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    Leviticus 23

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    The calendar forbids leavened bread for seven days, then produces two loaves baked with leaven as firstfruits—an admirably unexpected turn in the bakery.

    The first appointed daysvv. 1–8

    The LORD gives Moses a calendar of sacred assemblies, beginning with the weekly Sabbath and then moving into the first month. Passover arrives at twilight on the fourteenth day; the Feast of Unleavened Bread follows on the fifteenth, lasting seven days, with assemblies at either end and no regular work on those days. The calendar is precise enough to make even the moon appear punctual.

    Firstfruits, and the field’s unharvested edgevv. 9–22

    Once Israel enters the land and its harvest begins, the first sheaf goes to the priest, who waves it before the LORD. Only after that offering may bread, roasted grain, or new grain be eaten; fifty days later come two loaves baked with leaven, along with a considerable company of animals and offerings. Then, in the midst of this carefully arranged feast, the field itself interrupts the liturgy: its edges and gleanings are to remain for the poor and the foreign resident. The harvest is not to be gathered with the tidy efficiency of a broom.

    The seventh month, with an eighth day up its sleevevv. 23–44

    The seventh month brings trumpet blasts, the Day of Atonement, and then the Feast of Tabernacles. The feast is said to continue for seven days, yet the eighth day receives its own sacred assembly, food offering, solemnity, and complete rest: the calendar, having counted to seven, declines to stop there. For seven days the people rejoice with branches and dwell in booths, so that descendants may know what happened when the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses then announces the appointed feasts to the Israelites, having carried the whole wonderfully crowded schedule to its end.

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    1. Lev 23:1Then the LORD said to Moses,

    2. Lev 23:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

    3. Lev 23:3For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

    4. Lev 23:4These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

    5. Lev 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    6. Lev 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

    7. Lev 23:7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

    8. Lev 23:8For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

    9. Lev 23:9And the LORD said to Moses,

    10. Lev 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

    11. Lev 23:11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

    12. Lev 23:12On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

    13. Lev 23:13along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

    14. Lev 23:14You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

    15. Lev 23:15From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

    16. Lev 23:16You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

    17. Lev 23:17Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.

    18. Lev 23:18Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    19. Lev 23:19You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.

    20. Lev 23:20The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

    21. Lev 23:21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

    22. Lev 23:22When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

    23. Lev 23:23The LORD also said to Moses,

    24. Lev 23:24“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

    25. Lev 23:25You must not do any regular work, but you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”

    26. Lev 23:26Again the LORD said to Moses,

    27. Lev 23:27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.

    28. Lev 23:28On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

    29. Lev 23:29If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.

    30. Lev 23:30I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.

    31. Lev 23:31You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

    32. Lev 23:32It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

    33. Lev 23:33And the LORD said to Moses,

    34. Lev 23:34“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.

    35. Lev 23:35On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

    36. Lev 23:36For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

    37. Lev 23:37These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting food offerings to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

    38. Lev 23:38These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.

    39. Lev 23:39On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.

    40. Lev 23:40On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

    41. Lev 23:41You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.

    42. Lev 23:42You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,

    43. Lev 23:43so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

    44. Lev 23:44So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

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    • 22Leviticus 19:9–10When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
    • 22Deuteronomy 24:19–21If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
    • 27Leviticus 16:29–31This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
    • 3Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
    • 5Deuteronomy 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
    • 10Exodus 34:26Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
    • 22Isaiah 58:10and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
    • 22Proverbs 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
    • 241 Corinthians 15:52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
    • 241 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
    • 34John 7:2However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
    • 34Nehemiah 8:14And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,
    • 39Exodus 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
    • 4Exodus 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
    • 24Leviticus 25:9Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
    • 24Numbers 29:1–6“On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.

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