²⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷ “When a calf, a lamb or a goat^(A) is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days.^(B) From the eighth day^(C) on, it will be acceptable^(D) as a food offering presented to the Lord. ²⁸ Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.^(E)

²⁹ “When you sacrifice a thank offering^(F) to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. ³⁰ It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning.^(G) I am the Lord.^(H)

³¹ “Keep^(I) my commands and follow them.^(J) I am the Lord. ³² Do not profane my holy name,^(K) for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites.^(L) I am the Lord, who made you holy^{(M) 33} and who brought you out of Egypt^(N) to be your God.^(O) I am the Lord.”

The Appointed Festivals

23 The Lord said to Moses, ² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals,^(P) the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.^(Q)

The Sabbath

³ “‘There are six days when you may work,^(R) but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,^(S) a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;^(T) wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(U)

⁴ “‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:^{(V) 5} The Lord’s Passover^(W) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{(X) 6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(Y) begins; for seven days^(Z) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷ On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(AA) and do no regular work. ⁸ For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.^(AB) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”

Offering the Firstfruits

⁹ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you^(AC) and you reap its harvest,^(AD) bring to the priest a sheaf^(AE) of the first grain you harvest.^{(AF) 11} He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord^(AG) so it will be accepted^(AH) on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. ¹² On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old^(AI) without defect,^{(AJ) 13} together with its grain offering^(AK) of two-tenths of an ephah^[a](AL) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering^(AM) of a quarter of a hin^[b] of wine.^{(AN) 14} You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,^(AO) until the very day you bring this offering to your God.^(AP) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,^(AQ) wherever you live.^(AR)

The Festival of Weeks^(AS)

¹⁵ “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. ¹⁶ Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath,^(AT) and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. ¹⁷ From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah^(AU) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits^(AV) to the Lord. ¹⁸ Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings^(AW)—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. ¹⁹ Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering^[c] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. ²⁰ The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,^(AX) together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest. ²¹ On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly^(AY) and do no regular work.^(AZ) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

²² “‘When you reap the harvest^(BA) of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.^(BB) Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you.^(BC) I am the Lord your God.’”

The Festival of Trumpets^(BD)

²³ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly^(BE) commemorated with trumpet blasts.^{(BF) 25} Do no regular work,^(BG) but present a food offering to the Lord.^(BH)’”

The Day of Atonement^(BI)

²⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷ “The tenth day of this seventh month^(BJ) is the Day of Atonement.^(BK) Hold a sacred assembly^(BL) and deny yourselves,^[d] and present a food offering to the Lord. ²⁸ Do not do any work^(BM) on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. ²⁹ Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.^{(BN) 30} I will destroy from among their people^(BO) anyone who does any work on that day. ³¹ You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(BP) for the generations to come, wherever you live. ³² It is a day of sabbath rest^(BQ) for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”^(BR)

The Festival of Tabernacles^(BS)

³³ The Lord said to Moses, ³⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh^(BT) month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles^(BU) begins, and it lasts for seven days. ³⁵ The first day is a sacred assembly;^(BV) do no regular work.^{(BW) 36} For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly^(BX) and present a food offering to the Lord.^(BY) It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

³⁷ (“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings^(BZ) required for each day. ³⁸ These offerings^(CA) are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths^(CB) and^[e] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings^(CC) you give to the Lord.)

³⁹ “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival^(CD) to the Lord for seven days;^(CE) the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. ⁴⁰ On the first day you are to take branches^(CF) from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees^(CG)—and rejoice^(CH) before the Lord your God for seven days. ⁴¹ Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴² Live in temporary shelters^(CI) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters ⁴³ so your descendants will know^(CJ) that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

⁴⁴ So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.

The Festival of Tabernacles^(A)

¹² “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh^(B) month,^(C) hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days. ¹³ Present as an aroma pleasing to the Lord^(D) a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.^{(E) 14} With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering^(F) of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with each of the two rams, two-tenths; ¹⁵ and with each of the fourteen lambs, one-tenth.^{(G) 16} Include one male goat as a sin offering,^(H) in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.^(I)

¹⁷ “‘On the second day^(J) offer twelve young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.^{(K) 18} With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings^(L) and drink offerings^(M) according to the number specified.^{(N) 19} Include one male goat as a sin offering,^(O) in addition to the regular burnt offering^(P) with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.^(Q)

²⁰ “‘On the third day offer eleven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.^{(R) 21} With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.^{(S) 22} Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.

