[HNV] Lev 25, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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Leviticus, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai, {25:2} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which
I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. {25:3} Six
years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your
vineyard, and gather in its fruits; {25:4} but in the seventh year
there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the
LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. {25:5} What
grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of
your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn
rest for the land. {25:6} The Sabbath of the land shall be for food
for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired
servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
{25:7} For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your
land, shall all its increase be for food.
{25:8} "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times
seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of
years, even forty-nine years. {25:9} Then you shall sound the loud
[1>]shofar[<1] on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of
Atonement you shall sound the [2>]shofar[<2] throughout all your land.
{25:10} You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to
you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you
shall return to his family. {25:11} That fiftieth year shall be a
jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows
of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. {25:12} For it is a
jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of
the field.
{25:13} "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his
property.
{25:14} "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your
neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. {25:15} According to the
number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor.
According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
{25:16} According to the length of the years you shall increase its
price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish
its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. {25:17}
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am
the LORD your God.
{25:18} "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances
and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. {25:19} The
land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety. {25:20} If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh
year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" {25:21}
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall
bring forth fruit for the three years. {25:22} You shall sow the
eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth
year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
{25:23} "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is
mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. {25:24} In
all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the
land.
{25:25} "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his
possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and
redeem that which his brother has sold. {25:26} If a man has no one to
redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to
redeem it; {25:27} then let him reckon the years since its sale, and
restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return
to his property. {25:28} But if he isn't able to get it back for
himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has
bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be
released, and he shall return to his property.
{25:29} "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full
year he shall have the right of redemption. {25:30} If it isn't
redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in
the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it,
throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
{25:31} But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them
shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
{25:32} "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the
cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
{25:33} The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city
of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Is
[HNV] The Good News According to Matthew 22, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 22
{22:1} Yeshua answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
{22:2} "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a
marriage feast for his son, {22:3} and sent out his servants to call
those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
{22:4} Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are
invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings
are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'
{22:5} But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own
farm, another to his merchandise, {22:6} and the rest grabbed his
servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. {22:7} When
the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed
those murderers, and burned their city.
{22:8} "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but
those who were invited weren't worthy. {22:9} Go therefore to the
intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to
the marriage feast.' {22:10} Those servants went out into the
highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and
good. The wedding was filled with guests. {22:11} But when the king
came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on
wedding clothing, {22:12} and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you
come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless. {22:13}
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him
away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the
weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' {22:14} For many are called,
but few chosen."
{22:15} Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might
entrap him in his talk. {22:16} They sent their disciples to him,
along with the Herodians, saying, "Rabbi, we know that you are honest,
and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you
aren't partial to anyone. {22:17} Tell us therefore, what do you
think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
{22:18} But Yeshua perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you
test me, you hypocrites? {22:19} Show me the tax money."
They brought to him a denarius.
{22:20} He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
{22:21} They said to him, "Caesar's."
Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
{22:22} When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went
away.
{22:23} On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no
resurrection) came to him. They asked him, {22:24} saying, "Rabbi,
Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall
marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.' {22:25} Now there
were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no
seed left his wife to his brother. {22:26} In the same way, the second
also, and the third, to the seventh. {22:27} After them all, the woman
died. {22:28} In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of
the seven? For they all had her."
{22:29} But Yeshua answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the
Scriptures, nor the power of God. {22:30} For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in
heaven. {22:31} But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't
you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, {22:32} 'I am
the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'[1]
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
{22:33} When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his
teaching. {22:34} But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had
silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. {22:35} One of
them, a Torah scholar, asked him a question, testing him. {22:36}
"Rabbi, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
{22:37} Yeshua said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'[2]
{22:38} This is the first and great commandment. {22:39} A second
likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'[3]
{22:40} The whole Torah and the Prophets depend on these two
commandments."
{22:41} Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Yeshua asked
them a question, {22:42} saying, "What do you think of the Messiah?
Whose son is he?"
They said to him, "Of David."
{22:43} He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him
Lord, saying,
{22:44} 'The Lord said to my Lord,
sit on my right hand,
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'[4]
{22:45} "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
{22:46} No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man
dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.
