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Leviticus 23
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The Religious Festivals

23The LORD gave MosesH3068H1696H4872H559 2the following regulations for the religious festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather for worship.H1696H1121H3478H559H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H4150 3You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. The Sabbath belongs to the LORD, no matter where you live.H8337H3117H4399H6213H7637H3117H7676H7677H6944H4744H6213H4399H7676H3068H4186 4Proclaim the following festivals at the appointed times.H4150H3068H6944H4744H7121H4150

Passover and Unleavened Bread

5The Passover, celebrated to honor the LORD, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.H702H6240H7223H2320H6153H3068H6453 6On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.H2568H6240H3117H2320H2282H4682H3068H7651H3117H398H4682 7On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 8Offer your food offerings to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.H7126H801H3068H7651H3117H7637H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 9When you come into the land that the LORD is giving you and you harvest your grain,H3068H1696H4872H559 10take the first sheaf to the priest.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H7114H7105H935H6016H7225H7105H3548 11He shall present it as a special offering to the LORD, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath.H5130H6016H6440H3068H7522H4283H7676H3548H5130 12On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects.H6213H3117H5130H6016H3532H8549H1121H8141H5930H3068 13With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine.H4503H8147H6241H5560H1101H8081H801H3068H5207H7381H5262H3196H7243H1969 14Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.H398H3899H7039H3759H6106H2088H3117H5704H935H7133H430H2708H5769H1755H4186

The Harvest Festival

15Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the LORD.H5608H4283H7676H3117H935H6016H8573H7651H7676H1961H8549 16On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the LORD another new offering of grain.H5704H4283H7637H7676H5608H2572H3117H7126H2319H4503H3068 17Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the LORD as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the LORD as an offering of the first grain to be harvested.H935H4186H8147H8573H3899H8147H6241H5560H644H2557H1061H3068 18And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD.H7126H3899H7651H3532H8549H1121H8141H259H1241H1121H6499H8147H352H5930H3068H4503H5262H801H5207H7381H3068 19Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.H6213H259H8163H5795H2403H8147H3532H1121H8141H2077H8002 20The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the LORD for the priests. These offerings are holy.H3548H5130H3899H1061H8573H6440H3068H8147H3532H6944H3068H3548 21On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.H7121H6106H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399H2708H5769H4186H1755 22When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The LORD is your God.H7114H7105H776H3615H6285H7704H7114H3950H3951H7105H5800H6041H1616H3068H430

The New Year Festival

23On the first day of the seventh month observe a special day of rest,H3068H1696H4872H559 24and come together for worship when the trumpets sound.H1696H1121H3478H559H7637H2320H259H2320H7677H2146H8643H6944H4744 25Present a food offering to the LORD and do none of your daily work.H6213H5656H4399H7126H801H3068

The Day of Atonement

26The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when the annual ritual is to be performed to take away the sins of the people.H3068H1696H4872H559 27On that day do not eat anything at all; come together for worship, and present a food offering to the LORD.H389H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H6944H4744H6031H5315H7126H801H3068 28Do no work on that day, because it is the day for performing the ritual to take away sin.H6213H4399H6106H3117H3117H3725H3722H6440H3068H430 29Any who eat anything on that day will no longer be considered God's people.H5315H6031H6106H3117H3772H5971 30And if any do any work on that day, the LORD himself will put them to death.H5315H6213H4399H6106H3117H5315H6H7130H5971 31This regulation applies to all your descendants, no matter where they live.H6213H4399H2708H5769H1755H4186 32From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten.H7676H7677H6031H5315H8672H2320H6153H6153H6153H7673H7676

The Festival of Shelters

33The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh monthH3068H1696H4872H559 34and continues for seven days.H1696H1121H3478H559H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H2282H5521H7651H3117H3068 35On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 36Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.H7651H3117H7126H801H3068H8066H3117H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H6116H6213H5656H4399 37(These are the religious festivals on which you honor the LORD by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H5930H4503H2077H5262H1697H3117H3117 38These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.)H7676H3068H4979H5088H5071H5414H3068 39When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H622H8393H776H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H7223H3117H7677H8066H3117H7677 40On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the LORD your God.H3947H7223H3117H6529H1926H6086H3709H8558H6057H5687H6086H6155H5158H8055H6440H3068H430H7651H3117 41Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H8141H2708H5769H1755H2287H7637H2320 42All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,H3427H5521H7651H3117H3478H249H3427H5521 43so that your descendants may know that the LORD made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the LORD your God.H1755H3045H1121H3478H3427H5521H3318H776H4714H3068H430 44So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the LORD.H4872H1696H1121H3478H4150H3068


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