Old Testament

Leviticus 7

^7:1"'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy. ^7:2In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle on the altar round about. ^7:3He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, ^7:4and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; ^7:5and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering. ^7:6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

^7:7"'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. Ihe priest who makes atonement with them, he shall have it. ^7:8The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. ^7:9Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying pan, and on the baking pan, shall be the priest's who offers it. ^7:10Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.

^7:11"'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh. ^7:12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. ^7:13With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving. ^7:14Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. ^7:15The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.

^7:16"'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten: ^7:17but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. ^7:18If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

^7:19"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it; ^7:20but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. ^7:21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

^7:22Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^7:23"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. ^7:24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it. ^7:25For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. ^7:26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. ^7:27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

^7:28Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^7:29"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. ^7:30With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. ^7:31The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. ^7:32The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. ^7:33He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. ^7:34For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'"

^7:35This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest's office; ^7:36which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations. ^7:37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; ^7:38which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.

New Testament

Luke 12

^12:1Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ^12:2But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known. ^12:3Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

^12:4"I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ^12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

^12:6"Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria? Not one of them is forgotten by God. ^12:7But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

^12:8"I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; ^12:9but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God. ^12:10Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. ^12:11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; ^12:12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."

^12:13One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

^12:14But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" ^12:15He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

^12:16He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. ^12:17He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' ^12:18He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ^12:19I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

^12:20"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?' ^12:21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

^12:22He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. ^12:23Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. ^12:24Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! ^12:25Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? ^12:26If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? ^12:27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ^12:28But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? ^12:29Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. ^12:30For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. ^12:31But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. ^12:32Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. ^12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. ^12:34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

^12:35"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning. ^12:36Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. ^12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. ^12:38They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. ^12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. ^12:40Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

^12:41Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

^12:42The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? ^12:43Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. ^12:44Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. ^12:45But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, ^12:46then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. ^12:47That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, ^12:48but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

^12:49"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. ^12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! ^12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. ^12:52For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. ^12:53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

^12:54He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens. ^12:55When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens. ^12:56You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time? ^12:57Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? ^12:58For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. ^12:59I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."