The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible in One
Year - Day 67
Leviticus 26: Rewards for Obedience
1 You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved
images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to
worship at them; for I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my sabbaths and
reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe
them faithfully, 4 I will give you your rains in their season, and the land
shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5
Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the
sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land. 6
And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall
make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword
shall go through your land. 7 You shall give chase to your enemies, and they
shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall give chase to a
hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand; your enemies
shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will look with favor upon you and make
you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you. 10 You
shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to
make way for the new. 11 I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall
not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you
shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and
made you walk erect.
Penalties for Disobedience
14 But if you will not obey me, and do not observe all these
commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you
will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant, 16 I in turn
will do this to you: I will bring terror on you; consumption and fever that
waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain,
for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall
be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall
flee though no one pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not obey
me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins. 19 I will break your
proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper. 20
Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its
produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will
continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins. 22 I will let loose wild
animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy
your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be
deserted.
23 If in spite of these punishments you have not turned back to
me, but continue hostile to me, 24 then I too will continue hostile to you: I
myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 I will bring the sword
against you, executing vengeance for the covenant; and if you withdraw within
your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into
enemy hands. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your
bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight; and though
you eat, you shall not be satisfied.
27 But if, despite this, you disobey me, and continue hostile to
me, 28 I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself
sevenfold for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall
eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places and cut
down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your
idols. I will abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste, will make your
sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors. 32 I will
devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be
appalled at it. 33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will
unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation, and your
cities a waste.
34 Then the land shall enjoy[a] its sabbath years as long as it
lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall
rest, and enjoy[b] its sabbath years. 35 As long as it lies desolate, it shall have
the rest it did not have on your sabbaths when you were living on it. 36 And as
for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the
lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight,
and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no
one pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword,
though no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand against your
enemies. 38 You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies
shall devour you. 39 And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of
your enemies because of their iniquities; also they shall languish because of
the iniquities of their ancestors.
40 But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their
ancestors, in that they committed treachery against me and, moreover, that they
continued hostile to me— 41 so that I, in turn, continued hostile to them and
brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart
is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then will I remember my
covenant with Jacob; I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my
covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land shall be
deserted by them, and enjoy[c] its sabbath years by lying desolate without
them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to
spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when
they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, or abhor them so
as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord
their God; 45 but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their
ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations,
to be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws that the Lord
established between himself and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai through
Moses.
Votive Offerings
27: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the people of
Israel and say to them: When a person makes an explicit vow to the Lord
concerning the equivalent for a human being, 3 the equivalent for a male shall
be: from twenty to sixty years of age the equivalent shall be fifty shekels of
silver by the sanctuary shekel. 4 If the person is a female, the equivalent is
thirty shekels. 5 If the age is from five to twenty years of age, the
equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. 6 If the
age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels
of silver, and for a female the equivalent is three shekels of silver. 7 And if
the person is sixty years old or over, then the equivalent for a male is
fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 If any cannot afford the
equivalent, they shall be brought before the priest and the priest shall assess
them; the priest shall assess them according to what each one making a vow can
afford.
9 If it concerns an animal that may be brought as an offering to
the Lord, any such that may be given to the Lord shall be holy. 10 Another
shall not be exchanged or substituted for it, either good for bad or bad for
good; and if one animal is substituted for another, both that one and its
substitute shall be holy. 11 If it concerns any unclean animal that may not be
brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal shall be presented before the
priest. 12 The priest shall assess it: whether good or bad, according to the
assessment of the priest, so it shall be. 13 But if it is to be redeemed,
one-fifth must be added to the assessment.
14 If a person consecrates a house to the Lord, the priest shall
assess it: whether good or bad, as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand.
15 And if the one who consecrates the house wishes to redeem it, one-fifth
shall be added to its assessed value, and it shall revert to the original
owner.
16 If a person consecrates to the Lord any inherited
landholding, its assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirements:
fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. 17 If the person consecrates
the field as of the year of jubilee, that assessment shall stand; 18 but if the
field is consecrated after the jubilee, the priest shall compute the price for
it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and the
assessment shall be reduced. 19 And if the one who consecrates the field wishes
to redeem it, then one-fifth shall be added to its assessed value, and it shall
revert to the original owner; 20 but if the field is not redeemed, or if it has
been sold to someone else, it shall no longer be redeemable. 21 But when the
field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted
field; it becomes the priest’s holding. 22 If someone consecrates to the Lord a
field that has been purchased, which is not a part of the inherited
landholding, 23 the priest shall compute for it the proportionate assessment up
to the year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be paidas of that day, a
sacred donation to the Lord. 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return
to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is. 25 All
assessments shall be by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs shall make a
shekel.
26 A firstling of animals, however, which as a firstling belongs
to the Lord, cannot be consecrated by anyone; whether ox or sheep, it is the
Lord’s. 27 If it is an unclean animal, it shall be ransomed at its assessment,
with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its
assessment.
28 Nothing that a person owns that has been devoted to
destruction for the Lord, be it human or animal, or inherited landholding, may
be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 No human
beings who have been devoted to destruction can be ransomed; they shall be put
to death.
30 All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or
the fruit from the tree, are the Lord’s; they are holy to the Lord. 31 If
persons wish to redeem any of their tithes, they must add one-fifth to them. 32
All tithes of herd and flock, every tenth one that passes under the shepherd’s
staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 Let no one inquire whether it is good or
bad, or make substitution for it; if one makes substitution for it, then both
it and the substitute shall be holy and cannot be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments that the Lord gave to Moses for
the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Footnotes:
a. Leviticus 26:34 Or make up for
b. Leviticus 26:34 Or make up for
c. Leviticus 26:43 Or make up for
Psalm 69: Prayer for Deliverance from Persecution
To the leader: according to Lilies. Of David.
1 Save me, O God,
for the waters have
come up to my neck.
2 I sink in deep mire,
where there is no
foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps
over me.
3 I am weary with my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my
God.
4 More in number than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me
without cause;
many are those who would destroy me,
my enemies who accuse
me falsely.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5 O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done
are not hidden from you.
6 Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of
me,
O Lord God of hosts;
do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me,
O God of Israel.
7 It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered
my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my kindred,
an alien to my
mother’s children.
9 It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;
the insults of those
who insult you have fallen on me.
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting,[a]
they insulted me for
doing so.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to
them.
12 I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make
songs about me.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord.
At an acceptable time,
O God,
in the abundance of
your steadfast love, answer me.
With your faithful help 14 rescue me
from sinking in the
mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep
waters.
15 Do not let the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me
up,
or the Pit close its
mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your
abundant mercy, turn to me.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant,
for I am in
distress—make haste to answer me.
18 Draw near to me, redeem me,
set me free because of
my enemies.
19 You know the insults I receive,
and my shame and
dishonor;
my foes are all known
to you.
20 Insults have broken my heart,
so that I am in
despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none;
and for comforters,
but I found none.
21 They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table be a trap for them,
a snare for their
allies.
23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and make their loins
tremble continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning
anger overtake them.
25 May their camp be a desolation;
let no one live in
their tents.
26 For they persecute those whom you have struck down,
and those whom you
have wounded, they attack still more.[b]
27 Add guilt to their guilt;
may they have no
acquittal from you.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be
enrolled among the righteous.
29 But I am lowly and in pain;
let your salvation, O
God, protect me.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him
with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox
or a bull with horns
and hoofs.
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
you who seek God, let
your hearts revive.
33 For the Lord hears the needy,
and does not despise
his own that are in bonds.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and
everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities
of Judah;
and his servants shall live[c] there and possess it;
36 the children of his
servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his
name shall live in it.
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 69:10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I
made my soul mourn with fasting
b. Psalm 69:26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of
c. Psalm 69:35 Syr: Heb and they shall live
Acts 8: 1 And Saul approved of their killing him.
Saul Persecutes the Church
That day a severe persecution began against the church in
Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the
countryside of Judea and Samaria. 2 Devout men buried Stephen and made loud
lamentation over him. 3 But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house
after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.
Philip Preaches in Samaria
4 Now those who were scattered went from place to place,
proclaiming the word. 5 Philip went down to the city[a] of Samaria and
proclaimed the Messiah[b] to them. 6 The crowds with one accord listened
eagerly to what was said by Philip, hearing and seeing the signs that he did, 7
for unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, came out of many who were
possessed; and many others who were paralyzed or lame were cured. 8 So there
was great joy in that city.
9 Now a certain man named Simon had previously practiced magic
in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he was someone great.
10 All of them, from the least to the greatest, listened to him eagerly,
saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” 11 And they
listened eagerly to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his
magic. 12 But when they believed Philip, who was proclaiming the good news
about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both
men and women. 13 Even Simon himself believed. After being baptized, he stayed
constantly with Philip and was amazed when he saw the signs and great miracles
that took place.
14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had
accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. 15 The two went
down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit 16 (for as yet
the Spirit had not come[c] upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus). 17 Then Peter and John[d] laid their hands on them,
and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was
given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19
saying, “Give me also this power so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive
the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you,
because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money! 21 You have no part
or share in this, for your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent therefore
of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent
of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are in the gall of
bitterness and the chains of wickedness.” 24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to
the Lord, that nothing of what you[e] have said may happen to me.”
Footnotes:
a. Acts 8:5 Other ancient authorities read a city
b. Acts 8:5 Or the Christ
c. Acts 8:16 Gk fallen
d. Acts 8:17 Gk they
e. Acts 8:24 The Greek word for you and the verb pray are plural
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