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Identifying the Festivals
Commentators identify the 'feast of weeks' as the festival later known as Pentecost, which celebrated the first-fruits of the wheat harvest. The 'feast of ingathering' is identified as the Feast of Tabernacles, which marked the end of the agricultural year when all produce had been gathered.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 34:12–27
18th Century
Theologian
The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are …
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 34:22
19th Century
Bishop
The feast of weeks. —Called in Exodus 23:16, the feast of harvest, and in the New Testament “the day of Pentecost”—seven …
John Gill
On Exodus 34:22
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall observe the feast of weeks
The feast of Pentecost, called the feast of weeks, because seven sabbaths o…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 34:18–27
17th Century
Minister
Once a week they must rest, even in plowing time and in harvest. All worldly business must give way to that holy rest; even harvest work will prosp…