Seven full weeks or seven completed Sabbaths and ascension of Jesus

Leviticus / Wayyiqra 23:15, 16     

Comparing Differences in the Translations between The Scriptures, HRV, and Restoration Scriptures:

THE SCRIPTURES:   Leviticus / Wayyiqra 23:15, 16 —   “AND FROM THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH, FROM THE DAY THAT YOU BROUGHT THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING, YOU SHALL COUNT FOR YOURSELVES: SEVEN COMPLETEDSABBATHS.  UNTIL THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH YOU COUNT FIFTY DAYS, THEN YOU SHALL BRING A NEW GRAIN OFFERING TO YHWH.”

17 Nisan the Resurrection of Jeshua, Jesus Christ – La Résurrection – between 1886 and 1894, James Tissot (1836–1902) – Brooklyn Museum

RESTORATION SCRIPTURES  BY M. KONIUCHOWSKY:  Leviticus / Wayyiqra 23:15, 16 —   “AND YOU SHALL COUNT FROM THE NEXT DAY AFTER THE SHABBAT, FROM THE DAY THAT YOU BROUGHT THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING;  SEVEN FULLWEEKS:  UNTIL THE NEXT DAY AFTER THE LAST WEEK SHALL YOU NUMBER FIFTY DAYS, AND YOU SHALL OFFER A NEW GRAIN OFFERING TO YHWH.”

HRV BY JAMES TRIMM:  Leviticus / Wayyiqra 23:15, 16 —   “AND YOU SHALL COUNT UNTO YOU FROM THE MORROW AFTER THE DAY OF REST, FROM THE DAY THAT YOU BROUGHT THE SHEAF OF THE WAVING;  SEVEN WEEKS SHALL THERE BE COMPLETE;  EVEN UNTO THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTHWEEK SHALL YOU NUMBER FIFTY DAYS; AND YOU SHALL PRESENT A NEW MEAL-OFFERING UNTO YHWH.”

According to “traditional” Rabbinical understanding,

Abib 16, or the 2nd day of Matsah, is the time that the Kohen Gadol waved the sheaf/omer of grain (First-fruits offering).

When did Yahusha ascend to Abba to do this?  Not Abib 16, as Rabbinical Judaism teaches is the time of the Wave Sheaf Offering.  We see that Yahusha became our Wave Sheaf Offering, and would not allow Miryam of Migdal to touch

Him, because He had not yet performed this (Yoch. 20:17).  

Yahusha did it on the first day of the week, and it was not on Abib 16.

His resurrection represented the wave-sheaf offering.

Later that same day, He allowed His talmidim to touch Him (Yoch. 20:27).

Yahusha is the sheaf of first-fruits, and could not “wave” Himself before Yahuah until He resurrected.

His resurrection was at the end of the weekly Shabbat.  

Then on the first day of the week, the “morrow after the Sabbath”, He performed the wave-offering, Himself.

50 days later, another “morrow after the seventh Shabbat”, comes Shabuoth, often called “Pentecost” (count-fifty).  

On Abib 16, or the 2nd day of Matsah, our Kohen Gadol was in the Earth, fulfilling the sign of Yonah.
It’s incredible to see how Yahusha timed His last Passover meal, 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb, then resurrected to become the wave offering Himself on the “morrow after the Sabbath”. 
I hope that one day both Moshe K. and James Trimm will see the literal words of Lev. 23:15,16 further confirm what actually took place when the words were fulfilled by Yahusha, our first-fruits omer/sheaf offering! 

SHEBA SHABATHOTH TAMIMOTH (seven Sabbaths complete/intact) at Wayyiqra 23:15 is rendered “seven complete Sabbaths” in its literal form by many, and others follow the idea of

“seven completeweeks“.   If these “weeks” were truly intact weeks of day 1 through day 7, then

there is no difference in the outcome.  As you know,  Rabbinical Judaism’s interpretation allows for “weeks” to represent any 7-day grouping, so the day of Shabuoth can “float”, and occur on any day of the week.

With this interpretation, they have to overlook the literal words “HASHABBATH HASHABIYOTH” (seventh Sabbath) at 23:16. 

While we can make some compromises with how to bring some words over to our English, it’s a

huge stretch to make the word “HASHABBATH” to mean “week” (23:16).  Yahuah stated it two ways so that this special anniversary of Israel’s marriage to Him would have a self-checking test.   The day after the seventh Sabbath will always fall on the 1st day of the week.   I’ve always seen this as a miniature form of Jubilees, 49 (7×7) years + 1 making a total of 50 years, as Shabuoth counts up to the 50th day, after 7 intact weeks. 

This also makes the Sabbatical “years” a type of reflection of the intact week of 7 “days”.   To interpret a “week” to mean anything but “THE” week, allows for us to count-off ANY set of 7 days and call that a “week”  (i.e., the 4th day through the 3rd day  –  as in “a week from today”).  This kind of treatment of the term may be comfortable with our modern world, however it is not able to be justified by any example seen in Scripture.   A “month” is 29.5 days, and when Yahuah speaks of a month, He’s talking about the
real month, not a “group” of 29.5 days that we can slide around any way we like.  The moon defines what a month is, as the sun defines what a day is.  The week was shown to Israel with the manna for 40 years, but has no other reference point than the weekly Sabbaths.   If we allow ourselves to ignore the Sabbath as the reference point for what a “week” is, then we’ve departed from reality.   I only wish to stay with what is the SAFEST interpretation, checking ALL the words carefully.  I could not, in good conscience, ignore the situation that exists here, since how a person interprets the words will establish the High Sabbaths.

23:15: The text in the original Hebrew clearly gives us certain directions, however some translate the words in such a way that two possible interpretations can be made. Are we to believe the text means “Seven WEEKS” or “seven Sabbaths complete”? Yahuah uses the words “sheba (seven) Shabbathoth (Shabbaths) tamimoth (finished, intact)” at 23:15 (which Moshe Koniuchowsky and James Trimm take down as “seven full weeks“, but to many of us it means seven “intact” Sabbaths). These 7 Sabbaths are literally a whole “week” of fully-intact Sabbaths, and they are “complete” or “intact” because they are made up of THE seven days, and there are seven of them. The word “Shabbathoth” is written as shin-beth-tau-waw-tau (Sabbathoth, in contrast to shin-beth-ayin-waw-tau (shabuoth). If it really means “seven full weeks“, the Scripture would have used the word “shabuoth”, not “Shabbathoth” (compare Daniel 9:25). The idea of “complete” or “full” really means: thorough / closed / fully concluded, finished, intact. The Hebrew word for “complete” or “full” here is TAMIM + oth (pluralized) and means intact, perfect, without defect, entire, FINISHED, come to an end.

23:16: This can cause confusion, but the greatest difference in our interpretation is in verse 16, where it should read “up to the day after the seventh Sabbath”. “Seventh Sabbath” is the literal translation of the Hebrew words “haShabbath haShebiyoth”. “Shebiyoth” is the ordinal number “seventh”, where the root is sheba, meaning seven (which also means “perfect” or “complete”). “HaShabbath” is literally “the Sabbath“, not “week”.

I’ll say it again for emphasis: “HaShabbath” is spelled hay-shin-beth-tau, and means “the Shabbath”, not “week“.

The Hebrew word for “week” is shabua, and the plural of shabua is SHABUOTH. “Until the next day after the last week” (Moshe’s view of verse 16) to me would read:

“up to the day after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days”.

In other words, you’ll find that you’ve counted fifty days when you’ve counted up to the day AFTER the seventh Shabbath, because 7 x 7 = 49 (seven complete or “intact” weeks of Shabbathoth).

The fiftieth day will be the appointed time, or mo’ed, which falls the day after the seventh Shabbath (haShabbath haShebiyoth). So, in our interpretation it will always fall on the 1st day of the week. Not knowing what the “week” is makes it very difficult for people – Israel had this problem too.

Observing the Sabbath-closing havdalah ritual in 14th-century Spain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yahuah’s “week” is always THE week, not any group of seven days starting at some arbitrary point. If we pull a starting-point out of our hat, we stand a chance to be out-of-synch. The “week of days” was being “remembered” by the nation of Israel after their captivity for 430 years, and the manna conditioned them to the correct pattern. This is why Yahuah used the word “tamimoth”, as this removes all doubt that He emphatically meant THE Sabbath that “concluded intact” each week of the seven days. The real key to understanding this concept largely rests on this word, “tamimoth”. It means “intact” because the week of Sabbaths is “intact”. It’s literally a whole “week” of Sabbaths, thus they are “complete”. If we don’t know what the original words are and take the translator’s at face value, we could be observing the moed’im (festival days of Yahuah) at different times, and not walk in unity.

