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These are my festivals:</p> <p><span id="v03023003" class="ver">3</span>For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest,<a id="rfn03023003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023003-1">*</a> a declared holy day; you shall do no work. It is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sabbath wherever you dwell.<a id="ren03023003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023003-b">b</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Passover.</span> <span id="v03023004" class="ver">4</span>These are the festivals of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, holy days which you shall declare at their proper time.<a id="ren03023004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023004-c">c</a> <span id="v03023005" class="ver">5</span>The Passover of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="rfn03023005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023005-1">*</a> falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight.<a id="ren03023005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023005-d">d</a> <span id="v03023006" class="ver">6</span>The fifteenth day of this month is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.<a id="ren03023006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023006-e">e</a> <span id="v03023007" class="ver">7</span>On the first of these days you will have a declared holy day; you shall do no heavy work. <span id="v03023008" class="ver">8</span>On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. Then on the seventh day you will have a declared holy day; you shall do no heavy work.</p> <p><span id="v03023009" class="ver">9</span><a id="rfn03023009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023009-1">*</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03023010" class="ver">10</span>Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest, <span id="v03023011" class="ver">11</span>who shall elevate<a id="ren03023011-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023011-f">f</a> the sheaf before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> that it may be acceptable on your behalf.<a id="ren03023011-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023011-g">g</a> On the day after the sabbath<a id="rfn03023011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023011-1">*</a> the priest shall do this. <span id="v03023012" class="ver">12</span>On this day, when your sheaf is elevated, you shall offer to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> for a burnt offering an unblemished yearling lamb. <span id="v03023013" class="ver">13</span>Its grain offering shall be two tenths of an ephah of bran flour mixed with oil, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine. <span id="v03023014" class="ver">14</span>You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels until this day, when you bring the offering for your God. This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations wherever you dwell.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Pentecost.</span> <span id="v03023015" class="ver">15</span>Beginning with the day after the sabbath, the day on which you bring the sheaf for elevation, you shall count seven full weeks;<a id="ren03023015-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023015-h">h</a> <span id="v03023016" class="ver">16</span>you shall count to the day after the seventh week, fifty days.<a id="rfn03023016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023016-1">*</a> <a id="ren03023016-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023016-i">i</a> Then you shall present a new grain offering to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v03023017" class="ver">17</span>For the elevated offering of your first-ripened fruits to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of bran flour and baked with leaven. <span id="v03023018" class="ver">18</span>Besides the bread, you shall offer to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> a burnt offering of seven unblemished yearling lambs, one bull of the herd, and two rams, along with their grain offering and libations, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v03023019" class="ver">19</span>One male goat shall be sacrificed as a purification offering, and two yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice. <span id="v03023020" class="ver">20</span>The priest shall elevate them—that is, the two lambs—with the bread of the first-ripened fruits as an elevated offering before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; these shall be sacred to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and belong to the priest. <span id="v03023021" class="ver">21</span>On this same day you shall make a proclamation: there shall be a declared holy day for you; no heavy work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute through all your generations wherever you dwell.</p> <p><span id="v03023022" class="ver">22</span><a id="ren03023022-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023022-j">j</a> When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, am your God.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">New Year’s Day.</span> <span id="v03023023" class="ver">23</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03023024" class="ver">24</span>Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month<a id="rfn03023024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023024-1">*</a> <a id="ren03023024-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023024-k">k</a> you will have a sabbath rest, with trumpet blasts as a reminder, a declared holy day; <span id="v03023025" class="ver">25</span>you shall do no heavy work, and you shall offer an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Day of Atonement.</span> <span id="v03023026" class="ver">26</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03023027" class="ver">27</span>Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.<a id="rfn03023027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023027-1">*</a> <a id="ren03023027-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023027-l">l</a> You will have a declared holy day. You shall humble yourselves and offer an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v03023028" class="ver">28</span>On this day you shall not do any work, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God. <span id="v03023029" class="ver">29</span>Those who do not humble themselves on this day shall be cut off from the people. <span id="v03023030" class="ver">30</span>If anyone does any work on this day, I will remove that person from the midst of the people. <span id="v03023031" class="ver">31</span>You shall do no work; this is a perpetual statute throughout your generations wherever you dwell; <span id="v03023032" class="ver">32</span>it is a sabbath of complete rest for you. You shall humble yourselves. Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep your sabbath from evening to evening.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Feast of Booths.</span> <span id="v03023033" class="ver">33</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v03023034" class="ver">34</span>Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s feast of Booths,<a id="rfn03023034-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023034-1">*</a> <a id="ren03023034-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en03023034-m">m</a> which shall continue for seven days. <span id="v03023035" class="ver">35</span>On the first day, a declared holy day, you shall do no heavy work. <span id="v03023036" class="ver">36</span>For seven days you shall offer an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, and on the eighth day you will have a declared holy day. You shall offer an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. It is the festival closing. You shall do no heavy work.</p> <p><span id="v03023037" class="ver">37</span><a id="rfn03023037-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023037-1">*</a> These, therefore, are the festivals of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> which you shall declare holy days, in order to offer as an oblation to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and libations, as prescribed for each day, <span id="v03023038" class="ver">38</span>in addition to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sabbaths, your donations, your various votive offerings, and the voluntary offerings that you present to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v03023039" class="ver">39</span>On the fifteenth day, then, of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="rfn03023039-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023039-1">*</a> for a whole week. The first and the eighth day shall be days of rest. <span id="v03023040" class="ver">40</span>On the first day you shall gather fruit of majestic trees, branches of palms, and boughs<a id="rfn03023040-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn03023040-1">*</a> of leafy trees and valley willows. Then for a week you shall make merry before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God. <span id="v03023041" class="ver">41</span>You shall keep this feast of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> for one whole week in the year. By perpetual statute throughout your generations in the seventh month of the year, you shall keep it. <span id="v03023042" class="ver">42</span>You shall dwell in booths for seven days; every native-born Israelite shall dwell in booths, <span id="v03023043" class="ver">43</span>that your descendants may realize that, when I led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, I made them dwell in booths. I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, am your God.</p> <p><span id="v03023044" class="ver">44</span>Thus did Moses announce to the Israelites the festivals of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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