Numbers 28:16-25

Contemporary English Version

The Sacrifices during Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread

(Leviticus 23.4-8)

The Lord said:

^16 (A) Celebrate Passover in honor of me on the fourteenth day of the first month^[a] of each year. ^17 (B) The following day will begin the Festival of Thin Bread, which will last for a week. During this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast.

¹⁸ On the first day of this festival, you must rest from your work and come together for worship. ¹⁹ Bring to the altar two bulls, one full-grown ram, and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them. And then offer these as sacrifices to please me.^{[b] 20} Three kilograms of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice. Two kilograms of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram, ²¹ and one kilogram of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams. ²² Also offer a goat^[c] as a sacrifice for the sins of the people. ^23-24 All of these are to be offered each day of the festival in additional to the regular sacrifices,^[d] and the smoke from them will please me. ²⁵ Then on the last day of the festival, you must once again rest from work and come together for worship.