It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the Lord.”

for the swelling, for the scab, and for the bright spot,

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

If the person is a female, the conversion value is thirty shekels.

But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.

with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you;

They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.

You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.

You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

They abandoned the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.

After him Elon the Zebulunite led Israel for ten years.

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

Sometime later Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone.