Laws of Religious Festivals

23 The Lord spoke again to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^(A)The Lord’s appointed times which you shall ^(B)proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:

³ ‘^(C)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

⁴ ‘These are the ^(D)appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. ^5 (E)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month ^[a]at twilight is the Lord’s Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the ^(F)Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall ^(G)not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”

⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and ^(H)reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. ¹¹ He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹² Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord. ¹³ Its ^(I)grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the Lord for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a ^[b]hin of wine. ¹⁴ Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, ^(J)you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

¹⁵ ‘^(K)You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths. ¹⁶ You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a ^(L)new grain offering to the Lord. ¹⁷ You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ^[c]ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked ^(M)with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. ¹⁸ Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁹ You shall also offer ^(N)one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. ²⁰ The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord; they are to be holy to the Lord for the priest. ²¹ On this same day you shall ^(O)make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious ^(P)work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

²² ‘^(Q)When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the Lord your God.’”

²³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^(R)In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^[d]rest, a ^(S)reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵ You shall ^(T)not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.’”

The Day of Atonement

²⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ “On exactly ^(U)the tenth day of this seventh month is ^(V)the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord. ²⁸ You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a ^(W)day of atonement, ^(X)to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God. ²⁹ If there is any ^[e]person who will not humble himself on this same day, ^(Y)he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰ As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. ³¹ You shall do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. ³² It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath.”

³³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On ^(Z)the fifteenth of this seventh month is the ^(AA)Feast of Booths for seven days to the Lord. ³⁵ On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do ^(AB)no laborious work of any kind. ^36 (AC)For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On ^(AD)the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

³⁷ ‘These are ^(AE)the appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, ^(AF)each day’s matter on its own day— ³⁸ besides those of the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts and besides all your ^[f]votive and freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.

³⁹ ‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^(AG)when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days, with a ^[g]rest on the first day and a ^[h]rest on the eighth day. ⁴⁰ Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the ^[i]foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹ You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴² You shall ^[j]live ^(AH)in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall ^[k]live in booths, ⁴³ so that ^(AI)your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’” ⁴⁴ So Moses declared to the sons of Israel ^(AJ)the appointed times of the Lord.