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The BibleTruth.cc Torah Study Series Parashat Bechukotai "In My Statutes" Vayiqra [Leviticus] 26:3-27:34 yt;ŜQoxuB. If you walk "in my statutes"... Theme The theme of Parashat Bechukotai which closes out Sepher Vayiqra, appropriately focuses on the benefits of obedience to the Torah as well as the penalties for rejection of the Torah. Sedarim Blessings of the Torah (Benefits of Obedience) Curses of the Torah (Penalties for Disobedience) The Valuation of Things Offered and Dedicated The Valuation of Land Sold till the Next Yovel Prophetic Pictures in this Week's Torah Portion Prophetic End Time Shadows in the Torah Parashah
Blessings of
the Torah (Benefits of Obedience)
3 "'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my
commands, 4 I will send you
rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of
the field their fruit. 5 Your threshing
will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue
until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in
safety in your land. 6 "'I will grant
peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you
afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will
not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue
your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you will
chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your
enemies will fall by the sword before you. 9 "'I will look on
you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I
will keep my covenant with you. 10 You will still be
eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make
room for the new. 11 I will put my
dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among
you and be your Elohim, and you will be my people. 13 I am Yahuwah your
Elohim, who brought you out of Mitzrayim so that you would no longer be
slaves to the Mitzrites; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you
to walk with heads held high.
Curses of the
Torah (Penalties for Disobedience)
14 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you. 18 "'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit. 21 "'If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. 23 "'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. 27 "'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. 32 I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. 36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. 37 They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers' sins they will waste away. 40 "'But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers-- their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies-- then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Ya'acov and my covenant with Yitzchak and my covenant with Avraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. 44 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 Yahuwah their Elohim. 45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Mitzrayim in the sight of the nations to be their Elohim. I am Yahuwah.'" 46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that Yahuwah established on Mount Sinai between himself and the sons of Yisrael through Mosheh.
The Valuation of
Things Offered and Dedicated
27:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh, 2 "Speak to the sons
of Yisrael and say to them: 'If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate
persons to Yahuwah by giving equivalent values, 3 set the value of a
male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver,
according to the sanctuary shekel; 4 and if it is a
female, set her value at thirty shekels. 5 If it is a person
between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty
shekels and of a female at ten shekels. 6 If it is a person
between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five
shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver. 7 If it is a person
sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and
of a female at ten shekels. 8 If anyone making
the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, he is to present the
person to the priest, who will set the value for him according to what
the man making the vow can afford. 9 "'If what he vowed
is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to Yahuwah, such an
animal given to Yahuwah becomes holy. 10 He must not
exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a
good one; if he should substitute one animal for another, both it and
the substitute become holy. 11 If what he vowed
is a unclean animal-- one that is not acceptable as an offering to
Yahuwah-- the animal must be presented to the priest, 12 who will judge
its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is
what it will be. 13 If the owner
wishes to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value. 14 "'If a man
dedicates his house as something holy to Yahuwah, the priest will judge
its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it
will remain. 15 If the man who
dedicates his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to its value, and
the house will again become his.
The Valuation
of Land Sold till the Next Yovel
16 17 If he dedicates his field during the Year of Yubilee, the value that has been set remains. 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Yubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Yubilee, and its set value will be reduced. 19 If the man who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, he must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become his. 20 If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed. 21 When the field is released in the Yubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to Yahuwah; it will become the property of the priests. 22 "'If a man dedicates to Yahuwah a field he has bought, which is not part of his family land, 23 the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Yubilee, and the man must pay its value on that day as something holy to Yahuwah. 24 In the Year of Yubilee the field will revert to the person from whom he bought it, the one whose land it was.
Redeeming Things Dedicated
25 26 "'No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to Yahuwah; whether an ox or a sheep, it is Yahuwah's. 27 If it is one of the unclean animals, he may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value. 28 "'But nothing that a man owns and devotes to Yahuwah-- whether man or animal or family land-- may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to Yahuwah. 29 "'No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death. 30 "'A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to Yahuwah; it is holy to Yahuwah. 31 If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth of the value to it. 32 The entire tithe of the herd and flock-- every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod-- will be holy to Yahuwah. 33 He must not pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.'" 34 These are the commands Yahuwah gave Mosheh on Mount Sinai for the sons of Yisrael.
Prophetic End
Time Shadows in the Torah Parashah
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