412 A $HOßT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY: 98. Q. In what manner was the feast of the passover kept ? A. On the fourteenth day of the month they were to roast a lamb for supper, and to eat unleavened bread that evening and seven days after ; Exod. xii. 3, 8, 19. Num. xxviii. 16, 17. 99. Q. 'Was there any particular worship performed on these seven days ? A. Yes, there were special sacrifices every day, a sheaf of the first ripe corn, that is barley was now offered to God ;- and on the first and last day there was a holy convoca- tion or assembly for worship; Ex: xii. 16. Num. xxviii. 16-25. Lev. xxiii: 10. 100. Q. What was the feast of pentecost ? A. Fifty days or seven weeks after the first ripe corn, or barley, had been offer- ed to God, there was a particular sacrifice, and a holy assembly, and two loaves of the first fruits of wheat were to be offered; Lev. xxiii. 15-21. Note, This was called the feast of weeks ; Dent. xvi. 16. compared with Ex. xxiii. 16. It was a sheaf of barley that was offered at the passover, and two loaves of wheat at pen- tecost, both of them as first fruits. See Pool's Annotations on Ex. xxiii. 16. 101. Q. What was the reason of the feast of pentecost ? A. It was kept as a thanksgiving for the beginning of wheat harvest ; Ex. xxiii. 16. and perhaps also in memory of the giving of the law at mount Sinai ; which was seven weeks, or fifty clays after the passover, and their coming out of Egypt ; Ex. xx. I, 11. Note, They went out of Egypt the fourteenth day of the first month ; Ex. xii. 17, 18. frem thence to the beginning of the thirdmonth is forty six or forty seven days, when they came to the mount of Sinai ; Ex. xx. 1, 2. Then they purified themselves three days, verses 11, 16. and God gave the law the fiftieth day, and this feast was called pentecost, which in the Greek signifies fiftieth. 102. Q. What was the feast of trumpets ? A. The first day of the seventh month blowing of trumpets was appointed with peculiar sacrifices, and a holy assembly ; Lev. xxiii. 24. Num; xxix. 1 -6. 103. Q. What are supposed to be the two chief designs of this feast of trumpets ? A. 2. This seventh month having several holy days in h, it was a sort of sabbatical month, or month df sabbaths, and was to be begun with an extraordinary sound of trumpets. 2. This was counted the first month, and first clay of the year for civil matters, as the other was for things religious, and was to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet. See Pool's Annotations on Lev. xxiii. 24. and xxv. 9. Note, As the seventh day was the sabbath or day of rest from labour, so the seventh month was a sort of sabbatical month; the seventh year a sabbatical year to let the land rest
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