Exodus 23:16
feast of harvest.22:29; 34:22; Le 23:9-21; Nu 28:26-31; De 16:9-12; Ac 2:1in-gathering.34:22; Le 23:34-44; Nu 29:12-39; De 16:13-15; Ne 8:14-18Zec 14:16-19; Joh 7:2,37Exodus 34:22
feast of weeks.23:16; Nu 28:16-31; 29:12-39; De 16:10-15; Joh 7:2; Ac 2:1year's end. Heb. revolution of the year.Numbers 29:12
the fifteenth day.This was the feast of Tabernacles, kept in commemoration of their dwelling in tents in the wilderness for forty years. The first and last days were to be kept as sabbaths, on which there were solemn assemblies; and for seven days sacrifices were offered. On the other festivals, two bullocks sufficed, (ch. 28:11, 19, 27), and on the festival at the beginning of this month, only one was appointed; but, on the first day of this festival, thirteen young bullocks were appointed; and so on each successive day, with the decrease of only one bullock, till on the seventh day, there were only seven, making in all seventy bullocks. The lambs, and the rams also, were in a double proportion to the number sacrificed at any other festival. This was an expensive service; but more easy at this time of the year than any other, as Bishop Patrick observes, because now their barns were full, and their wine-presses overflowed; and their hearts might well be supposed to be more enlarged than at other times, in thankfulness to God for the multitude of his mercies. The Jewish doctors give this reason for the daily diminution of the number of the bullocks: the whole number, say they, was according to the languages of the seventy nations of the world; and the diminution of one every day signified, that there should be a gradual diminution of those nations till all things were brought under the government of the Messiah; in whose days "no sacrifices shall remain, but those of thanksgiving, prayer, and praise." Ex 23:16; 34:22; Le 23:33-43; De 16:13,14; Ne 8:14,18; Eze 45:25Zec 14:16-19; Joh 1:14; Heb 11:9-13Deuteronomy 16:13-15
the feast.31:10; Ex 23:16; 34:22; Le 23:34-36; Nu 29:12-40; 2Ch 5:3; 7:8-102Ch 8:13; Ezr 3:4; Ne 8:14-18; Zec 14:16-18; Joh 7:2corn and thy wine. Heb. floor and thine wine-press. 12:12; 26:11; Ne 8:9-12; Ec 9:7; Isa 12:1-6; 25:6-8; 30:29; 35:101Th 5:16 Seven days.Le 23:36-42; Nu 29:12-38because.10; 7:13; 28:8-12; 30:16Ezra 3:4
the feast.Ex 23:16; Le 23:34-36; Ne 8:14-17; Zec 14:16-19; Joh 7:2,37the daily.Nu 29:12-38as the duty of every day required. Heb. the matter of theday in his day. Ex 5:13; 29:38; Jer 52:34; *marg:Nehemiah 8:14
by. Heb. by the hand of. dwell.Le 23:34,40-43; De 16:13-15; Zec 14:16-19; Joh 7:2booths.Ge 33:17the feast.That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the month {Tisri,} the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, in commemoration of the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage. For other particulars see the parallel passages.
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