Exodus 23:16
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16 (A) Celebrate the Harvest Festival[a] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters[b] each autumn when you pick your fruit.
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- 23.16 Harvest Festival: Traditionally called the “Festival of Weeks” and known in New Testament times as “Pentecost.”
- 23.16 Festival of Shelters: The Hebrew text has “Festival of Ingathering” (so also in 34.22), which was the final harvesting of crops and fruits before the autumn rains began. But the usual name was “Festival of Shelters.”
Exodus 34:22
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22 (A) Celebrate the Harvest Festival[a] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters[b] each autumn when you pick your fruit.
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Deuteronomy 16:9-12
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The Harvest Festival
(Exodus 34.22; Leviticus 23.15-21)
Moses said to Israel:
9 (A) Seven weeks after you start your grain harvest, 10-11 go to the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped and celebrate the Harvest Festival[a] in honor of the Lord your God. Bring him an offering as large as you can afford, depending on how big a harvest he has given you. Be sure to take along your sons and daughters and all your servants. Also invite the poor, including Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows. 12 Remember that you used to be slaves in Egypt, so obey these laws.
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- 16.10,11 Harvest Festival: Traditionally called the “Festival of Weeks,” and known in New Testament times as “Pentecost.”
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