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39 “‘Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land’s produce, you shall hold Yahweh’s festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period. 40 And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches[a] of a leafy tree and of a brook’s poplar trees, and you shall rejoice before[b] Yahweh your God for seven days. 41 And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a lasting statute[c] throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:40 Collective singular
  2. Leviticus 23:40 Literally “to the faces of”
  3. Leviticus 23:41 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”