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Prophecy 31, 35, 95;
Leviticus 6:1–8:36; Numbers 19:1-22;
Ezekiel 36:16-36;
1 Corinthians 15:1–58;



Leviticus 6:1–8:36


1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 If any person sins and is slyly treacherous against YAHUVEH, and deals falsely with his neighbor concerning a deposit, or concerning security, or by robbery, or has extorted his neighbor,
3 or has found a lost thing and has lied about it, and has sworn to a falsehood in regard to any one of all these which a man does, sinning in them,
4 then it shall be, when he sins and is guilty, he shall return what he got by robbery, that which he robbed, or the extorted thing which he extorted, or the deposit which had been deposited with him, or the lost thing which he had found;
5 or all that about which he swore falsely; he shall even repay it in its principal, and the fifth part he shall add to it; to whomever it belongs. He shall give it on the day of his guilt offering.
6 And he shall bring his guilt offering to YAHUVEH: a ram, without blemish out of the flock, at your evaluation for a guilt offering, to the priest.
7 And the priest shall make atonement for him before YAHUVEH, and as regards to one thing of all that he has done, it shall be forgiven him, by being guilty in it.
8 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering; it is the burnt offering because it is burned on the altar all the night until the morning, and the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.
10 The priest shall put on his long robe of fine linen, and he shall put his linen underpants on his flesh. And he shall lift up the ashes which the fire consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and shall put them beside the altar.
11 And he shall strip off his garments, and shall put on other garments, and shall bring the ashes out to the outside of the camp, to a clean place.
12 And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it morning by morning. And he shall lay the burnt offering in order on it. And he shall burn it as incense with the fat of the peace offering.
13 Fire shall be continually burning on the altar; it shall never go out.
14 And this is the law of the food offering: the sons of Aaron shall bring it near before YAHUVEH, to the front of the altar.
15 And he shall lift from it his handful of the flour of the food offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense on the food offering. And he shall burn it as incense on the altar, a soothing fragrance from its memorial to YAHUVEH.
16 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest. It shall be eaten with unleavened things in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion out of My fire offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering, and like the guilt offering.
18 Every male among the sons of Aaron shall eat it, a never ending statute throughout your generations from the fire offerings of YAHUVEH. All that touches them shall be holy.
19 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
20 This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they shall bring near to YAHUVEH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of flour, a continual food offering; half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
21 It shall be made on a griddle with oil. You shall bring it in mixed. You shall bring baked pieces of the food offering, a soothing fragrance to YAHUVEH.
22 And the priest who is anointed in his place, from among his sons, shall make it. It is a never ending statute of YAHUVEH. It shall be completely burned;
23 and every food offering of a priest is a whole burnt offering. It shall not be eaten.
24 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
25 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before YAHUVEH. It is most holy.
26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in the holy place in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
27 All that touches its flesh shall be holy. And when any of its blood is sprinkled on the garment that on which it is sprinkled shall be washed in the holy place.
28 And an earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed with water.
29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.
30 And any sin offering of whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to make atonement in the sanctuary shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.

*~ Leviticus Chapter 7 ~*


1 And this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be sprinkled on the altar all around.
3 And all its fat shall be brought near, he shall offer the fat tail of it, and the fat which covers the inward parts,
4 and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the flanks, and the lobe above the liver beside the kidneys, he shall remove.
5 And the priest shall burn them as incense on the altar, a fire offering to YAHUVEH; it is a guilt offering.
6 Every male among the priests shall eat it; it shall be eaten in the holy place. It is most holy.
7 As a sin offering is, so is a guilt offering. One law is for them. The priest who makes atonement by it, it is his.
8 And the priest who brings near any man’s burnt offering, the skin of the burnt offering which he has brought near, it is the priest’s, his own.
9 And every food offering which was baked in an oven, and every one that is prepared in the stewing pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s that offers it; it is his.
10 And every food offering, mixed with oil or dry, it shall be for all the sons of Aaron to a man, as his brother.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which shall be brought near to YAHUVEH:
12 If he brings it for a thanksgiving, then he shall bring with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and of well-mixed flour, cakes mixed with oil.
13 He shall bring his offering with the cakes of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, his peace offerings.
14 And he shall bring out of it one of every offering, a heave offering to YAHUVEH, to the priest sprinkling the blood of the peace offering; it is his.
15 As to the flesh of the sacrifice of the thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten in the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until morning.
16 And if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or freewill offering, in the day he brings his sacrifice near, it shall be eaten. And on the morrow the rest of it shall also be eaten.
17 And the rest of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is at all eaten on the third day, it is not pleasing. It shall not be reckoned for him who has brought it. It shall be a hateful thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh which touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As to the flesh, every clean one shall eat of the flesh.
20 And the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which belong to YAHUVEH, when his uncleanness is upon him, even that person shall be cut off from his people.
21 And when a person touches any unclean thing, of the uncleanness of man, or of the uncleanness of animals, or of an unclean abominable creature, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings which belong to YAHUVEH, even that person shall be cut off from his people.
22 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
23 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
24 And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of a thing torn may be used for any work, but you certainly shall not eat it;
25 for whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which one brings near a fire offering to YAHUVEH, even the person who eats shall be cut off from his people.
26 And you shall not eat any blood in all your dwellings, of fowl, or of animal.
27 Any person who eats any blood, even that person shall be cut off from his people.
28 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
29 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who brings near the sacrifice of his peace offerings to YAHUVEH shall bring his offering to YAHUVEH from the sacrifice of his peace offerings;
30 his own hands shall bring in the fire offerings of YAHUVEH; the fat beside the breast he shall bring in with the breast, to wave it as a wave offering before YAHUVEH.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar as incense; and the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons.
32 And you shall make a heave offering of the right leg to the priest of the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
33 one of the sons of Aaron who is bringing near the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, the right leg is his for a portion.
34 For the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the heave offering, I have taken from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a never ending statute, from the sons of Israel.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons out of the fire offerings of YAHUVEH, in the day he shall bring them near to act as priests to YAHUVEH,
36 which YAHUVEH has commanded to give to them the day of His anointing them, from the sons of Israel, a never ending statute throughout their generations.
37 This is the law for burnt offering, for the food offering, and for sin offering, and for guilt offering, and for consecrations, and for a sacrifice of the peace offerings,
38 which YAHUVEH had commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the days of His commanding the sons of Israel to bring near their offerings to YAHUVEH, in the wilderness of Sinai.

