And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
Ver. 23. And they kept other seven days.] Gaudet solennitas haec produci, as Augustine saith of the feast of pentecost. This they did, partly to make amends for their former neglect of this holy service, and partly to keep their hearts in so good a frame, to retain the gladness they had in the first seven: as the silkworm stretcheth forth herself before she spinneth her finest thread.