Leviticus 23:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. ”

• Leviticus 23:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These verses contain a distinct command regarding the religious services immediately connected with the grain harvest, given by anticipation against the time when the people were to possess the pro...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the (d) sabbath the priest shall wave it. (d) That is, the second sabbath of the Passover.

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Leviticus 23:9-14 (H). The Festival of Unleavened Bread or Mazzoth (see pp. 102f.). The wave sheaf is to be cut on the first day of the week, apparently after the Sabbath of the passover week...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wave. See note on Exodus 29:27 .

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. He shalt wave the sheaf - He shall move it to and fro before the people,...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  On the morrow after the sabbath— By the sabbath here, is to be understood, not the weekly sabbath, but the first day of unleavened bread, spoken of Leviticus 23:7 which is called the sabbath...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. The morrow after the sabbath - i:e., the day after the Sabbath, n...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sacred Seasons These are the Sabbath ( Leviticus 23:3 ), Passover and Unleavened Bread ( Leviticus 23:5-14 ), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost ( Leviticus 23:15-22 ), Feast of Trumpets ( Leviticus...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And he shall wave the sheaf. — Better, and he shall wave the omer. The priest mixed with the omer of meal a log of oil, put on a handful of frankincense (see Leviticus 2:15 ), as on other meat-o...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SET FEASTS OF THE LORD Leviticus 23:1-44 IT is ever an instinct of natural religion to observe certain set times for special public and united worship. As we should therefore anticipate, su...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Sabbath, Passover and First-Fruits Leviticus 23:1-14 The year of Israel's national life was marked out by high and blessed convocations, which preserved its unity, kept the people in mind of th...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The feasts of Jehovah were national l signs and symbols. These were now dealt with. The foremost place was given to the Sabbath. Its constant recurrence, governed not by the natural order, but by the...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This is the fourth feast noticed in this chapter, the sheaf-offering of the first fruits. And a sweet type it was of the LORD JESUS, as the first fruits of them that slept. And it is worth the Reader...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord ,.... Or the omer of barley; this was done by the priest in the tabernacle and temple, where was the presence of God, and that before the handful of it wa...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Ver. 11. And he shall wave the sheaf. ] This signified that they and...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall wave the sheaf Or omer , rather. In the name of the whole congregation, it was lifted up toward heaven, as an acknowledgment to God for his goodness, and with prayer for his blessing upon...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE SET TIMES OF THE LORD (vv. 1-43) The times of special observance in Israel are called “feasts” in most translations, yet all were not feasts for Israel, as per the day of atonement (vv. 26-32)...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        4 These are the feasts of the L ORD , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.   5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the L ORD 's passover....

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To be accepted for you; that God may accept of you, and bless you in the rest of your harvest. On the morrow after the sabbath, i.e. after the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, which wa...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Firstfruit of the Barley Harvest On The Second Day of Unleavened Bread ( Leviticus 23:9-14 ). Leviticus 23:9 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' This continually repeated may suggest th...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Israel’s Holy Festivals SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 23:2 .—Concerning the feasts of the Lord. Religion has its joy seasons, its festive aspects. Israel’s sacred feasts symbolised the festivals...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 23:3 . Convocation. מקרא, mickra is rendered ecclesia, or church, seventy times, and synagogue thirty seven times. In the next phrase it is changed for the word dwellings, for th...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  These are My feasts. The holy festivals I. Commentators generally on this part of Hebrew law have remarked upon the social, political, and commercial benefits resulting to the Jewish people fro...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Leviticus 23:8 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover ( Exodus 12:15-2 ), and from the beginning the two festivals were prac...

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• Leviticus 23:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Passover and the offering which Followed It

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 29:24 ; Leviticus 10:14 ; Leviticus 9:21

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• Leviticus 23:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord — In the name of the whole congregation, which as it were sanctified to them the whole harvest, and gave them a comfortable use of all the rest. For then we...

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