Leviticus 23

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1And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.33 cross-references: Leviticus 23:37, Leviticus 23:4, Psalms 81:3, Numbers 10:10, Joel 2:15
3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.31 cross-references: Leviticus 19:3, Exodus 35:2–3, Exodus 23:12, Exodus 20:8–11, Luke 13:14
4These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.12 cross-references: Exodus 23:14, Leviticus 23:2, Leviticus 23:37
5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.33 cross-references: Deuteronomy 16:1–8, Joshua 5:10, Numbers 28:16–17, 2 Chronicles 35:18–19, Exodus 23:15
6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.16 cross-references: Exodus 12:15–16, Exodus 34:18, Deuteronomy 16:8, Numbers 28:17–18, Exodus 13:6–7
7In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.13 cross-references: Leviticus 23:8, Leviticus 23:35–36, Numbers 28:18–25, Leviticus 23:25, Leviticus 23:21
8But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:36 cross-references: Exodus 34:26, Exodus 23:19, Numbers 28:26, Deuteronomy 16:9, James 1:18
11And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.5 cross-references: Exodus 29:24, Leviticus 9:21, Leviticus 10:14
12And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.6 cross-references: Leviticus 1:10, 1 Peter 1:19, Hebrews 10:10–12
13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.22 cross-references: Leviticus 2:14–16, Ezekiel 45:24, Numbers 28:10, Exodus 30:24, Exodus 30:9
14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.16 cross-references: Exodus 34:26, Genesis 4:4–5, Leviticus 19:23–25, Nehemiah 9:14, Leviticus 3:17
15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:11 cross-references: Leviticus 23:10–11, Deuteronomy 16:9–10, Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 25:8, Numbers 28:26
16Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.5 cross-references: Acts 2:1, Numbers 28:26
17Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.25 cross-references: Leviticus 23:10, Numbers 28:26, Exodus 34:26, Exodus 23:19, Leviticus 7:13
18And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.5 cross-references: Numbers 15:4–12, Malachi 1:13–14, Numbers 28:27–31, Leviticus 23:12–13
19Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.9 cross-references: Numbers 28:30, Leviticus 4:23–28, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Leviticus 16:15, Numbers 15:24
20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.14 cross-references: Deuteronomy 18:4, Numbers 18:8–12, 1 Corinthians 9:11, Leviticus 8:29, Luke 2:14
21And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.17 cross-references: Leviticus 23:2, Leviticus 23:14, Leviticus 23:4, Numbers 18:23, Genesis 17:7
22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.17 cross-references: Deuteronomy 24:19–21, Leviticus 19:9–10, Proverbs 11:24–25, Isaiah 58:10, 2 Corinthians 9:5–12
23And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.24 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 15:52, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, Leviticus 25:9, Numbers 29:1–6, Numbers 10:9–10
25Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.3 cross-references: Leviticus 23:21
26And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.29 cross-references: Leviticus 16:29–31, Exodus 30:10, Leviticus 16:15, Numbers 29:7–11, Leviticus 16:24
28And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.13 cross-references: Leviticus 16:34, Zechariah 3:9, Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 10:14
29For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.11 cross-references: Genesis 17:14, Numbers 5:2, Leviticus 23:32, Jeremiah 31:9, Leviticus 23:27
30And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.8 cross-references: Leviticus 20:3, Zephaniah 2:5, 1 Corinthians 3:17, Leviticus 20:5–6, Ezekiel 14:9
31Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.23 cross-references: Matthew 11:28–30, Psalms 51:17, Leviticus 16:31, Psalms 35:13, 1 Corinthians 11:31
33And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.25 cross-references: John 7:2, Nehemiah 8:14, Numbers 29:12, Ezra 3:4, Exodus 34:22
35On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.6 cross-references: Leviticus 23:24–25, Leviticus 23:7–8
36Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.17 cross-references: Nehemiah 8:18, John 7:37, Joel 2:15, Numbers 29:12–38, 2 Chronicles 7:8–11
37These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:7 cross-references: Leviticus 23:2, Leviticus 23:4, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Deuteronomy 16:16–17
38Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.14 cross-references: Numbers 29:39, 2 Chronicles 35:7–8, Genesis 2:2–3, Deuteronomy 12:6, Ezra 2:68–69
39Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.10 cross-references: Exodus 23:16, Deuteronomy 16:13, Leviticus 23:34, Leviticus 23:36, Leviticus 23:24
40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.23 cross-references: Revelation 7:9, Philippians 4:4, Deuteronomy 16:14–15, Matthew 21:8, John 12:13
41And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.2 cross-references: Numbers 29:12, Nehemiah 8:18
42Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:9 cross-references: Nehemiah 8:14–17, Numbers 24:2, Genesis 33:17, Jeremiah 35:10, Numbers 24:5
43That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.4 cross-references: Deuteronomy 31:10–13, Psalms 78:5–6, Exodus 13:14
44And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.4 cross-references: Leviticus 23:1–2, Leviticus 21:24, Matthew 18:20

Explained connections

Firstfruits Leviticus 23:10 and 1 Corinthians 15:20
Israel offered the first sheaf of the harvest to God as a pledge of the full harvest. Paul calls the risen Christ the firstfruits of those who have died: his resurrection guarantees theirs. He rose on the day after the Sabbath, when this offering was made.
Fifty days to Pentecost Leviticus 23:16 and Acts 2:1
Leviticus counts fifty days from firstfruits to the Feast of Weeks, a harvest festival (Greek: Pentecost). The Spirit is poured out on that day, and three thousand are gathered — the first harvest of the church.
Living water at the Feast of Tabernacles Leviticus 23:34 and John 7:37
The Feast of Tabernacles remembered God's provision in the wilderness and, by Jesus' day, included water-pouring ceremonies. On its great last day Jesus invites anyone thirsty to come to him for living water, meaning the Spirit.

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Archaeology

Elephantine Passover letter 419/418 BC