Leviticus Chapter 23

God’s feasts

23:1 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ya’ll shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.
23:3 Six days shall work be done but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation ; ya’ll shall do no work [therein] it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
23:4 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ya’ll shall proclaim in their seasons.
23:5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD seven days ya’ll must eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day ya’ll shall have an holy convocation ya’ll shall do no servile work therein.
23:8 But ya’ll shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation ya’ll shall do no servile work [therein].
23:9 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
23:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ya’ll be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ya’ll shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest
23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
23:12 And ya’ll shall offer that day when ya’ll wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.
23:13 And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD [for] a sweet savour and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of an hin.
23:14 And ya’ll shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ya’ll have brought an offering to your God [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Pentecost

23:15 And ya’ll shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ya’ll brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete
23:16 Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ya’ll number fifty days ; and ya’ll shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD.
23:17 ya’ll shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals they shall be of fine flour ; they shall be baken with leaven ; [they are] the firstfruits to the LORD.
23:18 And ya’ll 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 to the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour to the LORD.
23:19 Then ya’ll shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
23:20 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.
23:21 And ya’ll shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation to you ya’ll shall do no servile work [therein it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
23:22 And when ya’ll reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reapest, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest you will leave them to the poor, and to the stranger I [am] the LORD your God.
23:23 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,

Rosh Ha-Shanah

23:24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first [full moon] of the month, shall ya’ll have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
23:25 ya’ll shall do no servile work [therein] but ya’ll shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Day of atonement

23:26 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
23:27 Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement it shall be an holy convocation to you; and ya’ll shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
23:28 And ya’ll 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.
23:29 For what ever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:30 And what ever soul [it be] that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
23:31 ya’ll shall do no manner of work [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:32 It [shall be] to you a sabbath of rest, and ya’ll shall afflict your souls in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from even to even, shall ya’ll celebrate your sabbath.
23:33 And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
23:34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days to the LORD.
23:35 On the first day [shall be] an holy convocation ya’ll shall do no servile work [therein].
23:36 Seven days ya’ll shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation to you; and ya’ll shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD it [is] a solemn assembly ; [and] ya’ll shall do no servile work [therein].
23:27 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ya’ll shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day
23:28 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ya’ll give to the LORD.
23:29 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ya’ll have gathered in the fruit of the land, ya’ll shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days on the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.
23:40 And ya’ll 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 ya’ll shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
23:41 And ya’ll shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations ya’ll shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
23:42 ya’ll shall stay in booths seven days ; all that are Israelites born shall stay in booths 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to stay in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I [am] the LORD your God.
23:43 And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.