Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

14th, or rather

15th day of the first month in the ecclesiastical year, which was the seventh of the civil year, which was the seventh of the civil year, and lasted seven days. The {Pentecost} was celebrated on the fiftieth day after the passover, in memory of the law's being given to Moses on Mount Sinair, fifty days, of seven weeks after the departure out of Egypt. The word is derived from the Greek word [], which signifies the fiftieth. The Hebrews call it the feast of weeks,

Exodus 34:22 Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.

The feast of {trumpets}, celebrated on the first day of the civil year, when a trumpet was sounded, to proclaim its commencement, which was in the month {Tisri}, answering to our September

Leviticus 23:24,25 Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy. . . .

10th day of Tisri or September: the Hebrews call it Kippur, i.e. pardon or expiation, because it was instituted for the expiation of their sins. The feast of tents or tabernacles was so called, because the Israelites kept it under green tents or arbours, in memory of their dwelling in their passage through the wilderness. It was celebrated on the

15th day of Tisri, and continue eight days: the first and last days are the most solemn. Besides the feasts mentioned by Moses, we find the feast of lots, or Purim, which was celebrated among the Jews of Shushan on the

14th of Adar, which answers to our February. The feast of the dedication of the temple, or rather, of the restoration of the temple, which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes, which is thought to be the feast mentioned in the gospel (

John 10:22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.

), was celebrated in the winter. Moadim, properly means assemblies, convened at an appointed time and place.

Leviticus 23:4,37 These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their seasons. . . .

Exodus 23:14-17 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. . . .

Isaiah 1:13,14 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. . . .

Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

Lamentations 1:4 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness.

Hosea 2:11 And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay thy vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee again, he is utterly cut off.

John 5:1 After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Colossians 2:1 For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

proclaim

Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.

Numbers 10:2,3,10 Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed. . . .

2 Kings 10:20 And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,

2 Chronicles 30:5 And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed by the law.

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

Jonah 3:5-9 And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed. . . .