Ezekiel 45:21 → Deuteronomy 16:13

Ezekiel 45:21 legislates the first-month Passover; Deuteronomy 16:13 legislates the autumn Feast of Booths. Within Ezekiel's calendar the two are joined by verse 25, which takes the Passover schedule of 45:21-24 and applies it wholesale to the seventh-month feast: "he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil." That single clause is what makes the comparison worth drawing. Deuteronomy keeps the two feasts sharply distinct in character. Passover is a night-journey memorial eaten with unleavened "bread of affliction" (16:3), while Booths is a harvest celebration timed "after you have gathered (אָסַף, asaph) the produce of your threshing floor (גֹּרֶן, goren) and your winepress (יֶקֶב, yeqeb)" and marked by commanded joy (שָׂמֵחַ, sameach, 16:14-15). Ezekiel flattens that distinction. Both of his seven-day feasts receive the same offerings, from the same provider, for the same purpose; the spring feast's affliction and the autumn feast's abundance are alike absorbed into atonement made by the נָשִׂיא (nasi', "prince"). Something is lost in that and something is clarified. Israel's year had told the gospel in two moods, rescue and harvest, and Ezekiel reduces it to one note — but it is the note the whole year had always depended on. Bread of affliction and full winepress alike mean nothing to a defiled people; both feasts require the same blood. The New Testament says as much in a sentence, calling the feasts "a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ" (Colossians 2:17), and then gives both moods back in Him, who is the Passover offered (1 Corinthians 5:7) and the joy the harvest feast could only command (John 15:11).