Quotes About Tradition

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

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.

On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ëOn the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ëOn 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.

These are the LORDís appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

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.

You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.

You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,

So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.