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Leviticus 23; Leviticus 24; Mark 1:1-22

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Leviticus 23

1 The LORD said to Moses:
2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are my appointed times, the LORD's appointed times, which you will declare to be holy occasions:
3 Work can be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of special rest, a holy occasion. You must not do any work on it; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
4 These are the LORD's appointed times, holy occasions, which you will celebrate at their appointed times:
5 The LORD's Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight.
6 The LORD's Festival of Unleavened Bread is on the fifteenth day of the same month. You must eat unleavened bread for seven days.
7 On the first day you will hold a holy occasion and must not do any job-related work.
8 You will offer food gifts to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day will be a holy occasion; you must not do any job-related work.
9 The LORD said to Moses:
10 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and harvest its produce, you must bring the first bundle of your harvest to the priest.
11 The priest will lift up the bundle before the LORD so that it will be acceptable on your behalf. The priest will do this on the day after the Sabbath.
12 On the day the bundle is lifted up for you, you must offer a flawless one-year-old lamb as an entirely burned offering to the LORD.
13 The accompanying grain offering must be two-tenths of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil, as a food gift for the LORD, a soothing smell. The accompanying drink offering must be a quarter of a hin of wine.
14 You must not eat any bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until the exact day when you bring your God's offering. This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations, wherever you live.
15 You must count off seven weeks starting with the day after the Sabbath, the day you bring the bundle for the uplifted offering; these must be complete.
16 You will count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you must present a new grain offering to the LORD.
17 From wherever you live, you will bring two loaves of bread as an uplifted offering. These must be made of two-tenths of an ephah of choice flour, baked with leaven, as early produce to the LORD.
18 Along with the bread you must present seven flawless one-year-old lambs, one bull from the herd, and two rams. These will be an entirely burned offering to the LORD, along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, as a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.
19 You must also offer one male goat as a purification offering and two one-year-old lambs as a communal sacrifice of well-being.
20 The priest will lift up the two sheep, along with the bread of the early produce, as an uplifted offering before the LORD. These will be holy to the LORD and will belong to the priest.
21 On that very same day you must make a proclamation; it will be a holy occasion for you. You must not do any job-related work. This is a permanent rule wherever you live throughout your future generations.
22 When you harvest your land's produce, you must not harvest all the way to the edge of your field; and don't gather every remaining bit of your harvest. Leave these items for the poor and the immigrant; I am the LORD your God.
23 The LORD said to Moses:
24 Say to the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month, you will have a special rest, a holy occasion marked by a trumpet signal.
25 You must not do any job-related work, and you must offer a food gift to the LORD.
26 The LORD said to Moses:
27 Note that the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Reconciliation. It will be a holy occasion for you. You must deny yourselves and offer a food gift to the LORD.
28 You must not do any work that day because it is a Day of Reconciliation to make reconciliation for you before the LORD your God.
29 Anyone who does not deny themselves on that day will be cut off from their people.
30 Moreover, I will destroy from their people anyone who does any work on that day.
31 You must not do any work! This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations wherever you live.
32 This is a Sabbath of special rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. You will observe your Sabbath on the ninth day of the month from evening to the following evening.
33 The LORD said to Moses:
34 Say to the Israelites: The Festival of Booths to the LORD will start on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and will last for seven days.
35 The first day is a holy occasion. You must not do any job-related work.
36 For seven days you will offer food gifts to the LORD. On the eighth day you will have a holy occasion and must offer a food gift to the LORD. It is a holiday: you must not do any job-related work.
37 These are the LORD's appointed times that you will proclaim as holy occasions, offering food gifts to the LORD: entirely burned offerings, grain offerings, communal sacrifices, and drink offerings—each on its proper day.
38 This is in addition to the LORD's sabbaths and in addition to your presents, all the payments for solemn promises, and all the spontaneous gifts that you give to the LORD.
39 Note that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the land's crops, you will celebrate the LORD's festival for seven days. The first day and the eighth day are days of special rest.
40 On the first day you must take fruit from majestic trees, palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the streams, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
41 You will celebrate this festival to the LORD for seven days each year; this is a permanent rule throughout your future generations. You will celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 For seven days you must live in huts. Every citizen of Israel must live in huts
43 so that your future generations will know that I made the Israelites live in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
44 So Moses announced the LORD's appointed times to the Israelites.
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Leviticus 24

