Introduction
A summary of the main feasts in the Jewish calendar.
Questions
1. What feasts were they to keep in the first month of each year?
v 5 and 6 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD’s Passover. On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
2. How were they to consider the poor when they reaped their harvest?
v 22 " ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.’ ”
3. What was the feast of booths meant to remind the children of Israel of?
v 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. …
Summary Points
- v 1 and 2 Moses is told to give the Israelites the details of their yearly feasts
- v 3 The Sabbath day is a weekly day of rest from normal work and for worship of God
- v 4 to 8 The Passover starts on the 14th day of their first month, they eat unleavened bread for 7 days
- v 9 to 14 At the start of harvest, a sheaf is to be brought to the priest as a wave offering together with other offerings
- v 15 to 22 The next feast, 50 days later, is counted from the day after the Sabbath, the day of the wave offering. A new meal offering is brought together with other sacrifices
- v 23 to 25 At the start of the 7th month, trumpets are blown
- v 26 to 32 The day of atonement is on the 10th day of the 7th month
v 33 to 44 The feast of booths starts on the 15th day of the 7th month and lasts for 7 days. It is a time of rejoicing after the harvest when the Israelites live in temporary shelters. This is to remind them of their escape from Egypt