Sinai & The Law

On the same day, you are to call a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live

"'When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don't harvest all the way to the corners of your field, and don't gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am ADONAI your God.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.

Do not do any kind of ordinary work, and bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI.

You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before ADONAI your God.

Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people;

and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people.

You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening."

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to ADONAI.

On the first day there is to be a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work.

For seven days you are to bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI; on the eighth day you are to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI ; it is a day of public assembly; do not do any kind of ordinary work

"'These are the designated times of ADONAI that you are to proclaim as holy convocations and bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI -a burnt offering, a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, each on its own day -

besides the Shabbats of ADONAI, your gifts, all your vows and all your voluntary offerings that you give to ADONAI

"'But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to observe the festival of ADONAI seven days; the first day is to be a complete rest and the eighth day is to be a complete rest.

On the first day you are to take choice fruit, palm fronds, thick branches and river-willows, and celebrate in the presence of ADONAI your God for seven days.

You are to observe it as a feast to ADONAI seven days in the year; it is a permanent regulation, generation after generation; keep it in the seventh month.

You are to live in sukkot for seven days; every citizen of Isra'el is to live in a sukkah,

so that generation after generation of you will know that I made the people of Isra'el live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am ADONAI your God.'"

Thus Moshe announced to the people of Isra'el the designated times of ADONAI.

ADONAI said to Moshe,