Numbers 7-8Offerings of the Leaders7 Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, that he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them. 2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the leaders of the tribes [a]and over those who were numbered, made an off...  Read More

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 25The Sabbath of the Seventh Year25 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord. 3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbat...  Read More