his own order: Messiah the first fruits, after that those who are Messiah's at His coming.