More Instructions about Festivals

​More Instructions about Festivals

After the Celebration of the first Crops…

Celebrate The Festival of Harvest

“From the day after the Sabbath—the day, on which you bring the bundle, of grain, to be lifted up, as a special offering—count off seven full weeks. Then. …Keep counting, until the day, after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then, present an offering of new grain to the Lord. 

From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread, to be lifted up, before the Lord, as a special offering. Make these loaves, from four quarts, of choice flour, and bake them, with yeast. They will be an offering, to the Lord, from the first, of your crops. 

Along with the bread, present seven one-year-old male lambs,  with no defects,… one young bull, and two rams, as burnt offerings, to the Lord. 

These burnt offerings, together with the grain offerings… and liquid offerings, will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma, to the Lord. 

Then, you must offer one male goat, as a sin offering …and two one-year-old male lambs, as a peace offering. 

“The priest will lift up the two lambs, as a special offering, to the Lord, together with the loaves, representing the first, of your crops. 

These offerings, which are holy to the Lord, belong to the priests. 

That same day will be proclaimed, as an official day, for holy assembly, a day, on which you do no ordinary work. 

This is a permanent law, for you, and it must be observed, from generation to generation, wherever you live. 

“When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. 

Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the Lord your God.” 

The Festival of Trumpets

Then, the Lord said to Moses, 

“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. 

On the first day, of the appointed month, in early autumn, you are to observe a day, of complete rest. 

It will be an official day, for holy assembly; a day commemorated, with loud blasts of a trumpet. 

You must do no ordinary work on that day. 

Instead, you are to present special gifts to the Lord.” 

The Day of Atonement

Then, the Lord said to Moses, 

“Be careful to celebrate the Day of Atonement, on the tenth day, of that same month—nine days, after the Festival of Trumpets. 

You must observe it, as an official day, for holy assembly; a day to deny yourselves… and present special gifts, to the Lord. 

Do no work during that entire day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right, with the Lord your God. 

All who do not deny themselves, on that day, will be cut off, from God’s people. And I will destroy anyone, among you, who does any work, on that day. You must not do any work at all! 

This is a permanent law, for you, and it must be observed, from generation to generation, wherever you live. 

This will be a Sabbath day, of complete rest, for you… and on that day, you must deny yourselves. 

This day, of rest, will begin, at sundown on the ninth day, of the month …and extend until sundown, on the tenth day.” 

Leviticus 23:15–32 (NLT)

Praise be to God!




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