Sukkot - Day 8 - Feast of Tabernacles - Day 8. Shemini Atzeret - The 8th Day of Assembly.

Deuteronomy 14:22-to-end,15.,16:1-17, Numbers 29:35-40. (JPS=Numbers 29:35-39,30:1), 1 Kings 8:54-66.

Deuteronomy 14:22-to-end,15.,16:1-17.

22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Tithing Principles. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.
23 You shall eat before YHWH your ELOHIM, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear YHWH your ELOHIM always.
24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which YHWH your ELOHIM shall choose, to set his name there, when YHWH your ELOHIM shall bless you;
25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which YHWH your ELOHIM shall choose:
26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before YHWH your ELOHIM, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that YHWH your ELOHIM may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Debts Canceled Every Seven Years. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because YHWH’s release has been proclaimed.
3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for YHWH will surely bless you in the land which YHWH your ELOHIM gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of YHWH your ELOHIM, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
6 For YHWH your ELOHIM will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

7 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Generosity to the Poor. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which YHWH your ELOHIM gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to YHWH against you, and it be sin to you.
10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing YHWH your ELOHIM will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

12 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Teaching and Instruction Concerning Bondservants. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as YHWH your ELOHIM has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your ELOHIM redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you;” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and YHWH your ELOHIM will bless you in all that you do.

19 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Teaching and Instruction Concerning Firstborn Animals. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to YHWH your ELOHIM: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
20 You shall eat it before YHWH your ELOHIM year by year in the place which YHWH shall choose, you and your household.
21 If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to YHWH your ELOHIM!
22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Passover Reviewed. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to YHWH your ELOHIM; for in the month of Abib YHWH your ELOHIM brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to YHWH your ELOHIM, of the flock and the herd, in the place which YHWH shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which YHWH your ELOHIM gives you;
6 but at the place which YHWH your ELOHIM shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which YHWH your ELOHIM shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to YHWH your ELOHIM; you shall do no work.

9 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Feast of Weeks Reviewed. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.
10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to YHWH your ELOHIM with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as YHWH your ELOHIM blesses you:
11 and you shall rejoice before YHWH your ELOHIM, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which YHWH your ELOHIM shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

13 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
15 You shall keep a feast to YHWH your ELOHIM seven days in the place which YHWH shall choose; because YHWH your ELOHIM will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before YHWH your ELOHIM in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they shall not appear before YHWH empty:
17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of YHWH your ELOHIM which he has given you.

Numbers 29:35-40. (JPS=Numbers 29:35-39,30:1).

35 “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;
36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.
39 “‘You shall offer these to YHWH in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”
40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that YHWH commanded Moses.

1 Kings 8:54-66.

54 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Solomon Blesses the Assembly. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to YHWH, he arose from before the altar of YHWH, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 “Blessed be YHWH, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
57 May YHWH our ELOHIM be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before YHWH, be near to YHWH our ELOHIM day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that YHWH, he is ELOHIM! There is none else.
61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with YHWH our ELOHIM, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.”

62 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Solomon Dedicates the Temple. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before YHWH!
63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to YHWH, two and twenty thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of YHWH!
64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of YHWH; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before YHWH was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before YHWH our ELOHIM, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that YHWH had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

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