Leviticus 5:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ »If any of you fail to do your duty by unintentionally doing something wrong with any of Jehovah’s holy things, bring a guilt offering to Jehovah. It must be a ram that has no defects or its value in silver weighed according to the official standards of the holy place.

¹³ »Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.

⁸ »‘There may be no heir to whom the payment can be made. In that case, the payment for what you did wrong must be given to Jehovah for the priest to use. This payment is in addition to the ram that is used to pay compensation for the wrongdoing makes peace with Jehovah.

² to tell the people of Israel: »If a person sins unintentionally and does not keep Jehovah’s commandments he would have to observe the following rules:

¹ Jehovah continued: »If you are a witness under oath who refuses to tell what you saw or what you know, you are sinning and will be punished. ² »If you touch anything unclean such as an unclean dead body of a wild or tame animal or the body of an unclean, swarming creature and then ignore what you did, you are unclean and will be guilty.

¹⁶ »You must make the payments you have failed to hand over and must pay an additional twenty percent. Give it to the priest. The priest will offer the animal as a sacrifice for your sin. You will be forgiven.

¹⁸ »Bring to the priest as a repayment offering a male sheep or goat without any defects. Its value is to be determined according to the official standard. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the sin that you committed unintentionally. You will be forgiven.

⁶ »Then bring your guilt offering to Jehovah. Bring a ram that has no defects or its value in money. Bring it to the priest.

¹ »‘These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is very holy.

⁶ »‘Every male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy.

¹⁷ »Why did you not eat the sin offering in a sacred place? It is very holy! Jehovah gave it to you in order to take away the sin of the community. ¹⁸ »Since its blood was not brought into the sacred Tent, you should have eaten the sacrifice there, as I commanded.«

¹ Jehovah continued to speak to Moses: ² »Tell Aaron and his sons that they must respect the holy offerings that the Israelites set apart for me. In this way they will not dishonor my holy name. I am Jehovah.« ³ »Tell them: ‘In future generations if any of your descendants, while unclean, comes near the holy offerings the Israelites set apart for Jehovah, that person must be excluded from my presence. I am Jehovah. ⁴ »‘None of the descendants of Aaron who has a dreaded skin disease or a discharge may eat any of the sacred offerings until he is ritually clean. Any priest is unclean if he touches anything that is unclean through contact with a corpse or if he has an emission of semen ⁵ or if he has touched an unclean animal or person. ⁶ »‘Any priest who becomes unclean remains unclean until evening. Even then he may not eat any of the sacred offerings until he has taken a bath. ⁷ »‘After the sunsets he is clean. Then he may eat the sacred offerings, which are his food. ⁸ »‘He must not eat the meat of any animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild animals. It will make him unclean. I am Jehovah. ⁹ »‘All priests must observe the regulations that I have given. Otherwise, they will become guilty and die, because they have disobeyed the sacred regulations. I am Jehovah and I make them holy. ¹⁰ »‘Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of the sacred offerings. No one else may eat them, not even someone staying with a priest or hired by him. ¹¹ »‘A priest's slaves, bought with his own money or born in his home, may eat the food the priest receives. ¹² »‘A priest's daughter who marries someone who is not a priest may not eat any of the sacred offerings. ¹³ »‘A widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it. ¹⁴ »‘If any people who are not members of a priestly family eat any of the sacred offerings without intending to, they must repay the priest its full value plus an additional twenty percent. ¹⁵ »‘The priests must not profane the sacred offerings ¹⁶ by letting any unauthorized people eat them. This would bring guilt and punishment on such people. I am Jehovah and I make the offerings holy.’«

⁵ »Take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour. ⁶ »Put them in two stacks of six each on the gold table in Jehovah’s presence. ⁷ »Place pure incense on top of each stack. The incense on the bread will be a reminder, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁸ »Every day of worship (sabbath day) a priest must arrange the bread in Jehovah’s presence. It is a long lasting reminder of my promise to the Israelites. ⁹ »The bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat it in a holy place. It is very holy, set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire. This is a long lasting law.«

