Also on joyful occasions---at your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals---you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I am the LORD your God."

Present a burnt offering to the LORD at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

and with each lamb, 2 pounds. These burnt offerings are food offerings, an odor pleasing to the LORD.

And in addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, offer one male goat as a sin offering.

"Why do you have to go today?" her husband asked. "It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival." "Never mind," she answered.

Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.

This is the law in Israel, an order from the God of Jacob.

It's useless to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your religious gatherings; they are all corrupted by your sins.

So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.

You say, 'How tired we are of all this!' and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you?

"Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy.

but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work---neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country.

At that time I saw people in Judah pressing juice from grapes on the Sabbath. Others were loading grain, wine, grapes, figs, and other things on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem; I warned them not to sell anything on the Sabbath.

I reprimanded the Jewish leaders and told them, "Look at the evil you're doing! You're making the Sabbath unholy.

So I gave orders for the city gates to be shut at the beginning of every Sabbath, as soon as evening began to fall, and not to be opened again until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my men at the gates to make sure that nothing was brought into the city on the Sabbath.

I warned them, "It's no use waiting out there for morning to come. If you try this again, I'll use force on you." From then on they did not come back on the Sabbath.

The LORD says, "If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day,

To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace.

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the LORD your God, and I brought you out of Egypt.

"Do not cheat when you use weights and measures.

Use true and honest weights and measures, so that you may live a long time in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.

The LORD wants weights and measures to be honest and every sale to be fair.

The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales and weights.

"Everyone must use honest weights and measures:

"Your weights are to be as follows: 20 gerahs = 1 shekel 60 shekels = 1 mina

In the houses of evil people are treasures which they got dishonestly. They use false measures, a thing that I hate.

How can I forgive those who use false scales and weights?

The LORD says, "The people of Israel are as dishonest as the Canaanites; they love to cheat their customers with false scales.