New American Bible, Revised Edition

Leviticus 23:7-24 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

7. On the first of these days you will have a declared holy day; you shall do no heavy work.

8. On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation to the Lord. Then on the seventh day you will have a declared holy day; you shall do no heavy work.

9. The Lord said to Moses:

10. Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest,

11. who shall elevate the sheaf before the Lord that it may be acceptable on your behalf. On the day after the sabbath the priest shall do this.

12. On this day, when your sheaf is elevated, you shall offer to the Lord for a burnt offering an unblemished yearling lamb.

13. Its grain offering shall be two tenths of an ephah of bran flour mixed with oil, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine.

14. You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels until this day, when you bring the offering for your God. This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations wherever you dwell.

15. Beginning with the day after the sabbath, the day on which you bring the sheaf for elevation, you shall count seven full weeks;

16. you shall count to the day after the seventh week, fifty days. Then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.

17. For the elevated offering of your first-ripened fruits to the Lord, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of bran flour and baked with leaven.

18. Besides the bread, you shall offer to the Lord a burnt offering of seven unblemished yearling lambs, one bull of the herd, and two rams, along with their grain offering and libations, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord.

19. One male goat shall be sacrificed as a purification offering, and two yearling lambs as a communion sacrifice.

20. The priest shall elevate them—that is, the two lambs—with the bread of the first-ripened fruits as an elevated offering before the Lord; these shall be sacred to the Lord and belong to the priest.

21. On this same day you shall make a proclamation: there shall be a declared holy day for you; no heavy work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute through all your generations wherever you dwell.

22. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the Lord, am your God.

23. The Lord said to Moses:

24. Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you will have a sabbath rest, with trumpet blasts as a reminder, a declared holy day;