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. 14 And (C)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your [a]gates. 15 (D)Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

16 (E)“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and (F)they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Every man shall give as he is able, (G)according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:14 towns

13 “You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves[a] seven days at the gathering in of the produce[b] from your threshing floor and from your press; 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.[c] 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[d] and in all of the work of your hand, and you shall surely be rejoicing.[e] 16 Three times in the year all of your males shall appear before [f] 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[g] empty-handed. 17 Each person shall give as he is able,[h] that is, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:13 Hebrew “for you”
  2. Deuteronomy 16:13 Literally “at your gathering of the produce
  3. Deuteronomy 16:14 Literally “gates”
  4. Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “increase”
  5. Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “joyful”
  6. Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of”
  7. Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of Yahweh”
  8. Deuteronomy 16:17 Literally “according to the gift of his hand”