FeastsAndFastsTable

Feasts, festivals, and a fast found in the Bible

Info. from Nelson’s Bible Dictionary

Reference list is incomplete;

there are many more verses

in Scripture about feasts.

 

Called (in Nelson’s)

also called

When

Selected references

Comments and notes

 

 

 

 

 

Atonement (at-one-ment), Day of

Yom Kippur

7th month, 10th day

Lev23:27,24; Chap 16; 16:4,12,14,15,20-22,29; Num29:7,8; Gal3:12; 2Cor5:21; Heb10:1-10.

Day of fasting.

 

 

 

 

 

Dedication, Feast of.

Feast of Lights; Hanukkah

9th month, 25th day

John 10:22

I know of no requirement in Scripture to keep this feast.

 

 

 

 

 

Jubilee, Year of

 

50th year

Lev 23:15-16; 25:8-55; 27:14-24; Is 61:1-2; Jer 34:8,14-17

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Moon

 

 

Ex40:2,17; Nu10:10; 28:1-10,11-15; Ps104:19; Is66:23; Col2:16

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. See also …

Passover; Unleavened Bread

First month (Abib), 14th day

Ex12:1; 13:16; 23:15; 34:18-20,25; Lev23:4-14; Num28:16-25; Deut16:1-8; Josh4:19-23; 5:10-12; 2Chr30:2,3,13,15; 1Cor5:8

See also …

Unleavened Bread.

 

 

 

 

 

See note in "Comments and notes."

Purim

Month Adar, 14th and 15th days

Esther 3:7; 9:24,26,28-29,31-32

I know of no requirement in Scripture to keep this feast.

 

 

 

 

 

Sabbath

 

Every Day 7

Ex16:22-30; 20:8-11; 23:12; 31:12-16; 34:21; 35:2-3; Lev23:3; 26:2; Num15:32-36; 28:9-10; Deut5:12-15; Matt12:1-14; Mk2:23-3:6; Lk6:1-11

Many references. Just a few:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabbatical Year

 

 

 

No references given.

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh Month Festival

Feast of Trumpets

 

Lev23:24-25,27-32; Num29:1-40

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tabernacles, Feast of

Feast of Booths

7th month, 15th day

Ex23:16; 34:22, Lev23:33-36; 39-43; Num29:12-32; Deut16:13-16; Ezra3:4; Zech14:16,18-19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unleavened Bread, Feast of. See also Passover....

 

First month (Abib), 15th day

Ex13:3-10; Lev23:6-8

Passover began on the 14th day….

 

 

 

 

 

Weeks, Feast of

Pentecost; Feast of Harvest

3rd month, on 50th day after the barley sheaf offering at Feast of Unleavened Bread

Ex23:16; 34:22; Lev23:15-21; Num28:26-31; Deut16:9-12; 2Chr8:13; Acts2:1-4