THE SACRED SEASONS These are the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3), Passover and Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:5), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15), Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:23), Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26), and Feast of Booths or Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SABBATH] see on Exodus 20:8. 5-8. Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles were the three great annual festivals which followed the seasons of the year and the operations of agriculture. For the institution of the Passover see Exodus 12:1, and for the sacrific... [ Continue Reading ]
WAVE THE SHEAF] see on Exodus 29:24... [ Continue Reading ]
TENTH DEALS.. HIM] see on Leviticus 14:10; Leviticus 19:36. 15-21. Feast of Weeks. Fifty days or seven weeks after the last festival, the Feast of Weeks, called in Gk. 'Pentecost' from the word for 'fifty,' began with the presentation of two loaves made of the new wheat and leavened in the ordinary... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Leviticus 19:9. 23-25. Feast of Trumpets. This was celebrated on the first day of the seventh month (_Tishri_), which was New Year's Day according to the civil reckoning: see on Exodus 12:2. For the special ritual of this Feast see Numbers 29:1. 26-32. Day of Atonement: see Leviticus 16. 33... [ Continue Reading ]