(Leviticus 23 & Exodus 12)
*Sometimes by the new moon there may be a 13th month
Feasts
1.PASSOVER
2.UNLEAVENED BREAD
3.FIRST FRUIT
4.FEAST OF WEEKS
5.ATONEMENT
6.TABERNACLES
7.NEW BEGINNINGS
8.FEAST OF DEDICATION
9.FEAST OF TRUMPETS
10.NEW YEARS (10 days before Passover).
Leviticus 23 (KJV)
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,2 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.
3 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.
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is
the Lord’s passover.
6 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.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
8 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.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 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:
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye
number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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.
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
24 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.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the Lord.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
27 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.
28 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.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in
that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same
day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 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.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34 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.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do
no servile work therein.
36 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.
37 These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall
proclaim to be holy convocations,
38 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.
39 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.
40 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.
41 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.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are
Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 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.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
Exodus 12 (KJV)
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
land of Egypt saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it
shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according
to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him
and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the
same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it
in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two
side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with
fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste:
it is the Lord’s passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses
where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye
shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye
shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first
day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of
work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may
be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in
this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the
month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses:
for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off
from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill
the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the
blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with
the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his
house until the morning.
23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee
and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land
which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye
shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you, what mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, it is the sacrifice of the Lord’s
passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when
he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head
and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as
the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight
the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the
firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive
that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there
was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise
up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel;
and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and
be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they
might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of
Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment:
36 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight
of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And
they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks,
and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust
out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any
victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and
thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto
the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that
night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in
their generations.
43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is
the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth
ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep
the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let
him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as
the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that
the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by
their armies.
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