[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5

[Donnie Parrett]

DONNIE DAILY GEMS FOR SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5

DAILY BIBLE READING

Leviticus 19-21 New King James Version
Moral and Ceremonial Laws
19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the Lord
your God am holy.

3 'Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My
Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

4 'Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves [a]molded gods: I am the
Lord your God.

5 'And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, you shall
offer it of your own free will. 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer
it, and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be
burned in the fire. 7 And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an
abomination. It shall not be accepted. 8 Therefore everyone who eats it
shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed offering of
the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

9 'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the
corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape
of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am
the Lord your God.

11 'You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 And
you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of
your God: I am the Lord.

13 'You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is
hired shall not remain with you all night until morning. 14 You shall not
curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear
your God: I am the Lord.

15 'You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the
poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge
your neighbor. 16 You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people;
nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

17 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely
[b]rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 You shall not
take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but
you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

19 'You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with
another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a
garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.

20 'Whoever lies carnally with a woman who is betrothed to a man as a
concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given her freedom, for
this there shall be [c]scourging; but they shall not be put to death,
because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the
Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, a ram as a trespass
offering. 22 The priest shall make [d]atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed. And
the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

23 'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for
food, then you shall count their fruit as [e]uncircumcised. Three years it
shall be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten. 24 But in the
fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to the Lord. 25 And in the
fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I
am the Lord your God.

26 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice
divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your
head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make
any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am
the Lord.

29 'Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the
land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 'You shall [f]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them,
to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

32 'You shall [g]rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an
old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.

33 'And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat
him. 34 The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as [h]one born
among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the
land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

35 'You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight,
or volume. 36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah,
and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt.

37 'Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and
perform them: I am the Lord.' "

Penalties for Breaking the Law
20 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Again, you shall say to the
children of Israel: 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
who [i]dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall
surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3 I will set My face against that man, and will [j]cut him off from his
people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My
sanctuary and profane My holy name. 4 And if the people of the land should
in any way [k]hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his
descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him, 5 then I will set My face
against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his
people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with
Molech.

6 'And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute
himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off
from his people. 7 Consecrate[l] yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am
the Lord your God. 8 And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am
the Lord who [m]sanctifies you.

9 'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to
death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.

10 'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits
adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall
surely be put to death. 11 The man who lies with his father's wife has
uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death.
Their blood shall be upon them. 12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law,
both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion.
Their blood shall be upon them. 13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with
a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be
put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. 14 If a man marries a woman
and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he
and they, that there may be no wickedness among you. 15 If a man mates with
an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
16 If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the
woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon
them.

17 'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's
daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked
thing. And they shall be [n]cut off in the sight of their people. He has
uncovered his sister's nakedness. He shall bear his [o]guilt. 18 If a man
lies with a woman during her [p]sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has
[q]exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of
them shall be [r]cut off from their people.

19 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister nor of your
father's sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear
their guilt. 20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his
uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 21
If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an [s]unclean thing. He has
uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be childless.

22 'You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and
perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit
you out. 23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am
casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I
abhor them. 24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I
will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am
the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. 25 You shall
therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean
birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves [t]abominable by beast or
by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I
have separated from you as [u]unclean. 26 And you shall be holy to Me, for I
the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should
be Mine.

27 'A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall
surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall
be upon them.' "

Regulations for Conduct of Priests
21 And the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and
say to them: 'None shall defile himself for the dead among his people, 2
except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his
son, his daughter, and his brother; 3 also his virgin sister who is near to
him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself. 4 Otherwise he
shall not defile himself, being a [v]chief man among his people, to profane
himself.

5 'They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave
the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6 They shall
be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer
the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God;
therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife who is a harlot
or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband;
for [w]the priest is holy to his God. 8 Therefore you shall [x]consecrate
him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the
Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. 9 The daughter of any priest, if she
profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall
be burned with fire.

10 'He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the
anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall
not uncover[y] his head nor tear his clothes; 11 nor shall he go near any
dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother; 12 nor shall he
go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the
consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. 13
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow or a divorced woman or
a defiled woman or a harlot-these he shall not marry; but he shall take a
virgin of his own people as wife. 15 Nor shall he profane his posterity
among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.' "

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 "Speak to Aaron, saying: 'No man
of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may
approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For any man who has a defect
shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb
too long, 19 a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, 20 or is a
hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or
scab, or is a eunuch. 21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who
has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the
Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
22 He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy; 23 only
he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a
defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them.' "

24 And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of
Israel.

Footnotes
Leviticus 19:4 molten
Leviticus 19:17 reprove
Leviticus 19:20 punishment
Leviticus 19:22 Lit. covering
Leviticus 19:23 unclean
Leviticus 19:30 observe
Leviticus 19:32 rise to give honor
Leviticus 19:34 native among you
Leviticus 20:2 As resident aliens
Leviticus 20:3 Put him to death
Leviticus 20:4 disregard
Leviticus 20:7 Set yourselves apart for the Lord
Leviticus 20:8 sets you apart
Leviticus 20:17 Put to death
Leviticus 20:17 iniquity
Leviticus 20:18 Or customary impurity
Leviticus 20:18 Lit. made bare
Leviticus 20:18 Put to death
Leviticus 20:21 indecent, impure
Leviticus 20:25 detestable or loathsome
Leviticus 20:25 defiled
Leviticus 21:4 Lit. master or husband
Leviticus 21:7 Lit. he
Leviticus 21:8 set him apart
Leviticus 21:10 In mourning