Leviticus 23:5-22 - The Spring Festivals

⁵ The Passover, celebrated to honor Jehovah, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. ⁶ The fifteenth day of the same month the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. You must not eat any bread made with yeast for seven days. ⁷ Gather to worship on the first of these days. Do none of your daily work. ⁸ Bring a sacrifice to Jehovah for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly. Do not do any regular work.'

⁹ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ¹⁰ Tell the Israelites: 'When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring a bundle of the first grain you harvest to the priest. ¹¹ He will present it to Jehovah so that you will be accepted. He will present it on the day after Passover. ¹² On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to Jehovah. ¹³ Present a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to Jehovah. It will be a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering. ¹⁴ Do not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day. Then bring the offering to your God. It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live.

¹⁵ Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover, the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to Jehovah ¹⁶ until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah. ¹⁷ Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah. ¹⁸ Using the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They should be offered as a burnt offering to Jehovah, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to Jehovah. ¹⁹ Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. ²⁰ The priest should present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to Jehovah for the priests. These offerings are holy. ²¹ Do none of your daily work. Gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation from generation to generation, no matter where they live. ²² When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'