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besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill-offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
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Special Duty Doesn't Cancel Regular Duty
Commentators unanimously explain that the offerings for the special feasts were in addition to the regular weekly Sabbath offerings. As Matthew Henry notes, "Calls to extraordinary services will not excuse us from constant and regular ones." This principle teaches that special spiritual events or seasons should supplement, not replace, our consistent, everyday disciplines of worship and devotion.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The meaning appears to be: “these are the yearly appointed times on which you shall hold holy convocations and offer to Yahweh sacrifices, in addit…
19th Century
Anglican
Beside the sabbaths.—By a figure of speech called metonymy, which is frequently used in both the Old and New Testaments, the expre…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord The seventh day sabbaths, which were of his appointing, and sacred to his service an…
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