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Leviticus 23 |
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| 23:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the
feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even
these are my feasts. |
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Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest,
an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the
LORD in all your dwellings. |
 (23:3) "The seventh day is the sabbath ...
ye shall do no work therein."
Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?
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| 23:4
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall
proclaim in their seasons. |
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In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover. |
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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened
bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. |
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In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein. |
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But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in
the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. |
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| 23:9
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 23:10
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into
the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye
shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: |
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And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on
the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. |
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And ye shall offer that
day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering
unto the LORD. |
(23:12-14, 18)
More instructions on killing and burning animals.
I guess the first nine chapters of Leviticus wasn't
enough. God says we must do this because he really likes the smell -- it is
"a sweet savour unto the Lord."
Does God desire animal sacrifices?
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And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour :
and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
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| 23:14
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until
the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. |
(23:14, 21, 31, 41)
"It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations."
Are the Old Testament laws still binding?
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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the
day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be
complete: |
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Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days;
and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. |
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Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals;
they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the
firstfruits unto the LORD. |
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And ye shall offer
with the bread seven
lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two
rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat
offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of
sweet savour unto the
LORD. |
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Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two
lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. |
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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a
wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the
LORD for the priest. |
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And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy
convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for
ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. |
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And when ye reap the harvest
of your land, thou shalt not make clean
riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou
gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and
to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. |
 (23:22)
"Thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger."
To help feed the poor and strangers, farmers should not harvest the corners
of their fields.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the
first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, an holy convocation. |
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Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made
by fire unto the LORD. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of
atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict
your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. |
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And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to
make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. |
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For whatsoever soul it
be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from
among his people. |
(23:29-30) "Whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day,
the same soul will I destroy from among his people."
God will destroy you if you work on the day of atonement.
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And whatsoever soul it
be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from
among his people.
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Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings. |
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It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls:
in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye
celebrate your sabbath. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this
seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the
LORD. |
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On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein. |
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Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the
eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall
do no servile work therein. |
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| 23:37
These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing
upon his day: |
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Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all
your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the
LORD. |
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| 23:39
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in
the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on
the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. |
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And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. |
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And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for
ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. |
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Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall
dwell in booths: |
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That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell
in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your
God. |
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And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD. |
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