ad, Paul preached unto them, y to depart on the morrow, continued his speech until dnight. Cor. xvi, 1, 2. Now concerning collection for the saints, as I ve given order to the churches Galatia, even so do ye. Upon first day of the week let every e of you lay by him in store, as d bath prospered him, that re be no gatherings when I lee. 1, 10. I was in the Spirit on Lord's day, and heard behind year, and eat yet of old fruit until Lev. xxvi, 34, 35, 43. Then shall The him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him. Lev. xxvii, 24. In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. OTHER HOLY DAYS. Exod. xxiii, 14, 17. Three times a great voice, as of a trumpet. and they shall accept of the pun- thou shalt keep a feast unto me ishment of their iniquity: because, EWISH SABBATH NOT 4th. 5th. in the year. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God. Exod. xxxiv, 23, 24. Thrice in the year shall all your men-children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Lev. xxili, 2, 4, 44. 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. These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord. SABBATICAL YEAR. zod. xxiii, 10, 11. And six s thou shalt sow thy land, shalt gather in the fruits eof; But the seventh year 2 shalt let it rest and lie still; the poor of thy people may THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. and what they leave the Lev. xxv, 8-13, 39-41, 54. And ts of the field shall eat. In thou shalt number seven sabmanner thou shalt deal with baths of years unto thee, seven vineyard, and with thy olive-times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine Deut. xvi, 16. Three times in a years. Then shalt thou cause year shall all thy males appear the trumpet of the jubilee to before the LORD thy God in the sound, on the tenth day of the place which he shall choose; in seventh month; in the day of the feast of unleavened bread, and atonement shall ye make the in the feast of weeks, and in the trumpet sound throughout all feast of tabernacles: and they your land. And ye shall hallow shall not appear before the LORD the fiftieth year, and proclaim empty. liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee. And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with 2. XXV, 2-7, 20-22. Speak the children of Israel, and unto them, When ye come the land which I give you, 1 shall the land keep a sab3 unto the LORD. Six years a shalt sow thy field, and six rs thou shalt prune thy vinef, and gather in the fruit reof; But in the seventh year I be a sabbath of rest unto land, a sabbath for the LORD: u shalt neither sow thy field, prune thy vineyard. That ich groweth of its own accord thy harvest thou shalt not p, neither gather the grapes of vine undressed: for it is a ar of rest unto the land. And sabbath of the land shall be at for you; for thee, and for thy vant, and for thy maid, and for hired servant, and for thy anger that sojourneth with e. And for thy cattle, and for beast that are in thy land, all all the increase thereof be sat. And if ye shall say, What all we eat the seventh year? hold, we shall not sow, nor ther in our increase; Then I ill command my blessing upon a in the sixth year, and it shall ing forth fruit for three years. nd ye shall sow the eighth Judges xxi, 19. Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly, in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. 1 Sam. i, 3, 21. And this man went up out of his city yearly, to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh: and the two sons of Eli, Hoplini and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. 2 Chron. viii, 13. Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new-moons, and on the solenın feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. 2 Chron. Xxx, 25. And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. Neh. viii, 9, 11, 12. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. Isa. xxx, 29. Ye shall have a song, as in the night, when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. Acts xviii, 20, 21. When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem; but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. Lam. 1, 4. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Hosea ix, 5. What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? Amos v, 21. I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. lambs, and a ram; they shall beering, which is in the end of the than said to David, To-morrow is ed unto her husband, and said, Isaiah i, 14. Your new-moons FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS. observe the feast of weeks, of the Exod. xxxiv, 22. And then shall first-fruits of wheat-harvest, sal the feast of ingathering at the year's end. count unto you from the morre Lev. xxili, 15-17. And ye stal after the sabbath, from the day¦ wave- offering, seven sab that ye brought the sheaf of the shall be complete: Even uta sabbath shall ye number the morrow after the serena meat-offering unto the LORD. Y days; and ye shall offer a T shall bring out of your habitatio two wave-loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine four they are the first-frults unte they shall be baken with leave LORD. shalt thou number unto dres Deut. xvi, 9-12. Seven week? begin to number the seven w from such time as thou begintest Lev. xxiii, 10-14, 20, 21. Speak thou shalt keep the feast of week to put the sickle to the corn. And unto the children of Israel, and unto the LORD thy God with 4 say unto them, When ye be come tribute of a free-will-offering into the land which I give unto thine hand, which thou shalt give you, and shall reap the harvest unto the LORD thy God, sele thereof, then ye shall bring a ing as the LORD thy God hat sheaf of the first-fruits