And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shall keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God,.... The feast of Pentecost, at which time the Spirit was poured down upon the apostles, Act 2:1.
with a tribute of a freewill offering…
Feast of Weeks; and Deu 16:13-17, Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers except the clauses so often recurring in Deuteronomy and so characteristic of…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
feast Heb. ḥag, as in Rabbinic Hebrew a pilgrim-feast, and in Ar. pilgrimage(perhaps originally a sacred dance, Wellh. Reste d. Arab. Heiden. iii. 106, 165, and Exo 32:5 f.; cp. the vb ḥagag, Psa…
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