16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(A) with the firstfruits(B) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(D)

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Say to them: ‘This is the food offering you are to present to the Lord: two lambs a year old without defect,(A) as a regular burnt offering each day.(B) Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,(C) together with a grain offering(D) of a tenth of an ephah[a] of the finest flour(E) mixed with a quarter of a hin[b] of oil(F) from pressed olives. This is the regular burnt offering(G) instituted at Mount Sinai(H) as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.(I) The accompanying drink offering(J) is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink(K) with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the Lord at the sanctuary.(L) Offer the second lamb at twilight,(M) along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering that you offer in the morning.(N) This is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.(O)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 28:5 That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms; also in verses 13, 21 and 29
  2. Numbers 28:5 That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter; also in verses 7 and 14

The Festival of Tabernacles(A)

13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor(B) and your winepress.(C) 14 Be joyful(D) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy(E) will be complete.

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