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24 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel that they bring pure pressed olive oil to you, for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.
3 “Outside the Veil of the Testimony, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, shall Aaron tend them, from evening until morning, before the LORD always. This shall be a Law, forever, throughout your generations.
4 “He shall tend the lamps upon the pure Candlestick before the LORD, perpetually.
5 “Also, you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes from it. Two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
6 “And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure Table before the LORD.
7 “You shall also put pure incense upon the rows, so that it may be on the Bread for a remembrance, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8 “Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the LORD, forevermore, from the children of Israel, for an everlasting Covenant.
9 “And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. And they shall eat it in the Holy Place. For it is Most Holy to him of the offerings of the LORD, made by fire, by a perpetual Ordinance.”
10 And there went out among the children of Israel the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp.
11 So the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. Also, his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 And they put him under guard until he told them the mind of the LORD.
13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14 “Bring the blasphemer outside the camp. And let all who heard him put their hands upon his head. And let all the Congregation stone him.
15 “And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
16 ‘And he who blasphemes the Name of the LORD shall be put to death. All the Congregation shall stone him to death, as well as the stranger, just as he who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the Name, let him be killed.
17 ‘Also, he who kills any man, he shall be put to death.
18 ‘And he who kills a beast, he shall restore it, beast for beast.
19 ‘Also, if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor, just as he has done so shall it be done to him.
20 ‘Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Such a blemish as he has made in any, such shall be repaid to him.
21 ‘And he who kills a beast shall restore it. But he who kills a man shall be killed.
22 ‘You shall have one Law. It shall be the same for the stranger as for one born in the country, for I am the LORD your God.’”
23 Then, Moses told the children of Israel. And they brought the blasphemer out of the camp and stoned him with stones. So, the children of Israel did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
25 And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you shall come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep Sabbath to the LORD.
3 ‘Six years you shall sow your field. And six years you shall cut your vineyard and gather its fruit.
4 ‘But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of Rest to the land, the LORD’s Sabbath. You shall neither sow your field nor cut your vineyard.
5 ‘That of your harvest which grows of its own accord you shall not reap. Nor shall you gather the grapes that you have left unlabored. It shall be a year of rest to the land.
6 ‘And the rest of the land shall be food for you, for you and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,
7 ‘and for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land. All of its increase shall be food.
8 ‘Also, you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself (seven times seven years). And the space of the seven Sabbaths of years will be forty nine years to you.
9 ‘Then, on the tenth of the seventh month, you shall cause the Trumpet of the Jubilee to blow. On the Day of the Reconciliation you shall make the Trumpet blow throughout all your land.
10 ‘And you shall hallow that year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be the Jubilee to you. And you shall return every man to his possession. And every man shall return to his family.
11 ‘This fiftieth year shall be a year of Jubilee to you. You shall neither sow nor reap that which grows on its own, nor gather the grapes of untended vines.
12 ‘For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
13 ‘In the year of this Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
14 ‘And when you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another.
15 ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of the years of produce, he shall sell to you.
16 ‘According to the multitude of years, you shall increase its price. And according to the fewness of years, you shall lower the price of it. For he sells to you according to the number of the years of produce.
17 ‘Therefore, no one oppress his neighbor. But you shall fear your God. For I am the LORD, your God.
18 ‘Therefore, you shall obey My Ordinances, and keep My Laws and do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 ‘And the land shall give her fruit. And you shall eat your fill and dwell there in safety.
20 ‘And if you shall say, “What shall we eat the seventh year, for we shall neither sow nor gather in our increase?”
21 ‘I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year. And it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 ‘And you shall sow the eighth year and eat of the old fruit until the ninth year. Until its produce comes, you shall eat from the old harvest.
23 ‘Also, the land shall not be sold to be cut off. For the land is Mine. You are but strangers and sojourners with Me.
24 ‘Therefore, in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption of the land.
25 ‘If your brother is impoverished, and sells his possessions, then his redeemer shall come—his near kinsman—and buy out that which his brother sells.
26 ‘And if he has no redeemer, but has become able to buy it out himself,
27 ‘then he shall count the years of his sale and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it. So shall he return to his possession.
