" 'Do not go about spreading slander among your people.Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD." ' Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt." ' Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD." Leviticus 19:16-18. What a lovin...  Read More

"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. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God." Leviticus 19:9-11 The instructions above might seem rather strange to us but God was simply asking the Israelites to make p...  Read More

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.  Moses then said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke of when He said: " 'Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of...  Read More

The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: 'When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands -- If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.  . . . He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it there before the LORD.  . . . The pries...  Read More

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." . . . He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge . . .  You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague tha...  Read More

When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die."Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning." . ...  Read More