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Torah Readings

Last Day Of Pesach


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Levi (On Shabbat: Fourth Reading)

Hebrew
שָׁמוֹר אֶת־
חֹדֶשׁ הָאָבִיב וְעָשִׂיתָ פֶּסַח
לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ כִּי בְּחֹדֶשׁ
הָאָבִיב הוֹצִיאֲךָ יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִמִּצְרַיִם לָיְלָה:
וְזָבַחְתָּ פֶּסַח לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
צֹאן וּבָקָר בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־
יִבְחַר יְהוָה לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ
שָׁם: לֹא־תֹאכַל עָלָיו חָמֵץ
שִׁבְעַת יָמִים תֹּאכַל־עָלָיו
מַצּוֹת לֶחֶם עֹנִי כִּי בְחִפָּזוֹן
יָצָאתָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לְמַעַן
תִּזְכֹּר אֶת־יוֹם צֵאתְךָ מֵאֶרֶץ
מִצְרַיִם כֹּל יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ:
Sephardi
Shamor et-
chodesh ha'aviv v'asita pesach
laDonai Elohecha ki b'chodesh
ha'aviv hotzi'acha Adonai
Elohecha miMitzrayim lailah:
v'zavachta pesach laDonai Elohecha
tzon uvakar bamakom asher-
yivchar Adonai l'shaken shemo
sham: lo-tochel alav chametz
shiv'at yamim tochal-alav
matzot lechem oni ki v'chipazon
yatzata mei'eretz Mitzrayim lema'an
tizkor et-yom tzeit'cha mei'eretz
Mitzrayim kol yemei chayecha:
English
When setting the Jewish calendar, you should add an extra month every few years to ensure that the <b>month of</b> Nissan always occurs during the <b>spring.</b> On the fourteenth of Nissan, <b>you shall bring the Pesach-offering to the Lord, your God. For it was in this month,</b> in the spring, <b>that the Lord, your God, brought you out of Egypt;</b> beginning on the <b>night</b> of the fifteenth, when Pharaoh gave the Jews permission to leave. <b>You shall sacrifice the Pesach-offering to the Lord, your God, from your flock, and also</b> the standard festival-offering from your <b>cattle, in the Holy Temple—the place where the Lord will choose to rest His Name. You shall not eat</b> bread or any other <b>leavened</b> foods <b>with it nor</b> have any in <b>your possession. For seven days you shall eat matzot</b>—the bread that reminds you <b>of</b> your <b>affliction</b> in the land of Egypt—for you <b>went out of the land of Egypt in</b> great <b>haste</b> and did not have time to allow your dough to rise. Eat the Pesach-offering and matzot every <b>year so that you will remember the day you went out of</b> the land of <b>Egypt all the days of your life.</b>

Yisrael (On Shabbat: Fifth Reading)

Hebrew
וְלֹא־יֵרָאֶה לְךָ
שְׂאֹר בְּכָל־גְּבֻלְךָ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים
וְלֹא־יָלִין מִן־הַבָּשָׂר אֲשֶׁר
תִּזְבַּח בָּעֶרֶב בַּיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן
לַבֹּקֶר: לֹא תוּכַל לִזְבֹּחַ
אֶת־הַפָּסַח בְּאַחַד שְׁעָרֶיךָ
אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ:
כִּי אִם־אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־
יִבְחַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְשַׁכֵּן
שְׁמוֹ שָׁם תִּזְבַּח אֶת־הַפָּסַח
בָּעֶרֶב כְּבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ מוֹעֵד
צֵאתְךָ מִמִּצְרָיִם: וּבִשַּׁלְתָּ
וְאָכַלְתָּ בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בּוֹ וּפָנִיתָ בַבֹּקֶר
וְהָלַכְתָּ לְאֹהָלֶיךָ: שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים
תֹּאכַל מַצּוֹת וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי
עֲצֶרֶת לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לֹא
תַעֲשֶׂה מְלָאכָה:
Sephardi
v'lo-yeira'eh lecha
se'or b'chol-g'vulcha shiv'at yamim
v'lo-yalin min-habasar asher
tizbach ba'erev bayom harishon
laboker: lo tuchal lizbo'ach
et-hapasach b'achad she'arecha
asher-Adonai Elohecha noten lach:
ki im-el-hamakom asher-
yivchar Adonai Elohecha l'shaken
shemo sham tizbach et-hapasach
ba'erev k'vo hashemesh mo'ed
tzeit'cha miMitzrayim: uvishalta
v'achalta bamakom asher yivchar
Adonai Elohecha bo ufanita vaboker
v'halachta l'ohalecha: sheshet yamim
tochal matzot uvayom hashvi'i
atzeret laDonai Elohecha lo
ta'aseh m'lachah:
English
<b>And</b> during the seven days of <b>Pesach no leavened</b> foods, belonging <b>to you, shall be</b> seen within <b>all of your property, and there shall not remain overnight any of the meat</b> of the sacrifices that <b>you will sacrifice in the afternoon of the previous day,</b> the fourteenth of Nissan, <b>until the morning</b>—you must eat it that night. <b>You may not slaughter the Pesach-offering</b> and offer it on an altar <b>in any of your cities that the Lord, your God, is giving you. Only,</b> you must bring it to the Holy Temple—the <b>place where the Lord, your God, will choose to rest His Name, and there, you shall slaughter the Pesach-offering in the afternoon</b> of the fourteenth of Nissan, and you shall eat it <b>when the sun sets,</b> and all the meat shall be eaten by morning—the <b>time</b> that you <b>went out of Egypt. You shall roast</b> the Pesach-offering and eat it <b>in</b> Jerusalem—the <b>place that the Lord, your God, will choose</b>—on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan. You shall remain in Jerusalem through the following night, <b>and you may</b> only turn to go home beginning <b>on the morning</b> of the sixteenth. Then, you may go back <b>to your</b> tent—your home—in the cities where you live. On the first day of Pesach, the matzot you eat should be made of grain from the old crop. However, <b>for</b> the next <b>six days,</b> from the second day of Pesach, when you bring the Omer-offering, <b>you may</b> eat matzot made of grain from the new crop; you shall not eat leavened bread all seven days of Pesach. On the first day of Pesach and then again <b>on the seventh day, it shall be a</b> day on which you cease to perform any work in honor of <b>the Lord, your God; you shall not do any work.</b>

Fourth Reading (On Shabbat: Sixth Reading)

Hebrew
שִׁבְעָה שָׁבֻעֹת
תִּסְפָּר־לָךְ מֵהָחֵל חֶרְמֵשׁ
בַּקָּמָה תָּחֵל לִסְפֹּר שִׁבְעָה
שָׁבֻעוֹת: וְעָשִׂיתָ חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת
לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִסַּת נִדְבַת יָדְךָ
אֲשֶׁר תִּתֵּן כַּאֲשֶׁר יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ: וְשָׂמַחְתָּ לִפְנֵי | יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ
וַאֲמָתֶךָ וְהַלֵּוִי אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ
וְהַגֵּר וְהַיָּתוֹם וְהָאַלְמָנָה אֲשֶׁר
בְּקִרְבֶּךָ בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ שָׁם: וְזָכַרְתָּ
כִּי־עֶבֶד הָיִיתָ בְּמִצְרַיִם וְשָׁמַרְתָּ
וְעָשִׂיתָ אֶת־הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה:
Sephardi
Shiv'ah shavu'ot
tispor-lach mei'hachel chermesh
bakamah tachel lispor shiv'ah
shavu'ot: v'asita chag shavu'ot
laDonai Elohecha misat nidvat yad'cha
asher titen ka'asher yevarechecha Adonai
Elohecha: v'samachta lifnei | Adonai
Elohecha atah uvincha uvittecha v'avdecha
va'amatecha v'halevi asher bish'arecha
v'hager v'hayatom v'ha'almanah asher
b'kirbecha bamakom asher yivchar Adonai
Elohecha l'shaken shemo sham: v'zacharta
ki-eved hayita b'Mitzrayim v'shamarta
v'asita et-hachukim ha'eleh:
English
<b>You shall count seven weeks for yourself; beginning</b> on the sixteenth of Nissan, when <b>the sickle is first put to the standing crop, you shall begin to count seven weeks.</b> At the conclusion of this seven week count, <b>you shall celebrate the Festival of Shavuot for the Lord, your God;</b> you shall bring as many peace-offerings as <b>you can afford to give,</b> in proportion to <b>how much the Lord, your God, will</b> have <b>blessed you. And you shall rejoice before the Lord, your God, you,</b> together with <b>your son and daughter.</b> Ensure that your <b>manservant and maidservant,</b> and also <b>the Levite who dwells within your cities, the convert, the orphan, the widow,</b> and any needy people <b>who are among you,</b> have enough with which to celebrate. You shall celebrate <b>in</b> Jerusalem—the place <b>that the Lord, your God, will choose to rest His name there. You shall remember that you were a slave in</b> Egypt and God took you out from there, <b>so that you should preserve and perform these statutes.</b>

