1 Adonai spoke with Moshe after the death of Aharon’s two sons, when they tried to sacrifice before Adonai and died; 2 Adonai said to Moshe, “Tell your brother Aharon not to come at just any time into the Holy Place beyond the curtain, in front of the ark-cover which is on the ark, so that he will not die; because I appear in the cloud over the ark-cover.
Ezekiel 20:2-20 God’s Dealings with Israel for his Name’s Sake
GOSPEL
Matthew 5:43-48 The Sermon on the Mount: Love for Enemies
Matthew 15:1–9 (CJB) 1 Then some P’rushim and Torah-teachers from Yerushalayim came to Yeshua and asked him, 2 “Why is it that your talmidim break the Tradition of the Elders? They don’t do n’tilat-yadayim before they eat!” 3 He answered, “Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition? 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’i and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’j5 But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,” 6 then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.’ Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God! 7 You hypocrites! Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you, 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me. 9 Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’ ”k
i Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 j Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9 k Isaiah 29:13
Matthew 15:10-11 Defilement from Within
Matthew 19:16-30 A Rich Young Man
Matthew 22:33–40 (CJB) 33 When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded; 34 but when the P’rushim learned that he had silenced the Tz’dukim, they got together, 35 and one of them who was a Torah expert asked a sh’eilah to trap him: 36 “Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” 37 He told him, “ ‘You are to love Adonaiyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’b38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 39 And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’c40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”
