Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:1-17
Three annual festivals (16:1-17)Each year all the male adults in Israel were to gather at the central place of worship for the three great annual festivals: Passover-Unleavened Bread at the beginning of the year (16:1-8; see notes on Exodus 12:1-51; Leviticus 23:4-14); Firstfruits-Weeks, or Harvest Festival, seven weeks after Passover (9-12; see notes on Leviticus 23:15-22); and Tabernacles-Ingathering, or Festival of Shelters, six months after Passover (13-17; see notes on Leviticus 23:33-44). read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 16:9-10
Deuteronomy 16:9-10. Thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn To reap the first-fruits of the barley-harvest, the wave sheaf in particular, which was offered to the Lord on the sixteenth day of that month. Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks So called, because it was seven weeks after the bringing the sheaf at the passover, that is, fifty days, whence it was termed pentecost: see on Leviticus 23:16. It was also called the feast of first- fruits, Numbers 28:26. With a tribute of... read more