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of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/16.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for seven days when you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) seven days, when you have gathered in [the grain] from your threshing floor and [the wine] from your wine vat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You are to celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />After you have gathered the grain from your threshing floor and made your wine, celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"After you have threshed all your grain and pressed all your grapes, celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn, and thy wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />You observe the Celebration of Shelters for yourself [for] seven days, in your ingathering of your threshing-floor and of your wine-vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'The feast of booths thou dost make for thee seven days, in thine in-gathering of thy threshing-floor, and of thy wine-vat;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The festival of booths thou shalt do to thee seven days, in thy gathering of thy threshing floor and of thy wine press.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Likewise, you shall celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days, when you will have gathered your fruits from the orchard and the winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall celebrate the feast of Booths for seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and wine press.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall keep the festival of booths for seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your wine press.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Make for yourself the feast of booths seven days whenever you gather from the granary and from the winepress:<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt keep for thyself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when thou gatherest in <i>thy produce</i> from thy corn-floor and thy wine-press.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=4710" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/16.htm">The Feast of Tabernacles</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ta·‘ă·śeh (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">You are to celebrate</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2282.htm" title="2282: ḥaḡ (N-msc) -- A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast. Or chag; from chagag; a festival, or a victim therefor.">the Feast</a> <a href="/hebrew/5521.htm" title="5521: has·suk·kōṯ (Art:: N-fp) -- A thicket, booth. Fem of cok; a hut or lair.">of Tabernacles</a> <a href="/hebrew/7651.htm" title="7651: šiḇ·‘aṯ (Number-msc) -- Or shibrah; from shaba'; a primitive cardinal number; seven; also seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number.">for seven</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yā·mîm (N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/622.htm" title="622: bə·’ā·sə·pə·ḵā (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 2ms) -- To gather, remove. A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. Remove.">after you have gathered</a> <a href="/hebrew/1637.htm" title="1637: mig·gā·rə·nə·ḵā (Prep-m:: N-fsc:: 2ms) -- Threshing floor. From an unused root meaning to smooth; a threshing- floor; by analogy, any open area.">the produce of your threshing floor</a> <a href="/hebrew/3342.htm" title="3342: ū·mî·yiq·ḇe·ḵā (Conj-w, Prep-m:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Wine vat. From an unused root meaning to excavate; a trough; specifically, a wine-vat.">and your winepress.</a> </span><span class="reftext">14</span>And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/23-33.htm">Leviticus 23:33-43</a></span><br />And the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days. / On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">Exodus 23:16</a></span><br />You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Exodus 34:22</a></span><br />And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/29-12.htm">Numbers 29:12-38</a></span><br />On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days. / As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present a food offering, a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished, / along with the grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two rams, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-13.htm">2 Chronicles 8:13</a></span><br />He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/8-14.htm">Nehemiah 8:14-18</a></span><br />And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, / and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” / And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/14-16.htm">Zechariah 14:16-19</a></span><br />Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. / And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them. / And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/7-2.htm">John 7:2</a></span><br />However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37-39</a></span><br />On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” / He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/23-39.htm">Leviticus 23:39-43</a></span><br />On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day. / On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. / You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/8-2.htm">1 Kings 8:2</a></span><br />And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/8-65.htm">1 Kings 8:65</a></span><br />So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/7-8.htm">2 Chronicles 7:8-10</a></span><br />So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days. / On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more. / On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezra/3-4.htm">Ezra 3:4</a></span><br />They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-39.htm">Matthew 13:39</a></span><br />and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn and your wine:</p><p class="hdg">the feast</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/31-10.htm">Deuteronomy 31:10</a></b></br> And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of <i>every</i> seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">Exodus 23:16</a></b></br> And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, <i>which is</i> in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Exodus 34:22</a></b></br> And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/23-43.htm">Booths</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-1.htm">Celebrate</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm">Corn</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-8.