Deuteronomy 16:7

Deuteronomy 16:7

5 “You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you;

6 but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover ^aat twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and ^ain the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and ^aon the seventh day there shall be a¹ sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

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9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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thou shalt roast and eat it—(See on Exodus 12:8; compare II Chronicles 35:13).

thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents—The sense of this passage, on the first glance of the words, seems to point to the morning after the first day—the passover eve. Perhaps, however, the divinely appointed duration of this feast, the solemn character and important object, the journey of the people from the distant parts of the land to be present, and the recorded examples of their continuing all the time (II Chronicles 30:21 II Chronicles 35:17), (though these may be considered extraordinary, and therefore exceptional occasions), may warrant the conclusion that the leave given to the people to return home was to be on the morning after the completion of the seven days.

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Deuteronomy 16:7

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