Lévitique 23:2

Louis Segond

Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et tu leur diras: Les fêtes de l'Eternel, que vous publierez, seront de saintes convocations. Voici quelles sont mes fêtes.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Parle aux enfants d'Isra�l, et dis-leur: Les f�tes de l'�ternel, que vous publierez comme de saintes convocations, ce sont l� mes f�tes.

Darby's French Translation
Parle aux fils d'Isra�l, et dis-leur: Les jours solennels de l'�ternel, que vous publierez, seront de saintes convocations. Ce sont ici mes jours solennels:

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Parle aux enfants d'Isra�l, et leur dis : Les f�tes solennelles de l'Eternel, que vous publierez, seront de saintes convocations; et ce sont ici mes f�tes solennelles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the feasts: God appointed several festivals among the Jews. The Passover was celebrated on the 14th, or rather 15th day of the first month in the ecclesiastical year, which was the seventh of the civil year, and lasted seven days. The Pentecost was celebrated on the fiftieth day after the passover, in memory of the law's being given to Moses on Mount Sinai, fifty days, or seven weeks after the departure out of Egypt. The word is derived from the Greek word וםפחךןףפח, which signifies the fiftieth. The Hebrews call it the feast of weeks, Exodus 34:22. The feast of trumpets, celebrated on the first day of the civil year, when a trumpet was sounded, to proclaim its commencement, which was in the month Tisri, answering to our September, Leviticus 23:24-25. The new moons, or first days of every month, were, in some sort, a consequence of the feast of trumpets. God ordained that, by giving him the first-fruits of every month they should acknowledge him as the Lord of all their time, and own his providence, by which all times and seasons are ordered. The feast of expiation or atonement was kept on the 10th day of Tisri or September: the Hebrews call it Kippur, i.e., pardon or expiation, because it was instituted for the expiation of their sins. The feast of tents or tabernacles was so called, because the Israelites kept it under green tents or arbours, in memory of their dwelling in their passage through the wilderness. It was celebrated on the 15th day of Tisri, and continued eight days. The first and last days are the most solemn. Besides the feasts mentioned by Moses, we find the feast of lots, or Purim, which was celebrated among the Jews of Shushan on the 14th of Adar, which answers to our February. The feast of the dedication of the temple, or rather, of the restoration of the temple, which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes, which is thought to be the feast mentioned in the gospel John 10:22, was celebrated in the winter. Moâdim, properly means assemblies, convened at an appointed time and place. Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:37, Exodus 23:14-17, Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 1:14, Isaiah 33:20, Lamentations 1:4, Hosea 2:11, Nahum 1:15, John 5:1, Colossians 2:1

proclaim: Exodus 32:5, Numbers 10:2, Numbers 10:3, Numbers 10:10, 2 Kings 10:20, 2 Chronicles 30:5, Psalms 81:3, Joel 1:14, Joel 2:15, Jonah 3:5-9

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:16 - first day Leviticus 23:21 - proclaim Leviticus 23:44 - General Numbers 29:39 - in your set feasts Judges 21:19 - a feast 2 Chronicles 31:3 - the set feasts

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Speak to them to gather together, and then say unto them what follows, they all being obliged to keep the feasts, and observe the solemnities hereafter directed to; though it may be the heads of the tribes and the elders of the people were summoned together, and the following things were delivered to them, and by them to the people:

[concerning] the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts; appointed and ordered by God, and to be kept to the honour of his name; these are the general names for the particular holy times and seasons after appointed; they are in general called "feasts", though one of them, the day of atonement, was, strictly speaking, a fast; yet being a cessation from all work, and opposed to working days, days of labour and business, it is comprehended in this general title: nor is it unusual with other nations to call a fast a feast; so Aelianus h relates of the Tarentines, that having been besieged by the Romans, and delivered from them, in memory of their sufferings appointed a feast which was called a fast: the word used has the signification of stated, fixed, appointed times and seasons, and of convening or meeting together at such times, and that for the performance of solemn worship and service, which is true of them all; for there are certain times of the week and month fixed for them, and when the people in bodies assembled together, and in a solemn manner worshipped the Lord; and these are called "convocations", because the people were called together at those times by the priests, and that with the sound of a trumpet, Numbers 10:2; and "holy", because separated from other days, and set apart for holy services: the words may be rendered, as they are by many i: "the solemnities of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim holy convocations, these are my solemnities"; times for holy, religious, and solemn service, of his appointment and for his glory: Aben Ezra seems to understand all this of the sabbath only, which is next mentioned, expressed in the plural number, because, as he observes, there are many sabbaths in a year; and indeed the general title of the rest of the feasts is afterwards given, Leviticus 23:4.

h Var. Hist. l. 5. c. 20. i Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The feasts - literally, the appointed times. So in Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:37, etc. This section Leviticus 23:1-38 sets forth for practical guidance the relation in which the appointed times of the Lord, weekly as well as annual, stood to the ordinary occupations of the people.

Holy convocations - Days of sabbatical rest for the whole people; they owed their name to gatherings for religious edification, which, in later times, were probably held in every town and village in the holy land. There were in the course of the year, besides the weekly Sabbaths, seven days of holy convocation Exodus 12:16; Numbers 28:18, Numbers 28:25-26; Numbers 29:1, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:35, with a distinction between them as regards strictness of observance (compare Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:28 with Leviticus 23:7).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 23:2. These are my feasts. — The original word מועד moad is properly applied to any solemn anniversary, by which great and important ecclesiastical, political, or providential facts were recorded; Genesis 1:14. Anniversaries of this kind were observed in all nations; and some of them, in consequence of scrupulously regular observation, became chronological epochs of the greatest importance in history: the Olympiads, for example.