Leviticus 23:9
in Leviticus 23And the LORD said to Moses,
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly
on Leviticus 23:7-9
The week opens and closes with a sacred assembly, with an offering made by fire each day. The chapter bars regular work on its feast days but all work on the Sabbath at verse 3 and the Day of Atonement at verses 28 and 31. John Gill reads the lighter rule as allowing the preparing of food, so the two days of complete rest are guarded most closely.
This site's exposition
And the LORD said to Moses
A fresh word from the LORD opens the harvest laws. John Gill reads this formula as a preface that marks off one precept from the next, and no new one stands before the fiftieth day at verse 15. Gill, following the medieval commentator Aben Ezra, gives the reason: the fiftieth day depended on the sheaf and was reckoned from it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, for what follow are the other feasts and holy convocations before spoken of: saying; as follows.
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֥ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| לֵּאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
לֵּאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.