This week’s parashat is the 7th parashat in the book of Vayikra also called Leviticus, and is called Kedoshim which means ‘Holy Ones’.
Bullet Point Summary
– You shall be holy because YHWH is holy
– Honor your father and mother
– You shall have no idols
– Laws of the peace offering
– Laws of gleaning
– You shall not steal or lie
– Laws of a hired servant
– Laws of the deaf and Blind
– Laws judgement
– You shall not be a talebearer
– You shall not hate your neighbor but love him as yourself
– Laws of mixing
– Laws of the betrothed bondmaid
– Laws of the fruit trees
– You shall not eat blood or observe times
– Laws of the beard
– Laws of the flesh
– Laws of prostitution
– You shall keep His sabbaths and reverance His sanctuary
– Laws of wizards
– Laws of the hoary head
– Laws of the stranger
– You shall have just weights and measures
– Punishments for worshipping Molech
– Punishments for going after familiar spirits and wizards
– Sanctify yourself and keep His commandments
– Death penalty sins
– Sins that get you cut off from your people
– Sins that will leave you childless
– You shall not do any of the things that nations before you did that were cast out
– You shall eat kosher
– The man or woman that familiar spirits or wizards shall be put to death
– Haftarah – YHWH keeps His promise to Yisra’el even though they have been wicked and question Him
Parashat Text with Readers and Daily Portions (Reader 1 Starts on Saturday Evening)
Kedoshim “Holy Ones”
Lev 19:1 – 20:27 , Ezekiel 20:2 – 20
Reader 1 (Saturday Evening Portion)
Lev 19:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe, saying,
Lev 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, and say unto them, You
shall be holy: for I YHWH your Elohim am holy.
Lev 19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am
YHWH your Elohim.
Lev 19:4 Turn you not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten elohim: I am YHWH your
Elohim.
Lev 19:5 And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto YHWH, you shall offer it at your
own will.
Lev 19:6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the morrow: and if anything remains
until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
Lev 19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Lev 19:8 Therefore every one that eats it shall bear his lawlessness, because he has profaned *
the hallowed thing of YHWH: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
(Sunday Morning Portion)
Lev 19:9 And when you reap * the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of
your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Lev 19:10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your
vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am YHWH your Elohim.
Lev 19:11 You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Lev 19:12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shall you profane * the name of
your Elohim: I am YHWH.
Lev 19:13 You shall not defraud * your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired
shall not abide with you all night until the morning.
Lev 19:14 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shall fear
your Elohim: I am YHWH.
Reader 2 (Sunday Evening Portion)
Lev 19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the
poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:16 You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you
stand against the blood of your neighbor: I am YHWH.
Lev 19:17 You shall not hate * your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke * your
neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
Lev 19:18 You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge * against the children of your people, but
you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am YHWH.
(Monday Morning Portion)
Lev 19:19 You shall keep * my statutes. You shall not let your animals gender with a diverse
kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of
linen and woollen come upon you.
Lev 19:20 And whosoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a
husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall
not be put to death, because she was not free.
Lev 19:21 And he shall bring * his trespass offering unto YHWH, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, a ram for a trespass offering.
Lev 19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering
before YHWH for his sin which he has done: and the sin which he has done shall be forgiven
him.
Reader 3 (Monday Evening Portion)
Lev 19:23 And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for
food, then you shall count * the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
Lev 19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise YHWH .
Lev 19:25 And in the fifth year shall you eat * of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the
increase thereof: I am YHWH your Elohim.
(Tuesday Morning Portion)
Lev 19:26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use enchantment, nor
observe times.
Lev 19:27 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar * the corners of
your beard.
Lev 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon
you: I am YHWH.
Lev 19:29 Do not prostitute * your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to
whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Lev 19:30 You shall keep * my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am YHWH.
Lev 19:31 Look not to them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by
them: I am YHWH your Elohim.
Lev 19:32 You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear
your Elohim: I am YHWH.
Reader 4 (Tuesday Evening Portion)
Lev 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him.
Lev 19:34 But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and
you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Mitzrayim: I am YHWH
your Elohim.
