Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:33

Leviticus 23:33 opens the Booths legislation, and the law it introduces fixes the feast to "the fifteenth day of the seventh month" for seven days (23:34). Ezekiel 45:25 uses that identical dating — חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר (chamishshah asar, "fifteenth"), הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי (hachodesh hashevi'i, "the seventh month"), a חַג (chag, "feast") of שִׁבְעַת יָמִים (shiv'at yamim, "seven days") — which identifies his autumn feast as the same observance. But Ezekiel withholds the name. Leviticus calls it חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (chag hassukkot, "the Feast of Booths"); Ezekiel calls it only "the feast," and סֻכּוֹת appears nowhere in his calendar. What he supplies in place of a name is a provision: the prince makes "the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil" that he made at Passover. Ezekiel's autumn feast is therefore defined entirely by who pays for it and what it costs, not by what it commemorates. That is a coherent instinct in a prophet writing to people who had lost the land the harvest came from and the temple the feast was kept at. Strip away the booths and the ingathering and what remains is a fixed date, a cleansed sanctuary, and a ruler who provides — a feast that no longer depends on anything the exiles could not supply. It is a small picture of the security the gospel gives: a table kept by Another, whose provision does not rise and fall with our harvest, because "by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).