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Leviticus 23 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:1 - And the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:2 - Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.
(Num 28:16–25 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:4 - These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:9 - And the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:10 - Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:11 - And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:12 - And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:13 - And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.
(Exo 34:22; Num 28:26–31; Deu 16:9, 10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:15 - And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:16 - Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:17 - Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:19 - And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:20 - And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.
(Num 29:1–6 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:23 - And the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:24 - Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25 - Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

The Day of Atonement

(Num 29:7–11 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:26 - And the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:27 - The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32 - Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.
(Num 29:12–40; Deu 16:13–17 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:33 - And the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:37 - These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:38 - In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:42 - For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:43 - So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:44 - And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.
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