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Creation is complete, and God rests on the seventh day, blessing it and setting it apart as holy.
The LORD makes this month the first of the year. Each household is to keep a year-old lamb, slaughter it at twilight, put its blood on the doorframes, and eat it roasted in haste, so that judgment will pass over them.
The day is to be a memorial and a lasting statute. For seven days no leaven is to be eaten, and there are to be sacred assemblies on the first and last days.
Moses tells the elders to kill the lamb and brush its blood on the doorframes with hyssop. He says the ritual must be kept in the promised land and explained to children, and the people bow and obey.
The LORD sets rules for the Passover meal. It is eaten in one house, with no bones broken, and the foreigner may join only if his household is circumcised, and the same law applies to native and foreigner.
Moses tells the people to remember the day of their release and to eat no leavened bread. In the promised land they are to keep the feast each year and explain it to their children.
On the sixth day the people gather twice as much, and Moses explains that the next day is a holy Sabbath. What is kept keeps fresh, some go out looking on the seventh day and find nothing, and the people rest.
Israel is not to misuse the LORD's name. They are to keep the seventh day as a Sabbath, with no work for family, servants, animals, or foreigners, because God made everything in six days and rested on the seventh.
The land is to be worked six years and left fallow in the seventh so the poor can eat. The seventh day is a rest for people and animals, and Israel must not invoke other gods.
Israel is to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering, appearing before the LORD three times a year. It also gives sacrifice rules and forbids boiling a young goat in its mother's milk.
God tells the Israelites to keep the Sabbath as a sign between him and them across generations. Work is for six days, the seventh is holy rest, mirroring God's rest after creating the heavens and earth.
God repeats laws about the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the firstborn, weekly rest, the Feasts of Weeks and Ingathering, appearing before him three times a year, and offerings. It ends with the command not to cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Moses gathers the congregation and reminds them of the Sabbath: six days of work, then complete rest. No work or fire-lighting on the seventh day.
An offering of the first new grain is to be crushed, roasted heads of grain with oil and frankincense. The priest burns a memorial portion of it to the LORD.
This is to be kept yearly on the tenth day of the seventh month, as a day of rest and self-denial when atonement is made for the people. The high priest and his successors make atonement once a year.
The LORD tells the whole community to be holy because he is holy. They are to respect their parents, keep his Sabbaths, and not turn to idols.
God introduces his appointed feasts as sacred assemblies, beginning with the weekly Sabbath of rest. He then sets the dates for Passover and the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Once in the land, Israelites must bring a sheaf of the first grain to the priest, who waves it before the LORD with a lamb and other offerings. No new grain may be eaten until this is done.
Seven weeks, fifty days, after the firstfruits sheaf, Israel is to offer two loaves of leavened bread with animal offerings as a sacred assembly. The passage ends by telling farmers to leave the edges of their fields for the poor and foreigners.
On the first day of the seventh month, Israel is to rest from regular work, hold a sacred assembly announced with trumpet blasts, and present a food offering.
The tenth day of the seventh month is a day of complete rest and self-humbling, when atonement is made for the people. Anyone who ignores it will be cut off from the people.
For seven days beginning on the fifteenth of the seventh month, Israel is to celebrate the harvest by rejoicing and living in booths, remembering the exodus from Egypt. The chapter closes by summarizing the feasts and noting that Moses announced them.
Once in the land, Israel is to farm for six years and let the land rest completely in the seventh. What grows on its own may be eaten by everyone, including servants and animals.
A field given to God is valued by the seed it needs and by the years left until Jubilee, and the owner may redeem it by adding a fifth. If not redeemed, it becomes the priests' property at Jubilee.
In the first month of the second year, the LORD tells Moses to keep the Passover at twilight on the fourteenth day, and Israel does so.
Some men are unclean from a dead body and cannot keep the Passover. They ask why they should be excluded, and Moses says he will seek the LORD's answer.
The LORD allows those unclean or traveling to keep the Passover a month later. Those who neglect it while clean are cut off, and foreigners may join under the same rules.
God tells Moses to make two silver trumpets. Signals with them will summon the people, tell the camps to set out, and remind God in battle and at feasts.
A man found gathering wood on the Sabbath is held, and God says he is to be stoned outside the camp, which the congregation carries out.
Each Sabbath adds two more lambs with flour, oil and a drink offering. At each new moon, a larger offering of bulls, a ram, lambs and a sin-offering goat is added.