23GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Tell the People of Israel, These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of GOD which you are to decree as sacred assemblies.H1696H1121H3478H559H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H4150 3"Work six days. The seventh day is a Sabbath, a day of total and complete rest, a sacred assembly. Don't do any work. Wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to GOD.H8337H3117H4399H6213H7637H3117H7676H7677H6944H4744H6213H4399H7676H3068H4186 4"These are the appointed feasts of GOD, the sacred assemblies which you are to announce at the times set for them:H4150H3068H6944H4744H7121H4150 5"GOD's Passover, beginning at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.H702H6240H7223H2320H6153H3068H6453 6"GOD's Feast of Unraised Bread, on the fifteenth day of this same month. You are to eat unraised bread for seven days.H2568H6240H3117H2320H2282H4682H3068H7651H3117H398H4682 7Hold a sacred assembly on the first day; don't do any regular work.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 8Offer Fire-Gifts to GOD for seven days. On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly; don't do any regular work."H7126H801H3068H7651H3117H7637H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 9GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H559 10"Tell the People of Israel, When you arrive at the land that I am giving you and reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain that you harvest.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H7114H7105H935H6016H7225H7105H3548 11He will wave the sheaf before GOD for acceptance on your behalf; on the morning after Sabbath, the priest will wave it.H5130H6016H6440H3068H7522H4283H7676H3548H5130 12On the same day that you wave the sheaf, offer a year-old male lamb without defect for a Whole-Burnt-Offering to GODH6213H3117H5130H6016H3532H8549H1121H8141H5930H3068 13and with it the Grain-Offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil—a Fire-Gift to GOD, a pleasing fragrance—and also a Drink-Offering of a quart of wine.H4503H8147H6241H5560H1101H8081H801H3068H5207H7381H5262H3196H7243H1969 14Don't eat any bread or roasted or fresh grain until you have presented this offering to your God. This is a perpetual decree for all your generations to come, wherever you live.H398H3899H7039H3759H6106H2088H3117H5704H935H7133H430H2708H5769H1755H4186 15"Count seven full weeks from the morning after the Sabbath when you brought the sheaf as a Wave-Offering,H5608H4283H7676H3117H935H6016H8573H7651H7676H1961H8549 16fifty days until the morning of the seventh Sabbath. Then present a new Grain-Offering to GOD.H5704H4283H7637H7676H5608H2572H3117H7126H2319H4503H3068 17Bring from wherever you are living two loaves of bread made from four quarts of fine flour and baked with yeast as a Wave-Offering of the first ripe grain to GOD.H935H4186H8147H8573H3899H8147H6241H5560H644H2557H1061H3068 18In addition to the bread, offer seven yearling male lambs without defect, plus one bull and two rams. They will be a Whole-Burnt-Offering to GOD together with their Grain-Offerings and Drink-Offerings—offered as Fire-Gifts, a pleasing fragrance to GOD.H7126H3899H7651H3532H8549H1121H8141H259H1241H1121H6499H8147H352H5930H3068H4503H5262H801H5207H7381H3068 19Offer one male goat for an Absolution-Offering and two yearling lambs for a Peace-Offering.H6213H259H8163H5795H2403H8147H3532H1121H8141H2077H8002 20The priest will wave the two lambs before GOD as a Wave-Offering, together with the bread of the first ripe grain. They are sacred offerings to GOD for the priest.H3548H5130H3899H1061H8573H6440H3068H8147H3532H6944H3068H3548 21Proclaim the day as a sacred assembly. Don't do any ordinary work. It is a perpetual decree wherever you live down through your generations.H7121H6106H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399H2708H5769H4186H1755 22"When you reap the harvest of your land, don't reap the corners of your field or gather the gleanings. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners. I am GOD, your God."H7114H7105H776H3615H6285H7704H7114H3950H3951H7105H5800H6041H1616H3068H430 23GOD said to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H559 24"Tell the People of Israel, On the first day of the seventh month, set aside a day of rest, a sacred assembly—mark it with loud blasts on the ram's horn.H1696H1121H3478H559H7637H2320H259H2320H7677H2146H8643H6944H4744 25Don't do any ordinary work. Offer a Fire-Gift to GOD."H6213H5656H4399H7126H801H3068 26GOD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 27"The tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly, fast, and offer a Fire-Gift to GOD.H389H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H6944H4744H6031H5315H7126H801H3068 28Don't work on that day because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for you before your GOD.H6213H4399H6106H3117H3117H3725H3722H6440H3068H430 29Anyone who doesn't fast on that day must be cut off from his people.H5315H6031H6106H3117H3772H5971 30I will destroy from among his people anyone who works on that day.H5315H6213H4399H6106H3117H5315H6H7130H5971 31Don't do any work that day—none. This is a perpetual decree for all the generations to come, wherever you happen to be living.H6213H4399H2708H5769H1755H4186 32It is a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a fast day. Observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening."H7676H7677H6031H5315H8672H2320H6153H6153H6153H7673H7676 33GOD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 34"Tell the People of Israel, GOD's Feast of Booths begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. It lasts seven days.H1696H1121H3478H559H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H2282H5521H7651H3117H3068 35The first day is a sacred assembly; don't do any ordinary work.H7223H3117H6944H4744H6213H5656H4399 36Offer Fire-Gifts to GOD for seven days. On the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and offer a gift to GOD. It is a solemn convocation. Don't do any ordinary work.H7651H3117H7126H801H3068H8066H3117H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H6116H6213H5656H4399 37"These are the appointed feasts of GOD which you will decree as sacred assemblies for presenting Fire-Gifts to GOD: the Whole-Burnt-Offerings, Grain-Offerings, sacrifices, and Drink-Offerings assigned to each day.H4150H3068H7121H6944H4744H7126H801H3068H5930H4503H2077H5262H1697H3117H3117 38These are in addition to offerings for GOD's Sabbaths and also in addition to other gifts connected with whatever you have vowed and all the Freewill-Offerings you give to GOD.H7676H3068H4979H5088H5071H5414H3068 39"So, summing up: On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have brought your crops in from your fields, celebrate the Feast of GOD for seven days. The first day is a complete rest and the eighth day is a complete rest.H2568H6240H3117H7637H2320H622H8393H776H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H7223H3117H7677H8066H3117H7677 40On the first day, pick the best fruit from the best trees; take fronds of palm trees and branches of leafy trees and from willows by the brook and celebrate in the presence of your GOD for seven days—H3947H7223H3117H6529H1926H6086H3709H8558H6057H5687H6086H6155H5158H8055H6440H3068H430H7651H3117 41yes, for seven full days celebrate it as a festival to GOD. Every year from now on, celebrate it in the seventh month.H2287H2282H3068H7651H3117H8141H2708H5769H1755H2287H7637H2320 42Live in booths for seven days—every son and daughter of Israel is to move into boothsH3427H5521H7651H3117H3478H249H3427H5521 43so that your descendants will know that I made the People of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am GOD, your God."H1755H3045H1121H3478H3427H5521H3318H776H4714H3068H430 44Moses posted the calendar for the annual appointed feasts of GOD which Israel was to celebrate.H4872H1696H1121H3478H4150H3068
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