The Offerings at the New Year Festival

¹On the first day of the seventh month you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. On that day trumpets are to be blown.

²Present a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

³Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,

⁴and 2 pounds with each lamb.

⁵Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.

⁶Offer these in addition to the regular burnt offering for the first day of the month with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering. These food offerings are an odor pleasing to the Lord.

The Offerings at the Day of Atonement

⁷Gather for worship on the tenth day of the seventh month; eat no food and do no work.

⁸Offer a burnt offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

⁹Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with the bull, 4 pounds with the ram,

¹⁰and 2 pounds with each lamb.

¹¹Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the goat offered in the ritual of purification for the people, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.

The Offerings at the Festival of Shelters

¹²Gather for worship on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Celebrate this festival in honor of the Lord for seven days and do no work.

¹³On this first day offer a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

¹⁴Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds of flour with each bull, 4 pounds with each ram,

¹⁵and 2 pounds with each lamb, with the required wine offerings.

¹⁶Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. Offer these in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and wine offering.

¹⁷On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^18-19Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

²⁰On the third day offer eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^21-22Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

²³On the fourth day offer ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^24-25Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

²⁶On the fifth day offer nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^27-28Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

²⁹On the sixth day offer eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^30-31Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

³²On the seventh day offer seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^33-34Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

³⁵On the eighth day gather for worship and do no work.

³⁶Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the Lord, an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

^37-38Offer with them all the other offerings required for the first day.

³⁹These are the regulations concerning the burnt offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, and fellowship offerings that you are to make to the Lord at your appointed festivals. These are in addition to the offerings you give in fulfillment of a vow or as freewill offerings.

⁴⁰So Moses told the people of Israel everything that the Lord had commanded him.

Rules about Vows

¹Moses gave the following instructions to the leaders of the tribes of Israel.

²When a man makes a vow to give something to the Lord or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.

³When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the Lord or promises to abstain from something,

⁴she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.

⁵But if her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.

⁶If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,

⁷she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.

⁸But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.

⁹A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.

¹⁰If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something,

¹¹she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.

¹²But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow.

¹³Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made.

¹⁴But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it.

¹⁵But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfill the vow.

¹⁶These are the rules that the Lord gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father's house or by a married woman.

The Lord's Covenant with Israel in the Land of Moab

¹These are the terms of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab; all this was in addition to the covenant which the Lord had made with them at Mount Sinai.

²Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, “You saw for yourselves what the Lord did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.

³You saw the terrible plagues, the miracles, and the great wonders that the Lord performed.

⁴But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.

⁵For forty years the Lord led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.

⁶You did not have bread to eat or wine or beer to drink, but the Lord provided for your needs in order to teach you that he is your God.

⁷And when we came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us. But we defeated them,

⁸took their land, and divided it among the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

⁹Obey faithfully all the terms of this covenant, so that you will be successful in everything you do.

¹⁰“Today you are standing in the presence of the Lord your God, all of you—your leaders and officials, your men,

¹¹women, and children, and the foreigners who live among you and cut wood and carry water for you.

¹²You are here today to enter into this covenant that the Lord your God is making with you and to accept its obligations,

¹³so that the Lord may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴You are not the only ones with whom the Lord is making this covenant with its obligations.

¹⁵He is making it with all of us who stand here in his presence today and also with our descendants who are not yet born.

¹⁶“You remember what life was like in Egypt and what it was like to travel through the territory of other nations.

¹⁷You saw their disgusting idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.

¹⁸Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

¹⁹Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

²⁰The Lord will not forgive such a man. Instead, the Lord's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the Lord has destroyed him completely.

²¹The Lord will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the Lord's teachings.

²²“In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the Lord has brought on your land.

²³The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.

²⁴Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’

²⁵And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.

²⁶They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship.

²⁷And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.

²⁸The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’

²⁹“There are some things that the Lord our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.

In Praise of the Lord's Goodness

¹Praise the Lord! You servants of the Lord, praise his name!

²May his name be praised, now and forever.

³From the east to the west praise the name of the Lord!

⁴The Lord rules over all nations; his glory is above the heavens.

⁵There is no one like the Lord our God. He lives in the heights above,

⁶but he bends down to see the heavens and the earth.

⁷He raises the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from their misery

⁸and makes them companions of princes, the princes of his people.

⁹He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord!