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Restitution Offerings

6 ^[a]The Lord told Moses, ² “A person sins against the Lord by acting treacherously toward his neighbor regarding something entrusted to his care, regarding security for a loan, robbery, if he has oppressed his neighbor, ³ if he has found something that had been lost and then lied about it, or if he makes a false oath about any of these things, thus committing a sin with respect to these things. ⁴ If that person has sinned and has been found guilty, then he is to return the stolen thing that he took or obtained by oppression, or the security that had been entrusted to him, or the lost thing that he had found, ⁵ or the thing about which he had given a false oath. He is to restore it in full, add a fifth to it, then give it to whom it belongs the very day he’s found guilty. ⁶ Now as to his guilt offering, he is to bring to the Lord a ram without defect from the flock, estimated as to its value, to the priest. ⁷ Then the priest is to make atonement for him in the Lord’s presence, and it will be forgiven him regarding whatever he did.”

^8 [b]The Lord told Moses, ⁹ “Deliver these orders to Aaron and his sons concerning the regulations for burnt offerings: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar throughout the entire night until morning, and the fire on the altar is to be kept burning along with it. ¹⁰ The priest is to clothe himself with a linen robe and undergarments.^[c] Then he is to take the ashes of the burnt offering on the altar that had been consumed by the fire and set them beside the altar. ¹¹ Then he is to change his clothes, dressing himself with a different set of clothes, and take the ashes to a clean place outside the camp. ¹² The fire on the altar is to be kept burning continuously without being extinguished. The priest is to burn wood on it every morning, arrange burnt offerings over it, and then burn the fat contained in the peace offerings over it. ¹³ The fire is to continue to burn on the altar and is never to be extinguished.”

Grain Offerings

¹⁴ “This is the law concerning grain offerings: Aaron’s sons are to offer them in the Lord’s presence, in front of the altar. ¹⁵ He is to take a handful of fine flour for a grain offering, some olive oil, and all of the frankincense for the grain offering, and make a sacrifice of smoke on the altar as a memorial portion, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁶ Aaron and his sons are to eat what remains of the unleavened offering at this sacred place—the court of the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁷ It is not to be baked with leaven. I’ve given it as their portion out of my offerings made by fire. It’s a most holy thing, like the sin and guilt offerings. ¹⁸ Every male of Aaron’s sons is to eat it as a portion continually allotted for your generations from the offerings made by fire to the Lord. Anyone who touches them is to be holy.”

Offerings by the Priests

¹⁹ Then the Lord told Moses, ²⁰ “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons are to offer to the Lord the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah^[d] of flour is to be offered throughout the day, half in the morning and half in the evening. ²¹ It is to be prepared with olive oil on a griddle. Once it has been mixed thoroughly, bake it, bring it in pieces, and offer it like a grain offering of broken pieces, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ²² The anointed priest who succeeds him from among his sons is to offer^[e] it. As a permanent statute, it is to be offered whole and made to smoke in the Lord’s presence. ²³ Every grain offering from a priest is to be burned^[f] whole. It is not to be eaten.”

Sin Offerings

²⁴ Then the Lord told Moses, ²⁵ “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the regulation concerning sin offerings: Slaughter the sin offering in the same place where the whole burnt offering is slaughtered—in the Lord’s presence. It’s a most holy thing. ²⁶ The priest who offers it as a sin offering is to eat it at a sacred place in the court of the Tent of Meeting. ²⁷ Whoever touches its meat will be holy. If some of its blood sprinkles on a garment, wash where it was sprinkled in a sacred place. ²⁸ The earthen vessel in which it was boiled is to be broken, unless it was boiled in a bronze vessel, in which case it is to be polished very well and rinsed in water. ²⁹ Every male among the priests is to eat it. It’s a most sacred thing. ³⁰ Any sin offering from which its blood was brought to the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the sacred place is not to be eaten. Instead, it is to be incinerated.”

