OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 30:21

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The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD.

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Verse 21. Days. It seems all the observances had been omitted in the first month. The Jews teach, that those who have complied with those prescriptions, which require no particular purity, are not bound to keep the festival for seven days, nor to abstain from leavened bread the second month.—That agreed. Hebrew and Septuagint “of strength,” sonorous, ( Menochius.) which they played on with all their force, or which sounded for the divine power. Calmet.

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