Quotes About Celebration

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

You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.

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.

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

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

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.

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

Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“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.

These are the LORDís appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

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.

For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.í”

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

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 count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.