Study Desk

'You shall season every grain offering with salt so that the salt (preservation) of the covenant of your God will not be missing from your grain offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings.

'When a ruler or leader sins and unintentionally does any one of the things the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and he becomes guilty,

"Why did you not eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; and God gave it to you to remove the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD.

'For I am the LORD your God; so consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm or crawls on the ground.

'For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"

"Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 'I am the LORD your God.

'You are to follow My judgments (precepts, ordinances) and keep My statutes and live by them. I am the LORD your God.

'You shall not give any of your children to offer them [by fire as a sacrifice] to Molech [the god of the Ammonites], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by honoring idols as gods]. I am the LORD.

'So keep My command: do not practice any of the repulsive customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God.'"

"Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

'Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.

'Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the LORD your God.

'But if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is repulsive; it will not be accepted [by God as an offering].

'And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.

'You shall not swear [an oath] falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

'You shall not curse a deaf man nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the LORD.

'In the fifth year you may eat the fruit [of the trees], this is so that their yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

'Do not turn to mediums [who pretend to consult the dead] or to spiritists [who have spirits of divination]; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

'You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the LORD.

'But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.