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You are not to eat bread, dried grain or fresh grain until the day you bring the offering for your God; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

"‘From the day after the day of rest — that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving — you are to count seven full weeks,

You must bring bread from your homes for waving — two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven — as firstfruits for Adonai .

Along with the bread, present seven lambs without defect one year old, one young bull and two rams; these will be a burnt offering for Adonai , with their grain and drink offerings, an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai .

The cohen will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Adonai , with the two lambs; these will be holy for Adonai for the cohen.

"‘When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don't harvest all the way to the corners of your field, and don't gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am Adonai your God.'"

"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.

You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.

It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening."

"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to Adonai .

For seven days you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai ; on the eighth day you are to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai ; it is a day of public assembly; do not do any kind of ordinary work.

On the first day you are to take choice fruit, palm fronds, thick branches and river-willows, and celebrate in the presence of Adonai your God for seven days.

You are to live in sukkot for seven days; every citizen of Isra'el is to live in a sukkah,

"Order the people of Isra'el to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, to keep lamps burning always.

Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before Adonai ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.

They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for Adonai made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life.

break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth — whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.

So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as Adonai had ordered Moshe. Haftarah Emor: Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 44:15–31 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Emor: Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:38–42; Galatians 3:26–29 [In connection with the feasts, see readings for Parashah 41]

"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for Adonai .