Colossians 2:16

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Therefore, let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or regarding a festival, a new moon, or Sabbaths.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ οὖν τις ὑμᾶς κρινέτω ἐν βρώσει, ἢ ἐν πόσει, ἢ ἐν μέρει ἑορτῆς, ἢ νουμηνίας, ἢ σαββάτων:

Transliteration

Therefore let no one you krinetō in brōsei, or in posei, or in respect of heortēs, or of noumēnias, or of sabbatōn:

Grammar Details

• *krinetō*: present active imperative, 3rd person singular - let judge/condemn
• *brōsei*: dative, feminine, singular - eating/food
• *posei*: dative, feminine, singular - drinking/beverage
• *heortēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - feast/festival
• *noumēnias*: genitive, feminine, singular - new moon
• *sabbatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - sabbaths

Word Meanings

• *krinetō*: judge/condemn/criticize
• *brōsei*: eating/food/meat
• *posei*: drinking/beverage
• *heortēs*: feast/festival/celebration
• *noumēnias*: new moon/monthly festival
• *sabbatōn*: sabbaths/seventh days

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Let no man therfore trouble youre consciences aboute meate or drynke, or for a pece of an holy daye, as the holy daye of ye newe Mone, or of the Sabbath dayes,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Let no man therefore condemne you in meate and drinke, or in respect of an holy day, or of the newe moone, or of the Sabbath dayes,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Let no man therfore iudge you in meate, or in drinke, or in part of an holyday, or of the newe moone, or of the Sabboth dayes:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–

