Leviticus 23:23-24:9

New International Version

The Festival of Trumpets^(A)

²³ The 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^(B) commemorated with trumpet blasts.^{(C) 25} Do no regular work,^(D) but present a food offering to the Lord.^(E)’”

The Day of Atonement^(F)

²⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷ “The tenth day of this seventh month^(G) is the Day of Atonement.^(H) Hold a sacred assembly^(I) and deny yourselves,^[a] and present a food offering to the Lord. ²⁸ Do not do any work^(J) on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. ²⁹ Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.^{(K) 30} I will destroy from among their people^(L) anyone who does any work on that day. ³¹ You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(M) for the generations to come, wherever you live. ³² It is a day of sabbath rest^(N) 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.”^(O)

The Festival of Tabernacles^(P)

³³ The Lord said to Moses, ³⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh^(Q) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles^(R) begins, and it lasts for seven days. ³⁵ The first day is a sacred assembly;^(S) do no regular work.^{(T) 36} For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly^(U) and present a food offering to the Lord.^(V) 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^(W) required for each day. ³⁸ These offerings^(X) are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths^(Y) and^[b] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings^(Z) 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^(AA) to the Lord for seven days;^(AB) the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. ⁴⁰ On the first day you are to take branches^(AC) from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees^(AD)—and rejoice^(AE) before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹ Celebrate 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. ⁴² Live in temporary shelters^(AF) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters ⁴³ so your descendants will know^(AG) that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

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

Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord^(AH)

24 The Lord said to Moses, ² “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. ³ Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(AI) for the generations to come. ⁴ The lamps on the pure gold lampstand^(AJ) before the Lord must be tended continually.

⁵ “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,^(AK) using two-tenths of an ephah^[c](AL) for each loaf. ⁶ Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold^(AM) before the Lord. ⁷ By each stack put some pure incense^(AN) as a memorial^[d] portion^(AO) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. ⁸ This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,^(AP) Sabbath after Sabbath,^(AQ) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. ⁹ It belongs to Aaron and his sons,^(AR) who are to eat it in the sanctuary area,^(AS) because it is a most holy^(AT) part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”