Deuteronomy 16:13-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Festival of Shelters

¹³ After you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress, celebrate the Festival of Shelters^[a] for seven days.

¹⁴ Rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the alien and the orphan and the widow within your gates.

¹⁵ For seven days celebrate to the Lord your God in the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all of your crops and in all the work of your hands, and you will most certainly be joyful.

¹⁶ Three times a year all of your males are to present themselves before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters. They are not to present themselves before the Lord empty-handed, ¹⁷ but each person is to have in his hand a gift that is in keeping with the blessing that the Lord your God has given you.