(Wednesday Morning Portion)
Lev 19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Lev 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am YHWH
your Elohim, which brought you out * of the land of Mitzrayim.
Lev 19:37 Therefore shall you observe * all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I
am YHWH.
Reader 5 (Wednesday Evening Portion)
Lev 20:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe, saying,
Lev 20:2 Again, you shall say to the children of Yisra’el, Whosoever of the children of Yisra’el,
or of the strangers that sojourn in Yisra’el, that gives of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely
be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Lev 20:3 And I will set * my face against that man, and will cut him off * from among his
people; because he has given of his seed unto Molech, to defile * my sanctuary, and to
profane * my holy name.
Lev 20:4 And if the people of the land do in any way hide * their eyes from the man, when he
gives of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Lev 20:5 Then I will set * my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off,
and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their
people.
(Thursday Morning Portion)
Lev 20:6 And the soul that looks unto such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a
whoring after them, I will even set * my face against that soul, and will cut him off * from
among his people.
Lev 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I am YHWH your Elohim.
Reader 6 (Thursday Evening Portion)
Lev 20:8 And you shall keep * my statutes, and do them: I am YHWH which sanctify you.
Lev 20:9 For every one that curses * his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has
cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Lev 20:10 And the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, he that commits
adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
death.
Lev 20:11 And the man that lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness:
both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death:
they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have
committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon
them.
Lev 20:14 And if a man take * a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with
fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Lev 20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the
beast.
Lev 20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, you shall kill * the
woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev 20:17 And if a man shall take * his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter,
and see * her nakedness, and she see * his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be
cut off in the sight of their people: he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his
lawlessness.
Lev 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover * her
nakedness; he has discovered * her fountain, and she has uncovered * the fountain of her
blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 20:19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s
sister: for he uncovered * his near kin: they shall bear their lawlessness.
Lev 20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness:
they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Lev 20:21 And if a man shall take * his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered
his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Lev 20:22 You shall therefore keep * all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that
the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, spue * you not out.
Reader 7 (6th Day Friday Morning Double Portion)
Lev 20:23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nations, which I cast out before you: for
they committed * all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Lev 20:24 But I have said unto you, You shall inherit * their land, and I will give it unto you to
possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I am YHWH your Elohim, which has
separated you from other people.
Lev 20:25 You shall therefore put a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between
unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable * by beast, or by
fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated
from you as unclean.
Lev 20:26 And you shall be holy unto me: for I YHWH am holy, and have severed you from
other people, that you should be mine.
Lev 20:27 A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put
to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
Eze 20:2 Then came the word of YHWH unto me, saying,
Eze 20:3 Son of man, speak * unto the elders of Yisra’el, and say unto them, Thus saith YHWH
Elohim; Are you come to enquire of me? As I live, saith YHWH Elohim, I will not be
enquired of by you.
Eze 20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge? cause them to know * the
abominations of their fathers:
Eze 20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith YHWH Elohim; In the day when I chose Yisra’el, and
lifted up my hand unto the seed of the house of Ya’akov, and made myself known unto them
in the land of Mitzrayim, when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I am YHWH your
Elohim;
Eze 20:6 In the day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Mitzrayim
into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands:
Eze 20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and
defile not yourselves with the idols of Mitzrayim: I am YHWH your Elohim.
Eze 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man
cast away * the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Mitzrayim:
then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
midst of the land of Mitzrayim.
Eze 20:9 But I did it for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations,
among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them
forth out of the land of Mitzrayim.
Eze 20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, and brought them
into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11 And I gave * them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, *
he shall even live in them.
Eze 20:12 Moreover also I gave * them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that
they might know that I am YHWH that sanctifies them.
Eze 20:13 But the house of Yisra’el rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my
statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, * he shall even live in them;
and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in
the wilderness, to consume them.
Eze 20:14 But I did it for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations, in
whose sight I brought them out.
Eze 20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them
into the land which I had given , flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Eze 20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my
sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Eze 20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of
them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your
fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Eze 20:19 I am YHWH your Elohim; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do
them;
Eze 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may
know that I am YHWH your Elohim.
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