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The Feast of Booths

13 (A)You shall [a]celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; 14 and you shall (B)be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite and the sojourner and the [b]orphan and the widow who are within your gates. 15 Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether glad.

16 (C)Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and (D)they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed. 17 Every man [c]shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:13 Lit do
  2. Deuteronomy 16:14 Or fatherless
  3. Deuteronomy 16:17 Lit according to the gift of his hand

Celebrate the Festival of Tents

13 “Celebrate the Festival of Tents[a] for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press. 14 Rejoice in your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, and foreigners, orphans, and widows, who live in your cities.[b] 15 For seven days you are to celebrate in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in everything you do, and your joy will be complete.

16 “Every male must appear in the presence of the Lord your God three times a year at the place where he will choose: for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Seven Weeks, and the Festival of Tents.[c] He must not appear in the Lord’s presence empty-handed, 17 but each one must appear[d] with his own gift, proportional to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:13 Or Tents
  2. Deuteronomy 16:14 Lit. gates
  3. Deuteronomy 16:16 Or Tents
  4. Deuteronomy 16:17 The Heb. lacks must appear