LAWS THAT G-D GAVE AT MOUNT SINAI AND EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE THERE
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Table Of Contents
- 1. G-d tells Moses how to bring Sacrifices: cattle, sheep, goats, birds
- 2. Sacrificing a meal offering of fine flour
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Sacrificing a meal offering baked in an oven or on a pan or in a deep pot -
Do not burn anything leavened or any honey, these should be offered as first fruit to G-d -
Salt all meal offering sacrifices -
Sacrificing a meal offering of the first grains - 3. Sacrificing a peace offering from cattle, sheep or goats
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YOU SHALL NOT eat any fat or any blood - 4. Sacrificing a sin offering for a sin by the anointed kohen
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Sacrificing a sin offering for a sin by the entire community of Israel -
Sacrificing a sin offering for a sin by a leader -
Sacrificing a sin offering for a sin by one person of the people of the land - 5. Sacrificing for withholding testimony, touching dead animals
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touching human uncleanness, swearing in vain -
Sacrificing for: trespassing against things sacred to G-d, -
breaking G-d’s commandments unintentionally, -
stealing, lying about or purposely failing to return the property of another person Tzav
- 6. Laws of the burnt offering, meal offering, sin offering
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Law of the offering of Aaron & his sons - 7. Law of the guilt offering, peace offering
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Anyone who eats the peace offering of the Lord, while he is unclean, -
that soul shall be cut off from its people -
YOU SHALL NOT eat any fat of an ox, sheep or goat (or any animals sacrificed as fire offerings). -
YOU SHALL NOT eat blood from birds or animals -
G-d gave all laws about sacrifices to Moses on Mount Sinai - 8. Moses performs the initiation ceremony for Aaron & his sons, as G-d commanded him
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Garments -
Ram of burnt offering -
Ram of investitures & unleavened bread -
7 days of investiture - 9. Aaron brings sacrifices for kohanim and for the children of Israel
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The glory of G-d appears to all people, then fire comes forth and consumes the offerings Shemini
- 10. Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu bring a wrong offering, and are consumed by G-d’s fire
G-d commands Aaron & the kohanim to always be sober in the Tent of the Meeting Moses agrees with Aaron & his sons when they don’t eat from the sin offering due to their grief - 11. Kosher and Non-Kosher creatures
G-d tells Moses & Aaron how to become clean after touching dead carcasses Tazria
- 12. How a woman should become clean after giving birth
- 13-14. Law of Tzara’ath (Leprosy - Skin Lesions)
Metzorah
- 15. What to do if any man has a discharge from his flesh or a discharge of semen
What to do if a woman has a discharge of blood Acharei
- 16. Only Aaron may enter the Holy and only on Yom Kippur. He must bring special sacrifices.
Casting lots between two goats – one for G-d and one for confessing sins and sending to Azazel Laws for Yom Kippur - 17. DO NOT offer sacrifice without bringing it to the Temple.
DO NOT eat blood. Any man that commits these sins shall be cut off from among his people Immerse in water after being unclean or bear your sin - 18. Do not commit the sins of the Egyptians and the Canaanites or you will lose the land.
Anyone who commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from the midst of their people. No man shall come near to any of his close relatives, to uncover [their] nakedness. I am the Lord. Sinful forms of marriage. Sinful forms of relations. Idol worship. Kedoshim
- 19. “You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, your G-d, am holy”
- 20. Punishments for committing sins that were committed by Egyptians & Canaanates
Emor
- 21. Laws for the Kohanim, the sons of Aaron
- 22. Laws for all children of Israel – only unblemished animals are allowed for sacrifice
Laws for all children of Israel – timing of sacrifice - 23. Days when work is prohibited by G-d
Holidays appointed by G-d: SHABBAT, PESAKH, SHAVUOT, ROSH HASHANA, YOM KIPPUR, SUKKOT, SHEMINI ATZERET - 24. Kindle the menorah every night – an eternal statute
Bring 12 loaves of bread every Shabbat – an eternal statute Punishment for cursing G-d’s name is death Punishment for Murder, Injuring people & animals – one law for convert & resident alike Behar
- 25. Every 7th year the land shall rest a Sabbath to the Lord
Every 50th year is a holy year of Jubilee The land shall not be sold permanently Support your brother if he can’t support himself Jews that fall into slavery must be redeemed Bechukotai
- 26. REWARD FOR FOLLOWING G-D’s COMMANDMENTS
PUNISHMENT FOR NOT FOLLOWING G-D’s COMMANDMENTS - 27. Value of people, animals & property pledged to G-d
Vayikra
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