of your blessed thee; And thou shalt r harvest unto the priest; And he joice before the LORD thy God shall wave the sheaf before the thou, and thy son, and thy dang LORD, to be accepted for you; on ter, and thy man-servant, and of priest shall wave it. And ye shall is within thy gates, and the stre the morrow after the sabbath the maid-servant, and the Levite th offer that day, when ye wave the ger, and the fatherless, and the sheaf, an he-lamb without blem- widow, that are among you, in the ish, of the first year, for a burnt-place which the LORD thy Ge offering unto the LORD. And the hath chosen to place his name meat-offering thereof shall be two there. And thou shalt remember) tenth-deals of fine flour mingled that thou wast a bond-man with oil, an offering made by fire Egypt: and thou shalt observe unto the LORD for a sweet savour, and do these statutes. shall be of wine, the fourth part of and the drink - offering thereof an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor that ye have brought an offering green ears, until the selfsame day unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And the bread of the first-fruits for a the priest shall wave them, with wave- offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you; ye shall do be a statute for ever in all your no servile work therein: it shall dwellings, throughout your generations. Pentecost was fully come, the were all with one accord in a | Acts ii, 1. And when the day place. termined to sail by Epheses, De time in Asia: for he basted, if cause he would not spend the Jerusalem the day of Pentecos were possible for him, to be al Acts xx, 16. For Paul had FEAST OF TABERNACLES. this shall be a statute for ever Lev. xvi, 29-31, 33, 34 upon you, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the and do no work at all, whether mouth, ye shall afflict your s be one of your own country, da stranger that sojourneth you: For on that day sad the priest make an atonement for yo clean from all your sins befo to cleanse you, that ye may be the LORD. It shall be a soltaik of rest unto you, and ye distil afflict your souls, by a statute f And he shall make an nent for the holy sanctuary, e shall make an atonement tabernacle of the congre, and for the altar; and he nake an atonement for the and for all the people of gregation. And this shall verlasting statute unto you, ke an atonement for the n of Israel for all their sins year. And he did as the ommanded Moses. xxiii, 24-87, 39-43. Speak he children of Israel, saythe seventh month, in the ty of the month, shall ye sabbath, a memorial of g of trumpets, an holy conn. Ye shall do no servile herein; but ye shall offer ring made by fire unto the And the LORD spake unto saying, Also on the tenth day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 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. 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. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; All that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 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. seventh month, on the first day of Lev. xxix, 1, 7. And in the the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no ser of the water-gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so: and there was very great gladness. Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God: and they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. Hos. xii, 9. And I, that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. Zech. xiv, 16, 18, 19. And it that is left of all the nations which shall come to pass, that every one this seventh month there vile work: it is a day of blowing came against Jerusalem shall even e a day of atonement: it an holy convocation unto nd ye shall afflict your nd offer an offering made unto the LORD. And ye no work in that same day; s a day of atonement, to n atonement for you before D your God. For whatsoul it be that shall not be I in that same day, he shall off from among his people. batsoever soul it be that ny work in that same day, le soul will I destroy from his people. Ye shall do iner of work: it shall be e for ever throughout your ions, in all your dwellings, be unto you a sabbath of dye shall afflict your souls: ninth day of the month at rom even unto even, shall brate your sabbath. And D spake unto Moses, sayeak unto the children of saying, The fifteenth day seventh month shall be the tabernacles for seven days Je LORD. On the first day e an holy convocation; ye o no servile work therein. days ye shall offer an offerde by fire unto the LORD; eighth day shall be an holy ation unto you, and ye offer an offering made by to the LORD: it is a solemn ly, and ye shall do no serrk therein. These are the of the LORD, which ye shall in to be holy convocations, ran offering made by fire he LORD, a burnt-offering, neat-offering, a sacrifice, and offerings, every thing upon Also in the fifteenth day seventh month, when ye athered in the fruit of the ye shall keep a feast unto 2D seven days: on the first the trumpets unto you. And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein. Num. xxix, 12. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days. Deut. xvi, 13-15. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands: therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. Neh. viii, 14-18. And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and pine branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. So the people went torth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain, there shall be will smite the plague wherewith the LORD the heathen that tabernacles. come not up to keep the feast of This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. John vii, 2. