Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Leviticus 23:17-27 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

17. On that day bring two loaves of bread from your homes. That bread will be lifted up to show it was offered to God. Use yeast and 16 cups of flour to make those loaves of bread. That will be your gift to the Lord from your first harvest.

18. “With these grain offerings bring one bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs for burnt offerings to the Lord. There must be nothing wrong with these animals. Offer them together with the grain offerings and the drink offerings. The smell of these offerings made by fire will be pleasing to the Lord.

19. You will also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.

20. “The priest will lift them up with the bread from the first harvest to show they were offered with the two lambs before the Lord. They are holy to the Lord. They will belong to the priest.

21. On that same day you will call a holy meeting. You must not do any work. This law continues forever in all your homes.

22. “Also, when you harvest the crops on your land, don’t cut all the way to the corners of your field. Don’t pick up the grain that falls on the ground. Leave it for poor people and for foreigners traveling through your country. I am the Lord your God.”

23. Again the Lord said to Moses,

24. “Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month, you must have a special day of rest. Blow the trumpet to remind the people that this is a holy meeting.

25. You must not do any work. You must bring an offering as a gift to the Lord.”

26. The Lord said to Moses,

27. “The Day of Atonement will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. There will be a holy meeting. You must not eat food, and you must bring an offering as a gift to the Lord.