Study Desk

Don't strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God.

After you enter the land, you will plant fruit trees, but you are not to eat any of their fruit for the first three years.

to me, the Lord God. Do this, and in the fifth year, those trees will produce an abundant harvest of fruit for you to eat.

I command you to show respect for older people and to obey me with fear and trembling.

to say to the community of Israel: Death by stoning is the penalty for any citizens or foreigners in the country who sacrifice their children to the god Molech.

It's disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve.

It isn't natural for a man to marry both a mother and her daughter, and so all three of them will be burned to death.

The sisters of your father and mother are your own relatives, and you will be punished for having sex with any of them.

The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things, and I hated them for it, so don't follow their example.

And if you marry your sister-in-law, neither of you will ever have any children. Obey my laws and teachings. Or else the land I am giving you will become sick of you and throw you out. The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things, and I hated them for it, so don't follow their example. I am the Lord your God, and I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people. That's why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean—this will keep you from becoming disgusting to me. I am the Lord , the holy God. You have been chosen to be my people, and so you must be holy too. If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.

The Lord gave Moses these instructions for Aaron's sons, the priests: Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So don't go near a dead relative,

If you are the high priest, you must not mess up your hair or tear your clothes in order to mourn for the dead.

to say to Aaron and his sons: I am the Lord God, and I demand that you honor my holy name by showing proper respect for the offerings brought to me by the people of Israel.

If any of you are unclean when you accept an offering for me, I will no longer let you serve as a priest.

Obey me, or you will die on duty for disgracing the place of worship. Remember—I am the Lord , the one who makes a priest holy.

Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants.

and anyone else who accidentally does so, must pay for the food plus a fine of twenty percent.

to tell Aaron and his sons and everyone else the rules for offering sacrifices. He said: The animals that are to be completely burned on the altar

must have nothing wrong with them, or else I won't accept them. Bulls or rams or goats are the animals to be used for these sacrifices.

Newborn cattle, sheep, or goats must remain with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day, you may send them up in smoke to me, and I will accept the offering.