Leviticus 23:1-18

1The Lord spoke to Moses:

2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are my appointed times, the times of the Lord that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.

3“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.

4“These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

5The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

6The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

8You are to present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; do not do any daily work.”

9The Lord spoke to Moses:

10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

11He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath.

12On the day you present the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.

13Its grain offering is to be four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart of wine.

14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

15“You are to count seven complete weeks starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.

16You are to count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

17Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.

18You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.