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\h Leviticus 
\toc1 The Third Book of Torah, Leviticus [Pertaining to the Levites] / Vayikra [And he called] 
\toc2 Leviticus [And he called] 
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\mt1 Leviticus [Pertaining to the Levites]  
\mt1 Vayikra [And he called]  
\io1 \it Context: Leviticus details the duties of Priests descended from Aaron and the tribe of Levi in relation to God's tabernacle and the sacrificial system. It also establishes the judicial rulings and guidelines that the Levites are to make justice court rulings by. For example, the phrase “eye for an eye” found in (Ex 21:22-27) pertains to consequences and penalties to be determined, not a literal justification of anyone to enact justice outside the court system God establishes.\it*  
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\ms1 Parashah 24: \tl Vayikra\tl* ·And he called· 1:1-6:7  
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* called to Moses [Drawn out], and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,  
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.   
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\v 3 \f + \fr 1:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 1:3 (Lev 1:1-9, 17:11) (#2b.108): \+bd* \ft The procedure for the burnt offerings of animals that are from the herd, flock, or birds 
\fp Consider: (v4) Directs the person bring the offering to place their hand on the head of the animal (and vocally confess their sins to God), then the animal is slaughtered and atonement is made on their behalf / Directive: (v2-3) Describe the sin offering as male and without defect / Directive: (v2-9) Person’s responsibility of actions in sacrifice are: (v2-3) bring the animal to the tent of meeting, (v4) lay hands on the animal’s head as a substitutionary sacrifice, (v5) slaughter the animal before God and the \ft \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests·, (v6) skin the animal, (v6) cut the animal in pieces, (v9) to wash the entrails and the lower legs of the animal with water / Directive: (v2-9) The \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· are responsible for the actions of sacrifice are: (v5) to present the blood of the sacrifice, (v5) splash the blood of all sides of the altar, (v7) attend to the fire on the altar, (v8) to arrange the pieces, head, and fat of the animal on the wood of the fire altar, (v9) to make the entrails and lower legs to go up in smoke as a burnt offering / Consider: In making a sacrifice, the one who sinned will get the blood of the sacrifice on his body while he prepares the meat for burning. The consequences of sin is death (Gen 9:4-6; Rom 6:23) and this person knows this consequence well\f* “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.  
\v 5 He shall kill the bull before \sc Adonai\sc*. Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 6 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.  
\v 7 The sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;  
\v 8 and Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;  
\v 9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.  
\v 11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before \sc Adonai\sc*. Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  
\v 12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,  
\v 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
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\v 14 “‘If his offering to \sc Adonai\sc* is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons.  
\v 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;  
\v 16 and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.  
\v 17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 1 \f + \fr 2:1 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 2:1 (Lev ch 2) (#2b.109): \+bd* \ft The procedure for the grain offering (also called meal offering)\f* “‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.  
\v 2 He shall bring it to Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron [Light-bringer]’s and his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire.   
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\v 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.  
\v 5 If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.  
\v 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. \bdit (3) \bdit*  
\v 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.  
\v 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to \sc Adonai\sc*: and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.  
\v 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron [Light-bringer]’s and his sons’. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire.   
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\v 11 \f + \fr 2:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 2:11 (#2b.110): \+bd* \ft T. Not to offer leaven or honey in a grain offering / R. Not to burn honey or yeast on the Altar of Burnt Offerings\f* “‘No meal offering, which you shall offer to \sc Adonai\sc*, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to \sc Adonai\sc*: but they shall not rise up for a pleasant aroma on the altar.  
\v 13 \f + \fr 2:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 2:13 (#2b.111): \+bd* \ft T. Salt must be offered with every grain offering / R. To salt all sacrifices\f* Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. \f + \fr 2:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 2:13 (#2b.112): \+bd* \ft T. Not to forget “the salt of the covenant with your God” with your grain offering / R. Not to omit the salt from sacrifices\f* You must not omit the salt of the covenant of your God with your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.   
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\v 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to \sc Adonai\sc*, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.  
\v 15 You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.  
\v 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\p \bdit (4) \bdit* 
\v 1 “‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.  
\v 3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,  
\v 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  
\v 5 Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 6 “‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to \sc Adonai\sc* is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without defect.  
\v 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before \sc Adonai\sc*;  
\v 8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  
\v 9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,  
\v 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  
\v 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 12 “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before \sc Adonai\sc*:  
\v 13 and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  
\v 14 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,  
\v 15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  
\v 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is \sc Adonai\sc*’s.   
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\v 17 \f + \fr 3:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 3:17 (#3.196): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat fat / R. Not to eat certain fats of clean animals (such as ox, sheep, or goat)\f* “‘It shall be a perpetual regulation throughout all your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat \f + \fr 3:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 3:17 (#3.197): \+bd* \ft Not to eat blood of any kind / Note: The blood is the life (of the animal). Blood makes atonement because of the life (Lev 17:11)\f* nor blood.’”   
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\p \bdit (5) \bdit* 
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘If anyone does sin ·err (the standard goal)· that is an unintentional mistake sin ·error· against any of the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· that \sc Adonai\sc* has ordered not to be done, if he does any one of them,  
\v 3 then if the anointed priest sins ·errs (the standard goal)· so as to bring trespass guilt on the people, then let him offer for his habitual sin ·missing the mark·, which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, a young bull without defect to \sc Adonai\sc* for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before \sc Adonai\sc*; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before \sc Adonai\sc*, before the veil of the sanctuary.  
\v 7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before \sc Adonai\sc*, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,  
\v 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away,  
\v 10 as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.  
\v 11 The bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,  
\v 12 he shall carry the whole bull outside of the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out, it shall be burned.   
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\v 13 \f + \fr 4:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 4:13-14 (Lev 4:13-21) (#2b.113): \+bd* \ft T. To offer a young bull as a sin sacrifice for the unintentional sin of the entire assembly of Israel / R. The Great Rabbinical Court / the \ft \+tl Sanhedrin\+tl* ·Sitting together· is to offer a sacrifice when it rules in error\f* “‘If the whole congregation of Israel [God prevails] is led astray, intoxicated, unintentional sin ·error· and you fail to observe, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done something against any the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of \sc Adonai\sc* concerning things which should not be done, they are condemned guilty.  
\v 14 When the habitual sin ·missing the mark· in which they have sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)· is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a habitual sin ·missing the mark· offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before \sc Adonai\sc*; and the bull shall be killed before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 16 The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting:  
\v 17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before \sc Adonai\sc*, before the veil.  
\v 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before \sc Adonai\sc*, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 19 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.  
\v 20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.  
\v 21 He shall carry the bull \bd outside the camp, \bd* and \bd burn it \bd* \f + \fr 4:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Heb 13:11\f* as he burned the first bull. It is the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering for the assembly.   
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\v 22 “‘When a ruler sins ·errs (the standard goal)· that is an unintentional mistake sin ·error· against any the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of \sc Adonai\sc* concerning things which should not be done, he is condemned guilty.  
\v 23 If his habitual sin ·missing the mark·, in which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.  
\v 24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before \sc Adonai\sc*. It is a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.  
\v 26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his habitual sin ·missing the mark·, and he will be forgiven.  
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\v 27 \f + \fr 4:27 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 4:27-28 (Lev 4:27-5:6) (#2b.114): \+bd* \ft T. For an individual to bring a flawless female goat or lamb (v32) as a sin offering if he has sinned unintentionally causing uncleanness / R. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression\f* “‘If anyone of the common people sins ·errs (the standard goal)· that is an unintentional mistake sin ·error·, and they have done something against any the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of \sc Adonai\sc* concerning things which should not be done, they are condemned guilty.  
\v 28 If his habitual sin ·missing the mark·, which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·.  
\v 29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and kill the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering in the place of burnt offering.  
\v 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.  
\v 31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.   
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\v 32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a habitual sin ·missing the mark· offering, he shall bring a female without defect.  
\v 33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and kill it for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.  
\v 34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.  
\v 35 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his habitual sin ·missing the mark· that he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)· from , and he will be forgiven.   
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\v 1 \f + \fr 5:1 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:1 (#9.558): \+bd* \ft For one who has evidence to testify in court\f* “‘If anyone sins ·errs (the standard goal)·, in that he \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not report it, then he shall bear his depravity (moral evil).   
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\v 2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be condemned guilty.   
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\v 3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be condemned guilty.   
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\v 4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be condemned guilty of one of these.  
\v 5 It shall be, when he is condemned guilty of one of these, he shall \tl yadah\tl* ·extend hands in confession· of that in which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·:  
\v 6 and he shall bring his fault incurring guilt offering to \sc Adonai\sc* for his habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his habitual sin ·missing the mark·.   
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\v 7 \f + \fr 5:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:7-11 (Lev 5:6-7, 5:1-13) (#2b.115): \+bd* \ft To offer a sacrifice according to the person’s ability, their means\f* “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his fault incurring guilt offering for that in which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to \sc Adonai\sc*; one for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the other for a burnt offering.  
\v 8 \f + \fr 5:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:8 (#2b.116): \+bd* \ft Not to sever the head nor to decapitate a bird brought as a sin offering\f* He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.  
\v 9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the judgement; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, and he shall be forgiven.  
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\v 11 “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, one tenth of an ephah [an omer; 2.3 q; 2.2 L] of fine flour for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering. \f + \fr 5:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:11 (Lev 5:11-13) (#2b.117): \+bd* \ft T. Not to put olive oil on the flour grain offering that is made for sin / R. Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers\f* He shall put no oil on it, \f + \fr 5:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:11 (Lev 5:11-13) (#2b.118): \+bd* \ft T. Not to put frankincense on the grain offering that is made for sin / R. Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers\f* and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire. It is a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his habitual sin ·missing the mark· that he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)· in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”   
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\v 14 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 15 “If anyone commits a violation, and sins ·errs (the standard goal)· that is an unintentional mistake sin ·error·, in the holy things of \sc Adonai\sc*; then he shall bring his fault incurring guilt offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is 0.4 oz; 11.34 g), for a fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 16 \f + \fr 5:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:16 (Lev 5:14-16) (#8.491): \+bd* \ft For he who cheats (by not offering the full amount of tithe or first fruits) in things dedicated to Adonai, he is to offer a guilt offering and add a fifth onto the value and restore it\f* He shall make restitution for that sin ·err (from the standard goal)· which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the fault incurring guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.   
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\v 17 \f + \fr 5:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 5:17-18 (Lev 5:15-19) (#1.6): \+bd* \ft T. For a person to bring a conditional-guilt offering, if he is in doubt as to whether he has committed a sin or unintentional sin for which a person is to bring a sin offering or if he has not done such a sin / R. If a person is not sure if they have committed a sin requiring a sin sacrifice or if they have not committed such sin, then they should bring a sin offering to make sure they are guiltless\f* “If anyone sins ·errs (the standard goal)· against any the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of \sc Adonai\sc* concerning things which should not be done, though he didn’t know it, yet he is condemned guilty, and shall bear his depravity (moral evil).  
\v 18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a fault incurring guilt offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the unintentional mistake sin ·error· in which he deviated in mental error, unintentional sin ·error·, and he will be forgiven.  
\v 19 It is a fault incurring guilt offering. He is certainly condemned guilty condemned guilty before \sc Adonai\sc*.”   
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\v 1 \f + \fr 6:1 \ft Hebrew ch 6 v. 8\f* \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “If anyone sins ·errs (the standard goal)·, and commits an unfaithful deed against \sc Adonai\sc*, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,  
\v 3 or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning ·deviating (from the standard goal)· therein;  
\v 4 \f + \fr 6:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:4 (Lev 6:1-7; Ex 22:1-4, OU487) [Heb Bible Lev 5:23 (Lev 5:20-26)] (#8.492): \+bd* \ft T. To completely restore the items(s) which another took by robbery to the original owner and add a fifth to it / R. Return the robbed object or its value\f* then it shall be, if he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, and is condemned guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his trespass guilt.  
\v 6 \f + \fr 6:6 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:6 (Lev 6:1-7) [Heb Bible Lev 5:25 (Lev 5:20-5:26)] (#1.7): \+bd* \ft To bring a guilt offering to the Sanctuary when guilt is ascertained\f* He shall bring his fault incurring guilt offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a fault incurring guilt offering, to the priest.  
\v 7 \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Hebrew ch 5 v. 26\f* The priest shall make atonement for him before \sc Adonai\sc*, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become trespass guilty.”   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah Vayikra\tl* ·Taking leave· ·And he called·:  
\s1 \tl Yesha'yahu\tl* / Isaiah 43:21-44:19  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Mark 7:1-30  
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\ms1 Parashah 25: \tl Tzav\tl* ·Enjoin· 6:8-8:36  
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\v 8 \f + \fr 6:8 \ft Hebrew ch 6 v. 1\f* \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 9 “Enjoin Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons, saying, ‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.  
\v 10 \f + \fr 6:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:10 [Heb Bible Lev 6:3] (#2b.119): \+bd* \ft Remove the ashes from the fire on the Altar of Burnt Offerings daily\f* The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.  
\v 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.  
\v 12 \f + \fr 6:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:12 (Lev 6:12-13) [Heb Bible Lev 6:5 (Lev 6:5-6)] (#2b.120): \+bd* \ft T. To have a fire burning continually on the Altar of Burnt Offerings / R. To light a fire on the altar every day\f* The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.  
\v 13 \f + \fr 6:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:13 [Heb Bible Lev 6:6] (#2b.121): \+bd* \ft Not to allow the fire of the Altar of Burnt Offerings to be extinguish\f* Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.   
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\v 14 “‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] shall offer it before \sc Adonai\sc*, before the altar.  
\v 15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 16 \f + \fr 6:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:16 (Lev 6:14-19) [Heb Bible Lev 6:9 (Lev 6:7-11)] (#1.8): \+bd* \ft Aaron and his sons shall eat the remained of the grain offering\f* That which is left of it Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 17 \f + \fr 6:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:17 (Lev 6:14-18) [Heb Bible Lev 6:10 (Lev 6:7-11)] (#2b.122): \+bd* \ft Not to bake the grain offerings with leaven\f* It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and as the fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 18 Every male among the children of Aaron [Light-bringer] shall eat of it, as their \tl chok\tl* ·portion· forever throughout all your generations, from the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”  
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\v 19 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 20 \f + \fr 6:20 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:20 (Lev 6:19-23) [Heb Bible Lev 6:13 (Lev 6:12-16)] (#2b.123): \+bd* \ft The \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· (v22) offers a grain offering daily\f* “This is the offering of Aaron [Light-bringer] and of his sons, which they shall offer to \sc Adonai\sc* in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah [an omer; 2.3 q; 2.2 L] of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.  
