Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
1Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. 3There are six days when work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to Yahweh wherever you live. 4These are the appointed festivals of Yahweh, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is the Passover to Yahweh. 6On the fifteenth day of that month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to Yahweh; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8For seven days present a food offering to Yahweh. On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.”
The Offering of the Firstfruits Sheaf
9Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, bring the priest a sheaf of the first grain of your harvest. 11He is to wave the sheaf before Yahweh so that it is accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12On the day you wave the sheaf, offer a lamb a year old without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh, 13along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil — a food offering to Yahweh, a pleasing aroma — and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. 14You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is a lasting statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
The Festival of Weeks
15Count off seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. 16Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present a new grain offering to Yahweh. 17From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast — the firstfruits to Yahweh. 18Present with the bread seven lambs a year old without defect, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to Yahweh, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — a food offering, a pleasing aroma to Yahweh. 19Then sacrifice one male goat as a sin offering and two lambs a year old as a peace offering. 20The priest is to wave them, together with the bread of the firstfruits, as a wave offering before Yahweh, along with the two lambs; they will be holy to Yahweh for the priest. 21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is a lasting statute for the generations to come, wherever you live. 22When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field, and do not gather the gleanings of your harvest; leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.”
The Festival of Trumpets
23Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 24“Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month, you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced with trumpet blasts. 25Do no regular work, and present a food offering to Yahweh.”
The Day of Atonement
26Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to Yahweh. 28Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before Yahweh your God. 29Whoever does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people. 30I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day. 31You are not to do any work at all. This is a lasting statute for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your Sabbath.”
The Festival of Tabernacles
33Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 34“Tell the Israelites: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month begins the Festival of Tabernacles, lasting seven days to Yahweh. 35The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36For seven days present a food offering to Yahweh. On the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to Yahweh. It is a closing assembly; do no regular work. 37These are the appointed festivals of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting food offerings to Yahweh — burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its own day — 38in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh. 39So beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, celebrate the festival of Yahweh for seven days. The first day is a day of complete rest, and the eighth day is a day of complete rest. 40On the first day gather the fruit of majestic trees, palm fronds, leafy branches, and willows of the brook, and rejoice before Yahweh your God for seven days. 41Celebrate this as a festival to Yahweh for seven days each year. This is a lasting statute for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42Live in shelters for seven days; every native-born Israelite is to live in shelters, 43so that your descendants will know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.” 44So Moses declared to the Israelites the appointed festivals of Yahweh.