² »‘Keep the religious festivals and honor the place where I am worshiped. I am Jehovah. ³ »‘If you live according to my laws and obey my commands, ⁴ »‘I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit. ⁵ »‘Your crops will be so plentiful that you will still be harvesting grain when it is time to pick grapes. You will still be picking grapes when it is time to plant grain. You will have all you want to eat and you will live in safety in your land. ⁶ »‘I will give you peace in your land. You can sleep without being afraid of anyone. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in the land. And there will be no more war there. ⁷ »‘You will be victorious over your enemies. ⁸ »‘Five of you will be able to defeat a hundred, and a hundred will be able to defeat ten thousand.

¹² »‘So I will live among you and be your God, and you will be my people. ¹³ »‘I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people.

¹⁷ »‘I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you. ¹⁸ »‘If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins.

²³ »‘If this discipline does not help and you still resist, ²⁴ »‘I will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins. ²⁵ »‘I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise you rejected. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy. ²⁶ »‘I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry. ²⁷ »‘If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me,

⁹ »‘If the vow is to give the kind of animal that people offer to Jehovah, it will be considered holy. ¹⁰ »‘Do not exchange or substitute animals, a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If you do exchange one animal for another, then both animals will be holy. ¹¹ »‘If it is an unclean animal that cannot be brought to Jehovah as an offering, bring it in front of the priest. ¹² »‘The priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹³ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁴ »‘If you give your house to Jehovah as something holy, the priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹⁵ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁶ »‘If a person gives part of a field to Jehovah as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with two quarts of barley will be worth twenty ounces of silver. ¹⁷ »‘If you give your field in the jubilee year, it will have its full value. ¹⁸ »‘Should you give the field after the jubilee year, the priest will estimate its value based on the number of years left until the next jubilee year. ¹⁹ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ²⁰ »‘If you do not buy it back and it is sold to someone else, it may not be redeemed. ²¹ »‘When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by Jehovah. It will become the property of the priest. ²² »‘You may give a field you bought, not one that was a part of your family property, to Jehovah as something holy. ²³ »‘The priest must figure out the field's value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to Jehovah. ²⁴ »‘In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property. ²⁵ »‘All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place. ²⁶ »‘A firstborn animal already belongs to Jehovah because it was born first. Therefore, it cannot be set apart as holy. Whether it is a bull or a sheep, it belongs to Jehovah. ²⁷ »‘If it is an unclean animal it must be bought back. The payment will be its full value plus one-fifth more. If it is not bought back, it must be sold at the value given it. ²⁸ »‘However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah. ²⁹ »‘People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death. ³⁰ »‘One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³¹ »‘If you buy back any part of it, you must add one-fifth more to it. ³² »‘Every tenth head of cattle or sheep that you counted is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³³ »‘You must not look to see if it is good or bad or exchange it. If you do exchange it, both the first animal and its substitute will be holy. They may not be bought back.’«

³¹ »‘You and your households may eat it anywhere. This is because it is the wages you receive for your work at the tent of meeting. ³² »‘When you contribute the best part, you will not suffer the consequences of any sin. You will not be dishonoring the holy offerings given by the Israelites, and you will not die.’«

