Deuteronomy 16:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:1-17

Much of the communion between God and his people Israel was kept up, and a face of religion preserved in the nation, by the three yearly feasts, the institution of which, and the laws concerning them, we have several times met with already; and here they are repeated. I. The law of the passover, so great a solemnity that it made the whole month, in the midst of which it was placed, considerable: Observe the month Abib, Deut. 16:1. Though one week only of this month was to be kept as a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:1

Observe the month of Abib ,.... Sometimes called Nisan; it answered to part, of our March, and part of April; it was an observable month, to be taken notice of; it was called Abib, from the corn then appearing in ear, and beginning to ripen, and all things being in their verdure; the Septuagint calls it the month of new fruit; it was appointed the first of the months for ecclesiastic things, and was the month in which the Israelites went out of Egypt, and the first passover was kept in it,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:2

Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God ,.... In the month Abib, and in the night of that month they came out of Egypt, even on the fourteenth day of it at night, between the two evenings, as the Targum of Jonathan; which was a lamb, and typical of Christ, the passover sacrificed for us, 1 Corinthians 5:7 . of the flock and the herd ; that is, you shall sacrifice also the offerings which were offered throughout the seven days of unleavened bread, and these... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:3

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it ,.... With the passover, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; that is, with the passover lamb, nor indeed with any of the passover, or peace offerings, as follows; see Exodus 12:8 . seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread therewith ; with the passover; this plainly shows, that by the passover in the preceding verse is not meant strictly the passover lamb, for that was eaten at once on the night of the fourteenth of the month, and not seven... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:4

And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days ,.... For before the passover they were to search diligently every room in the house, and every hole and crevice, that none might remain any where; see Exodus 12:15 , neither shall there be anything of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning ; which may be understood both of the flesh of the passover lamb, as Aben Ezra, according to Exodus 12:10 and of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:5

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates ,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings: which the Lord thy God giveth thee ; in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:6

But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in ,.... To place the ark and the mercy seat with the cherubim over them, where he caused his Shechinah, or divine Majesty, to dwell; and this was at Jerusalem, where the temple was built by Solomon: there thou shalt sacrifice the passover ; kill and eat the paschal lamb: at even, at the going down of the sun ; between the two evenings it was killed, before the sun was set, and afterwards at night it was eaten;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:7

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose ,.... The word for "roast" signifies to "boil", and is justly so used, and so Onkelos here renders it, and the Septuagint version both roast and boil; but it is certain that the passover lamb was not to be boiled, it is expressly forbidden, Exodus 12:8 wherefore some think the Chagigah is here meant, and the other offerings that were offered at this feast; and so in the times of Josiah they roasted the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:8

Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread ,.... In other places it is ordered to be eaten seven days, Exodus 12:15 and here it is not said six only; it was to be eaten on the seventh as on the other, though that is here distinguished from the six, because of special and peculiar service assigned to it, but not because of an exemption from eating unleavened bread on it. The Jews seem to understand this of different corn of which the bread was made, and not of different sort of bread; the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 16:1

Keep the passover - A feast so called because the angel that destroyed the firstborn of the Egyptians, seeing the blood of the appointed sacrifice sprinkled on the lintels and door-posts of the Israelites' houses, passed over Them, and did not destroy any of their firstborn. See the notes on Exodus 12:2 , and Exodus 12:3 ; (note), etc. read more

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