\v 21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 23 \f + \fr 6:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:23 [Heb Bible Lev 6:16] (#2b.124): \+bd* \ft T. The twice daily grain offering of the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall be entirely made burn up in smoke, it must not be eaten / R. Not to eat the meal offering of the \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest·\f* Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”   
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\v 24 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 25 \f + \fr 6:25 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:25 (Lev 6:24-30) [Heb Bible Lev 6:18 (Lev 6:17-23)] (#2b.125): \+bd* \ft The procedure for the sin offering\f* “Speak to Aaron [Light-bringer] and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering shall be killed before \sc Adonai\sc*. It is most holy.  
\v 26 The priest who offers it for sin ·err (the standard goal)· shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.  
\v 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.  
\v 29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.  
\v 30 \f + \fr 6:30 \ft Hebrew ch 6 v. 23\f* \f + \fr 6:30 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 6:30 [Heb Bible Lev 6:23] (#2b.126): \+bd* \ft Not to eat the flesh of sin offerings in which the blood was brought inside the Tent of Meeting\f* No habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.   
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\v 1 “‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the fault incurring guilt offering. It is most holy.  
\v 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the fault incurring guilt offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.  
\v 3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,  
\v 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;  
\v 5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*: it is a fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.   
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\v 7 “‘As is the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, so is the fault incurring guilt offering; there is one \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.  
\v 8 The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.  
\v 9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.  
\v 10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], one as well as another.  
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\v 11 \f + \fr 7:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:11 (Lev 7:11-21) (#2b.128): \+bd* \ft “The Law of the sacrifice of the peace offering” (v11) 
\fp T. Directive: Among the sacrifices for Thanksgiving (v12-15), one of each gift (sacrifice animal) is to be presented to the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· as his possession, the rest of the animals and the \+tl matzah\+tl* ·unleavened bread· associated will be offered up to Adonai on the altar. The meat is to be eaten that same day 
\fp T. Directive: For sacrifices connected with a Vow Offerings (v16-18), the same directions apply, except the meat may be eaten on the second day also, but not on the third day / T. Directive: For Vow Offerings, any meat eaten on the third day will cause the offering to be not accepted and he will bear the consequences of his wrongdoing 
\fp T. Directive: The Peace Offering meat may not touch anything unclean, otherwise it must be burned up completely / Directive: Any clean person may eat the Peace Offerings / T. Directive: Any person who is unclean may not offer Peace Offerings, nor may any person who touched something unclean touch the Peace Offerings / Consequence: Such a person will be cut off from his people\f* “‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which \bd one shall offer to \+sc Adonai \+sc* \bd*.  
\v 12 If he \bd offers \bd* it for a \bd thanksgiving, \bd* then he shall offer with the \bd sacrifice of thanksgiving \bd* \f + \fr 7:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Heb 13:15\f* unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.  
\v 13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.  
\v 14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to \sc Adonai\sc*. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.  
\v 15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.   
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\v 16 “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:  
\v 17 \f + \fr 7:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:17 (Lev 7:16-18) (#2b.129): \+bd* \ft T. To burn the flesh of peace offering sacrifice that remains on the third day / R. To burn the leftover sacrifices\f* but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.  
\v 18 \f + \fr 7:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:18 (Lev 7:16-18) (#2b.130): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat the sacrifice flesh after three days / R. Not to eat the abomination of intended delay; it is punished by uncleanness and removal / R. Not to eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions\f* If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his depravity (moral evil).   
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\v 19 \f + \fr 7:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:19 (Lev 7:19-20) (#2b.131): \+bd* \ft Not to eat consecrated foods that have become unclean\f* “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. \f + \fr 7:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:19 (Lev 7:19-20) (#2b.132): \+bd* \ft T. Sacrificial meat that touches something unclean must be burned with fire / R. To burn the flesh of any sacrifice that has become ceremonially unclean\f* It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;  
\v 20 \f + \fr 7:20 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 7:20 (Lev 7:19-21) (#2b.133): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· who is unclean shall not eat any of the peace offering food / R. A person who is unclean shall not eat consecrated food nor holy things\f* but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to \sc Adonai\sc*, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.  
\v 21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to \sc Adonai\sc*, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”   
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\v 22 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 23 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.  
\v 24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.  
\v 25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.  
\v 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.  
\v 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”   
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\v 28 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 29 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to \sc Adonai\sc* shall bring his offering to \sc Adonai\sc* out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.  
\v 30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron [Light-bringer]’s and his sons’.  
\v 32 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.  
\v 33 He among the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.  
\v 34 For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is raised I have taken from the children of Israel [God prevails] out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron [Light-bringer] the priest and to his sons as their \tl chok\tl* ·portion· forever from the children of Israel [God prevails].’”   
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\v 35 This is the anointing portion of Aaron [Light-bringer], and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to \sc Adonai\sc* in the priest’s office;  
\v 36 which \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined to be given them of the children of Israel [God prevails], in the day that he anointed them, by a regulation forever throughout all their generations.  
\v 37 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and of the fault incurring guilt offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;  
\v 38 which \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out] in Mount Sinai [Thorn], in the day that he enjoined the children of Israel [God prevails] to offer their offerings to \sc Adonai\sc*, in the wilderness of Sinai [Thorn].   
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Take Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the two rams, and the basket of \tl matzah\tl* ·unleavened bread·;  
\v 3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”   
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\v 4 Moses [Drawn out] did as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 5 Moses [Drawn out] said to the congregation, “This is the thing which \sc Adonai\sc* has enjoined to be done.”  
\v 6 Moses [Drawn out] brought Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons, and washed them with water.  
\v 7 He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.  
\v 8 He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the \tl 'Urim\tl* ·Lights· and the \tl Thummim\tl* ·Perfections·.  
\v 9 He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].  
\v 10 Moses [Drawn out] took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.  
\v 11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.  
\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron [Light-bringer]’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.  
\v 13 Moses [Drawn out] brought Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].  
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\v 14 He brought the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 15 He killed it; and Moses [Drawn out] took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and cleansed sin ·err (the standard goal)· from the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.  
\v 16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses [Drawn out] burned it on the altar.  
\v 17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].  
\v 18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  
\v 19 He killed it; and Moses [Drawn out] sprinkled the blood around on the altar.  
\v 20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses [Drawn out] burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.  
\v 21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses [Drawn out] burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out]. \bdit (6) \bdit*  
\v 22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  
\v 23 He killed it; and Moses [Drawn out] took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron [Light-bringer]’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.  
\v 24 He brought Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons; and Moses [Drawn out] put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses [Drawn out] sprinkled the blood around on the altar.  
\v 25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;  
\v 26 and out of the basket of \tl matzah\tl* ·unleavened bread·, that was before \sc Adonai\sc*, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.  
\v 27 He put all these in Aaron [Light-bringer]’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 28 Moses [Drawn out] took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 29 Moses [Drawn out] took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*. It was Moses [Drawn out]’ portion of the ram of consecration, as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out]. \bdit (7) \bdit*  
\v 30 Moses [Drawn out] took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron [Light-bringer], on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron [Light-bringer], his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.   
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\v 31 Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer] and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I enjoined, saying, ‘Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons shall eat it.’  
\v 32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire. \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.  
\v 34 What has been done today, so \sc Adonai\sc* has enjoined to do, to make atonement for you.  
\v 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and thereby obeying what \sc Adonai\sc* has ordered done, so that you may not die. For this is what I am enjoined.”  
\v 36 Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons did all the things which \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined by Moses [Drawn out].   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah Tzav\tl* ·Taking leave· ·Enjoin·:  
\s1 \tl Yirmeyahu\tl* / Jeremiah 7:21-8:3, 9:23-24  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Mark 7:31-9:1  
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\ms1 Parashah 26: \tl Sh'mini\tl* ·Eighth· 9:1-11:47  
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\v 1 On the eighth day, Moses [Drawn out] called Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons, and the elders of Israel [God prevails];  
\v 2 and he said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “Take a calf from the herd for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 3 You shall speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘Take a male goat for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;  
\v 4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before \sc Adonai\sc*; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today \sc Adonai\sc* appears to you.’”   
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\v 5 They brought what Moses [Drawn out] enjoined before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation came near and stood before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 6 Moses [Drawn out] said, “This is the thing which \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined that you should do: and the \tl kavod Yahweh\tl* ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· shall appear to you.”  
\v 7 Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “Draw near to the altar, and offer your habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined.”   
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\v 8 So Aaron [Light-bringer] came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, which was for himself.  
\v 9 The sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:  
\v 10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, he burned upon the altar; as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].  
\v 11 The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.  
\v 12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.  
\v 13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.  
\v 14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.  
\v 15 He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin ·err (the standard goal)·, like the first.  
\v 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the judgement. \bdit (2) \bdit*  
\v 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.  
\v 18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron [Light-bringer]’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,  
\v 19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:  
\v 20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:  
\v 21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron [Light-bringer] waved for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*, as Moses [Drawn out] enjoined.  
\v 22 Aaron [Light-bringer] lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.   
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\v 23 Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer] went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the \tl kavod Yahweh\tl* ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· appeared to all the people. \bdit (3) \bdit*  
\v 24 Fire came out from before \sc Adonai\sc*, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.   
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\v 1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange, foreign, adulterated fire before \sc Adonai\sc*, which he had not enjoined them.  
\v 2 Fire came out from before \sc Adonai\sc*, and devoured them, and they died before \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 3 Then Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “This is what \sc Adonai\sc* spoke of, saying,  
\q1 ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,  
\q2 and before all the people I will be glorified.’”  
\p Aaron [Light-bringer] held his peace.  
\v 4 Moses [Drawn out] called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the \tl dod\tl* ·uncle· of Aaron [Light-bringer], and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”  
\v 5 So they came near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses [Drawn out] had said.   
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\v 6 \f + \fr 10:6 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 10:6 (Lev 10:1-6) (#2b.134): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not enter the Sanctuary with unkempt hair in mourning / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not enter the Temple with long hair\f* Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer], and to Eleazar [Help of God] and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, \f + \fr 10:6 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 10:6 (Lev 10:1-6) (#2b.135): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not enter the Sanctuary in torn clothing or rent garments in mourning / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not enter the Sanctuary in torn clothing or rent garments\f* and don’t tear your clothes; so that you don’t die, and so that he not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel [God prevails], bewail the burning which \sc Adonai\sc* has kindled.  
\v 7 \f + \fr 10:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 10:7 (Lev 10:1-7) (#2b.136): \+bd* \ft A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not leave the Courtyard during their concentrated service\f* You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of \sc Adonai\sc* is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses [Drawn out].  
\v 8 Then \sc Adonai\sc* said to Aaron [Light-bringer],  
\v 9 \f + \fr 10:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 10:9 (Lev 10:9-11) (#2b.137): \+bd* \ft T. A wine-intoxicated \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not enter the Sanctuary / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not enter the Temple intoxicated 
\fp R. Some Rabbis apply this command as “any person must not enter the Temple intoxicated” not only to the \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests·\f* “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a regulation forever throughout all your generations.  
\v 10 You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.  
\v 11 You are to teach the children of Israel [God prevails] all the statutes which \sc Adonai\sc* has spoken to them by Moses [Drawn out].”  
\p \bdit (4) \bdit*  
\v 12 Moses [Drawn out] spoke to Aaron [Light-bringer], and to Eleazar [Help of God] and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;  
\v 13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your \tl chok\tl* ·portion·, and your sons’ \tl chok\tl* ·portion·, of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire: for so I am enjoined.  
\v 14 The breast that is waved and the thigh that is raised you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your \tl chok\tl* ·portion·, and your sons’ \tl chok\tl* ·portion·, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel [God prevails].  
\v 15 The thigh that is raised and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*: and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a \tl chok\tl* ·portion· forever; as \sc Adonai\sc* has enjoined.”  
\p \bdit (5) \bdit*  
\v 16 Moses [Drawn out] diligently inquired about the goat of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar [Help of God] and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer] who were left, saying,  
\v 17 “Why haven’t you eaten the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the depravity (moral evil) of the congregation, to make atonement for them before \sc Adonai\sc*?  
\v 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I enjoined.”   
\p
\v 19 \f + \fr 10:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 10:19 (Lev 10:1-3, 10:16-20) (#5.366): \+bd* \ft To mourn for relatives (who have died)\f* Aaron [Light-bringer] spoke to Moses [Drawn out], “Behold, today they have offered their habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering and their burnt offering before \sc Adonai\sc*; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering today, would it have been pleasing in \sc Adonai\sc*’s sight?”   
\p
\v 20 When Moses [Drawn out] \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· that, it was pleasing in his sight.   
\c 11  
\p \bdit (6) \bdit* 
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying to them,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 11:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:2 (Lev 11:1-3, 11:1-8, 11:44-45; Deut 14:4-6) (#3.198): \+bd* \ft T. To examine and identify the land animals that are \ft \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· for you to eat and their identifying signs / R. To examine the signs of land animals to distinguish between kosher and \+tl non-kosher\+tl* 
\fp Directive: Qualifications of \+tl Kosher\+tl* ·Clean· animals, they have both a separate hoof that is completely divided and chews cud / Note: It is a fact, no carnivore, only meat eating, is \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· to eat where as a few omnivores, eats meat and plants, are \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· for food\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.  
\v 3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.   
\p
\v 4 \f + \fr 11:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:4 (Lev 11:1-3, 11:1-8, 11:44-45; Deut 14:4-6) (#3.199): \+bd* \ft Not to eat \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· land animals 
\fp Directive: Qualification: These animals do not chew the cud and / or do not have a split hoof\f* “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.  
\v 5 The cony, because he chews the cud but does not have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.  
\v 6 The hare, because she chews the cud but does not part the hoof, she is unclean to you.  
\v 7 The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you.  
\v 8 Of their meat you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.   
\p
\v 9 \f + \fr 11:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:9 (Lev 11:44-45; Deut 14:9) (#3.200): \+bd* \ft The fish that are \ft \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· for you and their identifying signs 
\fp Directive: Qualification: \+tl kosher\+tl* fish have both fins and scales\f* “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.  
\v 10 All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are detestable to you,  
\v 11 \f + \fr 11:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:11 (Lev 11:10-12, 11:44-45; Deut 14:10) (#3.201): \+bd* \ft Not to eat \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· fish 
\fp Directive: Qualification: These animals might live in a river or ocean, but do not have both fins and scales\f* and you detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.  
\v 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is detestable to you.   
\p
\v 13 \f + \fr 11:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:13 (Lev 11:13-19, 11:44-45; Deut 14:11-18) (#3.202): \+bd* \ft Not to eat \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· fowl of the air\f* “‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are detestable: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,  
\v 14 and the red kite, any kind of black kite,  
\v 15 any kind of raven,  
\v 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,  
\v 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,  
\v 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,  
\v 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.   
