Leviticus 23 (NET)

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Leviticus 23:1¹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:2²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘These are the Lord ’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies—my appointed times.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:3³“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:4⁴“‘These are the Lord ’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:5⁵In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:6⁶Then on the fifteenth day of the same month will be the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:7⁷On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:8⁸You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:9⁹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:10¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:11¹¹and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit —on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:12¹²On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer a flawless yearling lamb for a burnt offering to the Lord,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:13¹³along with its grain offering, two-tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma, and its drink offering, one-fourth of a hin of wine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:14¹⁴You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:15¹⁵“‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:16¹⁶You must count fifty days—until the day after the seventh Sabbath—and then you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:17¹⁷From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:18¹⁸Along with the loaves of bread, you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:19¹⁹You must also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two yearling lambs for a peace-offering sacrifice,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:20²⁰and the priest is to wave them—the two lambs —along with the bread of the firstfruits, as a wave offering before the Lord; they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:21²¹“‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:22²²When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the Lord your God.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:23²³The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:24²⁴“Tell the Israelites, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:25²⁵You must not do any regular work, but you must present a gift to the Lord.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:26²⁶The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:27²⁷“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves and present a gift to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:28²⁸You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:29²⁹Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:30³⁰As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people —Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:31³¹you must not do any work! This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:32³²It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:33³³The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:34³⁴“Tell the Israelites, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Shelters for seven days to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:35³⁵On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:36³⁶For seven days you must present a gift to the Lord. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:37³⁷“‘These are the appointed times of the Lord that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the Lord —burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, each day according to its regulation,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:38³⁸besides the Sabbaths of the Lord and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:39³⁹“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:40⁴⁰On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees —palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook—and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:41⁴¹You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:42⁴²You must live in temporary shelters for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in shelters,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:43⁴³so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Leviticus 23:44⁴⁴So Moses spoke to the Israelites about the appointed times of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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