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To keep other seven days - This was a voluntary addition to the requirements of the Law—the fruit and sign of the abounding zeal that charac…

Took counsel. — Determined, the result of taking counsel (2 Chronicles 30:2).
To keep.

And the whole a embly took counsel to keep other seven days ,
&c.] They consulted among themselves, and with the kin…

Many prayers were offered to God with the peace-offerings. In these, Israel looked to God as the God of their fathers, a God in covenant with them.…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes