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​ More Instructions about Festivals After the Celebration of the first Crops… Celebrate The Festival of Harvest “From the day after the Sabbath—the day, on which you bring the bundle, of grain, to be lifted up, as a special offering—count off seven full weeks.  Then. … Keep counting, until the day, after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later.  Then, present an offering of new grain to the Lord.  From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread, to be lifted up, before the Lord, as a special offering.  Make these loaves, from four quarts, of choice flour, and bake them, with yeast.  They will be an offering, to the Lord, from the first, of your crops.  Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs,    with no defects,… one young bull, and two rams, as burnt offerings, to the Lord.  These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings… and liquid offerings, will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma, to the Lord.  Then, yo...

​ The Appointed Festivals The Lord said to Moses,  “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.  These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim, as official days for holy assembly.  “You have six days each week. for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day, of complete rest, an official day, for holy assembly.  It is the Lord’s Sabbath day, and it must be observed, wherever you live.  “In addition to the Sabbath, these are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the official days, for holy assembly … these are the days  that are to be celebrated, at their proper times each year.  Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread “The Lord’s Passover begins at sundown, on the fourteenth day, of the first month.  On the next day, the fifteenth day,    of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival, of Unleavened Bread.  This festival, to the Lord, continues for seven days, and during that t...

​ Worthy and Unworthy Offerings And the Lord said to Moses,  “Give Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.  “If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.  Do not present an animal with defects, because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf.  “If you present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or the flock, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal.  It may have no defect of any kind.  You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs.  Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the Lord.  If a bull or lamb has a leg tha...

​ Sacred Offerings The Lord said to Moses,  “Tell Aaron and his sons, to be very careful, with the sacred gifts,    which the Israelites set apart, for Me, the Lord your God …so they do not bring shame, on My Holy Name.  I am the Lord.  Give them the following instructions.  “In all future generations, if any, of your descendants, is ceremonially unclean, when he approaches the sacred offering, which the people, of Israel, consecrate, to the Lord, he must be cut off, from my presence.  I am the Lord.  “If any, of Aaron’s descendants, has a skin disease or any kind, of discharge… that makes him ceremonially unclean, he may not eat, from the sacred offerings, until he has been pronounced clean.  He also, becomes unclean, by touching a corpse, or by having an emission of semen, or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone, who is ceremonially unclean, for any reason.  The man, who is defiled, in any of these ways, w...

​ Instructions for the Priests The Lord said to Moses,  “Give the following instructions to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.  “A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean, by touching the dead body, of a relative.  The only exceptions are his closest relatives—his mother or father, son or daughter, brother, or his virgin sister, who depends on him, because she has no husband.  But a priest must not defile himself and make himself unclean, for someone, who is related to him, only by marriage.  “The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.  They must be set apart, as holy, to their God, and must never bring shame, on the name of God.  They must be holy, for they are the ones, who present the special gifts, to the Lord, gifts of food, for their God.  “Priests may not marry a woman, who is defiled by prostitution, and they may not marry a woman, who is divorced, from her husband, for the priests are se...

​ Continued Consequences for Disobeying God “If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a wicked act.  The man and both women must be burned to death, to wipe out such wickedness, from among you.  “If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.  “If a woman presents herself, to a male animal, to have intercourse with it, she and the animal must both be put to death.  You must kill both, for they are guilty, of a capital offense.  “If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful disgrace.  They must be publicly cut off from the community.  Since the man has violated his sister, he will be punished for his sin.  (I know that I shouldn’t ask this question, but wasn’t Sarai Abram’s sister …So, was Abraham not punished, because he was not under the Law, which had not yet been given by God?)  “If a man has sex...

​ Punishments for Disobedience The Lord said to Moses,   “Give the people, of Israel, these instructions, which apply both, to native Israelites, and to the foreigners, living in Israel.  “If any of them, offer their children,    as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death.  The people of the community, must stone them, to death.  I myself will turn against them, and cut them off, from the community, because they have defiled My sanctuary, and brought shame, on My holy name, by offering their children to Molech.  And, if the people of the community, ignore those, who offer their children to Molech, and refuse to execute them, I myself will turn against them and their families, and will cut them off, from the community.  This will happen, to all, who commit spiritual prostitution, by worshiping Molech.  “I will also turn against those, who commit spiritual prostitution, by putting their trust in mediums, or in those, who consult t...