Feasts and Sabbaths (Exodus 23:14–19)
1 CPDV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 CPDV Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy. 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 CPDV For six days you shall do work; the seventh day, because it is the rest of the Sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwelling places. 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.
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12:14–28; Numbers 28:16–25; Deuteronomy 16:1–8)
4 CPDV Therefore, these are the feasts of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their times. BSB BSB: These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
5 CPDV The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, is the Passover of the Lord. BSB BSB: The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 CPDV And the fifteenth day of this month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. For seven days shall you eat unleavened bread. 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 CPDV The first day shall be greatly honored and holy to you; you shall do no servile work in it. BSB BSB: On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
8 CPDV But you shall offer a sacrifice with fire, for seven days, to the Lord. Then the seventh day shall be more honored and more holy; and you shall do no servile work in it. 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.’”
The Feast of Firstfruits 9 CPDV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
10 CPDV Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, and you will have harvested your grain fields, you shall carry the sheaves of grain, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest. 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 CPDV He shall lift up a sheaf before the Lord, on the day after the Sabbath, so that it may be acceptable for you, and he shall sanctify it. 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 CPDV And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a one-year-old immaculate lamb shall be slain as a holocaust of the Lord. 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 CPDV And the libations shall be offered with it: two-tenths of fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, as an incense and a most sweet odor for the Lord; likewise, libations of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 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 CPDV Bread, and parched grain, and boiled grain, you shall not eat from the grain field, until the day when you shall offer from it to your God. It is an everlasting precept in your generations and in all of your dwelling places. 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.
The Feast of Weeks (Acts 2:1–13)
15 CPDV Therefore, you shall number from the day after the Sabbath, in which you offered a sheaf of the first-fruits, seven full weeks, 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 CPDV all the way to the day after the completion of the seventh week, that is, fifty days, and then you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord, 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 CPDV from all of your dwelling places: two loaves from the first-fruits, from two-tenths of leavened fine wheat flour, which you shall bake as the first-fruits of the Lord. 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 CPDV And you shall offer with the bread: seven immaculate one-year-old lambs, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and these shall be a holocaust, with their libations, as a most sweet odor to the Lord. 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 CPDV You shall also offer a he-goat for sin, and two one-year-old lambs as victims of peace offerings. 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 CPDV And when the priest has lifted them up with the loaves of the first-fruits, in the sight of the Lord, they shall fall to his use. 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 CPDV And you shall call this day most honored and most holy; you shall do no servile work in it. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwelling places and generations. 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 CPDV And when you will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down all the way to the ground; neither shall you gather the remnants of the ears of grain, but you shall leave these for paupers and strangers. I am the Lord your God. 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.’”
The Feast of Trumpets (Numbers 29:1–6)
23 CPDV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: BSB BSB: The LORD also said to Moses,
24 CPDV Say to the sons of Israel: The seventh month, the first day of the month, shall be a Sabbath for you, a memorial, with the sounding of trumpets, and it shall be called holy. 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 CPDV You shall do no servile work in it, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord. BSB BSB: You must not do any regular work, but you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”
The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:1–34; Numbers 29:7–11)
26 CPDV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: BSB BSB: Again the LORD said to Moses,
27 CPDV The tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement; it shall be most honored, and it shall be called holy. And you shall afflict your souls on that day, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord. 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 CPDV You shall do no servile work in the time of this day; for it is a day of propitiation, so that the Lord your God may be merciful to you. 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 CPDV Every soul that has not been afflicted on this day shall perish from his people, BSB BSB: If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
30 CPDV and anyone who will have done work, I shall wipe him away from his people. BSB BSB: I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
31 CPDV Therefore, you shall do no work on that day. This shall be an everlasting ordinance for you in all your generations and dwelling places. 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 CPDV It is a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month: from evening until evening you shall celebrate your Sabbaths. 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.”
The Feast of Tabernacles (Nehemiah 8:13–18; Zechariah 14:16–21)
33 CPDV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
34 CPDV Say to the sons of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be the Feast of Tabernacles: seven days for the Lord. 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 CPDV The first day shall be called most honored and most holy; you shall do no servile work in it. BSB BSB: On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
36 CPDV And for seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. Likewise, the eighth day shall be most honored and most holy, and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and gathering. You shall do no servile work in it. 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 CPDV These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call most honored and most holy, and in them you shall offer oblations to the Lord: holocausts and libations according to the rite of each particular day, 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 CPDV aside from the Sabbaths of the Lord, and your donations, and that which you offer by a vow, or which you give to the Lord spontaneously. 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 CPDV Therefore, from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you will have gathered together all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days. The first day and the eighth day shall be a Sabbath, that is, a day of rest. 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 CPDV And you shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruits of the most beautiful tree, and branches of palm trees, and branches of trees with thick foliage, and willows from the torrent. And you shall rejoice in the sight of the Lord your God. 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 CPDV And you shall celebrate its solemnity for seven days each year. This shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month, you shall celebrate the feast, 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 CPDV and you shall live under shelters for seven days. All who are of the family of Israel shall dwell in tabernacles, BSB BSB: You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
43 CPDV so that your posterity may learn that I caused the sons of Israel to live in tabernacles, when I led them away from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. 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 CPDV And Moses spoke about the solemnities of the Lord to the sons of Israel. BSB BSB: So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.