Deuteronomy 16:13

You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:

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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

12You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

14and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and 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 shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.

Numbers 29:12"'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days:

2 Chronicles 5:3And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 8:13even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents.

Nehemiah 8:14They found written in the law, how that the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

John 7:2Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, 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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