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day of atonement (which is also called a sabbath), they were to do no work at all, no, not the dressing of meat.
2. On that day they must employ themselves in the service of God.
It is a holy convocation; that is, "If it lie within your reach, you shall sanctify it in a religious assembly: let as many as can come to the door of the tabernacle, and let others meet elsewhere for prayer, and praise, and the reading of the law," as in the schools of the prophets, while prophecy continued, and afterwards in the synagogues.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which
ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s
Passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast
of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do
no servile work therein.
Here again the feasts are called the feasts of the Lord, because he appointed them. Jeroboam's feast, which he devised of his own heart (1Ki 12:33), was an affront to God, and a reproach upon the people. These feasts were to be proclaimed in their seasons (Le 23:4), and the seasons God chose for them were in March, May and September (according to our present computation), not in winter, because travelling would then be uncomfortable, when the days were short, and the ways foul; not in the middle of summer, because then in those countries they were gathering in their harvest and vintage, and could be ill spared from their country business. Thus graciously does God consult our comfort in his appointments, obliging us thereby religiously