Study Desk

‘Do not ask what you should do from those who speak with bad spirits or talk to the dead. Do not find them or you will be unclean. I am the Lord your God.

‘Show respect to the person with white hair. Honor an older person and you will honor your God. I am the Lord.

You should act toward the stranger who lives among you as you would toward one born among you. Love him as you love yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Always tell the truth about it. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

"Say to the people of Israel, ‘Any man of Israel or of the strangers living in Israel, who gives any of his children to the false god Molech, must be put to death. The people of the land will kill him with stones.

So you should set yourselves apart and be holy. For I am the Lord your God.

But I have said to you, "Their land will belong to you. I Myself will give it to you for your own, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the Lord your God, Who has set you apart from all other peoples.

They should be holy to their God and not put the name of their God to shame. For they give the gifts by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God. So they must be holy.

They should not take a woman who is unclean because of selling the use of her body. They should not take a woman who is divorced from her husband. For the religious leader is holy to his God.

So you must set him apart, for he gives the bread of your God. He will be holy to you. For I, the Lord Who sets you apart, am holy.

He must not go out of the holy place or sin against the holy place of his God. For the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

"Say to Aaron, ‘None of your children or their children who has something wrong with his body should go near to give the bread as a gift to his God.

No man among the children of Aaron the religious leader, who has something wrong with his body, should come near to give the Lord's gifts by fire. He should not come near to give the bread of his God, because he has something wrong with him.

He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy.

And do not receive such animals from a man from another land to give as the food of your God. For they are unclean. They are not perfect. They will not be received from you.'"

I brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord."

Do not eat bread or dry grain or new grain until this same day, when you have brought the gift to your God. It is to be a Law forever for all your people in all your homes.

‘When you gather the food of your land, do not pick all the way to the corners of your field. And do not gather the food that falls. Leave it for those in need and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.'"

"Do no work on this day. For it is a day to be made free from sin, to be made free from your sin before the Lord your God.

On the first day, you will take the leaves of beautiful trees, branches of trees with big leaves and of trees beside the river. And be full of joy before the Lord your God for seven days.