Lev_21:1-24; Lev_22:1-33; Lev_23:1-44; Lev_24:1-23; Lev_25:1-55
from, (merachaka,) he hath uncovered the nakedness ofhis brother, they shall be childless. But keep you all My statutes and all Myjudgments, and do them, that the land into which I bring you to dwell may notcast you out. You shall not walk in the laws of the peoples whom I drive awayfrom before you; for they have committed all these things, and My Word hathabhorred them. But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit this land, and I willgive it to you to possess it, a land producing milk and honey. I am the Lordyour God who have separated you from the peoples. And you shall makedistinction between animals clean and unclean, and between fowls unclean andclean, and not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thingthat creepeth on the ground which I have separated (as to be) unto you unclean.And you shall be holy before Me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separatedyou from the nations to be worshippers before Me. A man or a woman with whomare impostures or divinations shall be verily put to death; with stones theyshall be stoned, they are guilty of death.
SECTIONXXXI.
EMOR.
XXI. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh,saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no onebe defiled among his people on account of the dead: yet for his kin, who isnigh to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for hisdaughter, and for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin who is near to him,who hath no husband, for her he may be defiled. But a chief among his people(the high priest) shall not defile himself, to make himself profane. They shallnot make baldness on their heads, nor cut away the hair of their beards, norscarify their flesh with marks. They shall be holy before their God, and shallnot profane the Name of their God; for they offer the oblations of the Lordtheir God, and they shall be holy. They shall not take to wife a woman who is aharlot, or one who is corrupted, nor may they take a woman who hath been putaway from her husband; for (the priest is to be) holy before his God. Thoushalt consecrate him, for he is to offer the oblation of thy God: he shall besacred to thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am Holy. And if the daughterof a man who is a priest profane herself by becoming an harlot, she hathprofaned the sanctity of her father; she shall be burned with fire. And the (high) priestwho hath been consecrated from his brethren, upon whose head hath been pouredthe oil of consecration, and who, at the offering of his oblation, is arrayedwith the (holy) robes, shall not make bare his head, nor rend his garments. Norshall he enter unto any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or hismother. And he shall not go out from the sanctuary nor defile the sanctuary ofhis God; for the crown of the[9] <l > anointing oil of his God is upon him.I am the Lord. And he shall take a wife in her virginity; a widow, or adivorced person, or a corrupt harlot, these he shall not take; but a virginfrom his people shall he take for a wife. And his offspring he shall notprofane among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify him. And the Lord spake with Mosheh,saying: Speak with Aharon, saying: A man of the generations of thy sons whohath any blemish on him shall not approach to offer the oblation of his God.For no man in whom is a blemish may come nigh; a blind man, or lame, or flat nosed,or disproportioned;[10] <l > or a man who hath a broken foot, ora broken hand, or who is crookbacked, or dwarfish[11] <l >, or whohath a white spot in his eye,[12] <l > or the scurvy, or ringworm, or whohath ruptured testicles. No man of the offspring of Aharon the priest who hatha blemish may approach to offer the oblations of the Lord; having a blemish inhim he shall not draw near to present the oblation of his God: yet of the sanctifiedoblations of his God, even of the most holy, he may eat: only he shall notenter within the veil, nor approach the altar, because he hath a blemish; thathe profane not My sanctuary; for I am the Lord who sanctify them. And Moshehspake with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the sons of Israel.
