Quotes About Celebration

Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

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

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

And Jacob did just that. He finished the weekís celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

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.

On the third day, which was Pharaohís 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.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

When the portions were served to them from Josephís table, Benjaminís portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

you are to reply, ëIt is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.í” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORDís Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaronís sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”