*~ Leviticus Chapter 8 ~*

1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened things,
3 and gather all the congregation together at the door of the tent of the meeting.
4 And Moses did as YAHUVEH had commanded him, and the congregation was gathered to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
5 And Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which YAHUVEH has commanded to be done.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and bathed them in water,
7 and put on him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the upper robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the ephod on him, and girded him with the girdle of the ephod, and bound it to him with it;
8 and put the breast pocket on him, and put the Urim and the Thummim into the breast plate,
9 and put the miter on his head, and on the miter, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as YAHUVEH commanded Moses.
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle, and all in it, and sanctified them;
11 and he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar, and all its vessels, and the laver, and its base, to sanctify them.
12 And he poured some of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought the sons of Aaron near, and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with girdles, and bound turbans on them, as YAHUVEH had commanded Moses.
14 And he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering;
15 and one slaughtered it; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and cleansed the altar; and he poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it.
16 And he took all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it as incense on the altar.
17 And the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire, at the outside of the camp, as YAHUVEH had commanded Moses.
18 And he brought the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;
19 and one killed it, and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around;
20 and he cut the ram into its pieces, and Moses burned it as incense with the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
21 And he washed the inward parts and the legs with water, and Moses burned it as incense with the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering, for a soothing fragrance; it is a fire offering to YAHUVEH, as YAHUVEH had commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the second ram, a ram of the consecrations, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram.
23 And one killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
24 And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around,
25 and took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right leg.
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before YAHUVEH, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and on the right leg;
27 and placed the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and waved them, a wave offering before YAHUVEH.
28 And Moses took them off their hands and burned them with incense on the altar, on the burnt offering; they are consecrations for a soothing fragrance; it is a fire offering to YAHUVEH.
29 And Moses took the breast and waved it, a wave offering before YAHUVEH, of the ram of the consecrations. It was Moses’ portion, as YAHUVEH had commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood on the altar, and sprinkled on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him. And he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and you shall eat it there, and the bread in the basket of the consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
32 And the rest of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire;
33 and you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled. For He shall consecrate you seven days;
34 as He has done on this day, YAHUVEH has commanded you to do, to make atonement for you.
35 And you shall remain at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night for seven days, and you shall keep the charge of YAHUVEH and shall not die; for so I have been commanded.
36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which YAHUVEH had commanded by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 19:1-22


1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 This is the statute of the law which YAHUVEH has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer, without blemish, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke ever came. (Math 11:28-30)
3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth outside the camp; and she shall be slaughtered before his face. (Heb 13:11-13)
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and shall sprinkle of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood with her dung, shall be burned.
6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop and scarlet, and shall cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
8 And he that burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall lay them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of impurity; it is a sin offering.
10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening; and it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger that lives among them, for a never ending statute.
11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. And if he does not cleanse himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Anyone who touches the dead body, the body of a man who dies, and does not cleanse himself, he shall have defiled the tabernacle of YAHUVEH; and that person shall be cut off from Israel, for the water of impurity shall not be sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness shall be still on him.
14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: Everyone who comes into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it shall be unclean.
16 And whoever in the open field touches one that has been pierced with a sword, or one that has died of himself, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And for the unclean they shall take the ashes of the burning of the sin offering, and living water in a vessel shall be put on it.
18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and shall dip it in the water, and shall sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of YAHUVEH; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he shall be unclean.
21 And it shall be a continual statute to them; and he that sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.
22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.