Chapter 23

And Yehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Yehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, are these: they are My appointed seasons:

six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Yehovah in all your dwellings.

`These are appointed seasons of Yehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons:

in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Yehovah;

and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened things to Yehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat;

on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work;

and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Yehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.`

And Yehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest,

then he hath waved the sheaf before Yehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it.

`And ye have prepared in the day of your waving the sheaf a lamb, a perfect one, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering to Yehovah,

and its present two tenth deals of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to Yehovah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink-offering, wine, a fourth of the hin.

`And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God -- a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.

`And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths;

unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Yehovah;

out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two loaves, of two tenth deals of flour they are, with yeast they are baken, first-fruits to Yehovah.

`And ye have brought near, besides the bread, seven lambs, perfect ones, sons of a year, and one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt-offering to Yehovah, with their present and their libations, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Yehovah.

`And ye have prepared one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace-offerings,

and the priest hath waved them, besides the bread of the first-fruits -- a wave-offering before Yehovah, besides the two lambs; they are holy to Yehovah for the priest;

and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work -- a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Yehovah am your God.`

And Yehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye have a sabbath, a memorial of shouting, a holy convocation;

ye do no servile work, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Yehovah.`

And Yehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Only -- on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Yehovah;

and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Yehovah your God.

`For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;

and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people;

ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.

It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.`

And Yehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the fifteenth day of this seventh month is a feast of booths seven days to Yehovah;

on the first day is a holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

seven days ye bring near a fire-offering to Yehovah, on the eighth day ye have a holy convocation, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Yehovah; it is a restraint, ye do no servile work.

`These are appointed seasons of Yehovah, which ye proclaim holy convocations, to bring near a fire-offering to Yehovah, a burnt-offering, and a present, a sacrifice, and libations, a thing of a day in its day,

apart from the sabbaths of Yehovah, and apart from your gifts, and apart from all your vows, and apart from all your willing-offerings, which ye give to Yehovah.

`Only -- in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, in your gathering the increase of the land, ye do keep the feast of Yehovah seven days; on the first day is a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath;

and ye have taken to yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palms, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of a brook, and have rejoiced before Yehovah your God seven days.

`And ye have kept it a feast to Yehovah, seven days in a year -- a statute age-during to your generations; in the seventh month ye keep it a feast.

`In booths ye dwell seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in booths,

so that your generations do know that in booths I caused the sons of Israel to dwell; in my bringing them out of the land of Egypt; I, Yehovah, am your God.`

And Moses speaketh concerning the appointed seasons of Yehovah unto the sons of Israel.