Tishrei 1 – They Began to Offer Burnt Offerings to the LORD…

Tishrei 1, 5786; from sunset September 22, 2025, to sunset September 23, 2025

(The first day of the seventh month)

This is the name “Ezra” (עֶזְרָא) the Scribe as seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls; written by a scribe over two thousand years ago.

Ezra and the men, women, and children who travelled with him, had just made the return trip from Babylon. They left in the first month of springtime (around April) and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month (around August).

After two months in the city, the Bible tells us that the returnees began to offer the daily burnt offerings to the LORD — on the first day of the seventh month — today. In addition to the daily offerings of the morning and evening lambs, they would have also sacrificed the special offerings prescribed for Yom Teruah (aka The Feast of Trumpets). And, since today is the first day of the new month, there would have been additional sacrifices prescribed for that event as well.

These verses go on to tell us that Ezra later led the people into celebrating the Feast of Booths, another Appointed Time, which begins on the 15th day of this month. Our text for today shows how Ezra began instructing the children of Israel on how to make proper sacrifices according to the LORD’s Torah.

Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.

So they set up the altar on its foundation, for they were terrified because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.

And they celebrated the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the fixed number of burnt offerings daily, according to the ordinance, as each day required; and afterward there was a continual burnt offering, also for the new moons and for all the fixed festivals of the LORD that were consecrated, and from everyone who offered a freewill offering to the LORD.

From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.

Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the permission they had from Cyrus king of Persia. – Ezra 3:1-7 (NAS)

Just a reminder that it’s tradition to read Psalm 27 daily through the Feast of Tabernacles. You can find it by clicking on the link.

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