Leviticus 23
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as holy assemblies. These are my appointed festivals.
3 Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work. It is the LORD’s Sabbath wherever you live.
4 These are the appointed festivals of the LORD, the holy assemblies that you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, it is the LORD’s Passover.
6 On the fifteenth day of that month is the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you are to hold a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.
8 For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
9 The LORD spoke to Moses:
10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and reap its harvest, bring the priest the first sheaf of your harvest.
11 He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD, so that you may be accepted. The priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.’”
12 “‘On the day you wave the sheaf, prepare a year-old male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to the LORD.
13 Its grain offering is to be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma; its drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of wine.
14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until that very day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a lasting statute for all your generations, wherever you live.
15 Count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the sheaf for the wave offering: there are to be seven complete weeks.
16 Count fifty days, through the day after the seventh Sabbath; then present a new grain offering to the LORD.
17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves as a wave offering. They are to be made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the LORD.
18 Along with the loaves, present seven year-old male lambs without defect, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a food offering of pleasing aroma to the LORD.
19 Also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.
20 The priest is to wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the two lambs. They are to be holy to the LORD, for the priest.
21 On that very day you are to make a proclamation: there is to be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work. This is a lasting statute wherever you live, for all your generations.
22 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner living among you. I am the LORD your God.’”
23 The LORD spoke to Moses:
24 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a Sabbath rest, a memorial marked by trumpet blasts, a holy assembly.
25 You must not do any regular work, and you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”
26 The LORD spoke to Moses:
27 “But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a holy assembly, humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.
28 You must not do any work on that very day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
29 Anyone who does not humble themselves on that very day is to be cut off from their people.
30 And anyone who does any work on that very day, I will destroy that person from among their people.
31 You must not do any work. This is a lasting statute for all your generations, wherever you live.
32 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you are to humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening, you are to observe your Sabbath.”
33 The LORD spoke to Moses:
34 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the LORD’s Festival of Booths, for seven days.
35 On the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.
36 For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a holy assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn gathering; you must not do any regular work.
37 These are the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as holy assemblies, to present to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and drink offerings, each on its appointed day.
38 These are in addition to the LORD’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vows, and all your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.
39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather the produce of the land, celebrate the LORD’s festival for seven days. The first day is to be a Sabbath rest, and the eighth day is to be a Sabbath rest.
40 On the first day, take fruit from beautiful trees, palm fronds, branches from leafy trees, and willows from the stream, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
41 Celebrate this festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a lasting statute for all your generations; celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Live in booths for seven days; every native-born Israelite is to live in booths,
43 so 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 the LORD your God.’”
44 Moses told the Israelites about the appointed festivals of the LORD.
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