2. to say to the community of Israel:I have chosen certain times for you to come together and worship me.
3. You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.
4-5. Passover is another time when you must come together to worship me, and it must be celebrated on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month of each year.
6. The Festival of Thin Bread begins on the fifteenth day of that same month; it lasts seven days, and during this time you must honour me by eating bread made without yeast.
7. On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship.
8. Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.
9. The Lord told Moses
10. to say to the community of Israel:After you enter the land I am giving you, the first bundle of wheat from each crop must be given to me. So bring it to a priest
11. on the day after the Sabbath. He will lift it up in dedication to me, and I will accept you.
12. You must also offer a sacrifice to please me. So bring the priest a one-year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it
13. and two kilogrammes of your finest flour mixed with olive oil. Then he will place these on the bronze altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. Together with these, you must bring a litre of wine as a drink offering.
14. I am your God, and I forbid you to eat any new grain or anything made from it until you have brought these offerings. This law will never change.
15. Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain.
16. Do this exactly fifty days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath.
17. Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up in dedication to me. Each loaf is to be made with yeast and with two kilogrammes of the finest flour from the first part of your harvest.
18. At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal.
19. Offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.