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;
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;
- 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.
- 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 29:12–38“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
- Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Neh 8:14–17They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
- John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
- Zech 14:16–19It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
- Exod 29:38“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- Exod 5:13The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- Lev 23:34–36“Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.
- Jer 52:34and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
- John 7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
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