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Leviticus 23 Free Bible Version
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1 The Lord told Moses,
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Tell the Israelites that these are my religious festivals, the festivals of the Lord that you are to call as the holy times when we meet together.
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
3 You have six days to work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy day of meeting together. Don't do any work. It is the Lord's Sabbath everywhere you live.
3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
4 These are the Lord's religious festivals, the holy meetings that you are to announce at their specific times.
4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
5 The Lord's Passover starts on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
6 The Lord's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins on the fifteenth day of the first month. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast.
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you are to hold a holy meeting. You must not do any of your usual work.
7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
8 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. There is to be a holy meeting on the seventh day. You must not do any of your usual work.”
8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’”
9 The Lord told Moses,
9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Tell the Israelites that when you enter the land that I'm giving you and you harvest your crops, take a stack of grain from the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
11 He will wave the stack of grain before the Lord so that it may be accepted on your behalf. The priest is to do this the day following the Sabbath.
11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 When you wave the stack of grain, you are to present a one-year-old lamb without defects as a burnt offering to the Lord,
12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the best flour mixed with olive oil (a food offering to the Lord to be accepted by him) and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.
13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
14 Don't eat any bread, roasted grain, or new grain until the time you bring this offering to your God. This regulation is for all time and for future generations everywhere you live.
14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath—the day you brought the stack of grain as a wave offering.
15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
16 Count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and on that day present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
16 The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
17 Bring two loaves of bread from your homes as a wave offering. Make them from two-tenths of an ephah of the best flour, baked with yeast, as the firstfruits to the Lord.
17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
18 As well as the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs without defects, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, as well as their grain offerings and drink offerings, a food offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.
18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
19 Present one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a peace offering.
19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 The priest will wave the lambs as a wave offering before the Lord, along with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs are holy to the Lord and belong to the priest.
20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
21 That same day you are to announce a holy meeting, and you must not do any of your usual work. This regulation is for all time and for future generations everywhere you live.
21 You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 When you harvest the crops grown on your land, don't harvest right up to the edges of your field, or collect what has been missed. Leave them for the poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.”
22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field. You must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”
23 The Lord told Moses,
23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “Tell the Israelites that on the first day of the seventh month you are to have a special Sabbath of complete rest, a holy meeting that is announced by the sound of trumpets.
24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25 Don't do any of your usual work; instead you are to present a food offering to the Lord.”
25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”
26 The Lord told Moses,
26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “The Day of Atonement is on the tenth day of this seventh month. You are to have a holy meeting, deny yourselves, and present a food offering to the Lord
27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
28 On this day you must not do any of your usual work because it is the Day of Atonement, when things are made right for you before the Lord your God.
28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
29 Anyone who does not practice self-denial on this day must be expelled from their people.
29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.
30 I will destroy anyone of you who does any work on this day.
30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
31 Don't do any kind of work at all. This regulation is for all time and for future generations everywhere you live.
31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until evening the next day.”
32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
33 The Lord told Moses,
33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
34 “Tell the Israelites that the Feast of Tabernacles to honor the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and lasts for seven days.
34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to Yahweh.
35 On the first day have a holy meeting. You must not do any of your usual work.
35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
36 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you are to have another holy meeting and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a meeting for worship. You must not do any of your usual work.
36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
37 These are the Lord's holy festivals, which you are to announce as holy meetings for presenting food offerings to the Lord. These include burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each according to the specific day.
37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—
38 All of these offerings are in addition to those for the Lord's Sabbaths. They are also in addition to your gifts, to all your offerings to fulfill promises, and to all the freewill offerings you present to the Lord.
38 in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
39 You shall celebrate a feast to honor the Lord for seven days on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, once you have harvested your crops. The first day and the eighth day are Sabbaths of complete rest.
39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
40 On the first day you are to gather branches from large trees, from palm trees, from leafy trees and of river willows, and celebrate before the Lord your God for seven days.
40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
41 You are to hold this festival to honor the Lord for seven days every year. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations.