Guilt Offerings

7 “This is the regulation concerning guilt offerings. They are most holy. ² The guilt offering is to be offered in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. The priest^[g] is to sprinkle some of its blood on the altar and around it. ³ As to all its fat—that is, the fat on the tail and the fat covering the internal organs—the one presenting the sacrifice^[h] is to offer it. ⁴ But the two kidneys, the fat over them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver are to be taken away, along with the kidneys. ⁵ Then the priest is to offer them on the altar, incinerating them with fire as a guilt offering to the Lord. ⁶ Any male among the priests may eat it, provided that it is eaten at a sacred place as a most holy thing. ⁷ The law for the sin offering is the same as the guilt offering. It belongs to the priest who made atonement with it. ⁸ The hide from the burnt offering brought by the offeror^[i] is to belong to the priest. ⁹ Every grain offering that’s baked in the oven and everything that’s prepared^[j] in a stew pan or in the frying pan belongs to the priest who offered it. ¹⁰ Furthermore, every grain offering that’s mixed with olive oil or that’s dry will be for Aaron’s sons, each one like the other.”^[k]

Peace Offerings

¹¹ “This is the law concerning the sacrifice for peace offerings that are to be brought to the Lord: ¹² If someone^[l] brings it to demonstrate thanksgiving, then he is to present along with the thanksgiving offering unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers spread^[m] with olive oil, and cakes of mixed fine flour with olive oil. ¹³ Along with the cakes of unleavened bread, he is to bring his thanksgiving offering with his peace offerings. ¹⁴ He is to present one from each grain offering,^[n] a separate offering to the Lord. It will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. ¹⁵ As to the meat^[o] contained in his peace offerings, it is to be eaten on the day it is offered.^[p] Nothing of it is to remain until morning.”

Voluntary Offerings

¹⁶ “If his sacrifice accompanies a fulfilled vow or is a voluntary offering, it is to be eaten on the day the offeror^[q] brings the sacrifice. Anything left over is to be eaten the next day,^{[r] 17} but whatever remains uneaten from the meat of the sacrifice by the third day is to be incinerated. ¹⁸ If any of the meat of his sacrifice of peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it won’t be accepted for the one who brought it. It is to be considered as refuse, and whoever eats it will bear the punishment of his iniquity.”

Distinguishing the Clean and Unclean

¹⁹ “Meat that comes in contact with a ceremonially unclean thing is not to be eaten. Incinerate it instead. As for ceremonially clean^[s] meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.^{[t] 20} But the person who eats meat from the sacrifice that belongs to the Lord, while still affected by his uncleanness, is to be eliminated from contact with^[u] his people. ²¹ Any person who touches a ceremonially unclean thing—whether the uncleanness pertains to human beings, animals, or to creeping things—and then eats from the meat of peace offerings that belongs to the Lord is to be eliminated from contact with^[v] his people.”

Prohibited Consumption

²² The Lord told Moses, ²³ “Tell the Israelis, ‘You are not to eat the fat of an ox, a lamb, or a goat. ²⁴ The carcass of an animal that died of its own and an animal torn by wild beast may be used for any purpose except for eating. ²⁵ Anyone who eats the fat of an animal that has been offered by fire to the Lord is to be eliminated from contact with^[w] his people. ²⁶ You are not to eat any form of blood in any of your dwellings, whether it’s from birds or animals. ²⁷ Any person who eats any form of blood is to be eliminated from contact with^[x] his people.’”

Jesus Encounters a Large Crowd

⁷ So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea, ⁸ Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing. ⁹ Jesus^[a] told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him, ¹⁰ because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him. ¹¹ Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, “You are the Son of God!” ¹² But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

Jesus Appoints Twelve Apostles^(A)

¹³ Then Jesus^[b] went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him. ¹⁴ He appointed the Twelve,^[c] whom he called apostles, to accompany him, to be sent out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have the authority to drive out demons. ¹⁶ He appointed the Twelve:^[d] Simon (whom he named Peter), ¹⁷ Zebedee’s sons James and his brother John (whom he named Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus,^[e] Simon the Cananaean,^{[f] 19} and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Jesus is Accused of Working with Beelzebul^(B)

²⁰ Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples^[g] couldn’t even eat. ²¹ When his family heard about it, they went to restrain him, because they kept saying, “He’s out of his mind!”

²² The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “He drives out demons by the ruler of demons.”

²³ So Jesus^[h] called them together and began to speak to them in parables. “How can Satan drive out Satan? ²⁴ If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household won’t stand. ²⁶ So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come. ²⁷ No one can go into a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house. ²⁸ I tell all of you^[i] with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.^{[j] 29} But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin.” ³⁰ …because they had been saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Davidic^[a]

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