Feasts and Sabbaths
(Exodus 23:14–19)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. Lev 23:37Lev 23:4Exo 23:14-17Hos 2:11Jol 2:15Num 10:10Num 29:39Psa 81:3
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD. Lev 19:3Exo 23:12Exo 35:2-3Exo 20:8-11Exo 31:13-17Exo 34:21Luk 13:14Act 15:21
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
(Exodus 12:14–28; Numbers 28:16–25; Deuteronomy 16:1–8)
These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. Exo 23:14Lev 23:37Lev 23:2 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth 1day of the first month. Deu 16:1-8Jos 5:10Exo 12:18-19Exo 12:2-14Exo 13:3-10Num 28:16-171Co 5:7-82Ch 35:18-19 On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread 2to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. Deu 16:8Exo 12:15-16Exo 34:18Act 12:3-4Exo 13:6-7Num 28:17-18 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work. Lev 23:8Num 28:18-25Lev 23:25Lev 23:35-36Lev 23:21 For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
The Feast of Firstfruits
And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest. Exo 34:26Exo 23:191Co 15:20-23Deu 16:9Jas 1:18Num 15:18-21Num 28:26Rev 14:4 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. Exo 29:24Lev 10:14Lev 9:21
On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, 1Pe 1:19Heb 10:10-12Lev 1:10 along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour 3mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. 4 Lev 2:14-16Exo 29:40-41Exo 30:24Exo 30:9Ezk 4:11Ezk 45:24Ezk 46:14Jol 1:13
You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live. Exo 34:26Gen 4:4-5Deu 16:12Jos 5:11-12Lev 10:11Lev 19:23-25Lev 25:2-3Lev 3:17
The Feast of Weeks
(Acts 2:1–13)
From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks. Lev 23:10-11Deu 16:9-10Exo 34:22Lev 25:8Num 28:26 You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. Act 2:1Num 28:26
Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD. Lev 23:10Exo 23:19Exo 34:22Exo 34:26Lev 7:13Num 28:261Co 15:20Deu 26:1-2
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. Num 28:27-31Lev 23:12-13Mal 1:13-14Num 15:4-12
You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering. Num 28:302Co 5:21Lev 16:15Lev 3:1-17Lev 4:23-28Lev 7:11-18Num 15:24Rom 8:3 The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Deu 18:41Co 9:11Eph 2:14Exo 29:24Lev 10:14-15Lev 23:17Lev 7:29-34Lev 8:29
On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come. Lev 23:2Gen 17:7Lev 23:14Lev 23:4Num 18:23Deu 16:11Isa 11:10Exo 12:16-17
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’” Deu 24:19-21Lev 19:9-10Isa 58:10Pro 11:24-252Co 9:5-12Rut 2:15-23Deu 16:11-14Isa 58:7-8
The Feast of Trumpets
(Numbers 29:1–6)
The LORD also said to Moses, “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. 5 1Co 15:521Th 4:16Lev 25:9Num 29:1-6Num 10:9-10Psa 98:62Ch 5:13Psa 81:1-4 You must not do any regular work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.’” Lev 23:21
The Day of Atonement
(Leviticus 16:1–34; Numbers 29:7–11)
Again the LORD said to Moses, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, 6 and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. Lev 16:29-31Exo 30:10Lev 16:24Num 29:7-11Isa 58:5Lev 16:152Co 7:10-11Act 2:37-38
On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God. Lev 16:34Zec 3:91Jn 2:21Jn 4:101Jn 5:6Dan 9:24Heb 10:10Heb 10:14 If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people. Gen 17:14Lev 23:27Lev 23:32Num 5:2Ezk 7:16Isa 22:12Jer 31:9 I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day. Lev 20:3Lev 20:5-61Co 3:17Ezk 14:9Gen 17:14Jer 15:7Zep 2:5
You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live. It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.” Lev 16:31Lev 23:27Mat 11:28-30Psa 35:13Psa 51:17Psa 69:10-111Co 11:31Heb 4:11
The Feast of Tabernacles
(Nehemiah 8:13–18; Zechariah 14:16–21)
And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles 7to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days. Jhn 7:2Neh 8:14Ezr 3:4Num 29:12Exo 34:22Zec 14:16-19Exo 23:16Deu 16:13-15 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. Lev 23:24-25Lev 23:7-8 For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work. Neh 8:18Jhn 7:372Ch 7:8-11Deu 16:8Num 29:12-38Jol 1:14Jol 2:15
These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day. Lev 23:2Lev 23:4Ecc 3:1Deu 16:16-17 These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD. Num 29:391Ch 29:3-82Ch 35:7-8Deu 12:6Exo 20:8-11Ezr 2:68-69Gen 2:2-3Lev 19:3
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day. Exo 23:16Deu 16:13Lev 23:34Lev 23:24Lev 23:36
On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows 8of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. Php 4:4Rev 7:9Mat 21:8Deu 16:14-15Jhn 12:13Isa 35:10Jhn 16:22Neh 8:14-17 You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month. Num 29:12Neh 8:18
You are to dwell in booths 9for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths, Neh 8:14-17Gen 33:17Heb 11:13-16Jer 35:10Num 24:2Num 24:52Co 5:1 so that your descendants 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.’” Deu 31:10-13Exo 13:14Psa 78:5-6
So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD. Lev 21:24Lev 23:1-2Mat 18:20