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. FEAST OF DEDICATION. 2 Chron. vii, 8-10. Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, avery great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness David, and to Solomon, and to 18that the LORD had shewed unto rael his people. Ezra vi, 16, 17. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. John x, 22. And it was at Jerusalem the teast of the dedication, and it was winter. FEAST OF PURIM. THESE FEASTS NOT BIND ING ON CHRISTIANS. Rom. xiv, 5, 6. Que man teemeth one day above an another esteemeth every alike. Let every man beg persuaded in his own mind it unto the Lord; and he that that regarded the day, regarunda gardeth not the day, to the L he doth not regard it. He eateth, eateth to the Lord fr giveth God thanks, and be th eateth not, to the Lord he al not, and giveth God thanks. to consume them, and to destroy | fastings and their cry. And the da Esth. ix, 17-19, 21-24, 26-32. On them: Wherefore they called these cree of Esther confirmed these the thirteenth day of the month days Purim, after the name of matters of Purim; and it wa Adar, and on the fourteenth day of Pur: therefore, for all the words written in the book. thesame rested they, and made it a of this letter, and of that which day of feasting and gladness. But they had seen concerning this the Jews that were at Shushan as- matter, and which had come unto sembled together on the thirteenth them, The Jews ordained, and day thereof, and on the fourteenth took upon them, and upon their thereof; and on the fifteenth day seed, and upon all such as joined of the same they rested, and made themselves unto them, so as it it a day of feasting and gladness. should not fail, that they would Therefore the Jews of the villages keep these two days according that dwelt in the unwalled towns, to their writing, and according made the fourteenth day of the to their appointed time; every month Adar a day of gladness and year; And that these days should feasting, and a good day, and of be remembered and kept throughsending portions one to another. out every generation, every faTo stablish this among them, that mily, every province, and every they should keep the fourteenth city; and that these days of Purim day of the month Adar, and the should not fail from among the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Jews, nor the memorial of them As the days wherein the Jews perish from their seed. Then rested from their enemies, and the Esther the queen, the daughter of month which was turned unto Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, them from sorrow to joy, and wrote with all authority, to confrom mourning into a good day; firm this second letter of Purim. that they should make them days And he sent the letters unto all of feasting and joy, and of sending the Jews, to the hundred twenty portions one to another, and gifts and seven provinces of the kingto the poor. And the Jews under-dom of Ahasuerus, with words of took to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; because Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, (that is, the lots peace and truth, To confirm these 634 Gal. iv, 9, 10. But now, that ye have known God rather are known of God, turn ye again to the weak beggarly elements, whereu desire again to be in bondag?) observe days, and months, times, and years. Col. il, 16, 17. Let no man the fore judge you in meat, or drink, or in respect of an b day, or of the new moon, or eft sabbath days: Which are shadow of things to come, bai body is of Christ. (See also under ORDINANCES . viii, 20. And Noah builded tar unto the LORD; and took ery clean beast, and of every fowl, and offered burut ings on the altar. xxii, 13. And Abraham I up his eyes, and looked, and ld behind him a ram caught thicket by his horns: and Pham went and took the ram, offered him up for a burnt ing in the stead of his son. ten. xxxi, 54. Then Jacob ed sacrifice upon the mount, called his brethren to eat d and they did eat bread, all night in the tarried nt. . xlvi, 1. And Israel took his ney with all that he had, and a to Beer-sheba, and offered ifices unto the God of his er Isaac. SACRIFICES. he brought him into the field of Heb. xi, 4. By faith Abel offered 2nd. UNDER THE MOSAIC DIS- ONLY ONE PLACE OF SACRIFICE. Exod. xxix, 11. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. man soever Lev. xvii, 2-5, 8, 9. Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying, What there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field,even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto Turm. xxlil, 1-4, 14, 29, 30. And door of the tabernacle of the condam said unto Balak, Build gregation, unto the priest, and bere seven altars, and pre-offer them for peace-offerings une me here seven oxen and tod. xviii, 12. And Jethro, es' father-in-law, took a at offering and sacrifices for : and Aaron came, and all the rs of Israel, to eat bread with es' father-in-law before God. um. xxii, 40. And Balak offeroxen and sheep, and sent to Lam, and to the princes that e with him. en rams. And Balak did as aam had spoken; and Balak 1 Balaam offered on every altar bullock and a ram. And Bain said unto Balak, Stand by burnt offering, and I will go: radventure the LORD will come meet me: and whatsoever he weth me, I will tell thee. And went to an high place. And od met Balaam: and he said unto n, I have prepared seven altars, d I have offered upon every Har a bullock and a ram. And the to the LORD. And thou shalt say Deut. xii, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, choose out of all your tribes to 2 Chron. xi. 16. And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel, came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers. |