Deuteronomy 16:9

_SEVEN WEEKS SHALT THOU NUMBER UNTO THEE: BEGIN TO NUMBER THE SEVEN WEEKS FROM SUCH TIME AS THOU BEGINNEST TO PUT THE SICKLE TO THE CORN._ Seven weeks shalt thou number - the feast of weeks, or a WEEK OF WEEKS; the feast of Pentecost (see the notes at Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:10; Acts 2:1). As on the second day of the Passover, a sheaf of new barley, reaped on purpose, was brought into the sanctuary and presented as a thank offering to God, so on the second day of Pentecost a sheaf of new wheat was presented as first-fruits (Exodus 23:16; Numb

9._Seven weeks shalt thou number. _It must be observed that the Passover fell in a part of the year when the harvests were beginning to ripen; and consequently the first-fruits, of which I treated under the First Commandment, were then offered. Seven weeks afterwards they celebrated another feast-day, which was called Pentecost, _i.e., _the fiftieth, by the Greeks. There was just this number of days between the departure of the people and the publication of the Law. Another offering of first-fruits was then made, in which each one, according to his ability, and in proportion to the produce of the year, consecrated a gift to God of the harvested fruits. In order that they might be more ready and cheerful in their liberality, God’s blessing is set before them, as if Moses had commanded the people to testify their gratitude; since whatever springs from the earth, is the mere bounty of God H...

1-17 The laws for the three yearly feasts are here repeated; that of the Passover, that of the Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concerning the people's attendance. Never should a believer forget his low estate of guilt and misery, his deliverance, and the price it cost the Redeemer; that gratitude and joy in the Lord may be mingled with sorrow for sin, and patience under the tribulations in his way to the kingdom of heaven. They must rejoice in their receivings from God, and in their returns of service and sacrifice to him; our duty must be our delight, as well as our enjoyment. If those who were under the law must rejoice before God, much more we that are under the grace of the gospel; which makes it our duty to rejoice evermore, to rejoice in the Lord always. When we rejoice in God ourselves, we should do what we can to assist others also to rejoice in him, by comfo...

Feast of Weeks; and Deuteronomy 16:13, Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers except the clauses so often recurring in Deuteronomy and so characteristic of it, which restrict the public celebration of the festivals to the sanctuary, and enjoin that the enjoyments of them should be extended to the Levites, widows, orphans, etc....

EXPOSITION CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL, THE FEAST OF PENTECOST AND OF TABERNACLES. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND PREVENTION OF IDOLATRY. DEUTERONOMY 16:1 (Comp. Exodus 23:14-2; Exodus 34:18,...

SEVEN WEEKS THEN SHALT THOU NUMBER UNTO THEE,.... And then another feast was to take place, called from hence the feast of weeks, and sometimes Pentecost, from its being the fiftieth day: BEGIN TO NUMBER THE SEVEN WEEKS FROM SUCH TIME AS THOU BEGINNEST TO PUT THE SICKLE TO THE CORN; for the sheaf of the wave offering, as the first fruits of barley harvest, which was done on the morrow after the sabbath in the passover week, and from thence seven weeks or fifty days were reckoned, and the fiftieth day was the feast here ordered to be kept; so the Targum of Jonathan, "after the reaping of the sheaf ye shall begin to number seven weeks;'' see Leviticus 23:15....

12. THE FIRSTLINGS AND THE THREE FEASTS Chapter S 15:19-16:17 _ 1. Concerning the firstlings (Deuteronomy 15:19)_ 2. Passover (Deuteronomy 16:1) 3. Feast of weeks (Deuteronomy 16:9) 4. Feast of tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:13) What is said in the closing verses of chapter 15 is supplementary to the law given concerning the first-born in Exodus 13:2; Exodus 13:12 and...

DEUTERONOMY 16. THE DEUTERONOMIC LAWS OF THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE FEASTS. These are adaptations of the older laws in Exodus 23:18 *, Exodus 34:18; Exodus 34:22 f. (general regulations); Deuteronomy 12:21 (Passover); Deuteronomy 13:3 (Unleavened Bread), all J or E (see also Leviticus 23* (H) and Numbers 28 f., Numbers 9:1; Exodus 12:1 *,...

CORN. standing corn....

_Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee_ Hence the name of the Feast, Weeks, _Shabu-ôth, Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:16_, also in J, Exodus 34:22. H, Leviticus 23:16, prescribes _fifty days_from the sabbath after the presentation before the Altar of the first sheaf of the harvest; hence the Hellenistic name Pentecost, -the fiftieth" (day) or the day after the conclusion of the seven weeks. The name given by E, Exodus 23:16, _Harvest_, implies that the harvest was by that time concluded. In the warmest parts of Pal