Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
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.
- BSB You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
- 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 7:2Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
- Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
- 2 Chr 5:3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
- Lev 23:34–36Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
- Exod 34:22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
- Zech 14:16–18And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
- Num 29:12–40And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
- Ezra 3:4They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
- 2 Chr 8:13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
- 2 Chr 7:8–10Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
- Neh 8:14–18And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
- Deut 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
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