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LEVITICUS 23. God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites to proclaim the sacred feasts of the Sabbath, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot.
The order to keep the sabbath, passover, and feast of unleavened bread (Leviticus 23:1–10a) The order to keep Yom Kippur, and Sukkot (Leviticus 23:23–44) The order for continual bread and oil (Leviticus 24:1–9) Case law concerning a blasphemer (Leviticus 24:10–15a and 24:23) The order for a trumpet sounding on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 25:9b)
In the first passage, the start of counting for the Festival of Weeks is said to be "the day after the Sabbath" (mimaharat ha-shabat, Leviticus 23:15), and is to end "the day after the seventh Sabbath" (mimaharat ha-shabat ha-sheviyit, Leviticus 23:16). These seven weeks would constitute 49 days in most modern methods of reckoning.
Nehemiah 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the 18th chapter of the book of Ezra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book. [2]
Rufinus admitted that he made more changes to the Homilies on Leviticus than Origen's homilies on the other books of the Pentateuch.He wrote in the translator's preface that the "duty of supplying what was wanted I took up because I thought that the practice of agitating questions and then leaving them unsolved, which he frequently adopts in his homiletic mode of speaking, might prove ...
For example, Sukkot is described in detail in Leviticus 23:33–43. [10] Shemini Atzeret is mentioned in only verses 36 and 39. The Hebrew word shemini means eighth. This refers to the date of Shemini Atzeret relative to Sukkot; it falls on the latter’s eighth day. [note 1] It is often assumed that Shemini Atzeret is simply the eighth day of ...
Leviticus 19:26 – You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying. [2] Leviticus 20:27 – A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones—and the bloodguilt is theirs. [3]
The verb servāre is the root of the word service; the verb ambulāre is the root of the word ambulance. Leviticus 18:5 אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתָ֛ם הָאָדָ֖ם וָחַ֣י בָּהֶ֑ם , ’ă-šer ya-‘ă-śeh ’ō-ṯām hā-’ā-ḏām wā-ḥay bā-hem , '(because) if a man does [them,] (then/and/that) he ...