Deuteronomy 16:13

Deuteronomy 16:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
• New International Version (NIV)Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Context of Deuteronomy 16:13

11You and your family will be happy to worship the Lord your God, at the special place that he chooses. Enjoy time together with your children, your servants and the Levites who live in your town. Also join with the foreign people who live among you, with widows, and children who have no family. Worship God happily together. 12Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt. So be careful to obey these commands. When you have prepared the grain and the grapes from your fields, eat the Feast of Huts for seven days. 14Enjoy your feast with your children, your servants and the Levites. Join with the foreign people who live among you, and also with the widows and the children who have no family. 15Eat this feast to worship the Lord your God at the special place that he chooses. Do it for seven days. He will bless you in everything that you do, so that you grow plenty of food. So you should all enjoy this feast!

Deuteronomy 16:13 word by word

חַ֧ג הַסֻּכֹּ֛ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים בְּאָ֨סְפְּךָ֔ מִֽגָּרְנְךָ֖ וּמִיִּקְבֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou shalt observeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• the feastחַגchag châg · feastH2282
• of tabernaclesסֻכָּהsûkkâh · boothH5521
• sevenשֶׁ֫בַעsheba‛ shib‛âh · sevenH7651
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• after that thou hast gatheredאָסַף'âsaph · to gatherH622
• in thy cornגֹּ֫רֶןgôren · threshing floorH1637
• and thy wineיֶ֫קֶבyeqeb · wineH3342

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 16:13

• Deuteronomy 31:10Then Moses said to them, ‘You must read this Law to all the Israelites. Read it every seven years at the Feast of Huts, in the year when you forgive people's debts. At that time all the Israelites will go to the place that the Lord your God will choose. When they meet there to worship the Lord, they must listen to this Law.
• Exodus 23:16Eat the Feast of Harvest every year. Offer to me the first crops that you bring from your fields. At the end of each year, eat Feast of Final Harvest. Do that when you have finished bringing in all of your crops from the fields.
• Exodus 34:22Eat the Feast of Weeks every year when you cut the first wheat in your fields. Eat the Feast of Harvest at the end of each year.
• Leviticus 23:34‘Tell Israel's people that the Feast of Huts will start on the 15th day of the seventh month. The feast will continue for seven days, as people worship the Lord.
• Numbers 29:12On the 15th day of the seventh month, you must come together for a holy meeting. You must not work at your jobs. You must have a feast to the Lord for seven days.
• 2 Chronicles 5:3So all the Israelite leaders came together to meet with King Solomon. This happened during the Festival of Huts in the seventh month of the year.
• 2 Chronicles 7:8At that time, Solomon and the big crowd of Israelites who were with him had a festival for seven days. There were people from everywhere in Israel, from Hamath in the north to the Stream of Egypt in the south.
• 2 Chronicles 8:13He offered the sacrifices every day that Moses had told them to do. There were rules about sacrifices on Sabbath days, on festivals for each new moon and on the three special festivals each year. Those were the Festival of Flat Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Huts.
• Ezra 3:4Then they had the Feast of Huts, as the law said they should do. On each day of the feast they made the right number of burnt offerings.
• Nehemiah 8:14They discovered what the Lord had commanded about a certain feast. The Lord had told Moses that the Israelites should live in huts during this feast. They should do that in the seventh month of each year.
• Zechariah 14:16Some of the soldiers from the countries that attacked Jerusalem will not die. They will go to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty. They will worship him at the Feast of Huts.
• John 7:2It was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 16:13

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-17The Feast of Tabernacles is called this because God told the Israelites to live for one week in simple shelters made from tree branches. These shelters reminded them of the years they wandered in the wilderness (Leviticus 23:33–43). This feast also celebrated the fall harvest.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1713-17. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days--(See on Ex 23:14; Le 23:34; Nu 29:12). Various conjectures have been formed to account for the appointment of this feast at the conclusion of the whole harvest. Some imagine that it was designed to remind the Israelites of the time when they had no cornfields to reap but were daily supplied with manna; others think that it suited the convenience of the people better than any other period of…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 16:13

• Feasts
• Thankfulness
• Widow

In the dictionaries

• Gift
• Inherit
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Wine
• Atonement, Day of
• Calendar
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• Exodus, the Book of
• Feasts and Fasts
• Genesis

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings