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Deuteronomy 16:8

Deuteronomy 16:8
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... In other places it is ordered to be eaten seven days, Exo 12:15 and here it is not said six only; it was to be eaten on the seventh as on the other,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

The cardinal point on which the whole of the prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the concentration of the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

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,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

See introd. note. The incompatibility of this v. with the preceding is obvious unless we are to explain tentsas the shelters which pilgrims to the central sanctuary pitched during the feast. But (as…

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