Ezekiel 45:18-25

Ezekiel 45:18 to Ezekiel 46:15. Festivals and Offerings.

Ezekiel 45:18. The Passover and Harvest Festivals. The mention of the prince's responsibility for providing the festival offerings is appropriately followed by a description of the festivals themselves. And first the two half-yearly festivals of the passover in the first month (i.e. in spring), and of the harvest or booths (it is here simply called the festival, Ezekiel 45:25) in the seventh. Each begins in the middle of the month and lasts for a week: while, to ensure the ceremonial purity of the sanctuary, which may have been endangered by error or ignorance, each of the festivals is preceded on the first of the month by a day of atonement (Ezekiel 45:18). (In Ezekiel 45:20 read, with LXX, on the first day of the seventh month.)