Monthly Archives: August 2017

Israel Provoked God 1 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and more powerful than you, great cities fortified to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heardit said,‘Who can stand before the sons of […]

The Tablets Rewritten 1 “At that time the Lordsaid to me, ‘Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark (chest) of wood for yourself. 2 ~‘I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which […]

Rewards of Obedience 1 “Therefore you shall love the Lordyour God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments [it is your obligation to Him]. 2 Know this day that I am notspeakingto your children who have not known [by personal experience] and who have not seen [firsthand] the instructionanddiscipline of […]

Laws of the Sanctuary 1 “These are the statutes and judgments (precepts) which you shall be careful to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom […]

Shun Idolatry 1 “If a prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder which he spoke (foretold) to you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us follow after other gods (whom you have not known) and let […]

Clean and Unclean Animals 1 “You are the sons of the Lordyour God;you shall not cut yourselves norshave your forehead for the sake of the dead, 2 for you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lordyour God; and the Lordhas chosen you out of all the peoples who are on the earth to […]

The Sabbatical Year 1 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release (remission, pardon)from debt. 2 This is the regulation for the release: everycreditor shall forgive what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall notrequire repayment from his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’srelease has been proclaimed. 3 You […]

The Feast of Passover 1 “Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lordyour God, for in the month of Abib the Lordyour God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover [lamb] to the Lordyour God from the flock or the herd, in the place where […]

Administration of Justice 1 “You shall not sacrifice to the Lordyour God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect, for that is a detestable thing to the Lordyour God. 2 “If there is discovered among you, within any of your cities, which the Lordyour God is giving you, a man or a […]

Portion of the Levites 1 “The Levitical priests, the entire tribe of Levi, shall own [privately] no portion [of land] or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’sofferings by fire and His portion. 2 They shall have no inheritance [of land] among their countrymen (brothers, brethren); the Lordis theirinheritance, as He promised them. 3 […]