the feast of harvest] Which is Pentecost, or Whitsontide; kept in remembrance, that the Law was given fiftie dayes after they departed from Egypt; but called the feast of harvest, because then was the Wheat harvest, and the ripening of other fruits. Deuteronomy 16:13. Leviticus 23:17.
the feast of ingathering] At the end of the yeare, that is, in September, when the fruits of the earth were generally reaped and gathered in: which sheweth that there was a double account of the yeare; the one for Civill affaires, which was in the moneth Tizri, or September: the other for sacred, (as for the festivals of the yeare) beginning with the moneth Nisan, containing part of March, and part of Aprill, Exodus 12. At this time was the feast of Tabernacles, Leviticus 23:34. keeping in minde the memoriall of their dwelling fourtie yeares under Boothes, Tents, or Tabernacles, in the wildernesse: the solemnitie of this feast held seven dayes, during which time, they were to rest in Boothes. See Leviticus 23:42.