Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
(Exodus 12:14–28; Leviticus 23:4–8; Numbers 28:16–25)
Observe the month of Abib 1and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Exo 13:4Exo 34:18Exo 12:2-20Num 28:16Lev 23:5Exo 23:15Num 9:2-5Exo 12:29-42
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. Deu 12:5Deu 12:261Co 5:7Luk 22:15Luk 22:8Mat 26:17Mrk 14:12Num 28:16-19 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. Exo 12:39Exo 12:19-20Exo 34:18Exo 12:14-15Exo 12:8Exo 13:3-9Luk 22:19Num 9:11
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. Exo 12:10Exo 34:25Exo 13:7Exo 12:15Exo 12:8
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you. Deu 12:5-6Deu 16:2 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. 1Pe 1:19-20Deu 12:5Exo 12:6-9Heb 9:26Mat 26:20Heb 1:2-3Num 9:11Num 9:3 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. 2Ch 35:132Ki 23:23Deu 16:2Deu 16:6Exo 12:8-9Jhn 11:55Jhn 2:13Jhn 2:23
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. Exo 12:15-16Exo 13:6-8Lev 23:36Lev 23:6-8Num 28:17-192Ch 7:9Jol 1:14Neh 8:18
The Feast of Weeks
(Numbers 28:26–31)
You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. Exo 23:16Exo 34:22Act 2:12Ch 8:13Deu 16:10Deu 16:16Lev 23:15-16Num 28:26-30 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks 2to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you, 1Co 16:22Co 8:102Co 9:5-11Deu 16:16-17Hag 2:15-19Jol 2:14Lev 12:8Lev 25:26 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. Deu 12:12Deu 12:7Deu 12:182Co 1:24Deu 16:14Hab 3:18Isa 64:5Isa 66:10-14
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes. Deu 15:15Deu 16:15Eph 2:1-3Eph 2:11Lam 3:19-20Rom 6:17-18
The Feast of Tabernacles
(Numbers 29:12–40)
You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles 3for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. Exo 23:16Jhn 7:22Ch 5:3Lev 23:34-36Exo 34:22Num 29:12-40Zec 14:16-182Ch 7:8-10 And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. Neh 8:9-12Deu 16:111Th 5:16Deu 26:11Ecc 9:7Isa 12:1-6Isa 25:6-8Isa 30:29
For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete. Deu 30:16Lev 23:36-42Deu 16:10Deu 28:8-12Deu 7:13Num 29:12-38
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 4 the Feast of Weeks, 5 and the Feast of Tabernacles. 6 No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed. Pro 3:9-10Psa 96:8Hag 1:9Exo 23:14-17Mat 2:11Exo 34:201Ch 29:14-171Ch 29:3-9 Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. 2Co 9:6-72Co 8:12Deu 16:10Mrk 12:41-44Lev 27:8Ezr 2:63
Judges and Justice
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. 1Ch 23:41Ch 26:292Ch 19:5-11Deu 1:15-17Deu 17:12Deu 17:9Deu 19:17-18Deu 21:2
Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. Lev 19:15Exo 23:2Pro 17:23Deu 10:17Deu 24:17Hab 1:4Deu 27:19Ecc 7:7
Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Php 4:8Ezk 18:9Ezk 18:5Mic 6:8Deu 25:13-16Deu 4:1Rom 10:5
Forbidden Forms of Worship
Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, 2Ch 33:32Ki 17:162Ki 21:3Exo 34:131Ki 14:151Ki 16:33Jdg 3:7Deu 7:5 and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates. Lev 26:1Exo 20:4Deu 12:31Jer 44:4Rev 2:15Rev 2:6Zec 8:17