Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 23:16
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
i.e. After seven weeks, or forty-nine days, the morrow after which was the fiftieth day, called also pentecost.
A new meat offering, to wit, of new corn made into loaves, as it follows.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
16. number fifty daysTheforty-ninth day after the presentation of the first-fruits, or thefiftieth, including it, was the feast of Pentecost. (See also Exo 23:16;Deu 16:9).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath,…. Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the fiftieth day, or Pentecost:
shall ye number fifty days; from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, Ac 2:1; all in Israel were obliged to number those days, except women and servants t: the manner of doing it was this u; on the night of the second (day of the passover), after the evening prayer, they began to number; but if anyone forgot to number at the beginning of the night, he went and numbered all the night; for the commandment is for everyone to number by himself, and he ought to number standing, and to bless first, and number the days and weeks: How? on the first day he says, This is one day, until he comes to seven days, and then he says, This is the seventh day, which is one week; and on the eighth day he says, This is the eighth day, which is one week and one day, and so till he comes to the fourteenth; then he says, This is the fourteenth day, which make two weeks; and in this way he numbers, and goes on until the forty ninth day: and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, of new corn, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi explain it, and this was of wheat; for it was the offering for the wheat harvest, which was offered on the fiftieth day from the offering of the sheaf or omer of the barley harvest.
t Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin Umusaphim, c. 7. sect. 24. u Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 1. & Lebush, ut supra, (c. 489.) sect. 1.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath.That is, the day after the seven complete weeks, or the fiftieth day. Hence its name, Pentecost, or fiftieth-day feast in the New Testament (Act. 2:1; Act. 20:16; 1Co. 16:8), and feast of weeks in the Old Testament (Exo. 34:12; Deu. 16:10; Deu. 16:16; 2Ch. 8:13). The fiftieth day, according to the Jewish canons, may fall on the 5th, 6th, or 7th of Sivan, the third month of the year, i.e., from the new moon of May to the new moon of June.
Shall offer a new meat offering.That is, of the first-fruits of the wheat-harvest in contradistinction to the omer first-fruits, which was of barley-harvest. Hence this festival is also called the feast of harvest (Exo. 23:16), because it concluded the harvest of the later grain.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
16. Morrow after the seventh sabbath This is the morrow after the seventh week. Hence the feast beginning with this day was called the feast of weeks, until the use of the version of the Seventy had familiarized the Jews with the word , pentecost, fiftieth. It is called pentecost first in the Apocrypha, ( Tob 2:1 ,) and always in the New Testament. It is to be noticed that it was just fifty days utter the exode that the law was given on Sinai. The Scriptures nowhere say that this feast is in commemoration of that important event. For the opinions of Jewish and Christian writers. see note on Act 2:1.
A new meat offering This is mentioned before the burnt offering, to give prominence to the agricultural reference of this festival, significantly called “the firstfruits of the wheat-harvest.” Exo 34:22.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Ver. 16. Shall ye number fifty days. ] And then keep the feast of Pentecost or of weeks, so called because it was seven weeks after the passover.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
fifty days. Hence the name Pentecost. Act 2:1; Act 20:16. 1Co 16:8.
meat offering = meal offering. See note on Lev 2:1.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fifty days
The feast of Pentecost, Lev 23:15-22. The anti-type is the descent of the Holy Spirit to form the church. For this reason leaven is present, because there is evil in the church; Mat 13:33; Act 5:1; Act 5:10; Act 15:1. Observe, it is now loaves; not a sheaf of separate growths loosely bound together, but a real union of particles making one homogenous body. The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost united the separated disciples into one organism.; 1Co 10:16; 1Co 10:17; 1Co 12:12; 1Co 12:13; 1Co 12:20.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Act 2:1
Reciprocal: Exo 19:1 – the third Exo 23:14 – General Num 15:20 – the heave offering Deu 16:9 – General 2Ch 31:7 – General