Referenced Verses

• Rom 14:5-6 : 5 One person considers one day more important than another, while another considers every day alike. Each person should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
• Gal 4:10 : 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years!
• Rom 14:10 : 10 But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
• Rom 14:13-17 : 13 Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Chr 23:31 : 31 They were to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord on the sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed festivals as prescribed, continually before the Lord.
• Mark 7:19 : 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.
• 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 It is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.
• Heb 9:10 : 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
• 1 Cor 10:28-31 : 28 But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of what I give thanks for? 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
• Gal 2:12-13 : 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision group. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
• Rom 14:2-3 : 2 One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats must not look down on the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God has accepted them.
• Neh 10:33 : 33 We took on ourselves the obligation to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God.
• Ezek 45:17 : 17 The duty of the prince will be to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings during the festivals, the new moons, the Sabbaths, and all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will prepare the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.
• Ezek 46:1-3 : 1 This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner courtyard that faces east will remain closed during the six working days. But on the Sabbath day and the day of the new moon, it will be opened. 2 The prince will enter from outside through the portico of the gate and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the gateway of the gate. Then he will go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening. 3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of the same gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
• Amos 8:5 : 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit?
• Matt 15:11 : 11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
• Mark 2:27-28 : 27 Then he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.' 28 'So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.'
• Ps 42:4 : 4 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, 'Where is your God?'
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Raise a song and strike the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
• Isa 1:13 : 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity combined with solemn assembly.
• Ezek 4:14 : 14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'
• Lev 11:2-9 : 2 Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are the living creatures that you may eat among all the animals on the earth: 3 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof, one completely split, and that chews the cud. 4 But among those that chew the cud or have a divided hoof, you must not eat the camel. Though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. 5 The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. 6 The hare, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you. 7 And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, completely split, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. 8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. 9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that have fins and scales, whether in the seas or the rivers. 10 But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales, all the swarming creatures in the water, and all the living creatures in it, you are to regard as detestable. 11 You must regard them as detestable; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses. 12 Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you. 13 These are the birds you are to regard as detestable and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the kite and any kind of falcon or hawk, 15 any kind of raven. 16 Also the ostrich, the night hawk, the seagull, and any kind of hawk. 17 The little owl, the cormorant, and the great owl. 18 The white owl, the pelican, and the vulture. 19 The stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 20 All winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. 21 However, you may eat the following kinds of winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of them you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper. 23 But all other winged insects that have four legs are detestable to you. 24 By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening. 25 Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. 26 Every animal that has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean to you; whoever touches them will become unclean. 27 All animals that walk on their paws among the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening. 28 Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. These animals are unclean to you. 29 These are the unclean creatures that swarm on the ground: the mole, the mouse, and any kind of large lizard. 30 The gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon are unclean to you. 31 These are the unclean creatures that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening. 32 Any object upon which one of their dead bodies falls will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, leather, or sackcloth. Whatever is used to do work must be put into water; it will remain unclean until the evening, then it will be clean. 33 If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot. 34 Any food that could be eaten but has water from such a pot on it will be unclean, and any drink that could be drunk from such a pot will be unclean. 35 Anything on which one of their carcasses falls will become unclean; an oven or cooking stove must be broken. They are unclean, and they will remain unclean to you. 36 But a spring or a cistern containing water will remain clean, though anyone who touches one of their carcasses will become unclean. 37 If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be planted, it is clean. 38 But if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean to you. 39 If any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening. 40 Anyone who eats from its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. 41 Every swarming creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten. 42 You must not eat any creature that moves on its belly, or walks on four legs, or has many feet. All these swarming creatures that move along the ground are detestable. 43 Do not make yourselves detestable by eating any swarming creature that moves along the ground. Do not defile yourselves with them, for you will become unclean through them. 44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that move along the ground. 45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore, be holy, because I am holy. 46 These are the laws regarding animals, birds, every living creature that moves in the water, and every creature that moves along the ground. 47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.
• Lev 16:31 : 31 It is a sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves; it shall be a lasting ordinance.
• Lev 17:10-15 : 10 Any Israelite or foreigner living among them who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. 12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood. 13 Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth. 14 For the life of every creature is in its blood, and I have told the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is in its blood. Anyone who eats it must be cut off. 15 Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.
• Lev 23:1-9 : 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you must proclaim as holy assemblies; they are my appointed festivals. 3 For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings. 4 These are the Lord's appointed festivals, the holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed times: 5 The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day, hold a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work. 8 For seven days you are to present a fire offering to the Lord. On the seventh day, hold a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work. 9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 10 Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and you harvest its crops, you must bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. 11 The priest will wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted on your behalf; he is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old lamb without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 Together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the Lord—a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. 14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings. 15 You shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven full weeks shall be counted. 16 Until the day after the seventh Sabbath, you shall count fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. 17 Bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord. 18 Along with the bread, present seven unblemished lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams as burnt offerings to the Lord, along with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19 You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, along with the two lambs; they are holy to the Lord and assigned to the priest. 21 On that same day you shall proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This shall be a perpetual statute for all your generations in all your dwellings. 22 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely harvest the corners of your field, nor gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. 23 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 24 Speak to the Israelites and tell them: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall hold a day of rest, a memorial with trumpet blasts, a sacred assembly. 25 You must not do any regular work, and you shall present a fire offering to the Lord. 26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 However, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly, humble yourselves, and present a fire offering to the Lord. 28 You must not do any work on that very day, because it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. 