Leviticus 23
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The Day of Rest and Other Holy Assemblies
1The Lord spoke to Moses, 2“Tell the Israelites: These are the appointed festivals with the Lord, which you must announce as holy assemblies. 3You may work for six days. But the seventh day is a day of rest, a day when you don’t work, a holy assembly. Don’t do any work. It is the Lord’s day of rest—a holy day wherever you live.
4“The following are the Lord’s appointed festivals with holy assemblies, which you must announce at their appointed times.
The Spring Festivals
5“The fourteenth day of the first month, in the evening, is the Lord’s Passover. 6The fifteenth day of this same month is the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day there will be a holy assembly. Don’t do any regular work. 8Bring the Lord a sacrifice by fire for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly. Don’t do any regular work.”
9The Lord spoke to Moses, 10“Tell the Israelites: When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring the priest a bundle of the first grain you harvest. 11He will present it to the Lord so that you will be accepted. He will present it on the day after Passover. 12On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13Bring a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to the Lord, a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering. 14Don’t eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day, when you bring the offering to your God. It is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live.
15“Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover (the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to the Lord) 16until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to the Lord. 17Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to the Lord. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for the Lord. 18With the bread bring seven one-year-old lambs that have no defects, one bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord. With these offerings also bring grain and wine offerings. They will be a sacrifice by fire, a soothing aroma to the Lord. 19Also sacrifice one male goat as an offering for sin and two one-year-old lambs as a fellowship offering. 20The priest must present them along with the bread of the first harvested grain as an offering to the Lord. All this, along with the two lambs, will be holy and will belong to the Lord’s priests. 21Make an announcement that there will be a holy assembly on that same day. Don’t do any regular work. It is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live.
22“When you harvest the grain in your land, don’t harvest the grain in the corners of your fields or gather what is left after you’re finished. Leave it for poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.”
The Fall Festivals
23The Lord spoke to Moses, 24“Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month hold a worship festival. It will be a memorial day, a holy assembly announced by the blowing of rams’ horns. 25Don’t do any regular work. Bring a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.”
26The Lord spoke to Moses, 27“In addition, the tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring the Lord a sacrifice by fire. 28Don’t do any work that day. It is a special day for the payment for sins. It is a time when you make peace with the Lord your God. 29Those who do not humble themselves on that day will be excluded from the people. 30I will kill those who do any work on that day. 31Don’t do any work. It is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live. 32It is a day of rest, a day when you don’t work. Humble yourselves starting on the evening of the ninth day of the month. From that evening to the next, observe the day of rest as a holy day.”
33The Lord spoke to Moses, 34“Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to the Lord. It will last seven days. 35On the first day there will be a holy assembly. Don’t do any regular work. 36For seven consecutive days bring a sacrifice by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day there will be a holy assembly. Bring the Lord a sacrifice by fire. This is the last festival of the year. Don’t do any regular work.
37“These are the Lord’s appointed festivals. Announce them as holy assemblies for bringing sacrifices by fire to the Lord. Bring burnt offerings, grain offerings, other sacrifices, and wine offerings—each one on its special day. 38These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord’s holy days of rest, as well as your gifts, all your vows, and your freewill offerings to the Lord.
39“However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered what the land produces, celebrate the Lord’s festival for seven days. The first and the eighth days will be worship festivals. 40On the first day take the best fruits, palm branches, the branches of leafy trees and poplars, and celebrate in the presence of the Lord your God for seven days. 41It is the Lord’s festival. Celebrate it for seven days each year. This is a permanent law for generations to come. Celebrate this festival in the seventh month. 42Live in booths for seven days. Everyone born in Israel must live in booths 43so that generations to come may learn how I made the people of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
44So Moses told the Israelites about the Lord’s appointed festivals.
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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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