Old Testament

New Testament

Leviticus 23:16-32 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

16. you shall count to the day after the seventh week, fifty days. Then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.

17. For the elevated offering of your first-ripened fruits to the Lord, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of bran flour and baked with leaven.

18. Besides the bread, you shall offer to the Lord a burnt offering of seven unblemished yearling lambs, one bull of the herd, and two rams, along with their grain offering and libations, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

19. One male goat shall be sacrificed as a purification offering, and two yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice.

20. The priest shall elevate them—that is, the two lambs—with the bread of the first-ripened fruits as an elevated offering before the Lord; these shall be sacred to the Lord and belong to the priest.

21. On this same day you shall make a proclamation: there shall be a declared holy day for you; no heavy work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute through all your generations wherever you dwell.

22. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the Lord, am your God.

23. The Lord said to Moses:

24. Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you will have a sabbath rest, with trumpet blasts as a reminder, a declared holy day;

25. you shall do no heavy work, and you shall offer an oblation to the Lord.

26. The Lord said to Moses:

27. Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You will have a declared holy day. You shall humble yourselves and offer an oblation to the Lord.

28. On this day you shall not do any work, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord, your God.

29. Those who do not humble themselves on this day shall be cut off from the people.

30. If anyone does any work on this day, I will remove that person from the midst of the people.

31. You shall do no work; this is a perpetual statute throughout your generations wherever you dwell;

32. it is a sabbath of complete rest for you. You shall humble yourselves. Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep your sabbath from evening to evening.

Read complete chapter Leviticus 23