At Daniel 9:25, the translators often correctly write “seven sevens” from the Hebrew words SHABUA SHABUIM, and these refer to seven “weeks” (sevens) of years. So, here we have a comparison to look at for distinctions in the words – but one must see the original Hebrew to make these distinctions. We must PROVE (test) all things we walk in from Scripture.

Without being unkind or judgmental of our brothers James’ and Moshe’s interpretations, we would hope they would look at this again and see if there is any way to improve it. If they are correct, then we will have to change! Rebellion is not in their heart, nor yours, nor mine. But, what I’ve learned is that when we see something differently than another brother does, and we then treat them as if they are corrupt and that we would have nothing to do with them, then we are in the worst danger of all. What if Yahuah made several things purposely to be able to be seen in two different ways, then sat back to see which individuals would be hateful and judgmental toward the other view? When Yahusha returns, He will set everything right again. We’ll know when the Sabbatical years are, and when the Jubilee year is. We’ll know whether the Rosh Chodesh is a “dark moon” or a “sliver – sighted” moon. Suppose that a person was correct about every detail, and interpreted everything flawlessly according to the intentions of Yahuah – yet they were severe, mean and unloving to others who also did their best to observe Yahuah’s Torah and held to the Testimony of Yahusha. I’m convinced that the one who loves is the one that has learned what Torah is established to accomplish. The one who cannot accept, but hates his brother because he expects perfection, may be in greatest danger of losing the race.

Compare Lev. / Wayyiqra 23:15,16 in various versions, especially our “blue” Scriptures above.

I’ll acknowledge that translators have a tremendous task to perform, andthe work by Moshe and James is certainly superb.   On some fine points, there will always be differences.   The Kohlenberger Hebrew-English Interlinear is inconsistent in how they bring many words into our English.

shin-beth-tau-waw-tau they also render as “weeks“, while other translators render it “Sabbaths“.

It is certainly the “feast of weeks”, not the “feast of Sabbaths”  — a point Moshemade to me quite well.

At Debarim 16:9, the word “shabuoth” (shin-beth-ayin-tau) is used, and these we are to count.   When Yahuah uses the term “week”, the only consistent, sane interpretation of what it consists of is provided at Genesis/Bereshith chapters 1 & 2.   At Debarim 16:10, Yahuah refers to this mo’ed as “Chag Shabuoth” (Feast of Weeks), however here we don’t have the complete details of how the feast is calculated, as we find at Wayyiqra 23.  But, a “week” needs to be understood as THE week, not any grouping of 7 days we pull out of our imagination.

The day of Shabuoth will be determined by how these words are translated and understood, as well as what day is used as the starting point.  Personally, I feel the literal translation of our blue Scriptures is the safest to follow on these two highly critical verses.  If I’m wrong, I’ll change and fall on the forgiveness of Yahusha.  If I guide one person into any error because I did not thoroughly check the original words and intentions provided in the Hebrew Scriptures, the guilt falls more heavily on me as their teacher.  We still love all the brothers and sisters whose consciences follow the alternate interpretation.

Lew White from Fossilized customs

Strawberry Islands Messianic Publishing / TORAH INSTITUTE

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Biblestudents Editorial Note:

On the 14th of Nisan Jesus died at the same time as the lambs were slaughtered in the temple and as such became the Lamb of God, the Peace offering for our sins. Later in the day he was put in sheol (the hell) which is the tomb or sepulchre where he stayed buried for three days. Like Jonah stayed for three days in the vowels of the whale, Jesus stayed three days in the grave until he was taken out of death by his Father. As such the resurrection was on the 17th of Nisan, according the wording of the Holy Scriptures.

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Op de eerste dag voor matzah

Het Laatste Avondmaal – 1497/8 – 1543, Hans Holbein de Jongere

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“1  Het zou over twee dagen Pasen en ‘Ongegiste Broden’ zijn; de overpriesters en de schriftgeleerden zochten ernaar hoe ze hem met een list zouden kunnen overmeesteren en doden; 2 want, zeiden ze: niet tijdens het feest, dan mag er in geen geval een volksoproer zijn!” (Markus 14:1-2 NB)“10 Dan gaat Judas Isjkariot, die ene van de twaalf, weg naar de overpriesters om hem aan hen over te leveren. 11 Als ze zijn aanbod horen zijn ze verheugd en kondigen aan dat ze hem daarvoor zilvergeld zullen geven; en hij is ernaar gaan zoeken hoe hij hem op het goede moment kon overleveren.” (Markus 14:10-11 NB)

