Chapter 19

17. [Lev 19:1-37 NKJV] 1 And YAHUAH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I YAHUAH your God [am] holy. 3 ‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 4 ‘Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 5 ‘And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering to YAHUAH, you shall offer it of your own free will. 6 ‘It shall be eaten the same day you offer [it], and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. 7 ‘And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it [is] an abomination. It shall not be accepted. 8 ‘Therefore [everyone] who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed [offering] of YAHUAH; and that person shall be cut off from his people. 9 ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 ‘And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather [every] grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 11 ‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 ‘And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I [am] YAHUAH. 13 ‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob [him]. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning. 14 ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I [am] YAHUAH. 15 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 16 ‘You shall not go about [as] a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I [am] YAHUAH. 17 ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I [am] YAHUAH. 19 ‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you. 20 ‘Whoever lies carnally with a woman who [is] betrothed to a man as a concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given her freedom, for this there shall be scourging; [but] they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 ‘And he shall bring his trespass offering to YAHUAH, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, a ram as a trespass offering. 22 ‘The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before YAHUAH for his sin which he has committed. And the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him. 23 ‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. [It] shall not be eaten. 24 ‘But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to YAHUAH. 25 ‘And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 26 ‘You shall not eat [anything] with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 ‘You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I [am] YAHUAH. 29 ‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness. 30 ‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I [am] YAHUAH. 31 ‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 32 ‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I [am] YAHUAH. 33 ‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. 34 ‘The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] YAHUAH your God. 35 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. 36 ‘You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I [am] YAHUAH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 ‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I [am] YAHUAH.’ ”

    1. [Rth 2:1-23 NKJV] 1 There was a relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name [was] Boaz. 2 So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after [him] in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field [belonging] to Boaz, who [was] of the family of Elimelech. 4 Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “YAHUAH [be] with you!” And they answered him, “YAHUAH bless you!” 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman [is] this?” 6 So the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered and said, “It [is] the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 7 “And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house.” 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “You will listen, my daughter, will you not? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close by my young women. 9 “[Let] your eyes [be] on the field which they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.” 10 So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I [am] a foreigner?” 11 And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and [how] you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. 12 “YAHUAH repay your work, and a full reward be given you by YAHUAH God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” 13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.” 14 Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched [grain] to her; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back. 15 And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. 16 “Also let [grain] from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave [it] that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.” 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. 18 Then she took [it] up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her what she had kept back after she had been satisfied. 19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today [is] Boaz.” 20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed [be] he of YAHUAH, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man [is] a relation of ours, one of our close relatives.” 21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to me, ‘You shall stay close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ” 22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “[It is] good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that people do not meet you in any other field.” 23 So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

    2. [Mat 1:5-6 NKJV] 5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her [who had been the wife] of Uriah.

    3. [Deu 23:3-4 NKJV] 3 “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of YAHUAH; even to the tenth generation none of his [descendants] shall enter the assembly of YAHUAH forever, 4 “because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

    4. [Luk 14:12-14 NKJV] 12 Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid. 13 “But when you give a feast, invite [the] poor, [the] maimed, [the] lame, [the] blind. 14 “And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

    5. [Luk 6:30-36 NKJV] 30 “Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask [them] back. 31 “And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. 32 “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 “And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 “And if you lend [to those] from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. 35 “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 “Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

    6. [Mat 25:31-46 KJV] 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee]? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

    7. [Isa 11:1-16 NKJV] 1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of YAHUAH shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YAHUAH. 3 His delight [is] in the fear of YAHUAH, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears; 4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, And faithfulness the belt of His waist. 6 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YAHUAH As the waters cover the sea. 10 “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious.” 11 It shall come to pass in that day [That] YAHUAH shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth. 13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; Together they shall plunder the people of the East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; And the people of Ammon shall obey them. 15 YAHUAH will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, And strike it in the seven streams, And make [men] cross over dryshod. 16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for Israel In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.