ויקרא 23
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר | 1 |
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
| דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם מועדי יהוה אשר תקראו אתם מקראי קדש--אלה הם מועדי | 2 |
“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”
| ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה וביום השביעי שבת שבתון מקרא קדש כל מלאכה לא תעשו שבת הוא ליהוה בכל מושבתיכם | 3 |
“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.”
| אלה מועדי יהוה מקראי קדש אשר תקראו אתם במועדם | 4 |
“There are festivals that I have established for you. Those will also be sacred/holy days when you must gather together [to worship me].
| בחדש הראשון בארבעה עשר לחדש--בין הערבים פסח ליהוה | 5 |
[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].
| ובחמשה עשר יום לחדש הזה חג המצות ליהוה שבעת ימים מצות תאכלו | 6 |
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.
| ביום הראשון מקרא קדש יהיה לכם כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו | 7 |
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
| והקרבתם אשה ליהוה שבעת ימים ביום השביעי מקרא קדש כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו | 8 |
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.”
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר | 9 |
Yahweh also told Moses/me
| דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם כי תבאו אל הארץ אשר אני נתן לכם וקצרתם את קצירה--והבאתם את עמר ראשית קצירכם אל הכהן | 10 |
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.
| והניף את העמר לפני יהוה לרצנכם ממחרת השבת יניפנו הכהן | 11 |
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].
| ועשיתם ביום הניפכם את העמר כבש תמים בן שנתו לעלה ליהוה | 12 |
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].
| ומנחתו שני עשרנים סלת בלולה בשמן אשה ליהוה--ריח ניחח ונסכה יין רביעת ההין | 13 |
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.
| ולחם וקלי וכרמל לא תאכלו עד עצם היום הזה--עד הביאכם את קרבן אלהיכם חקת עולם לדרתיכם בכל משבתיכם | 14 |
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.”
| וספרתם לכם ממחרת השבת מיום הביאכם את עמר התנופה שבע שבתות תמימת תהיינה | 15 |
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
| עד ממחרת השבת השביעת תספרו חמשים יום והקרבתם מנחה חדשה ליהוה | 16 |
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
| ממושבתיכם תביאו לחם תנופה שתים שני עשרנים--סלת תהיינה חמץ תאפינה בכורים ליהוה | 17 |
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].
| והקרבתם על הלחם שבעת כבשים תמימם בני שנה ופר בן בקר אחד ואילם שנים יהיו עלה ליהוה ומנחתם ונסכיהם אשה ריח ניחח ליהוה | 18 |
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.
| ועשיתם שעיר עזים אחד לחטאת ושני כבשים בני שנה לזבח שלמים | 19 |
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.
| והניף הכהן אתם על לחם הבכרים תנופה לפני יהוה על שני כבשים קדש יהיו ליהוה לכהן | 20 |
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].
| וקראתם בעצם היום הזה מקרא קדש יהיה לכם--כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו חקת עולם בכל מושבתיכם לדרתיכם | 21 |
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.
| ובקצרכם את קציר ארצכם לא תכלה פאת שדך בקצרך ולקט קצירך לא תלקט לעני ולגר תעזב אתם אני יהוה אלהיכם | 22 |
“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]!”
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר | 23 |
Yahweh also told Moses/me
| דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר בחדש השביעי באחד לחדש יהיה לכם שבתון--זכרון תרועה מקרא קדש | 24 |
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.
| כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו והקרבתם אשה ליהוה | 25 |
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].”
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר | 26 |
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
| אך בעשור לחדש השביעי הזה יום הכפרים הוא מקרא קדש יהיה לכם ועניתם את נפשתיכם והקרבתם אשה ליהוה | 27 |
“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].
| וכל מלאכה לא תעשו בעצם היום הזה כי יום כפרים הוא לכפר עליכם לפני יהוה אלהיכם | 28 |
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.
| כי כל הנפש אשר לא תענה בעצם היום הזה--ונכרתה מעמיה | 29 |
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
| וכל הנפש אשר תעשה כל מלאכה בעצם היום הזה--והאבדתי את הנפש ההוא מקרב עמה | 30 |
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
| כל מלאכה לא תעשו חקת עולם לדרתיכם בכל משבתיכם | 31 |
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
| שבת שבתון הוא לכם ועניתם את נפשתיכם בתשעה לחדש בערב--מערב עד ערב תשבתו שבתכם | 32 |
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.”
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר | 33 |
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
| דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר בחמשה עשר יום לחדש השביעי הזה חג הסכות שבעת ימים ליהוה | 34 |
“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.
| ביום הראשון מקרא קדש כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו | 35 |
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.
| שבעת ימים תקריבו אשה ליהוה ביום השמיני מקרא קדש יהיה לכם והקרבתם אשה ליהוה עצרת הוא--כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשו | 36 |
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.
| אלה מועדי יהוה אשר תקראו אתם מקראי קדש להקריב אשה ליהוה עלה ומנחה זבח ונסכים--דבר יום ביומו | 37 |
“[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.
| מלבד שבתת יהוה ומלבד מתנותיכם ומלבד כל נדריכם ומלבד כל נדבתיכם אשר תתנו ליהוה | 38 |
(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).
| אך בחמשה עשר יום לחדש השביעי באספכם את תבואת הארץ תחגו את חג יהוה שבעת ימים ביום הראשון שבתון וביום השמיני שבתון | 39 |
“[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.
| ולקחתם לכם ביום הראשון פרי עץ הדר כפת תמרים וענף עץ עבת וערבי נחל ושמחתם לפני יהוה אלהיכם--שבעת ימים | 40 |
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.
| וחגתם אתו חג ליהוה שבעת ימים בשנה חקת עולם לדרתיכם בחדש השביעי תחגו אתו | 41 |
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.
| בסכת תשבו שבעת ימים כל האזרח בישראל ישבו בסכת | 42 |
During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.
| למען ידעו דרתיכם כי בסכות הושבתי את בני ישראל בהוציאי אותם מארץ מצרים אני יהוה אלהיכם | 43 |
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].”
| וידבר משה את מעדי יהוה אל בני ישראל | 44 |
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
