NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Justice & Jubilee — February 5
Leviticus 24-25
Leviticus 24
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 365N 36.1
2 “Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually. 365N 36.2
3 Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations. 365N 36.3
4 He shall [a] be in charge of the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually. 365N 36.4
5 “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. 365N 36.5
6 You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord . 365N 36.6
7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord . 365N 36.7
8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 365N 36.8
9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.” 365N 36.9
10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. 365N 36.10
11 And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed; and so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) 365N 36.11
12 Then they put him [b] in custody, that [c] the mind of the Lord might be shown to them. 365N 36.12
13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 365N 36.13
14 “Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 365N 36.14
15 “Then you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Whoever curses his God shall [d] bear his sin. 365N 36.15
16 And whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the Lord , he shall be put to death. 365N 36.16
17 ‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death. 365N 36.17
18 Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal. 365N 36.18
19 ‘If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, so shall it be done to him— 365N 36.19
20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him. 365N 36.20
21 And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death. 365N 36.21
22 You shall have the [e] same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God.’ ” 365N 36.22
23 Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. 365N 36.23
Leviticus 25
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 365N 36.24
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord . 365N 36.25
3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; 365N 36.26
4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord . You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 365N 36.27
5 What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. 365N 36.28
6 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, 365N 36.29
7 for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food. 365N 36.30
8 ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 365N 36.31
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. 365N 36.32
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. 365N 36.33
11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. 365N 36.34
12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. 365N 36.35
13 ‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. 365N 36.36
14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. 365N 36.37
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 365N 36.38
16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. 365N 36.39
17 Therefore you shall not [a] oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God. 365N 36.40
18 ‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. 365N 36.41
19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. 365N 36.42
20 ‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” 365N 36.43
21 Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 365N 36.44
22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest . 365N 36.45
23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. 365N 36.46
24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 365N 36.47
25 ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 365N 36.48
26 Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 365N 36.49
27 then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 365N 36.50
28 But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession. 365N 36.51
29 ‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it. 365N 36.52
30 But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. 365N 36.53
31 However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. 365N 36.54
32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. 365N 36.55
33 And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 365N 36.56
34 But the field of the common-land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. 365N 36.57
35 ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and [b] falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. 365N 36.58
36 Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 365N 36.59
37 You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. 365N 36.60
38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. 365N 36.61
39 ‘And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. 365N 36.62
40 As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. 365N 36.63
41 And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. 365N 36.64
42 For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 365N 36.65
43 You shall not rule over him with [c] rigor, but you shall fear your God. 365N 36.66
44 And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 365N 36.67
45 Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property. 365N 36.68
46 And you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor. 365N 36.69
47 ‘Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, 365N 36.70
48 after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him; 365N 36.71
49 or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself. 365N 36.72
50 Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him. 365N 36.73
51 If there are still many years remaining , according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought. 365N 36.74
52 And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption. 365N 36.75
53 He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight. 365N 36.76
54 And if he is not redeemed in these years , then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him. 365N 36.77
55 For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 365N 36.78