Holy Days
1 TheLordspoke to Moses:
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times,the times of theLordthat you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.
3 “Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest,a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbathto theLordwherever you live.
4 “These are theLord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
5 The Passoverto theLordcomes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.
6 The Festival of Unleavened Breadto theLordis on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.
8 You are to present a fire offering to theLordfor seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work.”
9 TheLordspoke to Moses:
10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
11 He will wave the sheaf before theLordso 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, you are to offer a year-old male lambwithout blemishas a burnt offering to theLord.
13 Its grain offering is to be four quartsof fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to theLord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quartof wine.
14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grainuntil 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 sevencomplete weeksstarting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.
16 You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grainto theLord.
17 Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quartsof fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruitsto theLord.
18 You 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 theLord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to theLord.
19 You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice.
20 The priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before theLord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to theLordfor the priest.
21 On 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.
22 When 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;I am Yahweh your God.”
23 TheLordspoke 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— a sacred assembly.
25 You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to theLord.”
26 TheLordagain spoke to Moses:
27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial;you are to present a fire offering to theLord.
28 On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before theLordyour God.
29 If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he must be cut off from his people.
30 I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day.
31 You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.
32 It 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.”
33 TheLordspoke to Moses:
34 “Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Boothsto theLordbegins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.
35 There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.
36 You are to present a fire offering to theLordfor seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to theLord. It is a solemn gathering;you are not to do any daily work.
37 “These are theLord’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to theLord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.
38 These are in addition to the offerings for theLord’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to theLord.
39 “You are to celebrate theLord’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.
40 On the first day you are to take the productof majestic trees — palm fronds,boughs of leafy trees,and willows of the brook— and rejoice before theLordyour God for seven days.
41 You are to celebrate it as a festival to theLordseven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 You are to live in boothsfor seven days. All the native-born of Israel must 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 Yahweh your God.”
44 So Moses declared theLord’s appointed times to the Israelites.
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