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Leviticus 23:2
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Feasts of the Lord

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be aholy convocations, these are My feasts.  

The Sabbath

3 a‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.  

The Passover and Unleavened Bread

4 a‘These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.  
5 aOn the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.  
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
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Barnes' Notes
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Leviticus 23:2

The feasts - literally, the appointed times. So in Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:37, etc. This section Lev. 23:1-38 sets forth for practical guidance the relation in which the appointed times of the Lord, weekly as well as annual, stood to the ordinary occupations of the people.

Holy convocations - Days of sabbatical rest for the whole people; they owed their name to gatherings for religious edification, which, in later times, were probably held in every town and village in the holy land. There were in the course of the year, besides the weekly Sabbaths, seven days of holy convocation Exodus 12:16; Numbers 28:18, Numbers 28:25-26; Numbers 29:1, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:35, with a distinction between them as regards strictness of observance (compare Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:28 with Leviticus 23:7).




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Leviticus 23:2:

Exodus 12:16
Leviticus 23:44
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
Psalms 74:8
Psalms 102:13
Isaiah 4:5
Lamentations 1:12-16
Daniel 7:23-27

 

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