Leviticus 23:8

_AND ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH IS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD UNTO THE LORD: SEVEN DAYS YE MUST EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

4-14 The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-fruits of them that slept. Our Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the very day that the first-fruits were offered. We are taught by this law to honour the Lord with our substance, and with the first-fruits of all our increase, Proverbs 3:9. They were not to eat of their new corn, till God's part was offered to him out of it; and we must always begin with God: begin every day with him, begin every meal with him, begin every affair and business with him; seek first the kingdom of God....

In these verses, the Passover, or Paschal Supper, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, are plainly spoken of as distinct feasts. See Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:17; Numbers 28:16. Leviticus 23:5 See Exodus 12:6. According to the Hebrew mode of reckoning, the 15th day of the month began on the evening of the 14th. The day of holy convocation with which the Feast of Unleavened Bread commenced...

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

BUT YE SHALL OFFER AN OFFERING MADE BY, FIRE UNTO THE LORD SEVEN DAYS,.... A burnt offering was to be offered unto the Lord on everyone of the seven days, which were two young bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs; besides a meat offering, and a goat for a sin offering, Numbers 28:19; IN THE SEVENTH DAY [IS] AN HOLY CONVOCATION, YE SHALL DO NO SERVILE WORK [THEREIN]; as on the first day, that was on account of the Israelites going out of Egypt; and this is said, on account of Pharaoh and his host being drowned on it; Exodus 12:16....

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

LEVITICUS 23:4 (P). THE PASSOVER (pp. 102f.), which was regularly followed by a week when no leaven was to be eaten (_cf._ Deuteronomy 16:1; Exodus 12:1). The first month (see on Leviticus 16) is Nisan (March-April). The Passover commences, like all Jewish feasts, at evening, or, in the Heb. phrase, between the two evenings, _i.e._ between sunset and dark: for the sacrifice, see Numbers 28:17....

OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karab._ App-43. OFFERING. Hebrew. _'ishsheh._ App-43. IN. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and on (or in)"....

_an offering made by fire_ The details of this offering are given in Numbers 28:2 ff....

b. PASSOVER AND THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 23:4-14 TEXT 23:4-14 4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season. 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah's passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. 9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto...