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| 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts. |
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| 3 Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings. |
But the seventh day – Not the first day; if this commandment is binding at all it is binding as stated and cannot be changed. R1727:2
The sabbath of rest – Type of the Millennial age. B40
Do no work therein – Secular or religious. R1727:1
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| 4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season. |
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| 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month between the two evenings, is Jehovah’s passover. |
The fourteenth day – Inasmuch as the moon had waned for as long a time as it had increased, so Christ's death was the turning point between two equal parts of Israel's history. R2270:6
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| 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. |
Of unleavened bread – Represented the joy, the peace, the blessing which resulted to the first-borns of Israel; typifying the joy and peace which every true Christian experiences through a realization of the passing over of his sins through the merit of Christ. R5642:3
Seven days – Signifying the perfection of joy and salvation. R5192:1
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| 7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work. |
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| 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. |
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| 9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest: |
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| 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. |
Wave the sheaf – The firstfruits: typifying the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, "The firstfruits of them that slept." (1 Cor.15:20) R2271:1, R4603:4, R5191:5,6; Q586:2; OV84:1
After the sabbath – After the Passover feast of the 15th. R5191:5
The 16th of Nisan; the strongest possible confirmation of the thought that our Lord was crucified on Friday evening and raised from the dead on Sunday morning. R2271:3, R4603:4, R5191:6
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| 12 And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah. |
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| 13 And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. |
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| 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. |
Forever – Hebrew "olam." Like the Greek "aion" meaning "age-lasting," or "lasting to a consummation." HG582:2*
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| 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete: |
From the day – The 16th of Nisan. R2819:3
Brought the sheaf – Typifying the resurrection of the Lord. R2819:3
Seven sabbaths – The Jews kept six kinds of sabbaths: the seventh day (Exo. 31:15); the seventh week (Deut. 16:9); the 7x7 and 50th day-Pentecost (Lev. 23:15); a sabbath beginning on the seventh month (Lev. 23:24); the seventh year (Lev. 25:4); and the 7x7 and 50th year or jubilee. (Lev. 25:10) HG56:1
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| 16 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah. |
Fifty days – Type of Pentecostal blessing, begetting of the holy Spirit, fifty days after Jesus' resurrection. R5831:3
The fiftieth day, Pentecost, typifying the fiftieth or restitution year; hence the Millennium. B175
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| 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits unto Jehovah. |
Two wave loaves – Typifying the Little Flock and the Great Company at the time of their acceptance through the merit of the great High Priest, indicated by the anointing of the holy Spirit at Pentecost. R2271:1, R5191:5
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| 18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering unto Jehovah, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. |
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| 19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. |
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| 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest. |
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| 21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. |
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| 22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God. |
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| 23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. |
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| 25 Ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. |
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| 26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 27 Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonements: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. |
On the tenth day – In the fall, the beginning of the secular year. R4384:3
Day of atonement – These sacrifices had a cleansing effect upon Israel and typified the better sacrifices of Christ and the Church for all mankind. R4655:3, R4384:3; OV250:5
The antitype ends in the fullest sense at the end of the Millennium. Q26:9
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| 28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God. |
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| 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people. |
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| 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. |
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| 31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. |
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| 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath. |
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| 33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days unto Jehovah. |
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| 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work. |
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| 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work. |
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| 37 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day; |
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| 38 besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto Jehovah. |
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| 39 Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the increase of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. |
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| 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. |
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| 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month. |
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| 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths; |
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| 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. |
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| 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the set feasts of Jehovah. |
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