|<< Deuteronomy 16 >>| Barnes' Notes on the Bible 1Observe the
month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for
in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of
Egypt by night. The cardinal point on which the whole of the
prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has
been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the
concentration of the religious services of the people round one
common sanctuary. The prohibition against observing the great
Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacle, the three annual
epochs in the sacred year of the Jew, at home and in private, is
reiterated in a variety of words no less than six times in the
first sixteen verses of this chapter Deuteronomy 16:2,
Deuteronomy 16:6-7, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 16:15-16.
Hence, it is easy to see why nothing is here said of the other
holy days. The Feast of Passover Exodus 12:1-27; Numbers 9:1-14;
Leviticus 23:1-8. A re-enforcement of this ordinance was the
more necessary becau