Deuteronomy 16:13

You must keep the Festival of Shelters for seven days after you have gathered in the harvest from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Unlocked Literal Bible

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

12You will call to mind that you were a slave in Egypt; you must observe and do these statutes.

14You will rejoice during your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:22You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year's end.

Numbers 29:12On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly to honor Yahweh. You must not do regular work on that day, and you must keep the festival for him seven days.

2 Chronicles 5:3All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 8:13He offered sacrifices just as the daily schedule required; he offered them, following the directions found in the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbath days, the new moons, and on the set festivals three times every year: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

Nehemiah 8:14They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded through Moses that the people of Israel should live in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.

John 7:2Now the Jewish Festival of Shelters 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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