Leviticus 22-23 - Prayer Tents

22The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Tell Aaron and his sons to be very careful with the sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart for me, so they do not bring shame on my holy name. I am the LORD.H1696H175H1121H5144H6944H1121H3478H2490H6944H8034H6942H3068 3Give them the following instructions. "In all future generations, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean when he approaches the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the LORD, he must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.H559H376H2233H1755H7126H6944H1121H3478H6942H3068H2932H5315H3772H6440H3068 4"If any of Aaron's descendants has a skin disease or any kind of discharge that makes him ceremonially unclean, he may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean. He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse, or by having an emission of semen,H376H2233H175H6879H2100H398H6944H2891H5060H2931H5315H376H2233H7902H3318 5or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.H376H5060H8318H2930H120H2930H2932 6The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water.H5315H5060H2930H6153H398H6944H518H7364H1320H4325 7When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially clean again and may eat from the sacred offerings, for this is his food.H8121H935H2891H310H398H6944H3899 8He may not eat an animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild animals, for this would defile him. I am the LORD.H5038H2966H398H2930H3068 9"The priests must follow my instructions carefully. Otherwise they will be punished for their sin and will die for violating my instructions. I am the LORD who makes them holy.H8104H4931H5375H2399H4191H2490H3068H6942 10"No one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings. Even guests and hired workers in a priest's home are not allowed to eat them.H2114H398H6944H8453H3548H7916H398H6944 11However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.H3548H7069H5315H7075H3701H398H3211H1004H398H3899 12If a priest's daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.H3548H1323H376H2114H398H8641H6944 13But if she becomes a widow or is divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her father's home as in her youth, she may eat her father's food again. Otherwise, no one outside a priest's family may eat the sacred offerings.H3548H1323H490H1644H2233H7725H1H1004H5271H398H1H3899H2114H398 14"Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20 percent.H376H398H6944H7684H3254H2549H5414H3548H6944 15The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to the LORDH2490H6944H1121H3478H7311H3068 16by allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the LORD who makes them holy."H5375H5771H819H398H6944H3068H6942

Worthy and Unworthy Offerings

17And the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 18"Give Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. "If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the LORD, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering,H1696H175H1121H1121H3478H559H376H1004H3478H1616H3478H7126H7133H5088H5071H7126H3068H5930 19you will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.H7522H2145H8549H1241H3775H5795 20Do not present an animal with defects, because the LORD will not accept it on your behalf.H3971H7126H7522 21"If you present a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or the flock, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal. It may have no defect of any kind.H376H7126H2077H8002H3068H6381H5088H5071H1241H6629H8549H7522H3971 22You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs. Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the LORD.H5788H7665H2782H2990H1618H3217H7126H3068H5414H801H4196H3068 23If a bull or lamb has a leg that is too long or too short, it may be offered as a voluntary offering, but it may not be offered to fulfill a vow.H7794H7716H8311H7038H6213H5071H5088H7521 24If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you may not offer it to the LORD. You must never do this in your own land,H7126H3068H4600H3807H5423H3772H6213H776 25and you must not accept such an animal from foreigners and then offer it as a sacrifice to your God. Such animals will not be accepted on your behalf, for they are mutilated or defective."H5236H3027H1121H7126H3899H430H4893H3971H7521 26And the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 27"When a calf or lamb or goat is born, it must be left with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a special gift to the LORD.H7794H3775H5795H3205H7651H3117H517H8066H3117H1973H7521H7133H801H3068 28But you must not slaughter a mother animal and her offspring on the same day, whether from the herd or the flock.H7794H7716H7819H1121H259H3117 29When you bring a thanksgiving offering to the LORD, sacrifice it properly so you will be accepted.H2076H2077H8426H3068H2076H7522 30Eat the entire sacrificial animal on the day it is presented. Do not leave any of it until the next morning. I am the LORD.H3117H398H3498H1242H3068 31"You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD.H8104H4687H6213H3068 32Do not bring shame on my holy name, for I will display my holiness among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who makes you holy.H2490H6944H8034H6942H8432H1121H3478H3068H6942 33It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the LORD."H3318H776H4714H430H3068

The Appointed Festivals

23The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. These are the LORD's appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as official days for holy assembly.H1696H1121H3478H559H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H4150 3"You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of complete rest, an official day for holy assembly. It is the LORD's Sabbath day, and it must be observed wherever you live.H8337H3117H4399H6213H7637H3117H7676H7677H6944H4744H6213H4399H7676H3068H4186 4"In addition to the Sabbath, these are the LORD's appointed festivals, the official days for holy assembly that are to be celebrated at their proper times each year.H4150H3068H6944H4744H7121H4150

Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread

5"The LORD's Passover begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.H702H6240H7223H2320H6153H3068H6453 6On the next day, the fifteenth day of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This festival to the LORD continues for seven days, and during that time the bread you eat must be made without yeast.H2568H6240H3117H2320H2282H4682H3068H7651H3117H398H4682 7On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 8For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. On the seventh day the people must again stop all their ordinary work to observe an official day for holy assembly."H7126H801H3068H7651H3117H7637H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399