29 Anyone who does not humble themselves on this very day will be cut off from their people. 30 I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day. 31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. It begins on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall observe your Sabbath. 33 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 34 Speak to the Israelites and say: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month the Festival of Booths to the Lord begins, and it shall last for seven days. 35 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. 36 For seven days you are to present fire offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work. 37 These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the Lord—burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and drink offerings, each on its designated day— 38 in addition to the Lord's Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings you give to the Lord. 39 However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate the Lord's Festival for seven days. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eighth day shall also be a day of rest. 40 On the first day, you shall take for yourselves the fruit of splendid trees, palm branches, leafy tree boughs, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41 You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is a perpetual statute for your generations; you shall observe it in the seventh month. 42 You shall live in booths for seven days. Every native-born Israelite is to dwell in booths, 43 so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. 44 So Moses declared to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.
• Num 10:10 : 10 Also, on the day of your rejoicing, at your appointed festivals, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; they will serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.
• Num 28:1-9 : 1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Command the Israelites and say to them: Be sure to present to Me at the appointed times My offering, My food offering, a pleasing aroma as a fire offering to Me. 3 And say to them: This is the fire offering you are to present to the LORD: two unblemished year-old lambs as a regular burnt offering every day. 4 Prepare one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight. 5 Along with it, prepare a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of pressed oil as a grain offering. 6 This is the regular burnt offering established on Mount Sinai, as a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD. 7 As a drink offering, pour out a quarter of a hin of strong drink for each lamb in the sanctuary as an offering to the LORD. 8 Offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain and drink offerings as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma and fire offering to the LORD. 9 On the Sabbath day, present two unblemished year-old lambs, along with two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and its drink offering. 10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. 11 On the first day of every month, present to the LORD a burnt offering: two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished year-old lambs. 12 For each bull, also prepare three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; for each ram, prepare two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering. 13 For each lamb, also prepare a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering. This is a burnt offering of a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD. 14 Their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for each bull, a third of a hin for each ram, and a quarter of a hin for each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year. 15 In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering. 16 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Passover to the LORD. 17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival. For seven days, unleavened bread is to be eaten. 18 The first day shall be a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work. 19 Present a fire offering as a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished year-old lambs. 20 With each bull, prepare a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil; with each ram, prepare two-tenths. 21 Prepare one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for each of the seven lambs. 22 Also, present one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. 23 These offerings are in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. 24 Prepare these offerings each day for seven days as food offerings presented by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. They are to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 On the seventh day, you shall have a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. 26 On the day of firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work. 27 Present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished year-old lambs. 28 With each bull, present a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil; for the ram, prepare two-tenths of an ephah. 29 Prepare one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for each of the seven lambs.
• Deut 14:3-9 : 3 You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6 You may eat any animal that has divided hooves completely split and chews the cud. 7 But of those that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves; they are unclean for you. 8 And the pig, though it has divided hooves, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses. 9 You may eat anything in the waters that has fins and scales. 10 But anything in the waters that does not have fins and scales, you are not to eat; it is unclean for you. 11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But of these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture; 13 the red kite, the black kite, and any kind of falcon; 14 every raven of any kind; 15 the ostrich, the night hawk, the sea gull, and any kind of hawk; 16 the little owl, the great owl, and the white owl; 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, and the cormorant; 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 Every swarming winged creature is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. 20 You may eat any clean flying creature. 21 You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
• Deut 16:1-9 : 1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover offering to the Lord your God, from your flock and herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to place His name. 3 Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days, eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste. This is so that you may remember the day you came out of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 No leaven is to be seen in your territory for seven days, nor is any of the meat from the sacrifice eaten in the evening of the first day to remain overnight until morning. 5 You must not sacrifice the Passover offering in any of the towns that the Lord your God is giving you. 6 Only at the place the Lord your God chooses as His dwelling for His name shall you sacrifice the Passover offering, in the evening, at sunset, at the time you left Egypt. 7 Roast it and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses. Then in the morning, return to your tents. 8 For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You must not do any work. 9 Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain with the sickle. 10 Celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these decrees. 13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce from your threshing floor and winepress. 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete. 16 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord your God at the place He will choose: during the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.
• 1 Sam 20:5 : 5 David said to Jonathan, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am supposed to sit at the king’s table to eat. Let me go so that I may hide in the field until the evening of the third day."
• 1 Sam 20:18 : 18 Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed because your seat will be empty.
• 2 Kgs 4:23 : 23 He asked, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath." She replied, "It is well."
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.
• Jas 4:11 : 11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
• 1 Cor 8:7-9 : 7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled. 8 Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9 But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? 11 So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
• Acts 11:3-9 : 3 saying, 'You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.' 4 But Peter began to explain it to them step by step, saying: 5 'I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision: something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. 6 As I looked closely at it, I noticed four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’ 8 But I said, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 The voice spoke from heaven a second time: ‘What God has made clean, you must not call unclean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then the whole object was pulled up into heaven. 11 Just then, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send men to Joppa and bring back Simon, who is called Peter. 14 He will speak words to you by which you and your entire household will be saved. 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had on us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' 17 If then God gave them the same gift that He gave to us after we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to stand in God's way? 18 When they heard this, they became silent and glorified God, saying, 'So then, God has granted repentance leading to life even to the Gentiles.'
• Neh 8:9 : 9 Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of them, 'This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.' For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.
• Neh 10:31 : 31 They pledged not to give their daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or to take their daughters for their sons.
• Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.