Feasts and Sabbaths
1. Then the LORD said to Moses,
2. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
3. For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
4. These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:
5. The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6. On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7. On the first day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.
8. For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.”
The Feast of Firstfruits
9. And the LORD said to Moses,
10. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
11. He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
12. On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb 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, an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
14. You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
The Feast of Weeks
15. From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
16. You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
17. You must bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven as firstfruits to the LORD.
18. Along with the bread, present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
19. You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship offering.
20. The priest shall wave the two lambs together with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD; they are to be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21. On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
22. When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.”
The Feast of Trumpets
23. Then the LORD said to Moses,
24. “Say to the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of Sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
25. You must not do any regular work, but present an offering made by fire to the LORD.”
The Day of Atonement
26. Then the LORD said to Moses,
27. “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
28. On this day you are not to do any work, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
29. If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
30. And I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
31. You are not to do any work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
32. It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
The Feast of Tabernacles
33. Again the LORD said to Moses,
34. “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it lasts for seven days.
35. On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.
36. For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you are not to do any ordinary work.
37. These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings made by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its designated day.
38. These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and all your vow offerings and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
39. So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of complete rest, and the eighth day is also a day of complete rest.
40. On the first day you are to gather the branches of majestic trees—palm branches, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook—and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
41. You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.
42. You are to live in booths for seven days. All the native-born in Israel are to live in booths,
43. so that your descendants will know that I made the Israelites 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 Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.