Second Day Of Shavuot

Yom Sheni shel Shavu'ot

יוֹם שֵׁנִי שֶׁל שָׁבוּעוֹת

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Kohen (On Shabbat: Yisrael)

Hebrew

כָּל־הַבְּכוֹר
אֲשֶׁר יִוָּלֵד בִּבְקָרְךָ וּבְצֹאנְךָ
הַזָּכָר תַּקְדִּישׁ לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
לֹא תַעֲבֹד בִּבְכֹר שׁוֹרֶךָ וְלֹא
תָגֹז בְּכוֹר צֹאנֶךָ: לִפְנֵי יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ תֹּאכְלֶנּוּ שָׁנָה בְשָׁנָה
בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר יְהוָה
אַתָּה וּבֵיתֶךָ: וְכִי־יִהְיֶה בוֹ
מוּם פִּסֵּחַ אוֹ עִוֵּר כֹּל מוּם רָע
לֹא תִזְבָּחֶנּוּ לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ:
בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ תֹּאכְלֶנּוּ הַטָּמֵא
וְהַטָּהוֹר יַחְדָּו כַּצְּבִי וְכָאַיָּל:
רַק אֶת־דָּמוֹ לֹא תֹאכֵל עַל־
הָאָרֶץ תִּשְׁפְּכֶנּוּ כַּמָּיִם:

Sephardi

Kol-hab'chor
asher yivaled bivkarcha uv'tzoncha
hazachar takdish laAdonai Elohecha
lo ta'avod bivchor shorcha v'lo
tagoz bechor tzoncha: Lifnei Adonai
Elohecha tochlenu shanah v'shanah
bamakom asher-yivchar Adonai
atah uveitecha: V'chi-yihyeh vo
mum pisei'ach o iveir kol mum ra
lo tizbachenu laAdonai Elohecha:
Bish'arecha tochlenu hatamei
v'hatahor yachdav katzvi v'cha'ayal:
Rak et-damo lo tocheil al-
ha'aretz tishp'chenu kamayim:

English

You shall consecrate to the Lord, your God, every male firstborn that is born in your cattle or flock by declaring it sacred as a firstborn. And from the time the animal is born until you give it to a Kohen, you shall not have any gain from the animal; for example, do not work with the firstborn of your ox nor shear the firstborn of your flock. To the Kohen who received the firstborn animal, God says: you shall eat it before the Lord, your God, within the year of its birth—while it is still less than a year old, in Jerusalem, the place that the Lord will choose. It is for you, the Kohen, and your household to eat. If there will be any blemish on the firstborn animal, whether it be lame, blind, or any other serious blemish that is visible on the outside and permanent, you shall not slaughter it in order to bring it as an offering to the Lord, your God. Rather, you may eat it within any of your cities—not only in Jerusalem. The pure person and the impure person may eat it together, just as you may eat the deer and the gazelle or any other animals that are kosher but not offered as a sacrifice. However, as with all animals whose meat you may eat, you may not eat its blood; you shall spill it on the ground like water.

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
laAdonai Elohecha ki b'chodesh
ha'aviv hotzi'acha Adonai
Elohecha mimitzrayim lailah:
V'zavachta pesach laAdonai Elohecha
tzon uvakar bamakom asher-
yivchar Adonai l'shaken shemo
sham: Lo-tocheil 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 month of Nissan always occurs during the spring. On the fourteenth of Nissan, you shall bring the Pesach-offering to the Lord, your God. For it was in this month, in the spring, that the Lord, your God, brought you out of Egypt; beginning on the night of the fifteenth, when Pharaoh gave the Jews permission to leave. You shall sacrifice the Pesach-offering to the Lord, your God, from your flock, and also the standard festival-offering from your cattle, in the Holy Temple—the place where the Lord will choose to rest His Name. You shall not eat bread or any other leavened foods with it nor have any in your possession. For seven days you shall eat matzot—the bread that reminds you of your affliction in the land of Egypt—for you went out of the land of Egypt in great haste and did not have time to allow your dough to rise. Eat the Pesach-offering and matzot every year so that you will remember the day you went out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Yisrael (On Shabbat: Fifth Reading)

Hebrew

וְלֹא־יֵרָאֶה לְךָ
שְׂאֹר בְּכָל־גְּבֻלְךָ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים
וְלֹא־יָלִין מִן־הַבָּשָׂר אֲשֶׁר
תִּזְבַּח בָּעֶרֶב בַּיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן

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

English

And during the seven days of Pesach no leavened foods, belonging to you, shall be seen within all of your property, and there shall not remain overnight any of the meat of the sacrifices that you will sacrifice in the afternoon of the previous day, the fourteenth of Nissan, until the morning—you

Hebrew

לַבֹּקֶר: לֹא תוּכַל לִזְבֹּחַ
אֶת־הַפֶּסַח בְּאַחַד שְׁעָרֶיךָ
אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ:
כִּי אִם־אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־
יִבְחַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְשַׁכֵּן
שְׁמוֹ שָׁם תִּזְבַּח אֶת־הַפֶּסַח
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

Laboker: Lo tuchal lizbo'ach
et-hapesach b'achad sh'arecha
asher-Adonai Elohecha noten lach:
Ki im-el-hamakom asher-
yivchar Adonai Elohecha l'shaken
shemo sham tizbach et-hapesach
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 hash'vi'i
atzeret laAdonai Elohecha lo
ta'aseh m'lachah:

English

must eat it that night. You may not slaughter the Pesach-offering and offer it on an altar in any of your cities that the Lord, your God, is giving you. Only, you must bring it to the Holy Temple—the place where the Lord, your God, will choose to rest His Name, and there, you shall slaughter the Pesach-offering in the afternoon of the fourteenth of Nissan, and you shall eat it when the sun sets, and all the meat shall be eaten by morning—the time that you went out of Egypt. You shall roast the Pesach-offering and eat it in Jerusalem—the place that the Lord, your God, will choose—on the fourteenth of Nissan. You shall remain in Jerusalem through the following night, and you may only turn to go home beginning on the morning of the sixteenth. Then, you may go back to your 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, for the next six days, from the second day of Pesach, when you bring the Omer-offering, you may 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 on the seventh day, it shall be a day on which you cease to perform any work in honor of the Lord, your God; you shall not do any work.

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
בְּמִצְרָיִם וְשָׁמַרְתָּ וְעָשִׂיתָ אֶת־
הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה:

Sephardi

Shiv'ah shavu'ot
tispor-lach meihacheil chermesh
bakamah tacheil lispor shiv'ah
shavu'ot: V'asita chag shavu'ot
laAdonai 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

You shall count seven weeks for yourself; beginning on the sixteenth of Nissan, when the sickle is first put to the standing crop, you shall begin to count seven weeks. At the conclusion of this seven week count, you shall celebrate the Festival of Shavuot for the Lord, your God; you shall bring as many peace-offerings as you can afford to give, in proportion to how much the Lord, your God, will have blessed you. And you shall rejoice before the Lord, your God, you, together with your son and daughter. Ensure that your manservant and maidservant, and also the Levite who dwells within your cities, the convert, the orphan, the widow, and any needy people who are among you, have enough with which to celebrate. You shall celebrate in Jerusalem—the place that the Lord, your God, will choose to rest His name there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and God took you out from there, so that you should preserve and perform these statutes.