Different periodic Sabbaths in the OT

1. There were the weekly Sabbaths (Saturdays).
2. Annually, no matter what day of the week, Nisan 15 and 21 were Sabbath days of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Le 23:6-8).
3. Annual Pentecost occurred 50 days after the first day of Passover (v 15-16). Usually fell on Sivan 6, no work (v 21).
4. Feast of Trumpets, Tishri 1, no work (v 25).
5. Day of Atonement, Tishri 10
   32a It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves.
6. Feast of Booths, Tishri 15 and 22 (v 33-36)

There were seven annual feast Sabbath days in the biblical Jewish calendar.

7. Every seventh year was designated as a "Sabbath for the Land" (Le 25:1-7), i.e., a sabbatical year. Farmers did not work the land for a whole year.

8. Every 50th year was the year of Jubilee (v 11), and there was no sowing or harvesting and no work on the land for two consecutive years.

There were weekly, yearly, and multi-yearly Sabbaths in the OT. They foreshadowed the eternal Sabbath rest in Jesus. Matthew 11:

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

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