Numbers 28:16-26

16 “On the fourteenth day of the first month, you must celebrate the LORD ’s Passover.
17 On the following day—the fifteenth day of the month—a joyous, seven-day festival will begin, but no bread made with yeast may be eaten.
18 The first day of the festival will be an official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.
19 As a special gift you must present a burnt offering to the LORD —two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
20 These will be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,
21 and two quarts with each of the seven lambs.
22 You must also offer a male goat as a sin offering to purify yourselves and make yourselves right with the LORD .
23 Present these offerings in addition to your regular morning burnt offering.
24 On each of the seven days of the festival, this is how you must prepare the food offering that is presented as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD . These will be offered in addition to the regular burnt offerings and liquid offerings.
25 The seventh day of the festival will be another official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.
26 “At the Festival of Harvest, when you present the first of your new grain to the LORD, you must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work on that day.

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in late March, April, or early May.
  • [b]. Or to make atonement for yourselves; also in 28:30 .
  • [c]. Hebrew Festival of Weeks. This was later called the Festival of Pentecost (see Acts 2:1 ). It is celebrated today as Shavuot (or Shabuoth).
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