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And he brought it to the priest, and the priest pressed from it his hand full, its memorial, and burnt upon the altar for sacrifices to Jehovah: it is sin. And the priest shall expiate for him for his sin which he sinned, from one from these; and it was forgiven to him: and it was to the priest for a gift.
This which thou shalt do upon the altar; two he lambs the sons of a year for the day continually. The one he lamb thou shalt do in the morning; and the second he lamb thou shalt do between the two evenings. A tenth of fine flour mixed with beaten oil, the fourth of an hin, and a libation, the fourth of an hin of wine, for the one he lamb.read more.
And the second he lamb thou shalt do between the two evenings, according to the sacrifice of the morning, and according to its libation, thou shalt do it for a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice to Jehovah. A burnt-offering of continuance for your generations at the door of the tent of appointment before Jehovah, where I will meet with you there, to speak to thee there. And I met with the sons of Israel there; and it shall be consecrated by my glory.
If a burnt-offering, his sacrifice from the oxen, a blameless male: they shall bring it near to the door of the tent of appointment; he shall bring it near according to his will before Jehovah. And he placed his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it was accepted for him to expiate for him. And he slaughtered the son of the cow before Jehovah: and the sons of Aaron the priests brought near the blood, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about, which is at the door of the tent of appointmentread more.
And he flayed the burnt-offering, and cut in pieces according to its pieces. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, gave fire upon the altar, and arranged the wood upon the fire. And Aaron's sons, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, the head and the fat, upon the wood which is upon the fire which is upon the altar. And its bowels and its legs he shall wash in water: and the priest burnt all upon the altar, a burnt-offering a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. And if from the sheep his offering, from the lambs, or from the goats, for a burnt-offering; a blameless male he shall bring it near. And he slaughtered it upon the thigh of the altar, northward before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests, sprinkled his blood upon the altar round about And he cut it in pieces, according to its pieces, and his head and his fat: and the priest arranged them upon the wood which is upon the fire which is upon the altar: And the bowels and the legs he shall wash in water: and the priest shall bring near all, and burn upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a saul shall sin in error from all the commands of Jehovah which shall not be done, and doing from after any of them: If the priest being anointed shall sin according to the guilt of the people; and he brought for his sin which he sinned, a bullock, the son of a cow, blameless to Jehovah for the sin.
And the priest shall expiate for him for his sin which he sinned, from one from these; and it was forgiven to him: and it was to the priest for a gift.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, When a soul shall sin and cover a transgression against Jehovah, and lie against his neighbor in a deposit, or in trust of the hand, or in robbery, or oppressing his neighbor; Or he found the lost thing, and lied concerning it, and swore upon falsehood; upon one of all which the man will do, for sinning in them.read more.
And it was when he shall sin and being guilty, and he turned back the robbery which he robbed, or the oppression which he oppressed, or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost thing which he found, Or from all which he shall swear upon it for falsehood; and he recompensed it in its head, and he shall add its fifth part upon it, and he shall give it to whom it is to him, in the day of his trespass. And he shall bring his trespass to Jehovah, a blameless ram from the sheep by thy estimation, for the trespass, to the priest And the priest expiated for him before Jehovah; and it was forgiven to him for one from all which he shall do for being guilty in it.
This the law of the trespass: it is holy of holies. In the place where they shall slaughter the burnt-offering they shall slaughter the trespass: and he shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about And he shall bring from it all its fat; the fat tail, and the fat covering the bowels,read more.
And the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, which is upon the loins, and the lobe upon the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take it away. And the priest burnt them upon the altar, a sacrifice to Jehovah: it is a trespass. Every male among the priests shall eat it: in the holy place it shall be eaten: it is holy of holies. As the sin, so the trespass: one law for them: the priest who shall expiate upon it, to him it shall be.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, in their bringing near before Jehovah, and they shall die. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and he shall not come in every time into the holy place within the vail at the face of the cover which is upon the ark; and he shall not die for I will be seen in the cloud upon the cover. In this shall Aaron come in to the holyplace, with a bullock, the son of a cow, for sin, and a ram for a burnt-offering.read more.
The holy linen tunic shall be put on, and the linen drawers shall be upon his flesh, and with a linen girdle shall he be girded, and with a linen turban shall he be wound round: these the holy garments; and he washed his flesh in water and put them on. And from the assembly of the sons of Israel he shall take two he goats of the goats for sin, and one ram for a burnt-offering. And Aaron brought near the bullock of sin, which was to him, and he expiated for himself and for his house. And he took the two he goats and made them stand before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of appointment And Aaron gave lots upon the two he goats; one lot for Jehovah, and one lot for the goat set apart. And Aaron brought the he goat which upon it came up the lot for Jehovah, and he did it for the sin. And the he goat which upon it came up the lot for the goat set apart, shall stand living before Jehovah, to expiate upon him, to send him for a goat set apart to the desert And Aaron brought near the bullock of the sin, which was to him, and he expiated for himself, and for his house, and he slaughtered the bullock of the sin which was to him. And he took a fire pan full of coals of fire from the altar from before Jehovah, and he filled his hands with incense of aromatics beaten small, and brought within the vail: And he gave the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of incense covered the vail which was upon the testimonies; and he shall not die. And he took from the blood of the bullock, and sprinkled with his finger upon the face of the cover eastward, and before the cover he shall sprinkle seven times from the blood with his finger. And he slaughtered the he goat of the sin which was for the people, and he brought its blood within the vail, and he did its blood as he did to the blood of the bullocks; and he sprinkled it upon the cover and before the cover. And he expiated for the holy place from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel, and from their transgression for all their sins: and so shall he do for the tent of appointment, dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleanness. And no man shall be in the tent of appointment in his coming in to expiate in the holy place, till his coming out, he expiated for himself and for his house, and for all the convocation of Israel. And he went forth to the altar which is before Jehovah and expiated upon it; and he took from the blood of the bullock, and from the blood of the he goat, and gave upon the horns of the altar round about And he sprinkled upon it from the blood round about with his finger, seven times, and cleansed it, and consecrated it, from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel. And he finished expiating the holy place, and the tent of appointment, and the altar, and he brought the living he goat. And Aaron placed his two hands upon the head of the living he goat and confessed over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, and all their sins, and gave them upon the head of the he goat, and sent by the hand of a fit man to the desert And the he goat lifted up upon him all their iniquities to a desert land: and he sent the he goat into the desert And Aaron shall come to the tent of appointment, and he put off the garments of linen which he put on in his going in to the holy place, and he left them there. And he washed his flesh in water in the holy place, and he put on his garments and came forth, and did his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and expiated for himself, and for the people. And the fat of the sin he shall burn upon the altar. And he sending away the goat set apart, shall wash his garments and wash his flesh in water, and after this he shall go in to the camp. And the bullock of sin and the he goat of sin, from which he brought their blood to expiate in the holy place, he shall bring forth to without the camp, and they shall burn in fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. And he burning them shall wash his clothes and wash his flesh in water, and after this he shall come in to the camp. And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you. For in that day he shall expiate for you, to cleanse you from all your sins: before Jehovah shall ye be clean. And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever. And the priest expiated whom he shall anoint and whose hand he shall fill, to be priest instead of his father: and he put on the garments of linen of the holy place. And he expiated the holy of holy, and the tent of appointment, and the altar shall he expiate: and for the priests, and for all the people of the convocation, shall he expiate. And this was to you for a law forever to expiate for the sons of Israel, from all their sins once in a year: and he will do as Jehovah commanded Moses.
And if his offering a sacrifice of peace, if from the oxen he is bringing near, if a male, if a female, blameless shall he bring it near before Jehovah. And he placed his hand upon the head of his offering, and slaughtered it at the door of the tent of appointment: and Aaron's sons the priests sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about And he brought from the sacrifice of peace a sacrifice to Jehovah; the fat covering the bowels, and all the fat which is upon the bowels,read more.
And the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, which is upon the loins, and the lobe upon the liver, upon the kidneys, he shall take away. And Aaron's sons burnt it upon the altar, upon the burnt-offering which is upon the wood, which is upon the fire: a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.
And this the law of the sacrifice of peace which he shall bring to Jehovah. If for praise he shall bring it, and he brought with the sacrifice of praise, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and fine flour dipped, cakes mixed in oil. With the cakes, leavened bread he shall bring, an offering upon the sacrifice of praise of his peace.read more.
And he brought from it one from all the offering an oblation to Jehovah, for the priest sprinkling the blood of peace, to him it shall be. And the flesh of the sacrifice of praise of his peace, in the day of his offering shall be eaten; he shall not leave from it till morning.
And when a soul shall bring near an offering, a gift to Jehovah, his offering shall be fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and give frankincense upon it And he brought it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he pressed together from it his hand full from its fine flour, and from its oil, upon all its frankincense, and the priest burnt its memorial upon the altar, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. And the remainder from the gift, to Aaron and his sons; holy of holies from the sacrifice to Jehovah.
And this the law of the gift: the sons of Aaron bringing it before Jehovah, before the altar. And he took up from it his handful from the fine flour of the gift, and from its oil, and all the frankincense which is upon the gift, and he burnt upon the altar, an odor of sweetness, a remembrance to Jehovah. And the remainder from it Aaron and his sons shall eat: unleavened shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the enclosure of the tent of appointment they shall eat itread more.
It shall not be cooked leavened. I gave it their portion from my sacrifices. It is holy of holies, as the sin and the trespass. Every male of the sons of Aaron shall eat it A law forever for your generations, from the sacrifices of Jehovah; all which touch upon them shall be holy. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, This the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall bring to Jehovah, in the day of anointing him; the tenth of the ephah of fine flour a perpetual gift, its half in the morning and its half in the evening. Upon a frying-pan with oil it shall be made; being dipped, thou shalt bring it in the cookings of the gift, in bits thou shalt bring near, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. And the priest being anointed, of his sons, instead of him shall do it: a law forever to Jehovah: it shall be wholly burnt And every gift of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
And every gift which shall be baked in an oven, and all being done in a pot and upon the frying-pan, to the priest bringing it, to him it shall be. And every gift mixed with oil, and dry, to all the sons of Aaron it shall be, each as his brother.
And a bullock and a ram for peace, for a sacrifice before Jehovah; and a gift mingled in oil: for the day of Jehovah was seen to you.
And he brought his offering to Jehovah, one blameless lamb, the son of his year, for a burnt-offering, and one blameless ewe lamb, the daughter of her year, for the sin, and one blameless ram for peace; And a basket of unleavened of fine flour cakes mingled with oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their gifts and their libations. And the priest brought before Jehovah, and did his sin and his burnt-offering.read more.
And the ram he shall do a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, upon the basket of unleavened: and the priest did his gift and his libation.
And say to them, This the sacrifice which ye shall bring near to Jehovah: two blameless lambs, sons of a year, for a day, for a burnt-offering continually. The one lamb thou shalt do in the morning, and the second lamb thou shalt do between the evenings. And a tenth of the ephah of fine flour for the gift mingled with oil beaten, the fourth of an hin.read more.
A burnt-offering of continuance being done in mount Sinai for an odor of sweetness, a sacrifice to Jehovah. And its libation, the fourth of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place: pouring out a libation, a strong drink to Jehovah. And the second lamb thou shalt do between the evenings, according to the gift of the morning, and according to its libation thou shalt do a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah, And in the day of the Sabbath, two blameless lambs, sons of a year, and two tenths of fine flour, a gift mingled with oil, and its libation: A burnt-offering of the Sabbath in its Sabbath, upon the burnt-offering of continuance, and its libation. And in the beginnings of your months, ye shall bring near a burnt-offering to Jehovah; two bullocks, sons of a cow, and one ram, seven blameless lambs, sons of a year; Three tenths of fine flour, a gift mingled with oil, for the one bullock, and two tenths of fine flour, a gift mingled with oil, for the one ram; And a tenth, tenth of fine flour, a gift mingled with oil, for the one lamb, a burnt-offering, an odor of sweetness, a sacrifice to Jehovah.
And when the days of her cleansing were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present to the Lord; (As has been written in the law of the Lord, That every male openingthe womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) And to give a sacrifice according to that said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two of the young of pigeons.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a woman shall bear seed and bring forth a male, and she was unclean seven days: according to the days of removal of being sick she shall be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his uncircumcision shall be circumcised.read more.
And thirty days and three days, she shall sit down in the blood of purification: she shall not touch upon any holy thing, and into the holy place she shall not come till the completing of the days of her purification. And if she shall bear a female, and she was unclean two sevens, as her removal: and sixty days and six days she shall sit down upon the blood of her purification. And in completing the days of her purification, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb, the son of his year, for a burnt-offering, and the son of a dove, or a turtle-dove, for the sin, to the door of the tent of appointment, to the priest And he offered it before Jehovah, and expiated for her, and cleansed her from the flowing of her blood. This the law of the bringing forth for a male, or for a female. And if her hand shall not find the sufficiency of a sheep, and she took two turtle-doves or two sons of the dove; one for a burnt-offering, and one for sin: and the priest expiated for her, and she was clean.
And a leprous one came to him, beseeching him, and supplicating him on his knees, and saying to him, That if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me. And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed. And he having spoken, quickly the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.read more.
And having threatened him violently, quickly he cast him forth: And says to him, See thou say nothing to any one: but retire, shew thyself to the priest, and bring forward for thy cleansing what things Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
And, behold, a leper, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst cleanse me. And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but retire, show thyself to the priest, and bring near the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
And it was in his being in one of the cities, and behold a man full of leprosy: and having seen Jesus, having fallen upon the face, supplicated him, saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me. And having put forth the hand, he touched him, saying, I will: be thou cleansed. And the leprosy departed from him. And he enjoined him to tell none: but having departed, show thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
This shall be the law of the leprous in the day of his cleansing: he was brought to the priest And the priest shall go forth without the camp: and the priest saw, and behold, the stroke of leprosy was healed from the leprous. And the priest commanded, and took for him being cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop.read more.
And the priest commanded, and killed one of the birds into a vessel of earthen, over living water. The living bird he will take it, and the cedar wood and the double scarlet, and the hyssop, and he dipped them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slain over the living water. And he sprinkled upon him, being cleansed from the leprosy, seven times and cleansed him, and he sent forth the living bird upon the face of the field.
This the law of him flowing, and of whom the effusion of seed shall go forth from him, to be defiled in it: And of her being sick in her uncleanness, and of him flowing his flowing; for the male, and for the female, and for the man who shall lie with her being unclean.
He touching upon the dead of any soul of man and he was unclean seven days. He shall purify himself in the third day, and in the seventh day he shall be clean: and if he shall not be purified in the third day, in the seventh day he shall not be clean. All touching upon the dead, upon the soul of man which shall die, and shall not be purified, defiled the dwelling of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off from Israel: for the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness yet upon him.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, Speak. to the sons of Israel, saying These the beasts which ye shall eat from all the cattle which are upon the earth.
For I am Jehovah, your God, and ye were consecrated and ye were holy, for I am holy: and ye shall not make your souls unclean by any creeping thing creeping upon the earth. For I am Jehovah bringing up from the land of Egypt, to be to you for God: and ye shall be holy, for I am holy. This the law of cattle, and of bird, and of every living soul creeping in the water, and for every soul creeping upon the earth.read more.
To separate between the unclean and between the clean, and between the beast being eaten and between the beast which shall not be eaten.
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.
For the soul of the flesh it is in the blood; and I gave it to you upon the altar to expiate for your souls: for the blood shall expiate for the soul. For this I said to the sons of Israel, Every soul from you shall eat no blood, and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you shall not eat blood.
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
And Moses will take from the oil of anointing, and from the blood which is upon the altar, and will sprinkle upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and will consecrate Aaron and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
And this the word thou shall do to them to consecrate them, to be priests to me: Take one bullock, the son of a cow, two complete rams, And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, poured over with oil, and thin unleavened cakes, anointed with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou shalt make them. And put them upon one basket, and bring them near in the basket with the bullock and the two rams.read more.
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring near to the door of the tent of the appointment, and wash them in water. And take the garments, and put upon Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-plate, and gird on him with the girdle of the ephod. And put the turban upon his head, and give the holy diadem upon the turban. And take the oil of anointing, and thou shalt pour upon his head and anoint him. And his sons thou shalt bring near and put tunics upon them. And gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind to them turbans; and the priesthood shall be to them for a law forever: and fill the hand of Aaron and the hand of his sons.