28 ‘But if he is not able to restore it to himself, then that which was sold shall remain in the hand of him who had bought it until the year of the Jubilee. And in the Jubilee it shall come out. And he shall return to his possession.
29 ‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it out again within a whole year after it is sold. Within a year may he buy it out.
30 ‘But, if it is not bought out within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established as “cut off” to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the Jubilee.
31 ‘But the houses of villages which have no walls around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be bought out again and shall go out in the Jubilee.
32 ‘Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites—the houses of the cities of their possession—the Levites may redeem at all seasons.
33 ‘And if a man purchases from the Levites, the house that was sold and the city of their possession shall go out in the Jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34 ‘But the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold. For it is their perpetual possession.
35 ‘Moreover, if your brother is impoverished and fallen in decay with you, you shall relieve him. And as a stranger and sojourner, so shall he live with you.
36 ‘You shall take no usury from him, nor interest. But you shall fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.
37 ‘You shall not give him your money to usury, nor lend him your provisions for increase.
38 ‘I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39 ‘Also, if your brother next to you is impoverished, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bond servant.
40 ‘As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you. He shall serve you to the year of Jubilee.
41 ‘Then shall he depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his family. And to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen are sold.
43 ‘You shall not rule over him cruelly but shall fear your God.
44 ‘Also, your bond servant and your bondmaid whom you shall have shall be from the heathen who are around you. From them you shall buy servants and maids.
45 ‘And moreover, from the children of the strangers who are sojourners among you, from them you shall buy and from their families who are with you (which they begat in your land). These shall be your possession.
46 ‘So you shall take them as inheritance for your children after you, to possess them by inheritance. You shall use their labors forever. But over your brothers, the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with cruelty.
13 Then they brought little children to Him, so He could touch them. And His disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14 But when Jesus saw it, He was displeased and said to them, “Let the little children to come to Me. And do not forbid them. For of such is the Kingdom of God.
15 “Truly I say to you, whoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein.”
16 And He took them up in His arms and put His hands upon them and blessed them.
17 And when He had gone on His way, someone came running and kneeled to Him and asked Him, “Good Master, what must I do so that I may possess eternal life?”
18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? There is no one good but One, even God.
19 “You know the Commandments: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. You shall hurt no man. Honor your father and mother.
20 Then he answered, and said to Him, “Master, all these things I have observed from my youth.”
21 And Jesus looked upon him and loved him and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go and sell all that you have. And give to the poor. And you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me. And take up the Cross.
22 But he was sad at that saying and went away sorrowful. For he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
24 And His disciples were afraid at His Words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
26 And they were much more astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
27 But Jesus looked upon them, and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For with God, all things are possible.”
28 Then Peter began to say to Him, “Lo, we have forsaken all, and have followed You.”
29 Jesus answered, and said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My sake and the Gospels,
30 who shall not receive a hundredfold - now presently - houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands (with persecutions) and in the world to come, eternal life.
31 “But many who are first, shall be last; and the last, first.”
9 But now, You are far off and put us to confusion, and do not go forth with our armies.
10 You make us turn back from the adversary, and those who hate us get plunder for themselves.
11 You give us as sheep to be eaten and scatter us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people without gain, and do not increase their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a jest and laughing stock to those who surround us.
14 You make us a proverb among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face has covered me,
16 because of the voice of the slanderer and rebuker, because of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this has come upon us. Still, we do not forget You. Nor do we deal falsely concerning Your Covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps gone out of Your paths;
19 even though You have struck us down into the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and held up our hands to a strange god,
21 shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Surely, for Your sake we are killed continually and are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Up! Why do You sleep, O LORD? Awake! Be not far off forever.
24 Why do you hide Your face and forget our misery and our affliction?
25 For our soul is beaten down to the dust. Our belly clings to the ground.
26 Rise up for our succor; and redeem us for Your mercy’s sake. To him who excels on Shoshannim: a song of love to give instruction, committed to the sons of Korah.
20 The tongue of the just man is as refined silver. The heart of the wicked has little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many. But fools shall die for lack of wisdom.
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