“6 (22:7) En ik,- een wórm, niets máns meer, –de smaad van de mensen, gemínacht bíj de mánschap; 7 (22:8) al wie mij zien dríjven met mij de spót, –trekken met de líp, schuddén het hóofd.” (Psalmen 22:6-7 NB)

“Ik zei tot hen: als het goed is in uw ogen, verleent mij dan mijn loon, en zo niet, laat het! Toen wogen zij mijn loon af: dertig stukken zilver.” (Zacharia 11:12 NB)

“Want de wortel van alle kwaad is de liefde voor geld; door daaraan toe te geven zijn sommigen van het geloof afgedwaald en hebben zij zichzelf doorboord met vele smarten.” (1 Timotheüs 6:10 NB)

“12  Op de eerste dag van de Ongegiste Broden, wanneer ze het paaslam hebben geslacht, zeggen zijn leerlingen tot hem: waar wilt u dat we heengaan en alles gereedmaken dat u er het paasmaal kunt eten? 13 Dan zendt hij twee van zijn leerlingen uit en zegt tot hen: gaat de stad in, en daar zal jullie een mens tegemoet lopen die een kruik water torst; volgt hem, 14 en waar hij naar binnen gaat, zegt daar tot de heer des huizes: ‘de leermeester zegt: waar is die kamer voor mij waar ik met mijn leerlingen het paasmaal kan eten?’- 15 dan zal hij u een grote bovenzaal tonen, ingericht en gereed; maakt het dáár voor ons gereed! 16 De leerlingen trekken er op uit, komen de stad binnen, vinden alles zoals hij hun heeft gezegd en maken het paasmaal gereed. 17 Als het later op de dag wordt komt hij er met de twaalf. 18 En als zij aanliggen en eten zegt Jezus: voorwaar, voorwaar, ik zeg u dat één van u mij zal overleveren, ‘die met mij eet’! 19 Zij beginnen bedroefd te worden en tot hem te zeggen, de een na de ander: ík toch niet? 20 Maar hij zegt tot hen: één van de twaalf, dus een die met mij in de schaal indoopt!- 21 omdat de mensenzoon wel heengaat zoals over hem geschreven staat, maar wee die mens door wie de mensenzoon wordt uitgeleverd!- het zou beter voor hem zijn als hij nooit geboren was, die mens! 22 Terwijl zij eten neemt hij een brood, spreekt de zegenbede, breekt het, geeft het hun en zegt: neemt dit aan, dit is mijn lichaam! 23 Dan neemt hij een drinkbeker, spreekt het dankgebed uit en geeft hem aan hen, en zij drinken er allen uit. 24 Hij zegt tot hen: dit is mijn bloed van het verbond,- dat voor velen wordt vergoten;” (Markus 14:12-24 NB)

“14 Wanneer het uur aanbreekt, gaat hij aanliggen, en de apostelen met hem. 15 Hij zegt tot hen: vol verlangen heb ik ernaar verlangd vóór mijn paaslijden dit paasmaal met u te eten; 16 want ik zeg u dat ik het niet meer zal eten totdat het vervuld wordt in het koninkrijk van God! 17 Hij neemt een drinkbeker aan spreekt een dankgebed en zegt: neemt deze en deelt hem met elkaar; 18 want ik zeg u, ik zal van nu af niet drinken van het gewas van de wijnstok totdat het koninkrijk van God komt! 19 Hij neemt een brood op, spreekt een dankgebed, breekt het en geeft het aan hen, zeggend: dit is mijn lichaam dat voor u gegeven wordt; doet dit tot mijn gedachtenis! 20 Evenzo met de beker ná de maaltijd, zeggend: deze drinkbeker is het nieuwe verbond door mijn bloed, dat voor u vergoten wordt;” (Lukas 22:14-20 NB)

“De drinkbeker der zegening waarmee wij God zegenen, betekent die niet gemeenschap met het bloed van de Christus?- het brood dat wij breken, is dat niet gemeenschap met het lichaam van de Christus?” (1 Corinthiërs 10:16 NB)

“21  maar zie, de hand van wie mij prijsgeeft is met mij hier aan tafel; 22 want de mensenzoon gaat voort gelijk bepaald is, maar wee die mens door wie hij wordt prijsgegeven!” (Lukas 22:21-22 NB)

