Day 46: Leviticus 20 & 21; Matthew 28
Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. (Leviticus 20:2)
Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head. If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife —with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death. (Leviticus 20:9-10)
But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations. (Leviticus 20:24)
You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. (Leviticus 20:26)
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. (Matthew 28:6)
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” (Matthew 28:10)
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:20b)
Day 47: Leviticus 22 & 23; Mark 1:1-22
Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day. (Leviticus 22:28)
There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:3)
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 23:22) I love this verse. It's about remembering where your blessings come from; it's about not worrying about being provided for; and it's about being so thankful and chilled that you are willing to let the poor have your excess.
And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:11)
...and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. (Mark 1:13) We have a God who was tempted and resisted. He knows what we go through and gives us hope that we too will get through it.
Day 48: Leviticus 24 & 25; Mark 1:23-45
Anyone who injures a neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. (Leviticus 24:19-20) This, far from being about vengeance, is about limiting vengeance.
You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 24:22)
In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property. If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 25:13-17)
I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. (Leviticus 25:21)
If any of your own people become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. (Leviticus 25:35)
If any of your own people become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves. They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. (Leviticus 25:39-40)
So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. (Mark 1:31)
...and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was. (Mark 1:34)
Day 49: Leviticus 26 & 27; Mark 2
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. (Leviticus 26:44)
As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:14-17)
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)
Day 50: Numbers 1 & 2; Mark 3:1-21
Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. (Mark 3:4-5)
Day 51: Numbers 3 & 4; Mark 3:22-35
Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother. (Mark 3:35)
Day 52: Numbers 5 & 6; Mark 4:1-20
The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)
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