Leviticus 23
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The Appointed Feasts
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: Concerning the feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My appointed feasts. # Lev 23:4, 37
The Sabbath
3For six days work shall be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. # Ex 23:12; Lev 19:3 You shall do no work. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Ex 12:14–20; Nu 28:16–25; Dt 16:1–8
4These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed times. # Ex 23:14; Lev 23:2 5On the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lord’s Passover. # Ex 12:14–20; Dt 16:1–8; Jos 5:10 6On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. # Ex 12:15–16; 34:18 7On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. # Lev 23:8 8But you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
Offering the Firstfruits
9The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 10Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you have come into the land that I am giving to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf bundle of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. # Ex 23:19; 34:26; Nu 28:26 11And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. # Ex 29:24 12You shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a year-old male lamb without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord. # Lev 1:10 13The grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah # 23:13 Likely about 7 pounds, or 3.2 kilograms; and in v. 17. of wheat flour mixed with oil, a food offering made by fire to the Lord for a pleasing aroma; # Lev 2:14–16 its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. # 23:13 About 1 quart, or 1 liter. 14You shall eat neither bread nor grain, parched or fresh, until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God. # Ex 34:26 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Weeks
Nu 28:26–31; Dt 16:9–12
15You shall count seven full weeks from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf bundle of the wave offering. # Ex 34:22; Lev 23:10–11 16You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; # Ac 2:1 then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. # Nu 28:26 17You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of wheat flour, baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord. # Ex 23:19; Lev 23:10 18You shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, one bull, and two rams. They shall be for a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, that is, a food offering made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19Then you shall sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering, # Nu 28:30 and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs. # Dt 18:4 They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21You shall make a proclamation on the same day and shall hold a holy convocation. # Lev 23:2, 4 You shall do no regular work. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field up to the edge, nor shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest. You shall leave them to the poor and to the foreigner: I am the Lord your God. # Lev 19:9–10; Dt 24:19–21
The Feast of Trumpets
Nu 29:1–6
23The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 24Speak to the Israelites, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, # Nu 10:9–10 a holy convocation. 25You shall do no regular work, # Lev 23:21 and you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord.
The Day of Atonement
Lev 16:2–34; Nu 29:7–11
26The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be the Day of Atonement. # Lev 25:9; Nu 29:7–11 It shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall humble yourselves, and offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord. 28You shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. # Lev 16:34 29For whoever is not humbled on that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. # Ge 17:14 30And whoever does any work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. # Lev 20:3 31You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32It shall be to you a sabbath of complete rest, and you shall afflict your souls. On the ninth day of the month starting at the evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.
The Feast of Tabernacles
Nu 29:12–39; Dt 16:13–17
33The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 34Speak to the Israelites, saying: The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles # Ezr 3:4; Ne 8:14 for seven days to the Lord. 35On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. # Lev 23:7–8, 24–25 36For seven days you shall offer food offerings made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day it shall be a holy convocation to you, # Ne 8:18; Jn 7:37 and you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly, and you shall do no regular work.
37These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, # Lev 23:2, 4 to offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, 38besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord. # Nu 29:39
39On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep a feast to the Lord for seven days. # Ex 23:16; Dt 16:13 On the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 40You shall take on the first day the branches of majestic trees—branches of palm trees, # Jn 12:13 branches of leafy trees, and willows from a brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. # Dt 16:14–15 41You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. # Nu 29:12 It shall be a perpetual statute in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, # Ne 8:14–17 43that your generations may know # Dt 31:10–13 that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
44Moses declared to the Israelites the feasts of the Lord.
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Leviticus 23
23
Laws of Religious Festivals
1The Lord spoke again to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The appointed times (established feasts) of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:
The Sabbath
3‘For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation (calling together). You shall not do any work [on that day]; it is the Sabbath of the Lord #23:3 Lit in all your dwellings and so throughout the chapter.wherever you may be.
The Passover and Unleavened Bread
4‘These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times: 5The Lord’s Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month #23:5 Lit between the two evenings.at twilight. 6The Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. [1 Cor 5:7, 8] 7On the first day you shall have a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day]. 8But you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord for seven days; on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work [on that day].’ ”
The Feast of First Fruits
9Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am giving you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the #23:10 I.e. a tied bundle of stalks of freshly harvested grain.sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest shall wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12Now on the day when you wave the sheaf you shall offer a male lamb one year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, an offering by fire to the Lord for a sweet and soothing aroma, with its drink offering [to be poured out], a fourth of a #23:13 I.e. approx one gal.hin of wine. 14You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or new growth, until this same day when you bring in the offering to your God; it is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.
The Feast of Weeks
15‘You shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf (tied bundle of grain) of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths (seven full weeks). 16You shall count #23:16 This is the origin of the name “Pentecost,” Greek for “fiftieth.”fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. 17You shall bring in from your places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. 18And you shall offer with the bread seven unblemished lambs, one year old, and one young bull and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings. It is an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord. 19And you shall sacrifice one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs, one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20The priest shall wave them before the Lord as a wave offering, together with the bread of the first fruits and the two lambs. They are to be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21On this same day you shall make a proclamation, you are to have a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day]. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.
22‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the edges of your field, nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.’ ”
The Feast of Trumpets
23Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24“Say to the children of Israel, ‘On the first day of the seventh month (almost October), you shall observe a day of solemn sabbatical rest, a memorial day announced by the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25You shall not do any laborious work [on that day], but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.’ ”
The Day of Atonement
26The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 27“Also the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall #23:27 See note 16:29.humble yourselves [by fasting] and present an offering by fire to the Lord. 28You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God. 29If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them]. 30If there is any person who does any work on this same day, I will destroy that person from among his people. 31You shall do no work at all [on that day]. It is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be. 32It is to be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your Sabbath.”
The Feast of Booths
33Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34“Say to the children of Israel, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, and for seven days, is the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) to the Lord. 35The first day is a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day]. 36For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord. It is a festive assembly; you shall not do any laborious work [on that day].
37‘These are the appointed times (established feasts) of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day. 38This is in addition to the [weekly] Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to your gifts and all your vowed offerings and all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.
39‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month (nearly October), when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days, with a Sabbath rest on the first day and a Sabbath rest on the eighth day. 40Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick (leafy) trees, and willows of the brook [and make booths of them]; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42You shall live in booths (temporary shelters) for seven days; all native-born in Israel shall live in booths, 43so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’ ” 44So Moses declared to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the Lord.
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