Feast Days
Purim: March 14-15
Esther: 9:20-32
20: And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Israelites that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
21: To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
22: As the days wherein the Israelites rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor
23: And the Israelites undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24: Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite/Edomite the enemy of all the Israelites, had devised against the Israelites to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25: But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Israelites, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26: Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27: The Israelites ordained, and took upon them,and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
28: And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Israelites, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
29: Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Israelite, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
30: And he sent the letters unto all the Israelites, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
31: To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Israelite and Esther the queen/Israelite had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
32: And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Passover/ Feast of Unleavened Bread: April 15-April 21
Leviticus 23:5:8
5: In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the YHWH's passover.
6: And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto YHWH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7: In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8:But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Exodus 12:8-10
8: And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9: Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10: And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus 12:15
15: Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:46
46: In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47: All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus 12:48-49
48: And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49:One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Numbers 9:10-11 (In the Land)
10: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto YHWH.
11: The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Memorial of Blowing of the Trumpets: October 1
Leviticus 23:23-25
23: And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
24: 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.
25: Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH.
Day of Atonement: October 10
Leviticus 23:26-32
26: And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
27: 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 YHWH.
28: And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before YHWH 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.
30: And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31: Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32: 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.
Feast of Tabernacles: October 15-October 22
Leviticus 23:33-36
33: And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
34: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto YHWH.
35: On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36: Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.