This is when the Biblical holidays happen in 2025.
If you're looking for this year's dates for Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles you have come to the right place. These holidays have historic and prophetic meaning in Scripture and believers today can take part in that by adding these dates to their calendars!
While the Bible gives specific dates for each holiday, the Gregorian calendar doesn't match up with the Creator's calendar so the dates land a little bit differently each year on our modern calendar. There are also a few different ways to calculate the start of the year and because of that some groups will observe them at slightly different times. What I'm sharing here is the most commonly used set of dates. Whether you go by this calendar or another, mark your calendars for these set apart times!
When do the Biblical holidays happen in 2025?
Passover - April 12-13
Unleavened Bread - April 13-20
First Fruits - April 13-14
Shavuot - June 1-3
Feast of Trumpets - September 22-24
Yom Kippur - October 1-2
Feast of Tabernacles - October 6-13
A couple of things about this: according to this calendar, days start in the evening at sundown. This means that Passover starts on the evening of April 12 and goes through the evening of the 13th. If you do not observe days as starting in the evening, then celebrating Passover the day of April 13th would be appropriate. This calendar also gives an extra day to both the Feast of Trumpets and Shavuot, even though in the Bible they are both just one day events...feel free to just celebrate the first day of those!
It's also important to note that while all of these are special times, some of these days are considered Sabbaths which means we shouldn't work on them. These Sabbath days are the first and last days of Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the first and last days of Tabernacles. This means that believers should request off from work or arrange to be away from their business on those days, as well as refrain from shopping, errands, and yard or household projects and chores.
Sabbath days for 2025:
April 13-14
April 19-20
June 1-2
September 22-23
October 1-2
October 6-7
October 12-13
As well as all weekly Sabbaths, of course.
You have the opportunity to celebrate what God has done by joining in on the Biblical holidays this year!
Related posts:
The Beginner's Guide to the Biblical Holidays
Why the Biblical Holidays Are for All Believers
Six Reasons Believers Should Keep the Bible's Holidays Today
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What about Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights?
ReplyDeleteThis list is only the holidays that the Creator told us to celebrate, found in Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16. Hanukkah is a manmade holiday that came along thousands of years later.
DeleteCan I ask why firstfruits is the day after unleavened bread when last year it was like a few days after?
ReplyDeleteGreat question! Passover and Unleavened Bread happen on set dates, while First Fruits is always the first day of the week. So some years it falls on the first day of Unleavened Bread, while other years it's several days into the feast.
DeleteThank you for your blog. We are new to celebrating His feasts and they have been extremely helpful!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear it! Thank you for your kind words!
DeleteMy family have celebrated Passover & unleavened bread this will be our 3rd year This year we will be adding washing of the feet as I forgot it last year. Do you have any dinner recipes for unleavened bread please ? Last year I struggled a bit trying to find many dishes that do not include yeast etc.
ReplyDeleteThree years - that's amazing! Here's a post I did on meal ideas during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. https://landofhoneyblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/meal-ideas-for-feast-of-unleavened-bread.html
DeleteAnd here are several recipes for different types of unleavened breads! https://landofhoneyblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/unleavened-bread-recipes.html
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