Feast of Unleavened Bread

5th Day Suggested Readings (3th Omer)

Torah —5 Books (Pentateuch):
Shemoth —Exodus 22:24-30; 23:1-19;
Debarim —Deuteronomy 16:3,8,16;

Ketuvim —Writtings:
Diḇre haYamim Bĕt —2 Chronicles 30:21-23

Brit Cha-Dashah —New Covenant:
Romiyim —Romans 6:12-18

Torah —Suggested Readings

Shemoth —Exodus 22:24-30 (TLV)
“If you lend money to any of My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act like a debt collector with him, and you are not to charge him interest. If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, his cloak for his skin. What will he sleep in? When he cries out to Me I will hear, because I am gracious.

“Do not despise God, or curse a ruler of your people.
“Do not hold back the fullness of your crops or your vintage. You are to present the firstborn of your sons to Me. “Do the same with your cattle and with your sheep. For seven days it is to be with its mother, and on the eighth day you are to give it to Me.

“You are to be a holy people for Me. You must not eat any flesh torn by beasts in the field. You may throw it out to the dogs.

Shemoth Exodus 23:1-19 (TLV)
“Do not to spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked by becoming a malicious witness. “Do not follow a crowd to do evil. Nor are you to testify in a case, to follow a crowd and pervert justice. On the other hand, nor should you takes sides with a poor man in his case.

“If you find your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of the one that hates you lying down under its burden, do not leave it. Rather, you are to release it with him.
“You are not to pervert justice to your poor in his dispute. Stay far away from a false charge. Do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty. Take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

“Do not oppress an outsider, for you know the heart of an outsider, since you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.
“For six years you are to sow your land and gather the increase. But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. Whatever they leave behind, the animals of the field may eat. You are to deal with your vineyard and your olive grove in the same way.

“You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you will rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and also the son of your handmaid and the outsider may be refreshed.

“With all the things that I have said to you, take heed. Make no mention of the names of other gods, and do not let them be heard in your mouth.

“Three times in the year you are to ce-lebrate a festival for Me. You are to observe the Feast of Matzot. For seven days you will eat matzot as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv, for that is when you came out from Egypt. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed. Also you are to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field, as well as the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your crops from the field. Three times in the year all your men are to appear before ADONAI Elohim.

“Do not offer the blood of My sacrifice with hametz. Nor is the fat of My feast to remain out all night until the morning. Bring the choicest firstfruits of your land into the House of ADONAI your God.

Ketuvim —Suggested Reading

Diḇre haYamim Bĕt —2 Chronicles 30:21-23 (TLV)
So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Matzot for seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the kohanim were praising ADONAI every day with loud instruments for ADONAI. Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who demonstrated good understanding of the service of ADONAI. For seven days they ate their assigned portions while sacrificing peace offerings and praising ADONAI, the God of their fathers.
Then the whole congregation decided to celebrate seven more days—so for another seven days they celebrated with gladness.

Brit Cha-Dashah —Suggested Reading

Romiyim —Romans 6:12-18 (TLV)
Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. And do not keep yielding your body parts to sin as tools of wickedness; but yield yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your body parts as tools of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! Do you not know that to whatever you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to what you obey—whether to sin resulting in death, or to obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed; and after you were set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.