Ezekiel 45:21 → Leviticus 23:33

Ezekiel 45:21 legislates the first-month Passover; Leviticus 23:33 opens the law of the seventh-month Feast of Booths, which fixes it to "the fifteenth day of the seventh month... for seven days" (23:34). Ezekiel's counterpart falls at 45:25, and it reaches that feast by an unusual route: rather than legislating it separately, verse 25 applies the Passover schedule of 45:21-24 to it entire — "he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil." Leviticus 23 would never do this. Its two great seven-day feasts are carefully differentiated. The spring feast is unleavened bread with sacred assemblies at each end (23:6-8), while the autumn feast is חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (chag hassukkot, "the Feast of Booths"), with an added eighth-day עֲצֶרֶת (atsereth, "solemn assembly," 23:36) and seven days of living in booths so that Israel's children "may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt" (23:43). Ezekiel names no booths, adds no eighth day, and gives his autumn feast the spring feast's offerings exactly. The compression is theological. Leviticus's two feasts remembered two things, a rescue and a wilderness, and Ezekiel is writing to a generation for whom both memories had turned into accusation. What he leaves standing in both feasts is the one element that does not depend on Israel's record: blood applied, and a prince who provides. That is where the whole system was always heading, and why the shadows can be laid down without loss once "the body that casts it belongs to Christ" (Colossians 2:17).