Ezra 3:4

Ezra 3:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
• English Standard Version (ESV)And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
• New King James Version (NKJV)They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.
• New Living Translation (NLT)They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed in the Law, sacrificing the number of burnt offerings specified for each day of the festival.

Context of Ezra 3:4

2Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. 3Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices. Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. 5After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the Lord, as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the Lord. 6On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.

Ezra 3:4 word by word

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ אֶת־חַ֥ג הַסֻּכּ֖וֹת כַּכָּת֑וּב וְעֹלַ֨ת י֤וֹם בְּיוֹם֙ בְּמִסְפָּ֔ר כְּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They keptעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• also the feastחַגchag châg · feastH2282
• of tabernaclesסֻכָּהsûkkâh · boothH5521
• writtenכָּתַבkâthab · to writeH3789
• the dailyיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• burnt offeringsעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
• by numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• according to the customמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• as the dutyדָּבָרdâbâr · word: portionH1697

Cross-references for Ezra 3:4

• Exodus 23:16“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
• Leviticus 23:34“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.
• Nehemiah 8:14They found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month
• Zechariah 14:16Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
• John 7:2But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
• Numbers 29:12“ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.
• Exodus 5:13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”
• Exodus 29:38“This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
• Jeremiah 52:34Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.

Commentaries on Ezra 3:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written - This began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; but they had begun the regular offerings from the first day of this month, Ezra 3:6. And these were religiously continued all the time they were building the temple.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The seven-day Festival of Shelters, as described in the Law (Leviticus 23:33–36; Numbers 29:12–38; Deuteronomy 16:13–16), reminded people of God's guidance and care during the forty years the nation lived in tents while traveling from Egypt to the promised land. This festival was especially meaningful to those who had recently made a similar journey from a foreign land, living in tents as they traveled to the promised land.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-74-6. They kept also the feast of tabernacles ... From the first day of the seventh month--They revived at that time the daily oblation, and it was on the fifteenth day of that month the feast of tabernacles was held.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezra 3:4

• Altar
• Daily Offering
• Liberality
• Priest
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Temple
• Zerubbabel

In the dictionaries

• Ordinance
• Apocalyptic Literature
• Atonement, Day of
• Custom (2)
• Duty
• Ezra-Nehemiah
• Jerusalem
• Sacrifice
• Senaah
• Psalms, Book of

Commentaries on Ezra 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• 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