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More Than Just a Lamb
Commentators clarify that while the specific Passover meal involved a lamb or kid ("of the flock"), the instruction to also sacrifice "of the herd" refers to the entire seven-day festival. Other offerings, such as bullocks for the "Chagigah" or festival offering, were part of the complete celebration.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 16:1–8
18th Century
Theologian
The cardinal point on which all the regulations in this chapter depend is evidently the same as has been so often emphasized in the previous chapte…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 16:1–8
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 16:1–8. THE PASSOVER. ()
The month Abib was so called from the “ears of c…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 16:2
17th Century
Pastor
You shall therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord your
God
In the month Abib, …
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 16:1–17
17th Century
Minister
The laws for the three yearly feasts are repeated here: that of the Passover, that of Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concernin…