God-appointed special times or festivals
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✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 📚“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, These are the LORD’s feasts, my feasts, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations. Sabbath
3 📚✭“Work is to be done on six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work in it; it is the LORD’s Sabbath in all places where you live.
Passover and Unleavened Bread
4 📚“These are the LORD’s feasts, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons: 5 📚✭In the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover. 6 📚✭And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 📚On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no heavy work in it, 8 but you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no heavy work in it”.
Firstfruits
9 ✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 📚“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you have entered the land which I am giving to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first of your harvest to the priest; 11 📚and he shall wave the sheaf in the LORD’s presence for you to be accepted. The priest shall wave it on the day following the Sabbath. 12 📚✭And on that day when you wave the sheaf you shall offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD. 13 📚And its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah✭ of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD as a soothing aroma; and its drink offering✭ shall be a fourth of a hin✭ of wine. 14 📚And until the day you bring an offering to your God you shall not eat bread, or roasted grain, or any product of the field. This shall be a regulation forever throughout your generations in all the places you live.
Pentecost
15 📚✭“And from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count off seven full Sabbaths. 16 📚You shall count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.
17 📚You shall bring out of the places where you live two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with yeast; they are the firstfruits to the LORD. 18 📚And with the bread you shall offer seven lambs a year old, without blemish, and one young ox, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offering, and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD. 19 📚Then you shall sacrifice one young goat as a sin offering, and two lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 📚And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21 📚And on the same day you shall make a proclamation; it is to be a holy convocation for you. In it you shall do no heavy work. It shall be a regulation forever in all the places you live throughout your generations.
22 📚“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field; and when you reap you shall not gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God”.
23 ✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 📚“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a reminder by the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 📚You shall do no heavy work in it; but you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD”.
Atonement
26 ✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27 📚“Also on the tenth day of that seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you. And you shall humble your souls, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. 28 📚And on that day you shall do no work, for it is the Day of Atonement, for making atonement for you in the presence of the LORD your God. 29 📚For any person who will not humble themselves on that day shall be cut off from among his people. 30 📚And any person who does any work on that day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31 You shall do no kind of work. This is to be a statute forever throughout your generations in every place you live. 32 📚It shall be a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. You shall celebrate your Sabbath on the ninth day of the month beginning in the evening, from evening to evening”.
Tabernacles
33 ✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34 📚“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month begins the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD, which goes on for seven days. 35 📚On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no heavy work in it. 36 📚For seven days you shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD; the eighth day shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a day of solemn assembly, and you shall do no heavy work in it.
37 📚“These are the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations for presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a grain offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its day. 38 📚This is in addition to the Sabbaths of the LORD, and in addition to your regular gifts and all your vows and all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.
39 📚“Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD for seven days. The first day shall be a Sabbath and the eighth day shall be a Sabbath. 40 📚And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the fruit of choice trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows from the brook, and shall rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God for seven days. 41 📚And you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 📚You shall stay in booths seven days; all native-born Israelites shall stay in booths 43 📚so that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel stay in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God”.
44 📚And Moses announced the feasts of the LORD to the children of Israel.