Daily Text and Bible Reading: Thursday, February 20 [Press play below]

28.1 Jehovah next said to Moses:
28.2 “Command the Israelites and tell them, ‘You should take care that you present to me my offering, my bread. My offerings by fire as a pleasing aroma to me must be made at their appointed times.’
28.3 “And say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire that you will present to Jehovah: two sound year-old male lambs a day as a burnt offering regularly.
28.4 The one male lamb you will offer in the morning, and the other male lamb you will offer at twilight,
28.5 together with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil as a grain offering.
28.6 It is a regular burnt offering, which was established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah,
28.7 along with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin for each male lamb. Pour out the alcoholic drink in the holy place as a drink offering to Jehovah.
28.8 And you will offer the other male lamb at twilight. With the same grain offering as that made in the morning and with its same drink offering, you will present it as an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to Jehovah.
28.9 “‘However, on the Sabbath day, the offering should be two sound year-old male lambs and two tenths of an ephah measure of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, together with its drink offering.
28.10 This is the burnt offering for the Sabbath, along with the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
28.11 “‘At the start of each month you will present as a burnt offering to Jehovah two young bulls, one ram, and seven sound male lambs each a year old,
28.12 and three tenth measures of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull and two tenth measures of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the one ram,
28.13 and a tenth measure of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each male lamb, as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
28.14 And their drink offerings should be half a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for the ram and a fourth of a hin for a male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering each month throughout the year.
28.15 Also, one young goat should be offered as a sin offering to Jehovah in addition to the regular burnt offering together with its drink offering.
28.16 “‘In the first month, on the 14th day of the month, will be Jehovah’s Passover.
28.17 And on the 15th day of this month, there will be a festival. Unleavened bread will be eaten for seven days.
28.18 On the first day there will be a holy convention. You must not do any hard work.
28.19 And you will present as a burnt offering made by fire to Jehovah two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs each a year old. You should offer sound animals.
28.20 You should offer them with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth measures for a bull and two tenth measures for the ram.
28.21 You will offer a tenth measure respectively for each male lamb of the seven male lambs,
28.22 as well as one goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
28.23 Aside from the morning burnt offering, which is for the regular burnt offering, you will offer these.
28.24 You will offer these in the same manner each day for seven days as food, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to Jehovah. It should be offered along with the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
28.25 On the seventh day you should hold a holy convention. You must not do any hard work.
28.26 “‘On the day of the first ripe fruits, when you present a new grain offering to Jehovah, you should hold a holy convention in your feast of weeks. You must not do any hard work.
28.27 You will present as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to Jehovah two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs each a year old,
28.28 and as their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth measures for each bull, two tenth measures for the one ram,
28.29 a tenth measure respectively for each male lamb of the seven male lambs,
28.30 as well as one young goat to make atonement for you.
28.31 You will offer them in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. They should be sound animals, along with their drink offerings.
29.1 “‘And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, you should hold a holy convention. You must not do any hard work. It is a day on which you should sound the trumpet.
29.2 You will offer as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to Jehovah one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.3 and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah measure for the bull, two tenth measures for the ram,
29.4 and one tenth measure for each male lamb of the seven male lambs,
29.5 and one young male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
29.6 This is in addition to the monthly burnt offering and its grain offering and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, together with their drink offerings, according to the regular procedure for them, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
29.7 “‘And on the tenth of this seventh month, you should hold a holy convention, and you must afflict yourselves. You must not do any work.
29.8 And you will present as a burnt offering to Jehovah, as a pleasing aroma, one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs each a year old, all of them sound.
29.9 And as their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth measures for the bull, two tenth measures for the one ram,
29.10 a tenth measure respectively for each male lamb of the seven male lambs,
29.11 as well as one young goat as a sin offering, aside from the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.
29.12 “‘And on the 15th day of the seventh month, you should hold a holy convention. You must not do any hard work, and you must celebrate a festival to Jehovah seven days.
29.13 And you will present as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to Jehovah, 13 young bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound.
29.14 And as their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth measures for each bull of the 13 bulls, two tenth measures for each ram of the 2 rams,
29.15 and a tenth measure for each male lamb of the 14 male lambs,
29.16 as well as one young goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
29.17 “‘And on the second day, 12 young bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.18 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.19 as well as one young goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, together with their drink offerings.
29.20 “‘And on the third day, 11 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.21 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.22 as well as one goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
29.23 “‘And on the fourth day, 10 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.24 their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.25 as well as one young goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
29.26 “‘And on the fifth day, 9 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.27 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.28 as well as one goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
29.29 “‘And on the sixth day, 8 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.30 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.31 as well as one goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offerings.
29.32 “‘And on the seventh day, 7 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.33 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure for them,
29.34 as well as one goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
29.35 “‘On the eighth day, you should hold a solemn assembly. You should not do any hard work.
29.36 You will present as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to Jehovah, one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs each a year old, all of them sound,
29.37 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, the ram, and the male lambs by their number according to the regular procedure,
29.38 as well as one goat as a sin offering, aside from the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
29.39 “‘These you will offer to Jehovah at your seasonal festivals, in addition to your vow offerings and your voluntary offerings as your burnt offerings and your grain offerings and your drink offerings and your communion sacrifices.’”
29.40 Moses told the Israelites everything that Jehovah had commanded him.
30.1 Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of Israel, saying: “This is the word that Jehovah has commanded:
30.2 If a man makes a vow to Jehovah or swears an oath to impose on himself a vow of abstinence, he must not violate his word. He should do everything he vowed he would do.
30.3 “And if a woman makes a vow to Jehovah or she imposes a vow of abstinence on herself when she is young and living in the house of her father
30.4 and her father hears her vow or her abstinence vow that she has imposed on herself and her father offers no objection, all her vows will stand, and every abstinence vow that she has imposed on herself will stand.
30.5 But if her father forbids her when he hears that she has imposed vows or abstinence vows on herself, it will not stand. Jehovah will forgive her because her father forbade her.
30.6 “However, if she should marry a husband while under her vow or the rash promise that she has imposed on herself
30.7 and her husband hears of it and offers no objection on the day he hears of it, her vows or her abstinence vows that she has imposed on herself will stand.
30.8 But if her husband forbids her on the day he hears of it, he may annul the vow or the rash promise that she imposed on herself, and Jehovah will forgive her.
30.9 “But if a widow or a divorced woman makes a vow, everything that she has imposed on herself will be binding on her.
30.10 “However, if a woman imposed the vow or the abstinence vow on herself while in the house of her husband
30.11 and her husband heard it and has not objected or disapproved, all her vows or any abstinence vow that she imposed on herself will stand.
30.12 But if on the day he heard them her husband completely annulled whatever vows or abstinence vow she swore to, they will not stand. Her husband annulled them, and Jehovah will forgive her.
30.13 Regarding any vow or any oath involving an abstinence vow to practice self-denial, her husband should establish it or her husband should annul it.
30.14 But if her husband offers no objection at all from day to day, he also establishes all her vows or all her abstinence vows that are upon her. He establishes them because he did not object on the day he heard her make them.
30.15 But if he annuls them later, sometime after the day he heard them, he will bear the consequences of her guilt.
30.16 “These are the regulations that Jehovah commanded Moses relating to a husband and his wife, and relating to a father and his young daughter living in his house.”