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LEAVEN
No
grain offering, which you bring to the LORD, shall
be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in
smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire
to the LORD. -- 2:11
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
Aaron
shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the
LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then
Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the
LORD fell, and make it a sin offering. But the goat
on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be
presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement
upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
-- 16:8-10
...
do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull,
and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the
mercy seat. He shall make atonement for the holy
place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel
and because of their transgressions in regard to all
their sins; ... When he goes in to make atonement in the
holy place, no one shall be in the tent of meeting until
he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself
and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel.
Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD
and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the
blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat and put it
on the horns of the altar on all sides. With his finger he
shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and
cleanse it, and from the impurities of the sons of Israel
consecrate it. When he finishes atoning for the holy
place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall
offer the live goat. Then Aaron shall lay both of his
hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over
it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their
transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall
lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into
the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in
readiness. The goat shall bear on itself all their
iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the
goat in the wilderness. -- 16:15-22
This
shall be a permanent statute for you: in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you
shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether
the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; for it
is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to
cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before
the LORD. It is to be a sabbath of solemn rest for you,
that you may humble your souls; it is a permanent
statute. ... Now you shall have this as a permanent
statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all
their sins once every year.-- 16:29-34
THE BLOOD
I
will set My face against that person who eats blood
and will cut him off from among his people. For the
life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to
you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for
it is the blood by reason of the life that makes
atonement. - -17:10-11
THE
FEASTS OF ISRAEL
These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy
convocations which you shall proclaim at the times
appointed for them.
PASSOVER
( PESACH )
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
at twilight is the LORD'S Passover.
UNLEAVENED
BREAD
Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is
the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day
you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any
laborious work. But for seven days you shall present
an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is
a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious
work.
FIRST
FRUITS
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the
sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the
land which I am going to give to you and reap its
harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first
fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the
sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the
day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Now on
the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to
the LORD. Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of
an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire
to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its drink
offering, a fourth of a hin of wine. Until this same day,
until you have brought in the offering of your God, you
shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new
growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations in all your dwelling places.
PENTECOST
( WEEKS/SHAVUOT )
You shall also count for yourselves from the day after
the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the
sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven
complete sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the
day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a
new grain offering to the LORD. You shall bring in from
your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave
offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be
of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the
LORD. Along with the bread you shall present seven
one year old male lambs without defect, and a bull of
the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering
to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink
offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the
LORD. You shall also offer one male goat for a sin
offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice
of peace offerings. The priest shall then wave them
with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering with
two lambs before the LORD; they are to be holy to the
LORD for the priest. On this same day you shall make
a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy
convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to
be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places
throughout your generations. When you reap the
harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to
the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning
of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy
and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'"
TRUMPETS
( ROSH HASHANAH )
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the
sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the first
of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by
blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall not
do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering
by fire to the LORD.'"
DAY
OF ATONEMENT ( YOM KIPPUR )
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "On exactly the
tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement;
it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall
humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the
LORD. You shall not do any work on this same day, for
it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your
behalf before the LORD your God. If there is any
person who will not humble himself on this same day,
he shall be cut off from his people. As for any person
who does any work on this same day, that person I will
destroy from among his people. You shall do no work
at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations in all your dwelling places. It is to be a
sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble
your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from
evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath."
TABERNACLES
( BOOTHS/SUKKOT )
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the
sons of Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth of this seventh
month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the
LORD. On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall
do no laborious work of any kind. For seven days you
shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the
eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and
present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an
assembly. You shall do no laborious work.
These are the appointed times of the LORD which you
shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present
offerings by fire to the LORD -- burnt offerings and
grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each
day's matter on its own day -- besides those of the
sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts and
besides all your votive and freewill offerings, which
you give to the LORD.
On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you
shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days,
with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth
day. Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves
the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs
of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. You
shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven
days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute
throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it
in the seventh month. You shall live in booths for
seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in
booths, so that your generations may know that I had
the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them
out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'"
So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed
times of the LORD. -- 23:4-44
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE
You
shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim
a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall
be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his
own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall
not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its
untrimmed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to
you. You shall eat its crops out of the field. On this
year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own
property. -- 25:10-13
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