Leviticus 23

1Yahweh spoke to Moses:

2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are Yahweh’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. These are my appointed festivals.

3Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to Yahweh wherever you live.

4These are Yahweh’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies that you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is Yahweh’s Passover.

6On the fifteenth day of that month is Yahweh’s Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; do not do any regular work.

8For seven days you are to present a fire offering to Yahweh. On the seventh day there is a sacred assembly; do not do any regular work.”

9Yahweh spoke to Moses:

10“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the first of your harvest.

11He is to wave the sheaf before Yahweh so that it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

12On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh,

13with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Yahweh, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

14Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live.

15From the day after the Sabbath, the day you bring the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.

16Count fifty days, up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to Yahweh.

17From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with yeast, as firstfruits to Yahweh.

18Along with the bread, present seven male lambs a year old and without defect, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to Yahweh.

19Offer one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of fellowship offerings.

20The priest is to wave them, along with the bread of the firstfruits, as a wave offering before Yahweh, together with the two lambs. They are to be holy to Yahweh, for the priest.

21On this very day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. Do not do any regular work. This is a permanent statute wherever you live, throughout your generations.

22When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field, and do not gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.”

23Yahweh spoke to Moses:

24“Speak to the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, a memorial announced with loud blasts, a sacred assembly.

25Do not do any regular work, and present a fire offering to Yahweh.”

26Yahweh spoke to Moses:

27“Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a fire offering to Yahweh.

28Do not do any work on this very day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

29Anyone who does not humble themselves on this very day must be cut off from their people.

30And anyone who does any work on this very day—I will destroy that person from among their people.

31You must not do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live.

32It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. On the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you are to keep your Sabbath.”

33Yahweh spoke to Moses:

34“Speak to the Israelites: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is Yahweh’s Festival of Booths, for seven days.

35On the first day there is a sacred assembly; do not do any regular work.

36For seven days you are to present a fire offering to Yahweh. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; do not do any regular work.

37These are Yahweh’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to Yahweh—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day—

38besides Yahweh’s Sabbaths, and besides your gifts, all your vows, and all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh.

39Now on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you are to celebrate Yahweh’s festival for seven days. The first day is a day of complete rest, and the eighth day is a day of complete rest.

40On the first day you are to take for yourselves the fruit of splendid trees, palm fronds, branches of leafy trees, and willows from the stream, and you are to rejoice before Yahweh your God for seven days.

41Celebrate it as a festival to Yahweh for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations; celebrate it in the seventh month.

42Live in booths for seven days. All the native-born in Israel are to live in booths,

43so that your generations will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”

44So Moses announced the appointed festivals of Yahweh to the Israelites.