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Calendars today are typically printed on paper or installed on smart phones. These calendars include holidays observed on dates often assigned by governmental legislation. But how were holidays scheduled and taught in biblical Israel? And what might these holidays have to do with the creation narrative? In this book, Michael LeFebvre considers the calendars of the Pentateuch with their basis in...

blesses you” (Deut 16:10) to bring you to this land of plenty. In the spirit of the season, Leviticus 23 even adds this law of generosity after describing the barley and wheat harvest festivals: “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God” (Lev 23:22; cf. Ruth 2:1–23). The festivals (especially through the lens
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