Vayikro
Book 3: Leviticus

EMOR

Chapter 21

Verse 1: Ad-noy said to Moshe; speak, to the kohanim, the sons of Aharon, and you shall say to them, let him not defile himself with the dead among his people.

Verse 2: Except to his kin to whom he is closely related, for his mother and his father, for his son, his daughter and for his brother.

Verse 3: For his virgin sister, to whom he is closely related, who has not yet been married, for her, he may be defiled.

Verse 4: A husband may not defile himself among his people [for a wife through whom] he becomes profaned.

Verse 5: They shall not make baldness on their heads and the corners of their beards they shall not shave, and they shall not make gashes in their flesh.

Verse 6: They shall be holy to their G-d and they shall not profane the Name of their G-d, for [it is] the fire-offerings of Ad-noy, the bread of their G-d [that] they bring [offer], and they must [therefore] be holy.

Verse 7: A harlot or a profaned woman they shall not marry. A woman divorced from her husband they shall not marry, for he is holy to his G-d.

Verse 8: You shall make him holy for he offers the bread of your G-d; he shall be holy unto you for I, Ad-noy, am holy, Who makes you holy.

Verse 9: The daughter of a kohein, who profanes herself by fornication--- she profanes her father--- she shall be burned with fire.

Verse 10: The kohein who is greatest among his brethren upon whose head was poured the anointing oil; whose hands were consecrated to put on the special garments; shall not let his hair grow wild and he shall not tear his garments.

Verse 11: And adjacent to any dead body he shall not enter. For his father and mother he shall not become [ritually] impure.

Verse 12: He shall not depart from the Sanctuary and he shall not profane his G-d's Sanctuary, for the crown of his G-d's anointing oil is upon him, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 13: He shall marry [only] a virgin.

Verse 14: A widow, divorcee, profaned woman or harlot; he may not marry [any] of these. But only a virgin from his own people may he marry.

Verse 15: He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Ad-noy, who makes him holy.

Sheini (Second Aliyah)

Verse 16: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 17: Speak to Aharon saying; Anyone of your offspring, through [all] their generations who will have a blemish, shall not approach to offer the bread of his G-d.

Verse 18: For any man who has a blemish shall not approach; a blind man or a lame man, or a man with a sunken nose, or a man who has disproportionate limbs.

Verse 19: or a man who has a broken (crippled) foot, or a broken (crippled) hand,

Verse 20: or one with overhanging eyebrows, or with a cataract, or a disarrangement [in the eye], or one with scurf or scabs, or one with crushed testicles.

Verse 21: Any man who has a blemish, who is a descendant of Aharon the kohein, shall not approach to offer the fire-offerings of Ad-noy. He has a blemish; the bread of his G-d he may not approach to offer [as an offering].

Verse 22: The bread of his G-d which is of the most holy, and from the holy [offerings] he may eat.

Verse 23: However, he may not enter beyond the Curtain and he shall not approach the Altar for he has a blemish and he shall not profane My holy things, for I am Ad-noy, who sanctifies them.

Verse 24: Moshe spoke [these words] to Aharon, and to his sons and to all of Bnei Yisroel.

Chapter 22

Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 2: Speak to Aharon and to his sons and let them keep away from the holy offerings of Bnei Yisroel and they shall not profane My holy name which they sanctify for Me, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 3: Say to them; throughout your generations; any person of your offspring who will draw near to the holy things which Bnei Yisroel will sanctify to Ad-noy [while] his impurity is on him that soul shall be cut off from My Presence, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 4: Any man of Aharon's offspring; who has tzora'as or an impure flow, may not eat of the sacred things until he has purified himself. [The same is true] of anyone who touches anything defiled by the dead, or anyone who has had a seminal emission,

Verse 5: or anyone who touches any creeping creature that causes impurity to him, or any person which causes impurity to him, [with] whatever impurity he has.

Verse 6: Anyone touching [that person] will be impure until the evening. He shall not eat of the holy things unless he has washed his body in water.

Verse 7: When the sun sets, he is pure, and afterwards, he may eat of the holy things, for it is his bread.

Verse 8: An animal which has died on its own, or an animal that was fatally maimed, he must not eat to defile himself with it, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 9: They shall keep my charge lest they bear [the burden] of sin and die because of it for having profaned [it]. I am Ad-noy Who makes them holy.

Verse 10: No stranger (non-kohein) may eat holy things. One indentured to a kohein and one hired [by a kohein] may not eat sacred-offerings.

Verse 11: If a kohein shall purchase a person [as a slave, that person is] his monetary possession. He may eat of it, and the [slave] born in his house, they may eat of his bread.

Verse 12: When a kohein's daughter marries a non-kohein, the sacred terumah portions may not be eaten by her.

Verse 13: If a kohein's daughter is either widowed or divorced, and she has no children, and she returns to her father's home as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread. No non- kohein may eat of it.

Verse 14: If a man inadvertently eats of sacred-offering, he shall add a fifth, to it[s worth] and give to the kohein the holy thing.

Verse 15: They shall not profane the holy things of Bnei Yisroel that which they designated for Ad-noy.

Verse 16: They burden them[selves] with the sin of their guilt when they eat their holy things, for I am Ad-noy, Who makes them holy.

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)

Verse 17: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 18: Speak to Aharon and to his sons and to all of Bnei Yisroel and say to them; any man of the House of Israel, and from the proselytes of Israel who will bring his offering for any of their vows or for any of their free-will-offerings that they will bring to Ad-noy, for a burnt-offering.

Verse 19: To gain acceptance [it must be] an unblemished male of cattle, sheep or goats.

Verse 20: Anything that has a blemish on it you shall not bring, for it will not be accepted favorably for you.

Verse 21: If a man will bring a peace-offering to Ad-noy, to fulfill an articulated vow or free-will-offering of cattle or of sheep, it shall be unblemished, that it be favorably accepted. No blemish shall be in it.

Verse 22: A blind, broken-limbed, cracked or wart[ed animal]; or [an animal] with scurf or scabs you shall not bring these to Ad-noy; and as a fire-offering you shall not place of them on the altar of Ad-noy.

Verse 23: An ox or lamb with one limb larger [or smaller] than the other or with uncleft hooves, you shall make (offer) it as a free-will-offering [to the temple treasury] [but] for [the fulfillment of] a vow it will not be favorably accepted.

Verse 24: [An animal that has its testicles] crushed, mangled, torn or cut off you shall not bring to Ad-noy and in your land you shall not inflict these injuries.

Verse 25: And from a stranger's [gentile's] hand you shall not bring (offer) the bread of your G-d from any of these for they have inflicted wounds in them; they will not be favorably accepted for you.

Verse 26: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 27: An ox, lamb or goat, when it is born, shall be with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day and thereafter it may be favorably accepted as a sacrifice as a fire-offering to Ad-noy.

Verse 28: An ox or a lamb, it and its offspring, you shall not slaughter in one day.

Verse 29: When you sacrifice a thanks-giving-offering to Ad-noy, that it be favorably accepted for you you shall sacrifice it.

Verse 30: On that day [that it is sacrificed] you should eat it; you shall leave none of it until the next morning, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 31: You shall preserve My commandments and fulfill them, I am Ad-noy.

Verse 32: You shall not profane My holy Name; but I will be sanctified among Bnei Yisroel. I am Ad-noy Who makes you holy.

Verse 33: Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your G-d, I am Ad-noy.

Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)

Chapter 23

Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 2: Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them; the appointed times of Ad-noy, which you shall proclaim them as holy assemblies; these are My appointed times.

Verse 3: Six days shall work be performed; and on the seventh day is a Shabbos of resting, a holy assembly. You shall not do any work, it is a Shabbos for Ad-noy in all your dwelling places.

Verse 4: These are the appointed times of Ad-noy, the holy assemblies that you shall proclaim them in their appointed times.

Verse 5: In the first month (Nisan), on the fourteenth day of the month in the afternoon, is a Pesach (offering) for Ad-noy.

Verse 6: On the fifteenth day of this month is the festival of matzos, for Ad-noy; for seven days you shall eat matzos.

