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Leviticus 23

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Leviticus 23 Overview

Leviticus 23 sets out the LORD’s appointed times: the weekly sabbath, Passover and Unleavened Bread, the firstfruits sheaf, the Feast of Weeks, the memorial of blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Each observance has its place in Israel’s worship calendar, combining rest, sacrifice, harvest, remembrance, affliction, rejoicing, and holy convocation.

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Before you read Leviticus 23

Coming from

Leviticus 22 regulated holy food and acceptable sacrifices.

In this chapter

The chapter organizes Israel’s weekly and annual appointed feasts.

Leads into

Leviticus 24 returns to tabernacle service with lamp oil and showbread, then records the case of a man who blasphemes the name of the LORD.

Key understanding

Leviticus 23 sets out the LORD’s appointed times: the weekly sabbath, Passover and Unleavened Bread, the firstfruits sheaf, the Feast of Weeks, the memorial of blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Each observance has its place in Israel’s worship calendar, combining rest, sacrifice, harvest, remembrance, affliction, rejoicing, and holy convocation.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Israel’s calendar is structured by times God appoints, not merely agricultural convenience.

Truth 2

The weekly sabbath stands at the head of the appointed convocations.

Truth 3

Passover and Unleavened Bread remember redemption from Egypt.

Truth 4

Harvest feasts connect ordinary provision with thanksgiving and worship.

Truth 5

The Day of Atonement is uniquely solemn, while Tabernacles is marked by extended rejoicing and remembrance of wilderness dwelling.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Exodus 12 established Passover during Israel’s deliverance from Egypt.

Connection 2

Leviticus 16 gives the detailed Day of Atonement ritual summarized here calendrically.

Connection 3

Deuteronomy 16 gives additional festival instructions tied to centralized worship.

Connection 4

The Gospels place Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection in Passover season, Acts 2 occurs at Pentecost, and John repeatedly notes Jewish feasts.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

These feasts are Israel’s covenant appointments and should not be made conditions of Christian salvation or justification.

Keep this clear 2

Prophetic or typological significance should be grounded in explicit Scripture rather than assigning speculative fulfillment to every festival detail.

Keep this clear 3

The Day of Atonement’s self-affliction is solemn covenant observance, not permission for bodily self-harm.

Keep this clear 4

Christian freedom concerning days should be read with Romans 14 and Colossians 2.

Read Leviticus 23 watching for…

The movement through the agricultural and redemptive year.

The difference between solemn rest and joyful celebration.

The recurring phrase “holy convocation.”

Offerings connected with appointed days.

Historical remembrance built into Passover and Tabernacles.

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Chapter outline7 sections
1-3The Sabbath4-8Passover and the feast of unleavened bread9-14The offering of firstfruits15-22The feast of weeks23-25The memorial of blowing of trumpets26-32The Day of Atonement33-44The feast of tabernacles
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

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Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

4

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

5

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

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In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

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And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

13

And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.

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And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

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Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.

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Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

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And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

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Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

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And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

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And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

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Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

29

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

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And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

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Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

33

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

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On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

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These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

38

Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

39

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

40

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

41

And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

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That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

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