Feast

`And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; --a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

`Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed <FI>in<Fi> the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear <FI>in<Fi> My presence empty;

`Seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, and in the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a feast to Jehovah;

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

And Moses saith, `With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'

and Laban gathereth all the men of the place, and maketh a banquet.

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined. — read the full passage →

for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy <FI>is<Fi> he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

And it cometh to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he maketh a banquet to all his servants, and lifteth up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants,

And the lad groweth, and is weaned, and Abraham maketh a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned;

And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him, — read the full passage →

`Three times in a year doth every one of thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which He doth choose--in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they do not appear before Jehovah empty;

and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and ye have observed this day to your generations--a statute age-during.

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

`These <FI>are<Fi> the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it, all the days that ye are living on the ground: — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it <FI>is<Fi> a gift of God.

They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

`Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

And he saith to me, `Write: Happy <FI>are<Fi> they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These <FI>are<Fi> the true words of God;'

Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.

And satisfied the soul of the priests <FI>with<Fi> fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,