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¹⁴Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.

²“This month will be for you the beginning of the months. It will be first in the months of the year.

²⁵And he will speak words against the Supreme One, and will exhaust the holy ones of the Most High, and he will think about what it would take to change the times and the laws, and they will be given into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

⁴Therefore, these are the feasts of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their times.

¹⁹He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.

¹Now the sons of Israel, according to their number, the leaders of the families, the tribunes, and the centurions, and the chiefs, who were ministering to the king by their companies, entering and departing in each month of the year as they were in charge, were twenty-four thousand. ²Jashobeam, the son of Zabdiel, was in charge of the first company in the first month; and under him were twenty-four thousand. ³He was from the sons of Perez, and he was the leader of all the other leaders in the army, in the first month. ⁴The company of the second month had Dodai, an Ahohite; and after him there was another, named Mikloth, who ruled over a portion of the army of the twenty-four thousand. ⁵Also, the commander of the third company, in the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division there were twenty-four thousand. ⁶The same is the Benaiah who was strongest among the thirty, and was above the thirty. But his son, Ammizabad, was in charge of his company.

¹⁷And concerning the prince, there shall be holocausts and sacrifice and libations, on solemnities and new moons and Sabbaths, and on all the solemnities of the house of Israel. He himself shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings, in order to make expiation for the house of Israel.

⁸You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years. ⁹And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land. ¹⁰And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,

⁵There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the section of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

³⁶But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, not even the Angels of the heavens, but only the Father.

¹⁵Now the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.

²³And there will be month after month, and Sabbath after Sabbath. And all flesh will approach, so as to adore before my face, says the Lord.

²In the midst of its main street, and on both sides of the river, was the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, offering one fruit for each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the health of the nations.

¹⁶Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths. ¹⁷For these are a shadow of the future, but the body is of Christ.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy. ³For six days you shall do work; the seventh day, because it is the rest of the Sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwelling places. ⁴Therefore, these are the feasts of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their times. ⁵The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, is the Passover of the Lord. ⁶And the fifteenth day of this month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. For seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.

¹“Observe the month of new grain, at the beginning of springtime, so that you may accomplish the Passover to the Lord your God. For in this month, the Lord your God led you away from Egypt in the night.