Festival of Tabernacles

Lev 23:33-43 The LORD said to Moses, (34) “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. (35) The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. (36) For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work. (37) (“‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the LORD–the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. (38) These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD’s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.) (39) “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. (40) On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees–from palms, willows and other leafy trees–and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. (41) Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. (42) Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters (43) so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'”

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Day of Atonement

Lev 16:11-19 “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. (12) He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. (13) He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die. (14) He is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover. (15) “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. (16) In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness. (17) No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel. (18) “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar. (19) He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

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Festival of Weeks

Lev 23:15-22 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. (16) Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. (17) From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD. (18) Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings–a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. (19) Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. (20) The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. (21) On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. (22) “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.'”

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Exodus

Exo 12:1-14 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, (2) “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. (3) Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. (4) If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. (5) The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. (6) Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. (7) Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. (8) That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. (9) Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire–with the head, legs and internal organs. (10) Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. (11) This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover. (12) “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. (13) The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. (14) “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD–a lasting ordinance.

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The Death of a Friend

Joh 11:38-44 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. (39) “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” (40) Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” (41) So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. (42) I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” (43) When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” (44) The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

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A Wedding in Cana

Joh 2:1-12 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, (2) and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. (3) When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” (4) “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” (5) His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” (6) Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. (7) Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. (8) Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, (9) and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside (10) and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” (11) What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. (12) After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

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An Unfaithful Bride

Hos 1:1-11 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel: (2) When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.” (3) So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. (4) Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. (5) In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.” (6) Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them. (7) Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them–not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.” (8) After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. (9) Then the LORD said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God. (10) “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ (11) The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

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The Most Beautiful Bride

Son 6:4-12 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners. (5) Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead. (6) Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing. (7) Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. (8) Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; (9) but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her. (10) Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession? (11) I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom. (12) Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people.

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A Bride Worth Waiting For

Gen 29:15-30 Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” (16) Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. (17) Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. (18) Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.” (19) Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.” (20) So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. (21) Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.” (22) So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. (23) But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. (24) And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant. (25) When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?” (26) Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. (27) Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.” (28) And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. (29) Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. (30) Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

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A Generous Gift

Mat 23:2-12 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. (3) So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. (4) They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. (5) “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; (6) they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; (7) they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others. (8) “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. (9) And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. (10) Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. (11) The greatest among you will be your servant. (12) For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Mar 12:38-44 As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, (39) and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. (40) They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.” (41) Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. (42) But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. (43) Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. (44) They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything–all she had to live on.”

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