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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 16
Israel shall keep the passover; also, the feast of unleavened bread, the
feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles—All males shall appear
annually before the Lord at these three feasts—Judges shall not wrest
judgment nor take gifts.
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1 OBSERVE the month of
aAbib, and keep the bpassover unto the
LORD thy God: for in the month of Abiba
the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
apassover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd,
in the bplace which the LORD shall choose to place his name
there.
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1a in the month of Abib The
month of Abib is significant for a number of reasons. There is the parallel
of the children of Israel being brought out of the bondage of Egypt and the
Lord providing the anonement sacrifice which delivers man from the bondage of
sin upon the requisit of repentance. It is also the likely month of the birth
of the Savior, as we recognize April 6 as being that date. And it is also
the month of the death of the Savior at and during the exact time of passover,
which commemorates the passover of the children of Isreal being delived from
the death of the firstborn by the blood of the lamb upon the door frame in
the land of Egypt.
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3 Thou shalt eat no aleavened bread
with it; seven days shalt thou eat bunleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of
the land of Egypt in chaste: that thou mayest remember the
day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy
life.
4 And there shall be no aleavened
bread seen with thee in all thy bcoast seven days; neither
shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first
day at even, cremain all night until the morning.
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5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any
of thy agates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the
apassover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
bseason that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
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7 And thou shalt aroast and eat
it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt
turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat
aunleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a
bsolemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do
no work thereina.
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8athou shalt do no work therein
The Jewish/Hebrew day runs from sunset to sunset. Thus the new
day begins in the evening. Jesus was crucified on a Friday and he did not
die until late in the afternoon. It likely took the remaining daylight just
to place his body in the tomb before the Sabbath did begin. They did not
even have time to properly anoint his body, thus the women returning to the
tomb early Sunday moring to do it. Thus it must have been during the time
frame of the Sabbath day that the priest petitioned Pilate to seal the tomb
and to place the gaurd there at. All of which would be performing 'work'
upon the Sabbath day and causing the stranger in thy gate to also so perform
such labor. Thus they were not keeping the Sabbath day holy in what they were
about, Saterday being the Jewish Sabbath from Friday's sunset on into the
daylight of Saturday.
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9 ¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee:
begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to
put the sickle to the acorn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of
aweeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill
offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy
God, according as the LORD thy God hath bblessed
thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
abondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
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13 ¶ Thou shalt observe the feast of
atabernacles seven days, bafter that thou
hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
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16 ¶ aThree times in a year
shall all thy males bappear before the LORD thy God in the
place which he shall choose; in the cfeast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they
shall not appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man shall
agive as he is able, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
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18 ¶ aJudges and
bofficers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the
people with just judgment.
19 Thou shalt not awrest
bjudgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a
cgift: for a gift doth dblind the eyes of
the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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21 ¶ aThou shalt not plant
thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou
shalt make thee.
22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any
aimage; which the LORD thy God hateth.
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