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1 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Jehovah, which you
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
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 Jehovah in all your dwellings.
4 “‘These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even
holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening,
is Jehovah’s Passover. 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the
feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do
no regular work. 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah
seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular
work.’”
9 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 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 harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf
of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11 and he shall wave
the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the
Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf,
you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Jehovah.
13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Jehovah for a pleasant aroma; and
the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or 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.
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: 16 even to the next day after the seventh
Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to
Jehovah. 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread
for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be
baked with yeast, for first fruits to Jehovah. 18 You shall present with
the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams.
They shall be a burnt offering to Jehovah, with their meal offering, and their
drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.
19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a
year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 The priest shall wave them
with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Jehovah, with the
two lambs. They shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest. 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.
22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you
must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather
the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the
foreigner. I am Jehovah your God.’”
23 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 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. 25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an
offering made by fire to Jehovah.’”
26 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 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 Jehovah. 28 You shall do no kind of work on
that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah
your God. 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself on that same
day; shall be cut off from his people. 30 Whoever it is who does any kind
of work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest
for you, and you shall deny yourselves. On the ninth day of the month at evening,
from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
33 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 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 Jehovah. 35 On the first day shall
be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work. 36 Seven days you
shall offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah. On the eighth day shall be a
holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah,
which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by
fire to Jehovah, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink
offerings, each on its own day; 38 besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and
besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill
offerings, which you give to Jehovah.
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 Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on
the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40 You shall take on the first day
the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees,
and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven
days. 41 You shall keep it a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It
is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the
seventh month. 42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are
native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths, 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 Jehovah your God.’”
44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the
appointed feasts of Jehovah.
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