Subject: [ETI Informal All 1AD.05.04.04] The Entire Feast of Unleavened Bread is NOT a Sabbath
From: "James R @ ETIMin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Lists @ ETI Min" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:28:10 +0200

Greetings

For several years i have observed the entire feast of unleavened bread as a Sabbath and i seem to recall that i know of others who have done the same.

However, i now notice that Leviticus 23:6-8 states:

"6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD}: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein." (KJV, names adjusted)

and Exodus 12:15-16 states:
"15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you." (KJV)

Apparently only the first and seventh days are Sabbaths.

For those who are observing Passover this Sunday this would mean that Sunday 24 April and Saturday 1 May would be the two Sabbaths.

Warm regards and blessings

James Robertson