Leviticus 23Book 3 of 66 · 44 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  2. Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: The appointed feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.
  3. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
  4. These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, sacred assemblies which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
  5. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight begins the LORD's Passover.
  6. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
  7. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation and you shall do no ordinary work on it.
  8. But you shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days, and the seventh day shall be a sacred assembly; you shall do no ordinary work on it.
  9. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  10. Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land which I give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
  11. He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that you may be accepted; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
  12. And you shall offer on that same day when you wave the sheaf a male lamb one year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.
  13. Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD for a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.
  14. You shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor fresh grain until this very day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
  15. And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven complete weeks.
  16. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
  17. You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven as the firstfruits to the LORD.
  18. Along with the bread you shall offer seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams as a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
  19. Then you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.
  20. The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the two lambs, and they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
  21. And you shall make a proclamation on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you, and you shall do no ordinary work on it; it shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
  22. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest, but you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
  23. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  24. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a sabbath-rest, a sacred commemoration proclaimed with blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
  25. You shall do no ordinary work on it, and you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.
  26. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
  27. Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement, a holy convocation for you; you shall humble yourselves and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
  28. And you shall do no work on that very day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
  29. For any person who does not humble himself in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.
  30. And any person who does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
  31. You shall do no work at all; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
  32. It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves; on the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your Sabbath.
  33. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  34. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD for seven days.
  35. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and you shall do no ordinary work on it.
  36. For seven days you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the LORD, and on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and offer a food offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a solemn assembly, and you shall do no ordinary work on it.
  37. These are the appointed feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings made by fire to the LORD, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day—
  38. These are besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vow offerings, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.
  39. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a solemn sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.
  40. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice with joy before the LORD your God for seven days.
  41. You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year, a permanent statute throughout your generations, observed in the seventh month.
  42. You shall dwell in booths for seven days, and all who are native-born Israelites shall dwell in booths.
  43. so that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
  44. So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.