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Laws of Holy Days

¹ The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying,² "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, '^(C1)The LORD'S appointed times which you shall ^(C2)proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:

³ '^(C1)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.

⁴ 'These are the ^(C1)appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.⁵ '^(C1)In the ^(F1)first month, on the fourteenth day of the month ^(F2)at twilight is the LORD'S Passover.⁶ 'Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the ^(C1)Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.⁷ 'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall ^(C1)not do any laborious work.⁸ 'But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.'"

⁹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁰ "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and you ^(C1)gather its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.¹¹ 'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.¹² 'Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect as a burnt offering to the LORD.¹³ 'Its ^(C1)grain offering shall then be ^(F1)two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a ^(F2)fourth of a hin of wine.¹⁴ 'Until this very day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, ^(C1)you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new produce. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

¹⁵ '^(C1)You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.¹⁶ 'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a ^(C1)new grain offering to the LORD.¹⁷ 'You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of ^(F1)two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked ^(C1)with leaven as first fruits to the LORD.¹⁸ 'Along with the bread you shall present seven one-year-old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.¹⁹ 'You shall also offer ^(C1)one male goat as a ^(F1)sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.²⁰ 'The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering with two lambs before the LORD; they are to be holy to the LORD for the priest.²¹ 'On this very day you shall ^(C1)make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious ^(C2)work. It is to be a permanent statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

²² '^(C1)When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"

²³ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,²⁴ "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, '^(C1)In the ^(F1)seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^(F2)rest, a ^(C2)reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.²⁵ 'You shall ^(C1)not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.'"

The Day of Atonement

²⁶ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,²⁷ "On exactly ^(C1)the tenth day of this seventh month is ^(C2)the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble ^(F1)yourselves and present an offering by fire to the LORD.²⁸ "You shall not do any work on this very day, for it is a ^(C1)Day of Atonement, ^(C2)to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God.²⁹ "If there is any ^(F1)person who does not humble himself on this very day, ^(C1)he shall be cut off from his people.³⁰ "As for any person who does any work on this very day, that person I will eliminate from among his people.³¹ "You shall not do any work. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.³² "It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble ^(F1)yourselves; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."

³³ Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,³⁴ "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'On ^(C1)the fifteenth of this ^(F1)seventh month is the ^(C2)Feast of Booths for seven days to the LORD.³⁵ 'On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall ^(C1)not do any laborious work.³⁶ '^(C1)For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On ^(C2)the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall not do any laborious work.

³⁷ 'These are ^(C1)the appointed times of the LORD which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, ^(C2)each day's matter on its own day—³⁸ besides those of the Sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts and besides all your ^(F1)vowed and ^(F2)voluntary offerings, which you give to the LORD.

³⁹ 'On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ^(C1)when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days, with a ^(F1)rest on the first day and a ^(F1)rest on the eighth day.⁴⁰ 'Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the ^(F1)foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and branches of trees with thick branches and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.⁴¹ 'So you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.⁴² 'You shall live ^(C1)in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths,⁴³ so that ^(C1)your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'"⁴⁴ So Moses declared to the sons of Israel ^(C1)the appointed times of the LORD.