Deuteronomy 16:13

You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

In Context

12And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

14You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:22And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

Numbers 29:12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

2 Chronicles 5:3And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 8:13Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

Nehemiah 8:14And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

John 7:2But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:2-18

Yearly Release. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of… Read the whole commentary →

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