Leviticus 23
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

the feasts God appointed several festivals among the Jews. The {Passover} was celebrated on the

Exodus 34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of …

Leviticus 23:24,25 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in …

The {new moons}, or first days of every month, were, in some sort, a consequence of the feast of trumpets. God ordained that, by giving him the first-fruits of every month they should acknowledge him as the Lord of all their time, and own his providence, by which all times and seasons are ordered. The feast of {expiation} or atonement was kept on the

John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

Leviticus 23:4,37 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you …

Exodus 23:14-17 Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year…

Isaiah 1:13,14 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the …

Isaiah 33:20 Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem …

Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: …

Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new …

Nahum 1:15 Behold on the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, …

John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Colossians 2:1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and …

proclaim

Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made …

Numbers 10:2,3,10 Make you two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shall you make …

2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all …

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our …

Joel 1:14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and …

Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Jonah 3:5-9 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and …

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

When

Leviticus 14:34 When you be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for …

and shall

Leviticus 2:12-16 As for the oblation of the first fruits, you shall offer them to …

Exodus 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of …

Exodus 23:16,19 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which …

Exodus 34:22,26 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of …

Numbers 15:2,18-21 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come …

Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new meat offering …

Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shall you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks …

Joshua 3:15 And as they that bore the ark were come to Jordan, and the feet of …

sheaf. or, handful
[heb] omer
the first fruits This offering was a public acknowledgement of the bounty and goodness of God for the kindly fruits of the earth. From the] practice of the people of God, the heathen borrowed a similar one, founded on the same reason.

Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …

Ezekiel 44:30 And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation …

Romans 11:16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the …

1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits …

James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should …

Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. …

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:9,10 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly …

Deuteronomy 16:11-14 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, …

Deuteronomy 24:19-21 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf …

Ruth 2:3-7,15,16 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: …

Job 31:16-21 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …

Psalm 41:1-3 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him …

Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures …

Proverbs 11:24,25 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds …

Isaiah 58:7,8,10 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …

Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …

2 Corinthians 9:5-12 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they …

To the institution of the feast of pentecost is annexed a repetition of that law, by which they were required to leave the gleanings of their fields, and the corn that grew on the ends of the butts, for the poor. It may come in here as a thing which the priests must take occasion to remind the people of, when they brought their first-fruits, intimating to them, that to obey even in this small matter was better than sacrifice; and that unless they were obedient, their offerings should not be accepted. It also taught them that the joy of harvest should express itself in charity to the poor, who must have their due out of what we have, as well as God his. They that are truly sensible of the mercy they receive from God, will without grudging shew mercy to the poor.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

in the seventh

Numbers 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in …

Numbers 29:1-6 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall …

1 Chronicles 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with …

2 Chronicles 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, …

Ezra 3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt …

Psalm 81:1-4 Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob…

Psalm 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown…

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the …

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with …

a memorial Zichron terooah, here rendered `a memorial of blowing the trumpets' properly signifies a memorial of triumph or shouting for joy. This festival is generally called the feast of trumpets; and though the Scriptures have not expressly declared the reason of its celebration, yet, as it fell in the seventh month of the sacred year, which was the first of the civil year, that is, the month Tisri, answering to our September, the opinion very generally embraced by both Jews and Christians is, that it was a memorial of the creation of the world, at which `the sons of God shouted for joy,' (job

Leviticus 25:9 Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth …

Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

The fifteenth

Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which …

Exodus 34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of …

Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have an holy …

Deuteronomy 16:13-15 You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that …

Ezra 3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered …

Nehemiah 8:14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses…

Zechariah 14:16-19 And it shall come to pass…

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory…

John 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Hebrews 11:9,13 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, …

the feast of tabernacles This feast was celebrated in commemoration of the Israelites' dwelling in tents in the wilderness for forty years; and was kept with greater hilarity that any of the other festivals. Hence, in the Talmud, it is often called chag, the feast, by way of excellence; and by Philo, [], the greatest of the feasts; it was therefore more noticed by the heathen than any other. It is probable that Cecrops borrowed from it the law which he made in Athens, `that the master of every family should after harvest make a feast for his servants, and eat together with them who had taken pains with him in tilling his grounds.'

On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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