Quotes About Commitment

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ëAnyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD.

You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORDís charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

You must not take your wifeís sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”

except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ëAny man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.

When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ëWhen someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,

But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.

He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.