Leviticus 23:4–36

⁴“These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. ⁵The Passover^e to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. ⁶The Festival of Unleavened Bread^f to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. ⁷On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work. ⁸You are to present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; do not do any daily work.”

⁹The Lord spoke to Moses: ¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,^A you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. ¹¹He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath. ¹²On the day you present the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb^B without blemish^g as a burnt offering to the Lord. ¹³Its grain offering is to be four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart^D of wine. ¹⁴You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain^E until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

¹⁵“You are to count seven^F complete weeks^Gh starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.^{i 16}You are to count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. ¹⁷Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits^j to the Lord. ¹⁸You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a food offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁹You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice. ²⁰The priest will present the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest. ²¹On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations. ²²When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the resident alien;^k I am the Lord your God.”

²³The Lord spoke to Moses: ²⁴“Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts^l—a sacred assembly.^{m 25}You must not do any daily work, but you must present a food offering to the Lord.”

²⁶The Lord again spoke to Moses: ²⁷“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.ⁿ You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial;^o you are to present a food offering to the Lord. ²⁸On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God. ²⁹If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he is to be cut off from his people. ³⁰I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day. ³¹You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live. ³²It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

³³The Lord spoke to Moses: ³⁴“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters^Ap to the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days. ³⁵There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work. ³⁶You are to present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly;^a you are not to do any daily work.