“Second, celebrate the Festival of Harvest, when you bring me the first crops of your harvest. “Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

This is the first mention of the three great Yearly Festivals. The Feast of Unleavened Bread, in its connection with the Paschal Lamb, is spoken of…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And the feast of harvest
This is the second feast, the feast of wheat harvest, between which and barley harvest were…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plow or sow it; what the earth produced of itself was to be eaten and not stored up. This la…