“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 LORD in all your dwellings.”
Or, ye may work. Or, assembly. Cross references: : Exod. 20:9 , 10
“These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.”
For the Sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept but once every year.
“In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Or, bodily labor, save about that which one must eat, Exod. 22:16 .
“But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”
The first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feast were intermeddled, as the feast of unleavened bread, the fifteenth day, and the feast of sheaves the sixteenth day.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: sheaf: or, handful: Heb. omer”
Or, an Omer, read Deut. 24:19 ; Ruth 2:15 ; Ps. 129:7 .
“And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.”
That is, the second Sabbath of the Passover.
“And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.”
Which is, the fifth part of an Ephah, or two Omers: read Exod. 16:16 . Read Exod. 29:40 .
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:”
That is the seventh day after the first Sabbath of the Passover. Or, weeks.
“Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.”
Because the Priest should eat them, as Lev. 7:13 , and they should not be offered to the Lord upon the altar.
“And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.”
That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the Priests.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.”
Or, an holy day to the Lord. That is, about the end of September. Which blowing was to put them in remembrance of the manifold feasts that were in that month, and of the Jubilee.
“Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.”
Lev. 19:29 , 30 ; Num. 29:7 By fasting and prayer.
“It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. celebrate: Heb. rest”
Hebrew, rest your Sabbath . Which containeth a night and a day: yet they took it but for their natural day.
“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. solemn: Heb. day of restraint”
Exod. 29:18 Or, a day wherein the people are stayed from all work.
“And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. boughs of goodly trees: Heb. fruit of, etc”
Or, of boughs thick with leaves.
“That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
In the wilderness, forasmuch as they would not credit Joshua and Caleb, when they returned from spying the land of Canaan.