KedoshimHoly ones

1Reading 1 Leviticus 19:1–14Chapter page with footnotes →

Commandments for Holiness

^19:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, "Holy you shall be, for holy am I, the LORD your God.

³Each man, his mother and his father you shall fear, and My Shabbat you shall keep; I am the LORD your God.

⁴Do not turn to the idols, and molten gods you shall not make for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.

⁵And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to the LORD, for your acceptance you shall sacrifice him. ⁶In the day of your sacrifice it shall be eaten, and on the next day; and what remains until the third day shall be burned in the fire. ⁷And if it is at all eaten on the third day, it is foul; it shall not be accepted. ⁸And the one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because the holy thing of the LORD he has profaned; and that soul shall be cut off from its peoples.

Love Your Neighbor

⁹And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the corner of your field, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not gather. ¹⁰And your vineyard you shall not glean, and the fallen fruit of your vineyard you shall not gather; for the poor and for the sojourner you shall leave them; I am the LORD your God.

¹¹You shall not steal, and you shall not deal falsely, and you shall not lie, a man to his fellow.

¹²And you shall not swear by My name falsely, and so profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

¹³You shall not oppress your neighbor, and you shall not rob; the wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you until morning.

¹⁴You shall not curse the deaf, and before the blind you shall not put a stumbling block; and you shall fear your God; I am the LORD.

2Reading 2 Leviticus 19:15–22Chapter page with footnotes →

^19:15You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor, and you shall not honor the face of the great; in righteousness you shall judge your fellow.

¹⁶You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor; I am the LORD.

¹⁷You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely reprove your fellow, and you shall not bear sin because of him. ¹⁸You shall not avenge, and you shall not bear a grudge against the sons of your people, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.

Keep My Statutes

¹⁹My statutes you shall keep. Your beast you shall not mate with a different kind; your field you shall not sow with two kinds; and a garment of two kinds, mingled stuff, shall not come upon you.

²⁰And a man, when he lies with a woman with emission of seed, and she is a maidservant designated for a man, and she has not at all been redeemed, or freedom has not been given to her — an inquiry shall be; they shall not be put to death, because she was not freed. ²¹And he shall bring his guilt-offering to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), a ram of guilt-offering. ²²And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before the LORD for his sin which he sinned; and it shall be forgiven him from his sin which he sinned.

3Reading 3 Leviticus 19:23–32Chapter page with footnotes →

^19:23And when you come into the land, and you plant any tree of food, then you shall regard its fruit as uncircumcised, its uncircumcision; three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten. ²⁴And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, praises to the LORD. ²⁵And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, to add to you its produce; I am the LORD your God.

²⁶You shall not eat upon the blood; you shall not practice divination, and you shall not practice soothsaying.

²⁷You shall not round the corner of your head, and you shall not destroy the corner of your beard.

²⁸And a cutting for a soul you shall not put in your flesh, and a tattoo writing you shall not put upon you; I am the LORD.

²⁹Do not profane your daughter to make her a harlot, lest the land go whoring, and the land be full of lewdness.

³⁰My Shabbat you shall keep, and My sanctuary you shall fear; I am the LORD.

³¹Do not turn to the ghosts and to the familiar spirits; do not seek to be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.

³²Before gray hair you shall rise, and you shall honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God; I am the LORD.

4Reading 4 Leviticus 19:33–37Chapter page with footnotes →

^19:33And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. ³⁴As the native among you shall the sojourner who sojourns with you be to you, and you shall love him as yourself, for sojourners you were in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

³⁵You shall not do injustice in judgment, in measure, in weight, or in volume. ³⁶Balances of righteousness, stones of righteousness, an ephah of righteousness, and a hin of righteousness you shall have; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

³⁷And you shall keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and do them; I am the LORD.

5Reading 5 Leviticus 20:1–7Chapter page with footnotes →

Punishments for Disobedience

^20:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²And to the sons of Israel you shall say: A man, a man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourner who sojourns in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³And I, I will set My face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because of his seed he gave to Molech, in order to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

⁴And if the people of the land surely hide their eyes from that man when he gives of his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death, ⁵then I, I will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut him off, and all who go whoring after him, to go whoring after Molech, from the midst of their people.

