26И вот что еще Господь сказал Моисею: 27«Когда появится на свет теленок, ягненок или козленок, семь дней должны они быть при матери, а с восьмого дня и позже будут пригодны уже для приношения в дар Господу. 28Ни коровы, ни овцы нельзя закалывать вместе с их приплодом в один день.

29Если хотите принести Господу благодарственную жертву во славу Его милости, делайте это так, чтобы она могла быть принята от вас. 30Съесть ее нужно в тот же день; до утра оставлять нельзя. Я – Господь.

31Неукоснительно соблюдайте заповеди Мои. Я – Господь. 32Не бесчестите святое имя Мое, ведь почитаем Я должен быть сынами Израилевыми. Я – Господь, который освящает вас, 33 Тот, Кто вывел вас из Египта, чтобы стать вашим Богом. Я – Господь».

23 Господь велел Моисею 2передать сынам Израилевым: «Вот установленные Господом праздники, объявляя о наступлении которых вы должны созывать священные собрания; это Мной установленные праздники.

Суббота, Пасха и праздник Опресноков

3У вас есть шесть дней, чтобы заниматься повседневными делами. Седьмой день – суббота, время святого покоя[932], день священного собрания, в который вы не должны работать, ибо это суббота Господня во всех жилищах ваших, где б вы ни жили.

4Вот установленные Господом праздники, священные собрания, проводить которые вы должны в определенное для них время.

5 On the fourteenth day of the first month,[933] in the evening, before nightfall, the Passover of the Lord begins. 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month, the feast[934] of Unleavened Bread in honor of the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day of celebrations you must have a sacred assembly, and no daily work is to be done on that day[935]. 8All seven days you shall offer gifts[936] to the Lord. And on the seventh day there must be a holy assembly, do not do any daily work on this day."

Feast of the First Sheaf

9The Lord commanded Moses 10 to say these words to the children of Israel: "When you come to the land that I am giving you, when you have gathered the first harvest in it, bring the first sheaf of that harvest to the priest. 11He will lift up the sheaf as an offering to be offered before the Lord,[937]a that it may be received from you. On the morning after Saturday[938] the priest must raise the sheaf. 12On the day that this rite is performed, you are to offer a sacrifice – a completely burned sacrifice to the Lord – a one-year-old lamb without any blemish. 13Along with the sheaf and the lamb, a grain offering is to be offered, two-tenths of an eph of the best flour mixed with olive oil. it is a gift to the Lord, a pleasing fragrance to Him; likewise a libation is to be offered, a quarter of a hin of wine[939]. 14You shall not eat bread of the new harvest, nor grains, toasted or freshly ripe, until the day that you have offered sacrifice to your God. And let this be an immutable institution in all your generations, wherever you live.

Pentecost

15After that Sabbath, you are to count seven full weeks, beginning with the day on which you offered the sheaf as a gift to God. 16The first day after the seventh Sabbath will be the fiftieth day, and on that day you will offer the Lord a new meal offering, 17 it shall be two loaves of bread to be lifted up, such as you bake in your gates, each baked from two-tenths of a measure of the best flour. These loaves should be baked from sour dough – these will be the first fruits of the field, offered to the Lord. 18Along with the bread, seven lambs of one year old without blemish, one young bull, and two rams are to be sacrificed. All this is to be a burnt offering to the Lord, and together with the bread offering and the drink offering, it is a gift to the Lord, a sweet fragrance to Him. 19And you shall offer a goat as a sin offering, and two lambs a year old as sacrifices of thanksgiving from those who are in peace and prosperity. 20The priest is to offer two lambs, together with the grain offering, from the firstfruits of the field, as an offering to the Lord. These holy things, returned to the Lord, are for the priest.

21On this day of the feast it is proper to convene an assembly – it will be a holy assembly – no daily work is to be carried on. And let it be an immutable institution, wherever you live, for all your generations.

22 And when ye reap the harvest in your land, ye shall not reap the field to the very edge, neither shall ye cut off the ears of corn that are left after the harvest. Leave it to the poor and the settler. I am the Lord your God."