The Lantern

Leviticus23

Feasts and Sabbaths

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons.

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s Passover.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

In the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.

But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.

The Feast of Firstfruits

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest:

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.

And its grain offering shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet savor: and its drink offering shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the very same day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Feast of Weeks

And you shall count to you from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:

Even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.

You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD.

And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young young bull, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savor to the LORD.

Then you shall sacrifice one young goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

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 the priest.

And you shall proclaim on the very same day, that it may be a holy convocation to you: you shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

The Feast of Trumpets

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

You shall do no servile work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

The Day of Atonement

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

For whatever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

And whatever soul it be that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

You shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, shall you celebrate your Sabbath.

The Feast of Tabernacles

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.

Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no servile work therein.

These are the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a grain offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything upon his day:

Beside the Sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.

And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of fine trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

You shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.