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Leviticus 23:5-15 God's Word Translation (GW)

5. “The fourteenth day of the first month, in the evening, is the Lord’s Passover.

6. The fifteenth day of this same month is the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

7. On the first day there will be a holy assembly. Don’t do any regular work.

8. Bring the Lord a sacrifice by fire for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly. Don’t do any regular work.”

9. The Lord spoke to Moses,

10. “Tell the Israelites: When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring the priest a bundle of the first grain you harvest.

11. He will present it to the Lord so that you will be accepted. He will present it on the day after Passover.

12. On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to the Lord.

13. Bring a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to the Lord, a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering.

14. Don’t eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day, when you bring the offering to your God. It is a permanent law for generations to come wherever you live.

15. “Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover (the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to the Lord)

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