100 Bible Verses About Old Testament Feasts
Bible verses about Old Testament Feasts
Delve into the heart of God's appointed times by exploring Old Testament feasts. These sacred celebrations, rich in symbolism and prophetic foreshadowing, offer a profound understanding of God's character and His redemptive plan for humanity. Through scripture, uncover the deeper meaning behind Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Weeks (Pentecost), Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. Understanding these feasts illuminates God's faithfulness to His promises, reveals the Messiah's role in fulfilling them, and enriches our spiritual journey as we connect with the roots of our faith and anticipate the ultimate fulfillment of His eternal purpose. Let the scriptures guide you into a richer appreciation for God's unwavering love and His divine appointments.
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Deuteronomy 34:10 (KJV)
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
Old Testament Feasts: Explore Biblical Celebrations & Their Meaning
And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth–el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth–el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
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 in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
A jubile 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.
And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord:
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord.
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
The Old Testament feasts, meticulously detailed in these verses, served as vital reminders of God's covenant with Israel, His provision, and His deliverance from bondage. Passover commemorated the Exodus, Unleavened Bread purged the old, and Firstfruits anticipated the harvest. Weeks (Shavuot) celebrated the giving of the Law, Trumpets heralded a time of repentance, Atonement demanded solemn reflection, and Tabernacles rejoiced in God’s dwelling with His people. Studying these feasts offers invaluable insight into God's character, His redemptive plan, and the foreshadowing of Christ. As we reflect on these ancient observances, we can appreciate the rich heritage of faith we share with those who came before us, and find deeper meaning in the New Covenant established through Jesus. Consider how these feasts point toward His ultimate sacrifice and reign, prompting us to examine our own lives and renew our commitment to living in obedience and gratitude.