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21 You shall proclaim on that day that there is to be a holy assembly. You are not to do any heavy labor. This shall be a statute forever in all of your dwellings, from one generation to the next.

22 “When you collect the harvest of your land, you shall not gather it right up to the corners of the field, nor shall you gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord, your God.”

23 New Year’s Day.[a] The Lord said to Moses,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:23 This feast was a survival of rural customs and was more popular than the religious New Year in spring that was part of the Levitical calendar.