Holman Christian Standard Bible (41 page)

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 “But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers — their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,
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 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies — and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,
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 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
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 For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
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 Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am Yahweh their God. 
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 For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh.”

46
 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the
Lord
established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Leviticus

Funding the Sanctuary

27
The
Lord
spoke to Moses:
2
 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow to the
Lord
that involves the assessment of people,
3
 if the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your assessment is 50 silver
•shekels
 measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. 
4
 If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels. 
5
 If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels and for a female 10 shekels.
6
 If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver.
7
 If the person is 60 years or more, your assessment is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female.
8
 But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.

9
 “If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the
Lord
, any of these he gives to the
Lord
will be holy.
10
 He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

11
 “If the vow involves any of the
•unclean
animals that may not be brought as an offering to the
Lord
, the animal must be presented before the priest.
12
 The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.
13
 If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value. 

14
 “When a man consecrates his house as holy to the
Lord
, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.
15
 But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his. 

16
 “If a man consecrates to the
Lord
any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every five bushels of barley seed. 
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 If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your assessment.
18
 But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.
19
 If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him.
20
 But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.
21
 When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the
Lord
like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest's property.

22
 “If a person consecrates to the
Lord
a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,
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 then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the
Lord
.
24
 In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.
25
 All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20
gerahs
to the shekel. 

26
 “But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the
Lord
, because a firstborn already belongs to the
Lord
. 
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 If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment. 

28
 “Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the
Lord
from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the
Lord
.
29
 No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death. 

30
 “Every tenth of the land's produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the
Lord
; it is holy to the
Lord
.
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 If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.
32
 Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd's rod, will be holy to the
Lord
.
33
 He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.” 

34
 These are the commands the
Lord
gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. 

Numbers

Numbers

The Census of Israel

1
The
Lord
spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel's departure from the land of Egypt:
2
 “Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.
3
 You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more by their military divisions — everyone who can serve in Israel's army. 
4
 A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house. 
5
 These are the names of the men who are to assist you:

16
 These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel's clans.”

17
 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
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 and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,
19
 just as the
Lord
commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

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 These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house.
45
 So all the Israelites 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel's army, were registered by their ancestral houses.
46
 All those registered numbered 603,550.