¹And again He began to  ²teach beside the sea, and a very great crowd was gathered unto Him, so that He stepped into a boat in the sea and sat down, and all the crowd was on the land, facing the sea.

And He taught them many things in parables and said to them in His teaching:

Listen! Behold, the  ¹sower went out to  ²sow.

And as he sowed, some seed fell beside the way, and the birds came and devoured it.

And other seed fell on the rocky place, where it did not have much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered.

And other seed fell into the thorns, and the thorns came up and utterly choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And others fell into the good earth and yielded fruit, coming up and growing; and one bore thirty-fold, and one sixty-fold, and one a hundred-fold.

And He said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

And when He was alone, those around Him, with the twelve, asked Him about the parables.

And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the  ¹mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things  ²are in parables,

In order that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.

And He said to them, Do you not  ¹know this parable? And how will you  ¹know all the parables?

The sower sows the word.

And these are the ones beside the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown into them.

And likewise, these are the ones being sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Yet they have no root in themselves, but last only for a time; then when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

And others are the ones being sown into the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

And the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts for other things enter in and utterly choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And these are the ones sown on the good earth: those who hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one a hundredfold.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, As to the appointed  ¹feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy  ²convocations, these are My appointed feasts.

Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a  ¹Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work; it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwelling places.

These are the appointed  ¹feasts of Jehovah, even the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time:

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month  ¹at twilight, is Jehovah's  ²Passover,

And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

On the  ¹first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

But you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah  ¹seven days. On the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring the  ¹sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest;

And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah for your  ¹acceptance; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a  ¹burnt offering to Jehovah.

And its  ¹meal offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a satisfying fragrance. And its  ²drink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

And you shall eat  ¹no bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath; from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering there shall be seven complete  ¹Sabbaths.

You shall count  ¹fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new meal offering to Jehovah.

You shall bring out of your dwelling places  ¹two loaves as a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as firstfruits to Jehovah.

And you shall present with the bread seven lambs, a year old without blemish, and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a  ¹burnt offering to Jehovah with their  ¹meal offering and their  ¹drink offerings, an offering by fire for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.

And you shall offer one male goat for a  ¹sin offering and two male lambs, a year old, for a sacrifice of  ¹peace offerings.

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Jehovah with the two lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.

And you shall make a proclamation on that same day; you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do  ¹no work of labor. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the  ¹poor and for the  ¹sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a complete rest, a memorial commemorated by the  ¹blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

You shall do no work of labor, but you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

And on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of  ¹Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall  ²afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to Jehovah.

And you shall do  ¹no work on that same day, because it is a Day of Expiation, to make expiation on your behalf before Jehovah your God.

If there is any person who does not afflict himself on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

And if any person does any work on that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.

You shall do no work; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the  ¹Feast of  ²Tabernacles for  ³seven days to Jehovah.

On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

 ¹Seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. On the  ²eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no work of labor.

These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, burnt offerings and meal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day,

Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah and besides your gifts and besides all your vows and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to Jehovah.

Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have  ¹gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day shall be a complete rest, and on the eighth day shall be a complete rest.

And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the  ¹product of stately trees, branches of  ²palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God for seven days.

And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

You shall dwell in  ¹booths seven days — all who are native in Israel shall dwell in booths —

So that your  ¹descendants may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

And Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed  ¹feasts of Jehovah.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses,  ¹saying,

Command the children of Israel to bring to you  ¹pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to  ²make the lamps burn continually.

Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting Aaron shall  ¹set it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

He shall keep the lamps in order on the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually.

And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve  ¹cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before Jehovah.

And you shall put pure  ¹frankincense on each row, so that it may be a memorial for the bread, an  ²offering by fire to Jehovah.

Every  ¹Sabbath day continually he shall set it in order before Jehovah; it is an everlasting covenant for the children of Israel.

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a  ¹holy place, for it is most holy to him of Jehovah's offerings by fire, a perpetual statute.

 ¹Now the son of an Israelite woman, who was also the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a certain Israelite struggled together in the camp.

And the son of the Israelite woman  ¹blasphemed the Name and cursed, and they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

And they put him in custody so that it might be declared to them by the mouth of Jehovah.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Bring forth the one who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the assembly stone him.

And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Anyone who curses his God shall bear his sin.

And the one who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall surely be put to death; all the assembly shall surely stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

And anyone who  ¹takes the life of any human being shall surely be put to death.

And the one who  ¹takes the life of a beast shall make restitution for it,  ²life for life.

And anyone who causes an injury to his fellow countryman, as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; just as he has caused an injury to a man, so it will be inflicted on him.

And one who kills a beast shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.

You shall have one judgment for the sojourner as well as for the native, for I am Jehovah your God.

And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth the one who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the children of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.