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Deuteronomy 16:10 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 16 · verse 10
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks 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 blessed thee:Deuteronomy 16:10 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 16:10 in context
8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks 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 blessed thee:
11And 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.
12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- offeringnᵉdâbâhproperly spontaneity, or spontaneousH5071 →
- tributemiççâhabundanceH4530 →
- feastchaga festival, or a victim thereforH2282 →
- weeksshâbûwaʻliterally, sevenedH7620 →
- keepʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Much of the communion between God and his people Israel was kept up, and a face of religion preserved in the nation, by the three yearly feasts, the institution of which, and the laws concerning them, we have several times met with already; and here they are repeated. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-17