Category: leviticus
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Vow [1-minute read]
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons… 5If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.–Leviticus 27 This text…
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Israel [1-minute read]
44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.45But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out…
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Two Years [1-minute read]
4but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land… 10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you…–Leviticus 25 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll…
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Light [1-minute read]
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout…
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Calendar [1-minute read]
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.–Leviticus 23 God scheduled regular BBQ parties throughout the year. What’s amazing is that these festivals match up with Jesus and the early church. My…
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Best [1-minute read]
22Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.–Leviticus 22 I used to be a youth pastor and I remember people in the church wanting to donate old couches and chairs for…
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Blemish [1-minute read]
21No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the…
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Mine (1-minute read)
26You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.–Leviticus 20 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are…
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Neighbor
10…You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God….11…you shall not lie to one another….13“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him…15You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great…16You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not…
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Morals and Ethics [1-minute read]
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. 3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk…
Joel M Bradshaw 