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Required annual feasts:   given to the Israelite's in Deuteronomy 16:1-17     Exodus 23:14-19

Feast name Jewish
date/time		 Month
length		 Brief description and reason
The LORD's
Passover 		14th day
1stmonth 		April
1 day		 The day of the Israelite's exodus from Egypt through the 10th plague, (killing of the first born). The Passover is immediately followed by the Feast of Unleavened bread.
Unleavened
Bread 		15th day
1st Month		 April
7 days		 When being delivered from the bondage of Egypt, the children of Israel, had no time to let their bread rise.
Firstfruits Harvest
time		 March/April
1 day		 Celebrating the first fruits of their crops, in acknowledgement of the LORD giving the promise land to the Israelite's.
Feast of
Weeks 		50 days after Passover June
1 day		 Spring harvest celebration of wheat crop ingathering. seven weeks after Passover, it marks the day when Moses received the law on Mount Sinai, also refereed to as Pentecost.
Feast of
Trumpets		 1stday
7th Month		 October
1 day		 A Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, (the shofar), rams horn. no customary work could be done, and each man gave as the Lord prospered him.
(This feast began the Jewish new year, Rosh-Hashanah)
Day of
Atonement		 10thday
7th Month.		 October
1 day		 Everyone afflicted their souls, (possibly by fasting or through examining of their soul), and gave an offering to the priest, to make atonement for himself before the LORD their God.
(This feast called Yom-Kippur ended the celebration of the Jewish new year)
Feast of
Tabernacles		 15thday
7th Month.		 October
7 days		 Also, referred to as the Feast of Booths. Living in booths for seven days, signifies the Israelite's, wandering in the wilderness for forty years, no customary work could be done.