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Deuteronomy 16:10-12

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

10. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11. And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Deuteronomy 16:10-12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:10

Theological / Devotional

Feast. From chag, a word that means more than “festival.” It includes the idea of a religious pilgrimage, and is, in fact, derived from a verb meaning “to make a pilgrimage,” “to take a journey to an object of reverence.” The Arabic haj describes the sacred pilgrimage of the Moslem to Mecca.

Feast of weeks. The names “feast of harvest” and “day of the firstfruits” are also given to this festival (see Ex. 23:16; 34:22; Num. 28:26).

A tribute. The word thus translated occurs nowhere else in the OT. The equivalent Aramaic word means “sufficiency.” The idea may be of an offering proportionate to a man’s station and means in life. The derivation of the word is obscure.

Blessed. See on v. 17.

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