Deuteronomy 16:13-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Festival of Booths Reviewed
13 “You shall keep the Festival of Booths[a] for seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.(A) 14 Rejoice during your festival, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as the Levites, the strangers, the orphans, and the widows resident in your towns.(B) 15 Seven days you shall keep the festival to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, for the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings, and you shall surely celebrate.(C)
16 “Three times a year all your males shall appear 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 Booths.[b] They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed;(D) 17 all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 16:13-17
International Standard Version
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.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 16:13 Or Tents
- Deuteronomy 16:14 Lit. gates
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Or Tents
- Deuteronomy 16:17 The Heb. lacks must appear
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. Used by permission of Davidson Press, LLC.
