Numbers 5-6Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled [a]by a corpse. 3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.” 4 And the chil...  Read More

Numbers 3-4The Sons of Aaron3 Now these are the records[a] of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, [b]whom he consecrated to minister as priests. 4 Nadab and Abihu had died before the Lord when they offere...  Read More

Numbers 1-2The First Census of Israel1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male indivi...  Read More

Leviticus 26-27Promise of Blessing and Retribution26 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves;neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;for I am the Lord your God.2 You shall [a]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:I am the Lord.3 ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and...  Read More

Leviticus 24-25Care of the Tabernacle Lamps24 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually. 3 Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forev...  Read More

Leviticus 22-23The Holiness of the Offerings22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate[a] themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me: I am the Lord. 3 Say to them: ‘Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the...  Read More