Study Desk

If there are many years, the price will be high. But if there are only a few years, lower the price, because your neighbor is really selling only a few crops to you.

If someone buys a house from a Levite, that house in the Levites' city will again belong to the Levites in the Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to the people of Levi; the Israelites gave these cities to them.

Also the fields and pastures around the Levites' cities cannot be sold, because those fields belong to the Levites forever.

This is because the Israelites are my servants, and I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again.

"‘He and the one who bought him must count the time from when he sold himself up to the next year of Jubilee. Use that number to decide the price, because the person really only hired himself out for a certain number of years.

This is because the people of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

"‘Don't make idols for yourselves or set up statues or memorials. Don't put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God.

So those who are left alive will rot away in their enemies' countries because of their sins. They will also rot away because of their ancestors' sins.

The land will be left empty by its people, and it will enjoy its time of rest as it lies bare without them. Then those who are left alive will accept the punishment for their sins. They will learn that they were punished because they hated my laws and refused to obey my rules.

But even though this is true, I will not turn away from them when they are in the land of their enemies. I will not hate them so much that I completely destroy them and break my agreement with them, because I am the Lord their God.

The families from the tribe of Levi were not listed with the others, because

because the firstborn are mine. When you were in Egypt, I killed all the firstborn children of the Egyptians and took all the firstborn of Israel to be mine, both animals and children. They are mine. I am the Lord ."

he should take her to the priest. The husband must also take an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He must not pour oil or incense on it, because this is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of remembrance. It is to find out if she is guilty.

It also should be done if the man gets jealous because he suspects his wife. The priest will have her stand before the Lord , and he will do all these things, just as the teaching commands.

The priest will offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. This removes sin so they will belong to the Lord . (They had sinned because they were near a dead body.) That same day they will again promise to let their hair grow

and give themselves to the Lord for another special time. They must bring a male lamb a year old as a penalty offering. The days of the special time before don't count, because they became unclean during their first special time.

Moses did not give any oxen or carts to the Kohathites, because their job was to carry the holy things on their shoulders.

"This command is for the Levites. Everyone twenty-five years old or older must come to the Meeting Tent, because they all have jobs to do there.

But some of the people could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were unclean from touching a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day and

said to Moses, "We are unclean because of touching a dead body. But why should we be kept from offering gifts to the Lord at this appointed time? Why can't we join the other Israelites?"