There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.

On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

“‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.

And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).

“‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day,

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely returned, Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes.

On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah to this very day.