1 ARST Yahweh said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ARST “Tell the Israelites about the festivals for Yahweh, the days when you all must gather together in holy assemblies on set times each year, as festivals in which you worship me. BSB BSB: “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 ARST You may work for six days each week, but on the seventh day you must not do any work. You must rest. It is a sacred day when you must gather together to worship me. Wherever you live, you must rest on that day. BSB BSB: For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
4 ARST There are festivals that I am establishing for you. These will be sacred days when you must gather together to worship me. BSB BSB: These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
5 ARST The first festival is the Passover. That festival will begin at twilight on the appointed day each spring and end the following day. BSB BSB: The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 ARST The next day will begin the Festival of Bread with no Yeast. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast. BSB BSB: 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 ARST On the first day of that festival, all of you must stop your regular work and gather together to worship me. BSB BSB: On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
8 ARST On each of the seven days, you must present to me several animals as an offering to be completely burned on the altar. On the seventh day, all of you must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.” BSB BSB: For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
9 ARST Yahweh also told Moses BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
10 ARST to tell the Israelite people about other festivals. He said,“After you arrive in the land which I am giving to you, and when you harvest your crops for the first time there, bring to the priest some of the first grain that you harvest. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
11 ARST On the day after the next Sabbath day, the priest will lift it up high to dedicate it to me, in order that I may accept it as your gift. BSB BSB: And 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 ARST On that same day you must sacrifice to me a one year old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it on the altar. BSB BSB: On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,
13 ARST You must also burn a flour offering. That offering must consist of four and one- half liters of good flour, ground grain, mixed with olive oil. The smell of those things burning will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering. BSB BSB: along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
14 ARST Do not eat any bread or any roasted or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live. BSB BSB: You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
15 ARST Count seven weeks and one day after the priest offers that bundle of grain to me. BSB BSB: 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 ARST Then on the day after the seventh Sabbath, each family must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain. BSB BSB: 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 ARST From your homes, bring two loaves of bread to the priest. He will lift them up high to dedicate them as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from four and one- half liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest each year. BSB BSB: Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
18 ARST Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one year old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned on the altar. All those offerings, with the flour offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell of all those things burning will be very pleasing to me. BSB BSB: Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
19 ARST Then you must also kill one male goat as an offering for your sins, and two one year old male lambs to be an offering for you to promise friendship with me. BSB BSB: You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
20 ARST The priest will lift up these offerings high to dedicate them to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are special to me; but they are for the priest. BSB BSB: The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 ARST On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live. BSB BSB: On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
22 ARST When you harvest the grain in your fields, do not harvest what is along the edges of the fields, and do not pick up the grain that the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor people and for the foreigners who are living among you. Do not forget that it is I, Yahweh your God, who am commanding those things!” BSB BSB: When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the 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.’”
23 ARST Yahweh also told Moses BSB BSB: The LORD also said to Moses,
24 ARST to give these instructions to the Israelite people:“Each year in the seventh month, on the first day of that month, all of you must celebrate that day, on which you will completely rest. You must not do any work on that day. When the priests blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together as a holy assembly, to worship me. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
25 ARST All of you must not do any regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned on the altar.” BSB BSB: You must not do any regular work, but you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”
26 ARST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Again the LORD said to Moses,
27 ARST “You must celebrate a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival when the priests blow the trumpets. On that day you must not eat. You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned on the altar. BSB BSB: “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.
28 ARST You must not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to atone for your sins. BSB BSB: On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
29 ARST You must drive out from the people anyone who does not go without eating on that day. BSB BSB: If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
30 ARST I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day. BSB BSB: I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
31 ARST You must not work at all! You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live. BSB BSB: You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
32 ARST That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must fast to show that you are sorry for having sinned. That day of rest and going without food will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.” BSB BSB: It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
33 ARST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
34 ARST “Tell the Israelite people that each year they must also celebrate the Festival of Shelters. That festival will begin five days after the Day of Atonement. This festival will last for seven days. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
35 ARST On the first day of that festival, the people must gather together to worship me, and they must not do any regular work. BSB BSB: On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
36 ARST On each of the seven days of this festival, they must present to me an offering of animals that will be burned on the altar. On the eighth day, they must gather again as a holy assembly to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned on the altar. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either. BSB BSB: For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
37 ARST To summarize, those are the festivals that I have appointed. Celebrate these festivals by gathering together to present to me all the various offerings that will be burned on the altar— animals that will be burned completely, and offerings of flour, offerings to promise friendship with me, and offerings of wine. Each offering must be brought on the day that I have indicated. BSB BSB: These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting food offerings to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.
38 ARST You must celebrate these festivals in addition to worshiping me on the Sabbath days. And you must give me all those offerings in addition to the offerings that people personally decide to give, and in addition to the offerings that people make to accompany the solemn promises that they have made. BSB BSB: These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
39 ARST Returning to my instructions about the Festival of Shelters, you must celebrate this festival after you have harvested all the crops. On the first day and on the last day of that festival, you must rest completely. BSB BSB: On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.
40 ARST But on the first day, you are permitted to pick the best fruit from trees. You will also take branches from the palm trees, leafy branches from other trees, and willow trees near the stream, and make shelters to live in for that week. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days. BSB BSB: On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
41 ARST You must celebrate this festival for seven days every year. You and all your descendants must always obey these commands, wherever you live. You must celebrate this festival in the seventh month. BSB BSB: You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 ARST During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelites all of your lives must live in shelters. BSB BSB: You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
43 ARST This festival will always remind your descendants that their ancestors lived in shelters for many years after I rescued them from Egypt. Do not forget that I, Yahweh your God, am the one who is commanding this.” BSB BSB: so that your descendants may 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 ARST So Moses gave to the Israelite people all these instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh wanted them to celebrate each year. BSB BSB: So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.
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