“ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ”
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...
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...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
And the Lord spake unto Moses. — As the celebration of the sheaf of first-fruits formed no part of the original institution of the Passover ( Exodus 12:1-20 ), and as the omer ritual could not be o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... At the same time, for what follow are the other feasts and holy convocations before spoken of: saying ; as follows.
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)...
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....
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Passover and the offering which Followed It