Tribal Holidays

Each tribe has a holiday (holy day) on the annual calendar. The following table explores.

Tribe	Holiday	Date	Scripture
Judah	Selection Day	1/10	2 Exodus 12:1-3 ¹Then Yahvah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, ²This month will be to you the beginning of months; it will be the 1st month of the year to you. ³Speak to all the congregation of Israel saying, On the 10th day of this month they will take to themselves every man a lamb for his own house, and a lamb for his father's house;
Reuben	Passover	1/14	3 Leviticus 23:5 ⁵on the 14th day of the 1st month at evening is Yahvah's passover.
Gad	Unleavened Bread	1/15	3 Leviticus 23:6-7 ⁶And on the 15th day of the same month is the feast of the unleavened bread to Yahvah; for 7 days you must eat unleavened bread. ⁷On the 1st day you will have a holy convocation; you will not work on it.
Asher	Unleavened Bread	1/21	3 Leviticus 23:8 ⁸But you will offer an offering made by fire to Yahvah 7 days; on the 7th day is a holy convocation; you will not work on it.
Naphtali	First Fruits	by observation	3 Leviticus 23:9-10 ⁹And Yahvah spoke to Moses saying, ¹⁰Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give to you and will reap its harvest, then you will bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest;
Manasseh	New Grain	50 days later	3 Leviticus 23:15-16 ¹⁵And you will count to you from the next day, that is, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; 7 sabbaths will be complete; ¹⁶even to the next day after the 7th sabbath you will count 50 days; and you will offer a meal offering of new wheat to Yahvah.
Simeon	Trumpets	7/1	3 Leviticus 23:23-24 ²³And Yahvah spoke to Moses saying, ²⁴Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, The 7th month on the 1st day of the month will be to you a day of rest, and a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Levi	Atonement	7/10	3 Leviticus 23:26-27 ²⁶And Yahvah spoke to Moses saying, ²⁷Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, The 10th day of this 7th month is also the day of atonements; it will be a holy convocation to you; and you will humble yourselves and offer an offering made by fire to Yahvah.
Issachar	Tabernacles	7/15	3 Leviticus 23:33-34 ³³And Yahvah spoke to Moses saying, ³⁴Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, On the 15th day of this 7th month you will keep the feast of tabernacles for 7 days to Yahvah.
Zebulun	Tabernacles	7/22	3 Leviticus 23:36 ³⁶7 days you will offer an offering made by fire to Yahvah; the 8th day will be a holy convocation to you; and you will offer an offering made by fire to Yahvah; and you will be assembled together; and you will not work on it.
Joseph & Benjamin	Purim	12/14 & 12/15	18 Esther 9:20-22 ²⁰And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Akhshirash, both near and far; ²¹to agree among themselves that they should keep the 14th day of the month Adar and the 15th day of the same, yearly, ²²as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned for them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions of food to each other and gifts to the poor.
Dan	Sabbath	Every 7th day	3 Leviticus 23:3 ³6 days you will do work; but the 7th day is the sabbath of rest, it will be holy to Yahvah; you will not work on it; it is the sabbath to Yahvah in all your dwellings.

Notes on mapping

There are several decisions being made for this grid to come out as it is. First, there are only 12 holidays a year, so Dan ends up with the weekly Sabbath instead of an annual holiday. This works, however, as each tribe also gets a New Month/Month for the year, including Dan, though only on leap years that contain a 13th month, such as the 7th and 50th years. When you realize that every tribe has a month in the year and thus a New Month holiday, and every tribe, except Dan, has an annual holiday, the only holiday left is the weekly Sabbath, which MUST grid to Dan.

In order to get 12 holidays in a year several tribes share a holiday. Gad and Asher share Unleavened Bread. This makes plenty of sense though as there is both an "opening assembly" and "closing assembly" that book-end the week-long meeting. In the same way Issachar and Zebulun share Tabernacles later in the year.

Another thing that's going on to arrive at 12 holidays is to give Judah "Selection Day" on the tenth day of the first month. This is the day you "select" the lamb for Passover on the fourteenth, and it appears to be a legitimate day in and off itself and fits nicely with Judah (which we'll explore below).

The third and last decision causing there to be 12 holidays in the year is to give Purim two dates since it was originally practiced across two days. So Joseph takes the first date and Benjamin the second.

Observations

Gad is the table of bread in the tent, so his alignment with the opening of Unleavened Bread is a wonderful match. His brother, Asher, matches the closing assembly of this holiday.

Naphtali has "goodly words." Words are not something, they are a description or communication of something. Words are like First Fruits, a sample of the thing, but not the thing. They give you an essence. This is why Jesus says things like words reveal the heart.

Manasseh makes sense on New Grain since it counts 50 days from the First Fruits holiday. 50 is a common prophetic number for Manasseh and matches his 50 states.

Simeon lands on Trumpets, which matches his theme of giving/receiving counsel.

Levi makes lots of sense on the day of Atonements since only the high priest entered the holy of holies in the temple with blood once a year on the day of Atonement and the priests were always from the tribe of Levi.

Purim makes sense for Benjamin, since modern Israel is basically a Jewish state and Purim is a Jewish holiday instated after ancient Israel was scattered into the world.

By Ryan Eaton
Posted Monday, Joseph 27, 13000