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Bible Verses About Pentecost: Institution of

20 verses · 1 aspect

Verses on Institution of

  1. And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

  2. “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.

  3. “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

  4. even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to the LORD.

  5. You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to the LORD.

  6. You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the LORD.

  7. You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

  8. The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

  9. You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  10. “‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;

  11. but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

  12. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,

  13. a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

  14. one male goat, to make atonement for you.

  15. Besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.

  16. You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

  17. You shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the LORD your God blesses you.

  18. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are in your midst, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

  19. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.

  20. Three times in a year all of your shall males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty.