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Two Feasts of Thanksgiving
This verse establishes two of Israel's three main annual festivals. Commentators identify the "feast of harvest" as the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), celebrating the first wheat harvest. The "feast of ingathering" is the Feast of Tabernacles, a joyful celebration at the end of the agricultural year when all crops, including grapes and olives, were gathered in.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 23:14–17
18th Century
Theologian
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
On Exodus 23:14–17
19th Century
Bishop
The first great festival—the Passover festival—had already been instituted (Exodus 12:3–20; Exodus 13:3–10). It pleased the…
John Gill
On Exodus 23:16
17th Century
Pastor
And the feast of harvest
This is the second feast, the feast of wheat harvest, between which and barley harvest were…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 23:10–19
17th Century
Minister
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…