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Exodus 23:16-18
Contemporary English Version
Exodus 23:16-18
Contemporary English Version
16 (A) Celebrate the Harvest Festival[a] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters[b] each autumn when you pick your fruit.
17 Your men must come to these three festivals each year to worship me.
18 Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. And make sure that the fat of the animal is burned that same day.
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- 23.16 Harvest Festival: Traditionally called the “Festival of Weeks” and known in New Testament times as “Pentecost.”
- 23.16 Festival of Shelters: The Hebrew text has “Festival of Ingathering” (so also in 34.22), which was the final harvesting of crops and fruits before the autumn rains began. But the usual name was “Festival of Shelters.”
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