Some of these questions are meant to have answers straight from the text while other questions are meant to encourage discussion of the text.

Questions:

1. Other than “unleavened”, what other word was used to describe the bread Israel was to eat during this feast? (Deuteronomy 16:3)
2. After reading verses 3, 4 and 8, it is clear no leaven was allowed, but why? (Deuteronomy 16:3-4, 8)
3. When you think about the Feast of Weeks’ connection to Israel’s slavery in Egypt, why do you think their offering was to be of a free-will nature? (Deuteronomy 16:10)
4. What emotion was meant to characterize the mood during the Feast of Weeks? (Deuteronomy 16:11)
5. Was anyone meant to be left out of the Tabernacle celebration? (Deuteronomy 16:14)
6. What condition were the hands of the men who appeared before God during the three feasts supposed to be in? (Deuteronomy 16:16)
7. What if the giver was not wealthy? (Deuteronomy 16:17)
8. What was the fruit of a harvest sowed with a bribe? (Deuteronomy 16:19)

Answers:

1. Affliction
2. Possible the leaven served as a symbol for sin (although much of this analogy/typology seems to be found in the NT) but the simplest answer is because it reminded Israel about the importance of listening to God (along with the “hurried/ready to go” aspect of leaving Egypt)
3. As a slave in Egypt they farmed for others…in Canaan they would farm for themselves (by God’s grace – Romans 6:17-18, 22-23)
4. Rejoicing!
5. No
6. Giving (2 Corinthians 9:6-8)
7. They were to give according to what they had been blessed with (1 Corinthians 16:2)
8. Blind eyes to wisdom and the word twisting/perversion of the righteous/just