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   <div class="book bkLEV">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="LEV.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">defiling skin disease</span><span class="ft">, traditionally translated &#8220;leprosy,&#8221; was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The priests are to perform my service in such a way that they do not become guilty and die for treating it with contempt. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes them holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;No one outside a priest&#8217;s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If a priest&#8217;s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But if a priest&#8217;s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father&#8217;s household as in her youth, she may eat her father&#8217;s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes them holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unacceptable Sacrifices</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;If any of you&#8212;whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel&#8212;presents a gift for a burnt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not offer to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.</span></span></span><span class="content"> or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You must not offer to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you sacrifice a thank offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Keep my commands and follow them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who made you holy </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkLEV">
      <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="LEV.23">
         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Appointed Festivals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the fifteenth day of that month the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For seven days present a food offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Offering the Firstfruits</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He is to wave the sheaf before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a lamb a year old without defect, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verse 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour mixed with olive oil&#8212;a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, a pleasing aroma&#8212;and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wine. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Festival of Weeks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings&#8212;a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span></span></span><span class="content"> and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The priest is to wave the two lambs before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Festival of Trumpets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Day of Atonement</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and fast</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 29 and 32</span></span></span><span class="content"> and present a food offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Festival of Tabernacles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.23.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">For seven days present food offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.23.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">(&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LEV.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">These offerings are in addition to those for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s Sabbaths and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">These festivals are in addition to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>&#8217;s Sabbaths, and these offerings are</span></span></span><span class="content"> in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LEV.23.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LEV.23.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees&#8212;from palms, willows and other leafy trees&#8212;and rejoice before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LEV.23.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Celebrate this as a festival to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LEV.23.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LEV.23.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LEV.23.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.23.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">51</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 51</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Have mercy on me, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your unfailing love;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your great compassion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">blot out my transgressions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Wash away all my iniquity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">and cleanse me from my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I know my transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">and my sin is always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Against you, you only, have I sinned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and done what is evil in your sight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">so you are right in your verdict</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and justified when you judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely I was sinful at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">sinful from the time my mother conceived me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">you taught me wisdom in that secret place.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let me hear joy and gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">let the bones you have crushed rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hide your face from my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">and blot out all my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Create in me a pure heart, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">and renew a steadfast spirit within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not cast me from your presence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">or take your Holy Spirit from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Restore to me the joy of your salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">so that sinners will turn back to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">you who are God my Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Open my lips, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">and my mouth will declare your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My sacrifice, O God, is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The sacrifices of God are</span></span></span><span class="content"> a broken spirit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">a broken and contrite heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">you, God, will not despise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May it please you to prosper Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">to build up the walls of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">in burnt offerings offered whole;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">then bulls will be offered on your altar.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 52</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 52:1-9 is numbered 52:3-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: &#8220;David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">Why do you boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You who practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">your tongue plots destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">it is like a sharpened razor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You love evil rather than good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">falsehood rather than speaking the truth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You love every harmful word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">you deceitful tongue!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">he will uproot you from the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteous will see and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">they will laugh at you, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here now is the man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">who did not make God his stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">but trusted in his great wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">and grew strong by destroying others!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I am like an olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">flourishing in the house of God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">I trust in God&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For what you have done I will always praise you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">in the presence of your faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">And I will hope in your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">for your name is good.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">53</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 53</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 53:1-6 is numbered 53:2-7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fool says in his heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">there is no one who does good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God looks down from heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">to see if there are any who understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">any who seek God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">there is no one who does good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">not even one.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do all these evildoers know nothing?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">They devour my people as though eating bread;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">they never call on God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">where there was nothing to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">you put them to shame, for God despised them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">When God restores his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">54</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 54</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 54:1-7 is numbered 54:3-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us?&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God, by your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">vindicate me by your might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">listen to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">people without regard for God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely God is my help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">the Lord is the one who sustains me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let evil recoil on those who slander me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">in your faithfulness destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">I will praise your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for it is good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have delivered me from all my troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="content">and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.</span></span></div>
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