Deuteronomy 16:13-17
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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.
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Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Lexham English Bible
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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- Deuteronomy 16:13 Hebrew “for you”
- Deuteronomy 16:13 Literally “at your gathering of the produce”
- Deuteronomy 16:14 Literally “gates”
- Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “increase”
- Deuteronomy 16:15 Or “joyful”
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of”
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Literally “with the face of Yahweh”
- Deuteronomy 16:17 Literally “according to the gift of his hand”
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