God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 16:13
13After you have gathered the grain from your threshing floor and made your wine, celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days.
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
11Enjoy yourselves in the presence of the Lord your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place the Lord your God will choose for his name to live. 12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully. After you have gathered the grain from your threshing floor and made your wine, celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days. 14Enjoy yourselves at the festival along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities. 15For seven days you will celebrate this festival dedicated to the Lord your God in the place he will choose. You will enjoy yourselves, because the Lord your God will bless all your harvest and all your work.
Read all of Deuteronomy 16Deuteronomy 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 commanded them, “At the end of every seventh year you must cancel debts. At that time, during the Festival of Booths,
- Exodus 23:16“Celebrate the Festival of the Harvest with the first produce harvested from whatever you plant in your fields. “Celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the year when you harvest your crops from the fields.
- Exodus 34:22“You must celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the first grain from your wheat harvest, and the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the season.
- Leviticus 23:34“Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to the Lord. It will last seven days.
- Numbers 29:12“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly. You must not do any regular work. Instead, celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.
- 2 Chronicles 5:3All the men of Israel gathered around the king at the Festival ⌞of Booths⌟ in the seventh month.
- 2 Chronicles 7:8At that time Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival ⌞of Booths⌟. A very large crowd had come from ⌞the territory between⌟ the border of Hamath and the River of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 8:13He sacrificed every day, on weekly days of rest—holy days, on the New Moon Festivals, and on the three annual festivals (the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths) as Moses had commanded.
- Ezra 3:4Following the written directions, they celebrated the Festival of Booths. Each day they sacrificed the required number of burnt offerings.
- Nehemiah 8:14They found written in the Teachings that the Lord had given an order through Moses that the people of Israel should live in booths during a festival in the seventh month.
- Zechariah 14:16Everyone who is left from all the nations that attacked Jerusalem will come every year to worship the king, the Lord of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Booths.
- John 7:2The time for the Jewish Festival of Booths was near.
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
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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
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