“If the vow is for the value of an animal of the kind used when people bring an offering to Adonai, all that a person gives of such animals to Adonai will be holy. He is not to exchange or replace it by substituting a good animal for a bad one or vice versa; if he does make such […]

“Adonai said to Moshe, “Tell the people of Israel, ‘If someone makes a clearly defined vow to Adonai to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being, the value you are to assign to a man between the ages of twenty and sixty years is to be fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds], with the sanctuary shekel being the […]

I ended my last post by stating that “tithing” was only one of several categories of offerings given to the sanctuary. Let’s talk about this tithing issue a little bit. The first thing you need to know is that there is ZERO command anywhere in the New Testament to tithe anything. Sure, the issue of […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 27. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Alright, we’ve finally arrived at the final stretch of the book of Leviticus, the last chapter before we get into the exciting Book of Numbers (and trust me, the Book of Numbers is anything but […]

“Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am Adonai their God. Rather, for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors […]