Parsha Emor

Leviticus (Vayikra) 21:1–15 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 1)

Lev 21:1  And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;
Lev 21:2  except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;
Lev 21:3  and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself.
Lev 21:4  He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Lev 21:5  They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Lev 21:6  They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer; therefore they shall be holy.
Lev 21:7  They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profaned; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God.
Lev 21:8  Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
Lev 21:9  And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Lev 21:10  And the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;
Lev 21:11  neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
Lev 21:12  neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
Lev 21:13  And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev 21:14  A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
Lev 21:15  And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 21:16–24 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 2)

Lev 21:16  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 21:17  Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Lev 21:18  For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long,
Lev 21:19  or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
Lev 21:20  or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed;
Lev 21:21  no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Lev 21:22  He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Lev 21:23  Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.
Lev 21:24  So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 21:1–16 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 2)

Lev 22:1  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 22:2  Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto Me, and that they profane not My holy name: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:3  Say unto them: Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before Me: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:4  What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;
Lev 22:5  or whosoever toucheth any swarming thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
Lev 22:6  the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.
Lev 22:7  And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
Lev 22:8  That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:9  They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctify them.
Lev 22:10  There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Lev 22:11  But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread.
Lev 22:12  And if a priest’s daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things.
Lev 22:13  But if a priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof.
Lev 22:14  And if a man eat of the holy thing through error, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.
Lev 22:15  And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they set apart unto the LORD;
Lev 22:16  and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 21:17–33 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 3)

Lev 22:17  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 22:18  Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them: Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that bringeth his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their free-will-offerings, which are brought unto the LORD for a burnt-offering;
Lev 22:19  that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Lev 22:20  But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not bring; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Lev 22:21  And whosoever bringeth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for a freewill- offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Lev 22:22  Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
Lev 22:23  Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing too long or too short, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
Lev 22:24  That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land.
Lev 22:25  Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.
Lev 22:26  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 22:27  When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; but from the eighth day and thenceforth it may be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Lev 22:28  And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
Lev 22:29  And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, ye shall sacrifice it that ye may be accepted.
Lev 22:30  On the same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until the morning: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:31  And ye shall keep My commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:32  And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you,
Lev 22:33  that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 22:1–22 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 4)

Lev 23:1  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 23:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: The appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My appointed seasons.
The Sabbath
Lev 23:3  Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work; it is a sabbath unto the LORD in all your dwellings.
The Passover
Lev 23:4  These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season.
Lev 23:5  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD’S passover.
Lev 23:6  And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7  In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
Lev 23:8  And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
The Feast of Firstfruits
Lev 23:9  And the LORD spoke unto Moses saying:
Lev 23:10  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest.
Lev 23:11  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12  And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:13  And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Lev 23:14  And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the offering of your God; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Weeks
Lev 23:15  And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the day of rest, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete;
Lev 23:16  even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17  Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits unto the LORD.
Lev 23:18  And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Lev 23:19  And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.
Lev 23:20  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Lev 23:21  And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lev 23:22  And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 22:23–32 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 5)

Lev 23:23  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 23:24  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation.
Lev 23:25  Ye shall do no manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The Day of Atonement
Lev 23:26  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 23:27  Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; there shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Lev 23:28  And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Lev 23:29  For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30  And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people.
Lev 23:31  Ye shall do no manner of work; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:32  It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 22:33–44 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 6)

Lev 23:33  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 23:34  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Lev 23:35  On the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
Lev 23:36  Seven days ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a day of solemn assembly; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
Lev 23:37  These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day;
Lev 23:38  beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Lev 23:39  Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Lev 23:40  And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Lev 23:41  And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42  Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
Lev 23:43  that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 23:44  And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the LORD.

Leviticus (Vayikra) 24:1–23 (Parsha Emor, Aliyah 7)

Lev 24:1  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 24:2  ‘Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
Lev 24:3  Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
Lev 24:4  He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
Bread for the Tabernacle
Lev 24:5  And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
Lev 24:6  And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
Lev 24:7  And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Lev 24:8  Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
Lev 24:9  And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual due.’

Lev 24:10  And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
Lev 24:11  And the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Lev 24:12  And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.
Lev 24:13  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Lev 24:14  ‘Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Lev 24:15  And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Lev 24:16  And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death.

Lev 24:17  And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
Lev 24:18  And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.
Lev 24:19  And if a man maim his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
Lev 24:20  breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath maimed a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.
Lev 24:21  And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.
Lev 24:22  Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.’
Lev 24:23  And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ezekiel 44.15-31 (Parsha Emor, Haftarah)

Eze 44:15  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD;
Eze 44:16  they shall enter into My sanctuary, and they shall come near to My table, to minister unto Me, and they shall keep My charge.
Eze 44:17  And it shall be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
Eze 44:18  They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Eze 44:19  And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.
Eze 44:20  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Eze 44:21  Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Eze 44:22  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
Eze 44:23  And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Eze 44:24  And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to Mine ordinances shall they judge it; and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed seasons, and they shall hallow My sabbaths.
Eze 44:25  And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Eze 44:26  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
Eze 44:27  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin- offering, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 44:28  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Eze 44:29  The meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they, even they, shall eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Eze 44:30  And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every heave-offering of every thing, of all your offerings, shall be for the priests; ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
Eze 44:31  The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Luke 14.12-24 (Parsha Emor, Renewed Covenant)

Luk 14:12  Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luk 14:13  But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luk 14:14  And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Luk 14:15  And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Luk 14:16  Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17  And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
Luk 14:18  And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19  And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:20  And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21  So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22  And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luk 14:23  And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24  For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.