K’doshim means “Set-apart ones.”
| Uayyiqra (Leviticus) 19:1-20:27 |
Uayyiqra (Leviticus) Chapter 19
Commandments for Set-Apartness
1Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Yasharal and tell them: Be set apart because I, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym, am set apart.
3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
5 When you sacrifice a peace offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, you shall offer it for your acceptance. 6 It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up. 7 If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted. 8 Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is set apart to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. That person must be cut off from his people.
Love Your Neighbor (Romans 13:8–10)
9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
11 You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 You must not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Alahym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him.
You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
14 You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your Alahym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
15 You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
16 You must not go about spreading slander among your people.
You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
17 You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him. 18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Keep My Statutes
19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
20 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. 21 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Appointment as his guilt offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 22 The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit must be set apart as a praise offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it.
You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
29 You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
31 You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
32 You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your Alahym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
33 When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him. 34 You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Mitsrayim. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
35 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. 36 You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.37 You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.”
Uayyiqra (Leviticus) Chapter 20
Punishments for Disobedience (Leviticus 26:14–39 ; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)
1Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 2 “Tell the Yasharalites, ‘Any Yasharalite or foreigner living in Yasharal who gives any of his children to Moleḵ must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. 3 And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Moleḵ, he has defiled My set-apart place and profaned My set-apart Name.
4 And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Moleḵ, 5 then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Moleḵ.
6 Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
7 Set apart yourselves, therefore, and be set apart, because I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym. 8 And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who sets you apart.
9 If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Punishments for Sexual Immorality (Proverbs 5:1–23 ; 1 Corinthians 5:1–8)
10 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
11 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.
13 If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
15 If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
16 If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
17 If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
18 If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
19 You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
Distinguish between Clean and Unclean
22 You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. 23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
24 But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym, who has set you apart from the peoples.
25 You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. 26 You are to be set apart to Me because I, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, am set apart, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.27 A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’ ”
| Amos 9:7-15 |
Amos Chapter 9
The Destruction of Yasharal
7 “Are you not like the people of Kush to Me,
O children of Yasharal?”
declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
“Did I not bring Yasharal
up from the land of Mitsrayim,
the Philistines from Kaphtor,
and Aram from Qir?
8 Surely the eyes of the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
are on the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Ya‛aqoḇ,”
declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
9 “For surely I will give the command,
and I will shake the house of Yasharal
among all the nations
as grain is sifted in a sieve;
but not a pebble will reach the ground.
10 All the sinners among My people
will die by the sword—
all those who say,
‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’ ”
A Promise of Restoration (Acts 15:5–21)
11 “In that day I will restore
the fallen tent of David.
I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins,
and rebuild it as in the days of old,
12 that they may possess the remnant of Eḏom
and all the nations that bear My Name,”
declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who will do this.
13 “Behold, the days are coming,”
declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
“when the plowman will overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed.
The mountains will drip with sweet wine,
with which all the hills will flow.
14 I will restore My people Yasharal from captivity;
they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities.
They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 I will firmly plant them in their own land,
never again to be uprooted
from the land that I have given them…”
| Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 20:2-20 |
Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) Chapter 20
Yasharal’s Rebellion in Mitsrayim
2 Then the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came to me, saying, 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Yasharal and tell them that this is what the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
4 Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers 5 and tell them that this is what the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 says: On the day I chose Yasharal, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Mitsrayim. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.’
6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the esteem of all lands. 7 And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Mitsrayim. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.’
8 But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Mitsrayim. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Mitsrayim. 9 But I acted for the sake of My Name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Yasharal by bringing them out of the land of Mitsrayim.
Yasharal’s Rebellion in the Wilderness
10 So I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim and led them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them. 12 I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who sets them apart.
13 Yet the house of Yasharal rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. 14 But I acted for the sake of My Name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
15 Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the esteem of all lands— 16 because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols. 17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. 20 Keep My Sabbaths set apart, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.’
| Mattithyahu (Matthew) 5:43-48 |
Mattithyahu (Matthew) Chapter 5
Love Your Enemies
43 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even nations do the same?48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
