Leviticus 23:5-21

Good News Translation

Passover and Unleavened Bread^(A)

^5 (B)The Passover, celebrated to honor the Lord, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. ^6 (C)On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. ⁷ On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work. ⁸ Offer your food offerings to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.

^9-10 When you come into the land that the Lord is giving you and you harvest your grain, take the first sheaf to the priest. ¹¹ He shall present it as a special offering to the Lord, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath. ¹² On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. ¹³ With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the Lord. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine. ¹⁴ Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.

The Harvest Festival^(D)

^15 (E)Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the Lord. ¹⁶ On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the Lord another new offering of grain. ¹⁷ Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the Lord as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the Lord as an offering of the first grain to be harvested. ¹⁸ And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the Lord, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the Lord. ¹⁹ Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. ²⁰ The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the Lord for the priests. These offerings are holy. ²¹ On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.