\p
\v 20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.  
\v 21 \f + \fr 11:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:21 (Lev 11:20-23, 11:29-31, 11:44-45; Deut 14:19-20) (#3.203): \+bd* \ft The locust ·winged swarming creatures on four legs· that are \ft \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· for you and their identifying signs 
\fp Directive: \+tl Treif\+tl* ·Unclean· locust are winged swarming creatures that walk on all four legs, with one exception, \+tl kosher\+tl* ·clean· locust are winged with four legs and have joints above the feet that enable them to jump off the ground. \+tl Kosher\+tl* ·Clean· swarming four legged creatures includes: all kinds of locusts, grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets\f* Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.  
\v 22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.  
\v 23 But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are detestable to you.   
\p
\v 24 “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  
\v 25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 26 “‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.  
\v 27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  
\v 28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.   
\p
\v 29 \f + \fr 11:29 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:29 (Lev 11:29-31, 11:29-38, 11:44-45) (#3.204): \+bd* \ft Eight species of creeping animals that swarm on the ground that are \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· to eat\f* “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,  
\v 30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.  
\v 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.  
\v 32 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean. \bdit (7) \bdit*  
\v 33 Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.  
\v 34 \f + \fr 11:34 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:34 (Lev 11:32-38, 11:44-45) (#3.205): \+bd* \ft T. If clean foods or utensils for food preparation are contaminated by something \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean·, it thus becomes \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· also / R. Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods\f* All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.  
\v 35 Everything where part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.  
\v 36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.  
\v 37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.  
\v 38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.   
\p
\v 39 \f + \fr 11:39 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:39 (Lev 11:32, 11:39-40, 11:44-45, 11:24-25) (#3.206): \+bd* \ft T. “If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· until the evening” (v39) / R. That anyone who touches an animal that died of itself, that is not of slaughter, is \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean·\f* “‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  
\v 40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 41 \f + \fr 11:41 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:41 (Lev 11:41-43, 11:44-45) (#3.207): \+bd* \ft Not to eat any animal that creeps upon the earth\f* “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is detestable. It shall not be eaten.  
\v 42 \f + \fr 11:42 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:42 (Lev 11:41-43, 11:44-45) (#3.208): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat any animal, that moves on its belly on the ground, walks on all fours, walks on many feet, or has many legs / R. Not to eat a worm found in fruit once it has come out into the air\f* Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are detestable.  
\v 43 \f + \fr 11:43 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:43 (Lev 11:41-43, 11:44-45) (#3.209): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text, it is implied / R. Not to eat things that swarm in the water (other than fish)\f* You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.  
\v 44 For I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and \bd be holy; for I am holy. \bd* \f + \fr 11:44 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 11:44 (Lev 11:43-45, 11:44-45) (#3.210): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat things that swarm upon the ground / R. Not to eat \ft \+tl treif\+tl* ·unclean· maggots 
\fp R. Note: According to the Rabbis only certain “worms” are permitted for food. Worms that do not live in an isolated condition, but are found only in other substances. For instance, the maggots in meat, fruit, fish, drinking water, etc. (HuLev 67a, b)\f* You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 45 For I am \sc Adonai\sc* who brought you up out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to be your God. You shall therefore \bd be holy, for I am holy. \bd* \f + \fr 11:45 \ft . \ft \+bd (44-45) Quoted in \+bd* 1 Pet 1:16\f*   
\p
\v 46 “‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,  
\v 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”   
\b  
\s1 \tl Haftarah Sh'mini\tl* ·Taking leave· ·Eighth·:  
\s1 \tl Sh'mu'el Bet\tl* / 2 Samuel 6:1-7:17 (A); 6:1-19 (S)  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Mark 9:2-13  
\c 12  
\ms1 Parashah 27: \tl Tazria\tl* ·She conceives· 12:1-13:59  
\s1 Read with Parashah 28 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
\p
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 12:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 12:2 (Lev 12:2-5, 12:1-8) (#3.211): \+bd* \ft A woman after childbirth is unclean like the menstruating woman\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.  
\v 3 \f + \fr 12:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 12:3; Gen 17:12 (Gen 17:7-14) (#1.9): \+bd* \ft To circumcise every male among you on the eighth day after birth\f* On \bd the eighth day \bd* the flesh of his foreskin shall be \bd circumcised. \bd* \f + \fr 12:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* John 7:22\f*  
\v 4 She shall continue in \bd purification \bd* \f + \fr 12:4 \ft . \ft \+bd (3-4) Quoted in \+bd* Luke 2:21-22\f* of blood for thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.  
\v 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in purification of blood for sixty-six days.   
\p
\v 6 \f + \fr 12:6 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 12:6 (Lev 12:6-8, 12:1-8) (#3.212): \+bd* \ft T. After a woman gives birth, she is to offer an offering following the days of her purification are fulfilled / R. A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she goes to the \ft \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism·\f* “‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering:  
\v 7 and he shall offer it before \sc Adonai\sc*, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.  
\p “‘This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· for her who bears, whether a male or a female.  
\v 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take \bd two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; \bd* \f + \fr 12:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Luke 2:24\f* the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”   
\c 13  
\p
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying,  
\v 2 “When a man shall have a rising in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*, then he shall be brought to Aaron [Light-bringer] the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:  
\v 3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.  
\v 4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.  
\v 5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days. \bdit (LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.  
\v 7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.  
\v 8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is \tl tzara'at\tl*.   
\p
\v 9 “When the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl* is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;  
\v 10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,  
\v 11 it is a chronic \tl tzara'at\tl* in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.   
\p
\v 12 \f + \fr 13:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 13:12-13 (Lev 13:9-17, 13:1-17, 13:1-46) (#3.213): \+bd* \ft A leper who has the infection spread over his entire body, the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· is to examine him and thus declare the person clean 
\fp Consider: The origin of \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· in Judaism is said to be caused not from natural sources, rather from God Himself to call attention to a particular unrepentant sin in a person’s life. The most significant of which is \+tl lashon harah\+tl* ·evil tongue·, that is speaking evil, gossip, slander, and backbiting (Talmud, Erachin 15B) / Note: Science: In the modern age, \+tl tzara'at\+tl* on a person is called Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease and \+tl tzara'at\+tl* in a house or on clothing is called Mold or Mildew. Neither of these modern diseases named are not identical to the Biblical description. The Modern age does not know exactly what disease \+tl tzara'at\+tl* is, it is possible the disease mutated or was only of divine-origin. Therefore, in Judaism, it was understood that only God can heal \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· 
\fp Consider: Because there was no known cure for \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· it was like unto a death sentence in society for the person would be forced to leave everything behind, including possessions and family. The person would not feel human touch again and live in isolation or in a leper colony. 
\fp Consider: The passage (Isaiah 35:5-7) is interpreted by the Rabbis that Messiah would be able to heal the blind (v5) and deaf (v5) and in addition, Messiah can cleanse \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· because “the lame will leap like a deer” (v6). Only God is recorded to cure \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· (Ex 4:6-7; Num 12:9-15; 2 Sam 3:28-30; 2 King 5:1-10, 5:25-27; Luke 4:27; 2 King 15:5; 2 Chr 26:16-21). There is no record of a Jewish man cleansing a leper except in (Matt 8:2-3, 10:8, 11:5; Mark 1:40-42; Luke 5:12-13, 7:22, 17:11-19)\f* “If the \tl tzara'at\tl* breaks out all over the skin, and the \tl tzara'at\tl* covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;  
\v 13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the \tl tzara'at\tl* has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.  
\v 14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.  
\v 15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is \tl tzara'at\tl*.  
\v 16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;  
\v 17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.  
\p \bdit (LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 18 “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,  
\v 19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;  
\v 20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*. It has broken out in the boil.  
\v 21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.  
\v 22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.  
\v 23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and has not spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.  
\p \bdit (RY:2, LY:4) \bdit*  
\v 24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,  
\v 25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is \tl tzara'at\tl*. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*.  
\v 26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is not lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.  
\v 27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*.  
\v 28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and has not spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.  
\p \bdit (LY:5) \bdit*  
\v 29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,  
\v 30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is \tl tzara'at\tl* of the head or of the beard.  
\v 31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.  
\v 32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch is not deeper than the skin,  
\v 33 \f + \fr 13:33 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 13:33 (#3.214): \+bd* \ft Not to shave off the hair in the \ft \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· infected area (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.  
\v 34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.  
\v 35 \f + \fr 13:35 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 13:45 (Lev 13:45-46) (#3.215): \+bd* \ft For the leper to be known to all by these things: his clothes shall be rent and torn, and the hair of his head shall be loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and he shall cry “\ft \+tl tamei, tamei\+tl* ·unclean, unclean·” when walking around non-lepers (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,  
\v 36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.  
\v 37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.  
\p \bdit (RY:3, LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;  
\v 39 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.   
\p
\v 40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.  
\v 41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.  
\v 42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is \tl tzara'at\tl* breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.  
\v 43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of \tl tzara'at\tl* in the skin of the flesh,  
\v 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.   
\p
\v 45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’  
\v 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.   
\p
\v 47 \f + \fr 13:47 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 13:47 (Lev 13:47-59) (#3.216): \+bd* \ft A leprous garment is unclean and causes defilement 
\fp Directive: It is contagious, it shall be burned (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* “The garment also that the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl* is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;  
\v 48 whether it is in linen, or in wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;  
\v 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the linnen, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*, and shall be shown to the priest.  
\v 50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.  
\v 51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the linnen, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew. It is unclean.  
\v 52 He shall burn the garment, whether the linnen or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.   
\p
\v 53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the linnen, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;  
\v 54 then the priest shall enjoin that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days. \bdit (RY:4, LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague has not changed its color, and the plague has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a \tl tzara'at \tl* mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.  
\v 56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the fabric, or out of the leather: \bdit (LY: Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the linnen, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.  
\v 58 The garment, either the linnen, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”   
\p
\v 59 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of the plague of \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the linnen, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.   
\b  
\s1 \tl Haftarah Tazria\tl* ·Taking leave· ·She conceives·:  
\s1 \tl M'lakhim Bet\tl* / 2 King 4:42-5:19  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Mark 9:14-50  
\c 14  
\ms1 Parashah 28: \tl M'tzora\tl* ·Person afflicted with \tl tzara'at·\tl* 14:1-15:33  
\s1 Read with Parashah 27 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
\p
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 14:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 14:2 (Lev 14:1-20) (#3.217): \+bd* \ft Directions for the cleansing of a leper (ritual) 
\fp Note: This ritual is to be done with the offerings of cedar wood, hyssop, scarlet wool, two birds, and spring water. The complete ritual is described in (v1-20) (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* “This shall be the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of \f + \fr 14:2 \ft Ch. 14 in Judaism, Leprosy is \+tl Tzara'at:\+tl* \ft The Rabbis teach that the Hebrew word \ft \+tl metzora\+tl* ·person afflicted with \+tl tzara'at\+tl*· is a contraction of the words \+tl motzi rah\+tl* which means ·one who spreads slander·. This chapter is as much about slander as it is about the disease of \+tl tzara'at\+tl*. 
\fp The “treatment” or punishment for such a person was being outcast for a period of time. During this time of isolation, the \+tl metzorah\+tl* could reflect on the damage done by his or her words. Once the condition had been cured, the \+tl metzorah\+tl* then offered a sacrifice which included two birds; one bird to slaughter and one bird to set free. Rashi says that God wanted the \+tl metzorah\+tl* to sacrifice birds in order to remind the person about the sin of chattering like a bird. 
\fp In \+tl Midrash Shocher Tov\+tl* it reads, “The damage done by evil talk is compared to the piercing, irreparable destruction of an arrow. Why is the tongue compared to an arrow? An arrow cannot be called back once it has been shot, even if the marksman wishes to do so. Just as the victim does not know about it until it actually reaches him, so the effects of evil talk are not felt until the arrows of a wicked person pierce him.”\f* \wj the \wj* \f + \fr 14:2 \ft (2-3) (context all ch 13-14) \ft \+wj MP: \+wj* Only God can heal leprosy; really this is not Hansen’s disease but a divine-origin disease called \+tl tzara'at\+tl* in Hebrew. Only God can afflict and only God can remove. Messiah has the authority of God to preform healing works that only God alone can accomplish such as healing disabilities. Examples: God applies the disease at will: (Ex 4:5-8; Num 12:10, 2 King 5:27); God only can heal the disease as He wills (Num 12:13-15; 2 King 5:1-8,5:14-15). (Luke 17:14) refers to (Lev 14:1-9). (Matt 11:5; Mark 1:40-44; Luke 5:12-14, 17:12-14 (context 17:11-19))\f* \wj leper \wj* in the day of his cleansing. \wj He shall be brought \+bd to the priest, \+bd* \wj* \f + \fr 14:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Matt 8:4; Luke 5:14; full context is all of (Lev ch 14)\f*  
\v 3 \wj and the priest shall go out of the camp.\+bd The priest \+bd* shall \+bd examine \+bd* \wj* \f + \fr 14:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Mark 1:44\f* \wj him, \wj* \f + \fr 14:3 \ft According to \ft \+tl Mishnah Nega'im\+tl* 2:2 people who see white, leprous-like spots on their skin should not inspect themselves to determine whether they have a case of \+tl tzara'at\+tl*. Rather, they should have a \+tl cohen\+tl* ·priest· perform the inspection for them. This is because most of us are quite incapable of seeing our own faults.\f* \wj and behold, if the plague of \+tl tzara'at\+tl* is healed in the leper, \wj*  
\v 4 then the priest shall enjoin them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.  
\v 5 The priest shall enjoin them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.  
\v 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.  
\v 7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the \tl tzara'at\tl* seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.   
\p
\v 8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.  
\v 9 \f + \fr 14:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 14:9 (Lev 14:1-9) (#3.218): \+bd* \ft For the leper to shave all his hair upon being cleansed (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.   
\p
\v 10 \f + \fr 14:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 14:10 (Lev 14:8-32, 14:2-8, 14:9, 14:10-20, 14:21-22, 14:23-32) (#3.219): \+bd* \ft T. People who are cleansed from their \ft \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· are to bring a sacrifice / R. People who are cleansed from their \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· must bring an offering after going to the \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism· (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah [three omers; 6.9 q; 6.6 L] of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log [0.65 qt; 0.31 L] of oil.  
\v 11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before \sc Adonai\sc*, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.   
\p
\v 12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a fault incurring guilt offering, with the log [0.65 qt; 0.31 L] of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*. \bdit (LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering is the priest’s, so is the fault incurring guilt offering. It is most holy.  
\v 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the fault incurring guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  
\v 15 The priest shall take some of the log [0.65 qt; 0.31 L] of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.  
\v 16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before \sc Adonai\sc*.   
