利未記 23
1 耶和華對摩西說：
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 「你曉諭以色列人說：耶和華的節期，你們要宣告為聖會的節期。
“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”
3 六日要做工，第七日是聖安息日，當有聖會；你們甚麼工都不可做。這是在你們一切的住處向耶和華守的安息日。
“You may work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must not do any work. You must rest. It is a sacred/holy day when you must gather together [to worship me]. Wherever you live, you must rest on that day.”
4 耶和華的節期，就是你們到了日期要宣告為聖會的，乃是這些。」
“There are festivals that I have established for you. Those will also be sacred/holy days when you must gather together [to worship me].
5 「正月十四日，黃昏的時候，是耶和華的逾越節。
[The first festival is] (the Passover/when you remember that I spared your ancestors when I killed all the firstborn Egyptian sons). That festival will begin at twilight/dusk/sunset on the chosen day (each spring/in March or April each year), [and end on the following day].
6 這月十五日是向耶和華守的無酵節；你們要吃無酵餅七日。
The next day, the Festival of Eating Bread That Has No Yeast will begin. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
7 第一日當有聖會，甚麼勞碌的工都不可做；
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 要將火祭獻給耶和華七日。第七日是聖會，甚麼勞碌的工都不可做。」
On each of the seven days, you must present to me [several animals to be] an offering/sacrifice to be completely burned [on the altar]. On the seventh day, you all must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.”
9 耶和華對摩西說：
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 「你曉諭以色列人說：你們到了我賜給你們的地，收割莊稼的時候，要將初熟的莊稼一捆帶給祭司。
to tell the Israeli people [about other festivals]. He said, “When you arrive in the land which I am giving to you, and you harvest your crops [for the first time] there, bring to the priest some of the first grain that you harvest.
11 他要把這一捆在耶和華面前搖一搖，使你們得蒙悅納。祭司要在安息日的次日把這捆搖一搖。
On the day after the [next] Sabbath/rest day, the priest will lift it up [high to dedicate it] to me, in order that I will accept it as your [gift].
12 搖這捆的日子，你們要把一歲、沒有殘疾的公綿羊羔獻給耶和華為燔祭。
That same day, you must sacrifice to me a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it [on the altar].
13 同獻的素祭，就是調油的細麵伊法十分之二，作為馨香的火祭，獻給耶和華。同獻的奠祭，要酒一欣四分之一。
You must also burn an offering of grain. That offering must consist of (three quarts/3.5 liters) of good flour mixed with [olive] oil. The smell [of those things burning] will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one quart/liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.
14 無論是餅，是烘的子粒，是新穗子，你們都不可吃，直等到把你們獻給上帝的供物帶來的那一天才可以吃。這在你們一切的住處作為世世代代永遠的定例。」
Do not eat any bread or any roasted grain or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You must always obey [LIT] those commands, wherever you live.”
15 「你們要從安息日的次日，獻禾捆為搖祭的那日算起，要滿了七個安息日。
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 到第七個安息日的次日，共計五十天，又要將新素祭獻給耶和華。
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 要從你們的住處取出細麵伊法十分之二，加酵，烤成兩個搖祭的餅，當作初熟之物獻給耶和華。
From your homes, bring two loaves of bread [to the priest]. He will lift them up [high to dedicate them] as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from three quarts/liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest [each year].
18 又要將一歲、沒有殘疾的羊羔七隻、公牛犢一隻、公綿羊兩隻，和餅一同奉上。這些與同獻的素祭和奠祭要作為燔祭獻給耶和華，就是作馨香的火祭獻給耶和華。
Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one-year-old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned [on the altar]. All those offerings, with the grain offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell [of all those things burning] will be very pleasing to me.
19 你們要獻一隻公山羊為贖罪祭，兩隻一歲的公綿羊羔為平安祭。
Then you must also kill one male goat to be an offering/sacrifice for your sins, and two one-year-old male lambs to be an offering to enable you to maintain fellowship with me.
20 祭司要把這些和初熟麥子做的餅一同作搖祭，在耶和華面前搖一搖；這是獻與耶和華為聖物歸給祭司的。
The priest will lift up these offerings [high to dedicate them] to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are sacred to me, but they are for the priests [to eat].
21 當這日，你們要宣告聖會；甚麼勞碌的工都不可做。這在你們一切的住處作為世世代代永遠的定例。
On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
22 「在你們的地收割莊稼，不可割盡田角，也不可拾取所遺落的；要留給窮人和寄居的。我是耶和華－你們的上帝。」
“When you harvest the grain in your fields, do not harvest the grain along the edges of the fields, and do not pick up the grain that the harvesters drop. Leave that grain for the poor people and for the foreigners who are living among you. [Do not forget that it is] I, Yahweh your God, [who am commanding those things]!”
23 耶和華對摩西說：
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 「你曉諭以色列人說：七月初一，你們要守為聖安息日，要吹角作紀念，當有聖會。
to give these instructions/commands to the Israeli people: “[Each year] in September, on the day that I have chosen, you all must celebrate it by completely resting. You must not do any work on that day. When [the priests] blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together to worship me.
25 甚麼勞碌的工都不可做；要將火祭獻給耶和華。」
All of you must not do your regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].”
26 耶和華曉諭摩西說：
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 「七月初十是贖罪日；你們要守為聖會，並要刻苦己心，也要將火祭獻給耶和華。
“You must celebrate a day [on which you request that I] forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival [when the priests blow] the trumpets. On that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food). You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].
28 當這日，甚麼工都不可做；因為是贖罪日，要在耶和華－你們的上帝面前贖罪。
You must not do any work on that day, because it is the day when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to (atone for/ask me to forgive) your sins.
29 當這日，凡不刻苦己心的，必從民中剪除。
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 凡這日做甚麼工的，我必將他從民中除滅。
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 你們甚麼工都不可做。這在你們一切的住處作為世世代代永遠的定例。
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 你們要守這日為聖安息日，並要刻苦己心。從這月初九日晚上到次日晚上，要守為安息日。」
That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food) [to show that you are sorry for having sinned]. That day of rest and (fasting/abstaining from eating food) will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.”
33 耶和華對摩西說：
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 「你曉諭以色列人說：這七月十五日是住棚節，要在耶和華面前守這節七日。
“Tell the Israeli people that [each year] they must also celebrate a festival of living in temporary shelters. That festival will begin five days after the day in which they request me to forgive them for their sins. It will last for seven days.
35 第一日當有聖會，甚麼勞碌的工都不可做。
On the first day of that festival, the people must gather together to worship me, and they must not do any regular work on that day.
36 七日內要將火祭獻給耶和華。第八日當守聖會，要將火祭獻給耶和華。這是嚴肅會，甚麼勞碌的工都不可做。
On each of the seven days of the festival, they must present to me an offering [of animals] that will be burned [on the altar]. On the next day, they must gather again to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned [on the altar]. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either.
37 「這是耶和華的節期，就是你們要宣告為聖會的節期；要將火祭、燔祭、素祭、祭物，並奠祭，各歸各日，獻給耶和華。
“[To summarize], those are the festivals that I have appointed. Celebrate those sacred festivals by gathering together to present to me all the various offerings that will be burned [on the altar]—animals that will be burned completely, and offerings of grain, and offerings to enable the Israeli people to maintain fellowship with me, and offerings of wine. Each offering must be brought on the day that I have indicated.
38 這是在耶和華的安息日以外，又在你們的供物和所許的願，並甘心獻給耶和華的以外。
(Those festivals must be celebrated/You must celebrate those festivals) in addition to [worshiping on] the (Sabbath days/days of rest). And all those offerings must be given in addition to the offerings that people personally decide to give, and in addition to the offerings that people make to accompany the solemn promises that they have made, or offerings that people make (voluntarily/because they themselves want to).
39 「你們收藏了地的出產，就從七月十五日起，要守耶和華的節七日。第一日為聖安息；第八日也為聖安息。
“[Returning to my instructions about] the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, you must celebrate this festival after you have harvested all the crops. On the first day and on the last day of that festival, you must rest completely.
40 第一日要拿美好樹上的果子和棕樹上的枝子，與茂密樹的枝條並河旁的柳枝，在耶和華－你們的上帝面前歡樂七日。
But on the first day, you are permitted to pick fruit from trees. Cut palm fronds/branches and other leafy branches from trees or from bushes that grow by the streams, [and make shelters/huts to live in for that week]. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days.
41 每年七月間，要向耶和華守這節七日。這為你們世世代代永遠的定例。
You must celebrate this festival for seven days every year. You must never stop obeying my commands/instructions for that festival. You must celebrate it in September.
42 你們要住在棚裏七日；凡以色列家的人都要住在棚裏，
During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.
43 好叫你們世世代代知道，我領以色列人出埃及地的時候曾使他們住在棚裏。我是耶和華－你們的上帝。」
That will remind your descendants that their ancestors lived in shelters [for many years] after I rescued them from Egypt. [Do not forget that] I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who is commanding this].”
44 於是，摩西將耶和華的節期傳給以色列人。
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
