The Harvest Festival

(Numbers 28.26-31)

The Lord said:

^15 (A) Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain. ¹⁶ Do this exactly 50 days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath. ¹⁷ Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up^[a] in dedication to me. Each loaf is to be made with yeast and with two kilograms of the finest flour from the first part of your harvest.

¹⁸ At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me.^[b] You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal.^{[c] 19} Offer a goat^[d] as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.^{[e] 20} The priest will lift up^[f] the rams together with the bread in dedication to me. These offerings are holy and are my gift to the priest. ²¹ This is a day of celebration and worship, a time of rest from your work. You and your descendants must obey this law.

The Sacrifices during the Harvest Festival

(Leviticus 23.15-22)

The Lord said:

^26 (A) On the first day of the Harvest Festival, you must rest from your work, come together for worship, and bring a sacrifice of new grain. ²⁷ Offer two young bulls, one full-grown ram, and seven rams a year old as sacrifices to please me.^{[a] 28} Three kilograms of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice. Two kilograms of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram, ²⁹ and one kilogram of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams. ³⁰ Also offer a goat^[b] as a sacrifice for sin. ³¹ The animals must have nothing wrong with them and are to be sacrificed along with the regular daily sacrifices.^[c]

³⁹ Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honor of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival. ⁴⁰ Pick the best fruit from your trees^[a] and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honor. ⁴¹ I command you and all of your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year. ⁴² For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter, ⁴³ so future generations will know that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.