Religious Festivals
1 The Lord told Moses 2 to say to the community of Israel:
I have chosen certain times for you to come together and worship me.
3 You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.
Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread
(Numbers 28.16-25)The Lord said:
4-5 Passover is another time when you must come together to worship me, and it must be celebrated on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month of each year.
6 The Festival of Thin Bread begins on the fifteenth day of that same month; it lasts seven days, and during this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship. 8 Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.
Offering the First Part of the Harvest
9 The Lord told Moses 10 to say to the community of Israel:
After you enter the land I am giving you, the first bundle of wheat from each crop must be given to me. So bring it to a priest 11 on the day after the Sabbath. He will lift it up in dedication to me, and I will accept you. 12 You must also offer a sacrifice to please me. So bring the priest a one-year-old lamb that has nothing wrong with it 13 and two kilograms of your finest flour mixed with olive oil. Then he will place these on the bronze altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me. Together with these, you must bring a liter of wine as a drink offering. 14 I am your God, and I forbid you to eat any new grain or anything made from it until you have brought these offerings. This law will never change.
The Harvest Festival
(Numbers 28.26-31)The Lord said:
15 Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain. 16 Do this exactly 50 days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath. 17 Bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up in dedication to me. Each loaf is to be made with yeast and with two kilograms of the finest flour from the first part of your harvest.
18 At this same time, the entire community of Israel must bring seven lambs that are a year old, a young bull, and two rams. These animals must have nothing wrong with them, and they must be offered as a sacrifice to please me. You must also offer the proper grain and wine sacrifices with each animal. 19 Offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin, and two rams a year old as a sacrifice to ask my blessing. 20 The priest will lift up the rams together with the bread in dedication to me. These offerings are holy and are my gift to the priest. 21 This is a day of celebration and worship, a time of rest from your work. You and your descendants must obey this law.
22 When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing around the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God!
The Festival of Trumpets
(Numbers 29.1-6)23 The Lord told Moses 24-25 to say to the people of Israel:
The first day of the seventh month must be a day of complete rest. Then at the sound of the trumpets, you will come together to worship and to offer sacrifices on the altar.
The Great Day of Forgiveness
(Numbers 29.7-11)26 The Lord God said to Moses:
27 The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned. 28 No one is to work on that day—it is the Great Day of Forgiveness, when sacrifices will be offered to me, so that I will forgive your sins. 29 I will destroy anyone who refuses to go without eating. 30-31 None of my people are ever to do any work on that day—not now or in the future. And I will wipe out those who do! 32 This is a time of complete rest just like the Sabbath, and everyone must go without eating from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth.
The Festival of Shelters
(Numbers 29.12-40)33 The Lord told Moses 34 to say to the community of Israel:
Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honor of me. 35 No one is to do any work on the first day of the festival—it is a time when everyone must come together for worship. 36 For seven days, sacrifices must be offered on the altar. The eighth day is also to be a day of complete rest, as well as a time of offering sacrifices on the altar and of coming together for worship.
37 I have chosen these festivals as times when my people must come together for worship and when animals, grain, and wine are to be offered on the proper days. 38 These festivals must be celebrated in addition to the Sabbaths and the times when you offer special gifts or sacrifices to keep a promise or as a voluntary offering.
39 Remember to begin the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day of the seventh month after you have harvested your crops. Celebrate this festival for seven days in honor of me and don't do any work on the first day or on the day following the festival. 40 Pick the best fruit from your trees and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honor. 41 I command you and all of your descendants to celebrate this festival during the seventh month of each year. 42 For seven days every Israelite must live in a shelter, 43 so future generations will know that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
44 This is how Moses instructed the people of Israel to celebrate the Lord's festivals.
Svētku laiki
1 Kungs sacīja Mozum: 2 “Runā uz Israēla dēliem un saki tiem: jums jāsvin Kungam svētki! Sauciet uz svētkiem un sviniet – šie ir mani svētki! 3 Sešas dienas lai dara visus darbus, bet septītā ir sabatu sabats – svēta sapulce, tad lai nedara nekādu darbu, tas Kungam ir sabats it visur, kur jūs mītat.
Pashas un Neraudzētās maizes svētki
(4Moz 28:16–25)4 Šie ir Kunga svētki, svētas sapulces, kas jums jāsasauc paredzētajā laikā. 5 Pirmā mēneša četrpadsmitajā dienā mijkrēslī ir Kunga Pasha. 6 Mēneša piecpadsmitajā dienā ir Neraudzētās maizes svētki Kungam – septiņas dienas ēdiet neraudzētu maizi. 7 Pirmajā dienā lai jums ir svēta sapulce, nedariet nekādu darbu! 8 Septiņas dienas pienesiet Kungam dedzināmo upuri. Septītajā dienā ir svēta sapulce, tad nedariet nekādu darbu!”
Ražas pirmais pļāvums
9 Un Kungs sacīja Mozum: 10 “Runā uz Israēla dēliem un saki tiem: kad jūs nonāksiet zemē, ko es jums došu, un novāksiet tās ražu, tad nesiet priesterim kūli no pirmā pļāvuma. 11 Lai viņš šūpo kūli Kunga priekšā, lai jūs būtu tīkami, – lai priesteris to šūpo otrā dienā pēc sabata. 12 Tajā dienā, kad liksiet šūpot kūli, upurējiet gadu vecu aunu bez vainas par sadedzināmo upuri Kungam. 13 Labības dāvana lai ir šāda – divas desmitās daļas ēfas labāko miltu, kas iejauti eļļā, par dedzināmo upuri, tīkamu smaržu Kungam, un ceturto daļu hīna vīna par lejamo upuri. 14 Līdz dienai, kad pienesat šo upuri savam Dievam, ne maizi, ne graudus, ne grauzdētu neēdiet – tas jums ir mūžīgs likums uz paaudzēm, kur vien jūs mītat.
