Study Desk

Do no work at all. It is a Law forever for all your people in all your homes.

It will be a Day of Rest for you. And you must be without pride. You will keep your Day of Rest from evening until evening on the ninth day of the month."

Give a gift by fire to the Lord for seven days. On the eighth day have a holy meeting and give a gift by fire to the Lord. It is a special gathering. Do no hard work.

‘These are the special suppers, the holy meetings you will keep at the right times. They will be for giving to the Lord gifts by fire, burnt gifts and grain gifts, gifts of animals and drink gifts, each on its own day.

‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the food of your land, you will have the special supper of the Lord for seven days. The first day and the eighth day will be Days of Rest.

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.

You will keep it as a special supper to the Lord seven days in the year. It will be a Law forever for all your people. You will have it in the seventh month.

You will live in tents for seven days. All who were born in Israel will live in tents.

"Tell the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the light to keep a lamp burning all the time.

Outside the curtain of the Law in the meeting tent, Aaron will keep it burning from evening to morning before the Lord always. It will be a Law forever for all your people.

"Then take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread. Use two jars of flour for each loaf.

Every Day of Rest he will set it before the Lord all the time. It is a Law forever for the people of Israel.

The bread is for Aaron and his sons who will eat it in a holy place. It is a most holy part for him out of the gifts by fire to the Lord. It is his share forever."

Say to the people of Israel, ‘If anyone swears against his God, he will suffer for his own sin.

The one who speaks against the name of the Lord will be put to death for sure. All the people will kill him with stones. Both the stranger and those born in the land will be put to death when he speaks against the name of the Lord.

‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he will be put to death for sure.

The one who takes the life of an animal will pay for it, a life for a life.

broken bone for broken bone, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he has hurt a man, so he will be hurt.

So the one who kills an animal will pay for it with an animal. But the one who kills a man will be put to death.

You will have the same Law for the stranger and for the one born among you. For I am the Lord your God.'"