Monthly Archives: July 2017

Portion of the Levites 1 “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’sofferings by fire and His portion. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their countrymen; the Lordis their inheritance, as He promised them. 3 “Now this shall be the priests’ […]

Cities of Refuge 1 “When the Lordyour God cuts off the nations, whose land the Lordyour God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses, 2 you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lordyour God gives you to possess. […]

Laws of Warfare 1 “When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariotsandpeople more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lordyour God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. 2 When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come […]

Expiation of a Crime 1 “If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lordyour God gives you to possess,andit is not known who has struck him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measurethe distanceto the cities which are around the slain one. […]

Sundry Laws 1 “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman. 2 If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and […]

Persons Excluded from the Assembly 1 “No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 2 No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of hisdescendants,even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 3 No Ammonite […]

Law of Divorce 1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and putsitin her hand and sends her out from his house, 2 and she leaves […]

Sundry Laws 1 “If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 2 then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in […]

Offering First Fruits 1 “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the […]

The Curses of Mount Ebal 1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today. 2 So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lordyour God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself […]