Leviticus 23
Leviticus 23:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 23:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, these are the appointed feasts of Yahveh that you will convene as sacred conventions; they are my appointed feasts.
Leviticus 23:3 “Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a sacred convention. You will do no work. It is a Sabbath to Yahveh wherever you stay.
Leviticus 23:4 “These are the appointed feasts of Yahveh, the sacred conventions, which you will convene at the time appointed for them.
Leviticus 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Yahveh’s Passover.
Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahveh; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you will have a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.
Leviticus 23:8 But you will present a fire offering to Yahveh for seven days. On the seventh day is a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.”
Leviticus 23:9 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you will bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,
Leviticus 23:11 and he will wave the sheaf to Yahveh’s face, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest will wave it.
Leviticus 23:12 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you will offer a perfect male lamb a year old as an ascending offering to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:13 And the tribute offering with it will be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Yahveh with a pacifying aroma, and the drink offering with it will be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
Leviticus 23:14 And you will eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a permanent prescription throughout your generations wherever you stay.
Leviticus 23:15 “You will count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
Leviticus 23:16 You will count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you will present a new tribute offering to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:17 You will bring from wherever you stay two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They will be of fine flour, and they will be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:18 And you will present with the bread seven perfect lambs a year old, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They will be an ascending offering to Yahveh, with their tribute offering and their drink offerings, a fire offering with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:19 And you will offer one male goat for a failure offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice for healthy relationships.
Leviticus 23:20 And the priest will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering to Yahveh’s face, with the two lambs. They will be sacred to Yahveh for the priest.
Leviticus 23:21 And you will convene on the same day. You will hold a sacred convention. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a permanent prescription wherever you stay throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:22 “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, nor will you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You will leave them for the poor and for the temporary resident: I am Yahveh your God.”
Leviticus 23:23 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a sacred convention.
Leviticus 23:25 You will not do any ordinary work, and you will present a fire offering to Yahveh.”
Leviticus 23:26 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 23:27 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Reconciliations. It will be for you a time of sacred convention, and you will discipline your throats and present a food offering to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:28 And you will not do any work on that very day, because it is a Day of Reconciliations, to provide reconciliation for you to your God Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 23:29 Because every throat who is not disciplined on that very day will be eliminated from his people.
Leviticus 23:30 And every throat who does any work on that very day, that throat I will destroy from among his people.
Leviticus 23:31 You will not do any work. It is a permanent prescription throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Leviticus 23:32 It will be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you will discipline your throats. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening will you keep your Sabbath.”
Leviticus 23:33 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 23:34 “Speak to the people of Israel, and this is what you should say, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Huts[1] to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:35 On the first day will be a sacred convention; you will not do any ordinary work.
Leviticus 23:36 For seven days you will present fire offerings to Yahveh. On the eighth day you will hold a sacred convention and present a fire offering to Yahveh. It is a solemn assembly; you will not do any ordinary work.
Leviticus 23:37 “These are the appointed feasts of Yahveh, which you will convene as times of sacred convention, for presenting to Yahveh food offerings, ascending offerings and tribute offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,
Leviticus 23:38 besides Yahveh’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your solemn pledge offerings and besides all your spontaneous voluntary offerings, which you give to Yahveh.
Leviticus 23:39 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you will celebrate the feast of Yahveh seven days. On the first day will be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest.
Leviticus 23:40 And you will take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you will rejoice to Yahveh your God’s face seven days.
Leviticus 23:41 You will celebrate it as a feast to Yahveh for seven days in the year. It is a permanent prescription throughout your generations; you will celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:42 You will stay in huts for seven days. All native Israelites will stay in huts,
Leviticus 23:43 that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel stay in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahveh your God.”
Leviticus 23:44 Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahveh.
[1] סֻכָּה = hut. Leviticus 23:34, 42, 43.
Leviticus 23 quotes:
“Jesus is the center of each feast. In Him each feast finds its completion.”
Olsen, Ellyn. God’s Blueprint for Mankind : As Revealed in the Feasts of the Lord. Bless Israel Today, 1983. p. 22.
“The seven feasts of Leviticus 23 present a picture of the orderly chronology of events from Calvary to the millennium.”
Coulson Shepherd. Jewish holy days. Loizeaux Bros., 1961. p. 24.
“Moedim – Literally “appointments” in Hebrew from Leviticus 23:2. These appointments were the scheduled times to appear before the Lord for worship and sacrifices. The feasts of Israel from Leviticus 23 were God’s appointed times.”
Nadler, Sam. Feasts of the Bible. Participant Guide. Rose Publishing, 2011. p. 12.
“The annual feasts were a major part of the Israelites’ life in the Old Testament. In just this chapter in Leviticus, the feasts are referred to as “appointed feasts” and “holy convocations,” words that indicate these were sacred days intended to express devotion to God. They were appointments on Jehovah’s annual calendar when Israel was offered the privilege of meeting with their God. They were also memorial feasts intended to prompt Israel’s memory of all the Lord had done for them.”
Pyle, Debbie. The Lord’s Feasts. Crossbooks, 2010. p. 1.
Leviticus 23 links:
celebrating the temporary
devotion and time
national deliverance
Perish the thought
rescue and rest
self-sovereignty
sustenance
that your generations may know
up time
with blast of trumpets
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, April 6, 2023
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