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The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continues for seven days.

On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work.

Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.

(These are the religious festivals on which you honor the Lord by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.

When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.

Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.

All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,

So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the Lord .

to give the following orders to the people of Israel: Bring pure olive oil of the finest quality for the lamps in the Tent, so that a light might be kept burning regularly.

Each evening Aaron shall light them and keep them burning until morning, there in the Lord 's presence outside the curtain in front of the Covenant Box, which is in the Most Holy Place. This regulation is to be observed for all time to come.

Every Sabbath, for all time to come, the bread must be placed in the presence of the Lord . This is Israel's duty forever.

The bread belongs to Aaron and his descendants, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because this is a very holy part of the food offered to the Lord for the priests.

put him under guard, and waited for the Lord to tell them what to do with him.

and any who kill an animal belonging to someone else must replace it. The principle is a life for a life.

You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years.

But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the Lord . Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.

Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it is a year of complete rest for the land.

Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you,

The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.

The Lord will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.