Deuteronomy 16:3-13

3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. ¹Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction--for you came out of the land of Egypt ²in haste--that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

4 ³No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, ⁴nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.

5 You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,

6 but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.

7 And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

8 For ⁵six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be ⁶a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks

9 ⁷"You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.

10 Then you shall keep ⁸the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with ⁹the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give ¹⁰as the LORD your God blesses you.

11 And ¹¹you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

12 ¹²You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Booths

13 ¹³"You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.

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Deuteronomy 16:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 16

This chapter treats of the three grand yearly festivals, of the feast of passover, when, where, and what was to be sacrificed, how to be dressed, and in what manner to be eaten, De 16:1-8, of the feast of pentecost, when to begin it, where and how it was to be observed, De 16:9-12, and of the feast of tabernacles, when, where, and how long it was to be kept, De 16:13-15, which three times in the year all the males were to appear before the Lord, and not empty, De 16:16,17, an order is given for the appointment of judges in the land, to execute judgment, De 16:18-20, and the chapter is closed with a caution against planting groves, and setting up images, De 16:21,22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Exodus 13:6
2. Exodus 12:11; [Isaiah 52:12]
3. Exodus 13:7
4. Exodus 34:25
5. [Exodus 13:6]
6. Leviticus 23:8, 36
7. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:15; Numbers 28:26; [Acts 2:1]
8. 2 Chronicles 8:13
9. See Deuteronomy 26:1-11
10. Deuteronomy 12:15; [1 Corinthians 16:2]
11. Deuteronomy 12:7, 12, 18; Deuteronomy 14:26; See Nehemiah 8:9-12
12. See Deuteronomy 5:15
13. Exodus 23:16; See Leviticus 23:34

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