Leviticus 23

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

² Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: (the solemn festivals of Yahweh to which you summon them are sacred assemblies) “These are my solemn festivals.

³ You may work for six days, but the seventh must be a day of complete rest, a day for the sacred assembly on which you do no work at all. Wherever you live, this is a sabbath for Yahweh.

⁴ These are Yahweh’s solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you are to summon the sons of Israel on the appointed day.

⁵ The fourteenth day of the first month, between the two evenings, is the Passover of Yahweh;

⁶ and the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread for Yahweh. For seven days you shall eat bread without leaven.

⁷ On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must do no heavy work.

⁸ For seven days you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh. The seventh day is to be a day of sacred assembly; you must do no work.”‘

⁹ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

¹⁰ Speak to the sons. of Israel and say to them: “When you enter the land that I give you, and gather in the harvest there, you must bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest,

¹¹ and he is to present it to Yahweh with the gesture of offering, so that you may be acceptable. The priest shall make this offering on the day after the sabbath,

¹² and on the same day as you make this offering, you are to offer Yahweh the holocaust of an unblemished lamb one year old.

¹³ The oblation for that day shall be two-tenths of wheaten flour mixed with oil, a burnt offering whose fragrance will appease Yahweh. The libation is to be one quarter of a hin of wine.

¹⁴ You are to eat no bread, roasted corn or baked bread, before this day, before making the offering to your God. This is a perpetual law for all your descendants, wherever you live.

¹⁵ From the day after the sabbath, the day on which you bring the sheaf of offering, you are to count seven full weeks.

¹⁶ You are to count fifty days, to the day after the seventh sabbath, and then you are to offer Yahweh a new oblation.

¹⁷ You must bring bread from your houses to present with the gesture of offering – two loaves, made of two-tenths of wheaten flour baked with leaven; these are first-fruits for Yahweh.

¹⁸ In addition to the bread you must offer seven unblemished lambs one year old, a young bull and two rams, as a holocaust to Yahweh, together with an oblation and a libation, a burnt offering whose fragrance will appease Yahweh.

¹⁹ You are also to offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two lambs one year old as a communion sacrifice.

²⁰ The priest shall present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering, in addition to the bread of the first-fruits. These, and the two lambs, are holy things for Yahweh, and will revert to the priest.

²¹ This same day you are to hold an assembly; this shall be a sacred assembly for you; you will do no heavy work. This is a perpetual law for your descendants, wherever you live.

²² When you gather the harvest in your country, you are not to harvest to the very end of your field, and you are not to gather the gleanings of the harvest. You are to leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am Yahweh your God.”‘

²³ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

²⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: “The first day of the seventh month[*a] shall be a day of rest for you, a sacred assembly proclaimed with trumpet call.

²⁵ You must not do any heavy work and you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh.

²⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

²⁷ ‘But the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly. You must fast, and you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh.

²⁸ You are not to do any work that day, for it is the Day of Atonement, on which the rite of atonement will be performed over you before Yahweh your God.

²⁹ Indeed, anyone who fails to fast that day shall be outlawed from his people;

³⁰ anyone who works that day I will remove from his people.

³¹ No work must be done – this is a perpetual law for your descendants wherever you live.

³² This is to be a day of sabbath rest for you. You must fast; on the evening of the ninth day of the month, from this to the following evening, you must cease to work.’

³³ Yahweh spoke to Moses; he said:

³⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: “The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of Tabernacles for Yahweh, lasting seven days.

³⁵ The first day is a day of sacred assembly; you must do no heavy work.

³⁶ For seven days you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly, you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh. It is a day of solemn meeting; you must do no heavy work.

³⁷ These are the solemn festivals of Yahweh to which you are to summon the children of Israel, sacred assemblies for the purpose of offering burnt offerings, holocausts, oblations, sacrifices and libations to Yahweh, according to the ritual of each day,

³⁸ besides the sabbaths of Yahweh and the presents, and the votive and voluntary gifts that you make to Yahweh.

³⁹ But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have harvested the produce of the land, you are to celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days. On the first and eighth days there shall be a complete rest.

⁴⁰ On the first day you shall take choice fruits, palm branches, boughs of leafy trees and willows from the river bank, and for seven days you shall rejoice in the presence of Yahweh your God.

⁴¹ You are to celebrate a feast for Yahweh in this way for seven days every year. This is a perpetual law for your descendants. “You are to keep this feast in the seventh month.

⁴² For seven days you are to live in shelters: all natives of Israel must live in shelters,

⁴³ so that your descendants may know that I made the sons of Israel live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”‘

⁴⁴ And Moses described the solemn festivals of Yahweh to the sons of Israel.