Leviticus 23:3

Leviticus 23:3

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.

7 ^aOn the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no¹ customary work on it.

8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.’ ”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Ye shall do no work therein - So it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, Leviticus 23:28, excluding all works about earthly employments whether of profit or of pleasure; but upon other feast days he forbids only servile works, as Leviticus 23:7, Leviticus 23:21, Leviticus 23:36, for surely this manifest difference in the expressions used by the wife God must needs imply a difference in the things. In all your dwellings - Other feasts, were to be kept before the Lord in Jerusalem only, whither all the males were to come for that end; but the sabbath was to be kept in all places, both in synagogues, and in their private houses.

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