7. thou shalt roast and eat
it--(See on
Ex 12:8;
compare
2Ch 35:13).
thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents--The sense
of this passage, on the first glance of the words, seems to point to
the morning after the first day--the passover eve. Perhaps, however,
the divinely appointed duration of this feast, the solemn character and
important object, the journey of the people from the distant parts of
the land to be present, and the recorded examples of their continuing
all the time
(2Ch 30:21 35:17),
(though these may be considered extraordinary, and therefore
exceptional occasions), may warrant the conclusion that the leave given
to the people to return home was to be on the morning after the
completion of the seven days.
JFB.
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