Leviticus 23:36

“Seven days ye shall offer an offering made, by fire unto the Lord, etc.] A burnt offering; what this was, and how many were offered on each day, see at large in (<042913>Numbers 29:13-34); on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; as on the first day; (see Gill on “<032335>Leviticus 23:35”): and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; which was different from that on all the other days, being one bullock only, etc. (<042935>Numbers 29:35,36); it [is] a solemn assembly; of all the people, when they were gathered together before the Lord. Some render the word used a “restraint” or “detention”, and interpret it of restraining or detaining them from servile work, as…”

“An offering made by fire - See Leviticus 23:8. The succession of sacrifices prescribed in Numbers 29:12-38, which forms such a marked feature in the Feast of Tabernacles, tends to show the distinctness of the “solemn assembly” from the festal week. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Ye shall offer - A several - offering each day. The eighth day - Which though it was not one of the days of this feast strictly taken. Yet in a larger sense it belonged to this feast, and is called the great day of the feast, Joh 7:37. And so indeed it was, as for other reasons, so because, by their removal from the tabernacles into fixed habitations, it represented that happy time wherein their 40 years tedious march in the wilderness was ended with their settlement in the land of Canaan, which it was most fit they should acknowledge with such a solemn day of thanksgiving as this was. Leviticus 23:37”

“Seven: Num. 29:12-38 the eighth: Ch2 7:8-11; Neh 8:18; Joh 7:37 solemn: Heb. day of restraint, Deu 16:8; Joe 1:14, Joe 2:15 \*marg. Leviticus 23:37”