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Leviticus 23:8-19 Good News Bible (GNB)

8. Offer your food offerings to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.

9-10. When you come into the land that the Lord is giving you and you harvest your corn, take the first sheaf to the priest.

11. He shall present it as a special offering to the Lord, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath.

12. On the day you present the offering of corn, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects.

13. With it you shall present two kilogrammes of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The smell of this offering is pleasing to the Lord. You shall also present with it an offering of one litre of wine.

14. Do not eat any of the new corn, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.

15. Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of corn to present to the Lord.

16. On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the Lord another new offering of corn.

17. Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the Lord as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of two kilogrammes of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the Lord as an offering of the first corn to be harvested.

18. And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the Lord, together with a grain offering and a wine offering. The smell of this offering is pleasing to the Lord.

19. Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.