Leviticus 23:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy assemblies, even these are My feasts. ...
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy assemblies, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
God ordained three holidays per year.
Passover
Exodus 23:15 Thou shall keep the feast of unleavened bread, (thou will eat only unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib, because that is the month thou came out from Egypt. No one shall appear before Me without a sacrafice.Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. Seven days you must eat only unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have a holy assembly. You shall do no regular work on that day.
8 But you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord for seven days. In the seventh day is an holy assembly. You shall do no regular work on that day.
Numbers 28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast. Seven days shall only unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be a holy assembly. You will do no kind of normal work on that day.
19 But you will offer a burnt sacrifice to the Lord; two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. They shall be without blemish.
20 And with each sacrifice will be a grain offering of flour mixed with oil; six quarts with each bull and four quarts with each ram.
21 And two quarts with each lamb.
22 And one goat for a sin offering, to pay for your sins.
23 You shall offer these beside the daily burnt offering in the morning.
24 This is how you will offer the daily sacrifice throughout the seven days, the grain of the burnt sacrifice, of a sweet smell to the Lord. This shall be offered besides the daily burnt offering, and its drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly. You will do no normal work.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord thy God, because in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.
2 this is why thou will sacrifice the Passover to the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place His name.
3 Thou shall not eat any leavened bread with it. For seven days thou will eat unleavened bread, even the bread of affliction, because you came forth out of the land of Egypt in a hurry, so that thou will remember the day when you came up out of the land of Egypt for your whole life.
4 And don't let any leavened bread be found in any of the houses in your country for seven days. Neither will you leave any meat from a sacrifice overnight.
5 Don't make the Passover sacrifice inside your own towns,
6 But the Lord thy God shall choose a place to put His name. There thou will sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the same time of the year that thou came up out of Egypt.
7 And thou will roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou will go back to your tents in the morning.
8 Six days thou will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day have a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God. Thou will do no work that day.
This is the Passover week discussed in Exodus 12. They were to remove all leaven from their houses and then sacrifice the Passover offering (a lamb or kid- genetically almost the same thing. In fact, they may be as close as a horse and donkey are to each other. There are experiments going on right now to see), and have a Sabbath day of rest. For 7 days they were to eat no leavened (risen) bread (tortillas to us). Then they were to give another offering and have a second day of rest. This was to all be done in Jerusalem, not at home.
So God commanded them to take a vacation.
The Feast of Firstfruits
Deuteronomy 16:9 Thou will count out seven weeks. Begin counting when thou begin to harvest the wheat.Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou have sown in the field:...
Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the first-fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord, after counting seven weeks, you shall have an holy assembly. You shall do no regular work:
27 But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs in their first year;
28 And their grain offering of flour mixed with oil, six quarts for each bullock, four quarts with each ram,
29 A quart with each of the seven lambs;
30 And one kid of the goats, to make a covering for you.
31 Ye shall offer them along with the daily burnt offering, and its grain offering, (make sure they have no flaws) and their drink offerings.
Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shall keep the "Feast of Weeks" to the I AM thy God with a gift of a freewill offering from thine hand, which thou shall give to the I AM thy God, according to how the I AM thy God has blessed thee:
11 And thou shall rejoice before the I AM thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the immigrant, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the I AM thy God has chosen to place His name.
12 And thou shall remember that thou was a slave in Egypt, and thou shall be careful to do these statutes.
Leviticus 23:15 And you shall count from the day after the sabbath that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering seven sabbaths.
16 Even to the day after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days, and then offer a new grain offering to the Lord.
17 You will bring from your houses two loaves of bread to be lifted up to God made of four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast. This is the offering of first-fruits to the Lord.
18 And with the bread you shall offer seven lambs without flaw less than a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams. They will be for a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the Lord.
19 Then ye will sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs less than a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall lift them up to the Lord with the "bread of the first-fruits", with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord and given to the priest.
21 This is a day of celebration and worship, a time of rest from your work. You and your descendants must obey this law.
Numbers says to offer:
- 2 bulls,
- 1 ram
- 7 lambs
- 1 kid
- 1 bull
- 2 rams
- 7 lambs
- 1 kid
- 2 more lambs
The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)
Exodus 23:16... and the feast of ingathering (harvest), which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.Leviticus 23:33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. ...
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
A "booth" is a shelter built very quickly of palm branches and basic supports. Sort of a cross between a tent and a hut.
Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:
13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Deuteronomy 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles (booths) seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
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Hebrews says: 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
There is listed in these scriptures about the three required feasts sacrifice for sins frequently; one a day during the Feast of Booths. Yet Hebrews says this was done once a year. Not real sure how to reconcile this.