| Sacred Time |
Hebrew Name |
Agricultural Occasion |
Historical Association |
Biblical Reference |
Festival Scroll |
Feast
of Passover (Feast of Unleavened Bread)
|
pesach
|
Spring
barley harvest
|
The
Exodus: deliverance from bondage and freedom
|
Exod.
12:6, Lev. 23:5-8, Num. 28:16-25, Deut. 16:1-8
| Song of Songs |
Feast
of Weeks (Pentecost)
|
shavuot
|
Summer
wheat harvest
|
|
Exod.
34:26, Lev. 23:9-21, Num. 28:26-31
| Ruth |
Trumpets
|
teruah
|
|
God's
revelation at Sinai (?)
|
Lev.
23:23-25, Num. 29:1-6
| |
Day
of Atonement
|
yom
kippur
|
|
|
Lev.
16, 23:26-32, Num. 29:7-11
| |
Feast
of Booths (Feast of Ingathering)
|
sukkot
|
Autumn
harvest
|
Wilderness
wandering, harvest
|
Exod.
23:16, Lev. 23:33-36, Deut. 16:13-15
| Ecclesiastes |
