You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
- KJV Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
- NKJV “You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
- NASB “You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for seven days when you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;
- NLT “You must observe the Festival of Shelters for seven days at the end of the harvest season, after the grain has been threshed and the grapes have been pressed.
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Quick answer
The Feast of Tents was to be kept seven days after the harvest was gathered in. God's people celebrated his provision at the close of the agricultural year.
Overview
The Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths, came after the ingathering from threshing floor and winepress, marking the year's final harvest. Living in temporary shelters recalled the wilderness years of dependence on God. The feast celebrated God's faithful provision and pilgrim life, themes fulfilled as Christ tabernacled among us and leads his people home.
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- John 7:2However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
- Exod 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- 2 Chr 5:3So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
- Lev 23:34–36“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
- Exod 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- Zech 14:16–18Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- Num 29:12–40On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
- Ezra 3:4They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
- 2 Chr 8:13He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
- 2 Chr 7:8–10So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.
- Neh 8:14–18And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
- Deut 31:10Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
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