“17 Als het later op de dag wordt komt hij er met de twaalf. 18 En als zij aanliggen en eten zegt Jezus: voorwaar, voorwaar, ik zeg u dat één van u mij zal overleveren, ‘die met mij eet’! 19 Zij beginnen bedroefd te worden en tot hem te zeggen, de een na de ander: ík toch niet? 20 Maar hij zegt tot hen: één van de twaalf, dus een die met mij in de schaal indoopt!- 21 omdat de mensenzoon wel heengaat zoals over hem geschreven staat, maar wee die mens door wie de mensenzoon wordt uitgeleverd!- het zou beter voor hem zijn als hij nooit geboren was, die mens! 22 Terwijl zij eten neemt hij een brood, spreekt de zegenbede, breekt het, geeft het hun en zegt: neemt dit aan, dit is mijn lichaam! 23 Dan neemt hij een drinkbeker, spreekt het dankgebed uit en geeft hem aan hen, en zij drinken er allen uit. 24 Hij zegt tot hen: dit is mijn bloed van het verbond,- dat voor velen wordt vergoten; 25 voorwaar, ik zeg u dat ik niet meer zal drinken van de vrucht van de wijnstok tot aan díe dag, wanneer ik hem nieuw zal drinken in het koninkrijk van God!” (Markus 14:17-25 NB)

“24 Maar er ontstaat ook onenigheid onder hen, over wie van hen de grootste denkt te zijn. 25 Hij zegt tot hen: de koningen der volkeren heersen over hen, en hun gezagsdragers laten zich weldoeners noemen; 26 maar gíj, niet zo!- nee, laat de grootste onder u als de jongste worden en wie aanvoert als wie bedient; 27 want wie is groter: wie aanligt of wie bedient?- níet wie aanligt!- ík ben in uw midden als degene die bedient!- 28 maar gíj zijt het die bij mij gebleven zijt in mijn beproevingen, 29 en nu verleen ik u, zoals mijn Vader mij verleend heeft, koningsmacht, 30 zodat ge in mijn koninkrijk zult eten en drinken aan mijn tafel, en gezeten op tronen de twaalf stammen van Israël zult oordelen;” (Lukas 22:24-30 NB)

“26 Zij zingen de lofpsalmen en gaan de stad uit naar de Olijfberg. 27 Dan zegt Jezus tot hen: ge zult allen ten val gebracht worden, want er staat geschreven: zal ik de herder slaan, dan zullen ook de schapen worden verstrooid!- 28 echter, nadat ik ben opgewekt zal ik u voorgaan naar Galilea!” (Markus 14:26-28 NB)

“Zwaard, ontwaak tegen mijn herder, tegen de man die mijn metgezel is, is de tijding van de ENE, de Omschaarde; sla de herder, dat de schapen verstrooid worden, ik zal mijn hand keren tegen de geringen!” (Zacharia 13:7 NB)

“31  Dán zegt Jezus tot hen: allen zult gij in deze nacht aanstoot aan mij nemen; want er staat geschreven ‘ik zal de herder slaan, en de schapen van de kudde zullen verstrooid worden’, 32 maar nadat ik ben opgewekt zal ik u voorgaan naar Galilea! 33 Ten antwoord zegt Petrus tot hem: al zullen allen aanstoot aan u nemen, ik zal nooit aanstoot aan u nemen! 34 Maar Jezus verklaart hem: zeker is het, zeg ik jou, dat in deze nacht, voordat er een haan kraait, jij mij driemaal zult verloochenen! 35 Petrus zegt tot hem: ook al moet ik met u sterven, ik zal u echt niet verloochenen! Iets dergelijks zeggen ook alle andere leerlingen.” (Mattheüs 26:31-35 NB)

“31 Jezus antwoordt hun: nú hebt ge vertrouwen?- 32 zie, er komt een uur, ja het is gekomen, dat ge verstrooid zult worden -ieder naar het zijne- en mij alleen laat; en toch ben ik niet alleen, omdat de Vader met mij is; 33 dit alles heb ik tot u gesproken opdat ge in de eenheid met mij vrede hebt; in de wereld is het verdrukking wat ge hebt, maar houdt moed, ik heb de wereld overwonnen!” (Johannes 16:31-33 NB)

