Leviticus 23:38
in Leviticus 23These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto Jehovah.
KJV
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA 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.
This site's exposition
These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim
on Leviticus 23:37-38
The list closes in the words it opened with, and verse 38 then sets all of it beside the sabbaths, the gifts, the vows and the freewill offerings, so the calendar is a floor under Israel's worship rather than the whole of it. Reading the seven appointed times as a calendar of prophecy, with the spring feasts answered at the first coming and the autumn feasts still ahead, is a tradition taught by Chuck Missler, Troy Brewer, Chuck Pierce and Jonathan Cahn. What the New Testament states is narrower and firmer: 1 Corinthians 5:7 calls Christ our passover, 1 Corinthians 15:20 calls him the firstfruits of them that slept, and Acts 2:1 places the outpouring on the fiftieth day.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
God will not have any sabbath-sacrifice diminished because of the addition of others, proper to any other feast. And it is here to be noted, that though other festival days are sometimes called sabbaths, yet these are here called the sabbaths of the Lord, in way of contradistinction, to shew that this was more eminently such than other feast days.
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord,....
(2.) That God's institutions leave room for free-will offerings. Not that we may invent what he never instituted, but we may repeat what he has instituted, ordinarily, the oftener the better. God is well pleased with a willing people.
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
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִלְּבַ֖ד | milevad | <from> <to> besides | H905 → | 200 times |
| שַׁבְּתֹ֣ת | shabetot | [the] sabbaths of | H7676 → | 110 times |
| יְּהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וּמִלְּבַ֣ד | umilevad | and <from> <to> besides | H905 → | 200 times |
| מַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם | matenoteikhem | gifts your | H4979 → | |
| וּמִלְּבַ֤ד | umilevad | and <from> <to> besides | H905 → | 200 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נִדְרֵיכֶם֙ | nidreikhem | vows your | H5088 → | 60 times |
| וּמִלְּבַד֙ | umilevad | and <from> <to> besides | H905 → | 200 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נִדְב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם | nidvoteikhem | freewill offerings your | H5071 → | 26 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| תִּתְּנ֖וּ | titenu | you will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
מִלְּבַ֖ד<from> <to> besides
milevadH905 →200 times
שַׁבְּתֹ֣ת[the] sabbaths of
shabetotH7676 →110 times
יְּהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וּמִלְּבַ֣דand <from> <to> besides
umilevadH905 →200 times
מַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םgifts your
matenoteikhemH4979 →
וּמִלְּבַ֤דand <from> <to> besides
umilevadH905 →200 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
נִדְרֵיכֶם֙vows your
nidreikhemH5088 →60 times
וּמִלְּבַד֙and <from> <to> besides
umilevadH905 →200 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
נִדְב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔םfreewill offerings your
nidvoteikhemH5071 →26 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
תִּתְּנ֖וּyou will give
titenuH5414 →2011 times
לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 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
Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
it leads to
- Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
- Ephesians 6:1–3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Ezekiel 22:7–8
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Exodus 20:12
Through
Numbers 29:39You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 31:3
The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of…
- Leviticus 23:2
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
- 1 Chronicles 23:31
Whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, they were to serve regularly before the LORD in the numbers prescribed for them.
- 2 Chronicles 31:3
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; 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.