Celebration of First Harvest

9Then the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 10"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you enter the land I am giving you and you harvest its first crops, bring the priest a bundle of grain from the first cutting of your grain harvest.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H7114H7105H935H6016H7225H7105H3548 11On the day after the Sabbath, the priest will lift it up before the LORD so it may be accepted on your behalf.H5130H6016H6440H3068H7522H4283H7676H3548H5130 12On that same day you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the LORD.H6213H3117H5130H6016H3532H8549H1121H8141H5930H3068 13With it you must present a grain offering consisting of four quarts of choice flour moistened with olive oil. It will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. You must also offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering.H4503H8147H6241H5560H1101H8081H801H3068H5207H7381H5262H3196H7243H1969 14Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.H398H3899H7039H3759H6106H2088H3117H5704H935H7133H430H2708H5769H1755H4186

The Festival of Harvest

15"From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks.H5608H4283H7676H3117H935H6016H8573H7651H7676H1961H8549 16Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.H5704H4283H7637H7676H5608H2572H3117H7126H2319H4503H3068 17From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up before the LORD as a special offering. Make these loaves from four quarts of choice flour, and bake them with yeast. They will be an offering to the LORD from the first of your crops.H935H4186H8147H8573H3899H8147H6241H5560H644H2557H1061H3068 18Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams as burnt offerings to the LORD. These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings and liquid offerings, will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.H7126H3899H7651H3532H8549H1121H8141H259H1241H1121H6499H8147H352H5930H3068H4503H5262H801H5207H7381H3068 19Then you must offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a peace offering.H6213H259H8163H5795H2403H8147H3532H1121H8141H2077H8002 20"The priest will lift up the two lambs as a special offering to the LORD, together with the loaves representing the first of your crops. These offerings, which are holy to the LORD, belong to the priests.H3548H5130H3899H1061H8573H6440H3068H8147H3532H6944H3068H3548 21That same day will be proclaimed an official day for holy assembly, a day on which you do no ordinary work. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.H7121H6106H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399H2708H5769H4186H1755 22"When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God."H7114H7105H776H3615H6285H7704H7114H3950H3951H7105H5800H6041H1616H3068H430

The Festival of Trumpets

23The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 24"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. On the first day of the appointed month in early autumn, you are to observe a day of complete rest. It will be an official day for holy assembly, a day commemorated with loud blasts of a trumpet.H1696H1121H3478H559H7637H2320H259H2320H7677H2146H8643H6944H4744 25You must do no ordinary work on that day. Instead, you are to present special gifts to the LORD."H6213H5656H4399H7126H801H3068

The Day of Atonement

26Then the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 27"Be careful to celebrate the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of that same month—nine days after the Festival of Trumpets. You must observe it as an official day for holy assembly, a day to deny yourselves and present special gifts to the LORD.H389H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H6944H4744H6031H5315H7126H801H3068 28Do no work during that entire day because it is the Day of Atonement, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with the LORD your God.H6213H4399H6106H3117H3117H3725H3722H6440H3068H430 29All who do not deny themselves that day will be cut off from God's people.H5315H6031H6106H3117H3772H5971 30And I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day.H5315H6213H4399H6106H3117H5315H6H7130H5971 31You must not do any work at all! This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.H6213H4399H2708H5769H1755H4186 32This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves. This day of rest will begin at sundown on the ninth day of the month and extend until sundown on the tenth day."H7676H7677H6031H5315H8672H2320H6153H6153H6153H7673H7676

The Festival of Shelters

33And the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 34"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Begin celebrating the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the appointed month—five days after the Day of Atonement. This festival to the LORD will last for seven days.H1696H1121H3478H559H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H2282H5521H7651H3117H3068 35On the first day of the festival you must proclaim an official day for holy assembly, when you do no ordinary work.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 36For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. The eighth day is another holy day on which you present your special gifts to the LORD. This will be a solemn occasion, and no ordinary work may be done that day.H7651H3117H7126H801H3068H8066H3117H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H6116H6213H5656H4399 37("These are the LORD's appointed festivals. Celebrate them each year as official days for holy assembly by presenting special gifts to the LORD—burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and liquid offerings—each on its proper day.H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H5930H4503H2077H5262H1697H3117H3117 38These festivals must be observed in addition to the LORD's regular Sabbath days, and the offerings are in addition to your personal gifts, the offerings you give to fulfill your vows, and the voluntary offerings you present to the LORD.)H7676H3068H4979H5088H5071H5414H3068 39"Remember that this seven-day festival to the LORD—the Festival of Shelters—begins on the fifteenth day of the appointed month, after you have harvested all the produce of the land. The first day and the eighth day of the festival will be days of complete rest.H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H622H8393H776H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H7223H3117H7677H8066H3117H7677 40On the first day gather branches from magnificent trees—palm fronds, boughs from leafy trees, and willows that grow by the streams. Then celebrate with joy before the LORD your God for seven days.H3947H7223H3117H6529H1926H6086H3709H8558H6057H5687H6086H6155H5158H8055H6440H3068H430H7651H3117 41You must observe this festival to the LORD for seven days every year. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed in the appointed month from generation to generation.H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H8141H2708H5769H1755H2287H7637H2320 42For seven days you must live outside in little shelters. All native-born Israelites must live in shelters.H3427H5521H7651H3117H3478H249H3427H5521 43This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God."H1755H3045H1121H3478H3427H5521H3318H776H4714H3068H430 44So Moses gave the Israelites these instructions regarding the annual festivals of the LORD.H4872H1696H1121H3478H4150H3068