Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Leviticus 23:3
sabbath of rest. See note on Exodus 16:23.
sabbath of rest. See note on Exodus 16:23.
Verse Leviticus 23:3. _THE SEVENTH DAY_ IS _THE SABBATH_] This, because the first and greatest solemnity, is first mentioned. He who kept not this, in the most religious manner, was not capable of ke...
The seventh day had been consecrated as the Sabbath of Yahweh, figuring His own rest; it was the acknowledged sign of the covenant between God and His people. See the Exodus 20:1 notes. As such it pro...
VI. THE HOLY FEASTS AND SET TIMES 1. The Holy Feasts and Set Times CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The Sabbath (Leviticus 23:1)_ 2. The feast of Passover and feast of unleavened bread (Leviticus 23:4) 3. The fir...
THE SABBATH, which is to be kept holy, _i.e._ unprofaned by any kind of work for individual profit, and marked by a religious gathering, apparently at a synagogue. The term set feast (RV) means an ass...
If we pass from -say unto them" (Leviticus 23:2) to -These are," etc. (Leviticus 23:4), we perceive that the intermediate words have the air of an insertion by a reviser, writing in the spirit of P, a...
THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS— The _Sabbath_ is first briefly mentioned, as being the first and chief of these solemn meetings; at all times and in all places religiously to be observe...
C. SANCTIFICATION OF FEASTS 23:1-25:55 1. SABBATHS AND ANNUAL FEASTS 23:1-44 a. THE SABBATH 23:1-3 TEXT 23:1-3 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say...
_SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF REST, AN HOLY CONVOCATION; YE SHALL DO NO WORK THEREIN: IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS._ The seventh day is th...
THE SACRED SEASONS These are the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3), Passover and Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:5), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15), Feast of Trumpets ...
THE SABBATH] see on Exodus 20:8. 5-8. Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles were the three great annual festivals which followed the seasons of the year and the...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE. — Recurring every week, and being the most important as well as the oldest of all festivals, the sabbath introduces the holy seasons. Hence, during the second Temple it wa...
שֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִים֮ תֵּעָשֶׂ֣ה מְלָאכָה֒ וּ בַ †...
THE WEEKLY SABBATH Leviticus 23:1 "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocat...
THE SET FEASTS OF THE LORD Leviticus 23:1 IT is ever an instinct of natural religion to observe certain set times for special public and united worship. As we should therefore anticipate, such obser...
SABBATH, PASSOVER AND FIRST-FRUITS Leviticus 23:1 The year of Israel's national life was marked out by high and blessed convocations, which preserved its unity, kept the people in mind of the great p...
The feasts of Jehovah were national l signs and symbols. These were now dealt with. The foremost place was given to the Sabbath. Its constant recurrence, governed not by the natural order, but by the...
Sabbath. Hebrew, "the rest of rest;" a day in which no unnecessary servile work must be done, no more than on the great holidays, ver. 6, 8. (Haydock) --- Called holy, because it shall be really so: i...
The first feast mentioned in its place, is that of the sabbath, which, as it is the most ancient, so is it the most universal. JESUS hath given his sanction to it throughout his blessed gospel; for he...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
We have now come to the feasts (chap. 23). It is the full [1] year of the counsels of God towards His people, and the rest which was the end of those counsels. There were consequently seven-a number e...
SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE,.... Or may be done by men, any sort of lawful work and honest labour, for the sustenance of themselves and families: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY [IS] THE SABBATH OF REST; from al...
_Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings._ Ver. 3. _Ye sha...
Lev. 23:3. "Convocation." By this it appears that although the children of Israel were obliged to meet together at the Temple but three times in the year, yet the weekly sabbath among them was from th...
_The seventh day_ is first named as a _holy convocation_ A day to be kept holy by every Israelite, in all places wheresoever they dwelt, as well as while they lived in the wilderness; and as a day of...
1 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The Sabbath. 4 The Passeouer. 9 The Sheafe of first fruits. 15 The Feast of Pentecost. 22 Gleanings to be left for the poore. 23 The Feast of Trumpets. 26 The day of...
Six days shall work be done, the ordinary business of life should be done on the six days of the week, and the words are not merely a permission, but a command; BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF R...
THE SABBATH...
THE SET TIMES OF THE LORD (VV. 1-43) The times of special observance in Israel are called “feasts” in most translations, yet all were not feasts for Israel, as per the day of atonement (vv. 26-32), wh...
1-3 In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly feasts were made more remarkable by general attendance at the sanctuary, yet the...
_ No work_; so it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, LEVITICUS 23:28, excluding all works about earthly occasions or employments, whether of profit or pleasure; but...
One of the most profound and comprehensive Chapter s in the inspired volume now lies open before us, and claims our prayerful study. It contains the record of the seven great feasts or periodical sole...
Leviticus 23:3 Six H8337 days H3117 work H4399 done H6213 (H8735) seventh H7637 day H3117 Sabbath H7676 rest...
THE SABBATH (LEVITICUS 23:3). Leviticus 23:3 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no manner of work. It is a sabbath to...
INTRODUCTION WITH REGARD TO THE FEASTS AND THE SABBATH (LEVITICUS 23:1). Leviticus 23:1 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' Once more it is stressed that we have the words of Moses as given to hi...
CONTENTS: The feasts of Jehovah. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The Sabbaths of the Lord in our dwellings will be their beauty, strength and safety (by rising on the first day of the week and m...
Leviticus 23:3. _Convocation._ מקרא, _mickra_ is rendered _ecclesia,_ or church, seventy times, and _synagogue_ thirty seven times. In the next phrase it is changed for the word _dwellings,_ for the L...
_These are My feasts._ THE HOLY FESTIVALS I. Commentators generally on this part of Hebrew law have remarked upon the social, political, and commercial benefits resulting to the Jewish people from th...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 23:1 Holy Times. These chapters address holiness in relation to time. ⇐...
Israel’s Holy Festivals SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 23:2.—Concerning the feasts of the Lord. Religion has its joy seasons, its festive aspects. Israel’s sacred feasts symbolised the festivals of t...
PART IV. HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS: WEEKLY, MONTHLY, ANNUAL, SEPTENNIAL, AND EVERY HALF-CENTURY. EXPOSITION THIS Part consists of L
Chapter twenty-three, God outlines the various holidays, the feast days for the children of Israel. First of all in the first three verses, God deals with the Sabbath day once more. The seventh day is...
Acts 15:21; Deuteronomy 5:13; Exodus 16:23; Exodus 16:29; Exodus 20:8
Ye shall do no work therein — So it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, Leviticus 23:28, excluding all works about earthly employments whether of profit or of pleasu...