Leviticus 23:24-44

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:23-32

Here is, I. The institution of the feast of trumpets, on the first day of the seventh month, Lev. 23:24, 25. That which was now the seventh month had been reckoned the first month, and the year of jubilee was still to begin with this month (Lev. 25:8), so that this was their new year's day. It was to be as their other yearly sabbaths, a day of holy rest?You shall do no servile work therein; and a day of holy work?You shall offer an offering to the Lord; concerning these particular directions... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 23:33-34

We have here, I. The institution of the feast of tabernacles, which was one of the three great feasts at which all the males were bound to attend, and celebrated with more expressions of joy than any of them. 1. As to the directions for regulating this feast, observe, (1.) It was to be observed on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Lev. 23:34), but five days after the day of atonement. We may suppose, though they were not all bound to attend on the day of atonement, as on the three great... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:24

Speak unto the children of Israel ,.... For all the people of Israel were concerned in the following precept, and obliged to observe it, even priests, Levites, Israelites, proselytes, and freed servants; though other servants, and women, and children, were not obliged to hear the sound of the trumpets F2 Maimon. Hilchot Shophar ve Succah, c. 2. sect. 1. , and which were blown not in Jerusalem only, but in all cities and towns where the sanhedrim was F3 Ibid. sect. 8. ; and it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:25

Ye shall do no servile work therein ,.... Only such as was necessary for dressing food, but not any manual work, such as servants were employed in on other days, as agriculture or any mechanic business: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord ; a burnt offering, and what that was may be seen in Numbers 29:1 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:26

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... This phrase, which is a kind of preface to each precept, seems to be used to distinguish one from another, as the preceding one from the feast of Pentecost; and here, the day of atonement from that of the blowing of the trumpets; and afterwards, the feast of tabernacles from the day of atonement; the reason why it is not used before the feast of Pentecost seems to be, because, as Aben Ezra observes, that depended upon the wave sheaf, and was reckoned from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:27

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month ,.... Tisri, the same as before, answering to part of our September, and part of October: there shall be a day of atonement ; for all the sins of the year past; see Leviticus 16:29 , it shall be an holy convocation unto you : when they should be called together for the exercise of holy duties: and ye shall afflict your souls ; their souls, by repentance, contrition, and humiliation for sin, and their bodies by fasting; and, as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:28

Ye shall do no work in that same day ,.... No more than on the weekly sabbath: for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God : See Gill on Leviticus 16:30 ; Aben Ezra's note is,"for you only,'that is, for the Israelites, and not the Gentiles; but the atonement of Christ, the antitype of this, was not for the sins of the Jews only, but for the sins of the whole world, of all his people in it, 1 John 2:2 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:29

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day ,.... That is, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain it, which can fast and does not fast; for a sick person, and a child under nine years of age, were not obliged to fast on this day F16 Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Ashur, c. 2. sect. 8,10. : he shall be cut off from among his people ; by an untimely death, by the hand of God; the Targum of Jonathan says, by the pestilence. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:30

And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day ,.... Any sort of work whatever; for, as before observed, it was to be kept as strictly as the weekly sabbath: the same soul will I destroy from among his people ; with the pestilence, as the above Targum; it seems to be but another phrase for cutting them off, and to signify the same thing. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 23:31

Ye shall do no manner of work ,.... Which is repeated, that it might be observed, and to show how strictly God required this day should be kept, and how careful men should be of breaking the command in this respect, and how much he should resent it if they did: it shall be a statute for ever, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings ; unto the coming of the Messiah, who, by the atoning sacrifice of himself, would answer to this law, and put an end to it. read more

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