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;
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;
- BSB 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.
- 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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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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Cross-references · 10
- Num 29:12–38And 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:
- 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.
- Neh 8:14–17And 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:
- John 7:37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
- Zech 14:16–19And 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.
- Exod 29:38Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- Exod 5:13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- 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.
- Jer 52:34And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
- John 7:2Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
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