14 And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses (A)that the people of Israel should dwell in booths[a] during the feast of the seventh month,

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  1. Nehemiah 8:14 Or temporary shelters

34 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, (A)On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths[a] to the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 23:34 Or Tabernacles

The Feast of Booths

13 (A)“You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 (B)You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For (C)seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

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40 And (A)you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and (B)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 41 (C)You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 (D)You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43 that (E)your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

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Now (A)the Jews' Feast of (B)Booths was at hand.

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16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem (A)shall go up year after year to worship (B)the King, the Lord of hosts, and (C)to keep (D)the Feast of Booths. 17 And if (E)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship (F)the King, the Lord of hosts, (G)there will be no rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;[a] there shall be (H)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up (I)to keep the Feast of Booths. 19 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up (J)to keep the Feast of Booths.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:18 Hebrew lacks rain

17 But Jacob journeyed to (A)Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.[a]

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  1. Genesis 33:17 Succoth means booths

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