1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
3. “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.
4. “ ‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:
5. The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
7. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
8. For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ ”
9. The Lord said to Moses,
10. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.
11. He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.