Fifth Reading (On Shabbat: Seventh Reading)

Hebrew
חַג הַסֻּכֹּת תַּעֲשֶׂה
לְךָ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים בְּאָסְפְּךָ מִגָּרְנְךָ
וּמִיִּקְבֶךָ: וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ אַתָּה
וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתֶךָ
וְהַלֵּוִי וְהַגֵּר וְהַיָּתוֹם וְהָאַלְמָנָה
אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ: שִׁבְעַת יָמִים
תָּחֹג לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בַּמָּקוֹם
אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר יְהוָה כִּי יְבָרֶכְךָ
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בְּכֹל תְּבוּאָתְךָ וּבְכֹל
מַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶיךָ וְהָיִיתָ אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ:
שָׁלוֹשׁ פְּעָמִים | בַּשָּׁנָה יֵרָאֶה
כָּל־זְכוּרְךָ אֶת־פְּנֵי | יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחָר בְּחַג הַמַּצּוֹת
וּבְחַג הַשָּׁבֻעוֹת וּבְחַג הַסֻּכּוֹת וְלֹא
יֵרָאֶה אֶת־פְּנֵי יְהוָה רֵיקָם: אִישׁ
כְּמַתְּנַת יָדוֹ כְּבִרְכַּת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
אֲשֶׁר נָתַן־לָךְ:
Sephardi
Chag hasukkot ta'aseh
lecha shiv'at yamim b'osp'cha migar'n'cha
umiyikvecha: v'samachta b'chagecha atah
uvincha uvittecha v'avdecha va'amatecha
v'halevi v'hager v'hayatom v'ha'almanah
asher bish'arecha: shiv'at yamim
tachog laDonai Elohecha bamakom
asher-yivchar Adonai ki yevarechecha
Adonai Elohecha b'chol t'vuatcha uvchol
ma'aseh yadecha v'hayita ach same'ach:
shalosh pe'amim | bashanah yera'eh
kol-z'churcha et-p'nei | Adonai Elohecha
bamakom asher yivchar b'chag hamatzot
uv'chag hashavu'ot uv'chag hasukkot v'lo
yera'eh et-p'nei Adonai reikam: ish
k'matnat yado k'virkat Adonai Elohecha
asher natan-lach:
English
<b>You shall celebrate the Festival of Sukkot for seven days,</b> beginning from the evening before the fifteenth of Tishrei, which is <b>when you</b> typically <b>gather</b> all harvest from your <b>threshing floor and your</b> wine <b>vat</b> for the winter season. <b>And you shall rejoice on your festival, you,</b> together with <b>your son and daughter.</b> Ensure that your <b>manservant and maidservant,</b> and also <b>the Levite, the convert, the orphan, the widow,</b> and any needy people who dwell <b>in your cities,</b> have enough with which to celebrate. For <b>seven days you shall celebrate</b> the Festival of Sukkot <b>for the Lord, your God, in</b> Jerusalem—the place that the <b>Lord will choose, because the Lord, your God, will bless you in all of your crops and in all the work of your hand, and you will only be happy. Three times a year, all of your males shall appear before the Lord, your God, in</b> the Holy Temple—the <b>place that He will choose to rest</b> His name, <b>on</b> Pesach—the <b>Festival of Matzot, on the Festival of Shavuot, and on the Festival of Sukkot; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.</b> Each <b>man</b> should bring sacrifices according to what <b>his hand can</b> afford <b>to give, according to the amount of blessing that the Lord, your God, has given you.</b>