Verse 7: On the first day [there] shall be a day of holy assembly for you; you shall not do any work of labor.

Verse 8: You shall bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy [on each of] seven days. On the seventh day it is [a day] of holy assembly; you shall not do any work of labor.

Verse 9: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying,

Verse 10: Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them; when you come into the land that I give to you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring an omer of the first fruits of your harvest to the kohein.

Verse 11: He shall wave the omer before Ad-noy that it be favorably accepted for you. On the day after the day of rest (Pesach), the kohein shall wave it.

Verse 12: You shall prepare, on the day when you wave the omer, an unblemished, male, yearling lamb as a burnt-offering, to Ad-noy.

Verse 13: Its meal-offering is two tenths of flour mixed with [olive] oil as a fire-offering to Ad-noy of pleasing fragrance. Its wine-offering is one fourth of a hin.

Verse 14: Bread, parched grain or tender grain you shall not eat until this very day, until you bring the offering of your G-d; it is an everlasting statute for all your generations in all your dwelling places.

Verse 15: You shall count for yourselves, from the day after the day of rest (Pesach) from the day on which you will bring the omer wave-offering, seven complete weeks they shall be,

Verse 16: Until the day after the seventh week, you shall count fifty days, and you shall bring a new meal-offering to Ad-noy.

Verse 17: From [the land of] your dwelling places you shall bring two bread wave-offerings; of two tenths of flour they shall be. You shall bake them leavened, as first-fruit-offering to Ad-noy.

Verse 18: You shall bring, along with the bread, seven unblemished, yearling lambs, one young bullock and two rams; they shall be a burnt-offering to Ad-noy with their meal-offerings and wine-offerings, a fire-offering of pleasing fragrance to Ad-noy.

Verse 19: You shall prepare one he-goat as a sin-offering and two yearling lambs as peace-offerings.

Verse 20: The kohein shall wave them along with the bread of the first-fruit-offering as a wave-offering before Ad-noy with the two lambs; they shall be holy for Ad-noy, for the kohein.

Verse 21: You shall proclaim on this very day; it shall be a [day of] holy assembly for you you shall not do any work of labor. It is an everlasting statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

Verse 22: When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not cut completely the corner of your field when you reap. You shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and the proselyte, I am Ad-noy, your G-d.

Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)

Verse 23: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 24: Speak to Bnei Yisroel, saying; in the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall be for you a [day of] rest. A remembrance of the sounding [of the shofor], a holy assembly.

Verse 25: You shall not do any work of labor and you shall bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy.

Verse 26: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 27: Indeed, on the tenth day of this seventh month is a day of atonement. It shall be for you a [day of] holy assembly and you shall afflict yourselves and you shall bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy.

Verse 28: You shall not do any work on this very day, for it is a day of atonements, to atone for you before Ad-noy, your G-d.

Verse 29: For any person who will not be afflicted on this very day shall be cut off from his people.

Verse 30: Any person who does any work on this very day, I will cause that person to perish from among his people.

Verse 31: You shall not do any work; it is an everlasting statute for all your generations in all your dwelling places.

Verse 32: It is a Shabbos of complete rest for you and you shall afflict yourselves on the ninth day of the month at evening; from evening to evening you shall rest, on your day of rest.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)

Verse 33: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 34: Speak to Bnei Yisroel saying; on the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the festival of Sukkos for seven days, for Ad-noy.

Verse 35: On the first day [there shall be] a holy assembly; you shall not do any work of labor.

Verse 36: For seven days, you shall bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy; the eighth day shall be for you a holy assembly, and you shall bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy. It is [a day] of convocation. you shall not do any work of labor.

Verse 37: These are the appointed times of Ad-noy which you shall proclaim them [as] holy assemblies, on which to bring a fire-offering to Ad-noy; a burnt-offering and a meal-offering, a sacrifice and wine-offerings, each on its assigned day,

Verse 38: Besides the [offerings of the] Shabbasos of Ad-noy and besides your gifts and besides all your vow-offerings and besides all your free-will-offerings that you will give to Ad-noy.

