Leviticus 23
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, p These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall q proclaim as r holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
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s "Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
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p "These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the t holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
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u In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover.
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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
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v On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
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But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work."
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, w When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of x the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,
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and he shall y wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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And on the day when you y wave the sheaf, you shall offer a z male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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a And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, b and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
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And you shall eat neither bread nor grain c parched or c fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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d "You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the y wave offering.
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You shall count e fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of f new grain to the Lord.
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You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as g firstfruits to the Lord.
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And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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And you shall offer one h male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of i peace offerings.
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And the priest shall y wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. j They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
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And you shall make proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
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"And k when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God."
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In l the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, m a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
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You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord."
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Now n on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.
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And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
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For whoever is not afflicted on that very day o shall be cut off from his people.
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And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
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You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
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It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath."
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, p On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
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On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
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For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. q On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a r solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
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s "These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,
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t besides the Lord's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.
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"On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have u gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
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And v you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and w you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
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x You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
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y You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths,
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that z your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."
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Thus Moses a declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord.
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Cross References
Leviticus 23:4
These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
Leviticus 23:37
These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day.
Numbers 29:39
"These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings."
Exodus 23:14 - 17
Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
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Numbers 10:10
On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.
Psalms 81:3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
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Exodus 12:16
On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
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Leviticus 19:3
Every one of you shall revere his mother and hi...
Exodus 23:12
Six days you shall do your work, but on the sev...
Exodus 31:15
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh da...
Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day...
Luke 13:14
But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant becau...
Exodus 20:8 - 11
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as t...
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Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
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Exodus 12:16
On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
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Exodus 13:3
Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this d...
Exodus 13:10
You shall therefore keep this statute at its ap...
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. A...
Exodus 34:18
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. S...
Numbers 9:2 - 3
Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at i...
Numbers 28:16 - 17
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the...
Joshua 5:10
While the people of Israel were encamped at Gil...
2 Kings 23:21
And the king commanded all the people, "Keep th...
Ezra 6:19
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the r...
Numbers 9:10 - 11
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any o...
2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king and his princes and all the assemb...
2 Chronicles 30:13
And many people came together in Jerusalem to k...
2 Chronicles 30:15
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the f...
Exodus 12:2 - 14
This month shall be for you the beginning of mo...
Deuteronomy 16:1 - 8
Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover...
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Cross References
Exodus 12:16
On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
Numbers 28:18
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
Numbers 28:25
And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
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Exodus 23:19
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Exodus 34:26
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Numbers 15:18 - 19
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
Numbers 28:26
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
Deuteronomy 26:1 - 2
When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it.
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Leviticus 23:17
You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.
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Leviticus 23:15
You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
Leviticus 23:20
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
Exodus 29:24
You shall put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
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Leviticus 23:11
And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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Leviticus 1:10
If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish.
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Leviticus 2:14 - 16
If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
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Exodus 29:40
And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
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Leviticus 2:14
If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
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Leviticus 2:14
If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
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Exodus 34:22
You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
Deuteronomy 16:9
You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
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Leviticus 23:11
And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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Acts 2:1
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
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Numbers 28:26
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
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Leviticus 23:10
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
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Leviticus 4:23
Or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
Leviticus 4:28
Or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
Numbers 28:30
With one male goat, to make atonement for you.
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Leviticus 3:1
If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
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Leviticus 23:11
And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
Deuteronomy 18:4
The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
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Leviticus 19:9 - 10
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Ruth 2:2 - 3
And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter.
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Numbers 29:1
On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets.
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Leviticus 25:9
Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
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Leviticus 16:29 - 30
And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
Numbers 29:7
On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work.
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Exodus 30:33
Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.'
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Cross References
Numbers 29:12
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you s...
Deuteronomy 16:13
You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, ...
Ezra 3:4
And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is wri...
Nehemiah 8:14
And they found it written in the Law that the L...
Ezekiel 45:25
In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of t...
Hosea 12:9
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; ...
Zechariah 14:16
Then everyone who survives of all the nations t...
John 7:2
Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.
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Numbers 29:35
On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall not do any ordinary work.
Nehemiah 8:18
And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.
John 7:37
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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Numbers 29:35
On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assem...
Deuteronomy 16:8
For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, an...
2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu ordered, "Sanctify a solemn assembly f...
2 Chronicles 7:9
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assemb...
Nehemiah 8:18
And day by day, from the first day to the last ...
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abo...
Joel 1:14
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gath...
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; ca...
Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no de...
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Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
Leviticus 23:4
These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
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Numbers 29:39
"These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings."
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Exodus 23:16
You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
Deuteronomy 16:13
You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.
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Nehemiah 8:14 - 18
And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
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Deuteronomy 16:14 - 15
You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.
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Numbers 29:12 - 38
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days.
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Nehemiah 8:14 - 18
And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
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Deuteronomy 31:10 - 13
And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths.
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Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
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