On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work therein:
On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work therein:
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work;
On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: in it ye shall do no servile work.
"'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work:
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly - This among the Jews was esteemed the chief or high day of the feast, though fewer sacrifices were offered on it than on the others; the people seem to have finished the solemnity with a greater measure of spiritual devotion, and it was on this day of the feast that our blessed Lord called the Jews from the letter to the spirit of the law, proposing himself as the sole fountain whence they could derive the streams of salvation, John 7:37. On the subject of this chapter see the notes on Leviticus 12:1-8 (note), Leviticus 16 (note), Leviticus 23 (note).
The offerings prescribed for the closing day of the Feast of tabernacles were the same with those appointed for the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. The solemnities of the month thus terminated, as
A whole, with the same sacrifices with which, three weeks before, they had been introduced; and the Day of Atonement, even though succeeded by the rejoicings of the Feast of tabernacles, thus left its impress on the whole month.