Ezekiel 45:25 → Deuteronomy 16:1-8

Ezekiel 45:25 legislates the seventh-month feast; Deuteronomy 16:1-8 legislates the Passover of the first month. They meet because of how Ezekiel writes verse 25. He does not give the autumn feast a law of its own. He says the prince "is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil" — the same as at Passover (45:21-24). Ezekiel's autumn feast is his spring feast repeated. Deuteronomy would never permit that. Its Passover is irreducibly specific: dated to אָבִיב (Abib) "because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out (יָצָא, yatsa') of Egypt (מִצְרַיִם, Mitsrayim) by night" (16:1); eaten with "the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste" (16:3); offered "in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt" (16:6). Every detail is tethered to one night that cannot be repeated. Ezekiel's calendar names Egypt nowhere and repeats its provisions freely. Something has changed in what the feasts are for. Deuteronomy's feasts rehearse an event; Ezekiel's apply a remedy. He writes to people whose rehearsal of the exodus had not kept them out of exile, and his answer is not a better memory but a present atonement — the same one, available at every appointed time, at the prince's cost. Both are needed, and the New Testament holds them together on one night: a Passover meal, kept at its date, at which the unrepeatable event being remembered is transposed into a provision meant to be repeated — "This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19). The night that cannot recur becomes the meal that never has to stop.