The Strand Study Bible

LEVITICUS 22:29

LEVITICUS 23:16

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7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation : ye shall do no servile work therein . 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days : in the sev- enth day is an holy convocation : ye shall do no servile work therein . Feast of First Fruits (c. April 16) 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak 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 8 sheaf of the 9 FIRSTFRUITS of your har- vest unto the priest : 11 And he shall 10 wave the sheaf before the LORD , to be accepted for you : on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it . 12 And 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 . 13 And 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 of- fering thereof shall be of wine , the fourth part of an hin . 14 And ye shall eat neither bread , nor parched corn , nor green ears , until the selfsame day that ye have brought an of- fering unto your God : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings . Feast of Pentecost (c. June 3-9) 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath , from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offer- ing ; seven sabbaths shall be complete : 16 Even unto the morrow after the sev- enth sabbath shall ye number 11 fifty days ; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD .

shall not kill it and her young 1 both in one day . 29 2 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD , offer it at your own will . 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up ; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow : I am the LORD . 31 Therefore shall ye keep my command- ments , and do them : I am the LORD . Moral law (Concerning cursing God) 32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name ; but I will be 3 hallowed among the children of Israel : I am the LORD which hallow you , 33 4 That brought you out of the land of Egypt , to be your God : I am the LORD . (Concerning the seven yearly FEASTS ) Date - Apr 9th - 13th, 1486 BC/AM 2514 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak 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 . 3 5 Six 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 . Feast of Passover (c. April 14) 4 These are the feasts of the LORD , even holy convocations , which ye shall proclaim in their seasons . 5 6 In the fourteenth day of the firstmonth at even is the LORD’S 7 PASSOVER Feast of Unleavened Bread (c. April 15 -22) 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread . Leviticus 23 Ceremonial law

1. Deut 22:6-7 2. Lev 7:12-15 3. Mt 6:9 & Lk 11:2 4. Exo 12:37-39 5. Exo 20:9 & Lk 13:14-16 6. Exo 12:11-18 7. I Cor 5:7-8 8. or, “handful” - Exo 23:19 & 34:26 9. I Cor 15:20-23 10. or, “present” 11. Acts 2:1

23:2 God, in His wisdom, set up seven different “feast days” for His people to observe throughout the year. These feasts , if observed, would help His people “stay on schedule” spiritually, and thus stay right with Him ( Neh 8:17 ). Whereas “getting right” with God meant sacrificing a lamb ( Lev 1:2 ), “staying right” with God meant keeping the feasts . Each feast represented something CHRIST did or will do for humanity in the future. Ray Stedman in The Way to Wholeness: Lessons from Leviticus notes: The twenty-third chapter of Leviticus is a remarkable portion of Scripture, because it gives us God’s calendar for the appointed feasts of Israel. 1 Mark Hitchcock in Blood Moons Rising agrees. He notes:

As you can see, a great event in history, associated with Christ’s first coming, occurred on each of these spring feast days in the first century. Jesus died on Passover (April 3, AD 33). Jesus was raised from the dead on Sunday, April