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Leviticus 23:33

in Leviticus 23

And 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

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

If anyone does not humble himself on this day

on Leviticus 23:29-33

These are the only penalties in the chapter, and there are two. Anyone who does not humble himself is cut off from his people. Anyone who works hears the LORD speaking in the first person, "I will destroy" him.

This site's exposition

And the LORD said to Moses

The chapter's last heading introduces the Feast of Tabernacles. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown describe the solid branches built into booths and the lighter ones carried in procession by men singing psalms. They cried Hosanna, a plea for salvation taken from Psalm 118.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein : it is the sabbath of the L ORD in all your dwellings.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Concerning the feast of tabernacles here repeated and enlarged upon: saying; as follows.

How the passage was read

On Leviticus 23:1-44

On 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 words

Every 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.

  • 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

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 23 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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