Leviticus 23:36
in Leviticus 23For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work.
KJV
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
7 notes on this verseSeven days ye shall offer an offering made, by fire unto the Lord,.... A burnt offering; what this was, and how many were offered on each day, see at large in Num 29:13, on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; as on the first day; See Gill on Lev 23:35, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; which was different from that on all the other days, being one bullock only, &c. Num 29:35, it is a solemn assembly; of all the people, when they were gathered together before the Lord.
This site's exposition
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month
on Leviticus 23:34-36
Tabernacles runs seven days and then adds an eighth. The eighth day is a convocation and solemn assembly of its own, and the chapter gives it no rite beyond an offering made by fire.
This site's exposition
It is a solemn assembly
Numbers 29:12-38 sets out a changing succession of sacrifices across the seven days, and John Gill notes that the eighth day receives one bullock only. Albert Barnes reads that change as marking the solemn assembly off from the festal week. Gill calls it an assembly of all the people.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And so indeed it was, as for other reasons, so because, by their removal from the tabernacles into fixed habitations, it represented that happy time wherein their 40 years tedious march in the wilderness was ended with their settlement in the land of Canaan, which it was most fit they should acknowledge with such a solemn day of thanksgiving as this was.
The sacrifices to be offered on these eight days we have a very large appointment of, Num. xxix. (3.) During the first seven days of this feast all the people were to leave their houses, and the women and children in them, and to dwell in booths made of the boughs of thick trees, particularly palm trees,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
An offering made by fire - See Lev 23:8. The succession of sacrifices prescribed in Num. 29:12-38, which forms such a marked feature in the Feast of Tabernacles, tends to show the distinctness of the “solemn assembly” from the festal week.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!" (Ps 118:15, 25, 26). It was a season of great rejoicing.
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
The words behind it
21 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁבְעַ֣ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יָמִ֔ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| תַּקְרִ֥יבוּ | takrivu | you will present | H7126 → | 280 times |
| אִשֶּׁ֖ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering | H801 → | 65 times |
| לַיהוָ֑ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בַּיּ֣וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁמִינִ֡י | hashemini | <the> eighth | H8066 → | 28 times |
| מִקְרָא־ | mikra'- | a convocation of | H4744 → | 23 times |
| קֹדֶשׁ֩ | kodesh | holiness | H6944 → | 469 times |
| יִהְיֶ֨ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶ֜ם | lakhem | to <the> you | ||
| וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֨ם | vehikravtem | and you will present | H7126 → | 280 times |
| אִשֶּׁ֤ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering | H801 → | 65 times |
| לַֽיהוָה֙ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| עֲצֶ֣רֶת | ʾatzeret | [is] a solemn assembly | H6116 → | |
| הִ֔וא | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מְלֶ֥אכֶת | melekhet | work of | H4399 → | 167 times |
| עֲבֹדָ֖ה | ʾavodah | servitude | H5656 → | 145 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ | taasu | you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
שִׁבְעַ֣תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
יָמִ֔יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
תַּקְרִ֥יבוּyou will present
takrivuH7126 →280 times
אִשֶּׁ֖הa fire offering
ʾishehH801 →65 times
לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשְּׁמִינִ֡י<the> eighth
hasheminiH8066 →28 times
מִקְרָא־a convocation of
mikra'-H4744 →23 times
קֹדֶשׁ֩holiness
kodeshH6944 →469 times
יִהְיֶ֨הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶ֜םto <the> you
lakhem
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֨םand you will present
vehikravtemH7126 →280 times
אִשֶּׁ֤הa fire offering
ʾishehH801 →65 times
לַֽיהוָה֙to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
עֲצֶ֣רֶת[is] a solemn assembly
ʾatzeretH6116 →
הִ֔ואit
hi'H1931 →1879 times
כָּל־any
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מְלֶ֥אכֶתwork of
melekhetH4399 →167 times
עֲבֹדָ֖הservitude
ʾavodahH5656 →145 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃you will do
taasuH6213 →2628 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
it leads to
- Isaiah 55:1
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 6:35
Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
- Isaiah 12:3
With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
- Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
- Isaiah 55:1
Through
Nehemiah 8:18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they…
it leads to
- Numbers 29:35
On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Deuteronomy 31:10–13
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
- Numbers 29:35
Through
Deuteronomy 16:8For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
it leads to
- Exodus 13:6–8
For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Exodus 13:6–8
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.