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You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
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A 'Forever' Feast Fulfilled
Commentators explain that the phrase "a statute for ever" finds its ultimate fulfillment in the Messiah. John Gill notes the statute was binding "until the Messiah should come," and Matthew Henry suggests the feast prefigured Christ's own "tabernacling on earth in human nature." This feast, therefore, points believers to Jesus as the substance of the Old Testament shadow.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
Seven days in the year. —These seven days denote the Feast of Tabernacles proper, while the eight days in Leviticus 23:39 include …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall keep it a feast to the Lord seven days in the year Every year it was to be kept for the space of seven days…
Presbyterian
In the Feast of Tabernacles, there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in…
