4Q24
Leviticusb
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
150-125 B.C.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents
Leviticus 1:11-17; 2:1-3, 5-16; 3:1, 8-14; 21:17-18, 20, 24; 22:2-6, 8-33;
23:1-6, 8, 10-22, 24-25, 40; 24:2-14, 16-17, 19-21, 23; 25:28-29, 45-49, 51-54
Leviticus
1
11 He
shall kill it
on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the
priests,
shall sprinkle it’s the blood around on
the altar. 12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The
priest shall lay them in order on the
wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The
priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt
offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh.
14 “ ‘If
his
offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then
he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
15 The priest shall bring it to the
altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall
be drained out on the side of the altar;
16 and he shall take away its crop
and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the
place of the ashes. 17 He shall tear it
by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on
the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Leviticus
2
1 “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal
offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall
pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. 2 He
shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil,
with all its frankincense, and the priest shall
burn its memorial on the altar, an
offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. 3 That
which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire.
[..]
5 If your offering is a
meal offering made on a griddle,
it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. 6 You
shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it
shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 You shall And
bring the meal offering that is made of
these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring
it to the altar. 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering
its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh. 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall
be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh
made by fire.
11 “ ‘No meal
offering
which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be
made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer
them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant
aroma on the altar. 13 Every offering of your meal offering you
shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your
God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
14 “ ‘If When you
offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the
meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of
grain parched with fire and crushed. 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part
of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire
to Yahweh.
Leviticus
3
1 “ ‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it
from the herd, whether male or female, he
shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
[..]
8 and
he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent
of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering
made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away
close to the backbone; and the fat
that covers the entrails, and all the fat
that is on the entrails, 10 and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is on them, which is by
the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it
is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
12 “ ‘If
his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh. 13 He
shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and
the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on
the altar. 14 He shall offer
from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that
covers the innards, and all the fat
that is on the innards,
[..]
Leviticus
21
17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None
of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may
approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For
whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man,
or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
[..]
20 or hunchbacked, or
a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs,
or who has damaged testicles.
[..]
24 So Moses spoke to
Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Leviticus
22
2 “Tell
Aaron and
his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy
name. I am Yahweh.
3 “Tell them, ‘If
anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy
things, which the children of Israel make
holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off
from before me. I am Yahweh.
4 “ ‘Whoever
of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall
not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is
unclean by the dead, or a man whose offspring goes from him;
5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean,
or a man of whom
he may take uncleanness,
whatever uncleanness he has; 6 the person that touches any such shall be
unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathes his body in
water.
[..]
8 That
which dies of itself,
or
is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
9 “ ‘They
shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they
profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
10 “ ‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a
foreigner living with the priests, or a
hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if a priest
buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat
of it; and such as are born in his
house, they shall eat of his bread. 12 If a priest’s daughter is
married to an outsider, she shall not
eat of the heave offering of the holy things. 13 But if a priest’s daughter
is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and
has returned to her father’s house, as in
her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
14 “ ‘If
a man eats something
holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part
of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel,
which they offer to
Yahweh, 16 and so cause them
to bear the iniquity that brings guilt,
when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies
them.’ ”
17 Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to
all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house
of Israel, or of the foreigners sojourning in Israel,
who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer
to Yahweh for a burnt offering; 19 that
you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without
defect, of the bulls, of the sheep,
or of the goats. 20 But whatever has a defect, that you shall not
offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill
offering, of the herd or of the flock, it
shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall
have no defect. 22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart,
festering, or having a running sore or having crushed testicles: you shall not
offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh. 23 Either a bull
or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his
parts, that you may offer for a
freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 You must not
offer to Yahweh that which has its
testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut.
You must not do this in your land. 25 You
must not offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner as any of these;
because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for
you.’ ”
26 Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with
its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for
the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 28 Whether it is a cow
or ewe, you shall not kill it and
its young both in one day.
[..]
30 It
shall be eaten on
the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
31 “Therefore
you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am
Yahweh.
32 You shall not
profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of
Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy, 33 who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”
Leviticus
23
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even
these are my set feasts.
3 “ ‘Six days
shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest,
a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
4 “ ‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you
shall proclaim in their appointed season. 5 In the first month,
on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread
to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
[..]
8 But you
shall offer
an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy
convocation: you shall do no regular work.’ ”
[..]
10 “Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I
give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the
first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11 and
he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall
wave it. 12 On the day when you wave the
sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt
offering to Yahweh. 13 The meal offering
with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering
with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a
hin. 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same
day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 “ ‘You shall
count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the
sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you
shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to
Yahweh.
17 You shall bring out of your habitations two
loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine
flour.
They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh. 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without
defect a year old, one young bull,
and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal
offering, and their drink offerings,
even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma
to Yahweh. 19 You
shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 The priest
shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering
before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They
shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there
shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
22 “ ‘When you reap
the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of
your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must
leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
[..]
24 “Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets,
a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no regular
work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.’ ”
[..]
40 You
shall take
on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs
of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice
before
Yahweh your God seven days.
[..]
Leviticus
24
2 “Command the children of
Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause
a lamp to burn continually. 3 Outside of the veil
of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh
continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout
your generations. 4 He shall keep in
order the lamps on the pure
gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.
5 “You shall take fine
flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of
an ephah
shall be in one cake. 6 You shall set them in
two rows, six on a row, on the
pure gold table before Yahweh. 7 You
shall put pure frankincense on each row, that
it may be to the bread for a memorial,
even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order
before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the
children of Israel. 9 It shall be for
Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it
in a holy place: for it is most
holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
10 The son of an
Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the
children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a the man of Israel strove together in the camp. 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name,
and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith,
the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 They put him in custody, until Yahweh’s will
should be declared to them. 13 Yahweh spoke
to Moses, saying, 14 “Bring out of the
camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head,
and let all the congregation stone him.
[..]
16 He who blasphemes
Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put
to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as
well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
17 “ ‘He
who strikes
any man mortally shall
surely be put to death.
[..]
19 If
anyone injures his neighbor; as he
has done, so shall it be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to
him. 21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a
man shall be put to death.
[..]
23 Moses spoke to the
children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and
stoned him with stones. The children of Israel
did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus
25
28 But
if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain
in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee:
and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
29 “ ‘If
a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within
a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of
redemption.
[..]
45 Moreover
of the children of the aliens
who live among you, of them you may buy,
and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land;
and they will be your property.
46 You may make them an
inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may
you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
47 “ ‘If
an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside
him has
grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you,
or to a member of the stranger’s family; 48 after he is sold he may be
redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s
son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may
redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
[..]
51 If there are yet many
years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out
of the money that he was bought for. 52 If there
remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him;
according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. 53 As
a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with
harshness over him in your sight. 54 If he isn’t
redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of
Jubilee, he, and his children with him.