4 " 'These are the LORD's appointed feasts, 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 Feast 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 an offering made to the LORD by fire. 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. |
12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, |
13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah1 23:13 That is, probably about 4 quarts (about 4.5 liters); also in verse 17 of fine flour mixed with oil-an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma-and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin2 23:13 That is, probably about 1 quart (about 1 liter) of wine. |
14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. |
15 " 'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. |
16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD . |
17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD . |
18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD , together with their grain offerings and drink offerings-an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD . |
19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.3 23:19 Traditionally peace offering |
20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. |