\p
\v 19 “The priest shall offer the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;  
\v 20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.  
\p \bdit (RY:5, LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 21 “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a fault incurring guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah [an omer; 2.3 q; 2.2 L] of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and one log [0.65 qt; 0.31 L] of oil;  
\v 22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the other a burnt offering.   
\p
\v 23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 24 The priest shall take the lamb of the fault incurring guilt offering, and the log [0.65 qt; 0.31 L] of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 25 He shall kill the lamb of the fault incurring guilt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the fault incurring guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  
\v 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;  
\v 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,  
\v 31 even such as he is able to afford, the one for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before \sc Adonai\sc*.”   
\p
\v 32 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· for him in whom is the plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.  
\p \bdit (RY:6, LY:4) \bdit*  
\v 33 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying,  
\v 34 \f + \fr 14:34 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 14:34-35 (Lev 14:33-48, 14:49-53) (#3.220): \+bd* \ft The \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall identify and declare a malignant \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· on a house 
\fp Consider: In (Lev 14:34) God himself placed \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· in some houses of Cannites while Israel was entering into Cannan. This shows us that \+tl tzara'at\+tl* ·leprosy· can be caused by God and there is purpose for it existing, but why? (See more notes in Lev 13:33 OU213)\f* “When you have come into the land of Canaan [Humbled], which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew in a house in the land of your possession,  
\v 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’  
\v 36 The priest shall enjoin that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.  
\v 37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;  
\v 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.  
\v 39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,  
\v 40 then the priest shall enjoin that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:  
\v 41 and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.  
\v 42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.   
\p
\v 43 “If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;  
\v 44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew in the house. It is unclean.  
\v 45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.   
\p
\v 46 “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.  
\v 47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.   
\p
\v 48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.  
\v 49 To cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.  
\v 50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.  
\v 51 He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.  
\v 52 He shall cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;  
\v 53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”  
\p \bdit (LY:5) \bdit*  
\v 54 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· for any plague of \tl tzara'at\tl*, and for an itch,  
\v 55 and for the destructive \tl tzara'at \tl* mildew of a garment, and for a house,  
\v 56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;  
\v 57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean.  
\p This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of \tl tzara'at\tl*.   
\c 15  
\p
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out] and to Aaron [Light-bringer], saying,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 15:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:2-3 (Lev 15:1-12, 15:13-15, 15:31) (#3.221): \+bd* \ft T. A man having a discharge from the body, the discharge is unclean / R. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man’s running issue\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.  
\v 3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.   
\p
\v 4 “‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.  
\v 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  
\v 6 He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.  
\v 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 11 “‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.   
\p
\v 13 \f + \fr 15:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:13-14 (Lev 15:13-15, 15:31) (#3.222): \+bd* \ft T. After a person is cleansed from any bodily discharge causing them to be unclean, they will count seven days, then they are to wash their body and clothes in a \ft \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism· and on the eighth day to offer sacrifice / R. A man who had a running issue must bring an offering after he goes to the \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism·\f* “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.   
\p
\v 14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before \sc Adonai\sc* to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:  
\v 15 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before \sc Adonai\sc* for his discharge.  
\p \bdit (RY:7, LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 16 \f + \fr 15:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:16 (Lev 15:16-18, 15:31) (#3.223): \+bd* \ft Seminal fluid emission causes defilement\f* “‘If any man has an emission of semen, \f + \fr 15:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:16 (Lev 15:16-18, 15:31) (#3.224): \+bd* \ft T. Purification from all kinds of bodily discharge causing uncleanness is to be effected by immersion in the waters of a \ft \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism· / R. Every unclean person must immerse himself in a \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism· to become pure\f* then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.  
\v 17 Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.  
\v 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 19 \f + \fr 15:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:19 (Lev 15:19:24, 15:31) (#3.225): \+bd* \ft T. A woman in \ft \+tl niddah\+tl* ·menstruating· is unclean for seven days and causes defilement for anyone who touches her / R. A menstruating woman is unclean and causes defilement\f* “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.  
\v 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  
\v 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  
\v 23 If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.   
\p
\v 25 \f + \fr 15:25 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:25 (Lev 15:25-30, 15:31) (#3.226): \+bd* \ft T. A woman having a not-regular flow of blood (whether it is excessively long or at the wrong time) is unclean like \ft \+tl niddah\+tl* ·menstruation· and causes defilement for anyone who touches her / R. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman’s running issue\f* “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.  
\v 26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.  
\v 27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.   
\p
\v 28 \f + \fr 15:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 15:28-29 (Lev 15:28-30, 15:31) (#3.227): \+bd* \ft T. After a female person is cleansed from an unclean issue, she is to offer sacrifice / R. A woman who had a running issue must bring an offering after she goes to the \ft \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism·\f* “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. \bdit (LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 30 The priest shall offer the one for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before \sc Adonai\sc* for the uncleanness of her discharge.  
\p \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 31 “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel [God prevails] from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”   
\p
\v 32 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;  
\v 33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.   
\b  
\s1 \tl Haftarah M'tzora\tl* ·Taking leave· ·Person afflicted with \tl tzara'at\tl*·:  
\s1 \tl M'lakhim Bet\tl* / 2 King 7:3-20  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Luke 9:51-10:42  
\c 16  
\ms1 Parashah 29: \tl Acharei Mot\tl* ·After the Death· 16:1-18:30  
\s1 Read with Parashah 30 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
\p
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], after the death of the two sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], when they came near before \sc Adonai\sc*, and died;  
\v 2 \f + \fr 16:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 16:2 (Lev 16:1-2) (#4.290): \+bd* \ft T. That the \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not enter the Most Holy Place in the Sanctuary at any time / R. That the \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not enter the Sanctuary at all times, that is indiscriminately 
\fp T. Directive: The \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest must wait until the cloud of Adonai appears and covers the mercy seat, the covering on the ark in the most Holy Place before the \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· may enter in\f* and \sc Adonai\sc* said to Moses [Drawn out], “Tell Aaron [Light-bringer] your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.   
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\v 3 \f + \fr 16:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 16:3-4 (Lev ch 16) (#4.291): \+bd* \ft The \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall do the service of \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 
\fp T. Note: The service appointed for this day includes: preparing the \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest·, regulations for the sacrifice, confessions, offerings in the most holy place, sending away of the scapegoat, and the associated promises of national forgiveness\f* “Aaron [Light-bringer] shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.  
\v 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.  
\v 5 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails] two male goats for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.   
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\v 6 “Aaron [Light-bringer] shall offer the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.  
\v 7 He shall take the two goats, and set them before \sc Adonai\sc* at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  
\v 8 Aaron [Light-bringer] shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for \sc Adonai\sc*, and the other lot for the scapegoat.  
\v 9 Aaron [Light-bringer] shall present the goat on which the lot fell for \sc Adonai\sc*, and offer him for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering.  
\v 10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before \sc Adonai\sc*, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.   
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\v 11 “Aaron [Light-bringer] shall present the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering which is for himself.  
\v 12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before \sc Adonai\sc*, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:  
\v 13 and he shall put the incense on the fire before \sc Adonai\sc*, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.  
\v 14 He shall take some of the \bd blood of the bull, \bd* and \bd sprinkle \bd* it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.   
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\v 15 “Then he shall kill the \bd goat \bd* of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, that is for the people, and bring his \bd blood \bd* \f + \fr 16:15 \ft . \ft \+bd (14-15) Quoted in \+bd* Heb 9:13\f* within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.  
\v 16 He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel [God prevails], and because of their rebellious breaches of relationships, even all their habitual sins ·missing the marks·; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.  
\v 17 No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel [God prevails].  
\p \bdit (LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 18 “He shall go out to the altar that is before \sc Adonai\sc* and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.  
\v 19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel [God prevails].   
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\v 20 “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.  
\v 21 Aaron [Light-bringer] shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and \tl yadah\tl* ·extend hands in confession· over him confessing all the depravities (moral evils) of the children of Israel [God prevails], and all their rebellious breaches of relationships, even all their habitual sins ·missing the marks·; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.  
\v 22 The goat shall carry all their depravities (moral evils) on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.   
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\v 23 “Aaron [Light-bringer] shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.  
\v 24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. \bdit (RY:2, LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 25 The fat of the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering he shall burn on the altar.   
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\v 26 “He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.  
\v 27 The bull for the \bd habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, \bd* and the goat for the habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement \bd in the Holy Place, \bd* shall be carried \bd outside the camp; \bd* and they shall \bd burn \bd* \f + \fr 16:27 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Heb 13:11, 13:13\f* their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.  
\v 28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.   
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\v 29 \f + \fr 16:29 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 16:29 (Lev 16:29-31) (#4.292): \+bd* \ft T. To afflict yourself on \ft \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* / R. To fast and to deny yourself (on \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl*) 
\fp T. Directive: This is a Sabbath of complete rest, do no work and deny yourselves (v31)\f* “It shall be a regulation to you forever: in the seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:  
\v 30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your habitual sins ·missing the marks· you shall be clean before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 31 It is a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a regulation forever.  
\v 32 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.  
\v 33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.   
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\v 34 “This shall be an everlasting regulation for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel [God prevails] once in the year because of all their habitual sins ·missing the marks·.”  
\p It was done as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].   
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\p \bdit (LY:4) \bdit* 
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Speak to Aaron [Light-bringer], and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel [God prevails], and say to them: ‘This is the thing which \sc Adonai\sc* has enjoined,  
\v 3 \f + \fr 17:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 17:3-4 (Lev 17:1-7) (#2b.138): \+bd* \ft T. Not to slaughter concentrated animals outside the Sanctuary / R. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard\f* Whatever man there is of the house of Israel [God prevails], who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,  
\v 4 and has not brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to \sc Adonai\sc* before \sc Adonai\sc*’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.  
\v 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel [God prevails] may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to \sc Adonai\sc*, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on \sc Adonai\sc*’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a regulation forever to them throughout their generations.’  
\p \bdit (RY:3, LY:5) \bdit*  
\v 8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel [God prevails], or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,  
\v 9 and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to \sc Adonai\sc*; that man shall be cut off from his people.   
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\v 10 “‘Any man of the house of Israel [God prevails], or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.  
\v 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.  
\v 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel [God prevails], “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”   
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\v 13 \f + \fr 17:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 17:13-14 (Lev 17:10:14) (#3.228): \+bd* \ft T. To cover the blood of a hunted and killed animal with earth or dirt / R. To cover the blood (of a slaughtered beast or fowl) with earth\f* “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel [God prevails], or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.  
\v 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel [God prevails], “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”   
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\v 15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.  
\v 16 But if he does not wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his depravity (moral evil).’”   
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* said to Moses [Drawn out],  
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and say to them, ‘I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.  
\v 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan [Humbled], where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their regulations.  
\v 4 You shall do my judgments, and you shall keep my regulations, and walk in them: I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.  
\v 5 You shall therefore keep my regulations and my judgments; which if a \bd man does them, he shall live in them. \bd* \f + \fr 18:5 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Luke 10:28; Rom 10:5; Gal 3:12\f* I am \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\p \bdit (LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 6 \f + \fr 18:6 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:6 (Lev 18:6-23) (#7.437): \+bd* \ft T. Not to approach anyone who is a close relative in order to have sexual relations (list given) / R. Not to be intimate, have pleasurable contact with, nor sexual relations with any forbidden woman 
\fp R. Example: The Rabbis teach against actions such as embracing, kissing, hinting, and skipping, or other pleasurable contact that might lead to sexual relations / R. Note: Rabbinical Oral Tradition teaches this is a warning against intimacy that might lead to sexual relations\f* “‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 7 \f + \fr 18:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:7 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.438): \+bd* \ft T. Not to have sexual relations with your father / R. Not to have homosexual relations with your father\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, \f + \fr 18:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:7 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.439): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your mother\f* nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.   
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\v 8 \f + \fr 18:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:8 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.440): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your father’s wife\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.   
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\v 9 \f + \fr 18:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:9 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.441): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your sister\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.   
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\v 10 \f + \fr 18:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:10 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.442): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your son’s daughter (granddaughter)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, \f + \fr 18:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:10 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.443): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your daughter’s daughter (granddaughter)\f* or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness: \f + \fr 18:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:10 (Lev 18:11, 18:24-30) (#7.444): \+bd* \ft T. This (second) command is not found in the straightforward text / R. Not to have sexual relations with your own daughter 
\fp R. Note: Oral Tradition says this command is actually a \ft \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching· command not originating from Oral Tradition; it was not mentioned because it is so natural it is straightforward without being mentioned (derived from Lev 18:11)\f* for theirs is your own nakedness.   
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\v 11 \f + \fr 18:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:11 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.445): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your father’s wife’s daughter (sister or step sister)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.   
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\v 12 \f + \fr 18:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:12 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.446): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your father’s sister (aunt)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman.   
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\v 13 \f + \fr 18:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:13 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.447): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your mother’s sister (aunt)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.   
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\v 14 \f + \fr 18:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:14 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.448): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your father’s brother’s wife (aunt)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother \f + \fr 18:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:14 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.449): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text / R. Not to have sexual relations with your father’s brother (uncle) / R. Not to have homosexual relations with your father’s brother\f* by not approaching his wife. She is your aunt.   
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\v 15 \f + \fr 18:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:15 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.450): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your son’s wife (daughter-in-law)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.   
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\v 16 \f + \fr 18:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:16 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.451): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your brother’s wife (sister-in-law)\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.   
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\v 17 \f + \fr 18:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.452): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter\f* “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. \f + \fr 18:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.453): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her son’s daughter (great granddaughter)\f* You shall not take her son’s daughter, \f + \fr 18:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.454): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter’s daughter (great granddaughter)\f* or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.   
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\v 18 \f + \fr 18:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:18 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.455): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with your wife’s sister (sister-in-law)\f* “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.   
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\v 19 \f + \fr 18:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:19 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.456): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with a woman unclean due to \ft \+tl niddah\+tl* ·menstruation·\f* “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.   
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\v 20 \f + \fr 18:20 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:20 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.457): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations with another man’s wife\f* “‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.   
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\v 21 \f + \fr 18:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:21 (#2a.65): \+bd* \ft Not to sacrifice your children to the Molech false god 
\fp T. Note: Whose worship includes children to be burned in sacrifice on the red-hot statue of the idol, this practice is also called “to pass thru the fire” in some translations\f* “‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane את the name of your God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\p \bdit (RY:4, LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 22 \f + \fr 18:22 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:22 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.458): \+bd* \ft Not to have sexual relations a male with a male, that is homosexual\f* “‘You shall not go to bed with a man, as with a woman; it is an abomination.   