“1  Als Jezus dit alles heeft uitgesproken heft hij zijn ogen ten hemel en zegt: Vader, het uur is gekomen; verheerlijk uw Zoon, opdat uw Zoon ú mag verheerlijken, 2 en, nu gij hem zeggenschap hebt gegeven over alle vlees, dat hij aan hen mag geven al wat gij gegeven hebt aan hem: eeuwig leven! 3 En dit ís het eeuwige leven: dat zij ú kennen, de eeuwige, waarachtige God, én hem die gij gezonden hebt,- Jezus de Christus. 4 Ik heb u op aarde verheerlijkt door het werk te voltooien dat gij mij te doen hebt gegeven; 5 verheerlijk nu gij mij, Vader, daar bij uzelf, met de heerlijkheid die ik had bij u voordat de wereld was. 6  Uw naam heb ik geopenbaard aan de mensen die gij mij hebt gegeven uit de wereld; zij waren van u en gij hebt ze aan mij gegeven; zij hebben zich aan uw woord gehouden 7 en nu erkennen zij dat alles wat gij mij hebt gegeven van bij u is, 8 want de dingen die gij mij hebt gegeven heb ik gegeven aan hen, en zij hebben ze aangenomen en hebben waarachtig erkend dat ik van bij u ben uitgegaan: zij vertrouwen erop dat gij mij hebt gezonden.” (Johannes 17:1-8 NB)

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Voorgaand: Dienstknecht voor velen terwille van de waarheid van God

Duitse versie /  In Deutsch: Am ersten Tag für Mazza

Engelse versie / English version: On the first day for matzah

Franse versie / Version Français: Le premier jour de matsa

“De Judas Kus”, (Mark 14:45) door Gustave Doré. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Vindt ook om te lezen rond het Laatste Avondmaal:

In het Nederlands:

1. De Gezalfde en de eerste dag van de feestperiode van Ongezuurde Broden
2. Voorbereidingstijd tot een herinneringsmoment
3. Zalving van Christus als profetische repetitie van de begrafenisrituelen
4. 1 -15 Nisan
5. 14 Nisan, de avond om Christus Zijn predikingswerk te herinneren
6. 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #1 Oorsprong
7. 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #2 In Jezus tijd
8. 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #3 Voor het Overgangsfeest
9. 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #4 Een Gedood Lam
10. 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #5 De te vieren dag
11. Jezus Laatste Avondmaal
12. Jezus aanbod op het laatste avondmaal
13. Teken van het Verbond
14. Jezus moest sterven
15. Een Messias om te Sterven
16. Lam van God #3c Christus stierf als onschuldig Lam NT teksten
17. Een Groots Geschenk om te herinneren
18. Een Feestmaal en doodsherinnering
19. Geen Wegvluchter

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  The Hebrew Scriptures mention two separate coinciding Feasts: the feast of Passover חג הפסח and the feast of unleavened bread חג המצות.
  Originally, Passover was only one day, then followed by several days called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  Today, the two holidays are combined and the entire week is called Passover.
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  The apostle Paul (Shaul the Rabbi) says that matzah also should remind us that there must be no sin in the camp–and sin in our own individual lives. This is what he writes in 1 Corinthians 5:7: “Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.”
  

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  Then Jesus took the bread and the wine and asked his Father to bless it. He broke the bread into pieces, giving it to his disciples and said, “This is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
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14 Nisan a day to remember #1 Inception

14 Nisan a day to remember

The last day in the life of Jeshua, Jesus Christ

The day Jesus (the Nazarene Jeshua) was led from Caiaphas into the Praetorium  the Jewish priests didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover (Pesach/Pessah). (John 18:28) Earlier in the day, when darkness had come to enter Jesus and his closest friends had come together in an upperroom in the city Jerusalem. Between the two evenings Jesus and his disciples had kept to the tradition and to the Law of God to prepare to slay the Passover Lamb.

Giotto’s depiction of Jesus before Caiaphas in the morning based on Luke 22 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jesus had remembered that Jehovah had spoken to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt that this month Nisan had to be to them the beginning of months. So for the People of God it became the first month of the year. On the tenth day of this month, the people in the time of Moses when they were still slaves in Egypt had take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household was too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour next to his house to take one according to the number of the souls. The people of Moses had to choose a lamb without blemish, a male a year old. They had to keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel then had to kill it at evening. Next they had to take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they were going to eat the flesh, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. It was not eaten raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts and nothing of it was to remain until the morning. That which remained of it until the morning had to be burned with fire or put on the Sheol (hell, the burning place for corpses out of a town).

“1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household: 4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.” (Exodus 12:1-10 ASV)

The Call of the Most High to evade the plague of death

God had ordered Moses to call for all the elders of Israel, and to tell them to draw out and to take lambs according to their families, and kill the lambs as a Passover. Because God had to pass those doors which had the strip of the bunch of hyssop, dipped in the lamb’s blood, at the lintel and the two doorposts. The blood of the Lamb was the sign for Jehovah that those houses could be passes through to strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Jehovah passed over the door, and did not allow the destroyer to come in to their houses to strike them.

The Egyptian Firstborn Destroyed (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For all God’s People it is important to remember that night when God saved the children of Israel. Jehovah demanded to observe this thing for an ordinance to them and to their sons forever. Being it “forever” means that it still should happen today in the 21st century. God told them at the time of Moses that it shall happen when they had come to the land which Jehovah was going to give them, according as He had promised, that they shall keep this service. He told them that it will happen, when their children ask them, ‘What do you mean by this service?’  That they shall say, ‘it is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”

“21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.” (Exodus 12:21-27 ASV)

God went through the land of Egypt in that night of the first month of the new year, and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal, at places where there was no blood on the houses were killed. No plague came onto the people who listened to the ordinance of God.

A commandment by the Most High for a day to remember

“You shall observe this rite as a perpetual ordinance for you and your children.” (Exodus 12:24 NRSV)

Because God demanded to be that day to be for a memorial, which every believer had to keep it, a feast to Jehovah, the only One God. Throughout their generations they kept it a feast by an ordinance forever, and as such Jesus also celebrated on the 14th of Nisan. The first day there had to be to them a holy convocation not to eat leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day. Jesus his family and his disciples observed the feast of unleavened bread. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, they did not consume unleavened bread.

The Passover lambs were to be killed in the evening of Nisan 14. That means toward the end of Nisan 14, or late afternoon. The “evening” of a day is not its beginning, but its ending, before sunset (see Exodus 12:18, Leviticus 23:32). In these verses, notice that the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins at the “evening” of the 14th of Nisan (leading into the high holy day of the 15th); likewise, the Day of Atonement, which is the tenth day of Tishri, began “in the ninth day of the month at even” (Leviticus 23:32).

“In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.” (Exodus 12:18 ASV

“12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’” 13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.” (Exodus 16:12-15 NIV)

The Angel of Death and the First Passover (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. 28 Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God. 29 Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people. 30 I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day. 31 You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32 It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.” 33 The LORD said to Moses, 34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD’s Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36 For seven days present offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work. 37 (“‘These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the LORD by fire—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.” (Leviticus 23:27-37 NIV)

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Continues: 14 Nisan a day to remember #2 Time of Jesus

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #1 Oorsprong

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Please also do find:

1. 1 -15 Nisan
2. Day of remembrance coming near
3. Observance of a day to Remember
4. Around the feast of Unleavened Bread
5. A new exodus and offering of a Lamb
6. A Great Gift commemorated
7. Not making a runner
8. Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ
9. No Other Name (But Jesus)
10. Bread and Wine
11. Peter Cottontail and a Bunny laying Eastereggs

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Additional reading:

Dough baked it into matzah, unleavened bread

1. Pesach
   Pesach, or Passover, is a major holiday in Jewish tradition, and is one of the three pilgrimage holidays, along with Sukkot and Shavuot. These are the holidays on which the whole Jewish people would come to Jerusalem in ancient times, when the Holy Temple was there, and would offer animal and grain sacrifices. Since the destruction of the Temple, a few of the holiday traditions have been retained, without the pilgrimage and the sacrifices, and many new traditions have been added.Pesach, which starts on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (usually in April), lasts for seven days and is celebrated to commemorate the exodus from Egypt – one of the main stories in the history of the Jewish people and in western culture in general.
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   Another name for Pesach is the Holiday of Unleavened Bread. The story of the exodus from Egypt relates that the Israelites left Egypt hurriedly and the dough they had prepared had no time to rise, so they baked it into matzah, unleavened bread.
2. Pesach: Passover 
   Pesach, known in English as Passover, is one of the most commonly observed Jewish holidays, even by otherwise non-observant Jews. According to the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), 67% of Jews routinely hold or attend a Pesach seder, while only 46% belong to a synagogue.Pesach begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. It is the first of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Shavu’ot and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it represents the beginning of the harvest season in Israel, but little attention is paid to this aspect of the holiday. The primary observances of Pesach are related to the Exodus from Egypt after generations of slavery. This story is told in Exodus, Ch. 1-15. Many of the Pesach observances are instituted in Chs. 12-15.
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   “Pesach” is also the name of the sacrificial offering (a lamb) that was made in the Temple on this holiday. The holiday is also referred to as Chag he-Aviv , (the Spring Festival), Chag ha-Matzot , (the Festival of Matzahs), and Z’man Cheiruteinu , (the Time of Our Freedom) (again, all with those Scottish “ch”s).
3. Korban PesachThe Passover sacrifice (Hebrew: korban Pesakh קרבן פסח ), also known as the “sacrifice of Passover“, the Paschal Lamb, or the Passover Lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates to be brought on the eve of Passover, and eaten on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. According to the Torah, it was first offered on the night of the Israelites‘ Exodus from Egypt. Although practiced by Jews in ancient times, the ritual is today only practiced by Samaritans at Mount Gerizim.
4. Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Passover Offering
5. What is PassoverThe eight-day festival of Passover is celebrated in the early spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. It commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.
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   At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more women and children, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as G‑d’s chosen people.
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   search for chametz + burning of the chametz + matzah + recitation of the Haggadah, a liturgy that describes in detail the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The Haggadah is the fulfillment of the biblical obligation to recount to our children the story of the Exodus on the night of Passover.
6. Making the Seder Memorable
   Seder night is the family education experience par excellence.
7. The Passover Seder
8. Matzah
9. People in History:  Moses MO’SES (mo’zez). The deliverer, leader, lawgiver, and prophet of Israel. The name in Heb. is mosheh (“drawn out”), but the original is Egyptian ms’, a “child,” a “son,” reflecting that Pharaoh’s daughter simply named him “child” (cf. Thutmose, Ahmose, etc., in which the same element appears frequently in Egyptian names). Thutmose “Son of Thot,” etc. Moses belonged to the tribe of Levi, and was the son of Amram by his wife Jochebed. The other members of the family were Aaron and Miriam, his elder brother and sister.
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   Moses was a leader so inspired by God that he was able to build a united nation from a race of oppressed and weary slaves. In the covenant ceremony at Mount Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were given, he founded the religious community known as Israel. As the interpreter of these covenant laws, he was the organizer of the community’s religious and civil traditions. His story is told in the Old Testament– in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
   
10. Moses Leads the People Out of Egypt (Exodus 14)God made a promise to Abraham that he would have an uncountable number of descendants – more than the stars in the sky! For exactly 430 years, Abraham’s descendants, the Israelites, had been slaves in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh was the ruler of Egypt. God sent Moses to Pharaoh to tell him to let God’s people go.
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    Pharaoh would not listen to God. God sent terrible plagues upon the land of Egypt.
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    The last plague that God sent was by far the worse plague. God sent the death angel to kill the first-born child of every family and the firstborn of every animal. The Bible says that there was loud crying in Egypt for there was not a household without someone dead. During the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and told him to leave Egypt. This is exactly what God said would happen. Moses and all the Israelites left in a hurry. Their bread did not even rise, and this is why Jewish people today still celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
11. Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, holiest and most important holiday in Judaism
    It is a day of fasting and prayer that is celebrated on the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Yom Kippur marks the end of the “Ten Days of Repentance” or the “High Holidays,” and grants Jews a last opportunity to obtain forgiveness and absolution for their sins in the previous year.
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    Yom Kippur is not directly connected with any specific historical event, although some believe that on this day Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the second set of tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments and God forgave the Israelites for the sin of the Golden Calf. This is a holiday ordained in the Torah, where it is called a Shabbat of Solemn Rest, a day on which no productive work can be done, just like on Shabbat.

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• Symbols and Signs – The First Month (cfcspn.com)
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• Exodus Chapter 12 (maryrubow.wordpress.com)
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  As someone who is not Jewish, but who has been adopted into a tribe of Israel, through my own covenants with God, I wonder why I have never thought to recognize the dates which celebrate these amazing things. I believe that the law of Moses was fulfilled through the atonement of Jesus Christ, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t still recognize the glorious deliverance that the Lord provided for these people.
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