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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about the penalties for breaking the law, especially for the priests,

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and today we're going to hear about the feasts the Israelites are called to keep and the

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way that they are to keep them.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Leviticus chapters 23 and 24.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them,

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The feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my feasts.

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Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation.

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You shall do no work on it, it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

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These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed

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times.

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The fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover.

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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord.

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Seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

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On the first day you shall have a holy convocation, you shall do no customary work on it, but

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you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days.

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The seventh day shall be a holy convocation, you shall do no customary work on it.

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When the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them,

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When you come into the land which I give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring

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a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

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He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf on the day after

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the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year,

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without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.

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Its grain offering shall be two tenths of an effa of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering

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made by fire to the Lord for a sweet aroma, and its drink offering shall be of wine, one

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fourth of a hymn.

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You shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh grain until the same day that you

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have brought an offering to your God.

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It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you

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brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbathes shall be completed.

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Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath.

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Then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.

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You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two tenths of an effa.

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They shall be of fine flour.

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They shall be baked with leaven.

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They are the first fruits to the Lord.

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And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young

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bull and two rams.

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They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink

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offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord.

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Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the

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first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering.

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The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before

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the Lord with the two lambs.

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They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

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And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you.

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You shall do no customary work on it.

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It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

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When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your

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field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest.

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You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger.

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I am the Lord your God.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the

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seventh month on the first day of the month you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial

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of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

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You shall do no customary work on it, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to

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the Lord.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the

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day of atonement.

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It shall be a holy convocation for you.

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You shall afflict your souls an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the day of atonement, to make atonement

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for you before the Lord your God.

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For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his

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people.

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And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among

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his people.

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You shall do no manner of work.

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It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest.

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And you shall afflict your souls.

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On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate

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your Sabbath.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel saying, The fifteenth

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day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.

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On the first day there shall be a holy convocation.

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You shall do no customary work on it.

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For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire

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to the Lord.

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It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

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These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to

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offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice

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and drink offerings, everything on its day, besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, besides

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your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your free will offerings which you give

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to the Lord.

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Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the

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land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days.

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On the first day there shall be a Sabbath rest, and on the eighth day a Sabbath rest.

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And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches

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of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice

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before the Lord your God for seven days.

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You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year.

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It shall be a statute forever in your generations.

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You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

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You shall dwell in Booth for seven days.

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All who are native Israelites shall dwell in Booth, that your generations may know that

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I made the children of Israel dwell in Booth when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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I am the Lord your God.

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So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

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Chapter 24

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel that they bring to

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you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.

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Outside the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it,

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from evening until morning before the Lord continually.

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It shall be a statute forever in your generations.

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He shall be in charge of the lamps, on a pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

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And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it.

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Two tenths of an effah shall be in each cake.

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You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

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And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial,

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an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the

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children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

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And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it

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is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.

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Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children

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of Israel.

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And this Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought each other in a camp.

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And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed, and so they brought

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him to Moses.

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His mother's name was Shelomit, the daughter of Debris, of the tribe of Dan.

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Then they put him in custody that the mind of the Lord might be shown to them.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take outside the camp him who has cursed.

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Then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation

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stone him.

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Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear

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his sin, and whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death.

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All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born

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in the land.

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When he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall be put to death.

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Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

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Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

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If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor as he has done, so shall it be done to him.

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Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

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As he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.

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And whoever kills an animal shall restore it, but whoever kills a man shall be put to

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death.

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You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country, for I am

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the Lord your God.

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Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they took outside the camp him who had

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cursed and stoned him with stones.

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So the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.