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\v 23 \f + \fr 18:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:23 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.459): \+bd* \ft A man shall not have sexual relations with an animal\f* “‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. \f + \fr 18:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 18:23 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.460): \+bd* \ft A woman shall not have sexual relations with an animal\f* No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.   
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\v 24 “‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.  
\v 25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its depravity (moral evil), and the land vomited out her inhabitants.  
\v 26 You therefore shall keep my regulations and my judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; \bdit (LY: Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled);  
\v 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.   
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\v 29 “‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.  
\v 30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable regulations and customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.’”   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah Acharei Mot\tl* ·Taking leave· ·After the Death·:  
\s1 \tl Yechezk'el\tl* / Ezekiel 22:1-19 (A); 22:1-16 (S)  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: John 7:1-52  
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\ms1 Parashah 30: \tl K'doshim\tl* ·Holy people, Set-apart people· 19:1-20:27  
\s1 Read with Parashah 29 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, \bd ‘You shall be \bd* holy; \bd for \bd* I, \sc Adonai\sc* \bd your \bd* God, \bd am \bd* holy. \f + \fr 19:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Matt 5:48\f*   
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\v 3 \f + \fr 19:3 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:3 (#5.367): \+bd* \ft T. To revere your father and mother / R. To fear your father and mother\f* “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions·. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 4 \f + \fr 19:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:4 (#2a.66): \+bd* \ft T. Not to turn to idolatry / R. Not to inquire into idolatry\f* “‘Don’t turn to idols, \f + \fr 19:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:4 (#2a.67): \+bd* \ft Not to make an idol for yourself or for others\f* nor make molten deities for yourselves. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 5 “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to \sc Adonai\sc*, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.  
\v 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.  
\v 7 \f + \fr 19:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:7-8 (Lev 17:5-8) (#2b.139): \+bd* \ft Not to eat a sacrifice that has been left over (on the third day)\f* If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;  
\v 8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his depravity (moral evil), because he has profaned the holy thing of \sc Adonai\sc*, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.   
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\v 9 \f + \fr 19:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:9 (Lev 19:9-10, 23:22) (#8.493): \+bd* \ft To leave the corner of the field unharvested\f* “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, \f + \fr 19:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:9 (Lev 19:9-10) (#8.494): \+bd* \ft Not to gather the stalks that have fallen while reaping your field\f* \f + \fr 19:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:9 (Lev 19:9-10, 23:22) (#8.495): \+bd* \ft T. This is not found in the straight forward text, it is implied / R. To leave the gleanings of the harvest, that is the corners of your field\f* neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.  
\v 10 \f + \fr 19:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:10 (Lev 19:9-10) (#8.496): \+bd* \ft T. Not to gather the grapes left on the vine or on the ground after harvesting / R. Not to harvest the undeveloped or imperfect clusters of your vineyard\f* You shall not glean your vineyard, \f + \fr 19:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:10 (Lev 19:9-10) (#8.497): \+bd* \ft T. Not to gather the grapes left on the vine or on the ground after harvesting / R. Not to gather individual fallen grapes while reaping your field\f* \f + \fr 19:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:10 (Lev 19:9-10) (#8.498): \+bd* \ft T. To leave the grapes left on the vine or on the ground after harvesting / R. To leave the undeveloped or imperfect clusters of your vineyard\f* neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. \f + \fr 19:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:10 (Lev 19:9-10, 23:22) (#8.499): \+bd* \ft T. To leave the gleanings of the vineyard, that is the corners of your field / R. To leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor\f* \f + \fr 19:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:10 (Lev 19:9-10) (#8.500): \+bd* \ft To leave the fallen grapes of the vineyard for the poor and the proselyte\f* You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 11 \f + \fr 19:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:11 (#8.501): \+bd* \ft T. Not to steal from each other / R. Not to steal money stealthily\f* “‘You shall not steal from, \f + \fr 19:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:11 (#9.559): \+bd* \ft T. Not to deal falsely with or defraud ·illegal acquisition of money by deception· each other / R. Not to falsely deny another’s claim to property / R. Not to deny possession of something entrusted to you\f* defraud, \f + \fr 19:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:11 (#9.560): \+bd* \ft T. Not to lie to each other / R. Not to swear falsely in denial of another’s claim to property\f* or lie to one another.   
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\v 12 \f + \fr 19:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:12 (#3.229): \+bd* \ft T. Do not violate an oath; not to swear falsely by the name of Adonai / R. Not to swear falsely in God’s Name / Reason: For this would be profaning the name of your God\f* \bd “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, \bd* \f + \fr 19:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Paraphrase Quoted in \+bd* Matt 5:33\f* and shall not profane את the name of your God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 13 \f + \fr 19:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:13 (#8.502): \+bd* \ft T. Not to rob your neighbor / R. Not to rob openly\f* “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him.  
\p \f + \fr 19:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:13 (#8.503): \+bd* \ft T Not to withhold the wages of a hired worker until morning / R. Not to delay payment of wages past the agreed time\f* \f + \fr 19:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:13 (#8.504): \+bd* \ft T. This is not found in the straight forward text, it is implied / R. Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt\f* “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.   
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\v 14 \f + \fr 19:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:14 (#6.390): \+bd* \ft T. Not to curse a deaf person / R. Not to curse any other Israelite / R. Not to curse any upstanding Jew\f* “‘You shall not curse the deaf, \f + \fr 19:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:14 (#6.391): \+bd* \ft T. Not to place a stumbling block in front of a blind person / R. Not to cause the innocent to stumble on the way / R. Not to put a stumbling block before a blind man / R. Not to give a blind man harmful advice\f* nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\p \bdit (RY:5, LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 15 \f + \fr 19:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:15 (#10.586): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do injustice in a judgment / R. A judge must not pervert justice\f* “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. \f + \fr 19:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:15 (#10.587): \+bd* \ft Not to take pity on a poor man when judging\f* You shall not be partial to the poor, \f + \fr 19:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:15 (#10.588): \+bd* \ft Not to show favoritism toward an important or wealthy man when judging\f* nor show favoritism to the great; \f + \fr 19:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:15 (#10.589): \+bd* \ft T. To impart equal justice by not favoring one party over the other in disputes / R. To judge righteously\f* but you shall judge your neighbor uprightly.   
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\v 16 \f + \fr 19:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:16-18 (#9.561): \+bd* \ft T. Not to gossip nor slander / R. Not to speak derogatorily of others 
\fp R. Consider: “Evil talk kills three people: the speaker, the listener, and the one who is spoken of” - The Lubavitcher Rebbe / R. Consider: “Before you speak, you are the master of your words. After you speak, your words master you” (Talmud, Erachin 15A)\f* “‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people.  
\p \f + \fr 19:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:16-18 (#6.392): \+bd* \ft Not to stand by idly when life is in danger 
\fp Directive: Consider that this command also says to “not gossip nor slander”\f* “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
\p
\v 17 \f + \fr 19:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:17 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.393): \+bd* \ft T. Not to hate your brother in your heart / R. Not to hate fellow Jews\f* “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. \f + \fr 19:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:17 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.394): \+bd* \ft T. You are to rebuke and reprove your neighbor and thereby not bear a sin because of him / R. To rebuke and reprove a sinner\f* \f + \fr 19:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:17 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.395): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text, it is implied by not incurring guilt of sin due to hatred or grudge against your neighbor / R. Not to shame or embarrass any person of Israel\f* You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· because of him.   
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\v 18 \f + \fr 19:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:18 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.396): \+bd* \ft Not to take revenge ·inflicting harm against someone for a wrong suffered at their hands·\f* “‘You shall not take vengeance or revenge, \f + \fr 19:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:18 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.397): \+bd* \ft Not to bear a grudge ·persistent feeling of resentment or ill-will due to a past insult or injury·\f* nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; \f + \fr 19:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:18 (Lev 19:17-18) (#6.398): \+bd* \ft T. To love your neighbor as you love yourself / R. To love Jews 
\fp R. Example: To love is elaborated as having and expressing profound concern and affection for other Jews 
\fp R. Consider: Rabbinical Oral Tradition teaches to love your neighbor applies to those only inside the covenant. Rabbi Yeshua teaches your neighbor are those around you whether in the covenant or outside the covenant (Luke 10:25-37) / R. Consider: Rabbi Hillel teaches “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole \ft \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching·; the rest is the explanation. Now go and learn” (Talmud: Shabbat 31A)\f* but \bd you shall \+tl 'ahav\+tl* ·affectionately love· your neighbor as yourself. \bd* \f + \fr 19:18 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Matt 5:43, 19:19, 22:39; Mark 12:31, 12:33; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14; James 2:8\f* I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 19 “‘You shall keep my regulations.  
\p \f + \fr 19:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:19 (#1.10): \+bd* \ft Not to crossbreed animals of different species\f* “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals.  
\p \f + \fr 19:19 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:19 (#1.11): \+bd* \ft Not to sow different kinds of seed together\f* “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;  
\p “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.   
\p
\v 20 “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.  
\v 21 He shall bring his fault incurring guilt offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a fault incurring guilt offering.  
\v 22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the fault incurring guilt offering before \sc Adonai\sc* for his habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·: and the habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)· shall be forgiven him.  
\p \bdit (LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 23 \f + \fr 19:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:23 (Lev 19:23-25) (#8.505): \+bd* \ft Not to eat fruit of a tree in the first three years from planting\f* “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.  
\v 24 \f + \fr 19:24 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:24 (Lev 19:23-25) (#8.506): \+bd* \ft T. The fruit of fruit-bearing trees in the fourth year of planting will be holy (not to be eaten) / R. The fourth year crops must be totally for holy purposes like \ft \+tl ma'aser sheni\+tl* ·second tithe·\f* But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. \f + \fr 19:26 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:26 (#2a.68): \+bd* \ft T. Not to practice divination ·occultist method of fortune telling· or to believe in lucky charms / R. Not to engage in astrology\f* You shall not use enchantments, \f + \fr 19:26 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:26 (#2a.68): \+bd* \ft T. Not to practice divination ·occultist method of fortune telling· or to believe in lucky charms / R. Not to engage in astrology\f* \f + \fr 19:26 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:26 (#2a.69): \+bd* \ft T. Not to practice sorcery ·magic with spirits· or fortunetelling / R. Not to be superstitious 
\fp Note: Definition of Superstitious: A belief not based on knowledge or ominous significance of a circumstance or occurrence; a custom or act based on such a belief; an irrational fear of a mystery; any blindly accepted belief or notion. This dictionary definition of superstitious does not allow for blind faith\f* nor practice sorcery.   
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\v 27 \f + \fr 19:27 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:27 (Lev 19:27-28) (#2b.140): \+bd* \ft T. Not to \ft \+tl nakaph\+tl* ·violently strike / to round / shave· the sides of your head / R. Men shall not shave off the sides of their head, like the idolaters 
\fp Consider: The Hebrew word used, \+tl nakaph\+tl*, means to violently strike, also to round, mar, or trim. In the context of the following verse (v28) which rejects cutting or tattoos for the dead (both acts involving blood). It can be inferred this “cutting hair” is in regard to pagan rituals involving service unto the dead, the sun god, or other false deities 
\fp R. Consider: The Rabbis interpret this command as having \+tl paz\+tl* ·side-locks·\f* “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.   
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\v 28 \f + \fr 19:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:28 (Lev 19:26-28; Deut 14:1-2) (#2b.142): \+bd* \ft T. Not to tattoo or gash your body for the dead / R. Not to tattoo your skin 
\fp T. Example: Like the pagan nations make marks on their bodies or cut themselves for the dead (1 King 18:28)\f* “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 29 “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.   
\p
\v 30 “‘You shall keep my \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions·, and \f + \fr 19:30 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:30 (Lev 26:2) (#1.12): \+bd* \ft Revere Adonai’s Sanctuary\f* revere my sanctuary; I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
\p
\v 31 \f + \fr 19:31 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:31 (#2a.70): \+bd* \ft T. Not to seek out spirit mediums to consult them / R. Not to preform \ft \+tl ov\+tl* ·medium with familiar spirits·\f* “‘Don’t turn to those who are spirit-mediums, \f + \fr 19:31 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:31 (#2a.71): \+bd* \ft T. Not to consult familiar spirits / R. Not to preform \ft \+tl yidoni\+tl* ·a person with familiar spirits, a knower·\f* nor to the sorcerers. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 32 \f + \fr 19:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:32 (#5.368): \+bd* \ft T. To honor the older and wiser / R. To honor those who teach and know \ft \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching· 
\fp Example: Specificity referenced are those with gray hair and the face of an elder\f* “‘You shall rise up before the silver haired, and honor the face of an elder old man, and you shall fear your God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\p \bdit (RY:6, LY:4) \bdit*  
\v 33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.  
\v 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall \tl 'ahav\tl* ·affectionately love· him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
\p
\v 35 \f + \fr 19:35 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:35 (Lev 19:35-37) (#9.562): \+bd* \ft Not to commit injustice with scales and weights 
\fp R. Note: Oral Tradition teaches this warns against unrighteousness in judging of measurements\f* “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.  
\v 36 \f + \fr 19:36 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 19:36 (Lev 19:35-37) (#9.563): \+bd* \ft T. To keep honest and accurate balance-scales, weights, and measures (both dry and liquid) / R. Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate\f* You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah [0.63 bushels; 5.9 gal; 22 L], and a just hin [0.98 gal; 3.7 L]. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].   
\p
\v 37 “‘You shall observe all my regulations, and all my judgments, and do them. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.’”   
\c 20  
\p \bdit (LY:5) \bdit* 
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel [God prevails], ‘Anyone of the children of Israel [God prevails], or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel [God prevails], who gives any of his offspring to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.  
\v 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary and profane את my holy name.  
\v 4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death;  
\v 5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.   
\p
\v 6 “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.   
\p
\v 7 “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am \tl Yahweh M’Kaddesh\tl* [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes you holy]. \bdit (RY:7, LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 8 You shall keep my regulations, and do them. I am \tl Yahweh M’Kaddesh\tl* [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes you holy].   
\p
\v 9 “‘For \bd everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: \bd* \f + \fr 20:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Matt 15:4; Mark 7:10\f* he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.   
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\v 10 \f + \fr 20:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 20:10 (#6.399): \+bd* \ft T. “Both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death” / R. For the court to execute by strangulation 
\fp T. Note: (Leviticus 20) does not explain how the adulterers are to be put to death, simply that they are to be executed 
\fp R. Note: The Rabbis teach this strangulation execution was not preformed in malice nor by human hands. “The strangling was thus performed; they that were strangled were fixed up to their knees in dung, and then they put a hard napkin within a soft one, and rolled it about his neck” (\ft \+tl Sanhedrin\+tl*, c.7. sect.3)\f* “‘The man who \bd commits adultery \bd* with another man’s wife, that is with the wife of a fellow countryman, the adulterer and the \bd adulteress \bd* shall surely be put \bd to death. \bd* \f + \fr 20:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Selectively Quoted in \+bd* John 8:4-5 with Deut 22:21\f* \f + \fr 20:10 \ft Context of John 8:5\f*   
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\v 11 “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.   
