16 (A)and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and (B)the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

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16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(A) with the firstfruits(B) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(D)

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Offerings at the Feast of Tabernacles(A)

12 (B)‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days.

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The Festival of Tabernacles(A)

12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh(B) month,(C) hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.

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The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed(A)

13 (B)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. 14 And (C)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your [a]gates. 15 (D)Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

16 (E)“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and (F)they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:14 towns

The Festival of Tabernacles(A)

13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor(B) and your winepress.(C) 14 Be joyful(D) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy(E) will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men must appear(F) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,(G) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.(H) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:(I)

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(A)They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, (B)as it is written, and (C)offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.

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Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles(A) with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.

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14 And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in (A)booths[a] during the feast of the seventh month,

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  1. Nehemiah 8:14 Temporary shelters

14 They found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters(A) during the festival of the seventh month

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The Nations Worship the King

16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall (A)go up from year to year to (B)worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep (C)the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 (D)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of (E)Egypt will not come up and enter in, (F)they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the [a]punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

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  1. Zechariah 14:19 Lit. sin

16 Then the survivors(A) from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship(B) the King,(C) the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.(D) 17 If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship(E) the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.(F) 18 If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord[a] will bring on them the plague(G) he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.(H) 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.(I)

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  1. Zechariah 14:18 Or part, then the Lord

(A)Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

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But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles(A) was near,

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