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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month,.... The month Tisri or September, the same month, and the same day of the month before observed; only another end and use of this feast is remarked, which was to give thanks for the fruits of the earth gathered in, as follows: when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land; the barley, wheat, oil and...
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And ye shall take you the boughs of goodly trees,.... Which the three Targums interpret, of citrons; and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; and the Jews are so tenacious of observing this, that in those countries where this fruit grows not, they will send for it from Spain, where there is plenty of it: the Targum of Jonathan, paraphrases it, "ye shall take...
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And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year,.... Every year it was to be kept for the space of seven days, beginning on the fifteenth and ending on the twenty second of the month Tisri or September; [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations; until the Messiah should come and tabernacle among men, the substance of...
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Ye shall dwell in booths seven days,.... So that it seems they were not obliged to dwell in them on the eighth day, which was an holy convocation, a sabbath in which no servile work was to be done as the first, Leviticus 23:36. The eighth day was a day by itself, a sort of an appendage to the feast of tabernacles, when they went into their houses...
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That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,.... Which by the providence of God the Israelites were obliged to make for themselves to dwell in: when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; for the very first place they came to, when they departed from thence, was called Succoth, from the booths they there...
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And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord. The several feasts before recited, the order of them, the manner of observing them, and the time.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Leviticus 24 This chapter treats of the oil for the lamps, and the ordering of them, Leviticus 24:1; of the making of the shewbread cakes, and the setting of them on the table, Leviticus 24:5; and an Israelite having blasphemed the name of the Lord, and inquiry being made what should be done to him, he, and so any other person...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After he had delivered to him the laws concerning the purity of the priests, and the perfection of the sacrifices they were to offer, and concerning the feasts the people were to keep, he spoke to Moses of some other things which concerned both people and priests: saying; as follows.