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Exodus 23:16 KJV
Exodus · chapter 23 · verse 16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.Exodus 23:16 · King James Version
Exodus 23:16 in context
14Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
18Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- firstfruitsbikkûwrthe first-fruits of the cropH1061 →
- ingatheringʼâçîyphgatheredH614 →
- gatheredʼâçaphto gather for any purposeH622 →
- harvestqâtsîyrseveredH7105 →
- laboursmaʻăsehan actionH4639 →
- feastchaga festival, or a victim thereforH2282 →
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Here is, I. The institution of the sabbatical year, Exo 23:10, Exo 23:11. Every seventh year the land was to rest; they must not plough nor sow it at the beginning of the year, and then they could not expect any great harvest at the end of the year: but what the earth did produce of itself should be eaten from hand to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-19