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The Three Annual Festivals in Israel

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Christopher H. J. Wright

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May 1, 2025

There were three annual festivals in Israel—Passover along with the Feast of Unleavened Bread, The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of Tabernacles. You can read about them in Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16. These were opportunities for all of the people to have some holiday, since they were told not to work (in addition to the regular weekly Sabbath day, of course).

But more than that, they were told to rejoice. “Rejoice before the LORD your…

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