Leviticus 23

¹And the Lord

²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the Lord

³‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord

⁴‘These are the feasts of the Lord

⁵On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord

⁶And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord

⁷On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.

⁸But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord

⁹And the Lord

¹⁰“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

¹¹He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord

¹²And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord

¹³Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord

¹⁴You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

¹⁵‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.

¹⁶Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord

¹⁷You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord

¹⁸And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord

¹⁹Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering.

²⁰The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord

²¹And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

²²‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord

²³Then the Lord

²⁴“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

²⁵You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord

²⁶And the Lord

²⁷“Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord

²⁸And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord

²⁹For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.

³⁰And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

³¹You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

³²It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.”

³³Then the Lord

³⁴“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord

³⁵On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

³⁶For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord

³⁷‘These are the feasts of the Lord

³⁸besides the Sabbaths of the Lord

³⁹‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord

⁴⁰And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord

⁴¹You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord

⁴²You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

⁴³that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord

⁴⁴So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord