Leviticus 23
23
Holy Days
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times, # Lv 23:37,44; Nm 10:10; 2Ch 2:3; Ezr 3:5 the times of the Lord that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies. # Ex 12:16; Lv 23:21,24,27,35-37; Nm 28:18,25-26; 29:1,7,12
3“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, # Ex 31:15; 35:2; Lv 16:31; 23:32; 25:4 a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath # Gn 2:2-3 to the Lord wherever you live.
4“These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5The Passover # Ex 12:11 to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. 6The Festival of Unleavened Bread # Ex 12:17 to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work. 8You are to present a fire offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work.”
9The Lord spoke to Moses: 10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, # = the barley harvest you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. 11He will wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb # Or a male lamb in its first year without blemish # Ex 29:1 as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13Its grain offering is to be four quarts # Lit two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart # Lit one-fourth of a hin of wine. 14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain # Grain or bread from the new harvest until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.
15“You are to count seven # Lit count; they will be seven complete weeks # Or Sabbaths # Ex 34:22; Nm 28:26; Dt 16:10; Ac 2:1 starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering. # Ex 29:24 16You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain # = the wheat harvest; Ex 34:22 to the Lord. 17Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts # Lit two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits # Lv 2:12; 1Co 15:20; Rv 14:4 to the Lord. 18You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice. 20The priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations. 22When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; # Ex 2:22; Lv 19:9-10; Ac 6:1; 11:29 I am Yahweh your God.”
23The Lord spoke to Moses: 24“Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting # Or blast ; traditionally trumpet blasts # Lv 25:9; Nm 5:15 — a sacred assembly. # Nm 29:1; Ps 81:3 25You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the Lord.”
26The Lord again spoke to Moses: 27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. # Ex 30:10; Lv 16:29-30; 25:9; Nm 29:7-11 You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; # Traditionally, fasting, abstinence from sex, and refraining from personal grooming # Ac 27:9 you are to present a fire offering to the Lord. 28On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God. 29If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he must be cut off from his people. 30I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day. 31You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live. 32It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”
33The Lord spoke to Moses: 34“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Booths # Or Feast of Tabernacles # Ex 23:16; Jn 7:37 to the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days. 35There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work. 36You are to present a fire offering to the Lord for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to the Lord. It is a solemn gathering; # Nm 29:35 you are not to do any daily work.
37“These are the Lord’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day. 38These are in addition to the offerings for the Lord’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the Lord.
39“You are to celebrate the Lord’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day. 40On the first day you are to take the product # Gn 1:11 of majestic trees — palm fronds, # Ex 15:27; Nm 33:9; Jdg 4:5; Neh 8:15; Ps 92:12; Sg 7:8-9; Jl 1:12; Rv 7:9 boughs of leafy trees, # Neh 8:15; Ezk 6:13; 20:28 and willows of the brook # Jb 40:22; Is 44:4 — and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41You are to celebrate it as a festival to the Lord seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month. 42You are to live in booths # Gn 33:17; Dt 16:13,16; 31:10; Neh 8:14-17; Am 9:11; Jnh 4:5 for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths, 43so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.” 44So Moses declared the Lord’s appointed times to the Israelites.
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Vayikra 23
23
1And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
2Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, and say unto them, Concerning the Mo'adim of Hashem, which ye shall proclaim to be mikra'ei kodesh, even these are My Mo'adim.
3Sheshet yamim shall work be done; but the yom hashevi'i is the Shabbos of Shabbaton, a mikra kodesh; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Shabbos to Hashem in all your dwellings.
4These are the Moa'dim of Hashem, even mikra'ei kodesh, which ye shall proclaim in their mo'adim.
5In the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is Hashemʼs Pesach.
6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Chag HaMatzot unto Hashem; shivat yamim ye must eat matzot.
7In the Yom HaRishon ye shall have a mikra kodesh; ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein.
8But ye shall offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem shivat yamim; in the seventh day is a mikra kodesh; ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein.
