Bible in a Year.

On the sixty-fourth day, the readings emphasize obedience and holiness. Numbers 15 presents laws regarding sacrifices and unintentional sins, reaffirming the need for atonement. Deuteronomy 13-14 warns against false prophets and defines dietary practices that distinguish Israel as a holy people. Psalm 96 extols God's glory and calls all nations to recognize His majesty and royalty.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be come into the land of your habitation, which I will give you,

3. And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:

4. Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

5. And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,

6. And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of hour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil:

7. And he shall offer the third part of the same measure of wine for the libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord.

8. But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,

9. Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with half a hin of oil,

10. And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of most sweet savour to the Lord.

11. Thus shalt thou do

12. For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.

13. Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers

14. Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite.

15. There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land.

16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:

18. When you are come into the land which I will give you,

19. And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,

20. Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

21. So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.

22. And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moses,

23. And by him hath commanded you, from the day that he began to command and thenceforward,

24. And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:

25. And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their ignorance:

26. And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance.

27. But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin.

28. And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.

29. The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they be natives or strangers.

30. But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:

31. For he hath contemned the word the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

32. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,

33. That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

34. And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

35. And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

36. And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as the Lord had commanded.

37. The Lord also said to Moses:

38. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them I to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue:

39. That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,

40. But rather being mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them and be holy to their Cod.

41. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.

Chapter 13

1. If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,

2. And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:

3. Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.

4. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

5. And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

7. Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,

8. Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

9. But thou shalt presently put him to death. It Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

10. With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:

11. That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

12. If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:

13. Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

14. Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,

15. Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.

16. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.

17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

18. When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

Chapter 14

1. Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;

2. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

3. Eat not the things that are unclean.

4. These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5. The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

6. Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

7. But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

8. The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

9. These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

10. Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

11. All birds that are clean you shall eat.

12. The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

13. The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

14. And all of the raven's kind:

15. And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

16. The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

17. And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

18. The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

19. Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20. All that is clean, you shall eat.

21. But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

22. Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

23. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

24. But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

25. Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose :

26. And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

27. And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

28. The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

29. And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

1. A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.

3. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.

4. For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

6. Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.

7. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour:

8. bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts:

9. adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his presence.

10. Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.

11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:

12. the fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice

13. before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.