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Leviticus 23:36-44 Good News Bible (GNB)

36. Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.

37. (These are the religious festivals on which you honour the Lord by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.

38. These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings in fulfilment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the Lord.)

39. When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.

40. On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and the branches of leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honour the Lord your God.

41. Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.

42. All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,

43. so that your descendants may know that the Lord made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the Lord your God.

44. So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honour the Lord.