Mosaic Feasts
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APPOINTED FEASTS, SACRED ASSEMBLIES, HEBREW CALENDAR

Old Testament Feasts
  Name                  OT Refs                Then   Now    Description    Purpose          NT Refs  
Sabbath Ex 20:8-1:1,31:12-17; Lv 23:3; Dt 5:12-15 7th day Same Day of rest; no work Rest for people and animals Mt 12:1-14,28:1; Lk 4:16; Jn 5:9; Ac 13:42; Col 2:16; Heb 4:1-11
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Sabbath Year Ex 23:10-11; Lv 25:1-7 7th year Same Year of rest; fallow fields Rest for land       
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Year of Jubilee Lv 25:8-55,27:17-24; Nm 36:4 50th year Same Canceled debts; liberation of slaves and endentured servants; land returned to original family owners Help for poor; stabilize society       
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Passover (Pecash) Ex 1-2:1-14; Lv 23:5; Nu 9:1-14,28:16; Dt 16:1-3a,4b-7 1st month (Abib) 14 Mar-Apr Slaying and eating lamb, with bitter herbs and bread without yeast in every household Remember Israel's deliverance from Egypt Mt 26:17; Mk 14:12-26; Jn 2:13,11:55; 1Co 5:7; Heb 11:28
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Unleavened Bread Ex 12:15-20,13:3-10,23:15,34:18; Lv 23:6-8; Nu 28:17-25; Dt 16:3b,4a,8 1st month (Abib) 15-21 Mar-Apr Eating bread made without yeast; holding several assemblies; making designated offerings Remember how the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt in haste Mk 14:1,12; Ac 12:3; 1 Co 5:6-8
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Firstfruits Lv 23:9-14 1st month (Abib) 16 Mar-Apr Presenting a sheaf of the first of the barley harvest as a wave offering; making a burnt offering and a grain offering Recognize the Lord's bounty in the land Ro 8:23; 1Co 15:20-23
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Weeks (Pentecost) (Harvest) (Shavout) Ex 23:16a,34:22a; Lv 23:15-21; Nu 28:26-31; Dt 16:9-12 3rd month (Sivan) 6 May-Jun A festival of joy; mandatory and voluntary offerings, including the firstiruits of the wheat harvest Show joy and thankfulness for the Lord's blessing of harvest Ac 2:1-4,20:16; 1Co 16:8
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Trumpets (Yom Teruah) Lv 23:23-25; Nu 29:1-6 7th month (Tishri) 1-10 Sep-Oct An assembly on a day of rest commemorated with trumpet blasts and sacrifices Present Israel before the Lord for his favor many
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Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Lv 16,23:26-32; Nu 29:7-11 7th month (Tishri) 10 Sep-Oct A day of rest, fasting and sacrifices of atonement for priests and people and atonement for the tabernacle and altar Cleanse priests and people from their sins and purlfy the Holy Place Ro 3:24-26; Heb 9:7,10:3,19-22
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Tabernacles (Booths)(Ingathering) (Sukkot) Ex 23:16b,34:22b; Lv 23:33-36a,39-43; Nu 29:12-3,4; Dt 16:13-15; Zec 14:16-19 7th month (Tishri) 15-21 Sep-Oct A week of celebration for the harvest; living in booths and offering sacrifices Memorialize the journey from Egypt to Canaan; give thanks for the productivity of Canaan Jn 7:2,37
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Sacred Assembly Ly 23:36b; Nu 29:35-38 7th month (Tishri) 22 Sep-Oct A day of convocation, rest and offering sacrifices Commemorate the closing of the cycle of feasts       
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Purim Est 9:18-32 12th month (Adar) 14-15 Feb-Mar A day of joy and feasting and giving presents Remind the Israelites of their national deliverance in the time of Esther       

Every new moon was also a special feast day. (Nu 10:10; 1Ch 23:31; Ex 3:5; Ne 10:33; Ps 81:3; Is 1:13-14,66:23; Hs 5:7; Am 8:5; Col 2:16)

Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication (aka Lights) is on Kislev 25 (mid-December) commemorating the purification of the temple and altar. It is not in the Old Testament because it started in 165/4 B.C. during the Maccabean period. John 10:22 has Jesus in Jerusalem during the feast.

Mosaic Feasts Fulfillment in Jesus

Mosaic Feasts Fulfillment in Jesus

Hebrew Calendar

Hebrew Calendar and Selected Events


The table is from the NIV Study Bible, copyright 1978, 1983 and is used by permission.
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