XXII. And the Lordspake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, and let themkeep separate from[13] <l > the consecrated things of thechildren of Israel, that they profane not the Name of My Holiness which they(are to) sanctify before Me: I am the Lord. Say to them, Any man of all thesons of your generations who shall touch the hallowed things which the childrenof Israel consecrate before the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that manshall perish before Me: I am the Lord. Any man of Aharon’s offspring who hathleprosy or an unclean effusion shall not eat of the consecrated things until hebe clean; and whosoever toucheth any unclean animal, or a man whose seed goethfrom him, or a man who toucheth any reptile that maketh him unclean, or a manwho maketh him unclean by any of his uncleanness, the man who toucheth himshall be unclean until the evening, and may not eat of things consecratedunless he wash his flesh with water. But when the sun hath gone down, and heshall have purified himself, he may afterward eat of the hallowed things, forit is his food. A carcase which hath been torn he may not eat, to defilehimself therewith: I am the Lord. But let them keep the keeping of My word,lest they bring guilt upon themselves, and die for it, because they haveprofaned it, I am the Lord who sanctify them. No stranger shall eat of thatwhich is consecrated, neither a sojourner with a priest, or a hireling, may eatof the consecrated thing. But if the priest buy a person with a purchase of hismoney, he may eat of it, and he who hath been born in his house, they may eatof his bread. And the daughter of a priest, if she be married to a stranger,may not eat of things set apart and hallowed. But if the priest’s daughter be awidow, or divorced, and, having, no child, hath returned to her father’s house,as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s meat; but no stranger shall eatthereof. And if a man eat someconsecrated thing through ignorance, he shall add a fifth unto it, and give theconsecrated thing unto the priest. And let them not profane the hallowed thingsof the children of Israel which are set apart before the Lord, nor bring uponthemselves iniquities and sins, when they eat in uncleanness the things thatare holy. I am the Lord, who sanctify them. And the Lord spakewith Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all thechildren of Israel, and say to them: When any man of the sons of Israel, or ofthe sojourners in Israel, will offer the oblation of any of their vows or anyof their freewill oblations which they may offer before the Lord for a burntsacrifice; that it may be acceptable from you, (let it be) a male withoutblemish, of the bullocks, or of the lambs, or of the goats. But whatever hath ablemish in it you shall not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you. Andif a man present a consecrated victim before the Lord, as a vow set apart, or afreewill offering of the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect, to beacceptable; there shall be no blemish in it. Blind, or broken, or mutilated, orhaving imposthumes, or ulcers, or blotches, these you shall not offer beforethe Lord, nor of them present an oblation upon the altar before the Lord. But abullock or a lamb that hath anything superfluous or deficient you may make afree will offering,[14] <l > but for a vow it will not beacceptable. And that which is crushed, or rent, or worn out, or emasculated,you shall not offer before the Lord, nor do it[15] <l > in your land. Norfrom (the hand of) a son of the Gentiles may you offer an oblation to your Godof any of these, because their corruption is in them, a blemish is in them;they will not be acceptable for you. And the Lord spakewith Mosheh, saying: When a bullock, or lamb, or goat, is brought forth, itshall be seven days with its dam, and on the eighth day and thenceforward itwill be acceptable to be offered as an oblation before the Lord. Whether it bea cow or ewe, ye shall not immolate (both) her and her offspring on one day.And when you present a thank-offering before the Lord, offer it so as tobe acceptable for you. It is to be eaten on that day, nothing shall remain ofit till the morning. I am the Lord. And you shall observe My commandments, anddo them. I am the Lord. Nor shall you profane My holy Name, for I will be hallowedamong the sons of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctify you, who have led youforth from the land of Mizraim to be unto you Eloha: I am the Lord.
XXIII. And the Lordspake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: TheFESTIVALS of the Lord which you shall convoke as holy convocations, these areMy festivals. Six days thou shalt do work, but on the seventh day is the restof the Sabbath; a holy convocation, (in it) you shall do no work. It is aSabbath before the Lord in all your dwellings.
These are thefestivals of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall convoke in theirseasons. In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the suns,is the Pascha before the Lord, and on the fifteenth day of this month is thefeast (chagga)of unleavened cakes before the Lord; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.In the first day you shall have a holy convocation; no laborious work shall youdo; but you shall offer an oblation before the Lord seven days; in the seventhday there shall be a holy convocation; no laborious work may you do. And the Lord spake with Mosheb,saving: Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you have enteredinto the land that I will give unto you, and you reap its harvest, you shallbring an omera of the first of your harvest unto the priest, and he shalluplift the omera before the Lord to be accepted for you: after the day of thefestivity (yoma taba) shall the priest uplift it. And you shall perform on the day of yourelevation of the omera (the sacrifice of) an unblemished lamb of the year, as aburnt offering before the Lord. And the mincha thereof shall be two-tenthsof flour mingled with oil, an oblation to be accepted before the Lord; and itslibation, wine, the fourth of a hin. Neither bread, nor parched corn, nor greenears shall you eat until this day when you bring the oblation of your God; aneverlasting statute unto your generations in all your dwellings. And count to you,after the festival day, from the day that you brought the omera of theelevation, seven weeks, complete shall they be. Until the (day) after theseventh week number fifty days, and (then) offer a new mincha before the Lord.Bring from your dwellings two loaves for an elevation, two cakes, of two-tenthsof flour shall they be, baked with leaven, as first fruits before the Lord. Andwith the bread you shall offer seven unblemished lambs of the year, one youngbullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering before the Lord, withtheir mincha and their libation, to be received with acceptance before theLord. And you shall make one of the goats (a sacrifice) for a sin offering, andtwo lambs of the year for consecrated offerings. And the priest shall upliftthem with the bread of the first fruits an elevation before the Lord; with thetwo lambs they (the loaves) shall be consecrated before the Lord for thepriest. And on this same day you shall proclaim (that) it shall be a holyconvocation to you. Ye shall do no work of labour. (This is) an everlastingstatute in all your dwellings unto your generations. And when you reap theharvest of your land, thou shalt not entirely finish the corner of thy field inthy reaping, nor shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest; for thepoor and for the stranger thou shalt leave them: I am the Lord your God. And the Lord spakewith Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel, saying: In the seventhmonth[16] <l > you shall have a (season of) Rest; amemorial of the Trumpet, a holy convocation; no work of labour shall you do,but offer an oblation before the Lord. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:But on the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement (Yomade Kippuraia, theDay of Expiations); a holy convocation you shall have, and afflict (or humble)your souls2 and offer the oblationbefore the Lord. And NO WORK3 may youdo on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make an atonement foryou before the Lord your God. For every man who will not humble himself4 on that same day, shall be cut off from hispeople. And any man who doeth any work oil that same day, I will destroy thatman from among his people. No work shall you do: an everlasting statute untoyour generations, in all your dwellings. A Sabbath of rest shall it be to you,and ye shall humble your souls, on the ninth of the month at evening: fromevening to evening you shall rest your rest.5 And the Lord spakewith Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Israel saying: On the fifteenth dayof this seventh month (shall be) the Feast of Bowers,6 seven days before the Lord. On the firstday a holy convocation; no work of labour may you do. Seven days you shalloffer oblations before the Lord; on the eighth day you shall have a holyconvocation, and offer an oblation before the Lord. You shall be gatheredtogether; no work of labour may you do.
These are theFestivals of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, tooffer an oblation before the Lord, a burnt sacrifice, and a mincha, and aconsecrated offering and libations (according to) the directory of the day, onits day. Beside (or except) the Sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts,and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings which youpresent before the Lord. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, whenyou have gathered in the produce of the ground, you shall solemnize a feast ofthe Lord seven days. On the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighthday rest. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruit of the orange(or citron) tree,7 and branches ofpalms,8 and myrtles, and willows of thebrook, and rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. And solemnize it, afeast before the Lord, seven days in the year; it is an everlasting statuteunto your generations; in the seventh month shall you solemnize it. In bowersshall you dwell seven days; every one who is native born in Israel shall dwell(or sit) in the bowers: that your generations may know that I made the childrenof Israel to dwell under the shadow of clouds when I brought them forth fromthe land of Mizraim. I am the Lord your God. And Mosheh declared the order ofthe Festivals of the Lord, and taught them to the sons of Israel.
