| The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel, that the Feasts of the Lord, which they should proclaim to be holy convocations are His feasts. The Sabbath – The Israelites were allowed to work six days, but the seventh day was to be a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. They were not to do any work on it. It was to be recognized as the Sabbath of the Lord in all their dwellings. Below are the Feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which they were to proclaim at their appointed times. |
| The Passover On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight was the Lord’s Passover. |
| The Feast of Unleavened Bread This feast began on the fifteenth day of the first month as a feast to the Lord. For seven days the Israelites were to eat unleavened bread. On the first day, they were to have a holy convocation (a sacred assembly of God’s people) and should not do any customary work on it. They were to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day was also to be a holy convocation and they were not to do any customary work on it. |
| The Feast of Firstfruits The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel that when they arrived to the land that He was giving them and they reaped its harvest, they were to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of their harvest to the priest. The priest should wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted on their behalf. The sheaf should be waved by the priest on the day after the Sabbath. On the day when the sheaf is waved, they were to offer a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord. Its grain offering should be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, made by fire to the Lord for a sweet aroma. The drink offering should be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. They were not to eat bread nor parched or fresh grain until the same day that they brought an offering to their God. This was to be a statute forever throughout their generations in all their dwellings. |
| The Feast of Weeks The Israelites were to count seven complete Sabbaths from the day after the Sabbath when they brought the sheaf of the wave offering. They were to count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then they were to offer a new grain offering to the Lord. From their dwellings, they were to take two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They should be of fine flour and baked with leaven. These are the firstfruits to the Lord. With the bread, they should offer seven lambs of the first year without blemish, one young bull and two rams. They should be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain and drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. Then they should sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering. The priest should wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They should be holy to the Lord for the priest. They should proclaim that same day as a holy convocation and no customary work should be done on it. It should be a statute forever in all their dwellings throughout their generations. When they reaped the harvest of their land, they were not to reap entirely the corners of their fields nor were they to gather any gleaning from their harvest. These were to be left for the poor and for the stranger. God said, “I am the Lord your God.” |
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