Verse 39: Indeed, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather the produce of the land you shall celebrate the festival of Ad-noy for seven days. The first day is a day of rest and the eighth day is a day of rest.

Verse 40: You shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of the beautiful tree (esrog), a branch of palm trees (lulav), boughs of thick-leaved trees (hadasim), and willows of the brook (aravos), and you shall rejoice before Ad-noy, your G-d, for seven days.

Verse 41: You shall celebrate it as a festival to Ad-noy seven days in the year; it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations in the seventh month, you shall celebrate it.

Verse 42: You shall dwell in the sukkos seven days, every native born Israelite shall dwell in the sukkos.

Verse 43: So that your generations will know that in the sukkos I caused Bnei Yisroel to dwell when I took them out from the land of Egypt, I am Ad-noy, your G-d.

Verse 44: And thus Moshe declared the appointed times of Ad-noy to Bnei Yisroel.

Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)

Chapter 24

Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 2: Command Bnei Yisroel to take (bring) to you pure, pressed, olive oil for illumination to keep the lamp burning constantly.

Verse 3: Outside of the Curtain of the Testimony, which is inside the Tent of Meeting, Aharon shall arrange it [so that it burns] from evening until morning before Ad-noy, continually; as an everlasting statute throughout your generations.

Verse 4: Atop the pure menorah he shall arrange the lights before Ad-noy, constantly.

Verse 5: You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, each individual loaf shall be two tenths [of an ephah].

Verse 6: You shall place them in two stacks, six in each stack on the Pure Table, before Ad-noy.

Verse 7: You shall put pure frankincense on [each] stack and it shall be as a memorial portion for the bread, as a fire-offering, to Ad-noy.

Verse 8: On each and every Shabbos he shall arrange them before Ad-noy, continually, from Bnei Yisroel as an eternal covenant.

Verse 9: It shall belong to Aharon and to his sons and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is most holy for him from among the fire-offerings of Ad-noy, as an everlasting statute.

Verse 10: The son of an Israelite woman went out, and he was the son of an Egyptian man, among Bnei Yisroel. They argued in the encampment--- the son of the Israelite woman, and the Israelite man.

Verse 11: The Israelite woman's son clearly pronounced the Name [of G-d] and blasphemed and they brought him to Moshe. The name of his mother was Shlomis, daughter of Divri of the tribe of Dan.

Verse 12: They placed him in the guardhouse until [his penalty] would be explained to them through the word of Ad-noy.

Verse 13: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;

Verse 14: Take the blasphemer beyond the encampment, and all those who heard him shall lay their hands on his head and the entire congregation shall stone him.

Verse 15: And to Bnei Yisroel you shall speak, saying; Any person who shall blaspheme his G-d shall bear [the burden of] his sin.

Verse 16: Whoever pronounces clearly the Name of Ad-noy [and blasphemes] he will surely be put to death. The entire congregation shall surely stone him. The proselyte and native born alike when he clearly articulates the Name, shall be put to death.

Verse 17: Any man who kills any human being must surely be put to death.

Verse 18: Whoever kills an animal shall pay for it, [the compensation of] an animal for an animal.

Verse 19: A man who maims his neighbor just as he did, so shall be done to him.

Verse 20: [Compensation for] a broken bone [in exchange] for a broken bone, [compensation for] the loss of an eye [in exchange] for the loss of an eye, [compensation for] the loss to a tooth [in exchange] for the loss of a tooth; just as he maimed the man, so shall it be done to him [monetarily].

Maftir

Verse 21: Whoever smites an animal shall pay for it. Whoever smites a person shall be put to death.

Verse 22: One rule shall apply for all of you just as it is for the proselyte, so it shall be for the native born, for I am Ad-noy, your G-d.

Verse 23: Moshe spoke to Bnei Yisroel and they took the blasphemer, beyond the encampment and they stoned him with a stone. And Bnei Yisroel did just as Ad-noy commanded Moshe. One hundred and twenty-four verses. Haftarah: Yechezkel 44:15--31.

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