²³Then^s Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴“Speak to the Israelites,^t saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have^u a rest period, a remembrance of the trumpet blast, a holy assembly. ²⁵You must not do any regular work,^v and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’ ”

The Day of Atonement

²⁶Then^w Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷“Surely the Day of Atonement is on the tenth day of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ²⁸And you must not do any regular work^x on this very same day,^y because it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before^z Yahweh your God. ²⁹If there is any person who does not deny himself on this very same day,^a then^b he shall be cut off from his people. ³⁰As for^c any person who does any work on this very same day,^d I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people. ³¹You must not do any work; it is a lasting statute^e throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³²It is a Sabbath of complete rest^f for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening—from evening to evening you must observe your extraordinary^g Sabbath.”

The Feast of Booths

³³Then^h Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴“Speak to the Israelites,ⁱ saying, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days for Yahweh. ³⁵On the first day there shall be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.^j ³⁶For seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it is a celebration; you must not do any regular work.^k

Summary

³⁷“ ‘These are Yahweh’s festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh—burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, each on its proper day^l— ³⁸besides^m Yahweh’s Sabbaths and besidesⁿ your gifts and besides^o your vows and besides^p all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh.

³⁹“ ‘Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land’s produce, you shall hold Yahweh’s festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period. ⁴⁰And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches^q of a leafy tree and of a brook’s poplar trees, and you shall rejoice before^r Yahweh your God for seven days. ⁴¹And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a lasting statute^s throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it. ⁴²You must live in the booths for seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths, ⁴³so that your generations shall know that I made the Israelites^t live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

Read in Logos

Footnotes

sOr “And”
tLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
uLiterally “it must be for yourselves”
vLiterally “all work of labor”
wOr “And”
xLiterally “all work of labor”
yLiterally “the exactly of this day”
zLiterally “to the faces of”
aLiterally “the exactly of this day”
bOr “and”
cOr “And”
dLiterally “the exactly of this day”
eLiterally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
fLiterally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’ ” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
gSupplied from the immediate context within this verse
hOr “And”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “work of labor”
kLiterally “all work of labor”
lLiterally “a thing of a day on its day”
mLiterally “from to alone”
nLiterally “from to alone”
oLiterally “from to alone”
pLiterally “from to alone”
qCollective singular
rLiterally “to the faces of”
sLiterally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
tLiterally “sons/children of Israel”