They 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
- KJV They 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;
- NKJV They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.
- NASB They also celebrated the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the prescribed number of burnt offerings daily, according to the ordinance, as each day required;
- NLT They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed in the Law, sacrificing the number of burnt offerings specified for each day of the festival.
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Quick answer
They kept the Feast of Tabernacles with its prescribed daily offerings. They obeyed Scripture in restoring the appointed feasts.
Overview
The Feast of Tabernacles recalled God's care during the wilderness wandering (Leviticus 23:34-43), a fitting celebration for a people newly returned to the land. They followed the written ordinance carefully, offering exactly what each day required. Their obedience expressed gratitude for God's faithfulness in bringing them home.
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- Num 29:12–38On 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.
- 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.
- Neh 8:14–17And 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.
- John 7:37On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Zech 14:16–19Then 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.
- Exod 29:38This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Exod 5:13The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- 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.
- Jer 52:34And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
- John 7:2However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
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