\p
\v 12 “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.   
\p
\v 13 “‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.   
\p
\v 14 “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: \f + \fr 20:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 20:14 (#6.400): \+bd* \ft T. To burn a man (and the women) by fire as punishment for taking / acquiring / buying / marrying a woman and her mother / R. For the court to execute by burning\f* they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.   
\p
\v 15 “‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.   
\p
\v 16 “‘If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.   
\p
\v 17 “‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a \tl chesed\tl* ·disgraceful· thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his depravity (moral evil).   
\p
\v 18 “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.   
\p
\v 19 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their depravity (moral evil).  
\v 20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his \tl dod\tl* ·uncle’s· nakedness. They shall bear their crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal·. They shall die childless.   
\p
\v 21 “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.   
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\v 22 “‘You shall therefore keep all my regulations, and all my judgments, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out. \bdit (LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 23 \f + \fr 20:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 20:23 (Lev 20:22-26) (#2b.143): \+bd* \ft T. Not to adopt the practices or institutions of idolaters / R. Not to imitate idolaters in their customs and clothing\f* You shall not walk in the regulations and customs of the nations, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.  
\v 24 But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God, who has separated you from the peoples.  
\p \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 25 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.  
\v 26 You shall be holy to me; for I, \sc Adonai\sc*, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.   
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\v 27 “‘A man or a woman that is a spirit-medium, or is a sorcerer, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”   
\b  
\s1 \tl Haftarah K'doshim\tl* ·Taking leave· ·Holy people / Set-apart people·:  
\s1 \tl 'Amos\tl* /Amos 9:7-15 (A); \tl Yechezk'el\tl* / Ezekiel 20:2-20 (S)  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: John 7:53-10:21  
\c 21  
\ms1 Parashah 31: \tl Emor\tl* ·Speak· 21:1-24:23  
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\v 1 \f + \fr 21:1 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:1 (Lev 21:1-6) (#2b.144): \+bd* \ft T. The \ft \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· shall not become unclean by contact with the dead / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not defile himself for anyone except relatives\f* \sc Adonai\sc* said to Moses [Drawn out], “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;  
\v 2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,  
\v 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.  
\v 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.   
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\v 5 “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.  
\v 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.   
\p
\v 7 \f + \fr 21:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.461): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not marry a harlot or a prostitute / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not marry a \+tl zonah\+tl* ·a woman who had forbidden relations·\f* “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, \f + \fr 21:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.462): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not marry a prostitute / T. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not marry a \+tl chalalah\+tl* ·pierced, fatally wounded, profaned· woman / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not marry a \+tl chalalah\+tl* ·an illegitimate child·; a party to or product of OU463 - OU466 found in (Lev 21:14, 21:15, 21:13, 21:7)\f* who has been profaned. \f + \fr 21:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.463): \+bd* \ft A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· shall not marry a divorced woman\f* They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.  
\v 8 \f + \fr 21:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:8 (#2b.145): \+bd* \ft T. To set apart and honor the descendants of Aaron [Light-bringer] with priority in all things holy / R. To dedicate the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· for service\f* You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I \sc Adonai\sc*, who sanctify you, am holy.   
\p
\v 9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.   
\p
\v 10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.  
\v 11 \f + \fr 21:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:11 (Lev 21:10-12) (#2b.146): \+bd* \ft T. When the \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· has the holy anointing oil poured on his head (in the time of his service) and is consecrated to wear the holy garments on shall not go into the place of a corpse / R. The \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not go into the place of a corpse\f* He must not go in to any dead body, \f + \fr 21:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:11 (Lev 21:10-12) (#5.369): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not become unclean even for relatives such as father or mother / R. The \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· must not defile himself for any relative\f* or defile himself for his father, or for his mother.  
\v 12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
\p
\v 13 \f + \fr 21:13 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:13 (#7.464): \+bd* \ft The \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall marry a virgin\f* “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.  
\v 14 \f + \fr 21:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:14 (#7.465): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a \+tl chalalah\+tl* ·pierced / fatally wounded / profaned·, or a harlot / R. The \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· must not marry a widow\f* A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.  
\v 15 \f + \fr 21:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:15 (#7.466): \+bd* \ft T. The \ft \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not disqualify his descendants (from serving as \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests·) / R. That a \+tl Cohen Gadol\+tl* ·High Priest· shall not have sexual relations with a widow, not within marriage not even as a concubine, because he profanes her\f* He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am \sc Adonai\sc* who sanctifies him.’”  
\p \bdit (2) \bdit*  
\v 16 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 17 \f + \fr 21:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:17 (Lev 21:16-23) (#3.230): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· with a disqualifying defect shall not offer the daily bread in the Sanctuary / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· with a physical blemish must not serve 
\fp T. Example: List of disqualifying defects: blind, lame, a mutilated face, a limb too long, a broken foot, a broken arm, a hunched back, stunted growth, a cataract in his eye, festering or running sores, or damaged testicles (v18-20)\f* “Say to Aaron [Light-bringer], ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has \f + \fr 21:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:17 (Lev 21:16-23) (#3.231): \+bd* \ft T. A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· with a temporary disqualifying blemish shall not serve in the Sanctuary / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· with a temporary blemish must not serve\f* a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.  
\v 18 For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,  
\v 19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,  
\v 20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.  
\v 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron [Light-bringer] the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.  
\v 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.  
\v 23 \f + \fr 21:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 21:23 (Lev 21:22-23, 21:18-20) (#3.232): \+bd* \ft A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· with a disqualifying defect shall not enter the Temple up to the altar or beyond 
\fp T. Example: List of disqualifying defects: blind, lame, a mutilated face, a limb too long, a broken foot, a broken arm, a hunched back, stunted growth, a cataract in his eye, festering or running sores, or damaged testicles (v18-20)\f* He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am \tl Yahweh M'Kaddesham\tl* [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy].’”   
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\v 24 So Moses [Drawn out] spoke to Aaron [Light-bringer], and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel [God prevails].   
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 22:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:2 (#3.233): \+bd* \ft T. The \ft \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· must separate themselves from the holy things the people of Israel dedicate to Adonai / R. A \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· who is unclean shall not serve in the offerings / R. Impure, unclean \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· must not do service in the Temple\f* “Tell Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel [God prevails], which they make holy to me, and that they not profane את my holy name. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 3 “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout all your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel [God prevails] make holy to \sc Adonai\sc*, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 4 \f + \fr 22:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:4 (Lev 22:4-9) (#3.234): \+bd* \ft A \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· who is unclean shall not eat the holy offerings\f* “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron [Light-bringer] is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose offspring goes from him;  
\v 5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;  
\v 6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.  
\v 7 \f + \fr 22:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:7 (Lev 22:4-9) (#3.235): \+bd* \ft T. An impure, unclean \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest·, following \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism·, must wait until after sundown before eating the sacred offerings / R. An impure, unclean \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest·, following \+tl mikvah\+tl* ·ritual washing, baptism·, must wait until after sundown before returning to service\f* When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.  
\v 8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 9 “‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am \tl Yahweh M'Kaddesham\tl* [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy].   
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\v 10 \f + \fr 22:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:10 (Lev 22:10-16) (#2b.147): \+bd* \ft An unauthorized person, anyone who is not a \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest·, shall not eat any of the \+tl trumah\+tl* ·holy offerings·\f* “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: \f + \fr 22:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:10 (Lev 22:10-16) (#2b.148): \+bd* \ft T. The tenant of a \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· nor his hired worker shall not eat any of the holy offerings / R. A hired worker or a Jewish bondsman of a \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· must not eat \+tl trumah\+tl* ·holy offerings·\f* a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.  
\v 11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.  
\v 12 \f + \fr 22:12 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:12 (Lev 22:12-13, 22:14-15) (#2b.149): \+bd* \ft The daughter of a \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· married to a layman ·non-priest· shall not eat consecrated food that her father and his family do eat\f* If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.  
\v 13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely returned· to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.   
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\v 14 “‘If a man eats something holy unintentionally by mistake sin ·error·, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.  
\v 15 \f + \fr 22:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:15 (Lev 22:14-16) (#1.13): \+bd* \ft T. When giving a heave offering unto Adonai, you must remove the tithe for the \ft \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· and the tithe for Adonai; nothing may be eaten of until this separation happens / T. The non-priest is not to eat the \+tl Cohenoh\+tl* ·Priest’s· portion or tithe / R. Not to eat untithed fruits\f* The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel [God prevails], which they offer to \sc Adonai\sc*,  
\v 16 and so cause them to bear the depravity (moral evil) that brings trespass guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am \tl Yahweh M'Kaddesham\tl* [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy].’”  
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\v 17 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 18 “Speak to Aaron [Light-bringer], and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel [God prevails], and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel [God prevails], or of the foreigners in Israel [God prevails], who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to \sc Adonai\sc* for a burnt offering;  
\v 19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.  
\v 20 \f + \fr 22:20 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:20 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.150): \+bd* \ft Not to vow or dedicate animals with disqualifying blemishes as a sacrifice unto Adonai\f* But whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.  
\v 21 \f + \fr 22:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:21 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.151): \+bd* \ft T. Every animal offered for peace offering or vow to be sacrificed must be perfect, without blemish / R. To offer only unblemished animals 
\fp T. Example: Disqualifying blemishes include: blind, injured, mutilated, abnormal growth, festering wound, running sore, or is its genitals that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut / T. Example: Directive: If a lamb or bull have irregular growth in their limbs, too short or too long, that animal may be given as Voluntary Offering but not in fulfillment of a Vow Offering\f* \f + \fr 22:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:21 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.152): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text, it is implied / R. Not to inflict a blemish or wound on a vowed or dedicated animal\f* Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to \sc Adonai\sc* to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.  
\v 22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to \sc Adonai\sc*, \f + \fr 22:22 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:22 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.153): \+bd* \ft Not to slaughter animals with disqualifying blemishes as sacrifices\f* \f + \fr 22:22 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:22 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.154): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text, it is implied by the sacrificial procedure / R. Not to burn the choice portions (the fat) from animals with disqualifying blemishes upon the altar\f* nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.  
\v 24 \f + \fr 22:24 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:24 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.155): \+bd* \ft T. Not to sacrifice, vow, or dedicate an animal whose testicles are damaged or removed / R. Not to castrate the male of any species, neither a man, nor a domestic or wild animal, nor a fowl\f* \f + \fr 22:24 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:24 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.156): \+bd* \ft T. This command is not found in the straightforward text, it is implied by the sacrificial procedure / R. The \ft \+tl Cohenim\+tl* ·Priests· shall not apply the blood of animals with disqualifying defects on the altar\f* You must not offer to \sc Adonai\sc* that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.  
\v 25 \f + \fr 22:25 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:25 (Lev 22:17-25) (#2b.157): \+bd* \ft T. Not to sacrifice an animal with disqualifying defects received from a foreigner / R. Not to sacrifice blemished animals even if offered by non-Jews (Gentiles)\f* You must not receive any of these from the hand of a foreigner to offer as bread for your God, because their deformity is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”   
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\v 26 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 27 \f + \fr 22:27 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:27 (#2b.158): \+bd* \ft The sacrificial animals will not be any younger than eight days old\f* “When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 28 \f + \fr 22:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:28 (Lev 22:26-28) (#1.14): \+bd* \ft Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day\f* Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.   
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\v 29 “When \bd you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving \bd* \f + \fr 22:29 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Heb 13:15\f* to \sc Adonai\sc*, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.  
\v 30 \f + \fr 22:30 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:30 (Lev 22:29-30) (#2b.159): \+bd* \ft T. Not to leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering, it must be eaten the same day as it is offered / R. Not to leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them\f* It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 31 “Therefore you shall keep my \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, and do them. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 32 \f + \fr 22:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:32 (Lev 22:31-33) (#3.236): \+bd* \ft Not to profane or desecrate the holy name of Adonai\f* You shall not profane את my holy name, \f + \fr 22:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 22:32 (Lev 22:31-33) (#3.237): \+bd* \ft To sanctify, set apart, and make holy the Name of Adonai\f* but I will be made holy among the children of Israel [God prevails]. I am \sc Adonai\sc* who makes you holy,  
\v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to be your God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.”   
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘The set feasts of \sc Adonai\sc*, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.   
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\v 3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· to \sc Adonai\sc* in all your dwellings.   
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\v 4 “‘These are the set feasts of \sc Adonai\sc*, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.  
\v 5 In the first month \tl Nissan \tl* ·Miracles (in Aramaic), 1·, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is \sc Adonai\sc*’s \tl Pesac\tl* ·Passover·.  
\v 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of \tl Matzah\tl* ·Unleavened bread· to \sc Adonai\sc*. Seven days you shall eat \tl matzah\tl* ·unleavened bread·.  
\v 7 \f + \fr 23:7 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:7 (Lev 23:5-8; Ex 12:15-17) (#4.293): \+bd* \ft T. To rest on the first day of \ft \+tl matzah\+tl* ·Unleavened Bread· as a holy convocation / R. To rest on the first day of \+tl Pesac\+tl* ·Passover· as a Sabbath day\f* In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·.  
\v 8 \f + \fr 23:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:8 (Lev 23:5-8; Ex 12:15-17) (#4.294): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on the first day of \ft \+tl matzah\+tl* ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover 
\fp T. Directive: Do no ordinary work, the only exception is to prepare your food\f* But you shall offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc* seven days. \f + \fr 23:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:8 (Lev 23:5-8, Ex 12:15-17) (#4.295): \+bd* \ft T. To rest on the seventh day of \ft \+tl matzah\+tl* ·Unleavened Bread· as a holy convocation / R. To rest on the seventh day of \+tl Pesac\+tl* ·Passover· as a Sabbath day\f* In the seventh day is a holy convocation: \f + \fr 23:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:8 (Lev 23:5-8, Ex 12:15-17) (#4.296): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on the seventh day of \ft \+tl matzah\+tl* ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover\f* you shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·.’”   
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\v 9 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 10 \f + \fr 23:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:10 (Lev 23:9-14, 23:11, 23:15-16) (#4.297): \+bd* \ft T. To bring the First Fruits of your harvest, the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· / R. To offer the wave offering from the grain of the new wheat 
\fp T. Note: This is the First Fruits barley offering (#1 of the First Fruits offerings). Barley is considered the poor man’s grain, in contrast to wheat (think market value cost)\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:  
\v 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before \sc Adonai\sc*, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· the priest shall wave it.  
\v 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 13 The meal offering with it shall be one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc* for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin [2.6 qt; 1.2 L].  
