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The Appointed Times
Ha Moyadim
Leviticus 23:1-44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
these are My feasts.
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation.
You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
These are
the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. 1. PASSOVER On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. 2. FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven
days you must eat unleavened bread.
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work
on it.
But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy
convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. 3. FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS Speak
to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you
shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be
accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
And you shall offer on that day,
when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made
by fire to the Lord, for a sweet aroma to the Lord
You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain
until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations
in all your dwellings. 4. FEAST
OF PENTECOST (WEEKS) And you shall count for yourselves
from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count
fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.
You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall
be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord. And you shall offer with the
bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the
Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. Then
you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace
offering.
The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with
the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation
to you. You shall do no customary work on it and it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field
when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger:
I am the Lord your God.' "
5. FEAST
OF TRUMPETS Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,"Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. 6. DAY OF ATONEMENT And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Also
the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict
your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.
And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord
your God.
For any person who is not afflicted
in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will
destroy from among his people.
You shall do no
manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth
day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath."
7. FEAST OF TABERNACLES Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for
seven days to the Lord. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.
For
seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and
you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to
the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day besides the Sabbaths
of the Lord, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.
Also on the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the
first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.
And you shall take for yourselves
on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook;
and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven
days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
You
shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may
know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God,
So Moses proclaimed to the children of Israel all the feasts of the Lord. 
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