Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 23:3
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Leviticus23:3
3 Six dayes shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings .
So it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, ver. 28. excluding all works about earthly occasions or employments whether of profit or of pleasure; but upon other feast dayes he forbids onely servile works, as ver. 7, 21, 36. for surely this manifest difference in the expressions used by the wise God must needs imply a difference in the things.
This is added to distinguish the sabbath from other feasts, which were to be kept before the Lord in Ierusalem onely, 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.
Marginal references: Exod. 20. 9. and 23. 12. and 31. 13. and 34. 21. chap. 19. 3. Deut. 5. 13. Luk. 13. 14.
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