Levítico 23

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

² Speake vnto the children of Israel, & say vnto them, The feastes of ye Lord which yee shall call ye holie assemblies, euen these are my feasts.

³ Six daies shall worke be done, but in the seuenth day shalbe the Sabbath of rest, an holie conuocation: ye shall do no worke therein, it is the Sabbath of the Lorde, in all your dwellings.

⁴ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in theirFor the sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept only once every year.seasons.

⁵ In the first moneth, and in the fourteenth day of the moneth at euening shalbe ye Passeouer of the Lord.

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this moneth shalbe the feast of vnleauened bread vnto the Lord: seuen dayes ye shall eate vnleauened bread.

⁷ In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do noOr, bodily labour, save about that which one must eat, (Exo_12:16).servile work therein.

⁸ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in theThe first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feasts that were together, as were the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of sheaves which were on the fifteenth and sixteenth days.seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein].

⁹ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

¹⁰ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye be come into ye land which I giue vnto you, and reape the haruest thereof, then ye shal bring a sheafe of the first fruites of your haruest vnto the Priest,

¹¹ And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after theThat is, the second sabbath of the Passover.sabbath the priest shall wave it.

¹² And that day when yee shake the sheafe, shall yee prepare a lambe without blemish of a yeere olde, for a burnt offring vnto the Lord:

¹³ And the meat offering thereof [shall be] twoWhich is, the fifth part of an Ephah, or two Omers: read (Exo_16:16).tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD [for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part]Read (Exo_29:40).of an hin.

¹⁴ And ye shal eat neither bread nor parched corne, nor greene eares vntill the selfe same day that ye haue brought an offring vnto your God: this shalbe a lawe for euer in your generations and in all your dwellings.

¹⁵ And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after theThat is, the seventh day after the first sabbath of the Passover.sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

¹⁶ Vnto ye morow after the seuenth Sabbath shall ye nomber fiftie dayes: then yee shall bring a newe meate offring vnto the Lord.

¹⁷ Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken withBecause the priest should eat them, as in (Lev_7:13), and they should not be offered to the Lord on the altar.leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.

¹⁸ Also yee shall offer with the bread seuen lambes without blemish of one yeere olde, and a yong bullocke and two rams: they shalbe for a burnt offring vnto the Lorde, with their meate offrings and their drinke offrings, for a sacrifice made by fire of a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.

¹⁹ Then ye shall prepare an hee goate for a sinne offring, and two lambes of one yeere olde for peace offrings.

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 theThat is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the priest.priest.

²¹ So ye shall proclayme the same day, that it may be an holie conuocation vnto you: ye shall doe no seruile worke therein: it shalbe an ordinance for euer in al your dwellinges, throughout your generations.

²² And when you reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not rid cleane the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy haruest, but shalt leaue them vnto the poore and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

²³ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

²⁴ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In theThat is, about the end of September.seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall yeOr, a holy day to the Lord.have a sabbath, a memorial ofWhich blowing was to remind them of the many feasts that were in that month, and of the Jubile.blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

²⁵ Ye shall do no seruile worke therein, but offer sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.

²⁶ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

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 shallBy fasting and prayer.afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

²⁸ And ye shall doe no worke that same day: for it is a day of reconciliation, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

²⁹ For euery person that humbleth not himselfe that same day, shall euen be cut off from his people.

³⁰ And euery person that shall doe any work that same day, the same person also will I destroy from among his people.

³¹ Ye shall do no maner worke therefore: this shalbe a law for euer in your generations, throughout all your dwellings.

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, fromWhich contains a night and a day: yet they took it as their natural day.even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

³³ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

³⁴ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say, In the fifteenth day of this seueth moneth shalbe for seuen dayes the feast of Tabernacles vnto the Lorde.

³⁵ In the first day shalbe an holie conuocation: ye shall do no seruile worke therein.

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] aOr, a day in which the people refrain from all work.solemn assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein].

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, aOr, peace offering.sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

³⁸ Beside the Sabbaths of the Lorde, and beside your giftes, and beside al your vowes, and beside all your free offrings, which ye shal giue vnto the Lorde.

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] aOr, a solemn feast.sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.

⁴⁰ And yee shall take you in the first day the fruite of goodly trees, branches of palme trees, & the boughes of thicke trees, and willowes of the brooke, and shall reioyce before the Lorde your God seuen daies.

⁴¹ So ye shall keepe this feast vnto the Lorde seuen daies in the yere, by a perpetuall ordinance through your generations: in the seuenth moneth shall you keepe it.

⁴² Ye shall dwell in boothes seuen daies: all that are Israelites borne, shall dwel in boothes,

⁴³ That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell inIn the wilderness, in that they would not believe Joshua and Caleb, when they returned from spying the land of Canaan.booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

⁴⁴ So Moses declared vnto the children of Israel the feastes of the Lord.