Numbers 29–30

The Offerings at the New Year Festival

29On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown. ²Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a smell pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ³Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 3 kilogrammes of flour with the bull, 2 kilogrammes with the ram, ⁴and one kilogramme with each lamb. ⁵Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people. ⁶Offer these in addition to the regular burnt offering for the first day of the month with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. These food offerings are a smell pleasing to the Lord.

The Offerings at the Day of Atonement

^7*Gather for worship on the tenth day of the seventh month; eat no food and do no work. ^8*Offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a smell pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^9*Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 3 kilogrammes of flour with the bull, 2 kilogrammes with the ram, ^10*and one kilogramme with each lamb. ^11*Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the goat offered in the ritual of purification for the people, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.

The Offerings at the Festival of Shelters

^12*Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honour of the Lord for seven days and do no work. ^13*On this first day offer a food offering to the Lord, a smell pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^14*Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 3 kilogrammes of flour with each bull, 2 kilogrammes with each ram, ^15*and one kilogramme with each lamb, with the required wine offerings. ^16*Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. ^17*On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^18–19*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^20*On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^21–22*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^23*On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^24–25*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^26*On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^27–28*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^29*On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^30–31*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^32*On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^33–34*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ^35*On the eighth day gather for worship and do no work. ^36*Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the Lord, a smell pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ^37–38*Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day. ³⁹These are the regulations concerning the burnt offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, and fellowship offerings that you are to make to the Lord at your appointed festivals. These are in addition to the offerings you give in fulfilment of a vow or as freewill offerings. ⁴⁰So Moses told the people of Israel everything that the Lord had commanded him.

Rules about Vows

30Moses gave the following instructions to the leaders of the tribes of Israel. ^2*When a man makes a vow to give something to the Lord or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would. ³When a young woman still living in her father’s house makes a vow to give something to the Lord or promises to abstain from something, ⁴she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it. ⁵But if her father forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.

⁶If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries, ⁷she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it. ⁸But if her husband forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.

⁹A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.

¹⁰If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something, ¹¹she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it. ¹²But if her husband forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow. ¹³Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made. ¹⁴But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it. ¹⁵But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfil the vow.

¹⁶These are the rules that the Lord gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father’s house or by a married woman.