²³ “‘On the fourth day offer ten bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect. ²⁴ With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified. ²⁵ Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.

The Lord Comes and Reigns

14 A day of the Lord^(A) is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions^(B) will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.

² I will gather all the nations^(C) to Jerusalem to fight against it;^(D) the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.^(E) Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.^{(F) 3} Then the Lord will go out and fight^(G) against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle.^{(H) 4} On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,^(I) east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split^(J) in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. ⁵ You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake^[a](K) in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come,^(L) and all the holy ones with him.^(M)

⁶ On that day there will be neither sunlight^(N) nor cold, frosty darkness. ⁷ It will be a unique^(O) day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night.^(P) When evening comes, there will be light.^(Q)

⁸ On that day living water^(R) will flow^(S) out from Jerusalem, half of it east^(T) to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.^(U)

⁹ The Lord will be king^(V) over the whole earth.^(W) On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.^(X)

¹⁰ The whole land, from Geba^(Y) to Rimmon,^(Z) south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up^(AA) high from the Benjamin Gate^(AB) to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate,^(AC) and from the Tower of Hananel^(AD) to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place.^{(AE) 11} It will be inhabited;^(AF) never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.^(AG)

¹² This is the plague with which the Lord will strike^(AH) all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.^{(AI) 13} On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic.^(AJ) They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.^{(AK) 14} Judah^(AL) too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected^(AM)—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. ¹⁵ A similar plague^(AN) will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

¹⁶ Then the survivors^(AO) from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship^(AP) the King,^(AQ) the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.^{(AR) 17} If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship^(AS) the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.^{(AT) 18} If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord^[b] will bring on them the plague^(AU) he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.^{(AV) 19} This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.^(AW)

²⁰ On that day holy to the Lord^(AX) will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots^(AY) in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls^(AZ) in front of the altar. ²¹ Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy^(BA) to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day^(BB) there will no longer be a Canaanite^[c](BC) in the house^(BD) of the Lord Almighty.^(BE)

² All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival^(A) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.^(B)

³ When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests^(C) took up the ark, ⁴ and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting^(D) and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites^(E) carried them up, ⁵ and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing^(F) so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

⁶ The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant^(G) to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place,^(H) and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.^{(I) 7} The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed^(J) the ark and its carrying poles. ⁸ These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.^{(K) 9} There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets^(L) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

¹⁰ When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud^(M) filled the temple of the Lord. ¹¹ And the priests could not perform their service^(N) because of the cloud, for the glory^(O) of the Lord filled his temple.

¹² Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;^{(P) 13} I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell^(Q) forever.”

¹⁴ While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed^(R) them. ¹⁵ Then he said:

¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,^(A) the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.^{(B) 12} Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed^(C) in his name,^(D) he gave the right to become children of God^(E)— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.^(F)

¹⁴ The Word became flesh^(G) and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,^(H) the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace^(I) and truth.^(J)

144,000 Sealed

7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners^(A) of the earth, holding back the four winds^(B) of the earth to prevent^(C) any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. ² Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal^(D) of the living God.^(E) He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:^{(F) 3} “Do not harm^(G) the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads^(H) of the servants of our God.” ⁴ Then I heard the number^(I) of those who were sealed: 144,000^(J) from all the tribes of Israel.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

⁹ After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,^(K) standing before the throne^(L) and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes^(M) and were holding palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰ And they cried out in a loud voice:

A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^[a](A) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,^(B) and there was no longer any sea. ² I saw the Holy City,^(C) the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(D) prepared as a bride^(E) beautifully dressed for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.^(F) They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.^{(G) 4} ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.^(H) There will be no more death’^[b](I) or mourning or crying or pain,^(J) for the old order of things has passed away.”^(K)