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Ingathering</a> <a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">In-Gathering</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-12.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Press</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-28.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/numbers/24-5.htm">Tabernacles</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-7.htm">Tents</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Vat</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Winepress</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-14.htm">Wine-Vat</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm">Booths</a> <a href="/judges/11-40.htm">Celebrate</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-4.htm">Corn</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-14.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-10.htm">Ingathering</a> <a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">In-Gathering</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-10.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/judges/1-34.htm">Press</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-15.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-15.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm">Tabernacles</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm">Tents</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-4.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/ruth/3-2.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-2.htm">Vat</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-4.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/judges/6-11.htm">Winepress</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-27.htm">Wine-Vat</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 16</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-1.htm">The feast of the Passover</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm">of weeks</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">of tabernacles</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm">Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three feasts</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-18.htm">Of judges and justice</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-21.htm">Asherah poles and images are forbidden</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It commemorates the Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert after their exodus from Egypt, during which they lived in temporary shelters. This feast is a time of joy and thanksgiving, reflecting God's provision and protection. It is also a prophetic symbol of the future gathering of all nations to worship God, as seen in <a href="/zechariah/14-16.htm">Zechariah 14:16-19</a>.<p><b>for seven days</b><br>The seven-day duration of the feast signifies completeness and perfection in biblical numerology. This period allows for a full cycle of worship and celebration, mirroring the creation week. It also provides ample time for reflection on God's faithfulness and the temporary nature of earthly life, pointing to the eternal rest found in Christ (<a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-10</a>).<p><b>after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress</b><br>This timing aligns the feast with the agricultural cycle, specifically the harvest of grains and grapes. It is a time of thanksgiving for the bounty provided by God. The threshing floor and winepress symbolize the process of separating and refining, akin to spiritual growth and maturity. The harvest imagery is echoed in the New Testament, where Jesus speaks of the harvest as a metaphor for the gathering of believers (<a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37-38</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The author of Deuteronomy, who is delivering God's laws and instructions to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who are receiving these instructions as they prepare to enter the Promised Land.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/feast_of_tabernacles.htm">Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)</a></b><br>A Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the harvest and commemorating the Israelites' journey through the wilderness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/threshing_floor.htm">Threshing Floor</a></b><br>A place where grain is separated from chaff, symbolizing the harvest and God's provision.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/w/winepress.htm">Winepress</a></b><br>A facility for extracting juice from grapes, representing abundance and joy in God's blessings.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/celebration_of_god's_provision.htm">Celebration of God's Provision</a></b><br>The Feast of Tabernacles is a time to celebrate God's provision and faithfulness. It reminds us to be thankful for the harvest in our lives, both physically and spiritually.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/remembrance_of_deliverance.htm">Remembrance of Deliverance</a></b><br>This festival serves as a reminder of God's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. We are called to remember and celebrate our own deliverance from sin through Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_unity.htm">Community and Unity</a></b><br>The Feast of Tabernacles was a communal event, fostering unity among the Israelites. In our lives, we should seek to build community and unity within the body of Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/j/joyful_worship.htm">Joyful Worship</a></b><br>The festival is characterized by joy and celebration. Our worship should also be joyful, reflecting the abundance of God's blessings in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/anticipation_of_future_fulfillment.htm">Anticipation of Future Fulfillment</a></b><br>The Feast of Tabernacles points forward to the ultimate fulfillment in Christ and the future gathering of God's people. We live in anticipation of His return and the eternal celebration to come.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 16</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_makes_a_jerusalem_pilgrimage.htm">What defines a pilgrimage to Jerusalem?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_advice_do_the_ungodly_offer.htm">What are the Appointed Times (Moedim) in Judaism?