Bible Verses About Family Events

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

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.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.