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The following day will begin the Festival of Thin Bread, which will last for a week. During this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast.

On the first day of this festival, you must rest from your work and come together for worship.

Also offer a goat as a sacrifice for the sins of the people.

Then on the last day of the festival, you must once again rest from work and come together for worship.

The Lord said: On the first day of the Harvest Festival, you must rest from your work, come together for worship, and bring a sacrifice of new grain.

Also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin.

You must also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin.

These sacrifices will be made in addition to the regular daily sacrifices and the sacrifices for the first day of the month. The smoke from these sacrifices will please me.

The Lord said: The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. On that day you must rest from all work and come together for worship. Show sorrow for your sins by going without food,

A goat must also be sacrificed for the sins of the people. You will offer these sacrifices in addition to the sacrifice to ask forgiveness and the regular daily sacrifices.

The Lord said: Beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continuing for seven days, everyone must celebrate the Festival of Shelters in honor of me.

On the first day, you must rest from your work and come together for worship. Bring to the altar thirteen bulls, two full-grown rams, and fourteen rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them. Then offer these as sacrifices to please me.

You must also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin. These are to be offered in addition to the regular daily sacrifices.

For the next six days of the festival, you will sacrifice one less bull than the day before, so that on the seventh day, seven bulls will be sacrificed. The other sacrifices and offerings must remain the same for each of these days.

On the eighth day, you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.

And offer a goat as the sacrifice to ask forgiveness for the people. These sacrifices are made in addition to the regular daily sacrifices.

If her husband hears about a promise and says nothing about it for a whole day, she must do what she said—since he did not object, the promise must be kept.

"Before you die, make sure that the Midianites are punished for what they did to Israel."

Then Moses told the people, "The Lord wants to punish the Midianites. So have our men prepare for battle.

Twelve thousand men were picked from the tribes of Israel, and after they were prepared for battle,