Related for Leviticus 23:6

וּבַחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֥ר יוֹם֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֔ה חַ֥ג הַמַּצּ֖וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים מַצּ֥וֹת תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael

R. Yoshiyah says: whence is it derived that the year is intercalated only in the Great Beth-din in Jerusalem? From "It is the first for you … Speak (you, Moses and Aaron, the leaders of the generation [akin to the Great Sanhedrin]), etc."
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