16 Ex 12.1.Celebrate Passover in honor of me on the fourteenth day of the first month28.16 first month: See the note at 9.3. of each year. 17 Ex 12.14-20;23.15;34.18;Dt 16.3-8.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.
18 On the first day of this festival, you must rest from your work and come together for worship. 19 Bring to the altar two bulls, one full-grown ram, and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them. And then offer these as sacrifices to please me.28.19 sacrifices to please me: See the note at 6.11.20 Three kilograms of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice. Two kilograms of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram, 21 and one kilogram of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams. 22 Also offer a goat28.22 goat: See the note at 7.12-83. as a sacrifice for the sins of the people. 23,24 All of these are to be offered each day of the festival in additional to the regular sacrifices,28.23,24 regular sacrifices: See 28.1-8. and the smoke from them will please me. 25 Then on the last day of the festival, you must once again rest from work and come together for worship.
The Sacrifices during the Harvest Festival
The Lord said: