As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the Lord.

You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.

When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit.

On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord.

"You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord."

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'These are the Lord's appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies -- my appointed times:

"'Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.

Then on the fifteenth day of the same month will be the festival of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.'"

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,

and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit -- on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.

On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer a flawless yearling lamb for a burnt offering to the Lord,

along with its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma, and its drink offering, one fourth of a hin of wine.

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

"'You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.

You must count fifty days -- until the day after the seventh Sabbath -- and then you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.

From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the Lord.

Along with the loaves of bread, you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

You must also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two yearling lambs for a peace offering sacrifice,

and the priest is to wave them -- the two lambs -- along with the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before the Lord; they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

"'On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.

You must not do any regular work, but you must present a gift to the Lord.'"

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves and present a gift to the Lord.

You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath."

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"Tell the Israelites, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days to the Lord.

On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.

For seven days you must present a gift to the Lord. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.

"'These are the appointed times of the Lord that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the Lord -- burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, each day according to its regulation,

besides the Sabbaths of the Lord and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the Lord.

"'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.

On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees -- palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook -- and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites about the appointed times of the Lord.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

"You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord.

You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord.

Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the Lord."

The Israelite woman's son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

"Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, 'If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

and one who misuses the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

"'If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him --

One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest -- a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat -- you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land -- all its produce will be for you to eat.

"'You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

You must sound loud horn blasts -- in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement -- you must sound the horn in your entire land.

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you -- you may eat its produce from the field.

"'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?'

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

"'If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

"'If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.

If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

"'If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan -- to be your God.

"'If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

"'As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you -- you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

"'If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner's family,

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

"'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

"'If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,