Leviticus 24 · KJV Bible | Whosoever Will

the third book of moses, called leviticus

Moses · c. 1445 BC

Chapter the Twenty-fourth

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.

Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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.

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Verse Analysis

Leviticus 24:1

“And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

REVELATION 22:17 · KJV

Commentary on Leviticus 24

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Leviticus 24:1

The Jubilee, the fiftieth year, is Israel's economic reset. Every fifty years: debts cancelled, Israelite slaves freed, land returned to its original tribal allotment. The Jubilee acknowledges that the land ultimately belongs to God. The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is mine (Leviticus 25:23). Israelite poverty cannot be permanent. Israelite bondage cannot be generational. The trumpet sounded on Yom Kippur of the forty-ninth year to announce the Jubilee. The Day of Atonement launches the year of liberty. The connection is deliberate: the atonement of sins and the release from economic bondage are theologically linked. Where sin's debt is addressed, human debt follows. Deror, liberty, release. Jesus reads Isaiah 61:1-2 in the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4:18): the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim deror to the captives. He closes the scroll and says: today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. The ultimate Jubilee has arrived in the person of the Anointed One. Thread 5 is the Mosaic administration's social architecture: the Jubilee prevented the permanent stratification of Israelite society by providing a built-in generational reset. Thread 2 is the corporate covenant dimension: the community that practices Jubilee is a community whose economic life embodies the theological reality that all land and all persons belong to the covenant God.

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants: the Jubilee is the economic reset of the Mosaic community, and the inscription on the Liberty Bell is taken from this verse; it points forward to the ultimate Jubilee that Isaiah 61:1-2 will announce.

וּקְרָאתֶם דְּרוֹר בָּאָרֶץ לְכָל יֹשְׁבֶיהָ (u-qeratetem deror ba-arets le-khol yoshveha): ye shall proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all its inhabitants: deror (liberty, release, freedom, specifically the release from bondage and the return to one's inheritance; used in Isaiah 61:1 for the release the Anointed One will proclaim; Jesus reads Isaiah 61 in Luke 4:18 and declares it fulfilled in their hearing)

threads t2 · t5 · see Leviticus 25:23 · Isaiah 61:1-2 · Luke 4:18-21

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