CHAPTER 23
“Speak
to
the Israelites
and say
to them,
‘These
are My appointed feasts,
the feasts
of the LORD
that
you will proclaim
as sacred
assemblies.
For six
days
work
may be done,
but the seventh
day
is to be a Sabbath
of complete rest,
a day of sacred
assembly.
You are not
to do
any
work;
wherever
you live,
it
is a Sabbath
to the LORD.
These
are the LORD’s
appointed feasts,
the sacred
assemblies
you are to proclaim
at their appointed times.
On the fifteenth
day
of the same
month begins
the Feast
of Unleavened Bread
to the LORD.
For seven
days
you must eat
unleavened bread.
For seven
days
you are to present
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
On the seventh
day
there shall be a sacred
assembly;
you must not
do
any
ordinary
work.’”
“Speak
to
the Israelites
and say,
‘When
you enter
the land
I
am giving
you
and reap
its harvest,
you are to bring
to
the priest
the sheaf
of the firstfruits
of your harvest.
And he shall wave
the sheaf
before
the LORD
so that it may be accepted of your behal
the priest
is to wave it
on the day after
the Sabbath.
On the day
you wave
the sheaf,
you shall offer
a year-old
lamb
without blemish
as a burnt offering
to the LORD,
along with its grain offering
of two-tenths an ephah
of fine flour
mixed
with oil—
an offering made by fire
to the LORD,
a pleasing
aroma—
and its drink offering
of a quarter
hin
of wine.
You must not
eat
any bread
or roasted
or new grain
until
the
very
day
you have brought
this
offering
to your God.
This is to be a permanent
statute
for the generations to come,
wherever
you live.
From the day after
the Sabbath,
the day
you brought
the sheaf
of the wave offering,
you are to count
seven
full
weeks.
You shall count
fifty
days
until
the day after
the seventh
Sabbath,
and then present
an offering of new
grain
to the LORD.
Bring
two
loaves of bread
from your dwellings
as a wave offering,
each made from two-tenths an ephah
of fine flour,
baked
with yeast,
as the firstfruits
to the LORD.
Along with
the bread
you are to present
seven
unblemished
male lambs
a year old,
one
young bull,
and two
rams.
They will be
a burnt offering
to the LORD,
together with their grain offerings
and drink offerings—
an offering made by fire
of a pleasing
aroma
to the LORD.
You shall also prepare
one
male goat
as a sin offering
and two
male lambs
a year old
as a peace offering.
The priest
is to wave
the lambs
as a wave offering
before
the LORD,
together with
the bread
of the firstfruits.
The bread and the two
lambs
are to be
sacred
to the LORD
for the priest.
On that
same
day
you are to proclaim
a sacred
assembly,
and
you are not
to do
any
regular work.
This is to be a permanent
statute
wherever
you live
for the generations to come.
When you reap
the harvest
of your land,
do not
reap
all the way
to the edges
of your field
or gather
the gleanings
of your harvest.
Leave
them for the poor
and the foreign resident.
I
am the LORD
your God.’”
“Speak
to
the Israelites
and say,
‘On the first
day
of the seventh
month
you are to have
a day of rest,
a sacred
assembly
announced
by trumpet blasts.
You must not
do
any
ordinary work,
but you are to present
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.’”
“The tenth
day of this
seventh
month
is the Day
of Atonement.
You are to hold
a sacred
assembly
and humble
your souls
and present
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
On this
day
you are not
to do
any
work,
for
it
is the Day
of Atonement,
when atonement is made
for you
before
the LORD
your God.
You are not
to do
any
work at all.
This is a permanent
statute
for the generations to come,
wherever
you live.
It
will be a Sabbath
of complete rest
for you,
and you shall humble
your souls.
From the evening
of the ninth
day of the month
until
the following evening
you are to observe
your Sabbath.’”
“Speak
to
the Israelites
and say,
‘On the fifteenth
day
of the
seventh
month
the Feast
of Tabernacles
to the LORD begins,
and it continues for seven
days.
For seven
days
you are to present
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
On the eighth
day
you are to hold
a sacred
assembly
and present
an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
It is
a solemn assembly;
you are not
to do
any
regular work.
“These
are the LORD’s
appointed feasts,
which
you are to proclaim
as sacred
assemblies
for presenting
offerings by fire
to the LORD—
burnt offerings
and grain offerings,
sacrifices
and drink offerings,
each on
its designated
day.
These offerings are in addition to
the offerings for the LORD’s
Sabbaths,
and in addition to your gifts,
to all
your vow offerings,
and to all
the freewill offerings
you give
to the LORD.
On the fifteenth
day
of the seventh
month,
after you have gathered
the produce
of the land,
you are to celebrate
a feast
to the LORD
for seven
days.
There shall be complete rest
on the first
day
and also
on the eighth
day.
On the first
day
you are to gather
the branches
of majestic
trees—
palm
branches
and boughs
of leafy
trees
and willows
of the brook—
and rejoice
before
the LORD
your God
for seven
days.
You are to celebrate
this
as a feast
to the LORD
for seven
days
each year.
This is a permanent
statute
for the generations to come;
you are to celebrate
it
in the seventh
month.
so that
your descendants
will 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.’”