41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
42 You are to live in temporary shelters for seven days. Every Israelite born in the country must live in shelters,
42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,
43 so that your descendants will remember that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I led them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”
44 So Moses told the Israelites all about the Lord's festivals.
44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (37)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Leviticus 23:37; Leviticus 23:4; Hosea 2:11; Psalm 81:3; Exodus 23:14–17
- 3 Leviticus 19:3; Exodus 35:2–3; Exodus 23:12; Exodus 34:21; Exodus 20:8–11
- 4 Exodus 23:14; Leviticus 23:37; Leviticus 23:2
- 5 Deuteronomy 16:1–8; Joshua 5:10; Exodus 12:2–14; Exodus 13:3–10; Exodus 12:18–19
- 6 Exodus 34:18; Exodus 12:15–16; Deuteronomy 16:8; Numbers 28:17–18; Exodus 13:6–7
- 7 Numbers 28:18–25; Leviticus 23:8; Leviticus 23:25; Leviticus 23:35–36; Leviticus 23:21
- 10 Exodus 34:26; Exodus 23:19; Numbers 15:18–21; Deuteronomy 16:9; Revelation 14:4
- 11 Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 9:21; Leviticus 10:14
- 12 Hebrews 10:10–12; Leviticus 1:10; 1 Peter 1:19
- 13 Leviticus 2:14–16; Ezekiel 45:24; Numbers 15:3–12; Exodus 29:40–41; Joel 1:9
- 14 Exodus 34:26; Genesis 4:4–5; Leviticus 25:2–3; Joshua 5:11–12; Leviticus 3:17
- 15 Leviticus 23:10–11; Leviticus 25:8; Deuteronomy 16:9–10; Exodus 34:22; Numbers 28:26
- 16 Acts 2:1; Numbers 28:26
- 17 Leviticus 23:10; Exodus 34:22; Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Leviticus 7:13
- 18 Numbers 28:27–31; Malachi 1:13–14; Numbers 15:4–12; Leviticus 23:12–13
- 19 Numbers 28:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Leviticus 4:23–28; Leviticus 7:11–18; Leviticus 16:15
- 20 Deuteronomy 18:4; Numbers 18:8–12; Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 23:17; Leviticus 10:14–15
- 21 Leviticus 23:2; Numbers 18:23; Genesis 17:7; Leviticus 23:4; Leviticus 23:14
- 22 Deuteronomy 24:19–21; Leviticus 19:9–10; Isaiah 58:10; Proverbs 11:24–25; 2 Corinthians 9:5–12
- 24 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Leviticus 25:9; Numbers 29:1–6; Numbers 10:9–10
- 25 Leviticus 23:21
- 27 Leviticus 16:29–31; Numbers 29:7–11; Leviticus 16:24; Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 16:15
- 28 Zechariah 3:9; Leviticus 16:34; Romans 5:10–11; Hebrews 10:14; Hebrews 9:26
- 29 Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 23:27; Numbers 5:2; Leviticus 23:32; Ezekiel 7:16
- 30 Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 20:5–6; Ezekiel 14:9; Genesis 17:14; Jeremiah 15:7
- 32 Leviticus 16:31; Psalm 69:10–11; Psalm 35:13; Leviticus 23:27; Psalm 51:17
- 34 Nehemiah 8:14; John 7:2; Ezra 3:4; Numbers 29:12; Exodus 34:22
- 35 Leviticus 23:24–25; Leviticus 23:7–8
- 36 Nehemiah 8:18; John 7:37; Deuteronomy 16:8; 2 Chronicles 7:8–11; Numbers 29:12–38
- 37 Leviticus 23:2; Leviticus 23:4; Ecclesiastes 3:1; Deuteronomy 16:16–17
- 38 Numbers 29:39; 2 Chronicles 35:7–8; Deuteronomy 12:6; Leviticus 23:3; 1 Chronicles 29:3–8
- 39 Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:13; Leviticus 23:34; Leviticus 23:36; Leviticus 23:24
- 40 Revelation 7:9; Philippians 4:4; Matthew 21:8; John 12:13; Deuteronomy 16:14–15
- 41 Numbers 29:12; Nehemiah 8:18
- 42 Nehemiah 8:14–17; Numbers 24:2; Hebrews 11:13–16; Jeremiah 35:10; Numbers 24:5
- 43 Exodus 13:14; Psalm 78:5–6; Deuteronomy 31:10–13
- 44 Leviticus 23:1–2; Matthew 18:20; Leviticus 21:24
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