⁹ »That part of the most holy offerings that is not burned belongs to you. It may come from a grain offering, an offering for sin, or a guilt offering. Whatever is brought to me, as a most holy offering will belong to you and your sons. ¹⁰ »Eat it in a most holy place. Any male may eat it. You must consider it holy. ¹¹ »The contributions that come as gifts taken from the offerings presented by the Israelites are also yours. I give these to you, your sons, and your daughters. They will be yours from generation to generation. Anyone in your household who is clean may eat them. ¹² »I also give you the first of the produce they give Jehovah. It is the best of all the olive oil and the best of the new wine and fresh grain. ¹³ »The first of all produce harvested in their land that they bring to Jehovah are yours. Anyone in your household who is clean may eat it. ¹⁴ »Anything in Israel that is claimed by Jehovah is yours. ¹⁵ »Every firstborn male, human or animal that is brought to Jehovah is yours. But you must buy back every firstborn son and the firstborn male of any unclean animal. ¹⁶ »When they are one month old, you must buy them back at the fixed price of two ounces of silver using the standard weight of the holy place. ¹⁷ »You must never buy back a firstborn bull, sheep, or goat. They are holy. Throw the blood from these animals against the altar. Burn the fat as an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. ¹⁸ »The meat is yours, like the breast and the right thigh that are presented. ¹⁹ »I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah’s presence for you and your descendants.« ²⁰ Jehovah said to Aaron: »You will have no land or property of your own as the other Israelites will have. I am your possession and your property among the Israelites. ²¹ »I have given the Levites one-tenth of every Israelite’s income. This is in return for the work they do at the tent of meeting. ²² »The other Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting. Otherwise, they will suffer the consequences of their sin and die. ²³ »Only the Levites will do the work at the tent of meeting. They are responsible for their own sins. This is a long lasting law for future generations. They will own no property, as the other Israelites will. ²⁴ »Instead, I will give the Levites what the Israelites contribute to Jehovah, one-tenth of the Israelites’ income. This is why I said about them: They will own no property as the other Israelites do.« ²⁵ Jehovah said to Moses: ²⁶ »Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘You will take one-tenth of the Israelites’ income that I am giving you as your property. When you do, you must contribute one-tenth of that income as your contribution to Jehovah. ²⁷ »‘Your contribution will be considered to be grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress. ²⁸ »‘You will also contribute one-tenth of your income to Jehovah out of all that you receive from the Israelites’ income. You will give Jehovah’s contribution to the priest Aaron. ²⁹ »‘Out of all the gifts you receive, you must contribute the best and holiest parts to Jehovah.’ ³⁰ »Also tell them: ‘When you contribute the best part, your contribution will be considered to be produce from the threshing floor or winepress.

⁵ »You should seek Jehovah at the place Jehovah your God chooses out of all your tribes. This is where he will dwell and establish his name. This is where you should go. ⁶ »There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the contribution of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ »You and your households should eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings that Jehovah your God has blessed. ⁸ »Do not behave the way we do here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes. ⁹ »For you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that Jehovah your God is giving you. ¹⁰ »When you cross the Jordan and live in the land Jehovah your God gives you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security. ¹¹ »It will happen in the place Jehovah choose for his name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you. Bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings that you will vow to Jehovah. ¹² »Rejoice (be filled with joy) before Jehovah your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

²⁶ »Take the holy things and the offerings you have vowed to bring, and go to the place Jehovah will choose.

¹⁹ »To Jehovah your God you shall consecrate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. ²⁰ »You and your household shall eat it every year before Jehovah your God in the place Jehovah chooses.

¹ »When you enter the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance you will possess it and live in it. ² »Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name. ³ »Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him: I declare this day to Jehovah my God! I have entered the land Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us. ⁴ »The priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God. ⁵ »Answer before Jehovah your God: ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and traveled there. They were few in number but he became a great, mighty and populous nation. ⁶ »‘The Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us. They imposed hard labor on us. ⁷ »‘We cried out to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice. He saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. ⁸ »‘Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders. ⁹ »‘He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ »‘Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground that You, O Jehovah have given me. Set it down before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God.’ ¹¹ »You, the Levite and the alien among you will rejoice in all the good Jehovah your God has given you and your household. ¹² ‘Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. ¹³ »Say before Jehovah your God: ‘I have removed the sacred portion from my house. I also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed or forgotten any of your commandments. ¹⁴ »‘I have not eaten of it while mourning. I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. ¹⁵ »‘Look down from your holy place in heaven and bless your people Israel. Bless the ground you have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as you swore to our fathers.’

¹⁹ They gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.