Leviticus 23

¹The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations ; they are my appointed feasts .

³Six days shall work be done , but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest , a holy convocation . You shall do no work . It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places .

⁴These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations , which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.

⁵In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight , is the Lord ’s Passover .

⁶And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread .

⁷On the first day you shall have a holy convocation ; you shall not do any ordinary work .

⁸But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days . On the seventh day is a holy convocation ; you shall not do any ordinary work .

⁹And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

¹⁰Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest , you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest ,

¹¹and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted . On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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

¹³And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil , a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma , and the drink offering with it shall be of wine , a fourth of a hin .

¹⁴And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day , until you have brought the offering of your God : it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings .

¹⁵You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath , from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering .

¹⁶You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath . Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord.

¹⁷You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved , made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour , and they shall be baked with leaven , as firstfruits to the Lord.

¹⁸And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish , and one bull from the herd and two rams . They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings , a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

¹⁹And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering , and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings .

²⁰And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs . They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest .

²¹And you shall make a proclamation on the same day . You shall hold a holy convocation . You shall not do any ordinary work . It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations .

²²And when you reap the harvest of your land , you shall not reap your field right up to its edge , nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest . You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God .

²³And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²⁴Speak to the people of Israel , saying , In the seventh month , on the first day of the month , you shall observe a day of solemn rest , a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets , a holy convocation .

²⁵You shall not do any ordinary work , and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²⁷Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement . It shall be for you a time of holy convocation , and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.

²⁸And you shall not do any work on that very day , for it is a Day of Atonement , to make atonement for you before the Lord your God .

²⁹For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people .

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

³¹You shall not do any work . It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places .

³²It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest , and you shall afflict yourselves . On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening , from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath .

³³And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

³⁴Speak to the people of Israel , saying , On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.

³⁵On the first day shall be a holy convocation ; you shall not do any ordinary work .

³⁶For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly ; you shall not do any ordinary work .

³⁷These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation , for presenting to the Lord food offerings , burnt offerings and grain offerings , sacrifices and drink offerings , each on its proper day ,

³⁸besides the Lord ’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings , which you give to the Lord.

³⁹On the fifteenth day of the seventh month , when you have gathered in the produce of the land , you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days . On the first day shall be a solemn rest , and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest .

⁴⁰And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees , branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook , and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days .

⁴¹You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year . It is a statute forever throughout your generations ; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month .

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

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

⁴⁴Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord.