Leviticus 22-23

Young's Literal Translation

22 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²`Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and they are separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they pollute not My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me; I [am] Jehovah.

³`Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him -- even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I [am] Jehovah.

⁴`Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue -- of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him,

⁵or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness --

⁶the person who cometh against it -- hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water,

⁷and the sun hath gone in, and he hath been clean, and afterwards he doth eat of the holy things, for it [is] his food;

⁸a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I [am] Jehovah.

⁹`And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I [am] Jehovah sanctifying them.

¹⁰`And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;

¹¹and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.

¹²`And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

¹³and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as [in] her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

¹⁴`And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given [it] to the priest, with the holy thing;

¹⁵and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,

¹⁶nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

¹⁷And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁸`Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, who bringeth near his offering, of all his vows, or of all his willing offerings which they bring near to Jehovah for a burnt-offering;

¹⁹at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats;

²⁰nothing in which [is] blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.

²¹`And when a man bringeth near a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a willing-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it is perfect for a pleasing thing: no blemish is in it;

²²blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed -- ye do not bring these near to Jehovah, and a fire-offering ye do not make of them on the altar to Jehovah.

²³`As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed -- a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing.

²⁴As to a bruised, or beaten, or enlarged, or cut thing -- ye do not bring [it] near to Jehovah; even in your land ye do not do it.

²⁵And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption [is] in them; blemish [is] in them; they are not pleasing for you.'

²⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²⁷`When ox or lamb or goat is born, and it hath been seven days under its dam, then from the eighth day and henceforth, it is pleasing for an offering, a fire-offering to Jehovah;

²⁸but an ox or sheep -- it and its young one, ye do not slaughter in one day.

²⁹`And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice,

³⁰on that day it is eaten, ye do not leave of it till morning; I [am] Jehovah;

³¹and ye have kept my commands, and have done them; I [am] Jehovah;

³²and ye do not pollute My holy name, and I have been hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel; I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying you,

³³who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt, to become your God; I [am] Jehovah.'

23 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, [are] these: they [are] My appointed seasons:

³six days is work done, and in the seventh day [is] a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it [is] a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

⁴`These [are] appointed seasons of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons:

⁵in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, [is] the passover to Jehovah;

⁶and on the fifteenth day of this month [is] the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat;

⁷on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work;

⁸and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day [is] a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.'

⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest,

¹¹then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it.

¹²`And ye have prepared in the day of your waving the sheaf a lamb, a perfect one, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah,

¹³and its present two tenth deals of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink-offering, wine, a fourth of the hin.

¹⁴`And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God -- a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.

¹⁵`And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths;

¹⁶unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah;

¹⁷out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two [loaves], of two tenth deals of flour they are, [with] yeast they are baken, first-[fruits] to Jehovah.

¹⁸`And ye have brought near, besides the bread, seven lambs, perfect ones, sons of a year, and one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt-offering to Jehovah, with their present and their libations, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

¹⁹`And ye have prepared one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace-offerings,

²⁰and the priest hath waved them, besides the bread of the first-[fruits] -- a wave-offering before Jehovah, besides the two lambs; they are holy to Jehovah for the priest;

²¹and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work -- a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.

²²`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah [am] your God.'

²³And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²⁴`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye have a sabbath, a memorial of shouting, a holy convocation;

²⁵ye do no servile work, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah.'

²⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²⁷`Only -- on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah;

²⁸and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

²⁹`For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;

³⁰and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people;

³¹ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.

³²It [is] a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'

³³And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

³⁴`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the fifteenth day of this seventh month [is] a feast of booths seven days to Jehovah;

³⁵on the first day [is] a holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

³⁶seven days ye bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, on the eighth day ye have a holy convocation, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; it [is] a restraint, ye do no servile work.

³⁷`These [are] appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim holy convocations, to bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a present, a sacrifice, and libations, a thing of a day in its day,

³⁸apart from the sabbaths of Jehovah, and apart from your gifts, and apart from all your vows, and apart from all your willing-offerings, which ye give to Jehovah.

