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14 and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that are in your towns.[a] 15 Seven days you shall celebrate your feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce[b] and in all of the work of your hand, and you shall surely be rejoicing.[c] 16 Three times in the year all of your males shall appear before [d] Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh[e] empty-handed.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:14 Literally “gates”
  2. Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “increase”
  3. Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “joyful”
  4. Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of”
  5. Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of Yahweh”

14 Be joyful(A) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy(B) will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men must appear(C) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,(D) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.(E) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:(F)

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