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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 (z) dispute, whether, in waving, the lambs were put above the bread, or the bread above...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 (a)...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, in a continued discourse, concerning some other days, which were to be observed in a sacred manner: saying; as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Speak unto the children of Israel,.... For all the people of Israel were concerned in the following precept, and obliged to observe it, even priests, Levites, Israelites, proselytes, and freed servants; though other servants, and women, and children, were not obliged to hear the sound of the trumpets (b), and which were blown not in Jerusalem...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye shall do no servile work [therein],.... Only such as was necessary for dressing food, but not any manual work, such as servants were employed in on other days, as agriculture or any mechanic business: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; a burnt offering, and what that was may be seen in Numbers 29:1.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... This phrase, which is a kind of preface to each precept, seems to be used to distinguish one from another, as the preceding one from the feast of Pentecost; and here, the day of atonement from that of the blowing of the trumpets; and afterwards, the feast of tabernacles from the day of atonement; the reason why...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month,.... Tisri, the same as before, answering to part of our September, and part of October: [there shall be] a day of atonement; for all the sins of the year past; see Leviticus 16:29; it shall be an holy convocation unto you: when they should be called together for the exercise of holy duties: and ye...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye shall do no work in that same day,.... No more than on the weekly sabbath: for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God: [See comments on Leviticus 16:30]; Aben Ezra's note is, "for you only,'' that is, for the Israelites, and not the Gentiles; but the atonement of Christ, the antitype of this, was not for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in that same day,.... That is, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain it, which can fast and does not fast; for a sick person, and a child under nine years of age, were not obliged to fast on this day (p): he shall be cut off from among his people; by an untimely death, by the hand...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And whatsoever soul [it be] that doeth any work in that same day,.... Any sort of work whatever; for, as before observed, it was to be kept as strictly as the weekly sabbath: the same soul will I destroy from among his people; with the pestilence, as the above Targum; it seems to be but another phrase for cutting them off, and to signify the same...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye shall do no manner of work,.... Which is repeated, that it might be observed, and to show how strictly God required this day should be kept, and how careful men should be of breaking the command in this respect, and how much he should resent it if they did: [it shall be] a statute for ever, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest,.... [See comments on Leviticus 16:31]; and this is thought by some (q) to be the sabbath spoken of in Isaiah 58:13; and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth [day] of the month at even; the fast was to begin at the close of the ninth day, and to continue to the end of the tenth; so Maimonides (r): he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Concerning the feast of tabernacles here repeated and enlarged upon: saying; as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,.... Giving them directions about keeping a feast, in which the whole body of them had a very special and particular concern: the fifteenth day of this seventh month; the month Tisri or September: [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days unto the Lord; the design of which was, partly to give...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
On the first day [shall be] an holy convocation,.... When they should be called together to holy exercises, to prayer, praising, and reading the law; and at this present time they observe this day, by rising early in the morning and going to the synagogue, where they sing and pray much; and everyone takes a bundle of branches of palm tree, olive,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made, by fire unto the Lord,.... A burnt offering; what this was, and how many were offered on each day, see at large in Numbers 29:13; on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; as on the first day; [See comments on Leviticus 23:35]: and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [are] the feasts of the Lord,.... Besides the sabbath, as Gersom observes; even the passover, the seven days of unleavened bread the day of Pentecost, the day of blowing the trumpets, the day of atonement, and the seven days of the feast of tabernacles; which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations: as they had been directed, Leviticus...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord,.... The seventh day sabbaths, which were of his appointing, and sacred to his service and worship; on which, when any of the feasts fell, it did not hinder the observance of them, or the offering of the several sacrifices on them; nor were those of the sabbath to be omitted on the account of them: and beside your...