Week 48, Day 5: Days to be observed

Today’s Reading:  Leviticus 22:1 – 23:44

Some thoughts from the reading..

Chapter 23 lays out for us the festival days that Israel was to observe.  I want to list a summary of what is mentioned in this chapter. 

23:5-6      1st month at twilight on 14th day      Passover                                                                                               

23:5-6       1st month, 15th day                               Feast of Unleavened bread   – last for seven days

23:10        1st fruits of the harvest

23:15-16     Pentecost, new grain offering

23:24      7th month, 1st day        Trumpets blown

23:27      7th month, 10th day     Day of atonement

23:34     7th month, 15th day      Feast of booth,  after crops are gathered in (23:39)  – last for seven days

These are the days that were to be observed by Israel.

Question:  For Jews today, how can you live outside of Jerusalem and still observe these days according to God’s commands?  For those Jews living in Jerusalem, how do they keep these commands without a temple to sacrifice in?

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