Book of the Law: Three Festivals

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Three Festivals

    • Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
    • Festival of Harvest, Festival of Weeks
    • Festival of Tabernacles, Festival of Ingathering, Festival of Shelters, Festival of Booths


    Exodus 23

    14

    “Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year.

    Leviticus 23

    1

    The LORD said to Moses,

    2

    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD , which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

    Deuteronomy 16

    16

    Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should 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.

    Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread

    fourteenth day of the month of Aviv

    Leviticus 23

    5

    The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    Exodus 23

    15

    Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

    Deuteronomy 16

    1

    “Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.

    Leviticus 23

    6

    On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

    7

    On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

    8

    For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ ”

    Deuteronomy 16

    2

    You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

    3

    You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

    4

    No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

    5

    You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

    6

    You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

    7

    And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

    8

    For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

    Festival of Harvest Exodus 23:16, Festival of Weeks Exodus 34:22

    Exodus 23

    16

    Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field

    Exodus 34

    22

    “Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest,

    Leviticus 23

    15

    From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

    16

    You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 16

    9

    Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

    10

    Then celebrate the Festival 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

    And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

    Day of Trumpets

    first day of the seventh month

    Leviticus 23

    23

    The LORD also said to Moses,

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    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

    25

    You must not do any ordinary work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”

    Day of Atonement

    tenth day of the seventh month—evening of ninth day to evening of tenth day.

    Leviticus 23

    32

    It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble your souls. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

    Leviticus 16

    29

    This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work

    Festival of Tabernacles Leviticus 23:34, Festival of Ingathering Exodus 23:16, Festival of Shelters, Festival of Booths

    fifteenth day of the seventh month

    Leviticus 23

    33

    The LORD said to Moses,

    34

    “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.

    Leviticus 23

    39

    “ ‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.

    Leviticus 23

    40

    On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees—and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

    41

    Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.

    42

    Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters

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    so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’ ”

    Deuteronomy 16

    13

    Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

    14

    Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows 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.

    Leviticus 23

    37

    “ ‘These are the LORD ’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the LORD —the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.

    38

    These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD ’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD

    Year of Tithe

    Deuteronomy 26

    12

    When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

    13

    Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

    14

    I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.

    15

    Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

    Year of Jubilee

    Leviticus 25

    1

    Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

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    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

    3

    For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

    4

    But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD.

    8

    And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

    9

    Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.

    10

    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee

    20

    Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

    21

    But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

    22

    While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

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