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Commentaries on Numbers 28:17

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 28 In this chapter is a repetition of several laws concerning sacrifices, as the law of the daily sacrifice morning and evening, Numbers 28:1 of those that were offered every week on the sabbath day, Numbers 28:9 and every month on the first day of the month, Numbers 28:11 and on the seven days of unleavened bread, Numbers 28:16, and at the feast of weeks, Numbers 28:26.

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast,.... Not of the passover, that was the day before, but of unleavened bread, which began on this day, and lasted seven days, Leviticus 23:6 which is what the Jews call the Chagigah: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten; see Exodus 12:15.

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Now that the people were numbered, orders given for the dividing of the land, and a general of the forces nominated and commissioned, one would have expected that the next chapter should begin the history of the campaign, or at least should give us an account of the ordinances of war; no, it contains the ordinances of worship, and provides that now, as they were on the point of entering Canaan,...