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/do_lev._23_39-40_rituals_mirror_other_cultures.htm">In Leviticus 23:39–40, does the practice of gathering branches and rejoicing before God parallel other ancient cultural harvest rituals, raising questions about possible borrowed traditions?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_judaism's_moedim.htm">What are the Appointed Times (Moedim) in Judaism?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div><a href="/context/deuteronomy/16-13.htm" title="You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn and your wine:">Deuteronomy 16:13-15</a>. <span class= "bld">THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.</span><p>(13) <span class= "bld">Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days.</span>--For details of the observance see the passages already referred to in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, but more especially <a href="/context/leviticus/23-33.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,">Leviticus 23:33-43</a>.<p>(14) <span class= "bld">Thou, and thy son . . .</span>--The rejoicing of the Feast of Tabernacles was proverbial among the Jews. On the persons who are to share the joy, Rashi has an interesting note. "The Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,--My four (Jehovah's), over against thy four--thy son, thy daughter, thy manservant, thy maidservant. If thou wilt make My four to rejoice, I will rejoice thy four."<p>(15) <span class= "bld">Seven days.</span>--An eighth day is mentioned both in <a href="/leviticus/23-36.htm" title="Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no servile work therein.">Leviticus 23:36</a> and <a href="/numbers/29-35.htm" title="On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work therein:">Numbers 29:35</a>. But the seven days of this feast are also spoken of in both those passages (<a href="/leviticus/23-36.htm" title="Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no servile work therein.">Leviticus 23:36</a> and <a href="/numbers/29-12.htm" title="And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days:">Numbers 29:12</a>). There is, therefore, no contradiction between the two passages. The eighth day is treated apart from the first seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles, somewhat in the same way as the Passover is always distinguished in the Pentateuch from the six days which followed it, and which are called the Feast of Unleavened bread. The reason for the distinction in that case becomes clear in the fulfilment of the feast by our Lord. The Passover is <span class= "ital">His sacrifice and death. We keep </span>the feast of <span class= "ital">unleavened </span>bread by serving Him in "<span class= "ital">sincerity and truth." </span>The Feast of Tabernacles has not yet been fulfilled by our Lord like the two other great feasts of the Jewish calendar. Unfulfilled prophecies regarding it may be pointed out, as in Zechariah 14. Our Lord refused to signalise that feast by any public manifestation (<a href="/context/john/7-2.htm" title="Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.">John 7:2-10</a>). There may, therefore, be some reason for separating the eighth and last day of the Feast of Tabernacles from the former seven, which will appear in its fulfilment in the kingdom of God. It is remarkable that the dedication of Solomon's temple, the commencement of the second temple and the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, all occurred about the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 13-15.</span> - The <span class="accented">Feast of Tabernacles</span>, properly, <span class="accented">Booths</span> (cf. <a href="/leviticus/23-33.htm">Leviticus 23:33-44</a>; <a href="/numbers/29-12.htm">Numbers 29:12-38</a>). This feast was to be observed at the end of harvest, after the corn had been gathered into granaries, and the produce of the vineyard had been put through the press. Nothing is added here to the instructions already given respecting this festival; only the observance of it at the appointed sanctuary is enforced, and stress is laid on their making not only their sons and daughters and domestics, but also the Levite, the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger participators in their rejoicings. Thou shalt surely rejoice; rather, <span class="accented">thou shalt be wholly joyous</span>; literally, <span class="accented">rejoicing only</span>; Rosenm., "<span class="accented">adnodum laetus</span>." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You are to celebrate</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ta·‘ă·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Feast</span><br /><span class="heb">חַ֧ג</span> <span class="translit">(ḥaḡ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2282.htm">Strong's 2282: </a> </span><span class="str2">A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Tabernacles</span><br /><span class="heb">הַסֻּכֹּ֛ת</span> <span class="translit">(has·suk·kōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5521.htm">Strong's 5521: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thicket, booth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for seven</span><br /><span class="heb">שִׁבְעַ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(šiḇ·‘aṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7651.htm">Strong's 7651: </a> </span><span class="str2">Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number</span><br /><br /><span class="word">days</span><br /><span class="heb">יָמִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(yā·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">after you have gathered</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאָ֨סְפְּךָ֔</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’ā·sə·pə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_622.htm">Strong's 622: </a> </span><span class="str2">To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[the produce of] your threshing floor</span><br /><span class="heb">מִֽגָּרְנְךָ֖</span> <span class="translit">(mig·gā·rə·nə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1637.htm">Strong's 1637: </a> </span><span class="str2">A threshing-floor, open area</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and your winepress.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמִיִּקְבֶֽךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mî·yiq·ḇe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3342.htm">Strong's 3342: </a> </span><span class="str2">A trough, a wine-vat</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">Deuteronomy 16:13 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/16-13.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents (Deut. 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