Leviticus 23:22

_AND WHEN YE REAP THE HARVEST OF YOUR LAND, THOU SHALT NOT MAKE CLEAN RIDDANCE OF THE CORNERS OF THY FIELD WHEN THOU REAPEST, NEITHER SHALT THOU GATHER ANY GLEANING OF THY HARVEST: THOU SHALT LEAVE THEM UNTO THE POOR, AND TO THE STRANGER: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Thou shalt not make clean riddance ... - (see the note at Leviticus 19:9.) The repetition of this law here probably arose from the priests reminding the people, at the presentation of the first-fruits, to unite piety to God with charity to the poor....

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....

Verse Leviticus 23:22. _NEITHER SHALT THOU GATHER ANY GLEANING_] Leviticus 19:9....

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

AND WHEN YE REAP THE HARVEST OF YOUR LAND,.... This law is repeated from Leviticus 19:9; and as Aben Ezra observes, the feast of weeks being the feast of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, it is repeated, that they might not forget what God had commanded them to do at that time, namely, to leave somewhat for the poor; and the Jewish writers a observe, that this law, being put among the solemn feasts of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, and the beginning of the year, and the day of atonement, teaches, that he that observes it, and leaves the corner of the field and the gleanings to the poor, it is as if he built the sanctuary, and offered his sacrifices in the midst of it; but a much better reason may be given for it, which was, to teach them that when they expressed their thankfulness to God, they should exercise charity and liberality to the poor; thou shalt not

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 *....

HARVEST. In the Antitype. "the end" or the remainder. 1 Corinthians 15:24....

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....