XXIV. And the Lordspake with Mosheh, saying, Instruct the sons of Israel to bring to thee oil ofolives, pure (and) beaten, to give light, to make the lamps burn continually.Outside of the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of ordinance, shallAharon order it from evening till morning before the Lord continually; aneverlasting statute unto your generations. Upon the pure candelabrum shall beorder the lamps before the Lord continually. And thou shalt take flour, and preparetwelve cakes; two tenths shall be for one cake. And thou shalt place them intwo rows (orders), six in an order, upon the pure table before the Lord. Andthou shalt put pure frankincense upon (each) order, and it shall be for Breadof Memorial, (Lechem leadkara,) an oblation before the Lord. From Sabbath day to Sabbath dayhe shall order it before the Lord continually, from the offerings of thechildren of Israel, an everlasting statute. And it shall be for Aharon and forhis sons, that they may eat it in the holy place; for it is most sacred to himof the oblations of the Lord by an everlasting statute. And the son of awoman, a daughter of Israel, but he was the son of a Mizraite man went outamong the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman, and a man, ason of Israel, had contention in the camp. And the son of the woman thedaughter of Israel gave expression to the Name, and execrated. And they broughthim unto Mosheh. And the name of his mother was Shelomith, the daughter ofDibree, of the tribe of Dan. And they bound him in the house of confinement,until it should be explained to them by the decree of the Word of the Lord. Andthe Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring forth him who hath imprecated withoutthe camp, and let all who heard lay their hands upon his head, and let all thecongregation stone him. And speak thou with the sons of Israel, saying:Whatever man imprecateth before his God shall bear his guilt, and be who (so)expresseth the Name of the Lord, dying shall die, and all the congregationshall stone him, as well the stranger as the native born; when he hath made(blasphemous) expression of the Name, he shall be put to death. And the man whokilleth any soul of man shall die, being put to death. And he who killeth thelife of a beast shall make it good, life for life. And if a man inflict ablemish on his neighbour, as he hath done, so it shall be done to him: bruisefor bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth) as he hath inflicted a blemish upon aman, it shall be done to him. And he who killeth a beast shall make it good;but he who killeth a man shall be pat to death. One judgment shall you have,for the stranger as for the native born shall it be; for I am the Lord yourGod. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Israel, and they brought out theblasphemer without the camp, and stoned him with stones; and the sons of Israeldid as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
SECTIONXXXII.
BEHARSINAI.
XXV. AND the Lordspake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying: Speak with the children ofIsrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will giveyou, the land shall have rest by an intermission (shemet shemittha) before the Lord. Six years thoushalt sow thy field, and six years prune thy vineyard, and gather in its fruit;but in the seventh year the land shall have a respite of rest (neach shemittha),a respite beforethe Lord; thou shalt not sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard. The after cropof thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither make vintage of the grapes whichthou mayest have left, it shall be a year of remission to the land. Yet theremission of the land9 shall be to theefor food, to thee, and to thy servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thyhireling, and to the sojourner who dwelleth with thee. And for thy cattle, andfor the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the produce of it be for meat. And number to thee seven (such)years of Release,
[9] <l > Sam. Vers., Òof the excellency.Ó
[10] <l > Pesch. Syriac here, Òor who hath theear slit.Ó
[11] <l > Or, Òwhose eyebrows have fallenoff.Ó Ð Ibid.
[12] <l > Or, Òhaving sightless eyes,Ó orÒhaving white spots in his eyes.Ó Ð Ibid.
[13] <l > ÒAt the time of their uncleanness.ÓÐ RASHI.
[14] <l > The meaning, according to theRabbins, is, that the animal itself was not to be brought, but the value of itin money, to be applied to the repairs of the sanctuary, &c.
[15] <l > Pesch. Syr., Ònor sacrifice it.Ó
[16] <l >Tishri, September.
2 Sam. Vers., Òby fasting.Ó
3 Not even the preparation of food; the fast beingabsolute.
4 Sam. Vers., Òwill not fast.Ó
5 Tenchun neyachakun. Heb., Tishebethu shabbatekem.
6 Or Òshades;Ó Chaga di-metalaia. Heb., chag ha-sukkoth, Òfeast of booths, or tabernacles.Ó
7 Heb., Òthe tree hadar.Ó Onkelos, ilana ethrogia.
8 Lulabin.
9 The produce of the land during the time ofremission. Ð RASHI, EBEN EZRA. For the whole year it was common property, andnot the ownerÕs exclusively.