Leviticus 23:16

_EVEN UNTO THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH SHALL YE NUMBER FIFTY DAYS; AND YE SHALL OFFER A NEW MEAT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD._ Number fifty days. The 49th day after the presentation of the first-fruits, or the 50th including it, was the feast of Pentecost (see also Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:9)....

15-22 The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition of that law, by which they were required to leave the gleanings of their fields. Those who are truly sensible of the mercy they received from God, will show mercy to the poor without grudging....

These verses contain a distinct command regarding the religious services immediately connected with the grain harvest, given by anticipation against the time when the people were to possess the promised land. Leviticus 23:10 SHEAF - The original word, “omer”, means either a sheaf Deuteronomy 24:19; Ruth 2:7, or a measure Exodus 16:16. Our version is probably right in this place. The offering which was waved Leviticus 7:30 was most likely a small sheaf of barley, the grain which

EXPOSITION LEVITICUS 23:8 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover (Exodus 12:15-2), and from the beginning the two festivals were practically but one festival, never separated, though separable in idea. The Passover, strictly so called, lasted but one day, Nisan 14; the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, Nisan 15-21. The whole made a festival of eight days, called indifferently the Feast of the Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The bread to be eaten throughout the festival was unleavened, in order to remind the Israelites of the historical fact that on account of the urgency of the Egyptians, "the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their c

EVEN UNTO THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH,.... Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the fiftieth day, or Pentecost: SHALL YE NUMBER FIFTY DAYS; from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, Acts 2:1; all in Israel were obliged to number those days, except women and servants t: the manner of doing it was this u; on the night of the second (day of the passover), after the evening prayer, they began to number; but if anyone forgot to number at the beginning of the night, he went and numbered all the night; for the commandment is for everyone to number by himself, and he ought to number standing, and to bless first, and number the days and weeks: How? on the first day he says, This is one day, until he comes to seven days, and then he says, This is the seventh day, which is one week; and on the eighth day he says, This is the eighth day, which is one week

FIFTY DAYS The feast of Pentecost, (Leviticus 23:15). The anti-type is the descent of the Holy Spirit to form the church. For this reason leaven is present, because there is evil in the church; (Matthew 13:33); (Acts 5:1); (Acts 5:10); (Acts 15:1). Observe, it is now loaves; not a sheaf of separate growths loosely bound together, but a real union of particles making one homogenous body. The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost united the separated disciples into one organism. ...

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 firstfruits (Leviticus 23:9) 4. The feast of weeks (Leviticus 23:15) 5. The blowing of trumpets (Leviticus 23:23) 6. The day of atonement (Leviticus 23:26) 7. The feast of tabernac

THE HARVEST FESTIVAL, OR WEEKS, _I.E._ OF the completion of the corn harvest (p. 103, Numbers 28:26). In a country so varied topographically as Palestine, there may be two months-' difference between the harvest in the valleys and in the high lands. The fixing of a definite date would follow the centralisation of the festival. The loaves waved at this festival are the same in size as at Mazzoth, but two instead of one, and they are leavened. There is no need of haste, as when the sheaf of the first-fruits had to be presented without any delay seven weeks before. Instead of one lamb, as at the earlier festival, two lambs and one goat; all belong to the priest. For Leviticus 23:22, see Leviticus 19:9 *....

FIFTY DAYS. Hence the name Pentecost. Acts 2:1. Act 20:16. 1 Corinthians 16:8. MEAT OFFERING. meal offering. See note on Leviticus 2:1....

The Feast of Weeks (mainly H). Cp. Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10. The name is taken from the seven weeks, which, as the average duration of harvest time, separated this feast from that of unleavened bread....