leviticus-23:15-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:15-22

Here is the institution of the feast of pentecost, or weeks, as it is called (Deut. 16:9), because it was observed fifty days, or seven weeks, after the passover. It is also called the feast of harvest, Exod. 23:16. For as the presenting of the sheaf of first-fruits was an introduction to the harvest, and gave them liberty to put in the sickle, so they solemnized the finishing of their corn-harvest at this feast. 1. Then they offered a handful of ears of barley, now they offered two loaves of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:23-32

Here is, I. The institution of the feast of trumpets, on the first day of the seventh month, Lev. 23:24, 25. That which was now the seventh month had been reckoned the first month, and the year of jubilee was still to begin with this month (Lev. 25:8), so that this was their new year's day. It was to be as their other yearly sabbaths, a day of holy rest?You shall do no servile work therein; and a day of holy work?You shall offer an offering to the Lord; concerning these particular directions... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:15

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath ,.... Not the seventh day sabbath in the passover week, nor the whole feast of unleavened bread, but the first day of it, which was an holy convocation, a sabbath in which no servile work was to be done, Leviticus 23:7 ; and it was from the day after this, even the sixteenth of Nisan, that the following count was to be made; so the Targum of Jonathan, after the first feast day of the passover: and Josephus F19 Antiqu. l. 3.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:16

Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath ,.... Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the fiftieth day, or Pentecost: shall ye number fifty days ; from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, Acts 2:1 ; all in Israel were obliged to number those days, except women and servants F20 Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin Umusaphim, c. 7. sect. 24. : the manner of doing it was this F21 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 1. & Lebush, ut supra, (c. 489.)... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:17

And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals ,.... Out of their habitations in the land of Canaan; and not out of those without the land, as Jarchi observes; and not out of all of them, as Ben Gersom remarks; though the Vulgate Latin version has it, out of "all" of our habitations, but wrongly; and indeed out of no one particular habitation, because it was at the public expense; but they were brought from some part of the country or another, even the quantity... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:18

And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish , of the first year ,.... That is, with the two wave loaves, the meat or bread offering: and besides these: and one young bullock, and two rams ; in Numbers 28:27 it is two young bullocks, and one ram; and Aben Ezra suggests, that this was at the will and option of the priest, whether one bullock and two rams, or two bullocks and one ram; but according to Maimonides F24 Ut supra, (Hilchot Tamidin, &c.; c. 8.)... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:19

Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering ,.... Which was for the sin of the whole congregation, typical of Christ, whose soul was made an offering for sin; in virtue of which all other sacrifices become acceptable to God, and believers enjoy the fruits and blessings of divine grace: and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings ; which Gersom says were the most holy things, and were only slain in the north, and only eaten by males, as the rest... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:20

And the priests shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits ,.... The two loaves called the two wave loaves, Leviticus 23:17 ; with which were waved the two lambs of the peace offerings; and these alive, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom intimate. The Jewish doctors F26 In Torat Cohenim, apud Yalkut in loc. dispute, whether, in waving, the lambs were put above the bread, or the bread above the lambs; which some reconcile by observing, that the bread was put by the side of the lambs: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:21

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you ,.... This proclamation was made by the priests with the sound of a trumpet, that the people might observe that this fiftieth day, or day of Pentecost, was devoted to sacred service, and that they were called to holy exercises in it: ye shall do no servile work therein ; what was not necessary for food, as Ben Gersom observes, but what was necessary on that account, as kindling a fire, &c.;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:22

And when ye reap the harvest of your land ,.... This law is repeated from Leviticus 19:9 ; and as Aben Ezra observes, the feast of weeks being the feast of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, it is repeated, that they might not forget what God had commanded them to do at that time, namely, to leave somewhat for the poor; and the Jewish writers F1 In Torat Cohenim, apud Yalkut in loc. & Jarchi. observe, that this law, being put among the solemn feasts of the passover, pentecost,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:15-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:23-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:22

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