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LEAVEN 
     No
grain offering, which you bring to the LORD, shall
     
be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in
     
smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire
     
to the LORD. -- 2:11
  
  
 
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 
     Aaron
shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the
     
LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.  Then 
     
Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the 
     
LORD fell, and make it a sin offering.  But the goat 
     
on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be 
     
presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement
     
upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat. 
     
-- 16:8-10
      ...
do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull,
     
and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the 
     
mercy seat.  He shall make atonement for the holy
     
place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel 
     
and because of their transgressions in regard to all 
     
their sins; ... When he goes in to make atonement in the
     
holy place, no one shall be in the tent of meeting until
     
he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself
     
and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel. 
     
Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD
     
and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the 
     
blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat and put it
     
on the horns of the altar on all sides.  With his finger he 
     
shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and 
     
cleanse it, and from the impurities of the sons of Israel 
     
consecrate it.  When he finishes atoning for the holy 
     
place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall 
     
offer the live goat.  Then Aaron shall lay both of his 
     
hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over
     
it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their 
     
transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall
     
lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into 
     
the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in 
     
readiness.  The goat shall bear on itself all their 
     
iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the 
     
goat in the wilderness. -- 16:15-22
  
      This
shall be a permanent statute for you: in the 
     
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you
     
shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether
     
the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; for it
     
is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to 
     
cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before
     
the LORD.  It is to be a sabbath of solemn rest for you, 
     
that you may humble your souls; it is a permanent
     
statute. ... Now you shall have this as a permanent 
     
statute, to make atonement for the sons of Israel for all
     
their sins once every year.-- 16:29-34
  
  
 
THE BLOOD 
     I
will set My face against that person who eats blood 
     
and will cut him off from among his people.  For the 
     
life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to 
     
you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for
     
it is the blood by reason of the life that makes 
     
atonement. - -17:10-11 
  
  
 
THE
FEASTS OF ISRAEL 
    
These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy 
     
convocations which you shall proclaim at the times
     
appointed for them. 
 
PASSOVER
( PESACH ) 
    
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
     
at twilight is the LORD'S Passover. 
 
UNLEAVENED
BREAD 
    
Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is
     
the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven 
     
days you shall eat unleavened bread.  On the first day
     
you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any 
     
laborious work.  But for seven days you shall present 
     
an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is
     
a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious 
     
work.
 
FIRST
FRUITS 
    
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the 
     
sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the 
     
land which I am going to give to you and reap its 
     
harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first 
     
fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the 
     
sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on the
     
day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Now on 
     
the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male 
     
lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to 
     
the LORD. Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of
     
an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire
     
to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its drink 
     
offering, a fourth of a hin of wine. Until this same day, 
     
until you have brought in the offering of your God, you 
     
shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new
     
growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your 
     
generations in all your dwelling places. 
 
PENTECOST
( WEEKS/SHAVUOT ) 
    
You shall also count for yourselves from the day after 
     
the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the
     
sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven 
     
complete sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the 
     
day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a 
     
new grain offering to the LORD. You shall bring in from 
     
your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave 
     
offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be
     
of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the 
     
LORD.  Along with the bread you shall present seven 
     
one year old male lambs without defect, and a bull of 
     
the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering
     
to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink 
     
offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the
     
LORD.  You shall also offer one male goat for a sin 
     
offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice
     
of peace offerings.  The priest shall then wave them 
     
with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering with 
     
two lambs before the LORD; they are to be holy to the 
     
LORD for the priest.  On this same day you shall make
     
a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy 
     
convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to 
     
be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places 
     
throughout your generations.  When you reap the 
     
harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to
     
the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning
     
of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy 
     
and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'" 
 
TRUMPETS
( ROSH HASHANAH ) 
    
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the 
     
sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the first
    
of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by 
     
blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.  You shall not 
     
do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering
     
by fire to the LORD.'"
 
DAY
OF ATONEMENT ( YOM KIPPUR ) 
    
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "On exactly the
     
tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement;
     
it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall 
     
humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the
     
LORD.  You shall not do any work on this same day, for
     
it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your
     
behalf before the LORD your God.  If there is any
     
person who will not humble himself on this same day, 
     
he shall be cut off from his people.  As for any person
     
who does any work on this same day, that person I will
     
destroy from among his people.  You shall do no work 
     
at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your 
     
generations in all your dwelling places.  It is to be a
     
sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble 
     
your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from
     
evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath."
 
TABERNACLES
( BOOTHS/SUKKOT ) 
    
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the 
     
sons of Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth of this seventh 
     
month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the 
     
LORD.  On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall
     
do no laborious work of any kind.  For seven days you 
     
shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the 
     
eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and 
     
present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is an 
     
assembly. You shall do no laborious work. 
     
These are the appointed times of the LORD which you 
     
shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present 
     
offerings by fire to the LORD -- burnt offerings and
     
grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each
     
day's matter on its own day -- besides those of the 
     
sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts and 
     
besides all your votive and freewill offerings, which 
     
you give to the LORD.
     
On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, 
     
when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you
     
shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days,
     
with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth
     
day.  Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves 
     
the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs
     
of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall 
     
rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. You 
     
shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven
     
days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute
     
throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it 
     
in the seventh month.  You shall live in booths for 
     
seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in
     
booths, so that your generations may know that I had
     
the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them 
     
out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'"
     
So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed
     
times of the LORD. -- 23:4-44
  
  
 
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE 
     You
shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim
     
a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall
     
be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his 
     
own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 
     
You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall 
     
not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its
     
untrimmed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to 
     
you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.  On this 
     
year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own 
     
property. -- 25:10-13
 
  
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