Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 25. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. We now come to that place in the Torah where we’re given instructions on the often misunderstood and mysterious “Year of Jubilee”. If there is one singular word that nicely sums up the context of […]

“Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life. If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him — break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth — whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.”-Leviticus 24:18-20 […]

“Then tell the people of Israel, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin; and whoever blasphemes the name of Adonai must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name. Anyone who strikes another person […]

“Take the man who cursed outside the camp, have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head, and have the entire community stone him.”-Leviticus 24:14  We’re in the process of examining the details of the chilling scene depicting a man about to be executed for blasphemy. The context of this whole situation is […]

“There was a man who was the son of a woman of Israel and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Israel, and this son of a woman of Israel had a fight in the camp with a man of Israel, in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra’el […]