New International Version Anglicized

Leviticus 23:6-12 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

6. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

7. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do not do any of your ordinary work.

8. For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do not do any of your ordinary work.” ’Offering the Firstfruits

9. The Lord said to Moses,

10. ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

11. He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

12. On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect,