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Leviticus 23:8-25 Modern English Version (MEV)

8. But you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

9. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you have come into the land that I am giving to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf bundle of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

11. And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12. You shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a year-old male lamb without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord.

13. The grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of wheat flour mixed with oil, a food offering made by fire to the Lord for a pleasing aroma; its drink offering shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.

14. You shall eat neither bread nor grain, parched or fresh, until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

15. You shall count seven full weeks from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf bundle of the wave offering.

16. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.

17. You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of wheat flour, baked with leaven. They are the first fruits to the Lord.

18. You shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, one bull, and two rams. They shall be for a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, that is, a food offering made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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

20. The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

21. You shall make a proclamation on the same day and shall hold a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field up to the edge, nor shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest. You shall leave them to the poor and to the foreigner: I am the Lord your God.

23. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

24. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

25. You shall do no regular work, and you shall offer a food offering made by fire to the Lord.

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