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Numbers
Ch. 29–30
The Offerings at the New Year Festival
1On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown.
2Present a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
3Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
4and 2 pounds with each lamb.
5Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.
6Offer these in addition to the regular burnt offering for the first day of the month with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. These food offerings are an odor pleasing to the Lord.
The Offerings at the Day of Atonement
7Gather for worship on the tenth day of the seventh month; eat no food and do no work.
8Offer a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
9Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
10and 2 pounds with each lamb.
11Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the goat offered in the ritual of purification for the people, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.
The Offerings at the Festival of Shelters
12Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honor of the Lord for seven days and do no work.
13On this first day offer a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
14Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with each bull, 4 pounds with each ram,
15and 2 pounds with each lamb, with the required wine offerings.
16Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.
17On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
18-19Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
20On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
21-22Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
23On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
24-25Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
26On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
27-28Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
29On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
30-31Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
32On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
33-34Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
35On the eighth day gather for worship and do no work.
36Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
37-38Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.
39These are the regulations concerning the burnt offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, and fellowship offerings that you are to make to the Lord at your appointed festivals. These are in addition to the offerings you give in fulfillment of a vow or as freewill offerings.
40So Moses told the people of Israel everything that the Lord had commanded him.
Numbers 30
Rules about Vows
1Moses gave the following instructions to the leaders of the tribes of Israel.
2When a man makes a vow to give something to the Lord or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.
3When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the Lord or promises to abstain from something,
4she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.
5But if her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.
6If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,
7she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.
8But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.
9A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.
10If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something,
11she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.
12But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow.
13Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made.
14But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it.
15But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfill the vow.
16These are the rules that the Lord gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father's house or by a married woman.
Deuteronomy
Ch. 29
The Lord's Covenant with Israel in the Land of Moab
1These are the terms of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab; all this was in addition to the covenant which the Lord had made with them at Mount Sinai.
2Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, “You saw for yourselves what the Lord did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.
3You saw the terrible plagues, the miracles, and the great wonders that the Lord performed.
4But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.
5For forty years the Lord led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.
6You did not have bread to eat or wine or beer to drink, but the Lord provided for your needs in order to teach you that he is your God.
7And when we came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us. But we defeated them,
8took their land, and divided it among the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
9Obey faithfully all the terms of this covenant, so that you will be successful in everything you do.
10“Today you are standing in the presence of the Lord your God, all of you—your leaders and officials, your men,
11women, and children, and the foreigners who live among you and cut wood and carry water for you.
12You are here today to enter into this covenant that the Lord your God is making with you and to accept its obligations,
13so that the Lord may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14You are not the only ones with whom the Lord is making this covenant with its obligations.
15He is making it with all of us who stand here in his presence today and also with our descendants who are not yet born.
16“You remember what life was like in Egypt and what it was like to travel through the territory of other nations.
17You saw their disgusting idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
18Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
19Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.
20The Lord will not forgive such a man. Instead, the Lord's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the Lord has destroyed him completely.
21The Lord will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the Lord's teachings.
22“In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the Lord has brought on your land.
23The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.
24Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’
25And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.
26They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship.
27And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.
28The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’
29“There are some things that the Lord our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.
Psalms
Ch. 113
In Praise of the Lord's Goodness
1Praise the Lord! You servants of the Lord, praise his name!
2May his name be praised, now and forever.
3From the east to the west praise the name of the Lord!
4The Lord rules over all nations; his glory is above the heavens.
5There is no one like the Lord our God. He lives in the heights above,
6but he bends down to see the heavens and the earth.
7He raises the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from their misery
8and makes them companions of princes, the princes of his people.
9He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord!