| Chapter
23 |
| 1 | And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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2 | Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning
the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even
these are my feasts. |
| 3 |
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an
holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in
all your dwellings. |
| 4 |
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall
proclaim in their seasons. |
| 5 |
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's
passover. |
| 6 | And on the
fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD:
seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. |
| 7 | In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein. |
|
8 | But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven
days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work
therein. |
| 9 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 10 |
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into
the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye
shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: |
| 11 | And he shall wave the
sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath
the priest shall wave it. |
| 12 |
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without
blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. |
| 13 | And the meat offering thereof shall be
two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto
the LORD for a sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine,
the fourth part of an hin. |
| 14
| And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears,
until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall
be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. |
| 15 | And ye shall count unto
you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf
of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: |
| 16 | Even unto the morrow after the seventh
sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto
the LORD. |
| 17 | Ye shall
bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be
of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto
the LORD. |
| 18 | And ye
shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and
one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the
LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering
made by fire, of sweet savor unto the LORD. |
| 19 | Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace
offerings. |
| 20 | And the
priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering
before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the
priest. |
| 21 | And ye shall
proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye
shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations. |
| 22 | And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither
shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the
poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. |
|
23 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 24 | Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye
have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. |
| 25 | Ye shall do no servile
work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. |
| 26 | And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying, |
| 27 | Also
on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it
shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. |
| 28 | And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a
day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. |
| 29 | For whatsoever soul it be
that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among
his people. |
| 30 | And
whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will
I destroy from among his people. |
|
31 | Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings. |
|
32 | It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye
shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto
even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. |
| 33 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 34 | Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. |
| 35 | On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work therein. |
| 36
| Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on
the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do
no servile work therein. |
| 37 |
These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing
upon his day: |
| 38 | Beside
the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and
beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. |
| 39 | Also in the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the
eighth day shall be a sabbath. |
| 40
| And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. |
| 41 | And ye shall keep it a feast unto
the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your
generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. |
| 42 | Ye shall dwell in booths seven days;
all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: |
|
43 | That your generations may know that I made the
children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt: I am the LORD your God. |
| 44
| And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the
LORD. |
