Leviticus 23:41
New Living Translation
41 You must observe this festival to the Lord for seven days every year. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed in the appointed month[a] from generation to generation.
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- 23:41 Hebrew the seventh month.
Numbers 29:12
New Living Translation
Offerings for the Festival of Shelters
12 “Five days later, on the fifteenth day of the same month,[a] you must call another holy assembly of all the people, and you may do no ordinary work on that day. It is the beginning of the Festival of Shelters,[b] a seven-day festival to the Lord.
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- 29:12a Hebrew On the fifteenth day of the seventh month; see 29:1, 7 and the notes there. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in late September, October, or early November.
- 29:12b Or Festival of Booths, or Festival of Tabernacles. This was earlier called the Festival of the Final Harvest or Festival of Ingathering (see Exod 23:16b). It is celebrated today as Sukkot (or Succoth).
Nehemiah 8:18
New Living Translation
18 Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God on each of the seven days of the festival. Then on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, as was required by law.
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