Seven, the sacred number. Seven also represents a weapon, and was used in the making of oaths with seven sacrifices or with seven witnesses and pledges. As discussed in Number 3 and Number 6 chapters, there are three Feasts/Festivals YaHVaH wants us to observe. Word Number Seven specifies what YaHVaH requires of these Feasts.
“Three times (thrice) in a year shall appear all your males before the Adon (Lord), YaHVaH, the Elohiym of Yisrael” Exodus 34:23. This matches Exodus 23:14,17 and Deuteronomy 16:16; insomuch as, Exodus 23 puts the verses before and after the three feasts, while Deuteronomy 16 relists the three Feasts/Festivals for clarification: “Three times in a year all your males shall appear before YaHVaH, your Elohiym, in the place that He will choose: on the Festival of Matzoth, and on the Festival of Shavuoth, and on the Festival of Sukkoth, and he shall not appear before YaHVaH emptyhanded.” The Feasts/Festivals are also listed in Leviticus 23.
There is no correlation with Word Seven to the Commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, either actual or traditionally. However, Word Seven is indirectly related to Commandment Seven in Deuteronomy 5:15, because all of the Feasts/Festivals represent the freedom Yisrael has been given from under bondage to the Egyptians (correlates to our release from the bondage of sin). YaHVaH delivered them and instituted the Feasts/Festivals as a rememberance (see Ex. 23:15, Lev. 23:43, and De. 16:3,12).
“And you shall remember you were a servant in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and YaHVaH, your Elohiym, has taken you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm” Deuteronomy 5:15a. These words are on the Tablets of Testimony which were inscribed by YaHVaH and given to Mosheh.
Each feast/festival has a regular Shabbath and lasts for seven days. They also have a Holy Convocation (High Shabbath and Gathering) on each first day of the feast/festival. The Festival of Matzoth adds a second Holy Convocation on the seventh day of the feast/festival. The Festival of Sukkoth adds a second Holy Convocation on the eighth day after the feast/festival, according to Leviticus 23. Shavuoth is exactly 7 weeks and one day from the Shabbath of the Festival of Matzoth. Sukkoth is on the 15th day of the Seventh month of the Jewish/Hebrew calendar. All of this correlates to the importance of the number seven and this being the Seventh Word.
A lot of commands are only stated in the Bible once, but Word Seven is stated numerous times, which shows the high emphasis YaHVaH has on this commandment/word. Obey and Shalom.
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