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You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year`s end.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
The feast of weeks. —Called in Exodus 23:16, the feast of harvest, and in the New Testament “the day of Pentecost”—seven …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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