³⁹`Only -- in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, in your gathering the increase of the land, ye do keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day [is] a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath;

⁴⁰and ye have taken to yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palms, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of a brook, and have rejoiced before Jehovah your God seven days.

⁴¹`And ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah, seven days in a year -- a statute age-during to your generations; in the seventh month ye keep it a feast.

⁴²`In booths ye dwell seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in booths,

⁴³so that your generations do know that in booths I caused the sons of Israel to dwell; in my bringing them out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, [am] your God.'

⁴⁴And Moses speaketh [concerning] the appointed seasons of Jehovah unto the sons of Israel.

Leviticus 22-23

New International Version

22 The Lord said to Moses, ²“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings^(A) the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name.^(B) I am the Lord.^(C)

³“Say to them: ‘For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord,^(D) that person must be cut off from my presence.^(E) I am the Lord.

⁴“‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease^[a] or a bodily discharge,^(F) he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse^(G) or by anyone who has an emission of semen, ⁵or if he touches any crawling thing^(H) that makes him unclean, or any person^(I) who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. ⁶The one who touches any such thing will be unclean^(J) till evening.^(K) He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.^(L) ⁷When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.^(M) ⁸He must not eat anything found dead^(N) or torn by wild animals,^(O) and so become unclean^(P) through it. I am the Lord.^(Q)

⁹“‘The priests are to perform my service^(R) in such a way that they do not become guilty^(S) and die^(T) for treating it with contempt. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.^(U)

¹⁰“‘No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.^(V) ¹¹But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.^(W) ¹²If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. ¹³But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

¹⁴“‘Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake^(X) must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value^(Y) to it. ¹⁵The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings^(Z) the Israelites present to the Lord^(AA) ¹⁶by allowing them to eat^(AB) the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt^(AC) requiring payment.^(AD) I am the Lord, who makes them holy.^(AE)’”

Unacceptable Sacrifices

¹⁷The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you—whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel^(AF)—presents a gift^(AG) for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow^(AH) or as a freewill offering,^(AI) ¹⁹you must present a male without defect^(AJ) from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.^(AK) ²⁰Do not bring anything with a defect,^(AL) because it will not be accepted on your behalf.^(AM) ²¹When anyone brings from the herd or flock^(AN) a fellowship offering^(AO) to the Lord to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering,^(AP) it must be without defect or blemish^(AQ) to be acceptable.^(AR) ²²Do not offer to the Lord the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. ²³You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox^[b] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. ²⁴You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut.^(AS) You must not do this in your own land, ²⁵and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God.^(AT) They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.^(AU)’”

²⁶The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷“When a calf, a lamb or a goat^(AV) is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days.^(AW) From the eighth day^(AX) on, it will be acceptable^(AY) as a food offering presented to the Lord. ²⁸Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.^(AZ)

²⁹“When you sacrifice a thank offering^(BA) to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. ³⁰It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning.^(BB) I am the Lord.^(BC)

³¹“Keep^(BD) my commands and follow them.^(BE) I am the Lord. ³²Do not profane my holy name,^(BF) for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites.^(BG) I am the Lord, who made you holy^(BH) ³³and who brought you out of Egypt^(BI) to be your God.^(BJ) I am the Lord.”

