Leviticus 23
1 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos hae sunt feriae Domini quas vocabitis sanctas
“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”
3 sex diebus facietis opus dies septimus quia sabbati requies est vocabitur sanctus omne opus non facietis in eo sabbatum Domini est in cunctis habitationibus vestris
“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 hae sunt ergo feriae Domini sanctae quas celebrare debetis temporibus suis
“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 mense primo quartadecima die mensis ad vesperum phase Domini est
[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 et quintadecima die mensis huius sollemnitas azymorum Domini est septem diebus azyma comedetis
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 dies primus erit vobis celeberrimus sanctusque omne opus servile non facietis in eo
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 sed offeretis sacrificium in igne Domino septem diebus dies autem septimus erit celebrior et sanctior nullumque servile opus fiet in eo
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 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos cum ingressi fueritis terram quam ego dabo vobis et messueritis segetem feretis manipulos spicarum primitias messis vestrae ad sacerdotem
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 qui elevabit fasciculum coram Domino ut acceptabile sit pro vobis altero die sabbati et sanctificabit illum
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 atque in eodem die quo manipulus consecratur caedetur agnus inmaculatus anniculus in holocaustum Domini
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 et libamenta offerentur cum eo duae decimae similae conspersae oleo in incensum Domini odoremque suavissimum liba quoque vini quarta pars hin
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 panem et pulentam et pultes non comedetis ex segete usque ad diem qua offeratis ex ea Deo vestro praeceptum est sempiternum in generationibus cunctisque habitaculis vestris
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 numerabitis ergo ab altero die sabbati in quo obtulistis manipulum primitiarum septem ebdomadas plenas
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 usque ad alteram diem expletionis ebdomadae septimae id est quinquaginta dies et sic offeretis sacrificium novum Domino
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 ex omnibus habitaculis vestris panes primitiarum duos de duabus decimis similae fermentatae quos coquetis in primitias Domini
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 offeretisque cum panibus septem agnos inmaculatos anniculos et vitulum de armento unum et arietes duos et erunt in holocausto cum libamentis suis in odorem suavissimum Domino
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 facietis et hircum pro peccato duosque agnos anniculos hostias pacificorum
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 cumque elevaverit eos sacerdos cum panibus primitiarum coram Domino cedent in usum eius
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 et vocabitis hunc diem celeberrimum atque sanctissimum omne opus servile non facietis in eo legitimum sempiternum erit in cunctis habitaculis et generationibus vestris
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 postquam autem messueritis segetem terrae vestrae non secabitis eam usque ad solum nec remanentes spicas colligetis sed pauperibus et peregrinis dimittetis eas ego Dominus Deus vester
“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 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 loquere filiis Israhel mense septimo prima die mensis erit vobis sabbatum memorabile clangentibus tubis et vocabitur sanctum
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 omne opus servile non facietis in eo et offeretis holocaustum Domino
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 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 decimo die mensis huius septimi dies expiationum erit celeberrimus et vocabitur sanctus adfligetisque animas vestras in eo et offeretis holocaustum Domino
“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 omne opus non facietis in tempore diei huius quia dies propitiationis est ut propitietur vobis Dominus Deus vester
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 omnis anima quae adflicta non fuerit die hoc peribit de populis suis
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 et quae operis quippiam fecerit delebo eam de populo suo
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 nihil ergo operis facietis in eo legitimum sempiternum erit vobis in cunctis generationibus et habitationibus vestris
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 sabbatum requietionis est adfligetis animas vestras die nono mensis a vespero usque ad vesperum celebrabitis sabbata vestra
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 et locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 loquere filiis Israhel a quintodecimo die mensis huius septimi erunt feriae tabernaculorum septem diebus Domino
“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 dies primus vocabitur celeberrimus atque sanctissimus omne opus servile non facietis
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 et septem diebus offeretis holocausta Domino dies quoque octavus erit celeberrimus atque sanctissimus et offeretis holocaustum Domino est enim coetus atque collectae omne opus servile non facietis in eo
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 hae sunt feriae Domini quas vocabitis celeberrimas et sanctissimas offeretisque in eis oblationes Domino holocausta et libamenta iuxta ritum uniuscuiusque diei
“[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 exceptis sabbatis Domini donisque vestris et quae offertis ex voto vel quae sponte tribuitis Domino
(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 a quintodecimo ergo die mensis septimi quando congregaveritis omnes fructus terrae vestrae celebrabitis ferias Domini septem diebus die primo et die octavo erit sabbatum id est requies
“[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 sumetisque vobis die primo fructus arboris pulcherrimae spatulasque palmarum et ramos ligni densarum frondium et salices de torrente et laetabimini coram Domino Deo vestro
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 celebrabitisque sollemnitatem eius septem diebus per annum legitimum sempiternum erit in generationibus vestris mense septimo festa celebrabitis
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 et habitabitis in umbraculis septem diebus omnis qui de genere est Israhel manebit in tabernaculis
During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.
43 ut discant posteri vestri quod in tabernaculis habitare fecerim filios Israhel cum educerem eos de terra Aegypti ego Dominus Deus vester
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 locutusque est Moses super sollemnitatibus Domini ad filios Israhel
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
