JUNE 3, 2022 Leviticus 25:18-19 So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. The beauty of these verses is revealed in the fact that, during the […]
JUNE 2, 2022 Leviticus 25:13-14 In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. In Rabbinical thinking, the laws of the Jubilee imply certain things about those who had lost their inheritance. Specifically, […]
June 1, 2022 Leviticus 25:9-10 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. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be […]
MAY 31, 2022 Leviticus 25:6-7 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, for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food. Once again, we see, by virtue of this command, […]
MAY 30, 2022 Leviticus 25:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “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.’” During the Sabbatical year, the land of Israel was to lie fallow and be “released” from […]
MAY 29, 2022 Leviticus 25:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “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.’” During the Sabbatical year, the land of Israel was to lie fallow and be “released” from […]
MAY 28, 2022 Leviticus 24:22 You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God. Sandwiched in between the instructions given in relation to the incident we discussed in the previous devotion is the commandment above — one law for all people. Where the congregation of the LORD […]
MAY 27, 2022 Leviticus 24:10 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. This may seem a strange passage to use for the purpose of a devotion and, frankly, considering what we […]
MAY 26, 2022 Leviticus 24:5-6 And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. … You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord. This is, of course, referring to the shewbread, or a better translation would be “the bread of the face (Presence).” These twelve cakes […]
MAY 25, 2022 Leviticus 24:1-2 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.” The seven branched lamp stand, the menorah, was to burn perpetually which is to say at all times and without interruption. The […]
MAY 24, 2022 Leviticus 23:42-43 You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. Very often, the Feast of Tabernacles is referred to as the “Season of […]
MAY 23, 2022 Leviticus 23:40 And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, is known for many things. It is […]
