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Unacceptable Sacrifices (continued)
23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:2 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.
The Sabbath
23:3 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.
The Passover and the
Festival of Unleavened Bread
23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy
convocations, which ye 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 unto the LORD: seven days ye must
eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
23:8 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.
Offering the Firstfruits
23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:10 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:
23:11 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.
23:12 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.
23:13 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.
23:14 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.
The Festival of Weeks
23:15 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:
23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall
ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering
unto the LORD.
23:17 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.
23:18 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.
23:19 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.
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 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.
23:22 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.
The Festival of Trumpets
23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:24 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.
23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The Day of Atonement
23:26 And the LORD spake unto 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
unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
23:28 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.
23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted
in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that
same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his
people.
23:31 Ye 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 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.
The Festival of
Tabernacles
23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23:34 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.
23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
23:36 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.
23:37 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:
23:38 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.
23:39 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.
23:40 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.
23:41 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.
23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are
Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
23:43 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.
23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
feasts of the LORD.
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