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Bethany: Jesus Attends a Feast In Matthew 26:6–13

While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, / a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table. / When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?

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Bethany: Jesus Attends a Feast In John 12:1–9

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. / So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him. / Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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Birthday: Celebrated by Feasts Genesis 40:20

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

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Birthday: Celebrated by Feasts Matthew 14:6

On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod

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Bul: Jeroboam Institutes an Idolatrous Feast In, to Correspond with the Feast of Tabernacles 1 Kings 12:32, 33

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up. / On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

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Bul: Jeroboam Institutes an Idolatrous Feast In, to Correspond with the Feast of Tabernacles 1 Chronicles 27:11

The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

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Burial: Followed by a Feast 2 Samuel 3:35

Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

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Burial: Followed by a Feast Jeremiah 16:7, 8

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother. / You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

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Burial: Followed by a Feast Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

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Calves of Jeroboam: Feasts Appointed For 1 Kings 12:32, 33

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up. / On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

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Children: Weaning of, a Time of Joy and Feasting Genesis 21:8

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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Children: Weaning of, a Time of Joy and Feasting 1 Samuel 1:24

Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

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Church of Israel: Had: Appointed Feasts Leviticus 23:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

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Church of Israel: Had: Appointed Feasts Isaiah 1:14

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

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Covenant of Men with Men by Making a Feast Genesis 26:30

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

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Covenants: Followed by a Feast Genesis 26:30

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

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Covenants: Followed by a Feast Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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Criminals: Released at Feasts Matthew 27:15, 21

Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing. / “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they replied.

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Criminals: Released at Feasts Mark 15:6

Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

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Criminals: Released at Feasts Luke 23:17

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Dedication of Self: Feast of Dedication John 10:22

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

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Dedication of Self: Feast of Dedication 1 Kings 8:65

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.

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Dedication of Self: Feast of Dedication 2 Chronicles 7:8–10

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days. / On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more. / On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

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Dress for Wedding Feasts Matthew 22:11

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

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En-Rogel: A Rebellious Feast At 1 Kings 1:9

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

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Entertainments: Under the Direction of a Master of the Feast John 2:8, 9

“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, / and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside

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Ethanim: Feast of Tabernacles In Leviticus 23:33–43

And the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days. / On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

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Ethanim: Feast of Trumpets In Leviticus 23:23–25

The LORD also said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts. / You must not do any regular work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”

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Feast Exodus 12:14

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

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Feast Exodus 23:16

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

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Feast Leviticus 23:1, 2

Then the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

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Feast Exodus 23:14

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

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Feast of Tabernacles by Jesus John 7:2, 14

However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near. / About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Design of Leviticus 23:42, 43

You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths, / so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

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Feast of Tabernacles: Instituted Exodus 23:16

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Instituted Exodus 34:22

And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Instituted Leviticus 23:34–43

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days. / On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. / For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Jeroboam Institutes an Idolatrous Feast to Correspond To, in the Eighth Month 1 Kings 12:32, 33

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up. / On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Jeroboam Institutes an Idolatrous Feast to Correspond To, in the Eighth Month 1 Chronicles 27:11

The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Observance of, After the Captivity Ezra 3:4

They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Observance of, After the Captivity Nehemiah 8:14–18

And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month. / So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” / And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Observance of, Omitted Nehemiah 8:17

The whole assembly who had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.

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Feast of Tabernacles: Penalty for not Observing Zechariah 14:16–19

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. / And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them. / And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

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Feast of Tabernacles: The Law Read in Connection With, Every Seventh Year Deuteronomy 31:10–12

Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, / when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. / Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

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Feast of Tabernacles: The Law Read in Connection With, Every Seventh Year Nehemiah 8:18

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

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Feasts were Presided Over by a Master of Ceremonies John 2:8, 9

“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, / and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus Matthew 26:17–20

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” / He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’” / So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus Luke 2:41, 42

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. / And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus Luke 22:15

And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus John 2:13, 23

When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. / While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus John 5:1

Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus John 7:10

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Jesus John 10:22

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Paul Acts 18:21

But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Paul Acts 19:21

After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Paul Acts 20:6, 16

And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days. / Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses) by Paul Acts 24:11, 17

You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship. / After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Aliens (Non-Jews) Were Permitted to Attend John 12:20

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Aliens (Non-Jews) Were Permitted to Attend Acts 2:1–11

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. / Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. / They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Exodus 23:17

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Exodus 34:23

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Psalm 42:4

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Psalm 122:4

where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Ezekiel 36:38

Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend Luke 2:44

Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend John 4:45

Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): All Males Were Required to Attend John 7:1

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Appointed Feasts Isaiah 1:14

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Attended by Women 1 Samuel 1:3, 9

Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD. / So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Attended by Women Luke 2:41

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Designated As Solemn Feasts Numbers 15:3

and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Designated As Solemn Feasts 2 Chronicles 8:13

He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Designated As Solemn Feasts Lamentations 2:6

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Designated As Solemn Feasts Ezekiel 46:9

When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Divine Protection Given During Exodus 34:24

For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): First and Last Days Were Sabbatic Leviticus 23:39, 40

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day. / On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): First and Last Days Were Sabbatic Numbers 28:18–25

On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. / Present to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished. / The grain offering shall consist of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): First and Last Days Were Sabbatic Numbers 29:12, 35

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days. / On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): First and Last Days Were Sabbatic Nehemiah 8:1–18

At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel. / On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand. / So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Holy Convocations Leviticus 23:4

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Leviticus 23:40

On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Deuteronomy 16:11–14

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. / Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes. / You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing 2 Chronicles 30:21–26

The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD. / And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers. / The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Ezra 6:22

For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Nehemiah 8:9–12, 17

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law. / Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” / And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Psalm 42:4

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Psalm 122:4

where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Isaiah 30:29

You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Kept with Rejoicing Zechariah 8:19

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Set Feasts Numbers 29:39

You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”

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Feasts: (Instituted by Moses): Set Feasts Ezra 3:5

After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At Genesis 40:20

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At Genesis 43:32, 34

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them. / When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At 1 Samuel 9:22

Then Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them into the hall, and seated them in the place of honor among those who were invited—about thirty in all.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At Esther 1:8, 9

By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired. / Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At Mark 6:21

On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

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Feasts: Ancient Customs At: Men Alone Present At Luke 14:24

For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”

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Feasts: Celebrations by Birthdays Genesis 40:20

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

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Feasts: Celebrations by Birthdays Mark 6:21

On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

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