Bible in a Year.

On the fifty-sixth day, Numbers 5 addresses laws of purity and restitution, reinforcing the value of integrity and holiness in the camp. In Deuteronomy 5, Moses repeats the Ten Commandments, renewing the covenant with a new generation. Psalm 90, attributed to Moses, reflects on the transience of life and the need to seek wisdom: "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." A day to rediscover holiness and humility before the eternal God.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:

3. Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you.

4. And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6. Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended,

7. They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

8. But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.

9. an the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

10. And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.

11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

13. Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

14. If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

15. He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frank- incense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.

16. The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.

17. And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

18. And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall, put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.

19. And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.

20. But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:

21. These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.

22. Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.

23. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,

24. And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,

25. The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first,

26. To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink.

27. And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.

28. But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

29. This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

30. And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:

31. The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.

1. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.

2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

3. He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now present and living.

4. He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.

5. I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up into the mountain, and he said:

6. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage

7. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.

8. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth.

9. Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,

10. And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.

12. Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

14. The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

15. Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.

16. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

17. Thou shalt not kill.

18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

19. And thou shalt not steal.

20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

21. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

22. These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me.

23. But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:

24. Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.

25. Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great Are consume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.

26. What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live?

27. Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will do them.

28. And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well.

29. Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

30. Go and say to them: Return into your tents.

31. But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my commandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a possession.

32. Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

33. But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.

1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

5. things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered spider:

10. the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

12. can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.