Leviticus Chapter 23 Back Next{23:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{23:2} "Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them, 'The set
feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my set feasts.
{23:3} "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your
dwellings.
{23:4} "'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
{23:5} In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
{23:6} On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened
bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
{23:7} In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
{23:8} But you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"
{23:9} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{23:10} "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the
harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the
first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
{23:11} and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
{23:12} On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb without
blemish a year old for a
burnt offering to Yahweh.
{23:13} The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an
ephah of fine
flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the
drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
{23:14} You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted
grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
{23:15} "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
{23:16} even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
{23:17} You shall bring out of your
habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
{23:18} You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
{23:19} You shall offer one male
goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
{23:20} The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
{23:21} You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
{23:22} "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the
corners of your
field, neither shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the
foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"
{23:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{23:24} "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
{23:25} You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"
{23:26} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{23:27} "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of
atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
{23:28} You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
{23:29} For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
{23:30} Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
{23:31} You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
{23:32} It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth
day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
{23:33} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
{23:34} "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.
{23:35} On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
{23:36} Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
{23:37} "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
{23:38} besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your
gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your
freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
{23:39} "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
{23:40} You shall take on the first day the fruit of
goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
{23:41} You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
{23:42} You shall dwell in
booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,
{23:43} that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"
{23:44} Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
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