Study Desk

Eat all of the meat that same day and don't save any for the next day. I am the Lord your God!

to say to the community of Israel: I have chosen certain times for you to come together and worship me.

You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship.

Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.

Offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.

When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing around the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God!

The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned.

to say to the community of Israel: Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honor of me.

No one is to do any work on the first day of the festival—it is a time when everyone must come together for worship.

For seven days, sacrifices must be offered on the altar. The eighth day is also to be a day of complete rest, as well as a time of offering sacrifices on the altar and of coming together for worship.

I have chosen these festivals as times when my people must come together for worship and when animals, grain, and wine are to be offered on the proper days.

Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honor of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival.

For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter,

to say to the community of Israel: You must supply the purest olive oil for the lamps in the sacred tent, so they will keep burning.

who had him guarded while everyone waited for the Lord to tell them what to do.

Death is also the penalty for murder,

a broken bone for a broken bone, an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth.

It's possible to pay the owner for an animal that has been killed, but death is the penalty for murder.

I am the Lord your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.