Berean Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 16:13-16

13You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles1 for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

15For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

16Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread,2 the Feast of Weeks,3 and the Feast of Tabernacles.4 No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

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Notes

1. Deuteronomy 16:13 Or Booths or Shelters; see footnotes for verse 16. ↩
2. Deuteronomy 16:16 That is, the seven-day period after the Passover during which no leaven may be eaten; see Exodus 12:14–20. ↩
3. Deuteronomy 16:16 That is, Shavuot, the late spring feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is also known as the Feast of Harvest (see Exodus 23:16) or the Feast of Pentecost (see Acts 2:1). ↩
4. Deuteronomy 16:16 That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Shelters and originally called the Feast of Ingathering (see Exodus 23:16 and Exodus 34:22). ↩

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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 16