Nedēļu svētki
(2Moz 34:224Moz 28:26–315Moz 16:9–10)15 Sākot ar nākamo dienu pēc sabata, kopš dienas, kad pienesāt līgojamo kūli, noskaitiet septiņas pilnas nedēļas. 16 Līdz nākamajai dienai pēc septītā sabata saskaitiet piecdesmit dienas – un tad pienesiet Kungam jaunu labības dāvanu. 17 Nesiet no savām mājvietām divas līgojamās maizes no divām desmitām daļām ēfas labāko miltu, ceptas ar ieraugu, par pirmās pļaujas upuri Kungam. 18 Kopā ar maizi pienesiet septiņus jērus, gadu vecus, bez vainas, vienu vērsēnu un divus aunus – tie lai ir sadedzināmais upuris Kungam, un arī labības dāvanu, un lejamo upuri, un dedzināmo upuri – visu par tīkamu smaržu Kungam. 19 Kaujiet vienu āzi par grēku upuri un divus jērus, gadu vecus, par miera upuri. 20 Lai priesteris tos šūpo Kunga priekšā par līgojamo upuri virs pirmās pļaujas upuru maizes un diviem jēriem – tas būs svētums Kungam, tas tiks priesteriem. 21 Tajā pašā dienā sasauciet svētu sapulci, tad nedariet nekādu darbu – tas jums ir mūžīgs likums uz paaudzēm, kur vien jūs mītat. 22 Kad jūs novāksiet savas zemes ražu, tad atstājiet nenovāktu lauka malu un to, kas no jūsu ražas nokritis zemē, neuzlasiet, atstājiet to nabagam un svešiniekam – es esmu Kungs, jūsu Dievs!”
Tauru svētki
(4Moz 29:1–6)23 Un Kungs sacīja Mozum: 24 “Saki Israēla dēliem: septītā mēneša pirmajā dienā lai jums ir sabats ar taures skaņām, svēta sapulce. 25 Tad jūs nedariet nekādu darbu un pienesiet Kungam dedzināmos upurus.”
Izlīguma diena
(4Moz 29:7–11)26 Un Kungs sacīja Mozum: 27 “Šī paša septītā mēneša desmitajā dienā ir grēku izlīguma diena, tā lai jums ir svēta sapulce – zemojieties un pienesiet dedzināmo upuri Kungam. 28 Tajā dienā nedariet nekādu darbu, jo tā ir grēku izlīguma diena, lai veiktu izlīgumu par jūsu grēkiem Kunga, jūsu Dieva priekšā. 29 Ikviens, kas tajā dienā nezemojas, lai tiek nošķirts no savas tautas. 30 Ikvienu, kas tajā dienā dara kādu darbu, es pats izdeldēšu no savas tautas. 31 Nedariet tad nekādu darbu – tas lai jums ir mūžīgs likums uz paaudzēm visur, kur vien jūs mītat. 32 Tas lai jums ir sabatu sabats – zemojieties devītās dienas vakarā, no vakara līdz vakaram sviniet sabatu!”
Būdiņu svētki
(4Moz 29:12–395Moz 16:13–17)33 Un Kungs sacīja Mozum: 34 “Saki Israēla dēliem: septītā mēneša piecpadsmitajā dienā septiņas dienas ir Būdiņu svētki Kungam. 35 Pirmajā dienā ir svēta sapulce, tad nedariet nekādu darbu. 36 Septiņas dienas pienesiet Kungam dedzināmos upurus, un astotajā dienā lai jums ir svēta sapulce, un pienesiet Kungam dedzināmo upuri – tie ir svētki, nedariet nekādu darbu!
37 Šie ir Kunga svētki, kas jums jāsvin, svētas sapulces, lai pienestu Kungam dedzināmos upurus, sadedzināmos upurus, labības dāvanas, kaujamos upurus un lejamos upurus – katru savā dienā, 38 neskaitot Kunga sabatus, neskaitot visas jūsu dāvanas, neskaitot visus jūsu zvērestus un neskaitot visus jūsu labprātīgos upurus, ko jūs dodat Kungam.
39 Taču septītā mēneša piecpadsmitajā dienā, kad esat savākuši, ko jums devusi zeme, sviniet septiņas dienas Kungam svētkus. Sabats lai ir pirmajā dienā un astotajā dienā. 40 Pirmajā dienā ņemiet labāko koku augļus, palmu zarus, lapu koku un upes vītolu zarus – un septiņas dienas līksmojiet Kunga, sava Dieva, priekšā. 41 Sviniet šos svētkus Kungam septiņas dienas gadā – tas jums ir mūžīgs likums uz paaudzēm, sviniet tos septītajā mēnesī. 42 Septiņas dienas dzīvojiet būdiņās – visi savējie Israēlā lai dzīvo būdiņās! 43 Tas tādēļ, lai jūs uz paaudzēm zinātu, ka es Israēla dēliem liku dzīvot būdiņās, kad tos izvedu no Ēģiptes zemes, – es esmu Kungs, jūsu Dievs!”
44 Un Mozus pavēstīja Israēla dēliem par Kunga svētkiem.