\v 14 \f + \fr 23:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.298): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat bread of the new crop until you bring the First Fruits offering for your God / R. Not to eat bread from new grain before the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain·\f* You must not eat bread, \f + \fr 23:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.299): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat roasted grain of the new crop until you bring the First Fruits offering for your God / R. Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain·\f* or roasted grain, \f + \fr 23:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.300): \+bd* \ft T. Not to eat fresh grain of the new crop until you bring the offering for your God / R. Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain·\f* or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a regulation forever throughout all your generations in all your dwellings.   
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\v 15 \f + \fr 23:15 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:15 (Lev 23:15-16) (#4.301): \+bd* \ft T. To count the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· forty nine days from the Sabbath ·7th day / Complete· after \+tl Pesac\+tl* ·Passover· / R. To count the \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· forty nine days from the time of harvesting the barley first fruits following Passover and the Sabbath / R. Each man must count the \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· - seven weeks from the day the new First Fruits #1 wheat offering was brought\f* “‘You shall count from the next day after the \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission·, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions· shall be completed:  
\v 16 even to the next day after the seventh \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 17 \f + \fr 23:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:17 (Lev 23:16-18, 23:15-20, 23:21; Num 28:26-31) (#4.302): \+bd* \ft To bring two loaves of bread together with the sacrifices that are offered because of the loaves on the Festival of \ft \+tl Shavu'ot\+tl* ·Weeks· / \+tl Pentacost\+tl* ·50·\f* You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 19 You shall offer one male goat for a habitual sin ·miss the mark· offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.  
\v 20 \f + \fr 23:20 \ft . \ft \+wj MPr: \+wj* “Whatever time of year the Messiah was to appear, the Jews were to greet and hail Him by taking of the \+tl Lulav \+tl* (Lev 23:40 – Palm, Willow, Myrtle and good fruits) clusters and singing \+tl Hosannas \+tl* [Save Now] to him as the Holy One of Israel.” (Midrash Peskita de-Rabbi Kahana 27:3). (Willow: Matt 21:8; Myrtle: Mark 11:8; Good fruits: Luke 19:35-36; Palm: John 12:12-13)\f* \wj The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before \+sc Adonai \+sc*, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to \+sc Adonai \+sc* for the priest. \wj*  
\v 21 \f + \fr 23:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:21 (Lev 23:15-21) (#4.303): \+bd* \ft T. To rest on the fiftieth day of counting the \ft \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· / R. To rest on \+tl Shavu'ot\+tl* ·Weeks· / Note: The 50th day of the \+tl Omer\+tl* ·Sheath of grain· is \+tl Shavu'ot\+tl* ·Weeks· in Hebrew or in Greek it is called \+tl Pentacost\+tl* ·50·\f* You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; \f + \fr 23:21 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:21 (Lev 23:15-21) (#4.304): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on the Festival of \ft \+tl Shavu'ot\+tl* ·Weeks· / \+tl Pentacost\+tl* ·50· / R. Not to do prohibited labor on \+tl Shavu'ot\+tl* ·Weeks· / \+tl Pentacost\+tl* ·50·\f* you shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·. This is a regulation forever in all your dwellings throughout all your generations.   
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\v 22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.’”  
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\v 23 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 24 \f + \fr 23:24 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:24 (Lev 23:23-25) (#4.305): \+bd* \ft T. To rest on \ft \+tl Yom Terurah\+tl* ·Day of \+tl shofars·\+tl*, the first day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* / R. To rest on \+tl Rosh Hashana\+tl* ·New the Year· 
\fp R. Note: Rabbinical Judaism considers this feast day as the start of the civil calendar\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘In the seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of \tl shofarot\tl* ·ram horns·, a holy convocation.  
\v 25 \f + \fr 23:25 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:25 (Lev 23:23-25; Num 29:1-6) (#4.306): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on \ft \+tl Yom Terurah\+tl* ·Day of \+tl shofars·\+tl*, the first day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* / R. Not to do prohibited labor on \+tl Rosh Hashana\+tl* ·New the Year·\f* You shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.’”   
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\v 26 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]· is \tl Yom-Kippur\tl* ·Day of Atonement·: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is \tl Yom-Kippur\tl* ·Day of Atonement·, to make atonement for you before \sc Adonai\sc* your God.  
\v 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.  
\v 30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.  
\v 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout all your generations in all your dwellings.  
\v 32 \f + \fr 23:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:32 (Lev 26:29-31, 23:26-32; Num 29:7-11) (#4.307): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on \ft \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl*, it is a sabbath of complete rest / R. Not to do prohibited labor on \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 
\fp T. Directive: You must observe your Sabbath. This is a Sabbath day from evening the ninth day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* to the following evening\f* It shall be a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of solemn rest for you, \f + \fr 23:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:32 (Lev 23:26-32) (#4.308): \+bd* \ft T. To deny yourself on the day of the Fast, that is \ft \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement·, 10th day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl*, it is a Sabbath of complete rest / R. Not to eat or drink on the Day of the Fast, \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· 
\fp R. Note: This day we are commanded to be humble before God, the Rabbis encourage fasting this day. That is why it is also called “The Fast”\f* and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, \f + \fr 23:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:32 (Lev 23:26-32) (#4.309): \+bd* \ft T. To rest on the day of \ft \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement·, it is a Sabbath of complete rest / T. To rest on the day of the Fast / R. To rest from prohibited labor on Sabbath\f* you shall keep your \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission·.”  
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\v 33 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 34 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]· is the festival of \tl Sukkot\tl* ·Booths· for seven days to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 35 \f + \fr 23:35 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:35 (Lev 23:33-35) (#4.310): \+bd* \ft To rest and assemble on the first day of the Feast of \ft \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles·, 15th day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl*\f* On the first day shall be a holy convocation: \f + \fr 23:35 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:35 (Lev 23:33-36, 23:39-43; Num 29:12-16, 29:17-34) (#4.311): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on the first day of \ft \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles·, 15th day of the seventh month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* / R. Not to do prohibited labor on \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles· 
\fp T. Directive: You must not do any regular work, it is a day of complete rest. This is a day for sacred assembly\f* you shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·.  
\v 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*. \f + \fr 23:36 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:36 (Lev 23:33-43) (#4.312): \+bd* \ft To rest and assemble on \ft \+tl Shemini Atzeret\+tl* ·the eighth day of assembly· of the Festival of \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles·\f* On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*. It is a solemn assembly; \f + \fr 23:36 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:36 (Lev 23:33-36, 23:39-43; Num 29:35-38) (#4.313): \+bd* \ft T. Not to do work on \ft \+tl Shemini Atzeret\+tl* ·the eighth day of assembly· of the Festival of \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles· / R. Not to do prohibited labor on \+tl Shemini Atzeret\+tl* ·the eighth day of assembly· 
\fp T. Directive: You must not do any regular work, it is a day of complete rest\f* you shall do no regular \tl aboda\tl* ·service·.   
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\v 37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of \sc Adonai\sc*, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;  
\v 38 besides the \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of \sc Adonai\sc*, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your free will offerings, which you give to \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the festival of \sc Adonai\sc* seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.  
\v 40 \f + \fr 23:40 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:40 (Lev 23:39-43) (#4.314): \+bd* \ft T. To take up a \ft \+tl lulav\+tl* ·sprout· during \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles· / R. To take up a \+tl lulav\+tl* ·sprout· and \+tl Etrog\+tl* all seven days 
\fp T. Directive: To rejoice before Adonai your God for seven days. The \+tl lulav\+tl* ·sprout· is composed of “choice fruit” the \+tl Etrog\+tl*, a Citron, “palm fronds” Palm Tree leaf, “leafy branches” Myrtle, and “River Willows”. The Rabbis teach symbolically of each. \+tl Etrog\+tl* – person learned of \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching· with scent of good deeds (fruit); Palm – learned person without good deeds; Myrtle – person with good deeds but not learned; Willow – a person possessing neither good deeds nor learning (Shulchan Aruch; Orach Chaim, Section 651) / Note: The Gospels record each part of the \+tl lulav\+tl* also, Willow (Matt 21:8); Myrtle (Mark 11:8); Good fruits (Luke 19:35-36); Palm (John 12:12-13)\f* You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before \sc Adonai\sc* your God seven days.  
\v 41 You shall keep it a feast to \sc Adonai\sc* seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout all your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·.  
\v 42 \f + \fr 23:42 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 23:42 (Lev 23:39-43) (#4.315): \+bd* \ft To dwell in a \ft \+tl sukkah\+tl* ·temporary dwellings· for seven days during \+tl Sukkot\+tl* ·Tabernacles·\f* You shall dwell in \tl sukkot\tl* ·temporary tents· seven days. All who are native-born in Israel [God prevails] shall dwell in a \tl sukkah\tl* ·temporary tent·,  
\v 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel [God prevails] to dwell in \tl sukkot\tl* ·temporary tents·, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.’”   
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\v 44 Moses [Drawn out] declared to the children of Israel [God prevails] the appointed feasts of \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 “Enjoin the children of Israel [God prevails], that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a \tl menorah\tl* ·lamp· to burn continually.  
\v 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron [Light-bringer] keep it in order from evening to morning before \sc Adonai\sc* continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout all your generations.  
\v 4 He shall keep in order the \tl menorah \tl* ·lamp· candles on the pure gold \tl menorah\tl* ·lamp· before \sc Adonai\sc* continually.   
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\v 5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] shall be in one cake.  
\v 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 8 Every \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· day he shall set it in order before \sc Adonai\sc* continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel [God prevails] an everlasting covenant.  
\v 9 It shall be for Aaron [Light-bringer] and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of \sc Adonai\sc* made by fire by a perpetual statute.”   
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\v 10 The son of an Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman, whose father was an Egyptian [person from Abode of slavery], went out among the children of Israel [God prevails]; and the son of the Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman and a man of Israel [God prevails] strove together in the camp.  
\v 11 The son of the Israelite [Descendant of God prevails] woman blasphemed \tl HaShem\tl* [The Name], and cursed; and they brought him to Moses [Drawn out]. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan [He judged].  
\v 12 They put him in custody, until \sc Adonai\sc*’s will should be declared to them.  
\v 13 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 14 “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.  
\v 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal·.  
\v 16 He who blasphemes \sc Adonai\sc*’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes \tl HaShem\tl* [The Name], shall be put to death.   
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\v 17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. \f + \fr 24:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Paraphrase Quoted in \+bd* Matt 5:21\f*  
\v 18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.  
\v 19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:  
\v 20 fracture for fracture, \bd eye for eye, tooth for tooth; \bd* \f + \fr 24:20 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Matt 5:38\f* as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him. \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.  
\v 22 You shall have one kind of judgment for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.’”   
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\v 23 Moses [Drawn out] spoke to the children of Israel [God prevails]; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel [God prevails] did as \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out].   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah Emor\tl* ·Taking leave· ·Speak·:  
\s1 \tl Yechezk'el\tl* / Ezekiel 44:15-31  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Luke 11:1-12:59  
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\ms1 Parashah 32: \tl B'har\tl* ·On mount· 25:1-26:2  
\s1 Read with Parashah 33 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
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\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* said to Moses [Drawn out] in Mount Sinai [Thorn],  
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;  
\v 4 \f + \fr 25:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:4 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.316): \+bd* \ft Not to till the ground in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \ft \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year\f* but in the seventh year there shall be a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of solemn rest for the land, a \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· to \sc Adonai\sc*. You shall not sow your field or \f + \fr 25:4 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:4 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.317): \+bd* \ft T. Not to work the vines in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \ft \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year / R. Not to work with trees to produce fruit in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year\f* prune your vineyard.  
\v 5 \f + \fr 25:5 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:5 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.318): \+bd* \ft T. Not to harvest what grows by itself in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \ft \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year / R. Not to harvest crops that grow wild in the normal manner during the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year\f* What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, \f + \fr 25:5 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:5 (Lev 25:1-7, 25:20-22) (#4.319): \+bd* \ft T. Not to gather the grapes of your unattended vine in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year, the \ft \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year / R. Not to gather the fruit of vines in the Sabbath year, the seventh Year \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year in the way it is gathered in all the other years\f* and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.  
\v 6 The \tl Shabath\tl* ·Intermission· of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.  
\v 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.   
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\v 8 \f + \fr 25:8 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:8 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:20-22) (#4.320): \+bd* \ft T. To count the seven Sabbath years leading up to the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast· / \+tl Jubilee\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl*· / R. The Great Rabbinical Court / the \+tl Sanhedrin\+tl* ·Sitting together· must count seven groups of seven years 
\fp T. Note: Counting seven sets of the seventh Year Sabbath, that is the \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year, so 7 \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Years x 7 sets of years each, this totals 49 years, plus one year which is the 50th year \+tl Yovel\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast· / \+tl Jubilee\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl*·\f* “‘You shall count off seven \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions· of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions· of years, even forty-nine years.  
\v 9 \f + \fr 25:9 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:9 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:20-22) (#4.321): \+bd* \ft T. To sound the \ft \+tl shofar\+tl* ·ram’s horn· in the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·, the 50th year / R. To blow the \+tl shofar\+tl* ·ram’s horn· on the tenth of the month \+tl Tishrei\+tl* to free the slaves 
\fp T. Directive: On \+tl Yom Kippur\+tl* ·Day of Atonement· in the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·, the 50th year release is to start\f* Then you shall sound the loud \tl shofar\tl* ·ram horn· on the tenth day of the seventh month \tl Ethanim\tl* ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or \tl Tishrei\tl* ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·. On \tl Yom-Kippur\tl* ·Day of Atonement· you shall sound the \tl shofar\tl* ·ram horn· throughout all your land.  
\v 10 \f + \fr 25:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:10 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:20-22) (#4.322): \+bd* \ft T. To set apart the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·, the 50th year, similar to the seventh Year Sabbath, the \+tl Sh'mitta\+tl* ·Release· Year / R. The Great Rabbinical Court / the \+tl Sanhedrin\+tl* ·Sitting together· must sanctify the fiftieth year, that is the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·\f* You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee to you; and each of you shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his own property, and each of you shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his family.  
\v 11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you. \f + \fr 25:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:11 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:20-22) (#4.323): \+bd* \ft T. Not to sow seed in the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year· / R. Not to work the soil in the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·\f* In it you shall not sow, \f + \fr 25:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:11 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:20-22) (#4.324): \+bd* \ft T. Not to harvest what grows by itself in the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·, as in the other years / R. Not to reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year, the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·\f* neither reap that which grows of itself, \f + \fr 25:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:11 (Lev 252:8-13, 5:20-22) (#4.325): \+bd* \ft T. Not to gather fruit of the vine in the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·, as in the other years / R. Not to pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year, the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·\+tl shofar\+tl* Year·\f* nor gather from the undressed vines.  
\v 12 For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.   
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\v 13 “‘In this \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year· each of you shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his property.  
\p \bdit (LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 14 \f + \fr 25:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:14 (Lev 25:14-19) (#10.590): \+bd* \ft T. You shall not wrong your neighbor in buying and selling / R. Buy and sell according to \ft \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching· law 
\fp T. Example: Specify the context is buying and selling land in the greater context of the \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·Shofar blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·Shofar Year·\f* \f + \fr 25:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:14 (#10.591): \+bd* \ft T. To judge the case of purchase and sale / R. Not to overcharge for an item nor to underpay for an item 
\fp T. Example: Specify the context is buying and selling land in the greater context of the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·Shofar blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·Shofar Year·\f* “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.  
\v 15 According to the number of years after the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar· you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.  
\v 16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.  
\v 17 \f + \fr 25:17 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:17 (Lev 25:13-17) (#10.592): \+bd* \ft T. You shall not take advantage of each other in context of selling land; by considering the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·Shofar blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·Shofar Year· / R. That one shall not wrong others in speech / R. Not to insult or harm anybody with words\f* You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. \bdit (RY:2, LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.  
\v 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”  
\v 21 then I will enjoin my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.  
\v 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.   
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\v 23 \f + \fr 25:23 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:23 (Lev 25:23-28) (#4.326): \+bd* \ft Not to sell land in the Land of Israel [God prevails] in perpetuity, permanently, without reclaim, nor indefinitely 
\fp T. Note Reason: For the land is mine (Adonai’s) and you are strangers and live as temporary residents with me\f* “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.  
\v 24 \f + \fr 25:24 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:24 (Lev 25:8-13, 25:23-28) (#4.327): \+bd* \ft T. To grant the right of land redemption which occurs in the 50th \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl* blast· / \+tl Jubilee\+tl* ·\+tl shofar\+tl*· year / R. To carry out the laws of sold family properties\f* In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.  
\p \bdit (LY:4) \bdit*  
\v 25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.  
\v 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;  
\v 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his property.  
\v 28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·: and in the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar· it shall be released, and he shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his property.  
\p \bdit (RY:3, LY:5) \bdit*  
\v 29 \f + \fr 25:29 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:29 (Lev 25:29-30, 25:31) (#4.328): \+bd* \ft T. Houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year / R. Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities 
\fp T. Note: This is called the Right of Redemption. If it is not redeemed in a year, it shall be perpetually the property of him who bought it, through all generations\f* “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.  
\v 30 If it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar·.  
\v 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar·.   
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\v 32 “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites [Descendants of United with], the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites [Descendants of United with] may redeem at any time.  
\v 33 The Levites [Descendants of United with] may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar·; for the houses of the cities of the Levites [Descendants of United with] are their possession among the children of Israel [God prevails].  
\v 34 \f + \fr 25:34 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:34 (Lev 35:32-34) (#1.15): \+bd* \ft T. Not to sell the open lands and fields around the cities of the Levites / R. Not to sell the fields but they shall remain the Levites’ before and after the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·Shofar blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·Shofar Year·\f* But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.   
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\v 35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.  
\v 36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.  
\v 37 \f + \fr 25:37 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:37 (#10.593): \+bd* \ft T. Not to make a profit when you sell food to the poor among your people / R. Not to loan to an Israelite on interest\f* You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.  
\v 38 I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to give you the land of Canaan [Humbled], and to be your God.  
\p \bdit (RY:4, LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 39 \f + \fr 25:39 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:39 (Lev 25:39-43) (#5.370): \+bd* \ft T. Not to work a Hebrew male servant in the same way as a slave / R. Not to have him do menial slave labor (More notes in Ex 21:8 OU360)\f* “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.  
\v 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·:  
\v 41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.  
\v 42 \f + \fr 25:42 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:42 (Lev 25:39-43) (#5.371): \+bd* \ft Not to sell a Hebrew male servant as slaves are sold (More notes in Ex 21:8 OU360)\f* For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. They shall not be sold as slaves.  
\v 43 \f + \fr 25:43 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:43 (Lev 25:39-46) (#5.372): \+bd* \ft T. Not to treat a Hebrew male servant harshly / R. Not to subjugate a Hebrew male servant to strenuous nor oppressive work (More notes in Ex 21:8 OU360)\f* You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.   
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\v 44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.  
\v 45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.  
\v 46 \f + \fr 25:46 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:46 (Lev 25:44-46) (#5.373): \+bd* \ft T. Permission to take slaves from the surrounding nations perpetually / R. To use the Canaanites as slaves forever / R. Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs\f* You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel [God prevails] you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.  
\p \bdit (LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 47 “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;  
\v 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;  
\v 49 or his \tl dod\tl* ·uncle·, or his \tl dod\tl* ·uncle’s· son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.  
\v 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.  
\v 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.  
\v 52 If there remain but a few years to the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.  
\v 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. \f + \fr 25:53 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 25:53 (Lev 25:47-55) (#5.374): \+bd* \ft T. Not to allow a foreigner living among the people of Israel to work a Hebrew male servant, who was sold to him, harshly or oppressively / R. Not to allow a Gentile to work a Hebrew male servant who was sold to him in strenuous work\f* He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.  
\v 54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·, he, and his children with him. \bdit (LY: Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 55 For to me the children of Israel [God prevails] are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 1 \f + \fr 26:1 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 26:1 (#2a.72): \+bd* \ft T. Not to set up a stone as an idol for worship / R. Not to bow down to a smooth, figured stone\f* “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to \tl hawa\tl* ·bow low, prostrate· to it; for I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God.   
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\v 2 “‘You shall keep my \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions·, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah B'har\tl* ·Taking leave· ·On mount·:  
\s1 \tl Yirmeyahu\tl* / Jeremiah 32:6-27  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Luke 13:1-33  
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\ms1 Parashah 33: \tl B'chukkotai\tl* ·In my regulations· 26:3-27:34  
\s1 Read with Parashah 32 in regular years; in leap years, read separately  
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\v 3 “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, and do them;  
\v 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.  
\v 5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.  
\p \bdit (LY:2) \bdit*  
\v 6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.  
\v 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.  
\v 8 Five of you shall chase one hundred, and one hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.   
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\v 9 “‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with you. \bdit (RY:5, LY:3) \bdit*  
\v 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.  
\v 11 \bd I will set my tent among you, \bd* and my soul won’t abhor you.  
\v 12 \bd I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. \bd* \f + \fr 26:12 \ft . \ft \+bd (11-12) Quoted in \+bd* 2 Cor 6:16; Rev 21:3\f*  
\v 13 I am \sc Adonai\sc* your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.   
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\v 14 “‘But if you will not \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· me, and will not do all these \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·;  
\v 15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, but break my covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·;  
\v 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.  
\v 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.   
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\v 18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your habitual sins ·missing the marks·.  
\v 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.  
\v 20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.   
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\v 21 “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your habitual sins ·missing the marks·.  
\v 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.   
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\v 23 “‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;  
\v 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your habitual sins ·missing the marks·.  
\v 25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.  
\v 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.   
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\v 27 “‘If you in spite of this won’t \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· me, but walk contrary to me;  
\v 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your habitual sins ·missing the marks·.  
\v 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.  
\v 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.  
\v 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.  
\v 32 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.  
\v 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.  
\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions· as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions·.  
\v 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions·, when you lived on it.   
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\v 36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.  
\v 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.  
\v 38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.  
\v 39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their depravity (moral evil) in your enemies’ lands; and also in the depravities (moral evils) of their fathers they shall pine away with them.   
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\v 40 “‘If they \tl yadah\tl* ·extend hands in confession· of their depravity (moral evil), and the depravity (moral evil) of their fathers, in their treachery which they hostility against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,  
\v 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their \bd uncircumcised heart \bd* \f + \fr 26:41 \ft . \ft \+bd Quoted in \+bd* Acts 7:51\f* is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their depravity (moral evil);  
\v 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob [Supplanter]; and also my covenant with Isaac [Laughter], and also my covenant with Abraham [Father of a multitude]; and I will remember the land.  
\v 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its \tl Shab'totay\tl* ·Intermissions· while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their depravity (moral evil); because, even because they rejected my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes.  
\v 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am \sc Adonai\sc* their God;  
\v 45 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery] in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am \sc Adonai\sc*.’”   
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\v 46 These are the statutes, judgments and \tl torot\tl* ·teachings·, which \sc Adonai\sc* made between him and the children of Israel [God prevails] in Mount Sinai [Thorn] by Moses [Drawn out].   
\c 27  
\p \bdit (RY:6, LY:4) \bdit* 
\v 1 \sc Adonai\sc* spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,  
\v 2 \f + \fr 27:2 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:2 (Lev 27:2-8) (#10.594): \+bd* \ft For one who voluntarily vows the value of a person unto Adonai, to pay the amount fixed in the \ft \+tl Torah\+tl* ·Teaching·\f* “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to \sc Adonai\sc* in a vow, according to your valuation,  
\v 3 your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels [1.25 lb; 0.57 kg] of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is 0.4 oz; 11.34 g).  
\v 4 If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels [12 oz; 3/4 lb; 340.2 g].  
\v 5 If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels [8 oz; 1/2 lb; 226.8 g], and for a female ten shekels [4 oz; 113.4 g].  
\v 6 If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels [2 oz; 56.7 g] of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.  
\v 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels [6 oz; 170.1 g], and for a female ten shekels [4 oz; 113.4 g].  
\v 8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.   
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\v 9 “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, all that any man gives of such to \sc Adonai\sc* becomes holy.  
\v 10 \f + \fr 27:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:10 (Lev 27:9-10) (#10.595): \+bd* \ft Not to substitute a voluntarily vowed animal\f* He shall not alter it, \f + \fr 27:10 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:10 (Lev 27:9-10) (#10.596): \+bd* \ft When trying to substitute a voluntarily vowed animal, both the new animal and the substituted animal remain dedicated\f* nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.  
\v 11 \f + \fr 27:11 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:11-12 (#10.597): \+bd* \ft T. For one who voluntarily vows an unclean animal to pay its value according to the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· / R. To estimate the value of consecrated animals\f* If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to \sc Adonai\sc*, then he shall set the animal before the priest;  
\v 12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be.  
\v 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.   
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\v 14 \f + \fr 27:14 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:14 (#10.598): \+bd* \ft T. For one who voluntarily vows the value of his house to give according to the value evaluated by the \ft \+tl Cohen\+tl* ·Priest· / R. To estimate the value of consecrated houses\f* “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to \sc Adonai\sc*, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.  
\v 15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.  
\p \bdit (RY:7, LY:5) \bdit*  
\v 16 \f + \fr 27:16 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:16 (Lev 27:16-24, 27:22-23, 27:28) (#10.599): \+bd* \ft T. For one who consecrates a portion of his land unto Adonai, he is to give according to its estimated production and the years before the \ft \+tl Yovel\+tl* Year ·Shofar blast Year·, also called the \+tl Jubilee\+tl* Year ·Shofar Year·, as appointed in the (Lev ch 27) portion / R. To estimate the value of consecrated fields\f* “‘If a man dedicates to \sc Adonai\sc* part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer [6.33 bushels; 59 gal; 220 L] of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels [1.25 lb; 0.57 kg] of silver.  
\v 17 If he dedicates his field from the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·, according to your valuation it shall stand.  
\v 18 But if he dedicates his field after the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar·, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.  
\v 19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.  
\v 20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;  
\v 21 but the field, when it goes out in the \tl Jubilee\tl* ·Shofar·, shall be holy to \sc Adonai\sc*, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.  
\p \bdit (LY:6) \bdit*  
\v 22 “‘If he dedicates a field to \sc Adonai\sc* which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,  
\v 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year·; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 24 In the \tl Jubilee\tl* Year ·Shofar Year· the field shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.  
\v 25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: the shekel is 0.4 oz; 11.34 g; or called twenty gerahs [20/50 of an oz].   
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\v 26 \f + \fr 27:26 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:26 (Lev 27:26-28) (#10.600): \+bd* \ft T. Not to voluntarily consecrate the firstborn animal to Adonai / R. Not to change a consecrated animal from one sacrifice to another\f* “‘Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to \sc Adonai\sc*, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep. It is \sc Adonai\sc*’s.  
\v 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.   
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\v 28 \f + \fr 27:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:28 (Lev 27:28-33) (#10.601): \+bd* \ft T. “No devoted thing that a man shall voluntarily vow and devote to Adonai of all that he has shall be sold or redeemed” / R. Carry out the laws of interdicting ·prohibited / forbidden· possessions, in Hebrew this is called \ft \+tl cherem\+tl* ·devoted to destruction / under the ban· 
\fp T. Note: The Hebrew \+tl cherem\+tl* is commonly translated as “put under the ban” or “devote to destruction,” it can also mean “exterminate,” and infrequently it can mean to “ostracize” or “excommunicate”\f* “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to \sc Adonai\sc* of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, \f + \fr 27:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:28 (Lev 27:26-29) (#10.602): \+bd* \ft T. Not to sell anything unconditionally concentrated to Adonai of all a person may own / R. Not to sell \ft \+tl cherem\+tl* ·devoted to destruction / under the ban· a field that has been concentrated to Adonai\f* shall be sold \f + \fr 27:28 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:28 (Lev 27:26-29) (#10.603): \+bd* \ft Not to redeem \ft \+tl cherem\+tl* ·devoted to destruction / under the ban· a field that has been concentrated to Adonai\f* or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\p \bdit (LY:7) \bdit*  
\v 29 “‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.   
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\v 30 “‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is \sc Adonai\sc*’s. It is holy to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. \bdit (Maftir ·Conclusion·) \bdit*  
\v 32 \f + \fr 27:32 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:32 (Lev 27:32-33) (#8.507): \+bd* \ft To set apart a tenth tithe from herd or flock (for the Levites)\f* All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to \sc Adonai\sc*.  
\v 33 \f + \fr 27:33 \ft . \ft \+bd Lev 27:33 (Lev 27:32-33) (#8.508): \+bd* \ft The tenth tithe from the flock or herd cannot be redeemed or exchanged\f* He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”   
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\v 34 These are the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· which \sc Adonai\sc* enjoined Moses [Drawn out] for the children of Israel [God prevails] on Mount Sinai [Thorn].   
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\s1 \tl Haftarah B'chukkotai\tl* ·Taking leave ·In my regulations·:  
\s1 \tl Yirmeyahu\tl* / Jeremiah 16:19-17:14  
\s1 \tl B'rit Hadashah\tl* ·New Covenant·: Luke 14:1-15:32  
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\s1 \tl Chazak, chazak v'nitchazek!\tl* ·Be Strong, be strong, and let us show ourselves courageous!· (2 Samuel 10:12)  
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