Ezra 3:5

and afterwardoffered] R.V. - and afterward", the verb being supplied from the previous verse.

The clause implies that after the celebration of this Feast of Tabernacles the Jews resumed for the first time since the destruction of Jerusalem the regular sacrificial system.

the continual burnt offering i.e. the daily morning and evening sacrifice, prescribed in Exodus 29:38-42.

both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts&c. R.V. - and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the set feasts " &c. The A.V. gives the wrong impression that -the continual burnt offering" belonged to -the new moons, set feasts," &c. The R.V. gives the right meaning.

The verse states that the Jews, now that the altar had been set up and the new order of things initiated by the solemn celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, resumed the customary burnt offerings, (1) daily, morning and evening, (2) at the new moon, (3) on all -set feasts", (4) on the occasion of freewill offerings.

- the new moons". A popular day of religious observance among the Israelites (cf. 2 Kings 4:23; Hosea 2:11; Amos 8:5): not included among -the set feasts" described in Leviticus 23, where the first day of the seventh month is the only new-moon day spoken of as a -holy convocation" (Leviticus 23:24). Perhaps because the observance of -the new moons" had been adopted from the general religious customs of the Semitic races, it received no special prominence in the Levitical code. The sacrifices for the -new moons" are described in Numbers 28:11-15.

the set feasts see Leviticus 23:2-37, -The set feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations" (R.V.), i.e. (1) the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3), (2) the Passover (Leviticus 23:5), (3) the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15-21), (4) the Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24), (5) the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27-32), (6) the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34-36). In 2 Chronicles 8:13, -the set feasts" are the three great annual festivals, -unleavened bread", -weeks", -tabernacles", and these are probably intended here.

The -new moons" and the -set feasts" are found along with -the Sabbaths" in 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2Ch 2:4; 2 Chronicles 8:13; 2 Chronicles 31:3; Nehemiah 10:33.

a freewill offering Freewill offerings were made (1) on the great feast-days, see Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:16-17; and (2) whensoever any individual Israelite or Gentile desired (Numbers 29:39). They are called -oblations" (Corbans) in Leviticus 1:2; Leviticus 1:3, where they are defined in detail.