Matthew Poole Commentary - Leviticus 23:3 - 23:3

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Leviticus 23:3 - 23:3


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No work; so it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, Lev_23:28, excluding all works about earthly occasions or employments, whether of profit or pleasure; but on other feast days he forbids only servile works, as Lev_23:7,21,36, for surely this manifest difference in the expressions used by the wise God must needs imply a difference in the things. In all your dwellings: this is added to distinguish the sabbath from other feasts, which were to be kept before the Lord in Jerusalem only, whither all the males were to come for that end; but the sabbath was to be kept in all places, where they were, both in synagogues, which were erected for that end, and in their private houses.