9And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
10Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, and say unto them, When ye be come into HaAretz which I am giving unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring an omer (sheaf [of barley]) of the reshit of your harvest unto the kohen;
11And he shall wave the omer before Hashem, to be accepted for you; on the day after the Shabbos the kohen shall wave it.
12And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the omer a keves tamim of the first year for an olah unto Hashem.
13And the minchah thereof shall be two tenths-ephah of fine flour mingled with shemen, an offering made by eish unto Hashem for a re'ach nicho'ach; and the nesekh thereof shall be of yayin, the fourth part of a hin.
14And ye shall eat neither lechem, nor roasted grain, nor plump kernels until the same day that ye have brought a korban unto Eloheichem; it shall be a chukkat olam throughout your dorot in all your dwellings.
15And ye shall count unto you from the day after the Shabbos, from the day that ye brought the omer of the wave offering; shevah shabbatot shall be complete,
16Even unto the day after the seventh Shabbos shall ye count fifty days; and ye shall offer a minchah chadashah unto Hashem.
17Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two lechem wave-offerings of two tenth ephah; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with chametz; they are the bikkurim unto Hashem.
18And ye shall offer with the lechem shivat kevasim temimim of the first year, and one young bull, and two rams; they shall be for an olah unto Hashem, with their minchot, and their nesakhim, even an offering made by eish, of re'ach nicho'ach unto Hashem.
19Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a chattat and two kevasim of the first year for a zevach of shelamim.
20And the kohen shall wave them with the lechem of the bikkurim for a wave offering before Hashem, with the two kevasim; they shall be kodesh to Hashem for the kohen.
21And ye shall proclaim on the same day, that it may be a mikra kodesh unto you; ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein; it shall be a chukkat olam in all your dwellings throughout your dorot.
22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not reap to the edges of thy sadeh when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them unto the oni (poor), and to the ger: I am Hashem Eloheichem.
23And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
24Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Shabbaton, a zikhron teru'ah mikra kodesh.
25Ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem.
26And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be Yom Kippurim; it shall be a mikra kodesh unto you; and ye shall afflict your nefashot, and offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem.
28And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is Yom Kippurim, to make kapporah for you before Hashem Eloheichem.
29For whatsoever nefesh it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30And whatsoever nefesh it be that doeth any work in that same day, that nefesh will I destroy from among his people.
31Ye shall do no manner of work; it shall be a chukkat olam throughout your dorot in all your dwellings.
32It shall be unto you a Shabbos Shabbaton, and ye shall afflict your nefashot; in the ninth day of the month at erev, from erev unto erev, shall ye observe your Shabbos.
33And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
34Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Chag HaSukkot for shivat yamim unto Hashem.
35On the Yom HaRishon shall be a mikra kodesh; ye shall do no melekhet avodah (laborious work) therein.
36Shivat yamim ye shall offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem; on the eighth day shall be a mikra kodesh unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem; it is an atzeret (assembly); and ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein.
37These are the Mo'adim of Hashem, which ye shall proclaim to be mikra'ei kodesh, to offer an offering made by eish unto Hashem — an olah (burnt offering), and a minchah, a zevach, and nesakhim, every required thing upon its day,
38Beside the Shabbatot of Hashem, and beside your mattenot, and beside all your nederim, and beside all your nedavot (freewill offerings), which ye give unto Hashem.
39Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the crop of HaAretz, ye shall keep a Chag (Feast) unto Hashem shivat yamim; on the first day shall be a Shabbaton, and on the eighth day shall be a Shabbaton.
40And ye shall take you on the Yom HaRishon the fruit of the citron tree, branches of temarim (date palms), and twigs of plaited trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Hashem Eloheichem shivat yamim.
41And ye shall keep it a Chag (Feast) unto Hashem shivat yamim in the shanah. It shall be a chukkat olam in your dorot; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42Ye shall dwell in sukkot shivat yamim; all that are the Ezrach Yisroel shall dwell in sukkot,
43That your dorot may know that I made the Bnei Yisroel to dwell in sukkot, when I brought them out of Eretz Mitzrayim: I am Hashem Eloheichem.
44And Moshe declared unto the Bnei Yisroel the Mo'adim of Hashem.
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