GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 5

Leviticus 25:15-17 

" 'You are to buy (land) from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 25:36-38

" 'Do not take interest or any profit from them (your fellow Israelites), but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.' " 

 

Leviticus 25:54-55  

    " 'Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

(see all Leviticus 25, the Year of Jubilee)

 

Leviticus 26:1  

    " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 26:12-13  

" 'I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.' "

 

Leviticus 26:44-45  

" 'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.' "

(see all Leviticus 26 and 27)

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 4

Leviticus 22:24-25

" 'You must not offer to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' "

 

Leviticus 22:31-33  

    "Keep my commands and follow them. I am the LORD. Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who made you holy and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD."

(see all Leviticus 22)

 

Leviticus 23:14  

" 'You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.' "  (see verses 9-14) 

 

Leviticus 23:22  

    " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.' "  (see verses 15-22)

 

Leviticus 23:28  

"Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God."

 

Leviticus 23:40-43  

" 'On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees--from palms, willows and other leafy trees--and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

(see all Leviticus 23) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 3

Leviticus 20:7  

    " 'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 20:22-24  

    " 'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.' "

(see all Leviticus 20)

 

Leviticus 21:5-8  

    " 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy. 

    " 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy.' "

 

Leviticus 21:10-12  

    " 'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes. He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.' "

 

Leviticus 21:16-17  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: 'For generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.' " 

 

Leviticus 21:21-22  

" 'No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. He may eat the holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; ...' "

(see all Leviticus 21) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 2

Leviticus 19:1-4  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    " 'Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

    " 'Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:9-10  

    " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:12  

    " 'Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:14  

    " 'Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:23-25  

    " 'When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten. In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:31-32  

    " 'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. 

    " 'Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 19:34  

" 'The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' "

 

Leviticus 19:36  

" 'Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.' "

(see all Leviticus 19) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Leviticus - Part 1

Leviticus 2:13  

" 'Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.' "  

(see Numbers 18:19, 2 Chronicles 13:5, Ezekiel 43:24)

(see all Leviticus 1-3) 

 

Leviticus 4:22-23  

    " 'When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, when he realizes his guilt and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.' "

(see all Leviticus 4-10) 

Leviticus 11:42-45  

" 'You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore, be holy, because I am holy.' "

(see all Leviticus 11-17)

 

Leviticus 18:1-5  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God. You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 18:21  

    " 'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.' " 

 

Leviticus 18:30  

" 'Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your    God.' "

(see all Leviticus 18) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Exodus - Part 15

Exodus 34:5-7

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation."

 

Exodus 34:12-14  

"Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."

 

Exodus 34:22-26  

    "Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.

    "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

    "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God."

 (see all Exodus 33-34)

 

Exodus 35:30-33  

    Then Moses said to the Israelites, "See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills--to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts."

(see all Exodus 35-40) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Exodus - Part 14

Exodus 31:1-5

    Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills--to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts."

 

Exodus 31:18  

    When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

(see all Exodus 31)

 

Exodus 32:7-8  

    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.' " 

 

Exodus 32:14-16  

Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

    Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 

 

Exodus 32:18-19  

    Moses replied:

    "It is not the sound of victory,

    it is not the sound of defeat;

    it is the sound of singing that I hear."

    When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. 

 

Exodus 32:25-27  

    Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me." And all the Levites rallied to him.

    Then he said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.' "

(see all Exodus 32) 

     

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