The Appointed Festivals

23 The Lord said to Moses, ²“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals,^(BK) the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.^(BL)

The Sabbath

³“‘There are six days when you may work,^(BM) but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,^(BN) a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;^(BO) wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(BP)

⁴“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:^(BQ) ⁵The Lord’s Passover^(BR) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^(BS) ⁶On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(BT) begins; for seven days^(BU) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(BV) and do no regular work. ⁸For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.^(BW) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”

Offering the Firstfruits

⁹The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you^(BX) and you reap its harvest,^(BY) bring to the priest a sheaf^(BZ) of the first grain you harvest.^(CA) ¹¹He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord^(CB) so it will be accepted^(CC) on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. ¹²On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old^(CD) without defect,^(CE) ¹³together with its grain offering^(CF) of two-tenths of an ephah^[c]^(CG) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering^(CH) of a quarter of a hin^[d] of wine.^(CI) ¹⁴You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,^(CJ) until the very day you bring this offering to your God.^(CK) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,^(CL) wherever you live.^(CM)

The Festival of Weeks^(CN)

¹⁵“‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. ¹⁶Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath,^(CO) and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. ¹⁷From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah^(CP) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits^(CQ) to the Lord. ¹⁸Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings^(CR)—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. ¹⁹Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering^[e] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. ²⁰The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,^(CS) together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest. ²¹On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly^(CT) and do no regular work.^(CU) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

²²“‘When you reap the harvest^(CV) of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.^(CW) Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you.^(CX) I am the Lord your God.’”

The Festival of Trumpets^(CY)

²³The Lord said to Moses, ²⁴“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly^(CZ) commemorated with trumpet blasts.^(DA) ²⁵Do no regular work,^(DB) but present a food offering to the Lord.^(DC)’”

The Day of Atonement^(DD)

²⁶The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷“The tenth day of this seventh month^(DE) is the Day of Atonement.^(DF) Hold a sacred assembly^(DG) and deny yourselves,^[f] and present a food offering to the Lord. ²⁸Do not do any work^(DH) on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. ²⁹Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.^(DI) ³⁰I will destroy from among their people^(DJ) anyone who does any work on that day. ³¹You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(DK) for the generations to come, wherever you live. ³²It is a day of sabbath rest^(DL) for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”^(DM)

The Festival of Tabernacles^(DN)

³³The Lord said to Moses, ³⁴“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh^(DO) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles^(DP) begins, and it lasts for seven days. ³⁵The first day is a sacred assembly;^(DQ) do no regular work.^(DR) ³⁶For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly^(DS) and present a food offering to the Lord.^(DT) It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

³⁷(“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings^(DU) required for each day. ³⁸These offerings^(DV) are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths^(DW) and^[g] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings^(DX) you give to the Lord.)

³⁹“‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival^(DY) to the Lord for seven days;^(DZ) the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. ⁴⁰On the first day you are to take branches^(EA) from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees^(EB)—and rejoice^(EC) before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴²Live in temporary shelters^(ED) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters ⁴³so your descendants will know^(EE) that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

⁴⁴So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.

Footnotes

Leviticus 22:4 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
Leviticus 22:23 The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.
Leviticus 23:13 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verse 17
Leviticus 23:13 That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter
Leviticus 23:19 Or purification offering
Leviticus 23:27 Or and fast; similarly in verses 29 and 32
Leviticus 23:38 Or These festivals are in addition to the Lord’s Sabbaths, and these offerings are

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Leviticus 22-23

Young's Literal Translation

Leviticus 22-23

New International Version

Unacceptable Sacrifices

The Appointed Festivals

The Sabbath

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(BP)

Offering the Firstfruits

The Festival of Weeks^(CN)

The Festival of Trumpets^(CY)

The Day of Atonement^(DD)

The Festival of Tabernacles^(DN)

Footnotes

Cross references

More on the NIV

Leviticus 22-23 Young's Literal Translation

Leviticus 22-23 New International Version

Unacceptable Sacrifices

The Appointed Festivals

The Sabbath

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread(BP)

Offering the Firstfruits

The Festival of Weeks(CN)

The Festival of Trumpets(CY)

The Day of Atonement(DD)

The Festival of Tabernacles(DN)

Footnotes

Cross references

More on the NIV

Leviticus 22-23

Young's Literal Translation

Leviticus 22-23

New International Version

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(BP)

The Festival of Weeks^(CN)

The Festival of Trumpets^(CY)

The Day of Atonement^(DD)

The Festival of Tabernacles^(DN)