⁶And the soul who turns to the ghosts and to the familiar spirits, to go whoring after them, I will set My face against that soul, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

⁷And you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

6Reading 6 Leviticus 20:8–22Chapter page with footnotes →

^20:8And you shall keep My statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

⁹For a man, a man who curses his father and his mother shall surely be put to death; his father and his mother he has cursed; his blood is upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality

¹⁰And a man who commits adultery with the wife of a man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

¹¹And a man who lies with the wife of his father — the nakedness of his father he has uncovered — both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

¹²And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; confusion they have made; their blood is upon them.

¹³And a man who lies with a male as one lies with a woman, an abomination both of them have done; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

¹⁴And a man who takes a woman and her mother — it is lewdness — in the fire they shall burn him and them, that there be no lewdness in your midst.

¹⁵And a man who gives his lying with a beast shall surely be put to death; and the beast you shall kill.

¹⁶And a woman who approaches any beast to lie down with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

¹⁷And a man who takes his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness — it is a disgrace — and they shall be cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; the nakedness of his sister he has uncovered; he shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁸And a man who lies with a woman in her sickness and uncovers her nakedness — her fountain he has laid bare, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood — both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.

¹⁹And the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister you shall not uncover; for his near kin he has laid bare; their iniquity they shall bear.

²⁰And a man who lies with his aunt — the nakedness of his uncle he has uncovered — their sin they shall bear; childless they shall die.

²¹And a man who takes the wife of his brother — it is impurity; the nakedness of his brother he has uncovered — childless they shall be.

Distinguish between Clean and Unclean

²²And you shall keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell in it not vomit you out.

7Reading 7 Leviticus 20:23–27Chapter page with footnotes →

^20:23And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you; for all these things they did, and I abhorred them.

²⁴And I said to you, You shall possess their ground, and I, I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

²⁵And you shall separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make your souls detestable by beast or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have set apart for you as unclean. ²⁶And you shall be holy to Me, for holy am I, the LORD, and I have separated you from the peoples to be Mine.

²⁷And a man or a woman, when there is in them a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; with stones they shall stone them; their blood is upon them.

PEzekiel 22:1–19Chapter page with footnotes →

The Sins of Jerusalem

^22:1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ²And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the city of bloods? Then make her know all her abominations. ³And you shall say, Thus said the Lord GOD: A city shedding blood in her midst, that her time may come, and that has made idols against herself, to defile herself. ⁴By your blood that you have shed you have become guilty, and by your idols that you have made you are defiled; and you have brought near your days, and you have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the lands. ⁵Those near and those far from you shall mock you, O defiled of name, full of tumult.

⁶Behold, the princes of Israel, each man according to his arm, have been in you, in order to shed blood. ⁷Father and mother they have treated lightly in you; to the sojourner they have dealt with oppression in your midst; the orphan and the widow they have wronged in you.

⁸My holy things you have despised, and my Shabbat you have profaned. ⁹Men of slander have been in you, in order to shed blood; and upon the mountains they have eaten in you; lewdness they have committed in your midst.

¹⁰The nakedness of a father has been uncovered in you; the one unclean in her impurity they have humbled in you. ¹¹And each man with the wife of his neighbor has done abomination; and each man has defiled his daughter-in-law with lewdness; and each man has humbled his sister, the daughter of his father, in you.

¹²Gifts they have taken in you, in order to shed blood; interest and increase you have taken, and you have gained from your neighbors by oppression, and me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

¹³And behold, I have struck my palm at your dishonest gain that you have made, and at your blood that has been in your midst. ¹⁴Shall your heart stand, or shall your hands be strong, in the days that I am dealing with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it. ¹⁵And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. ¹⁶And you shall be profaned in yourself in the eyes of the nations; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

The Refining Furnace

¹⁷And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ¹⁸Son of man, the house of Israel has become to me dross; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace; dross of silver they have become.

¹⁹Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem.

AMatthew 22:34–40Chapter page with footnotes →

The Greatest Commandment

^22:34But when the Pharisees heard that Yeshua had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. ³⁵One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him: ³⁶"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"

³⁷And Yeshua said to him: "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intellect.' ³⁸This is the great and foremost commandment. ³⁹The second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' ⁴⁰On these two commandments depend the whole law and the Prophets."