Deuteronomy 16:13

Celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days once you have finished threshing your grain and pressing your grapes.

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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

12Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt, and be careful to follow these regulations.

14Enjoy your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:22Observe the Festival of Weeks when you offer the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Harvest Festival at the end of the agricultural year.

Numbers 29:12Hold a holy meeting on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Don't do any of your normal work. You are to celebrate a festival dedicated to the Lord for seven days.

2 Chronicles 5:3So all the Israelites gathered to be with the king at the feast which is in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 8:13He followed the requirement for daily offerings as Moses had ordered for Sabbaths, new moons, and the three annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

Nehemiah 8:14They discovered written in the Law the Lord had ordered to be observed through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.

John 7:2But as it was almost time for the Jewish festival of the Tabernacles,

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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