And he will bring in the priests and the Levites, and he will gather them together to the street of the sunrising, And he will say to them, Hear me, ye Levites: now consecrate yourselves and consecrate the house of Jehovah the God of your fathers, and bring forth the uncleanness from the holy place.
And he slaughtered the he goat of the sin which was for the people, and he brought its blood within the vail, and he did its blood as he did to the blood of the bullocks; and he sprinkled it upon the cover and before the cover. And he expiated for the holy place from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel, and from their transgression for all their sins: and so shall he do for the tent of appointment, dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleanness. And no man shall be in the tent of appointment in his coming in to expiate in the holy place, till his coming out, he expiated for himself and for his house, and for all the convocation of Israel.read more.
And he went forth to the altar which is before Jehovah and expiated upon it; and he took from the blood of the bullock, and from the blood of the he goat, and gave upon the horns of the altar round about And he sprinkled upon it from the blood round about with his finger, seven times, and cleansed it, and consecrated it, from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel. And he finished expiating the holy place, and the tent of appointment, and the altar, and he brought the living he goat.
And the king and all Israel with him sacrificed a sacrifice before Jehovah. And Solomon will sacrifice a sacrifice of peace which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. And the king and all the sons of Israel will consecrate the house of Jehovah.
And the king and all the people sacrificed sacrifices before Jehovah. And king Solomon will sacrifice a Sacrifice of oxen, twenty and two thousand; and sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand. And the king and all the people will consecrate the house of God.
And the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the sons of the exile, made the consecration of this house of God in gladness. And they brought near to the consecration of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and he goats of the goats for sin, for all Israel twelve, for the number of the tribes of Israel.
These the appointments to Jehovah, which ye shall call them callings holy, to bring a sacrifice to Jehovah, a burnt-offering and a gift, a sacrifice, and libations, the word of a day in its day:
And Jehovah will say to Moses, saying. Speak thou to the sons of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths shall ye watch: for it is a sign between me and between you for your generations, to know that I am Jehovah consecrating you. And watch ye the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. He profaning it, dying, shall die; for all doing work in it, and that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people.read more.
Six days shall work be done, and the seventh day the Sabbath, a holy rest to Jehovah: all doing work in the day of the Sabbath, dying, shall die. And the sons of Israel shall watch the Sabbath to do the Sabbath for their generation, a covenant forever. Between me and between the sons of Israel it is a sign forever: for six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day he rested and he will be refreshed.
And the Pharisees, seeing, said to him, Behold, thy disciples do what is not lawful to do in the sabbath.
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they in the sabbaths what is not lawful
And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do in the sabbaths
This my covenant which ye shall watch between me and beween you, and between thy seed after thee; every male among you to be circumcised. And ye circumcised the flesh of your uncircumcision; and it was for a sign of the covenant between me and between you. And the son of eight days shall be circumcised, every male of your generations being born in the house, and he bought with silver, from every son of the stranger which is not of thy seed.read more.
He shall be circumcised with circumcising, he being born in thy house, and bought with thy silver: and my covenant was in your flesh for an eternal covenant And the uncircumcised male which shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his uncircumcision, and that soul shall be cut off from its people: he broke my covenant
For truly circumcision profits, if thou do the law: and if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats. When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure. Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.read more.
Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up. And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood. Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil; Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding? Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy? But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.read more.
For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations: These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.
And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man.read more.
For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness: All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture.
For he in appearance, is not a Jew; neither circumcision, in appearance in the flesh: But he in concealment, a Jew; and circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose approbation not of man, but of God.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commands of God.
And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want.
And he said to them, The sabbath was for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;
For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto. For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified. But in these, a reminding of sins yearly.
Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment.
For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food
And the morrow, these travelling, and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour: And he was hungry, and would have eaten: and these making ready, a deep trance fell upon him, And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth:read more.
In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven. And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat. And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean. And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.
And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision but a new creation.
The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace;
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults; Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it.read more.
Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:
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Rewards Of Ritual
Isaiah 1:11For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.
Ritual Law
Leviticus 22:9And they watched my watches, and they bore not sin upon it, and they died when they profaned it: I Jehovah consecrating them.
Ritual Washing
Exodus 19:10-11And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them this day, and the morrow; and they washed their garments,
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