{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:02:53.468Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Leviticus","bookSlug":"leviticus","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":27,"totalVerses":44},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"|Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"|'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"|'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'|"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'|"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"|However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.|"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"|Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"|'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"|'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,"},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'|"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh."}],"citation":{"inline":"Leviticus 23 (WEB)","markdown":"[Leviticus 23](https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/23 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}