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<2025.06> The Feasts in the Book of Numbers

The Seven Feasts Ⅵ
The Feasts in the Book of Numbers
Numbers chapters 28 and 29
God’s Word Regarding the Feasts Given to the Israelites at the End of Their Forty Years in the Wilderness - Numbers chapters 28 and 29
Thirteen months after the Israelites came out of Egypt and eleven months after they had arrived at Mount Sinai, they packed up the tabernacle and departed from Mount Sinai (see Numbers 10:11-36). Then they came to Kadesh Barnea in the Wilderness of Paran, but on hearing the reports of the spies they had sent out into the land of Canaan, they were afraid to enter Canaan and complained against God. As a result, they came under the curse of having to remain in the wilderness and live there. (See Numbers chapters 13 and 14) From this time on, they wandered in the Wilderness of Sinai and the region near the land of Edom for 38 years. Forty years after they had come out of Egypt, they camped in the Plains of Moab on the eastern side of the River Jordan.
The content of Numbers chapters 28 and 29 about the sacrifices to be offered up at the feasts and that of Deuteronomy chapter 16 about the three feasts was all given about forty years (39 years to be precise) after the content of Exodus and Leviticus. God told them these things just before the Israelites occupied the land of Canaan, that is, just before they entered the promised land.
In Leviticus chapter 23 it says that a food offering was to be carried out at each of the feasts.
Nevertheless, the details of the offerings to be carried out were not given for the feasts except in the case of the Feast of Firstfruits and the Feast of Weeks. The fuller explanation for the other feasts was only given almost forty years later when the Israelites arrived at the Plains of Moab, east of the land of Canaan. Numbers chapter 22 verse 1 tells us where they set up their camp, and it was here that the content of the book of Deuteronomy was revealed.
Strictly speaking, rather than going into the details of the feasts, Numbers chapters 28 and 29 describe the actual offering that was to be sacrificed as a food offering at each feast.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’ And you shall say to them, ‘This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.’”  Numbers 28:1-3
Here, and in several verses in Leviticus, the food offering is described as a “pleasing aroma” to the Lord. Then in Leviticus chapter 3 verses 11 and 16, it says that these offerings were to be burnt on the altar as a food offering, in other words, “as food
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