The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy — Section 276

(f!?~) to be urnd by them, lca.von itself was Ver. 10.-This feast was to be kept with not to be in the honse (cf. 1 Cor. v. 7; see sacrificial gifts according to the measure of KiUo's 'Cyolop. of Ilibl. Lit.,' vol. iii. p. the free-will offerings of their hand, i.e. 42tl). voluntary offerings which they gave as the Vors. 5, 6.-Not in their own houses or Lore! had blessed them; nothing was spe- plncee of a.borlo might the Paschnl l[lrnb_bo cially prescrihed, each was to give of his slain nncl ea.ten, but only nt the place winch own free-will as the Lord had prospered the Lord should choose to pla.ce his N nrne him. The word translated "tribute" in the there. On the first occasion, whilo the Authorized Version (nl:)q) occurs only here, peoplo were still in Egypt and had no and is of doubtful signification. The LXX. e[lnctunry or specinlly holy place where render it by ,ca9~s, as, according to; it is Jchovah's No.me was set, the Po.ssover was e[lton in their own houses; but when Go,l identical with the Aramaic nco, 1:...-::r:.">o should choose a place as his sanctuary, only sufficiency, enough, and may be understood there could the ordinnnce be observed. here of the full measure according to which Ver. 7.-Thou shelt roast. The verb here their offerings were to be presented. ThA primarily signifies to be matured by heat freewill offering of thine hand, here re- for eatiuo-; hence to be ripened as by the ferred to, belungecl to the gifts of b11mt sun's heJ (Gen. :d. 10; Joel iii. 13; Heh. offerings, meat offerings, drink offerings, iv. 13); and to be cooked, whether by boil- and thank offerings which might be offered ing seething, or roasting. Here it is properly at every feast along with the sacrifices pre- rendered bv roast, as it was thus only that scribed (cf. Lev. xxiii. 38; Numb. xxix. ::l9). the Paschal lamb could be cooked. And go . Of the latter no mention is made here, as unto thy tents; return to thy place of the law regarding them was already suffi- abode; not necessarily to thy proper home ciently proclaimcd(Nnmb.xxviii. and xxix.); (which might be fa.r distant), but to the and in a popular address it was rather to place where for the time thou hast thy what depended on the will of the people lodging. The ~hrase, "th)'. tents," ,~hich than to what we.s imperative by law, that originally came mto use while as yet Israel attention had to be directed. had no settled abodes in Canaan, came after- Ver. 11.-Rejoioe before the Lord. "The wards to be used as il. general designation expression, to rejoice before the Lord, denotes of o. man's home or usual place of a.bode (cf. here nothing else than to honour him by l Sam. xiii. 2; 2 Sam. xx. 1 ; 1 Kings viii. sacred songs; comp. Spencer, 'De Legg. 66, etc.). Heh. Ritual.,' p. 881, edit. 3" (Ha.vernick, Ver. 8.-0n the seventh day shall be a 'Introd.,' p. 157). In the place which the solemn assembly. This is not placed in Lord thy God bath chosen to place his name antithesis to the injunction, six days thou there; rather, shall choose, e.s in ver. 15. shalt eat unleavened bread, as if the Feast of Unleavened Bread (mazzoth) lasted only Vere. 13-15.-The Feast of Tabernacles, for six days and the seventh was to be properly, Booths (cf. Lev. x:xiii. 33--H; devoted to a service of a different kind; it Numb. xxix. 12-38). This feast was to be simply prescribes that the seventh day of observed 11t the end of harvest, after the the festival was to be celebrated by an corn had been gathered in to granaries, and 11ssembliug of the whole of those who had the produce of the vineyard had been put come to the fea,;t; the festival wus to be through the press. Nothing is added here wound up with a day of holy convoculi?~• to the instructions already given respecting in which no work was to be done (Lev. xxm. this festival; only the observance of it at 36). On all the dnys unleavened bread was the appointed san~tua.ry . is enforced, an_d to he eaten, und on the seventh there wo.s stress is laid on their ma.king not only their besides to be a solemn assembly to the Lord sous and daughters and domestics, but also the Levite, the fatherless, the widow, and ("jn•~ n.;,~l'), ea.lied in Lev. :x.xiii. 36, "o. the stranger participators in their rejoicings. holy convocation" (~:;ip N)PF?)· Thou aha.It snrely rejoice; rather, thou slialt Vers. 9-12.-The Feast of Weeks (cf. be wholly joyous; literall.v, rejoicing only; Exod. xxiii. l 6). Ro..senm., •· admodum ~tus." Ver. 9.-From such time as thou beginnest Vere. 16, 17.-(Cf. Exod. niii. 17; x.x:xiv. tc put the eiokle to the oorn; i.e. from the 23.) The law is repeated here with the commencement of the corn harvest. The additional clause, "at the place which the seven weeks were to be counted from this Lord shall choose;" 11Dll the words, " not tm-minus; and as.the corn harvest began by empty," a.re explnined to !11-ean with gifts the prcsontntion of the sheaf of the first- according to the gift of their h=ds, _o.ccord- fruits on the second day of tho Passover, iug to the blessing of J ehova.h their God, this regulation os to timo coincides with which he ho.d given them. th11t in Lev. xidii. 15, Vers. 18-20.-Moses ho.d at an earlier 2i2 'l'HE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY, [en. XVI, 1-22.