Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 23

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Leviticus 23 . 1 , The feasts of the Lord; Leviticus 23 . 3 , The sabbath; Leviticus 23 . 4 , The passover; Leviticus 23 . 9 , The sheaf of first-fruits; Leviticus 23 . 15 , The feast of Pentecost; Leviticus 23 . 22 , Gleanings to be left for the poor; Leviticus 23 . 23 , The feast of trumpets; Leviticus 23 . 26 , The day of atonement; Leviticus 23 . 33 , The feast of tabernacles.

Leviticus 23:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Leviticus 23:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

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God appointed several festivals among the Jews. The Passover was celebrated on the 14th , or rather 15th day of the first month in the ecclesiastical year , which was the seventh of the civil year , and lasted seven days. The Pentecost was celebrated on the fiftieth day after the passover , in memory of the law's being given to Moses on Mount Sinai , fifty days , or seven weeks after the departure out of Egypt. The word is derived from the Greek word וםפחךןףפח , which signifies the fiftieth. The Hebrews call it the feast of weeks

  • Exodus 34:22 The feast of trumpets , celebrated on the first day of the civil year , when a trumpet was sounded , to proclaim its commencement , which was in the month Tisri , answering to our September
  • Leviticus 23:24-25 The new moons , or first days of every month , were , in some sort , a consequence of the feast of trumpets. God ordained that , by giving him the first-fruits of every month they should acknowledge him as the Lord of all their time , and own his providence , by which all times and seasons are ordered. The feast of expiation or atonement was kept on the 10th day of Tisri or September . the Hebrews call it Kippur , i.e. , pardon or expiation , because it was instituted for the expiation of their sins. The feast of tents or tabernacles was so called , because the Israelites kept it under green tents or arbours , in memory of their dwelling in their passage through the wilderness. It was celebrated on the 15th day of Tisri , and continued eight days. The first and last days are the most solemn. Besides the feasts mentioned by Moses , we find the feast of lots , or Purim , which was celebrated among the Jews of Shushan on the 14th of Adar , which answers to our February. The feast of the dedication of the temple , or rather , of the restoration of the temple , which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes , which is thought to be the feast mentioned in the gospel
  • John 10:22 was celebrated in the winter. Moâdim , properly means assemblies , convened at an appointed time and place
  • Leviticus 23:4
  • Leviticus 23:37
  • Exodus 23:14-17
  • Isaiah 1:13
  • Isaiah 1:14
  • Isaiah 33:20
  • Lamentations 1:4
  • Hosea 2:11
  • Nahum 1:15
  • John 5:1
  • Colossians 2:1

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Leviticus 23:3

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:4

These are the LORD's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

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Leviticus 23:5

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Leviticus 23:6

On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

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Leviticus 23:7

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

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Leviticus 23:8

For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.'"

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Leviticus 23:9

And the LORD said to Moses,

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Leviticus 23:10

"Speak to the Israelites and say, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

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or , handful , Heb. omer , the first fruits , This offering was a public acknowledgment of the bounty and goodness of God for the kindly fruits of the earth. From the practice of the people of God , the heathen borrowed a similar one , founded on the same reason

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Leviticus 23:11

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

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Leviticus 23:12

On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

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Leviticus 23:13

along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

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Leviticus 23:14

You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Leviticus 23:15

From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

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Leviticus 23:16

You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:17

Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:18

Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:19

You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.

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Leviticus 23:20

The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

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Leviticus 23:21

On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

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Leviticus 23:22

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

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Leviticus 23:24

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

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Zichron terooâh , here rendered "a memorial of blowing the trumpets" properly signifies a memorial of triumph or shouting for joy. This festival is generally called the feast of trumpets; and , though the Scriptures have not expressly declared the reason of its celebration , yet , as it fell in the seventh month of the sacred year , which was the first of the civil year , that is , the month Tisri , answering to our September , the opinion very generally embraced by both Jews and Christians is , that it was a memorial of the creation of the world , at which "the sons of God shouted for joy ," (

  • Job 38:7 ); and which is supposed , not altogether without reason , to have been at this season of the year. The month Tisri was not only anciently , but still is , reckoned by the Jews the first month of the year; and the feast of tabernacles , kept in this month , was said to be , as it is correctly rendered in the margin , "at the revolution of the year ,"
  • Exodus 34:22 importing , that at this season the year had revolved , and was beginning anew. So that this feast was the new year's day , on which the people rejoiced in a grateful remembrance of God's benefits , and implored his blessing for the future year
  • Leviticus 25:9

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Leviticus 23:25

You must not do any regular work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”

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Leviticus 23:27

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:28

On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

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Leviticus 23:29

If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.

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Leviticus 23:30

I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.

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Leviticus 23:31

You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Leviticus 23:32

It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

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celebrate your sabbath Heb. rest

Leviticus 23:33

And the LORD said to Moses,

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Leviticus 23:34

"Speak to the Israelites and say, 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.

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the feast of tabernacles This feast was celebrated in commemoration of the Israelites' dwelling in tents in the wilderness for forty years; and was kept with greater hilarity than any of the other festivals. Hence , in the Talmud , it is often called chag , the feast , by way of excellence; and by Philo , וןספשם לודיףפחם , the greatest of the feasts; it was therefore more noticed by the heathen than any other. It is probable that Cecrops borrowed from it the law which he made in Athens , "that the master of every family should after harvest make a feast for his servants , and eat together with them who had taken pains with him in tilling his grounds.

Leviticus 23:35

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

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Leviticus 23:36

For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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Heb. day of restraint

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Leviticus 23:37

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

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Leviticus 23:38

These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.

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Leviticus 23:39

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.

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Leviticus 23:40

On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

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Leviticus 23:41

You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.

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Leviticus 23:42

You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,

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Leviticus 23:43

so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

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Leviticus 23:44

So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web27 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Numbers 15:18 → Leviticus 23:10, Numbers 15:18-21 → Leviticus 23:10-11, Numbers 9:1 → Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 9:1-14 → Leviticus 23:5, Ezra 3:3-7 → Leviticus 23:33-43, Ezra 3:4 → Leviticus 23:37, Nehemiah 8:14-16 → Leviticus 23:40, Ezekiel 45:21 → Leviticus 23:33, Ezekiel 45:21 → Leviticus 23:4, Ezekiel 45:21-24 → Leviticus 23:33-36, Ezekiel 45:21-24 → Leviticus 23:4-8, Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:33, Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:33-36, Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:4, Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:4-8
Trajectories
Feast of Tabernacles (Dwelling with God), Feast of Trumpets (The Final Call), First Fruits (Christ's Resurrection), Passover (Christ Our Passover Lamb), Pentecost (Outpouring of the Spirit), Pleasing Aroma (Divine Acceptance and Propitiation), Return from Exile (Restoration and Hope), Unleavened Bread (Purity and Sincerity)
Chiasms
Shaped Leviticus 23:1–8, Leviticus 23:26–32, Leviticus 23:33–43, Leviticus 23:9–22
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