1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 2 Loquere filiis Israël, et dices ad eos: Hæ sunt feriæ Domini, quas vocabitis sanctas. 3 Sex diebus facietis opus: dies septimus, quia sabbati requies est, vocabitur sanctus: omne opus non facietis in eo: sabbatum Domini est in cunctis habitationibus vestris. 4 Hæ sunt ergo feriæ Domini sanctæ, quas celebrare debetis temporibus suis. 5 Mense primo, quartadecima die mensis ad vesperum, Phase Domini est: 6 et quintadecima die mensis hujus, solemnitas azymorum Domini est. Septem diebus azyma comedetis. 7 Dies primus erit vobis celeberrimus, sanctusque: omne opus servile non facietis in eo, 8 sed offeretis sacrificium in igne Domino septem diebus. Dies autem septimus erit celebrior et sanctior: nullumque servile opus facietis in eo. 9 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 10 Loquere filiis Israël, et dices ad eos: Cum ingressi fueritis terram, quam ego dabo vobis, et messueritis segetem, feretis manipulos spicarum, primitias messis vestræ, ad sacerdotem: 11 qui elevabit fasciculum coram Domino, ut acceptabile sit pro vobis, altero die sabbati, et sanctificabit illum. 12 Atque in eodem die quo manipulus consecratur, cædetur agnus immaculatus anniculus in holocaustum Domini. 13 Et libamenta offerentur cum eo, duæ decimæ similæ conspersæ oleo in incensum Domini, odoremque suavissimum: liba quoque vini, quarta pars hin. 14 Panem, et polentam, et pultes non comedetis ex segete, usque ad diem qua offeretis ex ea Deo vestro. Præceptum est sempiternum in generationibus, cunctisque habitaculis vestris. 15 Numerabitis ergo ab altero die sabbati, in quo obtulistis manipulum primitiarum, septem hebdomadas plenas, 16 usque ad alteram diem expletionis hebdomadæ septimæ, id est, quinquaginta dies: et sic offeretis sacrificium novum Domino 17 ex omnibus habitaculis vestris, panes primitiarum duos de duabus decimis similæ fermentatæ, quos coquetis in primitias Domini. 18 Offeretisque cum panibus septem agnos immaculatos anniculos, et vitulum de armento unum, et arietes duos, et erunt in holocaustum cum libamentis suis, in odorem suavissimum Domini. 19 Facietis et hircum pro peccato, duosque agnos anniculos hostias pacificorum. 20 Cumque elevaverit eos sacerdos cum panibus primitiarum coram Domino, cedent in usum ejus. 21 Et vocabitis hunc diem celeberrimum, atque sanctissimum: omne opus servile non facietis in eo. Legitimum sempiternum erit in cunctis habitaculis, et generationibus vestris. 22 Postquam autem messueritis segetem terræ vestræ, nec secabitis eam usque ad solum, nec remanentes spicas colligetis: sed pauperibus et peregrinis dimittetis eas. Ego sum Dominus Deus vester. 23 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 24 Loquere filiis Israël: Mense septimo, prima die mensis, erit vobis sabbatum, memoriale, clangentibus tubis, et vocabitur sanctum: 25 omne opus servile non facietis in eo, et offeretis holocaustum Domino. 26 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 27 Decimo die mensis hujus septimi, dies expiationum erit celeberrimus, et vocabitur sanctus: affligetisque animas vestras in eo, et offeretis holocaustum Domino. 28 Omne opus servile non facietis in tempore diei hujus: quia dies propitiationis est, ut propitietur vobis Dominus Deus vester. 29 Omnis anima, quæ afflicta non fuerit die hac, peribit de populis suis: 30 et quæ operis quippiam fecerit, delebo eam de populo suo. 31 Nihil ergo operis facietis in eo: legitimum sempiternum erit vobis in cunctis generationibus, et habitationibus vestris. 32 Sabbatum requietionis est, et affligetis animas vestras die nono mensis: a vespera usque ad vesperam celebrabitis sabbata vestra. 33 Et locutus est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 34 Loquere filiis Israël: A quintodecimo die mensis hujus septimi, erunt feriæ tabernaculorum septem diebus Domino. 35 Dies primus vocabitur celeberrimus atque sanctissimus: omne opus servile non facietis in eo. 36 Et septem diebus offeretis holocausta Domino. Dies quoque octavus erit celeberrimus, atque sanctissimus, et offeretis holocaustum Domino: est enim cœtus atque collectæ: omne opus servile non facietis in eo. 37 Hæ sunt feriæ Domini, quas vocabitis celeberrimas atque sanctissimas, offeretisque in eis oblationes Domino, holocausta et libamenta juxta ritum uniuscujusque diei: 38 exceptis sabbatis Domini, donisque vestris, et quæ offeretis ex voto, vel quæ sponte tribuetis Domino. 39 A quintodecimo ergo die mensis septimi, quando congregaveritis omnes fructus terræ vestræ, celebrabitis ferias Domini septem diebus: die primo et die octavo erit sabbatum, id est, requies. 40 Sumetisque vobis die primo fructus arboris pulcherrimæ, spatulasque palmarum, et ramos ligni densarum frondium, et salices de torrente, et lætabimini coram Domino Deo vestro. 41 Celebrabitisque solemnitatem ejus septem diebus per annum: legitimum sempiternum erit in generationibus vestris. Mense septimo festa celebrabitis, 42 et habitabitis in umbraculis septem diebus: omnis, qui de genere est Israël, manebit in tabernaculis, 43 ut discant posteri vestri quod in tabernaculis habitare fecerim filios Israël, cum educerem eos de terra Ægypti. Ego Dominus Deus vester. 44 Locutusque est Moyses super solemnitatibus Domini ad filios Israël.
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Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
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- 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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In fact, brethren, it is of this that God admonishes us, when He commends the Sabbath to our notice: "Thou shalt do no servile work." These are God's words when commending the Sabbath, "Thou shalt do no servile work." Now ask the former lessons, what is meant by servile work; and listen to the Lord: "Every one that committeth sin …
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