The Feast of Weeks

¹⁵ ‘^(A)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 bring a ^(B)new grain offering near to Yahweh. ¹⁷ You shall bring in from your places of habitation two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ^[a]ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked ^(C)with leaven as first fruits to Yahweh. ¹⁸ Along with the bread you shall bring near seven one year old male lambs without blemish and a bull from the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to Yahweh. ¹⁹ You shall also offer ^(D)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 Yahweh; they shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. ²¹ On this same day you shall ^(E)make a proclamation as well; it shall be a holy convocation for you. You shall do no laborious ^(F)work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your places of habitation throughout your generations.

²² ‘^(G)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 afflicted and the sojourner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

The Feast of Trumpets

²³ Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘^(H)In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^[b]rest, a ^(I)memorial by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵ You shall ^(J)not do any laborious work, but you shall bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh.’”

The Day of Atonement

²⁶ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ “On exactly ^(K)the tenth day of this seventh month is ^(L)the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh. ²⁸ And you shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a ^(M)day of atonement, ^(N)to make atonement on your behalf before Yahweh your God. ²⁹ If there is any ^[c]person who will not humble himself on this same day, ^(O)he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰ And as for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will cause to perish 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 places of habitation. 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.”

The Feast of Booths

³³ Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On ^(P)the fifteenth of this seventh month is the ^(Q)Feast of Booths for seven days to Yahweh. ³⁵ On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do ^(R)no laborious work of any kind. ^36 (S)For seven days you shall bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh. On ^(T)the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh; it is a solemn assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

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

³⁹ ‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^(W)when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days, with a ^[e]rest on the first day and a ^[f]rest on the eighth day. ⁴⁰ And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the ^[g]foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God for seven days. ⁴¹ You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh 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 ^[h]live ^(X)in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall ^[i]live in booths, ⁴³ so that ^(Y)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 Yahweh your God.’” ⁴⁴ So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel ^(Z)the appointed times of Yahweh.

¹⁶ For Paul had decided to sail past ^(A)Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in ^[a](B)Asia; for he was hurrying ^(C)to be in Jerusalem, if possible, ^(D)on the day of Pentecost.

⁸ But I will remain in ^(A)Ephesus until ^(B)Pentecost,