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Exodus 23:16

Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,.... This belongs to the feast of the passover; for, as all the Jewish writers agree, this sacrifice is the sacrifice of the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Exodus 23:14-17

This is the first mention of the three great Yearly Festivals. The feast of Unleavened bread, in its connection with the Paschal Lamb, is spoken of in Exo. 12; 13: but the two others are here first…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 23:10-19

Here is, I. The institution of the sabbatical year, Exo 23:10, Exo 23:11. Every seventh year the land was to rest; they must not plough nor sow it at the beginning of the year, and then they could not…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

16a. The secondpilgrimage, the Feast of Harvest, celebrating the completion of the wheat harvest (Exo 34:22), in June, and marked by the offering of firstfruits from the ripened grain (in Exo 34:22…