1 The LORD said to Moses:
2 Command the Israelites to bring pure, pressed olive oil to you for the lamp, to keep a light burning constantly.
3 Aaron will tend the lamp, which will be inside the meeting tent but outside the inner curtain of the covenant document, from evening until morning before the LORD. This is a permanent rule throughout your future generations.
4 Aaron must continually tend the lights on the pure lampstand before the LORD.
5 You will take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of flatbread, two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
6 You must place them in two stacks, six in a stack, on the pure table before the LORD.
7 Put pure frankincense on each stack, as a token portion for the bread; it is a food gift for the LORD.
8 Aaron will always set it out before the LORD, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a permanent covenant.
9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons. They must eat it in a holy place because it is the most holy part of their share of the LORD's food gifts, a permanent portion.
10 The son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out among the Israelites. A fight broke out between this half-Israelite and another Israelite man in the camp,
11 during which the half-Israelite blasphemed the Lord's name and cursed. So he was brought to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, Dibri's daughter from the tribe of Dan.)
12 He was put under guard until they could determine the LORD's verdict.
13 Then the LORD said to Moses:
14 Take the one who cursed outside the camp. All who heard him will press their hands on his head. Then the whole community will stone him.
15 Tell the Israelites: Anyone who curses God will be liable to punishment.
16 And anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be executed. The whole community will stone that person. Immigrant and citizen alike: whenever someone blasphemes the Lord's name, that person will be executed.
17 If anyone kills another person, they must be executed.
18 Someone who kills an animal may make amends for it: a life for a life.
19 If someone injures a fellow citizen, they will suffer the same injury they inflicted:
20 broken bone for broken bone, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The same injury the person inflicted on the other will be inflicted on them.
21 Someone who kills an animal must make amends for it, but whoever kills a human being must be executed.
22 There is but one law on this matter for you, immigrant or citizen alike, because I am the LORD your God.
23 Moses told this to the Israelites. So they took the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did just as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Mark 1:1-22

1 The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, God's Son,
2 happened just as it was written about in the prophecy of Isaiah: Look, I am sending my messenger before you. He will prepare your way,
3 a voice shouting in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight."
4 John the Baptist was in the wilderness calling for people to be baptized to show that they were changing their hearts and lives and wanted God to forgive their sins.
5 Everyone in Judea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to the Jordan River and were being baptized by John as they confessed their sins.
6 John wore clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
7 He announced, "One stronger than I am is coming after me. I'm not even worthy to bend over and loosen the strap of his sandals.
8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
9 About that time, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River.
10 While he was coming up out of the water, Jesus saw heaven splitting open and the Spirit, like a dove, coming down on him.
11 And there was a voice from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I dearly love; in you I find happiness."
12 At once the Spirit forced Jesus out into the wilderness.
13 He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among the wild animals, and the angels took care of him.
14 After John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee announcing God's good news,
15 saying, "Now is the time! Here comes God's kingdom! Change your hearts and lives, and trust this good news!"
16 As Jesus passed alongside the Galilee Sea, he saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew, throwing fishing nets into the sea, for they were fishermen.
17 "Come, follow me," he said, "and I'll show you how to fish for people."
18 Right away, they left their nets and followed him.
19 After going a little farther, he saw James and John, Zebedee's sons, in their boat repairing the fishing nets.
20 At that very moment he called them. They followed him, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers.
21 Jesus and his followers went into Capernaum. Immediately on the Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and started teaching.
22 The people were amazed by his teaching, for he was teaching them with authority, not like the legal experts.
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