Teks -- Numbers 28:26 (NET)

Firstfruits

28:26 “‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.

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Wesley: Num 28:26 - The day of the first fruits

In the feast of pentecost, Act 2:1.

Wesley: Num 28:26 - Your weeks

The seven weeks which you are to number from the passover.

JFB: Num 28:26-27 - in the day of the first-fruits . . . offer the burnt offering

A new sacrifice is here ordered for the celebration of this festival, in addition to the other offering, which was to accompany the first-fruits (Lev 23:18).

Clarke: Num 28:26 - Day of the first-fruits

Day of the first-fruits - Called also the feast of weeks, and the feast of pentecost. See it explained Exo 23:14 (note), and Lev 23:15 (note).

Calvin: Num 28:26 - Also in the day of thefirst-fruits

26.Also in the day of thefirst-fruits Moses delivers the same commandment as to another festival, viz., that on which they offered their first-fruits. Then, also, he instructs them, the continual sacrifice was to be increased by the addition of two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, a goat for a sin-offering, together with the minha and a libation, with the object, of which I have already spoken. A perplexing difficulty here arises, because in Lev 23:0, one bullock is mentioned instead of two, and, on the contrary, two rams instead of one. ²³⁸ Some think that an option was left to the priests in this matter; but when I consider how precisely God’s commands were given in everything, I question whether such an alternative was left to their discretion. The notion that God had once been content with a single bullock, as some think, because they were not abundant in the desert, appears to me a subterfuge. I confess I do not know how to get out of this difficulty, unless perhaps we say, that inasmuch as sufficiently exact provision had been made, in all other particulars, that nothing should be done without reason, in this respect only they were reminded that God in Himself cares not for greater or less victims. Nor does any reverence prevent us from saying that, as it sometimes happens in minor matters, a wrong number may have crept in from the carelessness of scribes; ²³⁹ and this is probably the most natural solution. The more correct reading, in my opinion, is, that they should offer two bullocks and one ram; but since it is elsewhere explained why God appointed this day, he only briefly recites here: “When they bring the fainha with the first-fruits."

TSK: Num 28:26 - in the day

in the day : Exo 23:16, Exo 34:22; Lev 23:10, Lev 23:15-21; Deu 16:9-11; Act 2:1-13; 1Co 15:20; Jam 1:18

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Poole: Num 28:26 - In the day of the first-fruits // A new meat-offering // Your weeks

In the day of the first-fruits in the feast of pentecost, Act 2:1 .

A new meat-offering new fruits, two loaves made of your new corn, Lev 23:16 .

Your weeks i.e. the seven weeks which you are to number from the passover, Lev 23:15 Heb. in the weeks, in being put for after , as it is Isa 20:1 Luk 9:36 11:37 .

Haydock: Num 28:26 - The day

The day of Pentecost, seven weeks after the Passover, was the next in solemnity, to thank God for the wheat harvest, of which the first-fruits were now presented. (Haydock) ---

Two loaves, made with leaven, were given to the priests. (Lamy.) See Leviticus xxiii. 17.

Gill: Num 28:26 - Also in the day of the firstfruits // when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord // after your weeks be out // ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work

Also in the day of the firstfruits,.... When the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were brought unto the Lord, which was the day of Pentecost, fifty days from the sheaf of the wave offering being brought:

when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, a meat offering made of the new corn, which were two wave loaves of two tenth deals of fine flour, baked with leaven, Lev 23:15.

after your weeks be out; the seven weeks from the passover to Pentecost, even seven complete sabbaths or weeks, Lev 23:15.

ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work; see Lev 23:21.