Leviticus 23:1-13 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses,

2 |Tell the Israelis that these are my festival times appointed by the LORD that you are to declare as sacred assemblies:

3 Six days you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work. It's a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.

4 These are the LORD's appointed festivals and sacred assemblies that you are to declare at their appointed time.

5 |The LORD's Passover is to begin on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight.

6 On the fifteenth day of that month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread.

7 On the first day that you hold the sacred assembly, you are to do no servile work.

8 Instead, you are to bring an offering made by fire to the LORD daily for seven days. On the seventh day, you are also to hold a sacred assembly during which you are to do no servile work.|

9 The LORD told Moses,

10 |Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I'm about to give you and gather its produce, you are to bring a sheaf from the first portion of your harvest to the priest,

11 who will offer the sheaf in the LORD's presence for your acceptance. 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 one year old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering in the LORD's presence.

13 Also present a meal offering of two tenths of a measure of fine flour mixed with olive oil as an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma. Now as to a drink offering, you are to present a fourth of a hin of wine.