Leviticus 23:5-14

Good News Translation

Passover and Unleavened Bread^(A)

^5 (B)The Passover, celebrated to honor the Lord, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. ^6 (C)On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. ⁷ On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work. 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 grain, 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 grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. ¹³ With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the Lord. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine. ¹⁴ Do not eat any of the new grain, 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.