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These are the feasts of the Lord; holy convocations, even convocations and feasts unto the Lord your God.
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¶ Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath day:
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Ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings:
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Ye shall take care that nothing perish, but ye shall not labor for hire nor increase;
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Ye shall have a holy convocation in all your Temples and Synagogues.
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¶ The day that James, the Prophet of God, was established king, and sat upon his throne, is a notable day; it shall be kept in remembrance forever.
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¶ As oft as this day returneth shall all the Saints assemble together; it shall be a holy convocation.
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They shall assemble in their Temples, and in their Synagogues, and in public places, to offer a thankoffering, an offering of praise unto God, because He has given the Kingdom to the Saints.
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¶ The king shall, therefore, offer a heifer, without blemish; in the presence of the congregation shall he offer it.
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In the morning shall he offer it, and the same day shall it be eaten: he and his household shall eat of it.
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Not a bone of it shall be broken: they shall eat it with bread, and seasoned with herbs.
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¶ After this manner shall all the children of the kingdom sacrifice: every man a heifer, or a lamb, or a dove.
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Every man a clean beast, or a clean fowl, according to his household.
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¶ Ye shall take the victim of the sacrifice which ye shall offer, and shall bring it before the Lord in the presence of the congregation, and shall bring it to the Priest, and shall say:
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¶ I profess this day unto the Lord God, that I am come into the Kingdom which He promised by the mouth of all the Prophets: praised be his name for his glorious goodness, and his great power.
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¶ And the Priest shall slay the victim, and thou shalt say: We were a people, few in number; scattered among our enemies:
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They killed our Prophets, murdered our brethren, robbed us of our possessions, and banished us from among them;
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But God has made us a Kingdom: and the fear of us is upon those who hate us.
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¶ When the Gentiles evilly entreated us, and afflicted us, and thrust us out, we cried unto the Lord, God of our fathers;
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The Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and sorrow, and homelessness; and he gave us this land for an everlasting possession; and hath made us a kingdom:
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And now have I brought unto Him this victim for a thank-offering, and a perpetual memorial.
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¶ And thou shalt eat of the sacrifice: thou and thy household, and thy neighbor;
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But the stranger, though he dwelleth in thy gates, and in thy house, shall not eat of it.
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Thou shalt eat it with herbs, and the Priest with thee, in the congregation of the Lord;
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It is a holy convocation, and a feast unto the Lord: ye shall do no servile labor that day.
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¶ And when thou hast eaten, thou shalt say unto the Lord, thy God: I have come into the land which thou gavest to thy Saints:
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I have heard thy Law and have entered into covenant with thee to keep Thy Commandments; and I have eaten of the sacrifice before thee as a witness forever.
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¶ Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless us this day, even all the children of thy Kingdom; and the land which thou hast given us, and establish us forever.
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¶ When ye are come into the land which the Lord your God giveth unto you, and have gathered the harvest of your inheritance, ye shall bring a portion of the first fruits of your fields before the Lord your God, for an offering of first fruits.
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¶ At every Temple where the name of the Lord your God is named, shall the Priest appoint the day of first fruits, according to the days of your principal harvests of food;
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And by that day shall ye all bring your offering of first fruits unto the Priest, in the Temples and the Synagogues, and ye shall have a holy convocation before the Lord in every place to which ye bring the first fruits.
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¶ Ye shall lift up unto the Priest who ministereth unto the Lord a portion of first fruits, by the day of the holy convocation of the harvest;
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In the selfsame day ye shall offer an offering of flesh also; a clean beast, or a clean fowl: it shall be a sacrifice and feast of thanksgiving unto the Lord, for the abundance of the harvest.
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¶ And ye shall not eat of your harvest, neither bread, nor grain, nor green ears, nor roots, nor germs, till ye have brought your offering of first fruits before the Lord, your God.
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He that eateth thereof, shall add a fifth to what he ate, and bring it and the increase,
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And the first fruits also: and the first fruits shall be an abundance for the feast, every one for his household:
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And the rich shall bring for the poor, out of his abundance, and for the Priests also that minister.