Study Desk

And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Put each his sword on his side. Go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each his brother and each his friend and each his close relative.'"

And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, who is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness,

For you will not bow in worship to another god, for ‘Yahweh Is Jealous' is his name, he is a jealous God,

Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

because I will evict nations before you, and I will enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in the year.

The beginning of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship,

"‘When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong against any of the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt,

because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,

because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy.

"Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.

You must carry out my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.

"‘And you shall not give any of your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

Thus you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes regarding the detestable things that they did before you, so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I am Yahweh your God.'"

"Speak to all the community of the Israelites, and say to them, ‘You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I am Yahweh your God.

And you must not glean your vineyard, and you must not gather your vineyard's fallen grapes; you must leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God.

and you shall not swear falsely in my name, and so one of you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block before a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh.