The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed^(A)

^13 (B)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

^16 (A)and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and ^(B)the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

^3 (A)Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king ^(B)at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

³⁴ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ^(A)‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. ³⁵ On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it. ³⁶ For seven days you shall offer an ^(B)offering made by fire to the Lord. ^(C)On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a ^(D)sacred^[a] assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

^2 (A)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

The Nations Worship the King

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall ^(A)go up from year to year to ^(B)worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep ^(C)the Feast of Tabernacles. ^17 (D)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. ¹⁸ If the family of ^(E)Egypt will not come up and enter in, ^(F)they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

¹⁴ And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in ^(A)booths^[a] during the feast of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and ^(B)that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and ^(C)in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and ^(D)bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

¹⁶ Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the ^(E)roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the ^(F)Water Gate ^(G)and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made ^[b]booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very ^(H)great gladness. ¹⁸ Also ^(I)day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast ^(J)seven days; and on the ^(K)eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

^4 (A)They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, ^(B)as it is written, and ^(C)offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.

¹³ according to the ^(A)daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the ^(B)three appointed yearly ^(C)feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.