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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 23 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Leviticus 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/22.htm" title="Leviticus 22">◄</a> Leviticus 23 <a href="../leviticus/24.htm" title="Leviticus 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Religious Festivals</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_1"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.1" class="v2_23_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave Moses </span><span class="v2_23_2"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.2" class="v2_23_2">2</span>the following regulations for the religious festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather for worship. </span><span class="v2_23_3"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.3" class="v2_23_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. The Sabbath belongs to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, no matter where you live. </span><span class="v2_23_4"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.4" class="v2_23_4">4</span>Proclaim the following festivals at the appointed times.</span></p><h3 class="s">Passover and Unleavened Bread</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 28:16-25">Numbers 28.16-25</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_5"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.5" class="v2_23_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Passover, celebrated to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. </span><span class="v2_23_6"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.6" class="v2_23_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. </span><span class="v2_23_7"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.7" class="v2_23_7">7</span>On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work. </span><span class="v2_23_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.8" class="v2_23_8">8</span>Offer your food offerings to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_9"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.9-Lev.23.10" class="v2_23_9">9-10</span>When you come into the land that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is giving you and you harvest your grain, take the first sheaf to the priest. </span><span class="v2_23_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.11" class="v2_23_11">11</span>He shall present it as a special offering to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath. </span><span class="v2_23_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.12" class="v2_23_12">12</span>On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. </span><span class="v2_23_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.13" class="v2_23_13">13</span>With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine. </span><span class="v2_23_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.14" class="v2_23_14">14</span>Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Harvest Festival</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 28:26-31">Numbers 28.26-31</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.15" class="v2_23_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v2_23_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.16" class="v2_23_16">16</span>On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> another new offering of grain. </span><span class="v2_23_17"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.17" class="v2_23_17">17</span>Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> as an offering of the first grain to be harvested. </span><span class="v2_23_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.18" class="v2_23_18">18</span>And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v2_23_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.19" class="v2_23_19">19</span>Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. </span><span class="v2_23_20"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.20" class="v2_23_20">20</span>The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for the priests. These offerings are holy. </span><span class="v2_23_21"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.21" class="v2_23_21">21</span>On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_22"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.22" class="v2_23_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is your God.</span></p><h3 class="s">The New Year Festival</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 29:1-6">Numbers 29.1-6</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_23"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.23-Lev.23.24" class="v2_23_23">23-24</span>On the first day of the seventh month observe a special day of rest, and come together for worship when the trumpets sound. </span><span class="v2_23_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.25" class="v2_23_25">25</span>Present a food offering to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and do none of your daily work.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Day of Atonement</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 29:7-11">Numbers 29.7-11</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.26-Lev.23.27" class="v2_23_26">26-27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.26-Lev.23.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when the annual ritual is to be performed to take away the sins of the people. On that day do not eat anything at all; come together for worship, and present a food offering to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v2_23_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.28" class="v2_23_28">28</span>Do no work on that day, because it is the day for performing the ritual to take away sin. </span><span class="v2_23_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.29" class="v2_23_29">29</span>Any who eat anything on that day will no longer be considered God's people. </span><span class="v2_23_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.30" class="v2_23_30">30</span>And if any do any work on that day, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> himself will put them to death. </span><span class="v2_23_31"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.31" class="v2_23_31">31</span>This regulation applies to all your descendants, no matter where they live. </span><span class="v2_23_32"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.32" class="v2_23_32">32</span>From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Festival of Shelters</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="NUM 29:12-40">Numbers 29.12-40</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_33"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.33-Lev.23.34" class="v2_23_33">33-34</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.23.33-Lev.23.34!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continues for seven days. </span><span class="v2_23_35"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.35" class="v2_23_35">35</span>On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work. </span><span class="v2_23_36"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.36" class="v2_23_36">36</span>Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_36">( </span><span class="v2_23_37"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.37" class="v2_23_37">37</span>These are the religious festivals on which you honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span> by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day. </span><span class="v2_23_38"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.38" class="v2_23_38">38</span>These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_39"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.39" class="v2_23_39">39</span>When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest. </span><span class="v2_23_40"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.40" class="v2_23_40">40</span>On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God. </span><span class="v2_23_41"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.41" class="v2_23_41">41</span>Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come. </span><span class="v2_23_42"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.42" class="v2_23_42">42</span>All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days, </span><span class="v2_23_43"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.43" class="v2_23_43">43</span>so that your descendants may know that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_23_44"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.23.44" class="v2_23_44">44</span>So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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